will it's only in a peaceful manner. the less course live now, to ortiz kayla more been in new york. she's been following the un security council emergency meeting very closely. caleb, what did we hear from the session? what was the key takeaways? sure. while the 15 member body that leads the united nation convened for a meeting, now russia was acting as the head of the un security council in the rotating position. they convened a meeting we heard from the united states, the u. s. a accused russia of violating ukraine's territorial integrity. they claimed that ukraine, that the russia wants to recreate the russian empire. the united states said that if russia further invades ukraine, there will be devastating outcomes. they argued that this was prudent, wanting to demonstrate his force, and they said that this was food and tearing up the minced agreements. now we heard

from the u. k. representative, who said that russia has made a mockery of all agreements. there will be severe economic consequences saying that russia had shown contempt for international law. now, as the meeting went on, we heard representatives from china, from other countries. and then we did hear from the representative of russia and the representative. russia of russia pointed out that this action was taken because of deep concerns for the safety and security of the people of don basque and lou gone scott and that the people have done ads. the people of new hans, they have been facing attacks. they've been facing shelling an attacks. they have been ongoing a situation in the country where their rights have not been protected. and furthermore, the men's agreements have not been implemented. ukraine has not implemented the men's agreements. uminski agreement was signed at 2015, but yet it has not been implemented. they went on to point out that this minsk

agreement, that was to protect the people of these regions. it hasn't been followed through with now. and the idea that russia is responsible for that is simply inaccurate as russia is not obligated under the men's agreements, they're not part of the mental agreements. there was no expectation on russia itself to fulfill those agreements. now, russia went on to talk about how the leaders of the united states and the west need to try and restrain the government in keo. because if the government and key is to move ahead and to, to escalate this situation and continue shelling the eastern regions to attack, you know, that could lead to more serious consequences. and that this is a situation in which russia took this move after patiently waiting for things to get better in the country. after hoping the mens agreements could be implemented, they were not. and even though there was widespread support for this move among the people of the eastern regions of ukraine and, and among the peoples of russia for

a long time, russia held off in making this decision and ultimately did make this decision. now the, the russian representative also pointed out that the refugees who are fleeing don bass are fleeing to russia. if they felt they were being victimized by russia being attacked by russia, it would be very unlikely they would flee to russia. but it is russia that is taking in refugees right now from the don bass. so at this point, russia is saying that this decision is correct out of this decision is not a violation of international law that they are acting appropriately in response to the failure of the western countries who continued to be arming the government. and then kind of egging the government in kiev on, into a confrontation with russia. they say this is the right move arm and they intend to proceed with it. so quite a bit of division in the un security council hall with allies, the added states being very critically of russia with russia speaking up and saying that this was essentially the right move. so the meeting is continuing because

because the meeting concerns them, we're hearing from the ukrainian representative as well as the representative germany who are both not members of the security council, but they have the right to address the meeting. so this late night emergency meeting of the security council is continuing in the hall in manhattan. ok, thank you for staying up late to bring as a summary of the security council meeting of the year, and that's all the correspondent kelly moping. thank you. recognition of the independence of the 2 regions has given residents something to celebrate. amid the terrifying daily ordeal of sheltering from shelling, all correspondent rod goes be brings the latest on life in the newly recognized republic. up. don't you ask. there is still a lot of tension in his curfew. now the snow will out in the streets, but as flat mapleton declares, russia's recognition that marshal would recognize the breakaway provinces, regions of the nets. kenlegato, there were fireworks here, which, which caused quite a stir. i can't say it was the right decision, perhaps,

but understandable people were afraid that this was a renewed round of shelling, understandable, given the rumble of artillery shelling, mortar rounds fooling on, vignettes can and the outskirts over the past few days, especially which is where the most when the most dramatic escalation occurred at some points that was seconds between blocks that you could hear for coming from different directions we, we saw this ourselves today when we went just the little had a half hour drive from the nearest west to woods. the front lines to report and to film the consequences and aftermath of the fatal shelling there. ah, recently incident tragic happened here just west of danielle city to shelves launched from the ukrainian side made ah impact one there. another crater here and

everywhere here, you'll see bloodied bits of clothing as a zer ha mine his outfit. he was on his way to a mine shaft where he works. this is one of the 2 shelves that landed here. again, we aren't going to spend very long here because there are still incoming shelves and exclusions that we, i mean close proximity. this dramatic escalation that we have seen in the near sc as i also said, has occurred across the entirety of the front lines in the trenches that snake their way along them. we know that in le ganske today, there was said a parrot. sanitation attempt to a car bombing, perhaps targeting elegance, official who was responsible for coordination in the us. seeds, fire, compliance, office monitoring and compliance office. here in the breakaway republics,

his cob you up. he was injured. his driver also today shell struck in logan's cup north. i a power station depriving, again, thousands of for electrical electricity at this time when it is cold. here it's badly needed here. in the near a water pumping station was also struck the product, tens of thousands of for access to water further south. we've also seen reports of a vicious battles, but there has been this destroy magic escalation. and what, what was this happened is people were evacuating people who feared the worst. they believed that this escalation is, it is allowed to continue a could result in a bull that is even worse than the one we saw in 2014, 2015. yes is to smith and i am now waiting to die. i think that if it all starts up again, i will be killed and that'll be that. but i am ready claim any villa thought back

then he crank wasn't ready for war in now it's ready because it's received to weapons from here and we'll use them here. in a matter of weeks, the situation, he has escalated to the point that we, we had the you when come out today and cool for an immediate cease fire saying that heavy weapons that have been deployed by both sides. and that shouldn't be within the, within the area of the front lines of the conflict. so to pull them back to remove them and to de escalate, to return to a to allow that. we've seen here over the past few years. nevertheless, it remains to be seen how russia's announcement that it is recognizing the self proclaimed republics, their independence, and how that will affect the situation. because the situation is such that a huge number of troops along with heavy weapons and on the ukrainian side, deadly precise new weapons delivered to them by nato. they're all still there. they are poised for military action. it means to be seen whether peace here will return

and whether it will be respected. western leaders have been quaked, condemned putin signing of a decree to recognize the dumbass republics. british p. m. boys johnson has dismissed the move as a violation of international law, while french liter manuel micron called on european block to impose sanctions on russia. ortiz that sharia was dusty in london and policy in berlin. have more non european reaction. well, we're getting a lot of reaction. the latest is a joint statement from the iraq peon commission and the european council. no surprises there. them saying that this is a blatant violation of international law and at the same time of territorial integrity and immense agreements. the you and its partners and am, am quoting, will react with unity, firmness and determination in solidarity with ukraine and the united states. the nato secretary general has condemned russia's recognition of look guns. and the

next we hearing from stoughton burke that this undermines settlement. if it's in ukraine and that this will be or could be used as a pretext by moscow for an invasion. now all of this coming as we hearing from the latvian prime minister, that beat recognition is a continuation of the attack on ukraine's independence sovereignty and territorial integrity that began in 2014 by to quote, unlawfully changing borders in europe. while we hearing from the latvians is an urgent to the international community to stop quote russian aggression and offer assistance to ukraine. not latvia has also announced that it will be delivering javelin anti tank missiles to ukraine's from tomorrow tuesday. at the same time, we are hearing from the ukrainian foreign ministry, they have said that the european union and ukraine has reached

a preliminary deal to conduct military training in ukraine at the same time that you will send cyber experts to ukraine, the e u. we know earlier approved a, an emergency package to the tune of 1200000000 euros in financial assistance for ukraine. not all of this happening as we hear also from the italian foreign minister saying that this recognition by moscow hinders the resolution of the crisis. for diplomacy and also that it contradicts lensky agreements. the president of estonia has said that he will never accept the this illegal decision that moscow is not serious about diplomacy. here in germany, what's happening is the german foreign ministry has said that the recognition is a gross violation of international law. that is also running any kind of diplomatic efforts. the german foreign ministry has urged for the decision to be reversed

while to product. quite frankly, the message from london is that this is now a step closer to war. if not a guaranteed move force, johnson has reacted just as expected, calling putins decision and l. o men, a dark signed. this is plainly in breach of international law. it's a violation of flagrant violation of the sovereign to the integrity of the, of ukraine. ah, it is a repudiation of the, of the minks process in the mix agreements. and i think it's a very ill omen and a very doc sign, it's really being interpreted as a significant escalation in the crisis. a substantial change in moscow's present position, particularly referring to the minutes agreement. but most notably a pretext, paving the way are for russian troops to cross the border. so boys johnston is seeing this as an illegal act and undermines ukraine. serenity are now in terms of

diplomacy. is there any diplomacy? is that an option on the table? for vars johnson, he simply says it cannot be, the significantly narrows or that window of opportunity. and in fact, the feeling here in london is an attack from the east is pretty much set in stone. now already then in the last few i minutes, really his already reconfirmed the you case commitment at to supporting ukraine and has said that the u. k. will not i'll be thinking what more it can do. so what has the u. k. already done? it's threatened sanctions against russia including new powers to target any individual entity, even in the common today. artie was brought up at that point, links to the russian state. that's the minute a single russian coca enters what seen as the ukraine's territory. 8 then reiterating that today saying it's become clear, we need to start applying as much of prussia as possible because he really feels

that the situation is not going to improve. of course, we also know in terms of troop spirits on the ground, that's already been something leak as being moving toward sending troops to ukraine, also sending weaponry as well. and he always long said that he would be happy to send even more troops and weapons as and when need be, the reaction from the u. k. always been bad. in fact, the was a force johnson just a few days ago saying that any escalation would be the biggest war since 1945. today, earlier, the government was reiterating such comments saying that there would be a retaliation if putin didn't retreat. so from the united kingdom, i suspect there's a lot was to come well, earlier we got reaction from 2020 libertarian us vice presidential candidate spike cohen, who believes the u. s. involvement in the crisis can only exacerbate the situation that i think that vladimir putin is the head of state of one of the least

militarily, one of the largest powers on, on the planet. and of a, one of the, one of the larger economy, the former member of the ga and, and i'm, i'm sure this does weigh heavily. i'm not sure that anything that can potentially lead to a hot military conflict, especially when we're already seeing shelling and things like that wouldn't weigh heavily on him. i'm sure. honestly, i'm sure this is weighing heavily on everyone on all sides that are having to make these kinds of decisions. which is, i'm hoping that, that weighing heavily in, that desire to try to avoid conflict will lead to you know, the, the tensions receiving from this and from just respecting the rights and autonomy of people to make choices for themselves and their own local governance. whether that will happen or not, totally remains to be seen. europe actually has a history of this, right. there's a history of, you know, things that happen as a result of thousands or hundreds of years of history that often lead to long

simmering tensions boiling to the surface. and as an american, again giving an american perspective on this. this is a perfect example of why i don't want our government even remotely involved in this, because this is something that isn't going to end with this. however, this ends up ending and hopefully it ends peacefully and hopefully, and 2 people respecting each other's rights in their sovereignty. but however, this and it isn't going to end with this and having the involvement of a superpower that's clear on the other side of the planet, i don't see how that does anything but, but in flame tensions even further i, i suspect that what's going to happen next, if he, if he does move forward with, with recognizing the or it sounds like he already has move forward with recognizing these to break away nations or, or break away people for those who don't think a new nation has been form. i think that there is already that they were definitely going to be sanctions coming from europe and apparently from the u. s. and, and probably canada and other countries as well. i hope that this can remain in

this realm in the realm of, you know, of saber rattling and political posturing. and i'm not a fan of thanks and i think sanctions separate people. the 1st thing you want to do if you want to create a war is remove any of the relational or financial incentives that people would have to not have that war, which is why they always start with the sanction. but i hope it, there have to be sanctions or, or anything like that. it ends with that. and that this doesn't turn into a hot war because not only just the, the lives that are loss anytime that there's any kind of military conflict. but the fact that this is a conflict between multiple nuclear powers, and although i don't think anyone wants to go there, there's always that real risk that if some one or another side feels at that there's an existential threat here, that it could go far past the hot water into a much hotter war, and i hope we can avoid that. earlier today, russia security council discuss the need to recognize the dumbass of public to ensure their residents safe safety ortiz self get taylor reports. while it was

indeed an emergency session of the security council, it was convened by president picking himself and i think given the very rapid deterioration that we have witnessed in the last few days alone, and if credit was upset, no doubt what was going to be on the agenda was going to be around the crisis in ukraine, but really, i think what probably triggered this emergency session was on monday, just a couple of hours before the security council convened. we actually got a direct request from the heads up to break away, but public saying we're off new pays president putin considered this. we need your help. we need your support. we need more cooperation. and what we did hear from me was that if i do indeed go forward and say, guess i recognize you told me of the faces it is because if only with a heavy hawk, it's because i was driven to it because he was saying he has failed that every single time to keep twits promise and abide by those 2015 misc agreement. he of authorities don't want to engage in direct dial like weight and the republics they

said they wanted to do it by dialogue with russia. and as soon as russia law for a certain staff who samples within the framework of course, and they start saying that rush is interfering with internal affairs of ukraine or the biggest thing. and this is what we just thought from president clinton is point 1130 thought to point that pretty simple. they have to be followed in order to point 11 is a big sticking point. and not as the one that specifically states that kids must grant these 2 separatists republics, quote, a special status and not just like, oh yes, i give you a special status that has to be tried in the constitution that made an ego 70. as on that obviously hasn't happened. and what's more presidents lensky has 4 administer to have flat, and he said, i'm not going to do it. it's not just that i'm not going to, so i'm not even have a dialogue. i'm not gonna engage in any kind of discuss it with these people. i'm some say it's because the government is currently under pressure from all right. national, who in increasingly and recent years, to excite what he would say is undue influence on policy shaping presidents. lensky

said, i do worry for instability, and i worry riots if i go forward at this point, 11 bit of the agreement, the nation of the sci fi, i do want to point out that landscape, despite claiming that these are his citizens, had stopped paying that pension he stopped paying them social benefits and he essentially imposed economic located. so they were in a difficult situation. their need more dire situation now. and that was exactly what president putin. she said was one of the 1st thing he said, if you're not counseling, we all had to talk about the fate of people to talk about people who have been living in basements, who are being shelled. we are here to talk about whether we think that those people have a right to live in peace. so see that it was up of the media that were growing revelations by western me to her secret documents negotiated at the end of the previous century by western colleagues with one another as well as with russia. and these documents clearly show no intention by the west to expand nato. yet natal fixture generally

and stilton book continues to simply deny obvious facts declassified by british archives and relief by the dish beagle news magazine. they are still vehemently opposed to loosening the open door policy despite many public denials of the existence of such a policy in europe. well, before i say this is what we're going to talk about a bit later. what we heard from president laboratory is, i think there's going to be a total lack of recognition from the west that they have a part to play and what is currently on, ruffling in ukraine. first and foremost, i have no doubt that this will be picked up by western media as a full flag or as russia implementing foss stage of invasion. we've already heard from the u. s. representative t v o s e. that's what we're here to cooperation in europe. who says that be considered a violation of ukrainian sovereignty. so i repeat, it's nothing to do with the, for public entering the russian federation. it is just the recognition of independence with bosco is that now you can read an article from the b, b,

c. the headline is 5 reasons why people might not invade. so yesterday they were cutting off. it's already a done deal and patient's already given the orders. now you've got 5 reasons not to invade, not just one. john chancellor already recognized or indicated that any recognition of the republics would be tantamount to russia putting out of the agreement of course, conveniently forgetting that he has failed to press to abide by the agreement itself on opposite shore. but we're going to have just a continuation about rhetoric regarding specifically what the foreign secretary said. let's not forget that those ukrainian forces who are current is shelling innocent anom civilians in dumbass who as we heard not fast women. he said i welcome this because it finding means that i can baton home and it will be peaceful . they are armed with nature weapons, with hundreds of millions of weapons that are being sent by the u. s. and it's nato allies, heavy duty stuff like chocolate and even. and nato's insistence to continue welcoming

members to the blog kind of lives are not only, obviously, a total disregard for russia security concerns, but also a direct violation of the promise that was made back in the ninety's. you know, about saying we will not inch 1. 1, we will not go one and eastward of the, with alba and germany, but unfortunately, that is not what we're seeing, even though i'm not sure what lever up was pointing to. he said they've completely living in a parcel and, and july. well, in terms of penalties, putin a previous he said it doesn't matter what we do, we're going to be functioned anyway. but we know whether that's going to be north stream to the gas pipeline. this obviously caused a priori. we talk about this the whole time, whether it's going to be about cutting brush off from swift, all these on the table. but what's very instead, what we did here at the council was for my prime minister museum of saying, you know what? we're ready. we knew that this was going to come,

no matter what we do. we have been slowly preparing ourselves, getting us ready. you know, bring it on. the situation that we have now is in a way more complicated, but also maybe simpler. i'd like to explain the issue 8 is more complicated because the scale of potential conflict can be compared to what we place in 2008. and that's a fact keeping in mind the estimation be given to us by defense minister just now. but on the other hand, it's easier for us because big then we need to know the potential reaction here. we're all kinds of talks. i toggle some be and also talk to president bush. but now we know we know what is going to happen. and we know linear with all the possible problems, possible difficulty is number of them all the sanction. if we is that we can hear now broadcast from the average domestic bustle, appliance,

we know dad are all be a lot of pressure, but at the same time we know how do we stand this pressure in the summer? and suddenly the kremlin is right in the sense that it has built a somewhat fortress economy by kind of winning itself off the dollar by doing deals, for example, in euros, by building off its gold resolves walls and a foreign currency and dollar. so yes, it is up to you, right? that is kind of built this shield that will protect it. but i think for me, the main message that came out of thought was and i think you'll probably agree. essentially what those security council members was saying is, we know that we're going to be hit by penalties. that's ready kind of, you know, done thing. but we think that we're willing to pay the price because of the people on the ground. and because we think that they have a right to live in peace and they are not a bargaining chip that kids is using them, they are people who dissolve to have peaceful sky vote. i mean the situation on the grounds. there's absolutely no other word for it. it has deteriorated so rapidly. i don't think anyone quite expecting to be the something i'm her at has been talking

about. he's and tony at the moment and the figures that the defendant secretary came out with. he said we got around 50000 troops on the ukrainian side of the conflict line. a 100 tanks got heavy duty stuff, like i said, a lot of foreign arms shipped over by the us apparently defensively. but as you just said, and as the se, dignity reports come in, that kidding not being used defensively, because we've even got reports of all to relaxing even on the russian federation, which is why the russian federation was the contact line. you know, there are hundreds, it's not 1000 kilometer. this is all of course, a direct violation of the midst protocol, something that not is just not talked about in mainstream media. another thing that ca shy group the defense side is that what even more consigning is that a lot of this last news in the how to fall right nationalists who have proved to be very unruly and very difficult to actually control. one of the thing that i

think i want to listen to what he said about the specifically he said the most terrifying thing that has possibly come out at the last few days is presidency. let's get the munich security conference saying that he will renee, potentially, on the budapest memorandum and re arm ukraine with nuclear weapons. i would also like to draw the attention of the members of the security council to the statements made by me through the landscape of the south bay. they would have to do so and would like to return was the status of the nuclear country. and i want to say, nuclear power, but country that is very, the entrance seen says go say it was a 1st because we saw them, there was more wildly we're part of the soviet union. and you told when they have the necessary infrastructure to build such weapons, not only weapons, but carriers for your weapons and i took it to your my name. so we're just going to take a very quick break now, but i'll be back again in just

a few short minutes to continue with our rolling coverage of russia's recognition of the sovereignty of those don bus republics, i'll see you shortly. ah no more than 20 years have passed since one of the world's deadliest terrorist attacks that took thousands of lives. people started to scream. there was a waiver that came over us. that was like opening up an oven door, but not all wounds of heel. the survivors respond does have increased rates of cancer and other health issues due to the dust and chemicals they inhaled. i come here to get my blood cleaned out. the, the metals, a lot of blood in my blood, in terms of 1st responder was, well, over a 100001st responders in there were some estimates that 10 to 20 percent

still have to yes. some never achieve full recovery. it's my life. but i cherish of the minute i have with the only friends i thought i was home before this really homeless, you depreciate life. ah, there is extreme nationalism which has been released to the us. and they want those dominance. but surely, they are sensible voices in the u. s. c. that's gone for what you ahead to gone for gore war is not the way. there is another way it could be would it wouldn't for all of everyone. and i certainly believe that the gold britian between china and the united states, anyone for that by to russia, would benefit mankind much more than a conflict with

ah, resident pearson makes the choice to immediately recognize the sovereignty of ukraine's dom bus republics. also citing treaties of friendship corporation and mutual assistance. but he didn't please visit us, president of the russian federation. vladimir putin is signing the executive decree on the recognition. all that done, it's people's republic. president lexia could be the president of the russian federation for vladimir putin signing the executive decree on recognition. the lo ganske people's republic. oh ha.