it indicates this could be a long campaign, both militarily and financially. alan fisher, i'll do it at the white house and just keeping an eye on some screens here live pictures from vienna. let's go there. this is rafael grossi, who is the head of the i, a e, a, the international atomic energy agency. this is about the strike on what is europe's largest nuclear power plant, his phone report. we had paid all night. so if anybody will figure. yeah. and the agency with me here with jennifer with his he, he, he and he had been working at all night given the circumstances d credit which i would summarize as all of i punch was that you may be particular family nation all region share and you want to tell you, is that what we are tell you is a good variety from asian values comes from you brilliant lady, labor or read it wrong. the faculty you have power where we her contacts at the moment and then do so. and as you are having phone and over for retired, i hate the belief within the once i will say that is building early i should meet is not part of their reactance. none of the yes. he li

on financially. alan fisher, al jazeera, at the white house. i'll smell covers at the conflict coming up we hear from people caught up and fighting in and around ukraine's 2nd biggest city, cocaine. and the international criminal court investigates whether russia is committing crimes ah look forward to brighter skies the with sponsored my cattle at ways. hello. i think we should see some welcome spring sunshine coming into japan over the next couple of days. but it's not all good news. we have seen a fair amount of snow recently, of course, still a little bit of snow in the forecast. having said that, but for friday is largely fine and dry temperatures around 12 degrees celsius. notice that when she makes just making its way across north korea, as you go through friday in to saturday, and that will bring more snow into that western side of japan. but look at the temperature in tokyo. 18 degrees celsius is going to be wet, snow. it does mean increased avalanche risk and quite a brisk wind. also pushing through gale force winds at times behind th

as the fighting and ukraine continues. alan fisher, i'll just either at the white house still had the on al jazeera, zack and all mc sanctions tight and in russia will tell you which of the countries wealthiest oligarchy, a feeling the pinch. ah hello, we got the usual rash of showers across much of southeast asia, more lively down pause coming in over the next couple days. we seen some, but typically wet weather, just to the west of to carter 180 millimeters of right here in only 24 hours. it stays very unsettled. they are just as, as it should do live the shower, sir, just around southern parts of borneo over the next couple of days. we'll say a few showers coming into the philippines in their china generally try what a 2 rows showers coming in. you might catch share or to, to wards or vietnam whether whether by thursday, just pushing across c, a gulf or thailand by thursday. notice from where to whether they're just coming back into indonesia, some rather lively storms. they're just around the far north of australia. we have, of course, got our old tropical cyclone and he can now m

russia must adhere to international law, including avoiding civilian casualties. sled calls to alan fisher, who's live for us at the white house. alan, what stood out to you from what the u. s. secretary of state had say, well, we expect very much to go in the attack against russia, and that's exactly what he did. claiming that they were guilty of several humanitarian right. some humanitarian law breaches including attacking schools and hospitals and ambulances. and seeing that the people responsible for this must be held to account. also pointed out the fact that russia was keeping a grip of descent inside russia itself. and we've seen the pictures of numerous protests both in moscow in saint petersburg. and apparently they are being repeated across the country. so it's clear that antony blinkin believes that even if this war and soon then vladimir putin and others in the kremlin, should be held responsible for the actions that have happened. not least the bombing of civilian areas that we've seen quite graphically in the last 48 hours. but it would be a mess of me to stand here and point

the support from alan fisher in washington. this is a white house, concentrating on tuesday's important state of the union speech by the president. but it's not picking its eyes off, you cream, a point made by the vice president at an event marking the end of black history. month to day the eyes of the world are on ukraine and the brave people who are fighting to protect their country and their democracy. and their bravery is a reminder, a most recent reminder that justice equality and freedom must never be taken for granted by any of us. the u. s. is announced a new round of economic sanctions. this time targeting russia's central bank, one senior white host official says they want to drive the russian economy backwards. well, to be put in is pushing his tanks forwards into ukraine. they want to drive up inflation drive down investment possibilities and cripple the purchasing power of the kremlin. the state department revealed, it was also going after the money and assets of those closest to the russian leader . and we are sta

for providing weapons to ukraine without escalating the actual fighting. alan fisher, i'll just either at the white house other news now and the u. s. n e. you have condemned a court ruling in russia that's extended the prison sentence of opposition leader alexis of omni vladimir putin. main political opponent has been moved to a maximum security prison to serve a new 9 year sentence. a court in moscow found him guilty of fraud and contempt of court. washington says it is an attempt to silence the criminal critic and distract from the invasion of ukraine. we strongly condemn the russian federation orchestration of a sham trial. to convict election of only and further spurious charges and sentencing him to 9 more years in a high security prison. we note with grave concern that the court's sham ruling is the latest in a series of attempts to silence and of all me and other opposition, figures and independent voices who have been critical of russian authorities. the taliban has failed to live up to its promise to reopen secondary schools to girls. 7 months after seizing power in afghanist

as the fighting and cream continues, alan fisher, i'll just either at the white house, ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories, rushes drive towards the cranes. capital is not entering a 6 day. we've been getting reports. the dozens of people have been killed and injured in the 2nd largest city hockey eve. russian forces are accused of using cluster bombs, a band in more than a 100 countries. ukrainian president vladimir zelinski is calling for a no fly zone to stop moscow's bombardment. or he's you silly? sure. would you just look on the lethargic russian forces, severely shelled car keys or houses were destroyed. a lot of infrastructure was destroyed is no video has proven that the target people's buildings advocates, a war crime that should be investigated. and no one will ever forgive you for targeting civilians, ballistic missiles, artillery. this war has to be stopped immediately. i suggest, and i believe that the sky needs to be close to russia. the international criminal court has to investigate russia's invasion of ukraine. it says there is reason to believe that wa

or i think that ha, that the ultimate law for us and denise from or i will take you back now to alan fisher to discuss with you as present jo biden's discussion with his indian japanese and australian count aponce alan. so what is this all about? this is part of the chord that meeting going to take place at the top of the hour, from the situation room here in the white house. now the united states, no, as it has the support of japan and australia, they both voted with the un resolution to condemn russia's attack on ukraine. but india abstained in. so we can expect india to come under pressure to join the rest of the international community in condemning russia for what they are doing in ukraine. we know that prime minister moody spoke to sarah guy, elaborate off on, on wednesday i, he talked about the trying to get indian students out of ukraine. the russians claimed that there was indian students were being held hostage by the ukrainians. that is not supported by what the indians are seeing, but clearly prime minister moody will come under pressure to take stronger action against a country

as i see right inside the walls of the kremlin, alan fisher at the white house. thank you. i okay, now the headlines on al jazeera russian attack, so intensifying north of the ukraine.

for providing weapons to ukraine without escalating the actual fighting. alan fisher, i'll just either at the white house floods may a proteins last political opponent has been moved to a maximum security prison after being found guilty of fraud and contempt of court. alexson of al need denies allegations that he embezzled donations from his anti corruption foundation. calling the charges politically motivated, he was sentenced to a further 9 years in prison. vernon smith reports from moscow. the last outspoken political opponent of russia's president appeared in a prison court room in a black prison uniform looking gold. the judge found alexei in the valley guilty of fraud and contempt of court, the sentence 9 years jail in a maximum security prison. when the valley spoke, the video feed from the court room to journalists was cut, so his supporters posted his comments online. you can't put every one in prison, even if you ask for a 113 years, you won't skim your others like me. every person must act in their own way as they can, considering the circumstances, but act as the val his la

it indicates this could be a long campaign, both militarily and financially. alan fisher al jazeera at the white house, the bells of knotted arm rang out in the french capital, paris at midday on thursday. ah, it was a show solidarity with the ukrainian people. there was similar scenes across europe, in cathedrals and churches in vienna, rome and color get some other world news now. a former u. s. police officer has been cleared of charges connected to a botched drugs raid. a black one brown, a taylor was killed in the raid in early 2020 brit hankerson was found not guilty of wanton endangerment. for opening fire blindly. taylor's apartment was one of several incidents in recent years, spot protests against racial injustice and to demand police reform. rob reynolds as mona, from washington dc. with a recap, what happened that night in march of 2020 a, to brianna taylor, 3 police officers who were looking for a possible drug dealing activity used a battering ram to smash down the door to her apartment where she was sleeping with her boyfriend, kenneth walker, the. busy recounts very as

my patients in a circle and wealthy allies. alan fisher reports from washington dc, severe economic sanctions. it's another ton of the screws from the american side. again targeting vladimir putin and those closest to him. the goal was to maximizing impact on prudent and russia and minimize and harm on us and our allies and friends around the world. our interest is maintaining the strongest unified economic impact campaign that food and all history. and i think we're well and the way to doing that. among those on the list i last year isn't enough. one of the rushes richest men, and dmitri pascals, the kremlin spokesman and one of pittance, closest advisors, 19 oligarchs, and total sanctioned $47.00 of their family members, all will be cut out of the u. s. financial system. the assets are frozen and property blocked from use. the also fees a travel bud your bite and hopes putting the squeeze on the kremlin will make it harder to wage war. but he's aware the conflict is already driving up prices in the us for the moment. there are no plans to put sanctions on russian oil imports, but the leader

i'll deserves alan fisher flyer . the white house, and when many thanks indeed, ukraine's state of urgency service says that more than 2000 civilians have been killed since washes invasion began a week ago. moscow's intensified it's bombardment of urban areas. russian paratroopers have landed around ukraine's 2nd largest city comp heave, which has endured some of the worst chilling in the south. the mayor of maria poll says that russian forces are actively preventing the evacuation of civilians from the besieged city, or rushes military is claiming to have taken control of a major ukrainian port city on the black sea curse on is near crimea, which russia annexed in 2014 pictures from their show, russian forces and tanks unchallenged in the city center that reported to install checkpoints surrounding the city or system. but there isn't any able to run units off to. russian are forces to control of the regional center, of course, on bravo, for the civilian weitel infrastructure and civic transport group. as usual, lette

in its dealings with russia, someone say, shaming them by, by making this report, public as, as alan fisher said, that by russia looking to them for military, how will that work, or does it risk doing the opposite by bring the 2 close together will look, china is in a tough spot at the moment because on the one hand, they see an opportunity with a rush's invasion of ukraine to weaken the west and try to reorder the international order. but at the same time, there are a whole number of risks and that's what jake sullivan was in rome to remind the chinese about was that there are considerable risks, both economic but also security risk for china. i think the fact that this is an invasion has not gone according to plan is certainly concerning for beijing and that is going to weigh heavily on their next move. do you get the sense then the china is, is, is struggling to, to come up with a narrative here to, to, to sit on the fence in a, in a conflict where the longer this goes on. they may not be offensive left to sit on know precisely, and i think china was fine to go along. if this was going t

s. congress approved an additional $13600000000.00 in emergency 8. alan fisher is in washington d. c, and explains what weapons ukrainians or after. yes, president joe biden is at camp david this we can, but we are told he is keeping across all developments in ukraine and he approved the release of these weapons. now the ukrainians have been asking for javelin anti tank and stinger anti aircraft missiles. we expect them to be in this batch that is released along with a significant amount of small arms at these will come from existing u. s. military stock, which means that they don't have to wait for the manufacturer to deliver them and then be moved on to ukraine. this, these can go almost immediately. and this is the 3rd time in 3 months that the u. s . military has done that part of $1200000000.00 and military aid that the u. s. has provided since january 2021. that's important, of course, because that's when joe biden became president. no secretary of state antony blinkin has praised the ukrainian saying that they are showing great skill iron will and provide courage. and we kno

as i say right inside the walls of the kremlin, alan fisher and the white house. thank you. ah . okay, now the headlines on al jazeera russian attacks are intensifying north of the ukrainian capital keys. major cities are surrounded and under constant assault. ukraine's emergency service says that at least 350 civilians have been killed. but president followed the mere zelinski says the fence lines are holding around the capitol. he also had strong words for the russians. we that is a them willing americans, him, you caught off ukrainian civilians, electricity, water supply and heating. you leave the people without food, those who leave us without medicine, you shoot at the roots, which could be used for evacuation. there is no weapon left that you wouldn't deploy against us against the free citizens of ukraine. and now you come forward and tell your propaganda, mouthpieces that you are going to send to ukraine, so called humanitarian convoys, and so was brightly light on the 4th city of mariel. fall is also under siege with the mayor reporting mass casualties. after 15 hours of

on monday, alan fisher has more from washington d. c. as this meeting has been planned for some time, it evolved out all the summit that was held between present by the present. she back in november. there was always the intention to have several of these meetings . it comes, of course, against the backdrop of ukraine, and as you've heard, jake sullivan's intention is to express in the strongest possible terms that china should not seek to gain a strategic advantage out of helping russia in all of this. what they won't see publicly. but what is clear from the biden white host is there is an element of frustration with the chinese. the believe that while the world has condemned what has happened, china while calling for a cease fire hasn't been as strong as the americans and other members of the international community would like. and that in some way is giving support to vladimir putin so they would like the chinese to be a lot stronger. as i say, this meeting has been planned for some time. we're not expecting anything, anything signifi

low terrace, few barriers, trade, and the highest possible import allowed. alan fisher has more from washington d. c. russia now joins a list with the likes of cuba and north korea that doesn't have favor trading status with the united states, the united states tends to do business on world trade organization rules. but if you step outside the lines, then that means there's going to be higher tabs. the possibility of been an important exactly what we're seeing. no, no, as well as the bands that we had, the boat at the united states is also sanctioning your oligarchs. and some of those closer to put and they've been added to the list and they're seeing that there is a ban on exports of high in goods such as watches and also our cars. this is to, to really punish russia as much as possible. know, canada decided to do this last week. the united states and other use of nations joining in this week. it's still got to go through congress, but with the bipartisan support to punish russia for what it's doing in ukraine. this is almost certainly going to seal through french president emanuel.

president joe biden repairs to attend to meetings with nato, the e u and g 7 leaders in europe. alan fisher reports us says it seeing the foundation of russian cyber attacks on the us. it's monitoring scanning efforts. essentially, hackers probing for weak sports. national security advisor jim sullivan says any such attack on a nito member will bring a coordinated response. we could see circumstances in which a collective response by the alliance to a cyber attack would be called by an outline. that is absolutely something where we and other countries could bring capabilities to bear to help a country both defend itself and respond to a particular cyber attack. now, that's not necessarily the same thing as a military response. that response could take many different forms when president biden and put met in geneva last year. the us president said key areas of infrastructure should be off limits to cyber attack. that was in response to the 2020 solar winds, attack. federal severs were hit, 30000 private companies and public organizations impacted. washington says the russian foreign intellig

it indicates this could be a long campaign, both militarily and financially. alan fisher al jazeera at the white house, one of the largest populations of ukrainians outside of eastern europe is in new york city. gable is under spoke to members of the community. ola road, the ac is ukrainian american artist who divides her time between kiva new york since rushes invasion. she spent most of her time at local protests and waiting for news of her friends and family back home ukraine, including her husband. he, us citizen who managed to escape to romania. we love ukraine very loyalty ukraine and he doesn't want to desert his people. he wanted to stay as long as possible, but he also knew he could do a lot from being over the border was so good. pretty restaurant in the heart of these village has long been an enclave for the diaspora. the 3rd generation ukrainian american owner, summed up the move. we're starting, we're, we're frightened, we're concerned. we're angry. we're upset. it's just really a very difficult time for the restaurant has become an unofficial meeting spot for those who wa

well, alan fisher joins us live now from washington. d. c. allen. so president biden ordering more aid to ukraine. what more can you tell us? while he's at camp david this weekend, but we are told that he is keeping across what is happening in ukraine. he's authorized this draw down of $200000000.00 worth of military equipment. we know the ukrainians had been asking for more anti tank missiles, the javelins and all saw this stinger anti aircraft missiles. that's expected to be in this batch that will be sent as well as small arms. no. this is going to come from existing u. s. military stalks, that means there's no like time here. they don't have to wait for the manufacturers to deliver them to the u. s. and then they can be sent to ukraine. these war go almost immediately. this is the 3rd time that there has been such a draw down in the last 3 months, the 4th time in the last 6 months. and as you say, the united states has committed a great deal of money to ukraine. $1200000000.00 in aid since january 2021 that did of course important because that's

north korea says the tests though, we're focused on developing a reconnaissance satellites. alan fisher with more on this one. well, clearly the united states is concerned if north korea was developing intercontinental ballistic missiles. because that would do exactly what it says on the 10, which means that american cities would suddenly become within target of any north korean weapons. that is why they're watching. what is going on here, live increase surveillance in the yellow sea area. they're also telling their closest allies in the area, japan and south korea that their support is absolutely iron clad. no. the us seems to think that at the north koreans are using the idea of. busy them developing a space program to test these icbm because of course, north korea has said in the past, every country has the right to a space program and they are no different. however, the us thinks that it's simply just the cover and the cold or north korea to stop development and proliferation all these weapons. and they've called on the international community as well, to band together to warn you t

well, i'm not alan fisher in washington, dc allen, so yet more sanctions heaped on russia by the years, including taking away that favoured trading status. what is always main them? while it means that russia now joined the list with the likes of cuba and north korea, that doesn't have a fever trading status with the united states, the united states tends to do business on world trade organization rules. but if you step outside the lines, then that means there's going to be higher tariffs, the possibility of ban and imports. exactly what we're seeing now, though, as well as the bands that we had, the boat at the, the united states is also sanctioning more oligarchs. and some of those closer to put and they've been added to the list and they're seeing that there is a ban on exports of high end goods such as watches and also are cars. this is to, to really punish russia as much as possible. know, canada decided to do this last week. the united states and other use of emissions joining in this week is still got to go through congress. but with the bipartisan support to punish russia for w

for providing weapons to ukraine without escalating the actual fighting. alan fisher, i'll just either at the white house. let's take a look at some of the days. other news now and a caught in russia has also extended the prison sentence of opposition leader alexey in the valley. he was and guilty of fraud and contempt of court and sentenced to 9 more years behind bars. bernard smith has the story from moscow. the last outspoken political opponent of russia's president appeared in a prison court room in a black prison uniform looking gold. the judge found alexei in the valley guilty of fraud and contempt of court. the sentence 9 years jail in a maximum security prison. when the valley spoke, the video feed from the court room to journalists was cut. so his supporters posted his comments online. you can't put every one in prison. even if you ask for a 113 years, you won't scare me your others like me. every person must act in their own way as they can, considering the circumstances, but act as the val his lawyers spoke outside the prison police with loud hale as trying to drown them out

for providing weapons to ukraine without escalating the actual fighting. alan fisher, i'll visit us at the white house until the world news non girls expecting to return to school in afghanistan or wednesday or when left disappointed. money showed up for school for the 1st time in 7 months, only to be told to go home. the ministry of education says secondary schools for girls will remain closed until further notice. victoria gave me reports. oh, the day started so well for these girls in cobble as they returned to school for the 1st time in 7 months. i shook al 100 aloud. thank god, the taliban are also like the previous government. now i don't have any concern about what i have to wear or whether to go to school or not. my family has allowed me and thank god. now the taliban has also given us permission to go to school. we are very happy. oh, but a few hours later that sense of optimism had completely disappeared. the taliban leg government suddenly ordered most secondary schools for girls to close. students packed up their bags and headed home. it was all with the man and i was happy

as the fighting in ukraine continues. alan fisher, i'll just either at the white house on the cook, remind that you can catch up with all the news on our website. there it is on your screen. the address al jazeera dot com that's al jazeera dot com. have a quick check of the headlines here in al jazeera russia's drive towards ukraine's capital is now entering a 6th day. we have bought that dozens of people have been killed and injured in the country. second biggest city hockey eve, russian forces are accused of using cluster bombs which are banned in more than a 100 countries. where ukrainian president vladimir zalinski is calling for no fly zone to stop moscow's bombardment. or he scarcely shall would name nor spoke of the yellow starkey russian forces severely shall car, key or houses were destroyed.

it's a big speech for joe biden. yet, even with the ukraine cases living large, i was there as alan fisher live at the white house in washington allen. many thanks . cindy. turkey has designated russia's assault and ukraine as a war, and it said that it would execute an international pact, restricting use of the turkish straits. it's the 1936 montrose convention. it gives turkey control over to important waterways. the death knell and boss for us straits . they take you from the black sea out to the mediterranean, through the mara sea, and it's the base for rushes black sea fleet. that's been used to target ukraine southern coast. don't rope pac allows turkey to close the straits to all foreign warships in times of war or when threatened, but there is an exception. if a warship is returning to its own port than its passage cannot be prevented, took his foreign minister has said that this white shouldn't be abused, so ships that are allowed to pass to that basis should not then join the war now does is tamala shall report staff from istanbul centrally anchors playing a balancing act because

i'm doing the studio by al jazeera senior correspondent, alan fisher hunter celeste as the director of security programs at the foreign policy councils ukrainian prism. she's in the ukranian city of odessa and ragna schaler is a program director and international affairs at kerber foundation. she is in berlin . oh yeah. one more seat at the table. hey that you. if you're watching this on youtube, she that box over there. we have a live stream producer waiting to get your comments to me so i can get them to our guest. and you too, can be in the stream. allen, can you give us some of the top lines coming out of the nato conference in brussels today? i saw it called a couple of really big meetings going ahead in belgium over the last few hours. and we'll continue for the next few hours, as well as far as joe biden is concerned, that the big message is that the united states is ready to accept up to 100000 refugees into the united states. that will get some pushback from, from summing in washington, his cold for the removal of russia from the g 20 says that that's the decision to be made b

phone call with ukraine's president vladimir zalinski lisco live out of the white house al zeros. alan fisher. is there alan? what do we know of what was said in his vocal or? well, it's been a busy day for joe biden when it comes to dealing with you, created a meeting with his national security team. he got his intelligence brief. first thing as normal this morning. no doubt ukraine was at the top of the, lest he spoken to president zalinski several times over the last week. this conversation lasting 30 minutes. not a detail rudo yet from the white house. but we know from president zalinski and his twitter feed that they talked about security and they also talked about the ongoing campaign of sanctions against russia. there is a concern. we've heard this from one senator who got an intelligence briefing on monday evening that the russians are beginning to encircle, keep a particularly from the west. now that is worrying for the ukrainians because that were cut off supply lines. and of course, that is the main route n for any either including any security aid that is being provided by western

it indicates this could be a long campaign, both militarily and financially. alan fisher al jazeera at the white house. well, one of the largest populations of ukrainians outside of eastern europe is in new york city. out there with gabriel and spoke to members of the community that ola road, the ac is ukrainian american artist who divides her time between kiva new york. since rushes invasion. she spent most of her time at local protests and waiting for news of her friends and family back home ukraine, including her husband, he, us citizen, who managed to escape to romania. we love ukraine very loyalty, ukraine and he doesn't want to desert his people. he wanted to stay as long as possible, but he also knew he could do a lot from being over the border was so good, pretty restaurant in the heart of these village has long been an enclave for the diaspora. the 3rd generation ukrainian, american owner, summed up the move. we're starting, we're, we're frightened, we're concerned. we're angry. we're upset. it's just really a very difficult time for the restaurant has become an unofficial mee

well, for more on this, let's go straight to alan fisher, who's live in washington. hi there, alan. so when it comes to the use of chemical weapons with the u. s. consider that a red line. while the phrase read line is not something you're going to hear coming out of the biden white house, you remember that during the war in syria barack obama said, the use of chemical weapons would be a red line at there was proven to be the use of chemical weapons, and the obama white house essentially did nothing that would make your biden look weak if he said red line and then did nothing. so he wants to avoid that. what he has said is that russia will pay a severe price if there is a use of chemical weapons. and as you heard in political hymns report at the pentagon, believe that there is nothing imminent on that front. at the moment, there is renewed warning this weekend though, seeing to the russians look, if any shots are fired on neat or soil, then there will be a huge response from nato that will essentially invoke article 5 of the natal convention. and that means there would be a joint an

as the fighting and cream continues, alan fisher al jazeera at the white house, a spring in bremar, the president of the erasure group and the g 0 media. he joins us now of our skype from new york actually with us. in other words, as news agency reporting in the last few minutes that the u. s. believes russia has committed more than 80 percent of its pre stage combat power in ukraine. and that it's made advance from kia, has had no appreciable movement in the last 24 hours. what do you make of that? so far, the russians had been pretty cautious in terms of civilian casualties that they were willing to incur. they understand not only the international opprobrium that will bring, but also the opposition from within their own country. from their all of our maybe from even from the military leaders. some of the people that might be reluctant to shoot on civilians or bomb civilians. they considered to be the same nation but, but i would not be optimistic at this point them in again, and we know that there was a convoy that is over 30 kilometers long. that is streaming towards to provide sign

it indicates this could be a long campaign, both militarily and financially. alan fisher, i'll do it up at the white house. ah, this is al jazeera, these top stories fighting in ukraine has moved dangerously close to europe's largest nuclear power plant. these pictures from these operations is your facility in the town of and a go to show smoke coming out of one of the buildings that the local mass as part of the facility caught fire off the shelling by russian forces. equations. foreign minister says the russians are firing on the plant from, we'll find earlier russia and ukraine made their fans 1st, hence the progress and talks agreeing on the need for humanitarian car doors. but there's no indication of when they will be established. russian bombardment of ukrainian cities continued on the talks went on. when you go you to your issue, unfortunately, we haven't reached the results we had expected. the only thing i can say is we have thoroughly discussed humanitarian aspects because many cities now encircled the situation with food medicine and with the possibility for evacuation. w

well, alan fisher joins us now from the white house. allen, so how has that address by prison been been received? well, joe biden has done what he's failed to do almost exclusively since he came into office. and that was you night, both republicans and democrats in their support for ukraine through the chamber on tuesday night. you saw people wearing yellow and blue in support of ukraine as they were very supportive of the moves he's taken, including closing down american air space to rush and flights that will kick in in a few hours time. and also going after the assets of those closest to vladimir putin. but the problem is it didn't set any red lines, fur vladimir putin. he didn't offer any consequences. he didn't say, look, you can't do this, or he did say that the united states would protect natal lance that's almost a given. but there is concern among some people who are ukranian supporters, that he wasn't more forceful that he didn't say you can't do this or we will intervene, perhaps is learn the lesson from at the last time he w

summit to discuss the war in ukraine. additive locations for the indo pacific region out there was alan fisher is life for us at the white house. allen, tell us more. well, joe biden sat in the situation room and joined in the virtual conference were getting a readout from the japanese who say that the disgust the situation in ukraine, and they agreed that any unilateral use of force should never be seen in the indoor pacific region. what we are not likely to get from any of the re dos from any of the 4 countries is just how much pressure was put on india through this meeting. now, at the u. n. when they were voting against russia for the use of force in ukraine, you the united states estrella and also japan voted very much in favor of that india abstained. and the abstain because they had a long term ally with russia. from prime minister moody spoke with senior russian officials on wednesday. and also at the beginning the in has also been importing weapons from russia for quite some considerable time. and so the 2 are very close. but we know that the americans will begin to force at will not

s. present joe biden is on his way back to europe to meet natal e n g 7 leaders. alan fisher has more nat from washington. the intention is that he will put a front on for the russians. could he have carried out this meeting here virtually? of course secret, but by going to brussels, he's going to sit down and meet with members of the you, with all the other members of the nato alliance and with senior figures in the g 7 . it's all about presenting a united front. no, just before he left, he was asked, is there a real threat that the russians could use chemical weapons in ukraine and he said it was very much a real threat. what the reaction would be after that? no one's quite sure. no one in this white house wants to start using the phrase red line. the reason for that, of course, is you go back to when barack obama was in the white house. and he said that the use of chemical weapons by the syrians in syria would be a red line, and they would be actually from the united states. and it was established that the syrians had used chemical weapons. the united states did nothing. and so the

island fisher is in washington. alan, why is president biden going now? as right is half way into that journey. now, could he do this meeting from here? of course he could, he could sit in the situation room and the could be a virtual meeting. but this is about putting on a show of unity issue of unity with his nato allies, a show of unity with countries in the g 7 and a show of unity with the european union as well. that is why joe biden is going to brussels to let the russians know that they are completely united behind the idea of sanctions. and they will discuss the idea of even part of their sanctions. no, before he left here, he was asked what he's likely to say, and he said he will see when he gets to brussels, but we know that our more sanctions in the pipeline. obviously joe biden believes that he has been at the forefront of making sure that everyone moved that the same piece no one was left behind so that the sanctions had maximum impact. there will be a concern about the role of talkie, which of course is anita member, but hasn't impose sancti