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If lucky, they might be charged with rioting or terrorism. thats the kind of offense that can follow you for years and years and make it very difficult to get a job. weve seen russian government censoring media. if they say war or attack, theyve been cracking down. the preferred word is special military operation. theyve been cracking down on the media that has not been following the line on that. >> lets talk about the sanction. it is not just the rich feeling the pain. >> people here are terri...

Were back with our world lead and russias crackdown within its own borders. authorities have detained nearly 6,000 of their fellow rugs for participating in what the russian government calls unsanctioned anti-war protests. nic robertson joins us from moscow. what are the penalties for protesting there? >> reporter: if you get detained overnight, you can get a relatively small fine. if you get picked up again, the fines and detention, but you can get a maximum of 20 years in jail. you can end up ...

European union. switzerland is not an eu member and has never taken this step. and the olympic committee suggested banning belarusan athletes. >> reporter: theres a lot of anxiety here in russia about the ruble and about the effect of sanctions. some people are panicking and some are just fatalistic and resigned to it but everyone has essentially a negative opinion. theyre seeing their savings erased and runs on currency in

For he affairs council. advises them on board matters giving this interview in which he says a lot of the country is depressed. this is russia. the lack with this operation. and that is the invasion is embarrassing for russia. as those voices start to get louder inside russia, the pressure is not only going to be on the economy, its his own people. >> shannon: they are definitely suffering. we knew that would quickly happened with some of the sanctions. oligarchs going up to their desks and yach...

[ applause ] i mean it. the united states department of justice is assembling a dedicated task force to go after the crimes of the russian oligarchs. were joining with european allies to find and seize their yachts, their luxury apartments, their private jets. were coming for your ill begotten gains and tonight im announcing that we will join our allies in closing off american air space to all russian flights, further isolating russia and adding additional squeeze on their economy. [ applause ] ...

International conventions like those cluster bombs and thermobaric vacuum bombs that suck the air out of peoples lungs and send a fireball through entire neighborhoods. the u.s. is monitoring any potential movement of putins tactical nuclear weapons which russia has a 10 to 1 advantage over the united states and has 2,000 tactical nukes in storage. the pentagon says that long russian convoy remains stalled tonight amidst reports that russian soldiers were sent into ukraine from belarus with just...

Unprecedented sanctions against a country as large as russia. sanctions that are crushing the russia economy. the ruble now, it takes 110 of them to buy $1, the russian stock markets been closed for days. what youll hear the president talk about is this coalition hes helped assemble. along with the next steps, further tightening the sanctions on the oligarchs who buck up putin and benefit from his regime. and that useful message that the president will deliver tonight will be heard by the ambass...

Sanctions. we spoke this morning to a young woman. she runs a successful health food company, but shes looking to move to argentina. she told us theres no future here and we are hearing that over and over again from young, educated russians, but getting out of russia is not an easy thing to do right now. if you go to one of moscows international airports, you look up at the departure board you are seeing a sea of cancellations because north american and european airspace are closed to russian ai...

Putin. accused of reporting deliberately false information. russia now aiming to make state tv the only source of russian language reporting. and tonight, the value of the ruble. where does it stand in james longman from moscow. president biden about to deliver his first state of the union address, reshaping the speech. and mary bruce standing by with new reporting on how he will address the american people and the world tonight. in other news, police investigating a deadly church shooting. ...

Punishment laid out by the u.s. and alliance of more than 30 countries is without pres ceden. the intensity of the sanctions they are using to attack that economy and youre seeing results immediately. the sanctions are expected to have more impact over time. in just one day, you saw the ruble drop more than 30% at one point today against the dollar. less than one cent. recovered a bit oaf time but this underscores one of the most critical moves that u.s. and their allies agreed to. that was free...