now in orbit are three russians sergey prokopiev and dmitry pe.ived on the same soyuz anna kikina reached the iss on the crew dragon spacecraft now they will wait for instructions from the earth if roskosmos has full confidence in the ship’s performance, then the soyuz will regularly deliver the cosmonauts home to march. but there is also a backup option . specialists call a ship that has already undergone part of the preparation at the cosmodrome and can be launched into orbit. 45 days after the emergency at the station at baikonur, there is such a ship available - the union ms-23, which means, if necessary, the ship , on which a new crew should start to the iss and which has already passed part of the checks, can be launched automatically , starting from january 28, however, it seems that such a rush will not be required, we will prepare it around february 19th. it is located at the baikonu spaceport and passes all the checks. well in this situation then we just dock and ms-22 he later. on the ground, and send the crew of the second ship. in any

came during a visit, the deputy had of russia's national security council dmitri, maybe at 2 beijing where he met with change in pe. he also brought a special message from vladimir putin, that's ortiz, marina cost rather, talks us through. they discussed a number of international issues and they agreed once again there reiterates the fact that their approach is very, very similar on a number of these international issues. also using things said that china is ready to move closer to ross. so for a fair global governance, they discussed their strategic foreign policy cooperation, including within the u. n. as well as other multilateral platforms, like the as c o bricks and the group of 20. also, of course, they touched upon the ukrainian crisis, the ukranian conflict resolution being said that he express hope that both parties will maintain restraints, that they will maintain rationality and hold a comprehensive dialogue. there was also a letter that was passed on from debate midway, on behalf of latter me up who infusion thing and in that letter, it expressed that there was an unprecedented level of russian chinese

reporter: christine, we just in the last few minutes heard from dmitry he said not a single word was about the bombings. there were no real calls for pe says the u.s. continues the line of de facto and indirectly fighting with russia until the last ukrainian, this is a line that russia has consistently taken, they believe they are in a battle with ukraine and with nato. and i think that interesting that russia should be criticizing ukraine for not making moves to peace. it is clear they are not making any proves to peace. p putin talks about putting them under siege. there is a new military district on the northwestern border where nato is set to expand beefing up the nuclear arsenal, improving the readiness, big things like that. what this means, there is no end in sight in the conflict. pulling out all the stops to retool the forces. it's clear that part of the purpose of zelenskyy's trip will do everything to guide against that. >> claire, thank you so much for that. >>> back here, a major winter storm. one the national weather service says it will impact nearly every state in the nation. more than 100 million people are under wint