world war one type thing, i think basically the entire world will have to choose sides. but in terms of public opinion, i guess we're going to see ukraine has been doing this for 8 years. they had 8 years to do something about it. and they kept saying, no, no, no, we don't have to do anything. the west has their back to west has their back. and then in response to, to what they claimed was accumulation of russian troops. preparing for an invasion . they started talking about getting lou nuclear weapons, president joe biden, onslaught them as a landscape, have discussed a provision of international assistance to ukraine. while british prominent subarus johnson say britain on its allies will respond decisively to the kremlin actions to many from sounds. the european commission have a strongly condemned russia saying moscow must be held to account nato chief young stilton book phase, the russian military operation, if a violation of international law and a threat to euro atlantic security. while ukraine's permanent representative to the

you and said, president putin high declared war on ukraine. well, let's get the latest from our correspondent in europe for it's now paula slayer is in berlin. paula, thanks for joining goes up. how is the west react thing to this situation? and what's happened in the past few hours while no surprise here, western leaders are responding with fury. presidents of the european commission and the european council had issued a joint statement in which they condemned russia's actions in the strongest possible terms. they say that russia's unprecedented military aggression against ukraine is unprovoked and unjustified. russia is grossly violating international law and undermining european and global security and stability. they have court on russia immediately to end or hostilities, saying that actually so force has no place in the 21st century. at the same time,

president michelle of the european council, has urgently convened an extra ordinary meeting of the european council. you need us, we'll meet later today to discuss the crisis and further restrictive measures on russia . joseph borrow tweeted the following, which really sums up the mood here in europe. we strongly condemn rushes in justified attack on ukraine in these dark hours. our thoughts are with ukraine and the innocent women, men and children as they faced this unprovoked attack and fear for their lives. we will hold the kremlin accountable. now be german chancellor self has said that this is a blatant violation of international law. earlier he had a telephone conversation with the ukranian president, in which he expressed solidarity with kids. the german foreign ministry has urged on its citizens who are still in ukraine to leave the country immediately. and if they're not able to do so, to stay in a protected location,

the german foreign minister has said we will not forget to quote the state shame. the italian prime minister has also strongly condemned russia's actions in ukraine . the french prime minister, the french president, emanuel micron has said that france was acting with his partners to stop the war. well, where was the belgian prime minister has also condemned russia saying that this is your darkest hour since the 2nd world war, and to quote this russian aggression is unnecessary and unjustified. and our hearts and minds are with the people of ukraine. the american president joe biden has also spoken with his ukranian counterpart in which he expressed that he condemned what he called unprovoked and unjustified attack by the russian military on ukraine. he has accused putin of choosing a, to quote, pre meditated war that he says, will bring a cat, bring about a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering. by then saying that russia alone

is responsible for death and destruction that the attack will bring. later today, they will be a virtual meeting of the g 7. japan's prime minister has also come on board and condemned what he calls russia's one sided aggression. nato is also planning to hold an emergency meeting. the secretary general sultan book. busy has said that this is a grave breach of international law and a serious threat to euro atlantic security. i strongly condemned russia's attack on ukraine, which puts it with countless civilian lives. he said, and that allies will now meet to trace rushes to the need. a gray sensor, no surprise, a flurry of new things happening here in europe and across the world. paula: thank you so much for that update with the rhetoric ramped up as high as it is is going to be very interesting indeed to see what sort of comments we we see coming out of those meetings being held today. the european council meeting, as you set the nighttime meeting, also coming up and the virtual d 7 meeting,

but time, so you'll be keeping us up to speed on everything that happens for now. our t correspondence making life and believe honestly, i think you very much. earlier we spoke with scott ritter, a former marine corps intelligence officer. now he said the situation would never have escalated this bar. if the west had stopped the arming kiss, it could have been prevented, it could have been prevented. 2 days ago, a day ago, all that needed to happen was for a ukraine to say, we will not be part of nato. and we will comply with minsk and then i believe this would not have happened. but that was never going to happen. the west, i suddenly remembered mense, can say, hey, we need to do this. well, you know, you had 7 years to do it. and you did, it could have pressured ukrainian government to implement it. you didn't, and now you're paying the price. well, it is clear that the united states and the european union have additional what they call traunches of,

of sanctions. they may implement them all now because there's no reason to hold it back and some people feel frustrated that, you know, they didn't think this is going to happen now that it's happening. they're frustrated that sanctions aren't, you know, not only didn't stop it but aren't going to stop it. and they're, they're looking for other things that can be done. and they might try some muscle flexing. this is a very dangerous situation. so, you know, it's, it's a little late to be thinking about flexion muscle now. responds to russia's work, ignition of the dumbass republic, the sanction the number of individuals. these include russian, m, p, 's, who backed the decision and includes a number of other prominent russian figure as well. as we know, the taylor was in the studio with me today to skype guiding, guiding me and to all of us through the latest developments. let's talk about these sanctions. we've already had a trove of sanctions hit russia in the past few days,

and we're going to have most day on we let's face it. so what have we seen so far in terms of sanctions and punishments aimed at russia? well, i mean, russian, you 100 percent that this was coming when they met on tuesday at the security council meeting when they were talking about whether to recognize to the guns could have scored publics be a former foreign minister to meet from the debt of said we know this is going to happen. i'm president, please not does. it's going to happen. whatever we do that going to sanction on the point is, is that russia has been building a fortress economy over the last 8 years. it has been living on the functions. we have managed to build a kind of shield. i know that there's something that we're discussing with one of our guests at a 100 burton. and that's exactly what he said. he said they built kind of shield to protect them, bought the u on the u. s. protect case, still feel that this is a very powerful foreign policy tool. so power when fights of the u. s. has an economic sanctions department within the state department despite that actually being discussions about the legality of sanctions. what we've seen so far though,

is expected. the u. s. u and another of that 5 eyes nation, particularly targeting, like you said, banks to state own banks and other of a wealthy individuals terabyte and also signed an executive order saying that any institution brush financial sector could expect to be punished in some way that potentially might have an impact given that more than 80 percent of russia's day before an exchange is conducted in dall. we've also got a situation where the u. k. on tuesday announced the sanctions against 5 russian bank, some russian 1000000000 as and of course the main news coming out of europe was out the chance to german schulte said we halting the certification of the 11000000000 dollar north stream to gas pipeline. i suspect that moscow anticipated exactly what was going to happen. i think nord stream to f one was probably thinking that north

stream too, might act as the ultimate deterrent to any possible plans that putin had. because of course, we'd invested, rashid invested so much money to it, of course, years of time. but look, we have been sitting here and we've been listening to the rhetoric, especially coming from the state. so the last a pretty much ever since that project was announced. and bite and, and trump, before he said this is not acceptable, we need to call, we need to kill it at all costs. i suspect the kremlin thought that either way, it's not going to happen. so those are the current functions on the table. however, given that even at the munich security conference last week, and we heard from the vice president to come to our thing, we got an unprecedented package of functions. there are numerous options and kind of neat options to i think that we are going to see as us wake up and look at the situation. we're going to see some war coming through. what i did kind of do a report about recently was whether these sanctions, because it's a lot of discussion about whether the functions actually will affect russia economically. and actually this is not present by himself. he thought,

you know what, we have to accept that we 2 will pay the cost. so i kind of had a look about what the, sometimes the foreign policy, particularly when it comes to these punitive economic measures, actually backfires on people and can haute the people who impose them themselves. right. that's exactly what i was thinking as well, because most just about philosophy, a lot of sanctions on russia and hurting it as much as possible. it's about devising a plan about sanctions that will hurt russia, but not have the kind of economic shock absorber rates around the world. and i'll do that while i talk to you. that's exactly what i was looking in to audio. i think we've got our, my report light up. let's have a look. oil around a $100.00 a barrel. your weekly shop might empty a wallet. inflation might reach record highs, but don't worry. it's all worth it. defending freedom will have cost for us as well. and here at home,

we need to be honest about that. now americans here might ask 2 questions. one which freedom author all ukraine's not topping any democracy indexes on to was ukraine. you see back in 2014 a poll showed that 84 percent of americans couldn't place that on a map. maybe they've googled it since, but maybe they haven't. so that probably not t and on goading a nuclear power to defend it. in fact, that definitely not over 50 percent until the americans think washington has no business in ukraine, especially if it means that they take the hit. sometimes i think we should just do our own thing in the world and not be worried about everybody else at all. really appreciate us anyway. others are things like own grade is home. here is a lot of divisiveness and people don't seem to like each other very much and you worry about the rest of the world's problems may be got a few things to straighten out at home 1st. clean your own house 1st before you go trying to clean somebody else's. you know, i think that a lot of the focus overseas is definitely getting more attention and in the us we

do need more attention on things that are happening here on our home. we have a lot of issues and they, they aren't addressing needs of minor of asthma. the sanctions will topple putin, nevermind that they haven't before. and the us will defend key abs multiple democracy to hell with us. citizens unaffordable, patrol confrontation war with russia is and will be very costly to the american people. beginning with increased inflation, making it harder for us to afford gas food and other necessities of life. but bite in administration and warmongers, republican and democrat, couldn't care less across the atlantic. the political leads upon him just as keen to sacrifice that people for a good p r, campaign. germans are split right down the middle on what to do with the north stream too. but still that chancellor hung tit the pipeline certification. spoiler alert, no cheap, natural gas for you, but at least we talk moscow a lesson. if you sanction a lot of one country, then it's going to affect

a lot of other countries. so maybe the sanction should be ruled if there are sanctions, it should be more minimal, minimalistic and rather than major hits sanctions as a whole, just generally don't work economically it on the funds of us in the finances or so . now i suppose sanctions don't ever work, nothing works rarely and it will hurt, it will hurt the ukraine. it will hurt all sorts of people with the sanctions. the good news is the politicians have promised relief. don't worry, it's temporary. help is on the way. is it, though russia provides, i think, 30 to 40 percent of the supply to europe. there is no single country that can replace that kind of volume. there isn't the capacity to do that from liquefied natural gas. history is a great teacher, and it's so that trumping on the people as part and parcel of politics. hundreds of thousands, marched against the vietnam war. millions protested the invasion of iraq. but

nothing changed. after all, it wasn't the politicians sending their sons to the front line or they who this time won't be able to pay that bill. so it's all good. but you have to admit it takes a special kind of hate to wage a campaign that hits your own people more than your enemy. but it's got the latest . now from a correspondence in don barzyk, raymond caseres reporting from don yeske and more at garcia for, for, as in luke gans at 1st to you, miranda video is the most of explosion that no guns. can you give us an update on the situation that please hello things, things are debated, developing very, very quickly here. the fighting is ferocious to have been explosions, which i reported on earlier. an entire district of the city lost lost power. that's the suburbs. more. but now the fighting has scorn moved further on no

further on towards the north, north, east, north west, which is where the front lines are, which is where ukrainian military positions on which is where they have 4 to 547, for 7 years ever since the escalation had ended in 2015 ever since the c. a c's. why war? semblance of a cheese fire was established in 2015. nevertheless, we're hearing and we have on a, i believe videos that show the, the, the noise, the sheer magnitude of the fighting here, the rocket propelled author motor put the multiple rocket launch systems out foreign artillery shelves falling on the front lines at certain points. it's like a, it's worse than a drum roll. it's like an orchestra of drums, the rumble, it ceaseless way. exclusions turned into turn to turn into a chew, a sound, a constant, incessant sound. nevertheless,

we have also been told by local authorities as they are now on the offensive that they plan to liberate the province of lou gods. deliberated within the administrative boundaries of the province. rather, the de facto control, which is where the front lines are now, they have also said that we will start from the ukranian side, the ukrainian ministry of interior. we have heard confirmation that they have lost 2 settlements. at least at least 2 settlements. that was about an hour ago, it may be more now considering the ferocity of the military action that we are the way i hearing and that the videos of which has circulated online. of course it is very difficult to to verify everything, but it will be more clear in the coming out and especially the, the coming days. people here are breathing out in relief since shelling of the city has reduced somebody. there is not, there hasn't been any for the past how,

how follow? so there are now people, not many, certainly, but people out the streets these, these people, well remember what war is like when it came to look god's good 20142015. they knew that keep close to bomb shelters into, to stay away from the streets from wide open spaces, which is where artillery does, does the worst damage that it can. also, i would like to mention about an hour ago, a jet road over the city of lugens flying, very low. presumably a russian jet flying towards the front lines. again, the situation is developing incredibly quickly and it is difficult to keep our on top of things. we, we appreciate you are trying to stay on top of everything for asthma and it's great to have you down the ground so you can witness everything that's happening. let's go to ramana. ask now eh, women, repose, say the situation the city and on. yes,

is relatively calm. i was a difficult night, but how a things developing as a day to hold on while things are developing a very quickly here in the next people's republic, you're absolutely right. so the night was a very alarming. it was very loud. we can still hear even now the sounds of a heavy artillery, apparently a multiple, a rocket launcher systems, had been used to here now don't if people's republic or army a representative are saying that they're now using all of their available means to strike ukrainian army positions and that is done in order to liberate, so they arrest of the territory of the nes peoples republic, currently occupied by the ukrainian army. and from the latest news that we are getting, dennis people's republic have already liberated 2 towns. i hear in done as people's republic this according to a local authorities. now the head of the,

the nest people's republic, denise bushland, i. he issued a statement over earlier saying that this operation for peace will soon be over and all cities and towns in don boss will be a liberated ah, he also issued a statement saying that the headquarters of the ukrainian army in dung bass are practically destroyed at the moment, meanwhile, intense fighting is still taking place of all throughout the entire front. it's very loud in the south of the republic near the city of murray, opal, and according to people's militia. i'm here in donnette ski. ukrainian army are or is feeding at the moment now according to adored pursuing their representative of the people's militia, the town of murray, opal in the south of the republic has been encircled by

a so called the territorial defense battalions who are known for their neo nazi belief sens affiliations are different, encircled the town and preventing the a local residence or from leaving virtually making human shields out of them according to a door buzzer and representative of the local militia. also that sound of a girl of car, just about an hour away from the city of the nest is also under shelling at the moment and all the nearby. it sounds as well. for example, the sound of a zine of aware arti arab correspondence was also a. this is sheldon a few days ago. oh that's it's on the artillery fire to a korean army i hitting the sensor of the village. now of course, oh, a shilling artillery duals have been happening here in zone nets for last few days . it was a very intensive and a main points that were targeted here in dunbar by the korean army were

a civilian infrastructure of buildings and plans. for example, water pumping stations and power stations had been damaged by shelling of that in effect, left thousands of residents. so here are peaceful civilians without any water or electricity. a red cross was on the scene as well, and they're doing everything they can to bring the people water or building material and whatever they need to, to survive at the moment. now for evacuation here in don't ask also continues. so we've seen a local emergencies and ministry trucks are driving around the city in forming a residence that evacuation to russia is still a possible. we've seen people here on the streets earlier, we was, we saw a municipal transport working,

people going about their business. and i was also monitoring the local social media and they're still people kind of in a state of euphoria, if you will, because they're really happy about this operation has taken place. and some of them are even saying that the city of don't ask is at the moment, probably the safest that it's been in the last 8 years of conflict. and of course everyone is hoping that the shelling will finally stop. peace will arrive and their loved ones will no longer be under threat. indeed, we all have time on. thank you. update from don. yes, because mar denise, you have an account for women, cause i've been told yes, thank you very much to both of you. now. you claims president land case lensky said that martial law is being imposed in ukraine and that ukraine's military infrastructure is under attack. he made an emotional appeal to the population of both countries and said that he had tried to call president vladimir putin,

but no one had answered him, ukraine's foreign ministry. meanwhile, phase russia has unleashed a war against ukraine. meanwhile, nato representatives ought to convene an emergency meeting. with my colleague peter scott discussed russia special military operation with former pentagon security on a micro maloof. he said that a military operation was an option of last resort. mr. brewton warned about how he was concerned about the security of the federation with the encroachment of nato, as and the possibility of assistance to ukraine through with, with nato. busy assistance and that's probably why mr. newton decided to take action because it was the last resort. the implementation of men's to ukraine was not interested. washington, basically, it is that once again, it coerced ukrainian leadership not to go along with it. and, and,

and again, it's, it, the leadership of the country is not in, in control of its own destiny. it's really controlled from the outside. and this was another manifestation of that. there wasn't agreement. and it's just one more agreement in a whole list of agreements that were. ready ignored or violated and mr. colton clearly felt that he was left with no other choice. do you expect that to continue all to ramp up given this developments? well, it's got to be difficult to provide any more assistance if the country is under attack already. i think it's going to be difficult to move any more supplies in unless certain corridors are, but i think mr. brewton has probably already calculated that is military strategist already figure that out. and basically,

will cut off that logistical support very rapidly. according to local reports, explosions can be heard across that ukraine, rather than say blasts of walks, the city of hawk, of which is in the east. explosions have also been reported in the area of foreign sample. airport was near kias and ukrainian military command post reportedly come up coming on the walk attack as well. i mean, while the russian defense ministry has denied all claims of rockets and every time on ukrainian cities and ministry spokesperson said that there are no threats to the civilian population in ukraine as high precision weapons are incompatible incapacitating military infrastructure, including defense facilities, ministry, se ukrainian soldiers and military units are abandoning that positions. and i think that those giving up that alms on being on the strikes. russia also denies that ukraine's reports of losses among plains and armored vehicles. while the recap now

of the main development this morning, long and poor thing announced a military operation in don't boss during an address to the nation. early this morning, the president said that would be no occupation of ukrainian territory. he also called for ukrainian troops to lay down their weapons. he said rush, his goal is to bring justice to those committed numerous crimes against civilians, including russian citizens. mister thomas, also the people's republic don't turn to russia for medical assistance. meanwhile, reports have come in that artillery can be heard in the don't bass republic. i'm the ukraine. hello course, say that the sounds of explosions can be heard in the area of forests awful. airport nick here. ukrainian military command post says force control centers and fields in kia hall called have all been hit by rocket attacks. report say, no reports of aerial bombardment martial law has been imposed in ukraine. the

russian defense ministry denies all the claims of rocket and arris hacks on ukrainian cities. the ministry adds that there are no to a smith civilian population and ukraine. meanwhile, 12 airports across southern russia have been closed until march. the 2nd and nato is planning to hold an urgent meeting later today, the la guns were public se ukrainian soldiers and now abandoning their positions. well, for those of you just joining us, you're watching artie international with me. nicky, aaron on saskia taylor. we got a lot to update you on regarding the situation and if you crane this morning, do stay with us for all the latest developments in the coming hours. thank you. back in just a few minutes. ah,

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was going to break into that? what we're hearing at the moment is that the head opened against people's republic unit perception. it is now briefing the media given over what's going on at the moment. i think we all want to listen. and so let's do that right now. armed forces of ukraine, ukrainian army, ukrainian, military clinton, soldier. i urge them to lay down weapons which if you move into really and this resistance that no one needs. and that's the case, then we will consider an amnesty and grow up through the chances they will get the right to leave in a free democratic independent country that is called the crane. otherwise we will have to use weapon you solution. in any case, those young girls wouldn't edwards student that we have set, we will pursue which of these goals. so now i'm ready to take her questions. colleagues,

she daughter said she was not in your situation as the contact line is all there is very difficult obviously, but well there is it in your middle name, melissa vienne, its they pose melisha logan's republic, but they are advancing. nobody, i don't think aren't into the plan. i mean, and to say that was this, what we're doing. we have all the radio liberated some saddle men, some towns. so it's early to say that. so once again, i would like to say that the operation is ongoing, and our troops are advancing asked for a plan from what i know. some alluded to on the plains, all the crane in army or down where a daughter when to the virus, the doors were destroyed with those that tried to infiltrate our territory principally because soon selves for the time being that sold up with you. but you

know, we have, we know that attempts by.