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Closing in airspace to russian aircraft. banning transactions with the russian central bank and booting russia today and sputnik from broadcasting in the 27 countries that make up the european union. sunday, the united states, eu, uk and canada also announcing that some russian banks would be excluded from the swift payments system. that news rattled the markets, we can the russian ruble. russian central bank calling for calm as they try to stave off a run on the banks. i'm joined now by nbc foreign correspondent ralph sanchez in moscow. host of oh my world on youtube, former spokesperson for ...

Were explicit. then they went on another significant announcements, the eu is banning russia today, the russian tv channel from broadcasting anywhere within the eu. it is also targeting sputnik, which is an audio service. i make it move against russian media. we heard josep borrell say we are going to turn off the tap of russian misinformation. next, they focused on belarus. to the north of ukraine. bear in mind that russia, before this invasion, carried out a couple of weeks of military drills with the belarusians, president lukashenko in belarusians, president lukashenko in belarus is a clos...

Protesting and send them directly to the army. >> incredible. a lot of this is about questions on answers, one of the big questions you have, russia being shunned by the world, russia shunning the world as well, blocking access to almost everything. what are the big questions on the table? >> putin has always been playing a long time, facebook and twitter are constantly working in the moment. >> thinking about profits. >> moving forward we really need a clear, transparent policy of how these companies will deal with wartime leaders, how they will deal with authoritarian leaders who use the sam...

I mean, that's kathryn belton is a really great example - of the, you know, how hard it has been for her. _ i'm just going to change direction now because i want to pick up on something that we talked about a few weeks ago, which is the crackdown on russian backed tv channels and media in the uk and around the world. and as i introduce her at the beginning laura kially is tech correspondent at politico, based in paris. laura, it turns out that blocking russian news channels is not as simple as the eu would like. why not? well, first of all, it wasn't that easy legally, because it was a politic...

Need to do, block state-run media from any country that blocks them. to do so otherwise, prevents their citizens from hearing anyone except them speak at home. very quickly, exactly why you say, because they've had experience with the elections, twitter and facebook in many ways and other social media companies have responded quickly. but is there more they need to be doing? >> yes, so for years twitter and facebook have been labeling state-run media from russia. they've done it in this tiny little font at the bottom. it doesn't undermine the efforts of the anti-democratic propaganda that rt a...