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And its not just russia that would be affected. theres no globally accepted alternative to s.w.i.f.t., so russias eshpulsion could potentially hit everyone who have international business dealings with the country. without s.w.i.f.t. business deals with russia would become difficult but not illegal. >> cutting them off from s.w.i.f.t. is less severe than putting sdn or blocking sanctions as theyre known more culoc colloquially on the major russian banks. >> reporter: after russia germany and the...

Sanctions program that weve rolled out in one country this. took us a matter of years to get to in the iran sanctions program. but again there is still more that can be done. so youre seeing the devastate station today. we havent even gotten to what i would say is a full government blocking or full government sanctions government sanctions against the government of russia. we still have not gotten to a full country sanctions program in terms of russia where, you know, u.s. persons and businesses...

Slightly this morning when ukraine pushed back, pushback they did, whether they can hold it unclear. >> yeah. we should note were 36 hours in, a long way to go. nick paton walsh, thank you. president biden hit russia with a new round of harsh economic sanctions to attempt to punish the country for its invasion of ukraine. but he acknowledged it would take time for these new measures to have a real impact and we should note biden stopped short of targeting vladimir putin himself with sanctions....

Though the island sees itself as a self governed democratic state. since then, relations have soured. china denies imposing trade bands, putting the blocking of goods down to a lack of documentation. now only a small part of lithuanias exports go to china, around 1%-2% of exports go to china, around 1%—2% of the baltic states goods. so even a complete halt to trade would only have a minor impact on lithuanias economy. lithuanias parameter has even said exporters already found new markets, but ...

Context. >> it might be too soon to confirm that right now. certainly i would read floo into it the same way you did. the white house said swift is on the table and we never took it off the table and we want today act with european allies, italy and germany blocking that as least this morning. italy had come around to the idea and germany was sort of alone and isolated in opposition, but as weve seen, the european community rallying around ukraine has moved germany to move on some of the other d...

Remove leverage. so look, today and yesterday we and our allies and partners did take actions and post severe cost on russia. you mentioned earlier, joy, we have effectually shut down the pipeline. he put $11 billion into the pipeline. billions of dollars that would have gone into his coffers will not flow. this is a decisive flow and the beginning we think of a more accelerated diversification away from russian energy. weve also imposed full blocking sanctions, meaning we freeze the assets and ...

Union, to remove, unplug russia from what is called the s.w.i.f.t. banking system. explain what that is and why this is not just an easy decision for the european union to stop putin, to punish him. >> stopping putin is going to be hard. putin has indicated, by his actions, that hes not to be stopped by disincentives like economic sanctions. so its not going to stop him clearly. it will, if they -- well talk about s.w.i.f.t. s.w.i.f.t. or sanctions on other banking facilities, other big commerci...

The main stock index 4%. its down 27 this year. russian ruble heading for a record low. >> i sue the move on the ruble. be interesting to keep an eye on the russian markets to see whether its being felt. oil and gas, nord stream 2 being put on hold. when we were talking about crimea, europe thought gas was being weaponized. europe knew this. what was your assessment? >> europe was very concerned. germany was reluctant to take the measure. it was the biggest stick they could wield against russia ...

Honor the first one, what are the chances they honor the second one? will: the traffic along that route. im interested how many ukrainian citizens are taking up of humanitarian corridor? heading to an area not necessarily safe any way, how many ukrainians are taking up the offer of a humanitarian corridor? pete: interesting question. there are a couple of different routes. you dont necessarily have to move through this direction. one goes straight through russian territory. theyre probably not d...

Million refugees, ultimately, streaming across the border with poland and romania. keep this in mind too. the russians battle plan is to isolate ukrainian forces. theyve got a blocking force in the russian. >> speaking areas in the east and forces are moving from the north and the south to bifurcate or even trifurcate the country, sealing off and surrounding ukrainian forces that are there. and then destroy and capture them piecemeal. to that end, theyre working their way to and into kyiv. its g...