thank you. rosalind jordan. jordan, a lie for stare at un headquarters in euclid, but go back to marwan bichon areas. ajilisus senior political analyst join us live now from london. so we just heard there from a linda thomas, sir greenfield, the u. s. ambassador to the you and very much a echoing the, the line that we've heard from the u. s. government on this, the russia is, is, is the only one to blame here. ah, but does this put some, the u. s. administration in something of a quandary and they said the crit, their critics will say, as they have already, eddie said in, in washington that, um, they will, they will go to biden and say, this happened on your watch. you let this happen. and they will be looking for, for tangible results are short of military action. so what does, what does biden have left to do them? well, actually, my dad has been at the forefront of this or, you know, a number of days, no number of weeks. in fact, he's the one who's warranty, europeans and he's the one would try to exploit the c

a role in jordan is life force at the united nations right now. so rosalind, very frank assessment of the situation there as the guardian for mr. sees it putting the blame squarely on russia, but also urging the international community to do much more than it's done so far. that's right, todd, to miss roekel. i'm the ukranian foreign minister made that impassioned appeal to members of the general assembly on wednesday morning. here in new york, and that's because he argues that to what russia has done by invading a eastern ukraine in the don barza in particular, is basically challenging the very nature, the very reason for the existence of the united nations. and he said that to the ukrainian people have a special obligation and expectation of the international community because in 1994, not long after of the young, the fall of the soviet empire, ukraine agreed to give up its nuclear weapons arsenal. and it said than that, and it said that it still has the expectation to day that the international community would be looking out for ukraine's a safety. and he

and the president's response was he wasn't going to speculate right, rosalind jordan there in washington, d. c. thank you. montela focus of the tension between russia and ukraine has been on energy supplies and the disruption that a war could cause. but it's hot until hamid reports global food supplies could also be effected. under the winter snow lies ukraine's black earth, known here as chair knows them, it's highly fertile, and it's what makes this country a major player in global agriculture markets. here at agro complex a 2 hour drive from give about $18000.00 tons of corn, wheat, rice, sawyer, barley and sunflower are produced every year from which to mel. service him rock. you know what? because we are in a state of war. we had to switch suppliers and we used to rely on russia for spare parts of fertilizer and diesel. we also faced problems because of the occupation of don bass and crimea. so if there is a full scale invasion, it will be a disaster for every one or what we can't focus on this now. but about 70 percent of each year's harvest head to the black sea port of odessa and

all right, thank you very much, rosalind jordan, bring us all the latest reaction from the united nations. thank you. rosalind says he was saying, yes, injuries. anti blanket has been speaking alongside ukraine. foreign minister dmitri club, and now lincoln was saying that let him appreciate that real views on ukraine are clear. he called them disturbing and said that he has now canceled a meeting with the russian. pharmacists are gay, laval that was due to take place later this week. president putin's deeply disturbing speech yesterday. and his statements to day may clear the world how he views ukraine. not as a sovereign nation with the right to territorial integrity and independence, but rather as a creation of russia and therefore subordinate to russia. it's a completely false assertion that ignores history international law and the 10s of millions of patriotic ukrainians who are proud citizens of a free and independent ukraine. alex t 12 is in also lecture in modern european history, specializing in russia, joins us live now from belfast by skype. so we've seen in the last 24 hours o

why now rosalind jordan is stanley buying a u. s. capital washington d. c. bernard smith is in moscow. the fast will cross lie to our diplomatic editor, james bass in brussels. sir james, r we hearing of frances seized dare this russia ship in the and the english channel . or what more can you tell to matter? this is sanctions inaction. this is a russian ship that was on its way. we believe carrying cars that was going through the english channel. it was stopped by the french authorities. the french maritime authorities famous, squatted the vessel to benoit. in ne france where it's being searched and its crew are being interviewed with a ship that's carrying a flying, a russian flag. and we believe is owned by an associate president putin who is on the sanctions list. this, i think in normal times that interdiction operation of this type is not something that the authorities would make much of a fuss about. they might not even make it public, but clearly the french authorities right now trying to show that those sanctions. and we've seen 3 rounds of sanct

assertively checked in their ability to try to control parts of another country or i for them on the rosalind jordan life or stare at un headquarters. and we hope to come back to the you and at some point as their speech is go on, we are expecting to hear from the russian foreign minister at some point or of the senior representative or from russia anyway. um, so when, if and when that does happen, we will go to that dominic cane is live for a say in berlin now with the european perspective, but we know that the french and a german foreign ministers met to discuss this as well. and you leaders as well, we'll be meeting in brussels for a special summit on thursday to tackle this yes, that's right. has them in the course of the last half an hour or so? couple of things happening the 1st and perhaps the most, the foremost of, of the 2 is that president michelle, of the european council of ministers, saying that he's can voting a special summit. an extraordinary summit of you leaders to discuss this crisis and how the you can plot its way through it to be held in brussels tomorrow at which all heads of

all right, thank you so much. rosalind jordan reporting from washington d. c. well, have a fighting continues in several ukrainian cities after russian troops stepped up their military advance. but this was a scene in boucher an area just outside the cap was achieve. you can see the aftermath of the fading and this is set to be the wreckage of russian convoy. us intelligence suggests that moscow's forces, i've been frustrated by the strength of ukraine's resistance. earlier, there were st battles as russian troops entered the northeastern city of car cave. alexey o'brien reports aah! ukraine's biggest city now the latest front line and the war with russia. street battles began after russian troops moved into hockey on sunday. some of their hardware destroyed and fierce fighting people have been told not to leave their homes, but not just because of the military advance. ukraine says russian forces blow out this pipeline nearby. people have been warned to keep inside to protect themselves from the toxic smoke b, u. the blast at the pipeline in hockey happened du

i'm sure rosalind jordan that john is leih from the u . n. in new york. well, western sanctions are designed to punish and deter russia, but there are implications for the global economy to russia is one of europe's biggest energy supply. as far as the market could be constrained or cap, so oil prices jump to almost $100.00 a barrel on tuesday. it hasn't been that expensive for a g is global stop, markets are down as well. but russia's is the hardest it, with the moscow exchange, losing around 10 percent of its value. on monday, the conflict even has implications for food supplies to russia and ukraine, together export around a quarter of the world's wheat. this will disrupt its biggest buyers in the middle east and asia. joining us from london is dara mcdowell, specialist on russia, and the former soviet union. dora is a political and economic risk consultant durham del welcome to the news our. the impact of sanction around the world. do you think will be wat? well, we're not really quite sure what the entire sanctions package is going to look like at th

on eastern ukraine's residence ross nicely that rosalind jordan a lie for us at the united nations. now on the ground, ukraine is preparing to impose a nationwide state of emergency president water damage. the landscape is cold up reserve us age 18 to 60, and he's called on the world to impose what he calls swift and robust sanctions on russia, who, speaking during a joint declaration with leaders from lithuania and poland smokers. and we are unanimous in the assessment of this crime of the russian federation. this is yet another active aggression against ukraine, its sovereignty and territorial integrity. the military presence of the russian federation in the occupied territory of don bess had been hiding behind separatist uniforms. and now we see this is a unilateral departure from minsk agreement in moscow on the day, russia honors its armed forces president vladimir putin as criticize the west for refusing to respond to his security demands. he's repeatedly called for nato to give guarantees. it will not expand eastwards, but he insist the door is still open for diplomacy. not c

charles strafford al jazeera special, his eastern ukraine cornerstone, and rosalind jordan picks up the story from washington on the sunday public affair shows here in the united states. it was the white house national security advisor jake sullivan, who was arguing why people should be worried about a potential russian invasion of ukraine on his way back to the white house on sunday afternoon. u. s. president joe biden spoke briefly with reporters about the situation. ah, i'm not going to speculate on that i think frankly cannot get on monday, the u. s. president will welcome to the white house, the new german chancellor alex sholtes. they're expected to talk about the risk of a russian invasion in ukraine and the potential impact that could have on germany's energy supplies. well, diplomatic efforts a well underway to defuse the crisis, the french president setting to moscow. the german chancellor heading for washington olive shots, his trip is seen as a visit to reassure the biden administration that all nicer countries are standing up to russia. as it does was long this. russia must

i want to serious, rosalind jordan reports from the un the un general assembly convening a meeting on russian actions in ukraine. nearly 90 countries signed up, most of them overwhelmingly on cave saw with them rather a lower level russian diplomat watch like him as the ukrainian foreign minister by baghdad gets to protect both his country. and the u. s. core principle is one of your governments and your people will face painful consequences together with our government and our people. this is why we need to use this last chance for action and stop russia. where it is. it is clear that president fulton will not stop by himself for the 2nd time in 2 days. secretary general antonio good dash spoke out against moscow's behavior in eastern ukraine. negotiation is to say when sink is cleared, the decision of the russian federation to recognize the so called independence of with ornette scott blue and screeches and the follow up our violations of the territory integrity in soviet entity of ukraine. and inconsistent with the principles of the charter of united nations before russian ambassad

jordan, with the latest on that from washington d. c at the state department. rosalind for the moment. thank you. and just to remind the viewer as those 2 meetings are taking place, a president, putin and macro in the, in, in russia and present biden and chancellor shall say in the us, we will bring you at the latest on those meetings when they end in, presumably, when some of the leaders will speak to the media as soon as that happens here now to sierra. in other news emergency, rescuers are struggling to reach parts of madagascar ravaged by a cycling over the weekend cycle and but said, i made landfall on saturday. battering the eastern coastline until it moved away late on sunday, leaving many roads and bridges impassable. at least 20 people have died and tens of thousands have been displaced with rising river levels threatening to force more from their homes. julian wolf reports. cycling bad. c res slammed into madagascar as eastern coastline with heavy rains and wind speeds of a 165 kilometers per hour. flooding roads and leaving several houses completely submerged

the waiver was ended in 2020 by then you as president, donald trump, of rosalind jordan in washington. essentially what to the secretary of state antony blinking has done on friday is restore one part of the deal that was reached back in 2015. this sanctions waiver allows foreign companies and governments to assist iran in the maintenance of 3 of its nuclear reactors. both share a rock which is a heavy water reactor and the terror on research reactor. otherwise, without this a waiver, these companies and other governments could find themselves in trouble with the us, possibly facing a sanctions or ra, criminal charges of their own for assisting the government. this is a purely a maintenance some type of relationship. you're bringing in parts, bringing in the ability to monitor the amount of, of, of uranium that has been processed. and basically making certain that everything is safe at these 3 facilities. this is a technical step, one that needed to be done just for the safety of these facilities. and to in order to load, try to make certain that all of the terms of the j, c, p, away

now, escalade out of you and headquarters in new york out as he was rosalind jordan, is that tell us more about what the secretary general have to say. rules. essentially, the secretary general eviscerated russia's arguments for moving ahead and moving of forces into the don boss. and recognizing what it calls the independent republics of lou hans and don yeske, the secretary general was incredibly critical of a russia's use of a language such as i, the deployment of peacekeepers, which is of course a, something that is essential to the un. so global mission to justify an active military invasion of eastern ukraine. they also wanna basically accused russia of violating its agreement, ban violating its promise to it. here by the un charter. he said that member states can't just pick and choose which of the rules of the charter they're going to follow and which ones they're going to ignore. it was a very, very tough, a comment by the secretary general antonio gutierrez. we've gotten a summer early reaction from some diplomats on the un security council. and while they say that child, t

after sandy hook, a hard fought accountability, that still cannot erase the worst of losses. rosalind jordan, l g, sierra washington. the veteran indian singer and music composer, bobby le, here he has died at the age of 69. ah, he was one of the country's most influential music directors who brought disco to bollywood, whose songs were hugely popular in the eighty's and ninety's. his career spanned any half a century of the indian film industry. in 2014, he joined the routing b, j. p. as a candidate in the general election, but he must ah, stop a quick check of the top stories here, u. s. president joe biden.

is thought to be the 1st of its size against an american gun maker linked to a mash shooting. rosalind jordan picks up the story. boys say adam lanza used a bushmaster, a our 15th style rifle to kill 20 small children and 6 adults at sandy hook elementary school in 2012, 2 years later, some of the victims families decided to su remington, the maker of the butch master, they were told they had no chance of winning. i could never tell you, i thought i'd see this day. and it's not going to bring mary back. it's not going to bring any of these kids back. ah. but the cost of business is going to go up substantially the $73000000.00 settlement between remington, one of the oldest gun manufacturers in the united states. and some of the families is the 1st of its kind in this country. the deal means remington won't go on trial in september on charges. it's business practices contribute it to the massacre today, marks an inflection point when our duty of care to our children as a society finally supersedes the bottom line of an industry that made such an atrocity as sandy hook possible to begin with,

charles strafford al jazeera special, his eastern ukraine. rosalind jordan picks up a story for us now for washington. on the sunday public affair shows here in the united states, it was the white house national security advisor, jake sullivan, who was arguing why people should be worried about a potential russian invasion of ukraine on his way back to the white house on sunday afternoon, u. s. president joe biden spoke briefly with reporters about the situation. ah, i'm not going to speculate on that. i think they cannot get on monday, the u. s. president will welcome to the white house, the new german chancellor alex sholtes. they're expected to talk about the risk of a russian invasion in ukraine and the potential impact that could have on germany's energy supplies. are you in rapport says that north korea has stolen tens of millions of dollars of crypto currency to help funded nuclear and ballistic missile program. it says the pyongyang stole more than $50000000.00 through cyber attacks between 2020 and last year. a separate study indicated that as much as $400000000.00 may have be

s. offered to evacuate him from rosalind jordan as war on that from washington. this question has come up several times to u. s. officials this week, and the most that they will say is that they are consulting with presidents zalinski and with his leadership team, a bell to security issues. but they're more focused on helping the ukranian government defend itself from the russian invasion. we have an official statement from the secretary of state antony blinking, indicating that tug using an authority given to him by the president joe biden. he has authorized the dispersal of another $350000000.00 in security assistance to k of in order to help them defend their country from russian troops. now this is something that a sensibly would mean trying to get equipment into the country, but given that there are of russian military incursions for almost all sides of ukraine's borders, this is going to be a difficult task. but the u. s. government is adamant that it is going to provide the ukrainians, the assistance that they need to defend their country. opponent interio

now, before members of the un and the secretary general, thank you very much. rosalind jordan at united nations watching al jazeera life. i'm not to want to bring you love stories that are making headlines as well. there is a salvation crisis and see don. food warehouses are attacked and displaced children, a gutting hungry to of asia. biggest rivals put aside the differences descent desperately needed aid into afghanistan. ah, hello there. here's your weather pitcher for europe and africa. i'll tell you what . we still got more storm systems marching across the atlantic. this is the newest one. exiting the canadian province of newfoundland and labrador. let's get your the weather situation on thursday for the u. k. we do have weather warnings in play for both wind and snow. are there in england right across the scottish hills, and then we've got this band of rain, southern sweden, denmark into western areas of germany into eastern portions of france. now if we go a bit further toward the south, a push of some rain into southern sections of both portugal and spain, but toward the north.

months after sandy hook, a hard fought accountability that still cannot raise the worst of losses. rosalind jordan al jazeera washington reported by several n g o says found that major financial organizations provided more than $1.00 trillion dollars to the coal sector between 20192021 mass. despite many of them having made net 0 pledges. the study showed banks from china, the us, japan, india, the u. k and canada were responsible for 86 percent of global coal financing. reducing coal use is a key part of effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions and bringing emissions down to net 0 by 2050. well then, 40 countries promised to end the use of coal after climate talks in glasgow last november. mohammed haida, is an economist. he says, this is because of the impact the pandemic on the energy market. after the pandemic, after the look down, you know, the quite a lot of sectors in the whole, the global, the economy, the whole world is really suffering. a lot of the problems among, you know, those, the sectors is the energy sector and could be, you know, the cold sector is one of the most critical at the m

months after sandy hook, a hard fought accountability that still cannot erase the worst of losses. rosalind jordan, l just sierra washington. the veteran indian singer and music composer, bobby le, here he has died at the age of 69. ah, he was one of the country's most influential music directors who brought disco to bollywood. her songs were hugely popular in the eighty's. and ninety's is korea span any half a century of the indian film industry. in 2014, he joined the routing b, j, p as a candidate in the general election. but he lost a double quick check on the top stories here, u. s. president joe biden as appeal for diplomacy. we've given a chance to avoid a war. he says, will trigger powerful sanctions on the west and its allies. biden's warning america around the world to oppose any russian aggression can ukraine of russia attacks ukraine. it would be a war of choice or a war without cause or reason. i say these things not to provoke, but to speak. the truth is the truth matters. accountability matters. if russia does invaded the days and weeks ahead, the human cause for ukraine will be imm

months after sandy hook, a hard fought accountability that still cannot erase the worst of losses. rosalind jordan, l g, sierra washington. ah, this is al jazeera, these you top stories, nato defense ministers, oh, meeting in brussels, calling this a pivotal moment for ukraine and global stability. russia says it's begun pulling troops back from ukraine's borders. the u. s. and it's nato allies say they haven't seen any evidence of that brush are still deciding who's going to be a member of nato or not. and this is a matter of principle that all our laws have stated clearly again and again, this is about respecting the rights of every nation in unit 2. 02 storm pulse. whether it want to belong to an organizational nato, or whether they don't want to belong to a natal. ukraine is holding a day of national unity in the face of the russian military presence near its border. president velasmio landscape called on citizens to show resilience and waved the national flag. a former soldier whose deserted me, animals, army, is told al jazeera of the brutal tactics. he says, a being committed by feared regi

what i made is live 1st in eastern ukraine, but 1st let's go live to rosalind jordan, who is the un headquarters for. so rosalind, we got a flavor there of some of the sentiments from the major speakers at the, at the general assembly. and aside of course, from the, the russian representative, it was pretty clear which side it was going towards. that's right and are probably of what you might expect from the people's republic of china is something perhaps more nuanced. we have not yet heard from the chinese ambassador to the un, but most of those who have spoken so far have essentially condemned moscow's decision to move into the don voss to recognize don yeske and lou houses as independent republics. and to essentially, they are all arguing ignore the un charter, and the you'd call for respecting each countries sovereign national borders. they say that to russia simply cannot pick and choose which of the parts of the un charter it wants to follow. if it wants to be considered a good member of the united nations, it's a very, a difficult situation because you have to ask beyond the offering by t

have gathered at united nations general assembly to discuss russia's invasion of easton ukraine. rosalind jordan has more on what i ought to say. the un general assembly convening a meeting on russian actions in ukraine. nearly 90 countries signed up to me, most of them overwhelmingly, on cave saw with their brother, a lower level russian diplomat watch, led him as the ukrainian foreign minister by begged delegates to protect both his country and the you and core principles. counselors, your governments, and your people will face painful consequences together with our government and our people. this is why we need to use this last chance for action and stop russia. where it is. it is clear that president fulton will not stop by himself for the 2nd time in 2 days. secretary general antonio good dash spoke out against moscow's behavior in eastern ukraine negotiations to say when seeing is clear, the decision of the russian federation to recognize the so called independence of with nanette scott blue on screeches and the follow up our violations of the territory integrity in soviet entity of ukrain

all right, thanks very much. rosalind jordan and washington. as i suppose in russia, does it invade ukraine at some point, then what happened is come on. santa maria has been looking at some of the potential scenarios. russia and ukraine share around 2000 kilometers a border, which means all along that line, their ample opportunities, the russia to make some sort of incursion. and remember, it already has, you've got these gray areas, the separatist regions of done yet in the hands got crimea in the south. it means moscow already has a foothold in the country. and on top of that, we know there's a list, these varying levels of russian troop build ups in all these locations, none of this is new, but it is worth remembering what the map really looks like. now the center for strategic and international studies, which is a think tank a base in washington has been running a few likely scenarios and it is the existing geography which plays a big pot. for example, there is actually a river, i'm going to sort of roughly drop in here that runs all the w

months after sandy hook, a hard fought accountability that still cannot erase the worst of losses. rosalind jordan, l g, sierra washington, seller's own al jazeera, we hear from argentinians as they cope with soaring inflation and rising prices. and no job, no job. we meet workers defying italy's latest measures against those were not vaccinated. as also noticed that back in line of messes, career pay. those are mine sanity. ah hello. the weather looks pretty good for the philippines over the next couple of days. much of indo china, not too bad, but elsewhere across se, asia usual raft of heavy showers. we'll see some heavier showers once again into indonesia. we saw some very heavy right in that job or recently, or where to weather, just pushing up to war smarter as we go through a thursday. some possible yes, also seeing some live showers possible as if some localized funding coming through here. similar pictures to go on through friday, some wet weather, just pushing up for southern parts of the philippines. but as you can see, much of indo, china will be dry and fine. what a 2 showers. they're