but 1st we go to our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins in washington. kimberly, so an important phone call today between president biden and the russian leader. what can we expect? yeah, that's set to take place at any moment. what we know from the call that already took place between the foreign ministers, both antony blank and an survey. lab rav, is that what was communicated and will be communicated. when the 2 presidents take to the telephone is that the diplomatic path remains open. this is something that the united states has been repeatedly saying that is a taking a dual track deterrence and diplomacy. so the diplomatic path remains open, but that moscow needs to de escalate in the eyes of the united states needs to engage in good faith discussions. if there is an alternative path that is decided by i decided on by vladimir putin then in the eyes of the west, what will happen will be a resolute, massive united, trans atlantic response. and so to that end, what we know is that all ready, the united states has been in close coordination with its pa

so jabari live in russia's capital, moscow, and i over to our white house correspondent kimberly hawkins in washington. d. c. kimberly both president biden and u. s. secretary of state, raising the alert level now with respect to ukraine. why? well, there is this feeling that the u. s. for rather, the russian president vladimir putin may take advantage of the olympics in terms of the timing to potentially launch an invasion of ukraine using the russian military . and as a result, the next 48 hours, particularly critical according to the secretary of state. but he has not provided any sort of proof for intelligence, simply saying that this is a time of high alert. now the u. s. president joe biden has given an interview saying that americans need to leave the key or even the country as a whole ukraine. because the concern being that if there are russian troops inside ukraine, the u. s. military simply can't go in to ukraine to evacuate them. the prospect of having u. s. military potentially firing russian soldiers, you, as president says, would essentially be world war and his words, diff

kimberly hawkins. as a details, this horrible terrorist leader is no more in an address to the nation from the roosevelt room of the white house. u. s. president joe biden spoke about the operation. he ordered that killed the ice. a leader abu ibrahim al, has she, me, al, karachi, and i directed the department of defense to take every precaution possible to minimize civilian casualties. knowing that this terrorist had chosen serrano self was families including children. we made a choice to pursue a special forces raid at a much greater risk than our to our own people, rather than targeting him with an air strike. as us special forces moved in the ice, a leader reportedly detonated an explosive and a final act of desperate cowardice. he chose to blow himself up, taking several members of his family with him. the mission happened thursday in northwestern, syria in it live province. residence on the ground said at least 13 people, including children, were killed in the operation. the pentagon said there w

kimberly hawkins in washington, dc. the markets stock markets the tank as russia announced its military operation. oh, that's the phil pictures. this will st opening up for the day. i'm as it is at 9 30 in the morning. they are in new york. every lozano is of course, one at the new york stock exchange. today what the future is indicating for today gabriel. very bad as might expect. the futures were all in the read. they had been dropping the stock futures down at about 800 points as of before the markets open just now the s and p futures last about 2.5 percent. and it's looking like it's going to be a very bad day on the markets. it already has been in europe and asia where there's a huge sell off the markets now here opening in new york and new york stock exchange with the opening bell just a few seconds ago. so we'll get a better sense of where they're opening. now bottom line is this looks like it's going to be.

hawkins has more after consulting with his national security council in the white house situation room and a virtual meeting with g 7 leaders, you as president joe biden made good on his promise to inflict massive costs on russian president vladimir putin for invading ukraine, who is the aggressor who chose this war. and now he and his country will bear the consequences. the new sanctions target major russian bags and russian elite and in coordination with allies, representing more than half the global economy, are designed to cut off russia from the world's financial system. russian assets in the us are also now frozen. we will limit russia's ability to do business in dollars euro's pounds and yet export controls to curtail rush and high tech imports are also being opposed to cripple russia's military and high tech capabilities. the moves are backed by top, congressional democrats, like senate leader, chuck sure, who condemned russia's invasion and pledge support for ukraine. ukrainians are tough and resilient. i know they will not give up their country. they will fight fiercely for i

kimberly hawkins as a details. this horrible terrorist leader is no more in an address to the nation from the roosevelt room of the white house. us president joe biden spoke about the operation. he ordered that killed the ice, a leader abu ibrahim al hash, she me.

let's, i'll bring in our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins. so the messaging from the biden administration, kimberly is but more action can be taken by the united states, such as, what's well, what the united states is saying is that they're leaving room with these current sanctions to ratchet up further. they're certainly not going to forecast ahead. what those sanctions might be, they'll keep that information close to their chest. but what they're doing is essentially a bit of cleanup after a lot of criticism that the sanctions they didn't put in place didn't go far enough . essentially, the criticism they're getting is over the statement that they, they acknowledge that the, they were not designed to disrupt the energy exports of russia. and that is kind of a conflict with what the vice president to come. la harris had said just days earlier, that security conference and munich essentially, she said that the sanctions were to have a deterrent effect for vladimir putin invading ukraine. and clearly that's not the case. so what we know about

hawkins in washington. that traced in natasha butler, whose monitoring enact reaction from ukraine's capital, kia and natasha. as this set, nato defense ministers was being held in brussels to day. ukraine was holding a day of national unity so called day of national unity. and the president has been speaking about a tell us more. yes, followed him. is lensky ukraine's president saying the ukrainians are strong, that they are ready to defend themselves, that they are ready to fight fight. he says whether it's for every the 1617th 18th, april or september. now zalinski was talking from the port city of murray. pole in the south. east of the country are very close to the front line where ukrainian forces have been fighting russian back separate is now for nearly 8 years. so as a highly symbolic choice of location. and this is the day, the zalinski is called a day of unity in ukraine. he called for this a couple of days ago. the idea is to try and rally some patriotism to try and say, send a message to moscow

how to of the hamid talking to us from kyo while our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins in washington, dc. as i mentioned before, kimberly the u. s. equity of state antony blanket russian forum as a love robert expected to be speaking the u. s. president. i understand. i said that they are prepared for anything. what does that mean? do you think? well, as the united states has been saying repeatedly for some time, now there are serious questions about just exactly where i believe i'm not wearing my microphone. um oh no, there it is. okay. all right, i apologize. but there are some serious questions about where things move going forward. and so as a result, the united states wanted the president to go out ahead of this message. and so to that end, the u. s. president has said that and warned really that there would be severe and swift consequences if the russian leader were to walk away from diplomacy. and so what we've been seeing is sort of a chorus of the biden administration singing from the same song sheet. in other words, whether it be the white house press secretary, ned price,

kimberly hawkins is standing by in washington dc . a trace we go to nato headquarters in brussels, need baka, is there for, is that meeting of defense ministers taking place there? i need a nato, highly skeptical and very cautious about this sir. rush and draw down go . that's absolutely right. and in no way is the nato alliance prepared to gave russia the benefit of the doubt. yet, sultan berg, very, very quick. in, at the course of the, the day to answer questions from the media about this video from the russian defense minister apparent at defense ministry rather apparently showing a heavy weaponry and troops returning to mainland russia by train over the straits of coach a bridge. and he was very quick to, to, to say that in no way does the alliance believe this to be in the escalation in russian treat numbers that in fact, the opposite may be true. and as such, nato as reaffirming what it has been saying for some time. now that it firmly believes that russia is poised to potentially invade ukraine. and that invasion could happen

this, i know in the moment we're going to be speaking to our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins. dasa. jabari is going to have the latest for moscow. first we're going to begin with charl stratford in khaki. in ne ukraine. charles, i understand that you have been talking to ukraine's foreign minister. what he had to say i. yes, we spent 24 minutes to the metro collaborates a day before we go into a little bit of detail about what he told us. interesting that in the last few minutes. good bye sweetie. that sir. the ukrainians now are demanding that russia clarify its military activity. in the next 48 hours and that is according to something called the vienna document. that is an o s. c, an organization for security and cooperation in europe, document signed by both ukraine and russia in 2011 and to be specific and the ukrainians are saying that russia needs to provide detail details on the objectives the precise location, the dates of completion, of each military activities, and it has 48 hours to reply. if it doesn't, then an extraordinary meeting of the signatories of the vienn

kimberly thank you very much and do that. whitehouse coma responded. triple hawkins. us president joe biden signed an executive order to unfreeze $7000000000.00 in afghan reserves off of that is going to go to watch humanity and efforts in afghanistan. now, the hop towards relatives of victims of $911.00 other attacks by on groups. the 7000000000 was deposited by the african central bank in new york and it was frozen prior to the taliban takeover in august. kristen said him is lifeless now in new york question. tell us more about the cache and what's gonna happen to it. so this is money that belongs to the afghan government. some of it may have come from international donors, but it was intended for the afghan people and it's been frozen an account here in new york. now the last thing that the united states wants is for any of this money to get into the hands of the taliban, and that's why the assets, the money were frozen. but the humanitarian situation in afghanistan is getting worse. we've been hearing warnings from the united nations about an economy that is collapsing, people tha

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kimberly, for example, not many people live here, but those who do will notice it very obviously. in new zealand, the picture is one of saw subtly drifts so times don't that hire there, hawkins doing nicely at $25.00 shouts rap. sarah island. heaviest rain in southeast asia is, is, are aligned from the southern philippines, back across to pendency malaysia. but the heavier stuff is to be going away as well in the monday forecast looking more to the southern part of the bay. bang gold, for example, the, the cabin and of an audience, and a few shall means for lanka, india, on the whole, there is looking fine, same to bangladesh. ah, ah, this is al jazeera, ah, hello, i'm barbara sarah. this is the al jazeera news, our live from london. thank you for joining us. coming up in the next 60 minutes. been a push for new talks. the stop the fighting even is vladimir putin puts his nuclear forces on high alert with the streets of car kiva.