also on the day a year after of autumn is the lansky was sworn into presidential office in ukraine promising to end his country's a war with progress or separatist what's the 1st act on this comedian turned politician the. hasn't been able to end the war putin won't let him. he promised to end the war he should at least start doing something this war has been done for 6 years and nothing has been done. so let's start with the latest a verbal tussling between the united states and china and the apparent unwillingness on both sides to tone down. the rhetoric the latest flashpoint is taiwan u.s. secretary of state mike pumpin allowed to bitter from beijing after he congratulated the taiwanese president on inauguration a condemning what is what he said it was interference in the china's condemning what china said was his interference in domestic affairs beijing of course claims sovereignty of the island which is governed itself since the communist came to power on mainland china in 1949 this is the latest in a catalogue of disagreements on trade technology amongst other things and more recently

well that report from nick connelly in kiev who joins us now our welcome a a year into the lansky of president say how much closer are we to peace in eastern ukraine. well phil we've barely edged forward this is well and truly a conflict that stuck the front lines haven't moved in years but people are still dying soldiers dying the last week civilians and soldiers being wounded almost every day that hasn't change you get the sense. that he thought that personal chemistry meeting. face to face could somehow achieve more than it has been able to i think ukrainians voted for the water end but they were willing to give him carte blanche to basically. let russia decide the terms this would happen and that seems to be the only way to end this conflict in a hurry to give russia some kind of veto over ukraine does in the future so given that the only option on the table is. it looks very difficult see where this is going and it looks like that he's going to have to find a new topic to kind of really justify his spot in the top job ok but 73 percent that's quite a mandate why did you craniums

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john lanski let me kick it off with you, based on what you're expecting, how long lasting would thisidering we are going to get the terrible numbers in about ten minutes? john: i think by the end of the year the unemployment rate ought to be no greater than 9%. comes down pretty simple, the more quickly we can contain covid-19 risks the more quickly the job market recovers. maria: jon hilsenrath, your thoughts as we await these numbers, what are you going to be most interested in looking at? jon: i'm going to repeat what john lonski just said, the numbers are historic tragic, catastrophic, how many people are out of work right now, but i think a lot of people are going to look at the numbers today. we have to turn the economy back on and the social distancing and there's challenging things like -- [inaudible] maria: jon, we are losing you. you are going in and out. let me fix your microphone for a second, jon, we will get back to you. dagen mcdowell, we are waiting for numbers and no minutes to waste here because we are talking about 16% unemployment rate, dagen, we knew this was com