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Welcome to bbc news. our top stories. translation: they tell us that february the 16th will be - the day of the invasion. we will make this into unity day. so, what�*s motivating the kremlin, and what do ordinary russians think? we�*ll go to moscow to find out. canada�*s prime minister invokes emergency powers to try to end the protests against covid measures — they could extend to the freezing of protesters bank accounts. this is about keeping canadians safe and restoring confidence in ...

But uninvited of ukraine, are you tack on ukraine, is likely to be unpopular among russians. russians think of ukrainians is very close to them. they think they are brothers and cousins. all of a sudden, president putin is going to be attacking them. and, russian soldiers, this is again, sad to say, russian soldiers are going to come back to be buried in russian towns and villages. not to mention the tens of thousands of ukrainians, military and civilians, that will be killed. these are high cos...

British army on the russian side. in the last 2 1/2 days theyve received additional helicopter gun ships, similar number of gun ships, about 60-plus gun ships and transport helicopters have also been now spotted by satellite imagery in crimea. so it looks like they are getting much closer to the point at which they might actually trigger a d-day, an invasion day, a day for some kind of military action on the russian side. that said, the ukrainians today, later on today -- its about 3:00 in the m...

This was the scene today in the national sports complex in kyiv. as government employees marched a 220 yard ukrainian flag around the stadium track. in northeast ukraine, a choir sang the countrys national anthem. and ukrainians across the country proudly deplayed their flag inside from inside parliament to the streets of odessa to western ukraine, roughly 70 kilometers from the border with poland where military cadets raised a large flag as they too sang ukraines national anthem. they did all o...

Welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, im mariko oi. the headlines... western officials say russia has mobilized enough troops to be able to invade ukraine at "the drop of a hat". ukraines president remains defiant. translation: they tell us that february the 16th will be - the day of the invasion. we will make this into unity day. so, whats motivating the kremlin, and what do ordinary russians think? well go to moscow to find out. in a phone call, president biden and borisjohnson sa...

Welcome to bbc news. our top stories. translation: they tell us that february the 16th will be - the day of the invasion. we will make this into unity day. so, whats motivating the kremlin, and what do ordinary russians think? well go to moscow to find out. canadas prime minister invokes emergency powers to try to end the protests against covid measures — they could extend to the freezing of protesters bank accounts. this is about keeping canadians safe and restoring confidence in our institut...

Passports to them, by the way. so you can see all these different potential pretexts and quasi-legal ways he can develop a narrative to say i have got to go and do this. >> putin is trying to give himself more levers to pull here. and just to give people a sense of how this is all connected, clarissa, tomorrow, the president of ukraine zelensky is supposed to travel to one of those regions. any indication why hes making this specific trip? >> well, first of all, i think this has to be seen in th...

Allies are conducting their efforts to avert that worst case scenario there? >> yeah, president zelensky has certainly not hid his frustrations with the way washington has handled its intelligence gathering but in recent days, i have noticed a marked change in his tone. hes now touring the country. he declared a unity day yesterday. he appears to be taking this situation extraordinarily seriously, and speaking to ukrainian experts and others here in kyiv, they have been critical, actually, in co...

National unity day, which president zelensky just announced and he picked wednesday the 16th and jokingly referred to the fact that this was supposed to be the invasion day. but were going to call it national unity day. he will be traveling to the city in the southeast of the country, and this is significant because one of the speculations has been that russia might try to essentially join russia to crimea by forming a land corridor. if they do that, they will be going directly through the city....

After russian videos yesterday claimed to show troops loaded onto trains. u.s. and nato officials say they cant confirm it. >> they have increased the number of troops and there are more troops on the way, so-so far, no de-escalation. >> reporter: in ukraine, it is unity day, with rallies across the country. it had been rumored today was the day russian president vladimir putin had planned to invade, so ukrainians responded by flying their flag, including artist and human rights activist diana b...