nation, speech to the u. s congress and of course, the american people. it's a speech normally pushes the president's domestic agenda, but also the ukraine was a big focus of the speech delivered in the chamber to night. president biden said that a russian president vladimir putin may make gains on the battlefield. he'll pay a huge price in the long run. he called the rushing president, a dictator biden said this is a battle between democracy, an autopsy, and that democracy will prevail. and he asked at u. s. s. place to be close to all russian aircraft from wednesday. he said the u. s. is working to seize yachts, apartments, and assets of rationale got to he says, of ill gotten gains, of course, at one of the big focuses of his speech. tonight was the russian invasion of ukraine on the domestic front. the domestic agenda biden says he'll soon send request a congress a more and demick related funding. he said, taming us inflation is his top priority. he promised to promote make it america instead of foreign supply chains. he said his plan will cut the cos

lowest annual gdp growth target since the 1990's, when leaders open the national people's congress saturday is what some of our guests are expecting. >> well it is a very political year, we think there will be real focus this year and key collectibility. >> unfortunately, of late, we are still hearing of regulations surrounding the internet and e-commerce. >> the more important upside risk for china is that there will be further rate cuts. >> we could see a bottoming it out of growth. >>. >> at least 5% growth, that seems 2b the bottom line for the government. >> the demand problem cannot be solved by just pumping liquidity. >> it is more likely to be aiming for the flow of economic activity. >> there is still a technical challenge in terms of how much easing can we deliver. haslinda: let's bring in chief asia correspondent stephen engle. rishaad: steve, let's just look at the growth target, something people will be looking at very closely and how they will that. on top of that, what are going to be the highlights, or the low-lights, perhaps. stephen: seeking stability, i agree with one of

he tries to draw on that country�*s lived experiences, things that are really going to resonate with the people of that nation. when he spoke to the united states congresswords of martin luther king. and he really, i think, has found a way to speak directly to the hearts of the people he�*s trying to address. interestingly, chinese state media have been repeating russian propaganda. how do you assess china�*s role in this propaganda or disinformation war? it�*s really interesting. i think that china is trying to walk a very thin line. they were public in their support of vladimir putin when he came to visit beijing during the olympics. they talked about how the relationship had no limit. and then they found themselves looking at this horrific experience in ukraine. and they seem to want to back away from russia in the eyes of the west but then also convince the people that they had done the right thing and they were supporting putin. so they have used their great firewall to a great extent, and tried to block out any kind of western information or information from on the ground in ukraine, and instead have parroted the russian line. the ukrainian narrat

s. congress virtually on wednesday morning. live in the newsroom. amanda quintana ktvu fox two news, amanda. thank you. thomas 7 33, d united nations refugee agency says 2.5 million peoplees, mainly to poland. and take a look at newly released drone video of a border crossing in poland. volunteers handed out food and supplies as refugees arrived. many of those refugees still had a long journey ahead. getting on the busses to go to a safe location. and journalists, brandt renard was working on a project for time studios when his crew encountered russian troops at a checkpoint. he was shot to death and another us journalists working with him managed to escape alive and explain what happened. we cross the checkpoint and they start shooting at us, um, so the driver turned around and they kept shooting. it's two of us, my friend's friend renault. and he's been shot and left behind. that encounter comes as russia is escalating attacks across the country and even closer to poland. missile strikes on the military base where dozens of people died, were close enough to poland to just capture images of the attack from the border. concern is growing that the kremlin will use americ