aah! al jazeera with no russian forces lay siege to kind of keep murder you, paul, and the other key cities in ukraine, which says more than 2000 civilians have been killed. ah, hello, i'm barbara sour. you're watching al jazeera life from london also coming up, falling wreckage from a down russian missile causes a powerful explosion near keith, central train station, which thousands are using to flee the city. russia's foreign minister said,

love rob tells al jazeera that anyone contemplating a 3rd world war should know it will be nuclear and destructive and russian businessman ruin abram, of which announces he's selling chelsea football. more than a 140 countries have demanded that russia withdraw its troops from ukraine. 7 days after it invaded the country, you cranes, emergency service says more than 2000 civilians have been killed. although it's hard to independently verify that figure. ukraine's military hasn't said how many of its soldiers have died, but russia has, its defense ministry says nearly 500 soldiers have been killed. although ukraine's presidential adviser disputes that insisting the true number is closer to 7000. with the invasion has forced roughly 8 174000 people to flee nearly

a quarter of them in the last day. countless others are taking shelter on the ground where russia has been escalating its attacks. the areas is shaded in red, the you can see here are controlled by russia and allied separatists in the south. russia says it's taking control of the port, city of care. so on a strategically important port city on the black seat or the mayor of the port city of mighty pole, meanwhile, is reporting mass casualties and says there is barely any water left for a city of half a 1000000 people. and in the northeast that russian forces continue to bombard ukraine's 2nd largest city cut cave. well, the capital cave is also being pounded by missile and artillery strikes. a ukrainian interior ministry advisor says a downed russian missile has caused a powerful explosion near keeps central railway station. anton hadash,

jenko says falling debris hid a heating pipe and it's not known. if any one that was hurt with thousands of people have used the railway station to flee the war over the past week, this was the scene a little earlier as big crowds of ukrainians tried to board trains out of the city . well, dozens of families are still sleeping in the corridors of the cities, metro stations which are serving as makes ships shelters. more residents fled under ground after a tv tower and holocaust memorial were attacked on tuesday. ah link across sir kira, she is only one movie as a she is. we went just yesterday we ran to the bomb shelter from home and saw broke it flying into the tv tower. but the rocket was big. i ran out my little son and my oldest son they froze and watched is there was that the soldier took us under cover and we ran quickly back to the shelter. this shade he covered us then he said run fast. it was very scary with my youngest son ran and shouted faster,

faster were being shot. and we came here. now he's afraid to go outside and he cries all the time. well, was more now on the situation on the ground across the country. and who simmons retorts now from the ukrainian city of livi, one of so many towns and cities under relentless attack. and in hawk, he, it's even worse here. the cities military airfield is destroyed. it's the start of another round of terror for ukraine's 2nd city. it's forces, again trying to defend themselves and their civilians. russian power troopers are reported to be in the outskirts of the city, fighting with ukrainian soldiers in the capital keys, the aftermath of a missile attack on the cities television tow. doesn't zimmer zane looting it is

beyond humanity. this rocky strike proves that. for many russians, our kia is absolutely foreign to them. they don't know a thing about our capital of about our history, but they all have all this to erase our history a, raise our country a raises all. wednesday saw a lull in the fighting, and many families took the opportunity to make their escape. some of them getting to the outskirts by foot and finding bridges destroyed by ukrainian forces to hold back russian advances or okay. so of we should have with you the enemy is pulling its troops close to the capital we. we are getting ready, and we will defend our city. in the south, the russians are now claiming they've taken their 1st ukrainian city since the fighting began. it's the black sea port of her song. in the city of anna holder, residents blocked the road to europe's largest nuclear power station in a stand off with the russian forces, overall idea,

what it is. so as it was up for the nuclear plant does under secure protection of the workers and people are standing under ukrainian flags. nobody's going to surrender the city out. people are totally determined its a determination shared by so many civilians. every day, the war effort gets bigger, small companies run across ukraine, trying to do their bit to help this company is attempting to use steel beams, to good effect. they were all hours making defences that date back to the 1st will war. the so called tank hedgehogs, there are determined efforts by those fighting and those helping. but is it enough to avoid defi. andrew simmons alger 0 live in the united nations that says, the number of refugees fleeing the conflict in ukraine has surged to nearly 875000 . this marks

a significant jump from the 677000 announced by the u. s. u n to russia g agency, just on tuesday, more than half have headed west into poland. are you going to love us? and then these my relatives. oh, they won't take us so kindly. so you and you just came in 3 babies. you yeah, my husband's is left over dr. lacrowe a gun to enter. my 3 friends died or it went to terrible news for me. i had just lived to his children. if there were no children with me, i will stay with my husband. rushes foreign minister said caleb rob has spoken to al jazeera but the war with ukraine. he was asked if the world had reached the edge of the abyss with another spot, a suit present. the bowden, the once gazelle still useful when we, you should direct that question to president biden. he's the one who said if we do not go the way of sanctions, the alternative can only be the 3rd world war. but in,

as a veteran politician, regardless of our position on what the united states does on the international stage, biden. and president putin in june of last summer in geneva, consistently confirmed the declaration of the leaders of the united states and the soviet union in the 1980s that there could be no victor in nuclear war. therefore, it should never flare up. in january of this year, the leaders of the 5 permanent members of the security council signed a similar joint declaration of study in st. most likely, the old instinct is still alive in the minds of our western partners that they do not rule out such a possibility. despite the public affirmation of the position of the 5 permanent members of the security council during lou chelsea football club has been put up for sale by its russian owner, rowman. abram of a chew says he will donate money from the sale to help victims of the warring ukraine. the wealthy businessman had been under pressure to denounce russia's invasion, and there had been growing calls for you. k sanctions to be placed on him a but i'm of ich has owned chelsea since 2003 and helped turn it into

a trophy winning side thanks to his massive investment. he says the move to sell is in the best interests of the club. and the financial times newspaper says, the british government is planning to seize property owned by 9 russian oligarchs. close to vladimir putin. dove reportedly be banned from travelling to the u. k. and their assets will be frozen. the targets are believed to include the key to lit shamela of russia's youngest billionaire and putin's former son in law will oliver below is an investigative journalist and author, and he joins us now from hey, on why, in the u. k. by skype. so thank you so much for joining us here on al jazeera. so i'd love your reaction to the, the latest, the if sort of the reports by the financial times, especially in light of an article that you wrote last week, where you said that when johnson burse, johnson claimed that u. k. government couldn't possibly be doing any more to root out corrupt russian

money at that. actually that's not quite true. um, as far as i can tell you guys, paula's decision is to try and confiscate these mansions without any compensation or so as i can tell particular legal process i company see how that's going to work . and i'm a little bit worried that this is just another gimmick, being employed by the u. k. government to cover up the fact that they're not really doing a thing. they're already cancelled golden visas, cool russian oligarchs. even though and irrational, the guy he wanted to go to music would have got one long ago. they've said taken a ban r t, the tv channels all and it's actually no one watches it. and you know that they've created, or what they call a cryptography cell. in the national crime agency, although there already is an international corruption unit and this does not bear to bring with it any extra funding. so i'm gonna, i'm withhold my admiration for the british government until they decide to properly and resource 3rd, law enforcement agencies that might be able to actually bring our proceedings against these oregon. that would stand up in court. you've written about the

subject that extensively and, and for a long time just explain to our viewers outside of the u. k. what the situation is like in this country as opposed to perhaps the other, the either european countries of the united states. but the u. k. has for a long time, they are laid out a very large, thick attracted red carpet to our wealthy people from overseas. i'm. it's been a cool part of particularly london's economy to support itself by offering attractive offshore services to wealthy people from notice from russia, from, from the gulf, from, from sub saharan africa, from wherever. really, if you're rich, you know, come on in. russians have been an important subsets of that, not the most important, but still, that bought a substantial amount of property in west london as well as if you had earlier, you know, more valuable assets, electrical club, so old. oh, fine art. and so you're painting the picture of a situation that's been building for years if not even decades to so i guess my question is, 1st of all, what do you think you can, government should do?

and when it comes to timing's, i mean, how quickly can, can it come to any kind of achievement? what, when it comes to putting pressure on russia, the moments, the sanctions that have been imposed on russia been very effective in harming the russian economy in having the ruble in helping the russian banking system and so on . you know, that's an undeniably very effective, but who actually suffers from those will. it is a rule people in russia, people whose assets are in rubles people who are trying to make a living of the house. people who send, you know, remittances to central asia, which would have seen their value, half the oligarchs around polluted. it's a very small group. they're extremely wealthy, and they keep most of their wealth outside russia. so their wealth is denominated in pounds. euro's dollars. swiss francs is very well hidden behind, you know, the usual paraphernalia, raso shell, offshore shell, structure, foundations, trusts, and so on. so what i would really like to see is less sort of machismo about, you know, how tough we're going to be on oligarchy. but instead,

recognizing that this is a long drawn out process, this wealth is hit and we need to investigate it and prosecuted as energetically as the oligarchy have been defending it. which means we need to essentially re arm our lower and for some agencies. so they can go in sweat and strip away the anonymity behind which the oligarchs have hidden. they sort of knee jerk cools for a creation of a cat talks a unit or whatever, or, or this slightly bizarre comments or in the financial times that just not a substitution for, you know, proper patient, laborious investigated by law enforcement agencies, which is what's really required this is a criminal issue that we're talking about and it needs to be treated as so. but so in the past week, sin said the russian aggression, have you seen any signs that this rearming as you call a bit of renewed will to actually get to the root of the issue has been happening or not yet that have been really promising sounding initiatives. are from the g 7 that there would be this, you know, international effort to,

to investigate and been a truck down except to crat owned wealth. that is really good news. this is, you know, a corrupt money is, tends to be hidden between jurisdictions using, shall companies for multiple jurisdictions to really take advantage of, of all the laws that are available in different places. and it requires a trans national effort to go after it. so that is, you know, if it follow through on that is really good news, but i haven't seen any details on that yet. so far the u. k. government has said it will require off sure owned property to declare that true owners in the u. k. that's great, but they're giving them 18 months to declare the ownership by which point kept across, that you don't want to declare their ownership will be able to sell up and leave. so it's not, doesn't seem to have any of the urgency that's required yet we have inflicted chaos on the russian economy, which has been very successful and chaos of the ordinary russians. we should be acting as quickly with the same degree of devastation and speed against the

oligarchs who are the real problem. and yet so far, governments don't appear to be doing them. and it's for gimme one last very quick question. i mean, we saw for example, pressure being put on some european countries that didn't want to sign up to quite a strong sanctions as eventually they did not sign up to d. c. any other foreign power either, whether it's the you or the united states or any kind of a foreign actor outside of the u. k. that could put that kind of pressure on the u . k. government. i think we can hope for more pressure from the u. s. on the u. s. is clearly taking a very strong line on this. there is oligarch owned property in the us. um, new york is very popular with oligarchs, and it will be interesting to see what what they do there. but yes, i think the white house is likely to be making some, some stern phone calls to downing street and i hope it leads to, to greater results. but i mean, the issue is that london for, for a long time, for decades, has made a living out of offering, you know,

what i called buffering services to the world's oligarchs. and it's very difficult to get it out of the habit of doing that. and that it will require a real change in mentality which is going to take more than a week. i fear to secure an fascination topic. oliver vala, investigative journalist and also thank you so much for talking to us about. thank you very much. and still to come in this half hour. the battle over misinformation, journalists in russia come under immense pressure to follow the kremlin line on the ukraine, plus the united nations general assembly built overwhelmingly to demand that russia withdraws its forces from ukraine. ah hello, once again we got 2 areas of low pressure given cause

a concern across australia flooding, rain coming in our own tropical side phone. and that is making its way towards pearl bro, pushing in land into were northern parts of western australia. but i think a greater concern really is this area of low pressure, just off the coast of new south wells. we've seen some very heavy rainfall here. recently. of course, i'm afraid there will be further heavy downpours coming in. so sidney is in the firing line. some heavy down pools here that is going to cause widespread flooding . that is going to cause some very nasty conditions and further north. yeah. i'm afraid, poor oh brisbin, sunshine coast go co seeing some more of that heavy rain as we go on through thursday, exacerbating the flooding, which is already in place of course. is that where to where the pushing across. so western australia, thinking a little further south was, as we go on into friday, starting to weaken off a little bit, but still some flooding coming in here nevertheless. and yeah, the showers, they will continue just around that eastern side of australia. we'll see some wet

weather, also sliding across south australia into victoria as we go one through saturday on the other side of the day. it was not to be rainy everywhere. this is where looking good high pressure in chart. so fine, dry and sunny ah, a mass pro democracy movement, violent crackdowns assassinations, and you imposed sanctions? all talk, dixon struggled with ensued from the 2020 bella luce, him presidential elections. that shook the country, self proclaimed dictators a seat of power. and now, new tactics, migrants, people in power investigates, the humanitarian disaster on to rivaling on europe's borders and asks what's next and the battle for bella. bruce on a jetta. lou

ah, a reminder now of the days main developments in ukraine speaking to al jazeera, russia's foreign minister has warned that the only alternative to sanctions is a 3rd world war said gala. rog says western leaders, no, it would be new, clear and destructive. meanwhile, airstrikes continued to pound, ukraine's main cities, including how to key the where residential areas have been hit in rushes, push the capture, the city russian paratroopers have landed there overnight and rushes military says it's taking control of the town of have sown with pictures, showing brush and vehicles rolling through the streets, the mayor off here so and says russian troops have forced their way into the city council building and is called on them not to shoot civilians. i'll just say was

jonah hollis following the situation from the western ukrainian city of the fif. if indeed it is the case that russia is control in control of song and they say they are. and so the pictures indicate that they are there are lots of pictures of heavy russian. amr and artillery parading quite at ease through the city and through the main thoroughfare through the center of the city. if indeed, this is the case, it is significant 7 days into this invasion, no other urban centre has fallen to the russians. every intelligence analyst will tell you that they will have hoped for much quicker capitulation, they won't have counted on the storm ukrainian resistance. so it's not if you like in the russians belt, that they've got one city down. it's a strategic target. it's only denita river. it's also on the black sea coast, just to the immediate west of the crime in peninsula. and what the russians will be trying to do is open a land corridor or land bridge connecting crimea with the breakaway easton regions

. and if you move east along that black sea coast along the sea of as of you get to the next big target, which is mary paul, a much bigger city, a much more important port, city, half a 1000000 people that we know that it's surrounded. we know that it's under constant bombardment. the mayor of mario full tilt talks about a non stop onslaught over the last 24 hours with mass casualties. the russians blocking exit routes and stopping civilians from fleeing. he said they don't even have time and aren't even able to pick up their injured and they're dead while cha stratford is in denise pro in eastern ukraine and he is more now and the reports of heavy casualties. after recent fighting, mary paul and other cities, some worry the terrifying accounts that we're hearing from people trying to get out of mario full. we've been speaking to drivers and members of a convoy put together by the greek console. the greeks surprisingly have

a community in mariel full and the council tried to put together a convoy to get civilians out and they're describing horrifically strong and terrifying. fighting inside mario paul, the seasoning they are describing bridges, at least one bridge that has been destroyed. they're unable to confirm who destroyed the bridge, and they say that there is this, this, this terrifying effort to try and get civilians out of the cities, marable, of course, of huge strategic importance. a naval port city on the see of as off and somewhere where we had always suspected am and military analysts had said that there would be a big fight because of the amount of ukrainian military and ukrainian paramilitaries in that city. a city that was very proud of having pushed separatists back out of it in 2014. the reason that that city is so important for the russians. so analysts say is because if they were to take control of it,

it would give them a land corridor from the east, further east, where the separatists have been in control for, for 78, not i, on 8 years now. and northern crimea. and we know that the russians have been suffering terribly with respect to water resources on in, in crimea what resources that have been taken controllable were taking control of by the ukrainians in 2014. we also hear of terrible shelling, am and mass casualties around the town of vol, nevada, that is also north of mariel pool. and we understand that there had been an attempt earlier in the day to try and organize some sort of corridors. so civilians could get out and we've heard nothing since the united nations general assembly is overwhelmingly approved. the resolution that deplores but does not condemn russia's

invasion of ukraine. it was the assembly's 1st emergency session since 1997. the resolution was backed by a 141 countries, and it also demands that russia immediately withdraw its forces from ukraine. kristen salumi has more ukraine came to the general assembly, arguing that russian aggression is a violation of the un charter as well as a deadly existential threat. they have come to the ukranian soil, not only to kill some of us, not only to received our cause and priorities. they have come to deprive ukraine of the very right to exist. here russia has no veto power, just the power to make its case even in the face of enormous opposition, was, am gonna give us your refusal to support today's draft. resolution is a vote for a peaceful ukraine. free from radicalism and neo naziism in unit season. in the end,

only 4 member states cited with the russians, 141 voting in favor of the resolution to pouring the military operation. today, the world has spoken with a clear united voice. together, the vast majority of the world has condemn russia's unprovoked unjustified unconscionable war. we have deplored barouche for allowing its territory to be used to facilitate this aggression. 35 countries abstain from voting among them, china, india, and south africa. that is, solution that you have conceded to d does not create an environment conducive for diplomacy, dialogue, and mediation. however, the united arab emirates, which had abstained on a similar resolution and the security council, came out in favor. right now we recognized that this resolution adopted here today

is a necessary signal of where we are. we need to be going, resigning ourselves to a cycle of perpetual violence. and sanctions that only adds to the suffering of civilians diminishes us all. under international law, matters of peace and security are the purview of the security council. but the council invoked a rarely used provision of the un charter to get around the russian veto and call for the special emergency session of the general assembly. it's outcome, according to sponsors shows russia's isolation on the international stage. kristin salumi al jazeera, the united nations. the letter in chief of russia's last remaining independent tv news channel has left the country. it came after the countries regulate, were warned. media outlets the stop spreading would it called false information about the military operation in ukraine. journalists across russia have come under pressure to stop them deviating from the government narrative burnett. smith

reports from moscow. i didn't b o d b. rain has always had to choose its words carefully. it's the only news channel in russia that isn't pro kremlin. now the authorities a telling it what words it can and cannot use. no, and without an editor in chief t cons, atco tells view, as we continue to tell you about the war, which the military authorities call a special military operation. it's very important for russian authorities not to use the words such as invasion, war war. but for the moscow prosecutor's office tv rein isn't trying hard enough. it ordered the channel to stop spreading what it calls false information regarding the actions of russian military personnel. a few hours after speaking to al jazeera ticket, left russia with his family, b. tv rains website is blocked. all that's left. is this stream on youtube bust, egless. what kit is on this be a sat there?

i'd say ok. state tv refers to a special operation, zoning, ukraine. the coverage is concentrated on what's happening in the battles for the nets. and lou ganske now recognized as republics by moscow. if not, there's no mention of a tax on keith. what other ukrainian cities was, my dear ina. anatole you have now, is one of the 64 percent of russians whom television is their primary source of news? by me at the yeah, i did a bomb, as i heard, it's just the opposite. they try to somehow protect the peaceful population as much as possible. i can't say i'd supported this from the beginning, but now i do support it. us after the kremlin spend the cremeans foreign channels don't refer to an invasion. russia will continue, though, with its military incursion. in arabic, the headline reads russia's military operation to protect don bass and in french, russia will continue. it's offensive in ukraine. a code of 14 we saw or you could,

rotter's communications regulator has accused 10 outlets of falsely depicting what it called a military operation in ukraine. one of them's the novia gazette and it's headlines as well. at least there's some good news. the word piece hasn't been forbidden yet . burner smith, i'm 0. moscow on the monitoring group says that another 235 people have been arrested in the latest anti war protests in the russian city of saint petersburg. ah, around 8000 have been arrested so far a demonstrations against the ukraine invasion in cities across russia. jailed criminal critic, alexson of ali as also urged russians to stage daily protests saying the country should not be a nation of frightened cowards. and russian and bella, ruffian, athletes are being allowed to participate at the winter paralympics in beijing,

but only as neutral competitors. the international paralympic committee said that they will compete under the paralympic flag and not be included in the middle table . official russian teams have been excluded from several other sporting events, and there had been widespread calls for its pero olympians to be banned. the i p c says it was guided by its core principles which include a commitment to political neutrality and impartiality. ah, this is al jazeera, he is a reminder of the top stories ukrainian interior ministry advisors. as a bound, russian missile has caused a powerful explosion near keeps. central railway station, anton harris jenko says falling daybreak hit a heating pipe.