0 i will see you at the end of tomorrow. it is 7:00, this is sky news breakfast. could russia be preparing to use chemical weapons? the prime minister told sky news, he fears that vladimir putin may deploy them. there has been a similar warning from the white house, and president zelenskyy. all the while, russian troops are continuing to advance on the capital of kyiv. as the exodus continues, families and britain are being asked to open their doors, to fleeing ukrainians. we will see again and view from the government later, and our correspondents across the continent. of course, we will be speaking to ordinary ukrainians, caught up in the conflict. on today, friday, the 11th of march. edging closer. new images showing russian forces, reorganizing, in advancing, inside of kyiv. u.s. officials warn that some units are going just ten miles from the city center. chemical weapons warning, and there are preparing to use them in ukraine. >> the stuff that you are hearing about chemical weapons, this is straight out of their playbook. >> the un security council is to meet at russia's request, after moscow climbed the u.s. is preparing biological weapons in ukraine. >> i'm in the polish capital of warsaw, which is close to being overwhelmed as hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived here. >> meanwhile, this uk families will be asked to open their homes to ukrainian refugees, as a number of people fleeing continue. chelsea football club, and liverpool, as abramovich is sanctioned, so that families can continue to chant the russian oligarchs name. this, the scene in kyiv this morning, or half of the population has fled. also ahead this morning, i will get an update from a mother of two in ukraine, who had to leave kyiv, and her husband, who is helping to defend the capital. and, we speak to a charity helping house children to flee ukraine. >> morning, all. u.s. officials have warned, russian forces have now moved about three miles closer to the ukrainian capital of kyiv, over the last 24 hours. new satellite images, suggesting that troops have reorganized to the northwest of kyiv. in an area with a 40 mile long convoy having been stalled for days. the armored units, moving through times, and repositioning in forests, with some artillery, already in position. the report, this morning, that at least one person has been killed in airstrikes, in the central city. all, this as the white house, and boris johnson warned that president putin could return to chemical weapons. let's take a quick look at this key development, and the uk minister of defense says, it is highly unlikely that russia has, successfully, achieve the objectives they've outlined in their preinvasion plan. a u.s. defense force says, russia has made moderate advances in the past day. they move through mounts closer to the capitol, and are now just ten from the city center. or staunton, telling sky news, he thinks vladimir putin may be preparing to use chemical weapons in ukraine. the g7 countries, and the eu were, reportedly, moving today to strip russia of its most favorite nation trade status, which would allow them to impose tariffs on russian goods. that is when they're in their report. >> the days of 40 mile military convoys, had stalled outside of kyiv. it was in the last 24 hours, while suggesting russian troops have reorganized. u.s. satellite company, max arm, says that the vehicles appear to have been dispersed, and re-deployed. with towed artillery, now and firing positions nearby. it is a senior u.s. defense official, that so that russian troops advanced on the capital. when the information war escalates, and there are chemical weapons attack being planned. >> no chemical, or any other weapons of mass destruction were developed in my land. the whole world knows that. it was doing that against us, who would get the most severe sanctions response. >> the scenes of a bomb to maternity hospital marion poll, suggesting, there is no boundaries to russia's barbarism. a concern, now, to the chemical attack. russia has called a meeting at the un security council, later, and they are in some substantial claims, that there are housing biological weapons. but, the u.s. has warned, this is a ploy by russia to good ploy pretext from weapon such as themselves. so, with no desire for nato military involvement, it seems that the west's warnings about red lines for largely on deaf ears in moscow. >> it is strong evidence to the war crimes taking place, and do we need to take that evidence, and records that evidence. we are working to collect the evidence on the ground of what's happening, to make sure that putin it is to help account for these appalling actions. >> the question is how to stop this, now. ukrainians, grieving their loved ones, and life as they knew it. police sergeant roman, buried by his wife, and three young children, to the sound of them. >> and some of the worse areas, there is no dignity of a funeral, and no way to escape the fighting. scott sully lockwood, sky news. >> it told sky news, vladimir putin may be prepared to use chemical weapons. here they are discussing from the political. >> with the civilian casualties, and called pathetic streaks. >> with they are, they will deal with, and i'll make a prediction by the way, which is that the stuff you are hearing, about chemical weapons is straight out of their playbook. they start saying that there are chemical weapons, which have been stored by their opponents, or by the americans so, when, they themselves deploy chemical weapons, ice i fear they may, they have a mask of fake stories, ready to go. >> you can see where we're at at the moment? >> i can't see a way out that does not begin with the realization by the kremlin, they make a catastrophic mistake. i think that vladimir putin, himself, has made it very difficult to find an off ramp. he has, i think, driven his tanks to go down up cul-de-sac, from which it would be hard to extricate himself. >> very pleased to see, the minister, chris fell, joins us in the studio as well. minister, great time to have you in. let's start with what we are hearing, beth, discussing with the pm there, the risk of chemical weapons being brought in. just to be clear about this, does the uk, or our other allies, have specific intelligence that vladimir putin is preparing to use chemical weapons? or we extrapolating the, simply, from what he is saying? >> clearly, i cannot comment on intelligence that the uk government may have received. but, we have seen, in the last 24 hours, wood appears to be bits of disinformation, published by russian state outlets, including, in fact, the russian embassy, putting on things like what appears to be creating a false narrative where they consider chemical weapons, which are totally untrue. sometimes, they do that on preparation, but i hope that they were not contemplating the use of chemical weapons. indeed, in any theater of war, but certainly, many other civilians, totally unacceptable. what we see the russians doing in the last two weeks, in ukraine, is totally barbaric. we saw in the last day or two, shelling, and bombing hospitals, across ukraine, including there was where young mothers were, or new mothers were giving birth to children. what they have done is totally barbaric, which is why the united kingdom has determined, as the prime minister is saying, to do whatever they can to stop them. >> in essence, it vladimir putin is willing to bomb a maternity ward, he's willing to do pretty much anything? >> as i say, i'm not able to talk about intelligence, but using chemical weapons, in an area with lots of civilians, will be a barbaric thing to do, and i would just say, to vladimir putin, and to the russian regime, to not cross that line, to not do that to civilian populations. >> let's then talk about what we heard yesterday, which is, finally, eventually, roman abramovich has been sanctioned. i'm just wondering, many people are thinking, this is what has changed in the weeks since the prime minister, accidentally misspoke, and what have we learned in the past seven days to allow us to move to this position? >> we respect the rule of law, going through a proper protest, to ensure that everything is done that is legally water side. people like abramovich have expensive lawyers, and we need to make sure we don't get challenged. so, we've gone through carefully, and methodically, putting together a case that is watertight. yesterday, we reacted against not just abramovich, but six other oligarchs, who controlled clinical russian companies like russia bank, rose now, if gas problem, as these are people, oligarchs, and companies, who are integral to the putin regime. sustaining him, supporting him, enabling him. it is right that we act against them, as part of our set of measures. of course, we have already sanctioned over 300 russian individuals, and entities. and we have worked with other countries to exclude them from the swift system. >> you have to accept, any oligarch, particularly someone with roman abramovich would've moved assets out of the country, in the days from when it first became question that he would be sanctioned. do you have to accept that. >> there are some assets who have hard to move. things like the house, which hasn't been sold yet. of course, there is also the number of big russian banks. we frozen the assets of a quarter of a trillion pounds worth of the russian name balance sheet assets. those are frozen a while ago. there is, more by the way, it's in the european union, and more than the united states. >> let's talk about this. first of all, you're a fan, are you? >> i'm a palace fan. sorry, apologies. >> the owner of chelsea was fined. is the government currently allowing that deal to go through? >> as a license condition is written today, the sale would not be allowed. however, if it emerged, they would be open to the buyer, or the football club, to approach the government, and they are varied in a way that allowed that set to take place. it is taking a proposal. and it is a proceeds of any sale, and they're ending up in an unrestricted bank account, owned by abramovich. it is in the proceeds of any sow. >> let's talk a bit about the ukrainian refugee crisis, and the estimates originally in the country, and those look to be doubled. it is in refugees himself. six final bit more about that. >> the full spectrum of our response to the humanitarian crisis when, first of all, we have donated aid, and value the group of 400 million pounds, and the humanitarian crisis on the border. that is more than any other country in the world. that is the response to the ukrainian president principally asked for. more than any other country. there was a root for people family members, extended family members in the uk, to come over here, and the host secretary announced yesterday, where people have family here, and have ukrainian passport, we will not require them to go, and have biometric checks done. >> specifically, on the opening of doors -- >> thirdly, in addition to that, we will make announcements in the near future about a scheme for uk local authorities, and indeed, uk families, in order to welcome ukrainian refugees. it is a details of how that scheme works, and will be laid out in the very near future. >> would you take anyone into your home, and you know of anyone in the cabinet that has, already, suggested that they'll be willing to open their doors? >> i think once the details are published in the near future, everybody will take a look at that. seeing the personal circumstances allowing them to. then i'm sure, the british public will look at that if they're able to. some people be able to, some mountain, they will make their own decisions. >> just before we let you go, just closer to your brief in fact, we've been hearing, overnight, and yesterday, that facebook has made a temporary exception, as they're describing it, to those who are being affected by war, in essence, allowing them, on their platform, to call for violence against russia. something which facebook would not allow under any other circumstance. are you saying going with that? >> i haven't and details of that, so with that proposal, without having seen the details. what i do know, is a russian government have been trying to block various social media platforms from operating in russia, as part of their disinformation campaign, and to essentially check the russian people. they are lying to the russian people about what's happening. with the russian people, the full extent of the atrocities, being committed by putin, in their name, they would be extremely angry. that is why putin is trying to hide that to their population. understand this is developing, but we have a statement from facebook's parent organization meta, they say these are temporary measures designed to -- preserve voice and expression for people facing invasion. i was always we are prohibiting calls for violence -- outside of the context of the invasion. that's a narrow context, but i'm just wondering how you feel about one of the big tech giants in essence allowing people to call for violence against russians anyway which we would probably not be allowed to do in the streets of the uk? >> i think it sounds like they're talking about specifically in ukraine, and obviously ukrainian army and ukrainian citizens have every right to defend their homeland, to defend their cities and towns, to defend their hospitals against this aggression by russia. and to be honest, if somebody was attacking quoted in, the place i represent, quoting in a versatile hospital, i tell you i would be in the streets defending my hospital. i would be in the streets defending my town and neighbors as the ukrainians are quite rightly doing. >> thanks for joining us. well, let's take a quick look at the mornings papers. again, the guardian reading reports from the city of many of all, it describes conditions there as medieval after shelling from russian forces. chelsea fc's billionaire owner roman abramovich has been sanctioned by the government, and told he has blood on his hands. a similar headline in the eye, it says that abramovich is law oligarchs complicit in putin's invasion of ukraine. meanwhile, the mirror calls abramovich and putin blood brothers. the sun claims that chelsea football club could go bust as a result. the telegraph reports that the british public will be asked to offer their homes to thousands of ukrainian refugees. well let's just take a closer look at the situation in ukraine this morning. president-elect ski says that 100,000 people have been evacuated from siege areas in just the past two days yesterday it was included and it is in and around, kyiv itself evacuations also took place in irpin, bucca, and hostomel. about 2 million people which is about half of the capital's population has left in recent weeks. airstrikes were reported overnight in dnipro and two other tax near a place in the west were also reported in kharkiv yesterday shelling a building housing an experimental nuclear reactor. an official said equipment there could release radiation if damaged. meanwhile the un watchdog says it has now lost all communications with chernobyl, which is under russian control. ukrainian authorities say -- are dead in mariupol which -- will observe a cease-fire and open five humanitarian corridors to let civilians flee. other cease-fires have been broken in recent days. while the police capital warsaw is close to being overwhelmed by the number of refugees arriving from ukraine. let's speak to lisa joining us from warsaw, good to see you this morning. lisa, give us just a bit of an idea. just how dire is the refugee situation in poland? >> good morning, neil, of course the reality is that when you have millions of refugees crossing the border in a very quick period of time they have to go somewhere they are not thing on the border so they are not heading to major cities. now the vast majority have arrived in poland which means that the polish capital warsaw where i am this morning is of course really at the sharp and of all of those arrivals. we have worked out that something like 15% of the population of warsaw has now arrived again in terms of the numbers of refugees. so where do they all go? at the central train station which is a very frantic, chaotic scene of humanity, people figuring out where to do, what's to go tired, hungry, getting off trains. so in the very emergency initial phase you get people with food medicine supplies even toothbrush. after that, of course, they have to work out if they try to stay in pullen, and in fact one family that we spoke to told us quite candidly that they quite like to go to the uk, because they don't have family ties they are not eligible. but also they can see around them lisa holand the pressure on the polish authorities and say how busy it is here and they want to move on to some while such as germany. we saw a lot of people hearing from -- didn't even know what time it would go, or what city they would end up in. what they do know though, is they want to get away from ukraine. i think what is significantly different here, compared to other previous migration situations, is that people don't want to permanently get away from ukraine. of course almost all the people we saw yesterday were women and children so they have left both husband, relatives, brothers, fathers back in ukraine and eventually they do want to go back. but right now, there is an emergency situation to provide them, the people here in warsaw with beds a roof over their head and some kind of shelter, food, and keep them going whilst events continue on the ground in ukraine. >> lisa, many thanks. still to come on the show, i will be speaking to -- thomas -- i will also be speaking with the former head of the british army's chemical weapons unit as the west is warning of a potential for biological anti-chemical warfare in ukraine. and, i will be joined by a student from glasgow who went the extra mile by driving an ambulance to the pull and ukrainian border to help refugees flee the conflict. chelsea fans -- both the men's and women's teams. the future of the club is in question. russian billionaire owner roman abramovich as had his assets frozen by the uk government in response to the invasion of ukraine, our correspondent tom has been taking a look. the abramovich arrow delivered every piece of silverware to chelsea, but the british government say his closer election ship with lawton where putin means they have locked down his uk assets, he already put chelsea up for sale but the sanctions mean that if a new virus found, and approved, abramovich won't receive a penny. every employee has questions, but the men's and women sides played and last night i know from my and normally we have to never go a difficult period and don't have all the answers for -- council anymore tickets there will be a transfer ban, and block from negotiating new contracts. the club can't sell merchandise, or mobile phone from three have already suspended their sponsorship. shovel costs to away games will have to be more modest. longer trips abroad might prove more difficult. fans at the women's match last night were still taking a toll. -- it doesn't matter what situation is going on so nothing changes. i have you know much more concern for what is going on in ukraine than -- the city thomas side current champions were also taking sanctuary, and just plain football. there was a lot of destruction and levels of destruction actually with the sanctions and you could feel it that the players talk about it, they are aware of it, and they accepted it. playing and winning football matches is something of a welcome distraction for everyone connected to chelsea football club right now the roman abramovich era has ended in the most extraordinary way his legs to the kremlin overriding everything. and still, last night, they chanted his name. football does have a habit of turning a blind eye if the money and goals are flowing, but in the space of just a few weeks the world has changed, component, or sky news -- >> some other news for you now as we were just discussing meta platforms are allowing facebook and instagram users in some countries to have violence against russians and russian soldiers of course in niall paterson relation to the invasion taking place in ukraine the social media company is making temporary changes to a state speech policy that will allow some posts that call for the death of vladimir putin or the belarusian president alexander lukashenko. the un nuclear watchdog says the -- all communications with facilities at the nuclear plant it comes a day after the plant lost all external power supplies. a nuclear accident in 1986 it is currently controlled by russian forces. the russian defense ministry says it will declared a cease fire and five ukrainian cities for fleeing citizens, well according to russian media comes after syrians were blocked from leaving the city of mariupol yesterday after forces refused to the on of the cease-fire. into the weekend, let's see how the weather is -- now the next few days will be unsettled with strong winds taking place across the -- southwest britain will see the winds and rain moving in. northeastward in the morning, northern and eastern parts of britain will sunny spells just a few showers for central and western scotland it will be mostly mild and we will fill it with -- across the west of britain where brighton will show any conditions will move to ireland wells in western england. >> now let's show you the latest pictures that we have from inside ukraine. in fact, from dnipro we have been told that air strikes have been landing early on friday, in that central ukrainian city. at least one person according to state emergency services there has been killed. a suggestion as well that he strikes or close to an apartment building, and once again, -- just as far as we know one person so far said to have lost their lives. in just a few minutes time, i will be speaking with the former head of the british army's chemical weapons unit. the west warns of a potential for -- chemical warfare in ukraine.