with heel address danish and swedish politicians in the coming days. nato secretary general in stoughton berg as a noticed that vance discussions are happening on increasing nature. his presence in europe. so added that the alliance is going to keep sending lethal aid to ukraine. ah, the chinese foreign minister has arrived in india to discuss trade with russia and other issues that says pressure grows anew, delhi from the west to sanction moscow. over the conflict in ukraine, which the indian prime minister rend remotely has so far, refused to do the flex geopolitical situation. what's the main development of could see to you and, and basically, this trainees, diplomatic tour is taking place on the backdrop of a massive pressure. campaigned by washington, actually of russian military technology and washington is trying to pressure the country to just entirely switch over to american weapons. another thing that the india recently did was that it bought around 3000000 barrels of discounted russian crude oil. that's another thing that washington was very upset about in terms of china. it reacte

in addition to native take a listen to what the head of native yen stoughton berg set about that shilling of the ukrainian nuclear power plant. we condemn the attacks on civilians a note, and i've also seen reports about detect against the nuclear potent. this just demonstrates the record recklessness of his war, unimportant sofa, and the 8th on the importance of russia, withdrawing all its troops and engage in good faith in diplomatic efforts that was in stoughton beg, speaking their turkey has offered to assist with that. it's foreign minister saying today in brussels, that on cover wants to bring russian and ukrainian diplomats together at an international forum next week. it's yet unclear if that can happen. but what is clear is naida will not impose a no fly zone over ukraine. ukrainian president zalinski has repeatedly called for one to prevent further russian airstrikes. we have responsibility as a laws to prevent this war pro, escalating the only thing. the only way to implement the no fly zone is the sent nato planes fight to place into can airspace and then impulse, the fossil b

deploying more soldiers and weapons to eastern european member states. secretary general, yet stoughton berg says the alliance will send troops to hungry romania, bulgaria. an slovakia and we'll double the number of battle groups stationed near russia. stilton doug has implored. member states to invest more resources to deter escalation. the decisions we take to morrow will, how far reaching implications, major reinforcements to our security will require major investments in defense. so i expect ours we agree to read or boulder efforts to invest more booze, a new sense of urgency because return old. take a piece for granted is a look at some of the other developments in the war. a reporter working for an independent russian website has been killed in keith news outlet. the inside us at oksana bow, lena died when russian forces shelled a suburb where she had been filming damage from an attack. at least 5 journalists have now died since russian troops invaded ukraine 4 weeks ago. and a top kremlin aid has become the 1st member of putins in a circle to quit his post over the russian invasion. a

and nato secretary general young stoughton berg has a nuns. discussions are happening on increasing nature presence in europe. he added that the aligns is going to keep sending more, lee flayed to ukraine. just to put this in some sort of context. you've got countries from the southern box appearing to rally together now to take on this complex geopolitical situation. what's the main development of could see you to you and, and basically this trainees diplomatic tour is taking place on the backdrop of a massive pressure. campaigned by washington. actually, it's basically intended to isolate russia from countries that are trying to maintain good relations with both sides of the ukraine conflict and basically stay neutral as for what we can world economy. let's not forget that for phasing and new delhi are facing pressure by the united states by washington for publicly coming out against the sanctions. india for its part, is one of the world's largest importers of russian military technology. and washington is trying to pressure the country to just entirely switch over to american weapons. a

because the inference is clear, i just had in stoughton berg say, so i that any dubey and d use by russia would be a red line of for her for the american foreign legion, which is a proper description of natal. so that either means, if a false flag will curse, nature will have to enter the war or be seen, or to have done nothing when one of their own red lines was apparently crossed. as right, no, i mean, the red line, of course is a phrase which was trimmed up for obama in the, in the sitting comfort. and perhaps it's worth looking back at the sitting comfort to see how that was dealt with at the time. and if you recall, there was a, an alleged son, an attack which it was alleged to have crossed the red line. and then about didn't do anything about this. nothing curious, curious things because a bama was a wet democrat politician who didn't like boeing people into the grand workforce. not he bond more people than his republican predecessors. what was the reason for that was, was that the, the, the military establishment in the role in russia, in the u. k. and indeed in the us, had a quiet

i just had stoughton berg say, so i that any dubey and d use by russia would be a red line of for her for the american foreign legion, which is a proper description of natal. so that either means, if a false flag will curse, nature will have to enter the war or be seen, or to have done nothing when one of their own red lines was apparently crossed. as right, no, i mean, the red line of course is a phrase which was trimmed up for obama in the, in the sitting comfortable. perhaps it's worth looking back at the sitting comfort to see how that was dealt with at the time. and if you recall, there was a, an alleged son in attack which it was alleged to have crossed the red line and then about didn't do anything about this. nothing curious, curious things because a bama was a wet democrat politician who didn't like boeing people into the grand workforce on he bond more people than his republican predecessors. what was the reason for that was, was that the, the, the military establishment in the role in russia, in the u. k. and indeed in the us, had a quiet words out with president obama and

dan stoughton berg, the secretary general of nato, has said it is our job to support ukraine, but is also our job to make sure that doesn't escalate and spiral even further. we are talking about nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction. ah. and those things are very, very serious. we should take into account and this, this has been the obvious reluctance. just as on the european side, you've had an obvious reluctance to going harder on energy embargoes and sanctions against gas companies and cutting off payments to those kinds of things. because it would say presumably very, very, very much harm. european economies put people buy in mass out of work, and it would really lead to a global crisis. and when ask you more about this cold war vision that we saw in this speech? i'm a bite and said the battle for democracy did not end with the cold war. ah, he is accused russia of quote, strangling democracy and says it is a state bent on violence and on lies as are tough words. do you think putin is listening? i'm sure he's listening, whether he cares or not is another question. and o

we are waiting for nato secretary general to begin his press conference at the end. stoughton berg, the alliance is looking to double the number of battle groups in its eastern member states. one proposal also calls from making the deployments permanent that would anger russia, which says it is threatened by nato expansion. but the secretary general has repeated that nato will not send planes into ukraine, saying the alliance needs to prevent the conflict from spreading. and we can go to our correspondent alexander phenomena and she's standing by for us at nato headquarters there covering the latest from the site for us. hi, alexandra. so we are waiting for that press conference to begin. it has been delayed by a little more than an hour. now can you tell us why that is what, what you make of that? will i ask, what is the reason and was just told that this is because said the meeting of the leaders was still going on by. we have to say, and i do cover nato a lot. that is, is highly unusual to wait for the secretary general's press conference for such a long time. normally, he is almost

thank you. nato secretary general un stoughton berg has rejected ukraine's call for a no fly zone over the country, saying that wouldn't risk direct conflict between nato and russia and could spark a war across all of you. we have only to strengthen our turns on the fence line in the air and i see allies from north america. europe have sent thousands more troops to the east and part of the alliance. we are deploying the nato response force for the 1st time. and we have over a 130 yet at high alert, and over 200 ships from the har, north to the mediterranean. we will continue to do what it takes to protect them, defend every inch of nato tight authority, nay, toys at the offensive alarms. our court paused is to keep our 13 nations safe. we are not part of this conflict and we have responsibility to ensure it thus not escalate on, spread beyond ukraine. because not would be even more devastating and more dangerous. with even more human suffering, nato is not seeking a war with russia. that was the head of native speaking earlier today. european union foreign ministers held an emergency m

i secretary general stoughton berg said that there will be even more reinforcements announced by allies. and interestingly, that they will also discuss and potentially even agree at this point to make these reinforcements permanent. now, of course, when all of these extra troops and equipment were sent to eastern allies, it, it wasn't known what, what president putin would do. nobody perhaps expected this, this war on ukraine. now the alliance is looking at, leaving them there. and that would be a big change because of course, there is a nato russia treaty, that it said that nato would not permanently station troops there. but all of that is out the window with this war on ukraine so. so those are some of the things we're going to hear tomorrow along with, as, as i mentioned, to support for ukraine in terms of fighting a chemical biological potentially nuclear attacks. let's talk about that of the nato chief urged, has warned, rather against the use of chemical weapons in russia's war in ukraine. is the alliance preparing for the worst and with that be red line for nato. they are prepar

that something like that could have on other countries around and there was a sense from young stoughton berg at the russia is preparing a pretext for a false flag alert, which would allow russia to say that the ukraine and the u. s. were planning some sort of biological attack, and that's giving them the pretext to be able to do that. these, of course, all accusations coming from nato, but we also heard that nature said it will not be sending troops into ukraine. it does not want to escalate the war even further. he said he wants to make sure it's contained within the borders of ukraine. because anything, the escalating could be much more dangerous and devastating. but with that in mind . and given that the kremlin has accused nay to overload vanelle breaking promises when it comes to that expansion eastwood in 2 countries after the fall of the soviet union. the fact today we've heard those countries, we'll see reinforcement more troops and more defense in the longer term as a way of dealing with russia. it really does bank the question if that kind to a tory, when nature says he doesn't wan

for additional countries like hungary, slovakia, romania and bulgaria. secretary general again, stoughton berg said the measures were part of a reset in response to a new reality. today, nathan leaders agreed to reset our turns on the fence for the longer term to face and use security reality. we will have substantially more forces in the eastern part of the dominance at high year readiness, one month since the start of russia invasion of ukraine, natal security environment house for the immensely changed for the long haul. on we are responding with more troops or with the more air assets on more maritime capabilities. it's a new reality. it's so it's a, it's a new normal unable is a responding for a long term nearest president joe biden is in brussels to meet with european allies in person. he pledged to support those fleeing the fighting in ukraine and announced new sanctions on individuals linked to the russian regime. he also said, vladimir putin has underestimated the resolve and unity of nato. today, marks one months since russia began its carnage in ukraine. the brutal invasion of a cri

in addition to native take a listen to what the head of native yen stoughton berg set about. that shilling of the ukrainian nuclear power plant. we condemn the attacks on civilians. an overnight we're also seeing reports about detect against the nuclear potent this just demonstrates the written, reckless vessel, this war, unimportant sofa and the 8th on the important. so rashaw, withdrawing all its troops and engage in good faith in diplomatic efforts that was in stoughton bec, speaking, they are turkey, as offered to assist with that is foreign minister saying today in brussels, that encore a wants to bring russian and ukrainian diplomats together at an international forum, next week, it's yet unclear if that can happen. but what is clear is naida will not impose a no fly zone over ukraine. ukrainian president zalinski has repeatedly called for one to prevent further russian air strikes. we have responsibility as a laws to prevent this war pro, escalating the only thing the only way to implement the no fly zone is the sent me to planes fight to place into christmas. and then

and i'm told that that mister stoughton berg was particularly disturbed by the images of civilians being shelled outside the city of urban. that's where we saw some of these humanitarian corridors come under fire. and also, if our viewers may forgive me this, this family who was killed as they tried to flee where you see, you see children lying dead as they tried to get out of the city of urban. and so this is just a reminder to the russian government that everyone is watching. everyone when sees this and an attempt to make them feel that they will be held accountable, they will be held accountable. but does that mean that nato is prepared to change it? strategy, i mean, we just spoke to somebody from the ukranian parliament and she is almost begging for nato to impose a no fly zone over ukraine. you know, lately that we hear these voices imploring nato to impose a no fly zone every day. now since the shelling began, and this is just something that i'm told is not going to happen, that you would never get 30 allies to agree that this is the best course of action . and in fact, it's not b

in fact, in stoughton berg, the ahead of nato said on friday that, that was out of the question made have always made it very clear that they would never put what they called boots on the ground during this russian invasion salter berg also saying, look, a no fly zone over ukraine effectively would mean that nato forces would be shooting down russian jets over ukrainian, sol, bringing nato in effectively into this war. a war that has now got a nuclear threat looming over it as well, perhaps. and that is something that nato just simply does not want to risk. let's not forget, of course, ukraine is not a member of nato nato ukraine. very much wanting to be a member of nato. that a real red line, though. for moscow, i'm zalinski during this invasion, even before he has always said this is not just about ukraine. he sees is very marchness frame this very much as russia attacking ukraine, but also attacking europe, attacking a global values and bodies where he says that the western lives has more responsibilities. lensky speaking in a country where there are daily bombardments or shelling

first, mr. stoughton berg being erratic and hectic in his propaganda indulging propaganda and wishing to to, to have a liking from the most radical western forces said that may to made you will tell which like, even if decides, took place and the stakes nuclear weapons on the eastern european territories, but to know festival nato may not decide where to place and deploy the web and nuclear weapons. it's the, the us that has it not made to, but the hint was indicative half towards mr. zalinski started you saying and stating that we will abandon the jettison the non nuclear obligations in status and acquire the nuclear arms. and don't forget what jennifer led dione the french foreign minister said, you know him early in the french don't got national seem will is the is roosters that call. and he said sometimes you during another another round of hays interviews with the world. you know, he, he reminded me, mr. hooting that france also possesses the nuclear arms and off towards madam crosses. the not long, not so long ago appointed was before in secretary said that she's ready for confl

new package of sanctions against russia will be met by our leaders against them. nato chief yen stoughton berg says the alliance will bolster forces in eastern europe, but said again, that truce will not be deployed to ukraine. later, defense ministers have been holding talks in brussels. diplomatic editor james base is them. nato defense ministers heard directly from their ukranian counterpart who attended the meeting virtually about the destruction taking place on the ground. nato countries have been providing support in terms of weapons and training to ukraine, but they're not going to get involved directly. and they're not going to impose that no fly zone that the ukrainian government wants so much. they've also been bolstering those nato nations that are closest to russia, with many more extra troops than now trying to make those deployments more permanent. nato will not tolerate any attack on allied sovereignty or territorial integrity. we have all the de activated, our defense plans to shield the alliance increase or redness and the ploy tubes, oh, from both sides of the atlantic. there

and jen stoughton berg on friday. was abundantly clear about this when he was asked yet again about a no fly zone. he said this is not nate was war. natal cannot prosecute a no fly zone that would mean shooting russian planes down that could harold, an awful conflict between russia and the west with potential nuclear implications in the thank you very much for bringing up to speed. jenna, how live for us in a ukraine's 2nd biggest citicard. keith was one of the 1st areas to be targeted by russia after it began its invasion. a blog of it was recording a video message when a missile exploded above him. a kiss. the blast, not nikita demon, called to the ground. he then scrambled to seek shelter, fearing michelle strikes the you ends, world food program is trying to fade 5000000 people in desperate need inside ukraine. it's director general. david basically says, dollars she was managed to escape the lucky ones. the w if pay has set up distribution warehouses and neighboring countries to get food to people in ukraine . it

we got confirmation from the n stoughton berg, the secretary general of nato. exactly what the plans are for the alliance in the short term. perhaps the longer term that he talked about, the fact that the allied leaders of agreed on for new battle groups that are going to be stationed in countries such as bulgaria, romania hungry, and so back in that will add up to the food that are already on those eastern flanks, meaning that they will not be 8 battle groups in situ that as total both describe it from the baltic down to the black sea. so right away, down the east in front of the nato alliance i, he talked about the fact that at the moment there are 100000 us troops that are currently stationed in the e u. and that there were 40000 forces that were also under the direct control of nature command. and he said that all of those troops were currently on the high alert because of the situation in ukraine. he said they were backed by naval and a support. and that there was an unprecedented 5 carrier strike groups from the north of europe, right, the way down to the

it doesn't want to get in and mr. stoughton berg made this very clear when he spoke a short time ago, he does not want to get involved in any war, but if war comes to nato, then they are prepared to defend their member states. and of course they've got member states right on the border. ready with russia, these, they are the ones that are most concerned for baltic countries and poland and romania, very concerned about what would happen if vladimir putin were to go beyond ukraine and attack and nato nation. the, the, that the meeting that's happening now is of the nato council, all 30 countries. and nato actually stands for north atlantic treaty organization. article 5 of the north atlantic treaty says that if one nato nation is attacked than all will pledge to defend. so if any of the nato countries got involved in any way in conflict, then there would be a war involving all that nato countries. a war. ready that would evolve the u. s, because it's the biggest nato member and russia, and that in any other words, is world war 3. gosh, okay, james, i'll leave you there for now. are wait

even as secretary general stoughton berg and many national leaders are praising the courage and bravery of the ukrainian president and the ukrainian citizens, but they're not going to get this no fly zone. terry also said that nato activated the response force for the 1st time. how significant is this? yes, this happened several days ago now, but it does show that nato is feeling a more security threat from the russian invasion of ukraine. this is the 1st time that this rapid response force has been activated for collective defense. and this is several 100 troops now being sent to romania as the 1st spearhead mission. that the rapid response forces undertaking. and there are up 240000 troops in total that could be deployed if necessary, and they're holding them back for now, presuming as, as they can today at this hour, any way that the conflict doesn't spread. but nato has also in recent weeks and months, reinforced its eastern flank is significantly tens of thousands more troops now in the baltics, much more equipment. and even today, something that you know is, is, is quite unusual.

being greeted by jim stoughton berg, the secretary general of nato, as they're standing outside metal headquarters there, there are certain conflicts within the within z or the natal membership themselves and all that. i want to bring in our diplomatic editor at james bays whose acts and nato headquarters at jim's. there are several key meetings happening today. there are clearly going to be meetings happening on the sidelines as well. what can we expect from what's gonna happen? well, yes it is, you say it's 3 summits in one day. you have got this meeting, which is the meeting of nato allies. when they sit down around the table, they become the north atlantic council, all the nato members, and clearly, you're seeing now the most important man in the nato alliance. the man who pays the bills and the man who provides the majority of the forces more than a $100000.00 u. s. troops now in europe because of the situation in ukraine to protect other nato allies of that have borders with russia. what you're gonna mainly see, i think from this summit is them blessing many of the decisions tha

conference after a meeting of defense ministers in brussels today to discuss the war in ukraine. yen stoughton berg says, nato is helping ukraine uphold, is fundamental right to defend itself. he says the alliance will continue to provide military support and financial support to ukraine. nato countries saying that they will continue to deliver weapons to ukraine even as those deliveries could become the target of russian attacks. as we saw earlier this week, with that military base, not far from the polish border being attacked by russia. but again, salt and berg rolled out any suggestion to deploy nato troops to the ground in ukraine. he also rolled out imposing a no fly zone over ukraine, which is something a ukrainian president of ramirez lensky has been asking which he asked again to day . during his address to a joint session of the u. s. congress in washington earlier assaulted berg calling on a prison putting to start the war immediately the u. s. and other nato allies, he says, have also said there would be adopting, adapting, rather the alliance. his own security to the new reality, which

the polish president, they are meeting there in poland with as i said, the nation 60 general in stoughton berg. and earlier we heard there from the u. k. prime minister with the polish by mr. let's close up to james base who's live for us now in brussels chain. so a lot of diplomatic activity happening again today. walk through it all a lot going on. so you've got those visits to poland. one of the countries, the neighbors, ukraine, as you've seen, you've got the polish prime minister currently with boris johnson, i think showing a similar message of support from ukraine. the u. k. prime minister. making clear that things have changed very much in terms of the response of the international community in recent days. separately, you've got nato secretary general. he's also in, in poland. he is meeting with the publish president. right now, we're telling you the poland, one of 8 countries whose president written a letter, which they call very much for immediate fast tracks session of ukraine to the european union. those are 8, eastern european, the northern european states. you believe that shoul

just as secretary general stoughton berg said, that the foreign minister, ill, this morning, nato strategic objective now is to prevent this horrific invasion of ukraine from turning into a general war in europe. because indeed, it would be much worse if we were embarked on a general war involving to nuclear arm states, the united states and russia, but also u. k. and france, our nuclear weapon states and the long liberation treaty. so natal must maintain that strategic objective, prevent a more general war from occurring, doing so by the turing russia in every way it can and defending, but also extending every ounce of support possible to ukraine. so i think nato is that the right place, but it is very difficult for the ukrainian government. i know they would like to see more support than they're getting again in this for the war. doesn't this con conflict demonstrate that deterrent doesn't work? i think it does work with regard to nato. i do not think the latimer wants a general war in europe, and he is, i believe, deterred from attacking nato directly. what concerns me as a possibility o

point out we are standing by for a now delayed press conference with the secretary general in stoughton berg. but until we hear from him, what we do know is that the u. s. president was expected to go into these meetings, essentially making sure that nato beyond this crisis, in addition to this crisis, really had a posture towards russia that would be sustained in the long term. and other words adding to those kind of battle grounds if you will, in poland as well as the baltic states. and so we are expected to hear some more tangible deliverables as they call them with regard to that. and so we're watching very carefully for that. when the subsequent meetings that the u. s. president will be having will really be hearing more on the financial punitive side. what does that mean? that means punishing russia financially for invading ukraine. what will that look like? elaine more financial sanctions. what we expect is that the u. s. president is expected to announce a series of new sanctions against political leaders in the russian parliament, the duma, the lower house, as well as all the works.

general yen stoughton break, putting china on the spot to say, we know that russia is asking you for support. and we're telling you that's a very bad idea. what falls into part of what stolen berg had to say about nato's new security strategy. today nathan leaders agreed to reset our turns on defense for the longer term to face and use security reality. online. we will have substantially more forces in the eastern part of the lawrence at high yield redness, with more pre positioned equipment and supplies. in the air, we will deploy more jets and strengthen our integrated air and nissan defense. at sea we will have a carriers, storage groups, submarines, and significant numbers of combat ships on the persistent basis. so bolstering as eastern flank there. terry, what do you make of that statement? that's right now at 1st listen, people might think that this is just more of the same what nato has been doing since even before the invasion of ukraine, sending more troops to his eastern ally, sending more equipment. but one thing we should listen to in stoughton brick statement is that he said this is going to be a persistent presence. and that's something that's been changing at na