for more now, let's go to our correspondent christine moon, walk in brussels. how is nato christine planning to react to this latest escalation from russia? michael nato has a 100. ah warplanes, as well as 120 battleships on high alert or were told that the response force remains on high alert as well, although it's not yet been deployed. and these measures would be deployed in the event that a nato member came under attack. ukraine is not an 8 members of this does not apply to ukraine. what does apply to you? train? is there the commitment to send more military aid and more money to assist ukraine? but in the meantime, all efforts now are to bulk up our nato allies are particularly those in the baltic states where germany and others have committed to reinforcing natal units on the ground the with more troops, the booking of begin. so e, u foreign ministers also agreed on new sanctions on russia today. what more can you tell us about those? michael 27 are individuals and entities. this would essentially be companies, banks, and agencies. i have been targeted alo

most reliable partner, my colleague christine moon, to our followed the summit and tells us more so 40 delegations from africa, travel to the european capital, brussels fall this summit and there were high expectations coming in. not all of them were met, but there were some significant developments. chief among them is that there is going to be the transfer of m r in a technology to 6 african countries, which it with actively as see the manufacturing of vaccines on the continent. beyond addressing the vaccine inequity on the continent right now, this is also going to be developed to combat other diseases like malaria and eventually cancer down the line. so this is a significant our development, although many african hetzel sate are still calling for the lifting of those patients to be able to make vaccines on their own using their own pharmaceutical capacities. they was also, there was also the big announcement off at the european union's investment onto the continent under the name of the global gateway scheme. this is basically europe's answer to china's belt road initiative. much o

this assistance and this military aid at to the ukrainian armed forces, d, w, correspond, and christine moon were in brussels. thanks for that update. western sanctions against russia are already hitting the economy. the rubel has plunged to a record low dropping by a 3rd against the us dollar. russians are scrambling to withdraw money from banks with long queues forming at cash machines. in an attempt to prop up the currency, the central bank has doubled. it's key interest rate to an unprecedented 20 percent . export companies are being told to sell foreign reserves. actions imposed by the u. s. and europe have largely cut russia off from the global financial system. european stock markets fell steeply as the financial sector reacted to the latest sanctions. among those major russian banks would be kicked out of the global financial transaction network swift at a cost not only to russia, but also towards trading partners. over the weekend, german chancellor will show it's made it clear that things could get even worse. vaviante missions for let's not kid ourselves is putin, will not change

that was christine moon, while they are reporting. let's take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines. this our, the european union's highest court, has ruled that brussels can cut funds for member states that disregard democratic standards. the case has major implications for poland and hungary. both countries are accused of undermining the rule of law. they could now lose millions of euros. and e, you recovery fight. embassy international says degree and fighters deliberately killed civilians and gang draped dozens of women and girls in ethiopia, as i'm horror. region, previous investigations found evidence of abuses committed by all sides in the year long civil conflict. a u. s. gun manufacturer that made the rifle that was used in one of america's deadly of school shootings as reached in historic settlement with the families of the victims. remington arms was agreed to pay $73000000.00 to relatives of those children who were killed in the 2012 sandy hook mass in brazil, flooding and mudslides had killed a

our correspond christine moon, whether in brussels now the european union is organizing a huge logistical operation to deal with the hundreds of thousands of ukrainians fleeing their homeland european commission president or slip on the alliance said the block will welcome them with open arms. huge queues have formed as people try to leave. most of the refugees are heading for poland, d w, correspond, mcsaunder is at the border and sent us this report. exhausted, but happy to have made it to poland for natalia cooks and her son, yvonne, an opportunity to finally rest their group. lift ukraine with the 1st alarm and only got her now. i'm not scared about sam, me and my son might skate ice care about my my husband, my parents, natalia tells us her husband had to stay behind. he may have to fight into, of course, my son ryker. i ran as a. yeah. and because his separate a separate and i, he wanted to caesar hard about all this, call him and i say i wanted to be with you. a former warehouse now serves as a provisionary shelter, a safe haven for those who don't have anywhere to go. there is no