i guess, and in budapest were the washing 0 next time, remember, oh, a tonight, russia praying peace. dogs conclude on the fellow's border with the criminal delegation chief. hopeful that common positions could be an extra negotiation to set for the polish border in the coming days. crane 2nd largest city, how called it's now at the center of fighting with a huge explosion reported and numerous claims of st. battles with russian troops. the you and i'm says, hundreds of millions of euro's worth of support for you. craig, including high caliber on a switzerland join to europe sanctions now against russia. however, nato says kia has membership of the military block is not currently on the agenda. and the you closes its air space to rush and flights. naps is

a bad news organizations are t and sputnik, and then a subsidiary. ah, good evening. this is our international law for moscow in watching or will these at 9 this monday, the 28th of february. just one story dominating the 1st round of peace negotiations between russia and ukraine concluded a little earlier. the better was border. after round 5 hours of talks, the head of moscow's delegation said he was cautiously optimistic with a 2nd round shed yield for the polish border. country with a correspondent comes to the roast coffees in the gumble region where today's meeting took place. hey, there a lot was hanging on this. is there any hope that a cease fire can be broken any time soon and for this some way forward to be found as well. good evening, cat and there is room for cautious optimism,

but no immediate results. at this point, the talks between russia and ukraine have wrapped up. they've lasted for 5 hours. no breakthroughs, no grievance, have been made. the 2 delegations are on their way back to their capitals for further consultations. and after that, there's going to be the 2nd round of talks. the head of the russian delegation letter means he's going to report to president putin about the outcome of 10. i talked shortly, this is what mr. medina, you said right after these meeting. oh, so the clinical sequentially fit ago or so. negotiations with the ukranian side have concluded they lasted around 5 hours. during the talks, we went through all the details on the agenda. found some points on which common positions can be foreseen, and most importantly agreed to continue the negotiation process. the next meeting will take place in the coming days on the poland, bella rouge border. one of the members of the company delegates and also made a statement saying that the t side have found areas where some progress is possible

without given any specific details. he also confirmed that round to will take place in 2 days at the border between poland and belarus. so we can say that this particular meeting has yielded any tangible results yet, but perhaps it lay down the groundwork or the future talks. the fact that the 2 sides agreed to continue dialog looks promising, although publicly keith and moscow's position remained far apart. ukraine once and cease fire and withdrawal of all russian troops even from crunch and done. best smasher ones in neutral status free. and the key if officially recognizes crime me as part of russia. tough times by piece is still possible. we had so so constant heroes call. thank you. the invoice to moscow and hear her heated exchange at the un general assembly in new york during an urgent session of the crisis and ukraine . everyone in the cold. and everyone in the world

knows that russia and russia alone started these invasion, they saw, was not provoked. what's going on? there are no plans to occupy ukraine's in the goal of his special operation is to protect people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide. faith is from the key of regime lead requires that the militarization and dean as a cation of ukraine. so wrote words being used, they live to new york, our to kind of mope, and as a say in 10 saga was put forward what was said. and how does the united nations reacting sure, well, this is a meeting of the un general assembly, and that's because of the fact that russia is a permanent member of the security council. so they can veto resolutions by the un security council. so the united states hope to circumvent russia's status at the

security council by taking a resolution to the un general assembly, where every country, every member state is represented. now, the way this works, we have the opportunity for every country that's part of the un general assembly to give remarks. now the meaning opened with remarks from the secretary general of the un antonio gutierrez, and he gave oddly partisan remarks. usually the secretary general gives g vague statements calling for de escalation of tension and peace. however, we heard him make some pointed remarks calling for russia to withdraw all of its forces from the internationally recognized borders. that would mean not protecting done african lugens, which is the primary objective of russia's operation in the country. then we recently heard from the ukranian representative and he took to the floor and repeated much of what he has said over the past few days, making a lot of extreme allegations against russia ambling up his rhetoric, world war 2 comparisons. this is what the ukranian representative had to say at the

un general assembly body deadliness strikes dropped on civilians, parents across the entire country, and the russian troops gross to cranes borders from the territory or russia, billers and the occupied bars. so ukraine's dunbar and crimea, does it remind you of something, doesn't it? indeed very clear, perilous. could be drawn with the beginning of the 2nd the will law to it was chosen by someone who is right now sitting in the bunker. we know what happened with the person who sat in the bunker in berlin in may 1945. now from there we got to hear from the russian representative, the benzine, the permanent ambassador of the russian federation. and when he spoke, he was able to debunk a lot of the extreme rhetoric being unloaded by the united states and their allies

. when he spoke, he pointed out that russia has actually uncovered a manual being used by allies of the united states to make fake videos to take video from libya, syria, other countries, even clips from video games and pass them off as video of atrocities committed by russia in ukraine now he talked about how there's a lot of fake news going around the international media going around social media in particular. and he also spoke about how it seems like there has been no acknowledging of the fact that lugens and don ask had been showered relentlessly for the past 8 years. and for the past 7 years, the minsk agreement that was supposed to reintegrate eastern regions back into ukraine hasn't been implemented now. the russian representative was able to speak and he made some very clear comments about how this is being represented in the media and how this particular resolution put forward to the un general assembly is not really pro ukrainian because it doesn't point out who pushed ukraine into this

conflict, here's the russian representative and a benzo is of suitable movement, but in would you look the 1st of all direct dialogue between key and the don't bass was needed. however, this being hit more confirmation by the countries leadership that ukraine is not ready for such dialogue for taking steps to grant don't bass special status as provided by the men's agreements in the, in this convinced us that we simply have no right to make the residence of don bass suffer further, redoing those films to repose, to new me now the russian representative expressed hope about the negotiations, the possibility of a ceasefire, hoping that tensions could deescalate, in the country of that they could reach an understanding and that there could be security for the people of the eastern regions, as well as understanding that the nato coalition will not go into ukraine and expand right on to russia's doorstep. ah, but it's also important to note that as this is a meeting of the un general assembly,

many countries will get to address it. and russia is not the only country in the world to recognize the people's republic of don ask, and the people's republic of lugens can also they, those countries have now been represented and recognized by venezuela, by cuba, by nicaragua, by iran. and so a number of countries are likely to get up and echoed some of what russia said, expressing concern for the civilian populations of use don bass regions and what the people there have been enduring are echoing, rushes right rightness in carrying out a needed security operation. to make sure these people no longer face, the shelling and bombardment also expressing concern about the nato coalition, which has been quite aggressive and its interventions around the world expressing concerns about natal expanding further eastward in closer to russia. so are we're expected out quite a long meeting. the un general assembly includes every member state. so quite a long meeting is taking place. the representative of brazil of brazil has spoken, were expecting to hear from a number of other countries. quite a long meeting today that will be taking place at the un general assembly hall. ah,

but the resolution put forward by the united states and its allies condemning russia. what is being debated in the un headquarters to day and totally understandable why feelings are running so high and all sides? not is kellum open the un general assembly in new york. thank you. more to brief you on this been fierce fighting new cranes, 2nd city harko von day 5. now the conflict, large explosions, been reported in the area with local filling. huge clues of smoke amid what they describe is ongoing battles. the next will show you another video from ukraine, 2nd safety, but a warning move from the contents disturbing missiles and hitting residential areas . russia says it's completely avoiding such zones though, and claims that to crane is putting forces in residential buildings and using civilians as human shields. something that strongly denies. alleged artillery shelling there a shopping center has been reported in a northern part of a city claim to have come from

a nearby residential building. this map shows what is happening further east. the red dots highlight the cities where the russian armies currently fighting with the ukranian army, a nationalist formations. the russian defense ministry says that luc ganske militia of retaken territory from the ukrainian army, 60 kilometers now the on the previous front line. while the net forces of reportedly advanced some 21 kilometers kevin hughes is moscow of aggression and says around $5000.00 russian soldiers have been killed in recent days with 30 russian planes and helicopters, shot dead on about 200 tanks destroyed. moscow refutes the claims without disclosing concrete figures and says he's been making major advances against the crated military. now to the capital k of these around verified images, showing air defense systems, actively operating kevin authority said the city was surrounded, but then back down from that claim. and now say groups of russian sub,

a terse trying to bring chaos to the streets. not something that's been denied by russia's military, it's just, it's flooded with armed gangs of looters, robbers and radical nationalists. they were given guns in an unlawful decision by the authorities to hand out lethal weapons to anyone without checking. i'm addressing all residents of everyone can leave the capital freely by a designated road. this road is open and safe. i want to emphasize once again, the russian army is attacking only military targets. the civilian population is not under threat. you can see the 2 dumbass republics recently recognized by russia as independent countries, red dots, the locations that russia's military with groups of finance can guns troops had currently fighting for you can see there are numerous battles, the towns throat, those 2 don bus regions and over to the dawn bus front lines where this video purportedly shows an explosion near the southeastern city of murray pool, the target of which is still unclear. we're working to confirm what has been

happening in that area. residents of east in ukraine liberated by the current operations say they may finally be able to see their families after it is war and never want to go back to what they describe as ukrainian rule. this is daniel benson, that is, it is with the proof of fisma of new content, money needed to get his epilepsy. when you come here tuesday of the inpatient and you are playing the valiant lo, such with love alternately to love it or what to partying. a proper, if he had gotten, i'm not normally can you hate you?

we tom, approximately a 100000 refugees were arriving from ukraine to poland every day, according to local officials. because of this, the shopping center is being used to host the arrivals in one polish city ukrainian troops. the police have been surrounded elsewhere by a russian army forces near the southeastern city of marie opal reporting on that. and other developments from the front lines. there are senior correspondent what we are hearing is that the city of mary, apple, which is ukraine's largest, bought a ease ease. now almost surrounded with, with the garrison. that is there. the russian side has said that it is nationalist elements that are putting up the stiffest resistance and that, that those units belonging to the regular military to regular formations, that they are choosing to negotiate in some cases and lay down their arms and return to their homes. but these are very difficult to verify this information at

this time because events are developing so quickly. and because there are so few reliable reports close to the frog lines where it is extremely dangerous. the situation there is that many roads have been and we have received reports from the city of dance, which is a half way between the crimea and mario ball, which is at the axis of russian advance, which is a, which is where ukrainian units have planted in the city itself and in the outskirts mines, for example, to, to surprise that to devastate advancing force as it is very difficult to reach mario below the vicinity of mary opal. at this point, there have been, according to reports, more than a dozen civilian casualties. here in the city of the near victims of front directed find and the neighbourhood civilian neighbourhood, spare places, wet weather,

apartment buildings, and, and other houses we have seen or of course soon over ukraine, different reactions to this operation. there are certainly civilians who have been happy to see the russian forces but there, but they have also been those who have been less than happy to see again. russian troops advancing through through you crate on the whole with some authority is with the the good the good with the, the, the administrations of various villages and towns there has been contact. they have a been somewhat responsible have tried to fly to agree try to negotiate with russian forces about responsibilities, for example, about joint patrols with police being with police being kept up to speed and allowed to do their job to prevent looting. for example, to prevent crime murders from taking place in the anarchy that is often left behind . after military operations and the lady, we discussed the actions of the military claim to enter the city and sure order and

reassure residents. they convinced me that this would not affect the life of the city in any way. there will be order in the city. our police will patrol at any. there is, of course, also also the fact that the russian military has been keeping us up to date on its statistics, which is how many various military infrastructure sites, objectives they have destroyed, which is at this point over a 1000 as well as the majority from what we understand of ukraine's air force has been destroyed many before being able to take off many jets by the helicopters before being able to take off in stripes directed at airports and as heels and hangers and other objects belonging assets belonging to the ukrainian air force via west bank of the west bank of keith is also set to be under the control of the

russian military. viv could the situation and care fees of course. desperate made much more so after authorities there, boosted that they had handed out almost 30030000 assault rifles. 10000000 rounds of ammunition, r, p g 's, as well as grenades to the civilian population. we heard at 1st the, the only a passport was required than that there was footage of people just coming up that, that the boxes and, and trucks picking up guns by the dozen and, and leaving, which has resulted in as we have seen on social media get a verified footage anaki in the, in the a capital a capital of ukraine. nevertheless, the russian side says that he's making all efforts to avoid civilian casualties. which, which includes a bad on bombing blog due to her rockets, missiles at indiscriminately at cities and trying to keep will stripes, procedures,

stripes to our military infrastructure sites. and again, have reiterated that they are offering ukrainian forces. those that don't, don't belong to nationalist or neo nazi battalions. they're offering them the chance to surrender, that they will be treated with respect and allowed to return to their fabulous you know, the developments printed for a separate. he says, the freezing all russian bank assets list, trust me, the announcement over most because actions in ukraine we will bring in full asset freeze on all russian bank in days looking to coordinate with our allies. and in other developments to the russian, french president is held a serious and thorough conversation as it was described on the situation in ukraine, according to the kremlin. but it comes as a pressure grows for more sanctions on moscow. well, we know that the use of burrell, this is the high representative for the e. u has been outlining details this afternoon in

a press conference saying that the you need to spend more money on defense and it needs to spend that money better. he said, this isn't just about supporting ukraine at the moment, but this is also about the stability of the world. now he also talked about the sanctions, which we've discussed over the last few years that have been labeled against russia . and there is the suggestion that even more sanctions are to come. but he warned that while the sanctions are costing having a high impact on the russian economy, they will also have an impact here in the e u. but he said it was better that that price was paid now than paying a bigger price in the future. and he said the ear needs to fight what he called the aggression coming from the put in regime. now switzerland, meanwhile, has also aligned with the you and it comes to these sanctions. it says it's going to freeze the assets of individuals and companies. and that includes president putin and his foreign minister circ

a lover of now joseph burrell. c said that he welcomed that decision by the swiss, who are normally neutral in all situations. and he said that this showed solidarity with ukraine. douglas good as to run. as far as i know, the swiss government has decided to alliance fully with european sanction, to exact the same things as we doing. which is great, perfect bad news for russia. now use a brawl, went on to say that they would be a hiking sanctions, including against countries like belarus. and he said that there would be warning for any country that decided to side with putin in this war that's happening in ukraine. now in the meantime, and you mentioned that president, my caller frances, haven't had discussions once again at with his russian counterpart. we understand from the elise a palace, the president, mac on urged president putin to stop any bombings, any strikes against civilian areas. and also says that president putin are promised

to preserve civilians in ukraine. we've since heard from the kremlin about that call, or who has as said that president putin said russia is open to talks. in the meantime are a very different story. but still on, at this situation in ukraine as a sailor in the spanish island of luca, who is ukrainian, has been arrested by the authorities there after he attempted to apparently sink the super yacht over russian ali ark. this is a russian all jak alexander meek. if i, who is the owner of a russian arms exporter, apparently this ukrainian sale had been working as a mechanic on the c p out for about 10 years. but decided to try and sink it in an attempt to have revenge. what's happening in care of, at the moment,

sanctions lead to a heavy slope of the very of russia's currency. the rubel, the central bank has moved to try to stop the float of foreign capital. no moral mark from egos done off as a most difficult day for the russian economy since the beginning of the operation in ukraine. and arguably, in recent history, the rubel took a plummeted last about 20 percent and its value to the dollar and a well obviously everything because of the batches of sanctions they were imposed on russia over the weekend. so today's monday, so it took the brunt today. um, so russia had no other choice to react to latimer putin. he, well, he assemble his top officials like the prime minister, the minister of finance, the head of the bank of russia. and they all shared their plans, their sort of contingency plans, i should say. as to what can be done to stop the plummet, but an interesting detail. here's how vladimir putin opened that meeting, have a listen prime minister and i discussed this topic naturally bearing in mind the

sanctions that the so called western community as i called it in my address. the empire of lies is now trying to implement against our country. now there have been all sorts of better to impose, but the key ones, for example, is that 1st and foremost, vladimir putin signed a document according to which russian companies and russian nationals are no longer allowed to send the dollars and store them deposit them in for an account, so basically all foreign currency like dollars for example, they have that has to stay in the side country and within the russian economy. on top of that, russian tax residence that companies that will receive some of their income in dollars. they will have to sell 80 percent of that income and exchange it for roubles. this is done, of course, to support the russian national currency witcher. it was again, it was a falling quite heavily assumed, soon surpassed the $100.00 rubles per dollar mark. so it was worth less than

a cent. in fact, one russian rouble was worth less than a cent. but following these measures, following the announcement of these measures, it kind of backtracked and recovered at least a little bit. and now it is. well, it's still, the official raid basically is not, it is, is not reaching just below, just under a 100 rubles per dollar. on top of that, the bank of russia has higher massively, the key rates. so now it's 20 percent and that's a, that's more than double compared to what it was just yesterday. so that is done, of course, also to support to support the national currency. now, of course, some russian, some big russian, you know, business men, they have criticize this because of course, with this with, with the key rates. so high money is so expensive. borrowing money is so expensive for the companies. well, but, well, the russian government says it has to be done, but again, unfortunately for the russian economy, the west is saying that, well,

this could be that there's more where that came from. so they might impose more sanctions and they have this intention is going to view from boss of the u. k. live know to partner wong, senior politics like sure, it's brittany boss university. thanks for your time. we appreciate you coming on the coast. this is a double edged sword, the ease word as well, about any potential restrictions that might be coming back their way from russia. not that russia said is going to restrict and he deliveries of gas and all but prices, even with all this and instability at the moment ago for the roof only noon. or i think these kind of, in the men or to me should be temporary because i noticed that and the negotiation for peace between russia and ukraine is in good progress. and actually the 2nd round of negotiations is being print them. as a result, i'm naught, dead concerned about all these ongoing term term or in terms of the currency and

all these can raise m. as a matter fact, i see that and the sanctions imposed by the european union dues on me target that owns a number of selected russian bands. yeah. why will it that, why wasn't it more more broad if you like? well, if it's the i thing to the european union, a like the u. k. in the us, they are more concerned about whether in our food brawn across to brought or are, or one sized sci fi saw a pro se, engine likings or russian benz. we'll get a backlash from, from the russians, or in terms of the of furry re, if then there would be a sudden cut off for energy surprise from russia. because if you are cutting off all the transition on tre, with the russian bands, that means, and there's no way to tray the oil and also the air natural gas from russia. this is, i think, is the main concern. i wonder the thought is as well that may be tougher. sanctions

are still being held back in the sideline, sir, if they need to impose more is that argument? there are not i said, i think i think now actually i think the wash yearn cy has um, more options. and in turns a praise them in a more stronger position because it looks like now a, we're actually looking for how moscow earth take and the options and, and the european and de luca and the u. s. i actually relatively passive on this. i and because are now the us as options going on for negotiation for peas and a so i'm not dep pessimistic that i eventually they will be, i mean the, the european side will perforce to and implemented across the board and sanctioned, nothing's all your or russian benz as a matter of fact, if that will happen,

unfortunately, dent and d, european gas and all process schools go up very quickly and i don't thing the people in the european continent with light at and east if there were bat mash off the api opinion about oil and gas a prize and i think and the governments in your opinion and they have to, we act and that means that they will still need to go back to the negotiation with team on moscow or forty's. alice, they'll tell her, caught a swift at china's sips, or is that an option for russian banks? what i think of is the scenes last year i am since our prism and put in he published his national secrete strategy. he already said at the am, are, you are stall on has to be reduces importance in the russian economy. and russia has 2 aspirin from this, and financial and tre, ties with china and india, for instance. so, and this kind of an, a process has been going on and,

and actually are russia and china energy in that dependency has been enhancing. so definitely there, so there's a trend or, and positive trend going on about his own chinese system. but i think the chinese would also like to make the system compatible with the russian system. and as a matter of fact, and if you put up a kind of autonomy system, you still need international partners to back up a few. so that m a things will get into, let me clear this transition. it this transition from swift to steps it could happen and quickly. yes, i think it would. depends on tim effectors. the 1st factor says m, how we are still looking at how the chinese economies doing and also how the u. s. economy stewing, m, if the u. s. economy is mort, for example, by the.