u. a. e u. k. germany. will this executive order from president biden set any kind of precedent with regard to the moneys in those countries? obviously there is one major difference that is the 911 survival love other country . but the other aspect of it is likely to have an impact because it would be the us making determination as to how it would deal with the reserves of an honest, as long as it is controlled by a us entity. as you may know, us bankers are global, so it could be going to getting guidelines to other countries as to how we could navigate that aspect of the country. now that the country is controlled by us action and us grew, although those country open ignore that they are willing to do more job honest on your are much more concerned about the negation to those countries in maybe taking more practice measures. and they don't know what they're going to follow or not. i would like to also respond to what i think. and then they, they to, to really no one knows what are the economy, what it tak

u. a. e u. k. germany. will this executive order from president biden set any kind of precedent with regard to the moneys in those countries of the fee? there is $1.00 major difference that is the $911.00 survival lawsuit that other country. but the other aspect of it, it is likely to have an impact because it would be the us making determination as to how it would deal with the reserves of an honest, as long as the on a sunday is controlled by a us sanction entity. as you may know, us bankers are global, so it could be going to giving guidelines to other countries as to how they could navigate that rather assets of the country. now that the country is controlled by us, action and fashion grew. although those country up and ignore that, they are willing to do more job honest on your are much more concerned about the negation for this country. if in maybe taking more graphic measures, they don't know what they're going to follow or not. i would like to also respond to what i think and you certainly said they

mulling a 3rd round of possible sanctions, and this could include the swift international payment system at the moment. the e u has been resistive to add a blocking russia from accessing that. the u. k has already taken that step, but it is a possibility in the coming days and weeks now the blocks foreign affairs chief, this is joseph burrell said that none of these measures are designed to target individual russian citizens. and he's also congratulated them on taking part in protests against their own government. within russia. i want to stay where we are not targeting russia people. many of them broke against this senseless war. and i want to salute their courage, the cottage of the people that the 58 russian cities had been demonstrating against the war that we certainly made. the difference between cumberland and russia put in not the russian people. now the sanctions may be designed to target elite russians and not everyday ordinary citizens. but the reality is these will trickle down and impact people on an everyday basis and already russian citizens in the e u and the u. k. a wondering what and how this will impact them in the countries they are now living in their adoptive c

and in the median harmond, we will see there will be a foot further problems at the borders when there are basic new new laws between the e. u and u. k. traffic come into place. so it's our welcome news for now, but it's definitely not plain sailing with the a u. k. economy in the larger context burg martin london. thank you. now, 2 years ago, m u s. e car maker tesla started building a factory outside of berlin. it is now ready to start rolling out new cars. but production is yet to start necessary permits buyer authorities are still pending. environmental robes and local residents had voiced concerns. for example, over the water consumption of the factory tesla ski factory outside berlin, the assembly lines are already warmed up, but authorities have yet to give the final go ahead. they're about to do so. but at a nearby lake, protesters are getting ready to voiced the concern. they worry about teslas, enormous water needs. and fear drinking water here could soon be in short supply. and that could effect not only this small town in brandenburg, but also the near by capital city monthly louisville. and you see it in the dry forest a

that there's still some room for a peaceful resolution in all of this. ok, the u. s. the e u, the u. k. other countries, herb and else sanctions against russia. what are the reactions in, in kia to their sanctions? your grains of foreign minister pointed out yesterday that a soft strong 1st step knelt by that was indicating there must be more steps to follow, to actually give a chance to stop a chest abbey, such as to stop russia for on the escalating. what they say from their perspective is an escalation russian part to stop russia from escalating even further. the people here on the ground though, told me that they believe russia has already priced in those sanctions, regardless how big they're going to be. and as i say, they are growing increasingly concerned by the day that maybe this may have been lost already before those sanctions to re announce because the west was watching way too long. we have to understand that this situation is going on actually for 8 years. people here feel at wolf with all over the eastern territory over or 8 year . and as a result, it's nothing new to th

a potent is about to attack is only based on western intelligence. and mainly the u . s. and you k intelligence, and everyone. certainly here the e u. a nato of following. the u. s. is lead on all night. intelligence ordains. thanks. that will leave that momentary james base there in munich. let's move over to moscow. now get a view from there and also to borrow, correspondent is danny. by sir dawson, president prison perhaps listening into these as statements. what are the russians say about what's happening on their side of the board? well, they have now officially closed the war border. they're only allowing people in to russia and not out alongside that border in the western part of russia with ukraine . and we have heard from local officials in a rural soft region, which is one of the many regions in this country as they have now declared a state of emergency as of this morning. because officials, they're say they have now received over 30000 people, mainly women and children, of course that have crossed over into russia since a the announcement was made yesterday. and that's the situation is the tier rating, and that's women an

a year, after the u. k. completed his withdrawal from the e. u. a review by british parliamentary by a british parliamentary committee has found that briggs, it had only made trade more expensive and complicated. none of us prime minister boris johnson is still defending the departure the statistics say otherwise, but prime minister barak johnson is still trying to paint briggs it as a success story. he's appointed european union critic, jacob re smoked to become the so called briggs, that opportunities minister, and he told parliament that you were to blame for any possible problems resulting from the post for exit trade agreement. the country to the way it is being applied by our friends. it does not require that all foods and all medicines, little upon to be systematically checked in the way that they are mister speaker, and we must fix it. and we goodwill. and we common sense, i believe we can fix fitness to speak of it. if our friends don't show the requisite common sense, then of course we will trigger article 60 that we need to spending the

u. s. u. k. and e. u to russia may amount to $700000000.00 because of the 3 and a half 1000000 barrels of russian oil. $350000000.00 of oil and refined products. $250000000.00, russian natural gas to learn a medium called new. absolutely. right. and we are seeing the numbers going through the roof. you're absolutely right. we are seeing numbers at the moment, going to the roof oil going through the roof. the ruble went down. it seems to have boyd itself back up to a certain extent, but action returns to the host of our program going on to ground. i wish i had more time. i don't see you soon. what is important to understand the men's agreements applies to both sides of the crate and conflict to withdraw weapons from the front line. now thousands of civilians live in the so called gray zone as well on whitting witnesses and ultimately victims of the ongoing conflict. we're going to bring you their stories right now. here in archie international. it's worth having a good watch. in a gray zone. inhabitants have learned to sleep through the nighttime shilling and to live without the most basic utilities going for weeks

, much broader sanctions on those around him who like to send their kids to various se e u countries in the u. k. a and so forth. and so on. right? i still some say, as biden announced all these sanctions that you were just talking about, but he still without military intervention, some say put in has nothing to fear. what you may want to do is lot to fear. again, keep in mind the, the biggest fear he should have is that ukraine would be the ricky pine that is very difficult to digest. i was just at the munich security conference was great to be back in germany by the way. and, and in that trip, what i found was the greatest solidarity among nato members and others actually that i've seen since i went there as young, major as a speech writer for the supreme allied commander during the cold war. did putin help nato? of course he did, he is the greatest gift to nato since the end of the cold. busy war, you know, he set out to make russia great. again, what he's really done is make nato great again, by his actions. i that threat has unified nato in a way that it hasn't been again since the walk him do

a certain solutions, not the discussions about already 2 solutions. in one way, do russia's relations with washington, affects partnerships with the u. k and the e u. o. u. s. by the ship is okay, and you're in a union? well, it is a, it's a story about our relationship with of the, with in the countries u. k. us, european union. and of course we do have different relations with each of the states. but in the recent years, it has become the partnership, or we have no policy of deterrence, which is totally different containment deterrence. as these are wars which i know much more in ripley instead of a diplomacy dialogue partnership. and so we have to take our own position because we are of course, standing for continuation of partnership, but we cannot stand. we cannot accept this policy of containment and detours. so this is where, cuz i find that some european countries want to be less reliance on the us, france, and hungary for example. you know, we do see that of course some countries have, they do have bullish on their own. they don't want a standard approach of the in the standard that us, if i needed a here nonstandard ideas. the let us see a

and in the median permit, we will see there will be a foot further problems at the borders when there are basic new new laws between the e. u and u. k. traffic common to place. so it's are welcome news for now, but it's definitely not plain sailing with the a u. k. economy in the larger context now to some of the other mobile business stories making news. the white house is warning the chip in history to diversify its supply chain and kate, in case russia retaliate against, threaten us export curve by blocking access to a central materials. many companies and the semiconductor industry purchase metals and earth from russia and ukraine. california regulators are suing tesla, alleging the e car maker has been discriminating against black employees at the san francisco bay area factory where most of its vehicles are made. the suit alleges the plant is a racially segregated workplace where black workers are subjected to racial slurs and discriminated against and job assignments. and yeah, and it's really are close to signing a trade pact covering manufacturing, education and other key sectors. trade talks received a push after the unite

u. p. the democratic union is coffee, it's target is the so called northern ireland protocol, a device that keeps northern ireland both in the u. k. and for trade purposes in the e. u. single markets at the same time. complicated. yeah, very. but the aim was simple enough to prevent the hard border.

now, when it comes to you on a political, the payoff front, i think moscow is, is feeling the pressure and now the e, u, u. s. and u. k. a announcing a raft of sanctions against russia, following deliberations between european leaders in brussels. we can learn more, crossing live to london on the policy are joining us. can you bring us up to date on the latest sanctions? how are they, how they spelling out polar? while they set the spelling out in some kind of spiral, as you correctly say, they are growing with the u. k. imposing harsh sanctions on russia. they've now imposed an extra travel ban in terms of not only russian aircraft not being allowed to land here, but also private chests. at the same time v t b bank, the 2nd largest state own bank and a number of other russian banks have also been sanctioned. the u. k is no longer accepting visa applications from ukrainians who are stuck in their country unless they have close family. here in the u. k. and the beller was ambassador to london has been summoned and told that new members of the ruling elite also to be sanctioned. for supporting russia's military moves, t

e u. u. s. u k, announcing a raft of sanctions against russia following the deliberations between european leaders in brussels. i just a very short time ago, i crossed live to correspondent pool asleep. while they set the spelling out in some kind of spiral, they are growing with the u. k. imposing harsh sanctions on russia. they've now imposed an extra travel van in terms of not only russian aircraft not being allowed to land here, but also private chess. at the same time v t b bank, the 2nd largest state own bank and a number of other russian banks have also been sanctioned. the u. k is no longer accepting visa applications from ukrainians who are stuck in that country unless they have close family. here in the u. k. and beat bella was ambassador to london has been summoned and told that new members of the ruling elite also to be sanctioned. for supporting rushes, military moves, the opposition leader has said that more sanctions are necessary, as one of the members of parliament from his party has started receiving death threats for search for criticizing and speaking out against nato expansion

a deputy she did vote for the independence of elegans. and then yes, that thought of being goes harder than the ones drawn up by the u. k. and the us just a bottle that the e u chief is said that these sanctions have been drawn up to hurt russia. this asset freezes and travel bands and prohibition on making funds available to 7027 rather high profile russian entities that incidentally born for every member you states, just take you through some of the most high profile, the sig, a show you do. the defense minister maria's, however, the spokesman spokeswoman rather for the foreign ministry, she has labeled the sanctions as illegitimate course. they target anybody who had anything to do materialistic or otherwise with the supporting the independence of your hands. and then yes. and there's also going to be restrictions on the russian government ability to raise funds in e u markets, the expectation as well. these sanctions of the will be more sanctions, foreign ministers of the e. you will be meeting on friday and saturday. some members of the e, you said to be wanting big bang sanctions. we can only guess what that means, but it doesn't sound very good. it do

u. k. has also been in close contact with the e. u. and the united states about launching a coordinated sanctions response. the was already well on its way in the united kingdom, just moments round the corner. so the house of parliament, the comments that go to be meeting throughout the day to sign off sign, sit and deliver the sanctions with shadow defense. secretary said that he would be giving his utmost support to the government with those sanctions. so it seems as the parliament, the house of commons are actually quite united on this. so also to note for children that says the fact as the sanctions are actually just the 1st step. there's a baron more to come meshes, could even develop as the week goes by far, sons, and also hinted that he could send even more arms to ukraine in january. of course, as we know, britain sent 2000 weapons. they call it defensive weapons at the time, plus, also committing to potentially more boots on the ground. 2 countries that members of nato on the east and flank the comments that came from bar johnson yesterday and all omen a bad sign on

we've seen over the course of the day already, a tremendous amount has happened. if the u. k, and e u and they to align stone at quickly. the situation will be incredibly complicated and sanctions will be less effective than they hope they will be if they don't act immediately need. thank you very much. the bulk of the, with the breaking done for us, what's going on in london amongst the political leaders there in the a capital. let's bring in. alexander bretzkey is a senior political analyst, 4 fine m news website. he's also a political scholar at memo, that's an international think tank. he joyce's from moscow, alexander protects get you been waiting there a long time, sir. we do appreciate you standing by to talk to was here on our continuing coverage of what's going on in eastern ukraine question. one is stage one for vladimir putin creating some sort of rump ukraine. light buffer zone slash protectorate going from crimea across to law, hands up to door nets and encompassing the don bass region there. where all the fighting is going on in east and ukraine at the moment. that's, th

e u, the u. s. a number of other countries. the u. k. have announced limited sanctions against russia in response to its latest moves. do you think those sanctions are going to get most goes attention? well frankly, i think terry, the sanctions that got more attention. actually one point, ah, is the decision by chance a shot to freeze a cation sorry. i'm not going to get back like this is very serious. and not only because it's probably 11000000000 a loss of by moscow and building it. but because in the credit is on an important thing is for you to be ready to suffer for your principles to be taken serious. the rest of the sanctions that you mentioned still do not go up to that level. oh no, i would say that the u. s thank which deal with russia sovereign debt and with the children of some of the closest pollutants allies. some of the people that he's on the rush, they, she'd closer to home from the point you the credit of the summer and that look, it will be much more difficult for the russian government to burrell and internationally.

a u. k. economy in the larger context burg martin london. thank you. now, 2 years ago, m u s. e car maker, tesla started building a factory outside of berlin. it is now ready to start rolling out new cars, but production is yet to start necessary permits buyer authorities are still pending. environmental robes and local residents had voiced concerns. for example, over the water consumption of the factory. tesla ski factory outside berlin. the assembly lines are already warmed up, but authorities have yet to give the final go ahead. they're about to do so. but at a nearby lake, protesters are getting ready to voiced the concern. they worry about test last enormous water needs and fear drinking water here could soon be in short supply. and that could affect not only the small town and brandenburg, but also the near by capital city, month, an invalid on you see it in the dry fours and says the berliner, i have to say, my biggest fear is for berlin's drinking water. oh oh, you know, and we'll tesla's thirsty factory doesn't worry. ellen musk during a visit in 2020. he said there was

u. k. a no way. they're not members of the e. u, but they're trying to show coordination this meeting coming after that package of sanctions that was put in place by he leaders at the summit that took place here in brussels until late last night. you foreign ministers also meeting in the coming hours and they're trying to come up with 3rd package of sanctions. 3rd in 3 days. and we are hearing from, from that package of sanctions that diplomats the same one lightly thing. one thing they suddenly discussing is an asset freeze on vladimir putin, the president of russia, himself, and also on his foreign minister. so gay lab roth, although my understanding is that won't be a trouble ban on those 2, not completely closing the door. ready to diplomacy, so a lot of a lot of diplomatic activity happening here in brussels this afternoon. the focus on that meeting of nato leaders, which we're not going to see all, but we all going to hear the secretary general of nato, which is due to start any minute has them. and the backdrop of this, as y

e u wide band. there will be no russian across any sort allowed to fly over the e u. and remember that normally you countries, norway, which has a border with russia and the u. k. they also have instituted bands making extremely hard for travel between russia and the rest of the world because of the geography because you have to cross europe and that's a further isolation of present patients. government. okay, thank you so much. st. phases reporting from brussels. let's look at all of this in a little bit more detail with all leg enough of. he's a senior analyst for russia with the international crisis group. he's joining us from moscow. welcome to al jazeera. so the e u has now announced that it will be tightening sanctions on on russia. what do you expect the russian reaction to be to this latest announcements and the latest round of sanctions? i think horses reactions is that they don't pay a lot of attention. the sanctions and the yes they say that sanction sized elation, but i think are the sanctions of the main. think about the sanctions that they don't and plans for the decision making process. i mean rushes, a miniature decision making process. of cours

a lot of went on in the back room by e u members that were obviously not voting in favor of the u. k. you can't undo over 40 years of regulations in just over 4 years, even if it wasn't to do with a pandemic. correct? so it's not just for exit. it's to do with the deep ingrained amount of regulations that you have to undo in a very short timeframe. now we've got about a minute left here, but how do you see the tension between the you can you playing out in 2022 now that we're all sort of getting back to some sort of normal? well, a couple of things. i can, the negative is going to be when the volume of truck traffic dogs get back to its normal level of goodness knows what those board is going to be like if it's like this already. just laurie's hopefully the you and protecting from those german co manufacturers who want to do more business with the u. k. there will be pressure from them. because even though we just have the announcement about the chip manufacturing the semiconductor chip manufacturing, don't again theory bolton, he's the one in charge of that. the e u has their own re

a russian cargo vessel. as we understand it was seized, had something to do with the latest raft of sanctions. now the e u u. s i new k, they've all, they're all announced announcing almost every day now. and you list of sanctions against moscow following deliberations between a various european leaders in brussels. a short time ago. i did discuss these sanctions without correspondent policy. however, i will listen to while they set the spelling out in some kind of spiral, they are growing with the u. k. imposing harsh sanctions on russia. they've now imposed an extra travel ban in terms of not only russian aircraft not being allowed to land here, but also private chase. at the same time v t b bank, the 2nd largest state own bank and a number of other russian banks have also been sanctioned. the u. k is no longer accepting visa applications from ukrainians who are stuck in that country unless they have close family. here in the u. k. and beat bella was ambassador to london has been summoned and told that new members of the ruling elite also to be sanctioned. for supporting russia's military moves, the opposition leade

u. k. the u. s. and the e. u murray is a car of the russian for mr. spokesperson, so they have not in the you what price will impact? do you think the sanctions will have on those figures? i think the impact direct impact very negative. however, this is the malec impact, which i think is very dangerous. and it further goes to severance of diplomatic relations, which, which i think is stupid and very doing for even more issues. and they should expect counter as well. or now the years so far refrained from introducing traveled bonds. do you think they are likely to be imposed in the future? well, if you really want to do the pharmacy i, you wouldn't necessarily do prebble specially on senior diplomat. i also think travel ban are poor decision. depending where you're doing. if you're doing it nationwide, you're, you're impacting people, you're impacting business, impacting farm, or not just for russia, i would say more. so on the european side, it's a very poor poor strategy to go in that direction. now it's been described as t

we leave the program with a fall out in markets around the world as the u. s. e u and the u. k moved, implement new sanctions against russia over its ongoing military operation. ukraine . the result has been continued volatility as investors brace for the impact of the latest tensions. ortiz trinity chavez has more today, market volatility continues in the wake of the russia, ukraine, crisis, western nations. now ramping up sanctions against russia, with steps including blocking some of its banks from the swift global payment system. russia's currency, the rubel, tumbled to fresh record lows. and the russian central bank has raised its key interest rate more than doubling it to 20 percent on wall street. markets are under pressure monday. morning futures for the s and p 500 index dropped about 1.4 percent. while futures for the tech heavy nasdaq, $100.00 declined roughly 1.2 percent. as the volatility index rose to with highest level seen in over a year. the pan continental stock europe $600.00 also felt approaching a correction. this while china's hang saying index retreated,

a formal e, you wide band. no, russian aircraft will be able to fly over a u. s. space. add to that of course the, to europe in countries you want in the u, the u. k. in norway, i've also put bands and of course many as a sizable population of very well healed russians in the u. k. and no ways a neighboring country of russia. it's going to make it very difficult for russians to go anywhere at this stage on russian aircraft. and of course, the russians are banned many european aircraft, so increasingly difficult links between russia and the rest of the world. again, i think the idea is to isolate vladimir putin and those around him. ok, thank you so much for medic, editor jones phase reporting from brussel fil a head on al jazeera. that's more countries ban russian plains, have you been hearing from their earth base will ask a former pilot, how that could impact russia, the asian industry, and hundreds arrested during process taking place right now in st. petersburg against muscles invasion. all ukraine will have more on that after the break. ah, ah, look forward to burritos, guys. with the sponsored play cut on airways. hello, welcome to your world

e. u is with us, the u. k. as a strong partner, i think pooty thought that he would be able to find some divisions of maybe the germans wouldn't stand with america. and that's not what you see. so the consequences for prudent are going to be very severe. and we're working to have a sanctions regime in place that will not only hit russia, but hit proven personally hit him and his oligarch buddies to make it clear that the cost will be very high. you say you've got sanctions, but you haven't actually reached an agreement in congress on those sanctions. not like you were close. and then the partisan bickering got in the way to net. look, we have a lot of debates in congress to put it lightly. and partisanship is a, is a, is a real thing. but there's no question in my mind that if who actually the decides to invade, you'll see a very united united states congress just as we are. so united with our allies in nato. here at noon. you talked about the unity of the allies, but there will be some watching this and, and i, my

u. s. the u. k. and the e. you have all now pledged to impose sanctions. there has been a joint statement that was issued by the european commission and the european council. the european council president has held a marathon of telephone calls from last night after that announcement by president putin was made one of the cause a was with the ukrainian president in which he said, and i'm quoting the you stands by you firmly and fully supports ukrainian territorial integrity, the european commission president had this to say. the recognition of the 2 separate us territories in ukraine as a blatant violation of international law, the territorial integrity of ukraine and the minsk agreements. the e u in its partners will react with unity, firmness and with determination in solidarity with ukraine. now the u. s. secretary of state antony blinkin is scheduled later today to meet with his ukrainian counterpart. he has said that this is to quote, a predictable, shameful act on behalf of russia. it comes as the american president joe biden, issued an executive order, imposing sanctions on moscow. and at the same time, prohibiting any kind of new investments, trade, or financing by the united states, follow ganske and or dentist. at the same time, over night, the us state department pulled out all its staff from revolve in ukraine, and they spent the night in poland. the nato secretary general has said that the announcement by russia and mines any kind of settlement activity and is a pretext for russian invasion, which is a sentiment that we have heard from numerous other countries. latvian prime minister, for example, has said that this latest development is a continuation of what star

u. k. has also been in close contact with the e u and the united states about launching a coordinated sanctions response. the e was already well on its way and the united kingdom just moments round the corner . so the house of parliament, the commons, they're going to be missing throughout the day to sign off sign sealant, deliver these sanctions. this shadow defense secretary said that he would be giving his utmost support to the government with those sanctions. so it seems as though the parliament, the house of commons are actually quite united on this. so also to note florence johnson says the fact of the sanctions are actually just the 1st step. there's of barrage, more to come meshes, could even develop as a week's notice by our sons and also hinted that he could send even more. i'm see ukraine in january. of course, as we know, britain sent 2000 weapons. they call it defense. it weapons at the time, plus, also committing to potentially more boots on the ground. 2 countries that are members of nato on the east and flanked the comments that came from paris johnson yesterday. and l. omen. a

a little bit nadeem. we're talking about e u sanctions on some members of the russian parliament, the duma, but the u. k saying no, we will not unilaterally. sanction people unpack that for us, not him. how will this work? or peter, this is all in answer to the question, how will the west respond if it's judge that russia is going ahead with an invasion basically, which is what they have set, the trigger would be for, for tough measures or, or monday, the united states is a representative envoy to the organization for security and cooperation in europe said that if those are a separatist regions in the east of ukraine were to be recognized by the russian government that would be deplorable. and he said it should be condemned. or certainly we know that that war that's already been said that it's deplorable will be condemned and so on. what will they do though, these western countries? well, on monday, the european union agreed to apply sanctions on 5 individuals. as you are saying now, they include members of the russian duma who represent a parts of a crimea, which was annex caused by russia and the cit

mister johnson, not sir kissed armour a little earlier today when he addressed the nation of basically saying that the u . k. indeed, every nato country, every e e u country, the u. s. included, cannot normalize what mr. putin is doing in the eastern ukraine by, in effect doing nothing less bringing ne parker, our correspondent tracking that story for us out of london. need your reading of what we heard there from mr. johnson. i mean, that will go down as probably one of the most important foreign policy speeches that boris johnson will make in his political career. he has a huge task in front of him to come up with something that the the kremlin would hate to hear. and obviously without being drawn into a direct conflict with troops on the ground in ukraine, the u. k. a long as with its western allies in nato and the european union have come up with this rafter of sanctions. and some of the. busy the items that were listed by bowers johnson will parallel no doubt what we hear out of the united states. shortly we're talking about sanctions, the cover of a section of russia's banking sector, one of the key bangs v t be slapped with sanctions. just

the landing of british airways planes in a russian air space or flying through russian airspace already. we're hearing some of that tit for tat, the e u and the u. k. u both saying though that these heavy financial sanctions are not just at the economy, but also financial services and systems, are there to hobble the russian economy. this is what the british prime minister barak johnson had to say, and also the european commission president ursula, vom delane the u. k. as in nancy, the largest, and most of your package of economic actions, the russia has ever see with new financial measures, we're taking new powers to target russian finance. in addition to the banks, we've already sanctioned these powers. when will they will not totally to exclude russian banks from the u. k. financial system, which is of course by far the largest in europe, stopping them from accessing sterling and clearing payments through the u. k. now we have to meet the moment. we will hold the kremlin accountable the package of massive and targeted sanctions. european leaders approved tonight clearly demonstrates that this package includes financial sanctions that cut rush u

a crippling effect on many german businesses that have trading links with russia. and they also have said that they would like to see the swiss government come in alongside the e u, the u. s. the u. k. japan in imposing sanctions. so the say when to view these as, as a twin track approach as it were, that the german government is, is doing right now. on the one hand, reassure. nato member states on the eastern flank and on the other. talking about the kinds of sanctions they can, they can really impose that they are facing questions about this swift access with the serious conservative politicians who are not in government, any war any more saying why can't we do it? dominic, a life force in berlin. thanks dominic adara mac duel is a political and economic risk consultant. he says, cutting russia off from the swift global payment system could be a challenge. even if you do cut russia off from swift, you know you're not stumping, you're not making it impossible to to do business with russian banks. you're not stopping all forms of communication with those banks. you're just stopping communication through this mechanism. swift. that's important because swift is a mechanism that's the

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e. u to reduce its energy imports from russia. is there any chance of that happening? it will not ever happened, even if there was a u. k. and i go as far as to say that as long as you know am doesn't embarrass sanctions on any suppliers. and nurse sitting to gas pipeline, i think, and i show supplies. we continue. however, i did what i said, that the whole exports of the united states and canada and australia, which is an impossibility, a cannot match or oddly match b as supplies of russia. you've got could tar just to point to it as well, could tar itself calling on europe to resolve. it's disputes with moscow, diplomatically to keep energy supplies on the continent, secure, will europe listen to that? i hope they do. but i think under pressure from the united states, they may not i, this is alicia times. i've been one of you sizing in id. i'm that of pressure from the united states. improving the way that things not to certify no same to which has been sitting. i chance september 2021 and good to have the union is, is energy prices and 2 is me. hi, sky up know prices are a natural gas. i realize that this is now and y