it follows his nomination by president gigi, ping, leah's. now tasks where the running of the of the government and managing the economy. his post was confirmed during the annual parliamentary session. it's the 1st time it has take place in full in see years after being scaled back during the pond. him or for more on this. let's bring in andrew small. he's a senior trans atlantic fellow with a german marshall funds in the pacific program. good to have you with us are. could you please tell us why li chung was chosen by president she for the premier ship? what are his qualifications? as you suggested in your introduction, his most important qualification is his loyalty. he's one of a number of officials at the top of the party now who primarily other roles to their personal relationships with. she didn't ping at different stages of his career at lee chang had a role in a job that's often called his chief of staff. bach, him back in judge young. and after that point, he was all the core helicopters into a number of other roles. and primarily ar

i mean, the shooting ping has surrounded himself now with yes say us. and the problem is also with the cargo personality around teaching being in china, that it's very difficult for anybody in the party to stand up against him because i mean, he isn't the party constitution. he's in the constitution of the country. he, he's showing in the propaganda as the savior of china. so that would be very difficult for the party to explain if they would change something. so i think for the time being shooting ping is very much in power and surrounded by loyally. surely, she's re appointed this head of state, then comes at a particularly sensitive time for china's relations with, with the world. what are we to make of? she's explicit criticism of the us this week, or as the leader of a western efforts to contain china. he was saying so crescent, as she has only talked to bad, ha, all out. are you s efforts to contain in circle and suppress china? and i think, god, this is the 1st time we heard a deliberate and a with succinct clarity, a chinese vision of for the cu

it follows his nomination by president judging. ping . lee is now tasked with running the government and managing the economy is new role was confirmed during the annual parliamentary session. the 1st time the rubber stamp body has met without any corona, virus restrictions in the years of being scaled back during the pandemic. early i talked to andrew small a senior seller at the german marshall fund. he told us more about china's newly appointed premier lee chung. as you suggested in your introduction, his most important qualification is his loyalty. he's one of a number of officials of the top of the party now who primarily other roles to their personal relationships with seating thing at different stages of his career. lee chang had a role in a job that's often called his chief of staff, bucking back and jeered young am off to that point. he was all equal helicopters into a number of other roles and primarily around that cluster of provinces on china's coasts, am in john sou, joe young, and then latterly as potty certainty of shanghai

but she, jim ping and the communist party leadership. much of the n p. c will focus on communist ritual and slogans. however, china watchers carefully comb over proceedings every year for clues on china's future direction. in october, she cemented is unprecedented 3rd term as the general secretary, the party. he's not set to consolidate his power base. she is expected to unveil a new premier li chung who oversaw controversial pandemic locked downs as party secretary of shanghai. a particular interest this year as a report from the congress about how china plans to revive its economy. the world's 2nd biggest, which has been hard hit by long locked hands in the run up. she hinted at reforming the system of financial regulation and policy making. the party wants to get more involved in private business. leading tact i coons like ali baba founder jack mar, and by dues robin lee had been left off the list of delegates. instead, the congress is expected to focus on scientific research aimed at boosting domestic production of semiconductors. and the backdrop to

he was nominated by shooting ping. that is a storm to ally off the president. also coming up japan marks the anniversary of the fukushima disaster, the nuclear meltdown triggered by the deadly earthquake. and so no army is still making waves with china's government and japanese fishermen denouncing plans to release radioactive water into the sea. and iran and saudi arabia agreed to restore ties and reopen diplomatic missions. the surprise agreement between the long term rivals was broken by china. ah, i'm monica jones. welcome to the program. in china, lee chung has been appointed as premier, the nation's 2nd highest post. it follows his nomination by president gigi. king lee is now tasked with running the government and managing the economy is new role was confirmed during the annual parliamentary session. it's the 1st time the rubber stamp body has met without any corona, virus restrictions in 3 years after being scaled back during the pandemic. earlier today, i talked to andrew a small, a senior fellow at the german marshall fund. and he told us more about c

the big news was, of course seating ping's election. but when you clicked on the web or that's the leading online platform, and i typed in the hash tag shooting, ping elected as president, read the top news with millions and millions of use. at some point, shortly, there was a, an error message, basically, a fall for saying, we didn't find any relevant results that goes to show that the sensors apparently couldn't handle the situation and just, you know, blocked everything. and that doesn't say that he's not popular or popular. i mean, i would say still, he has a solid and approval rating probably. but i mean, what, what sense doesn't make this question if you basically cannot really openly criticize them. all right, well have to leave it laugh, i didn't catch my reporting from beijing. thank he and i can take a look now, some of the other news making headlines around the world, the full, the malaysian prime minister. it and yes, it has been charged with corruption and money laundering and of course, and calling them for he pleaded not

she's in ping. it's the culmination of a remarkable rise for the 69 year old who's whether recent protest at home to become china's most powerful leader in generations. and the emotional aftershocks and trauma following the earthquakes and turkey and syria. we look at how people are coping under extremely difficult circumstances. class how one woman is in the running for an academy award. as all quiet on the western front looks set to sweep sundays. oscars. we hear how a top athlete trade at the track. for the typewriter and turned her hand to screen writing now she could bag hollywood coveted trophy with the blockbuster until movie ah, i manuscripts mckinnon. welcome to the program. hamburg is in shock after a gunman kill 7 people, including an unborn child in a mast shooting. the incident took place at a jehovah, witness hall, and the northern german city. several others were injured in the incidents. police have confirmed that the shooter was a former jehovah witness and that he took his own life

and of course, seating ping us aware of that development. what are people in china saying about, she's visit with putin fabia yet it's a very em highly sensitive question and especially online that the sends us i am, you know, stepping in and manipulating the public opinion. i would say, but yeah, definitely putting this quite popular within the chinese population. but at the same time, i'm a china and russia or beckoned the days china and the soviet union. they had a very am a complicated relationship. and especially if you drive to the border area, or between china and russia, you can see that, you know, those historic atrocities are still quite very present. so i would say they are not really an elk, any grown friendship between those 2 people. but more like a political mandate to be friendly to each other. aviana. thank you very much for now. correspond fabi and crest further in beijing, un scientists are calling for urgent action on climate change saying it's devastating a factor hitting the planet earlier than expected. the inter gover

marine nature environmental. who'd say it will also help reverse bio diversity. china is she ging ping moves to tightened his grip on power at the communist party congress. beijing says it wants peaceful relations with taiwan, but that its armed forces must train harder for combat. and estonians go to the polls to elect a new government. the war, new crane is a major topic, but so to our ramp it inflation and surging energy call. ah and warm welcome to our viewers around the world. i'm michael ocho. more than a 100 countries have agreed on a united nations treaty to protect the world's oceans. the landmark deal aims to conserve marine life and buyer diversity in international waters. it's seen as crucial to bringing 30 percent of the world's land and sea under protection. by the end of the decade, the ship has reached the shore a close and relief of to some 15 years of talks. a deal to protect the world's high seas is finally agreed by more than a 100 countries. i can safely say that this has been the learning journey of a lifetime. so thank you very much and every where the oceans are

he was nominated by shing ping and is a staunch ally of the president. also coming up iran and saudi arabia agreed to restore ties and reopen diplomatic missions. a surprise agreement between the long term rivals was brokered by china plus german police, a man suspected of carrying out a mass shooting under jehovah. witness center was a former member of the group. the attack on thursday left, 8 people at aah! on pablo. foliage welcome to the program. in china, lee chang has been appointed as premier, the nation 2nd highest post. it follows his nomination by president shing paint. lee is now tasked with running the government and managing the economy. as post was confirmed during the annual parliamentary session, it's the 1st time it's taken place in full in 3 years after being scaled back during the pandemic. or for more or less bringing in correspondence, fabi and krench mark in beijing. fabia great to see you. so what's li chung's background? yet she is background is quite pro business. he grew up in one of the most developed provinces in china in judg

but for seating ping definitely. it was a wake up called it also a funder lined the president of the european commission yesterday gave a speech because there was very critical and i think a china is very um, skeptic. when it comes to it listening to the pressure of the whole of europe and with a single countries, i think it will not pay it too much attention to each single country. but unified voice of europe is much more has much more leverage. again, of course, the conflict and ukraine wasn't the only reason the sanchez went to beijing. what are the other aims and fis visit with it and politically the ukraine war was of course, the most important reason. but m as the context a set r n sanchez was really one of the 1st european leaders who are visited seating, ping, and person after the outbreak of the pandemic. i mean, the diplomatic exchange has really just started and our spain will em soon assumed the presidency of the counsel of the european union. so that is also important for china to know am, but when it co

ah, she's in ping arrived in moscow with a clear strategy. he wants to show the u. s. and the rest of the world that china is a political superpower. after a successful mediation between iran and saudi arabia, she now plans to move forward with his 12 point plan for peace in ukraine. i read you when you show on the ukrainian crisis. china has always upheld the principles of the united nations charter, taken in objective and neutral position, and actively promoted peace and dialogue. officially, china has tried to strike a delicate balance of not supplying weapons to russia and opposing its nuclear weapons program while maintaining a close relationship under g is leadership is g succeeding in walking this difficult tightrope between russia and the west. and let me ask, do a suit of many western analysts now say that they think the world will probably end with an uneasy cease fire of some sort. and the optimists hope that perhaps such a ceasefire would then include at least some parts of don bass, once again being under ukrainian control. is it conceivable that china cou

she's in ping, a precedent breaking. 3rd term. many of she is allies have also been hand had top government roles. the parliament has approved. the biggest government reorganization in years, revamping some ministries and forming a new financial regulator. jim, speaking at the closing ceremonies, she said that china must become more self reliant. he also vowed to modernize china's military, amid mounting tension with the u. s. over taiwan. we should strengthen national defense and army modernization, building the people's army into a great wall of steel that effectively safeguards, national security, sovereignty and development interests. we should actively promote the peaceful development of the relationship across the taiwan strait. resolutely oppose external interference and taiwan independence, separatist activities. earlier we spoke with correspondent fabi encroachment in beijing. we asked him how to walk us through. she's in paying speech on the last day of china's national people's congress. yeah, i think his speech was not

a call message was on economic self reliance using ping repeated several times at the country. i should pursue a technological autonomy. meaning that china yeah, should not depend so much anymore on the west for example, for air semiconductors, et cetera. and also a big message was concerning national security. he basically mentioned that he wants to turn to military and to a quote unquote, great, a wall of steel to safeguard china's interests and that job stability and national security. esther preconditioned for and prosperity and development. and then towards taiwan. yes, easier, basically repeated the usual claims that china wants to promote unification, that it of oppose us any on our foreign interference and also imposes an independence activists. and, but he did not mentioned according a actually in contrast to previous times or a military threat. i mean, he usually am sometimes he would say that china would not rule out a military means to reach their goal. it's this time this passage was left out. meantime there were other big takeaways also from the congress, just wal

well, i mean i see that shooting ping has more clearly chosen to collaborate with vitamin. who i think he has a fairly high degree of suspicion of and it's not exactly burrell, by the way, putting has gone about a lot of his actions, but feels. 2 no choice other than to build a closer relationship given but she is increasing in carrying in some and increasingly complex and difficult accomplish confrontation between basically liberal democratic states and china. i know that when we look at things she's being, we see him as a leader of an economic power leader and ascending military power. or we limiting our perception of china though. i mean, are we doing? are we doing that also to our own detriment, by only seeing and economic and military superpower here? yeah, sure. i mean, i think we're eliminating that and that china is becoming increasingly influential in their global media. nearly all the chinese language media in the world now is controlled by aging. they are, you're limiting and seeing the growing power of china as social media platforms. most importantly, tick tock

she's in pings thinking, well, i think that she is doing thing. although he refused to work with us to try to convince, put not to do this before it. i suspect that he, like a lot of people didn't really believe couldn't was going to do this. and i think that china, it's a little bit stuck on the one hand. i think that they have the stand by who is their most important partner. and so many ways and the un organizations in sort of just a global push back against liberal democracy in many other ways. on the other hand, i don't really think they're thrilled by the war. ukraine. it's, you know, so far hasn't been that successful for russia. it may, i'm not sure about the effect on taiwan, but it definitely shows that you start a war and you don't know what's going to happen, which isn't necessarily what she wants to think right now. and china support has poisoned its relationships. a lot of countries in central and eastern europe was used to have very warm relations with china. i mean, some still do at the top levels like hungry or victor. oregon is s

that teaching ping will makes sense. he was re elected president, and this is also connected to more than a few paul, a foreign policy spheres for both russia and china. not only are both leaders going to be signing off on some very important bilateral agreements, but china's foreign ministry also said that this is going to be a meeting a piece. that's because beijing is ready to play a constructive role in regulating the ukraine conflict. and we also heard from that foreign ministry of china that there, that beijing is also looking to basically ground these talks and the principles of non confrontation with 3rd parties. so that's all among other topics on the agenda, including questions of international and regional importance as well. as strengthening the strategic cooperative partnership between these 2 countries. now it's also important to understand that these talks are, have just been announced on the backdrop of the marine security belt joint naval exercises which are between china, russia and iran. and these have

so then without considering all of that, what do you think she's in pings in game? is here, be, does he want to see this conflict in ukraine? continue and to fester with what i mean, what, what is, what's in it for him? i'm not sure with that for him. i think he is using to weak position putting maneuvered himself into by getting cheap resources for the chinese economy. because russia has no other option to sell shot cheaply to china. and on the same to, at the same time, i think choosing thing is trying to balance between moral covert support for russia . and at the same time, not to be seen to open the support of russia's war because he is afraid of strongest sanctions from the west. so it's a dedicated line of felons, i think for ggi, but at the same time, at the same time, the main point has not been sold, neither today or yesterday because piece is very easy to achieve. russia leaves ukraine and then we have keys and china, china unfortunately, was not pushing for that note. and we've had a lot of analysts who have said that maybe there is a possibility that we

general, of course, this whole national people's congress was a demonstration of power by seating ping. he put basically all his loyalists into core or positions within his leadership. so i think the message is clear that in the country is firmly governed and ruled by seizing ping himself happy encroachment and beijing. thank you. and here are some other stories making headlines. north korea says that it has launched several missiles from a submarine in the sea of japan. the missiles flew for about 1500 kilometers. the task took place the day after pyongyang warned of a powerful response to the joint you ass, south korean military trails this week. at least 1000 people have been tilton, a village in the eastern democratic republic of congo. regional officials say that suspected islamist militants attacked the village and set fire to a health center in a neighbouring village. last week, at least 35 people were killed in a raid that the army blamed on a group linked with the so called islamic state authorities in the us state of california have confirmed that 8 people have died after 2 s

it's a position paper and she's in ping presented this in the chinese translation. it's called a position paper and he presented his position and he reaffirmed his position with this visit m. the position of china is partly low hanging fruits in terms of no use of nuclear weapons, no attack of nuclear facilities, et cetera. but also of course, there's the piece and element in there, which is such that china is requesting a ceasefire between the 2 countries without of course, offering any details on how this cease fire should come should come about. so yes, it is all, it serves also to boost china's image of sort of media tow a mediator or even piece broker asked china has done between saudi arabia and iran just recently. and we will come back to the peace part of all of this. but let's drill down now on the friendship aspect. if as the 2 sides claim, this is a no limits friendship, it's not exactly between equals ah, chinese head of state jesus pings arrival in an american designed double excel. jumbo jet is in itself a demonstration of power toward his russian frie

she, jim ping and the ruling communist party elise arrive in beijing's great hall of the people for the biggest days in china's political calendar. the national people's congress is more of a political pageant than a policy setting. parliament. it largely serves to rubber stamp decisions already made behind closed doors by the leadership. much of the n p. c will focus on communist ritual and slogans. however, china watchers carefully comb over proceedings every year for clues on china's future direction. in october, she cemented his unprecedented 3rd term as the general secretary of the party. now he will introduce a major shake up of personnel and institutions to help consolidate his power base. she is set to unveil a new premier ne chung who oversaw controversial pandemic locked downs is party secretary of shanghai. the congress is closely watched for insights into how china plans to revive its economy. the world's 2nd biggest, which has been hard hit by locked downs. the government to set a modest target for economic growth this year, around 5 percent. the party plans to get more inv

i actually she can ping jungle. take no this. oh fun. oh, sure sure. she did and with that, she is now communist china as long as serving president process, he started in 2018 by abolishing the to term limit on the presidency. that means he can rule indefinitely. the appointment is mostly ceremonial, but party members have left no doubt that she's group on power is unchallenged. ah, german soccer now and 1st, the adornment. meet local rivals, chalka on saturday. it's one of the biggest rivalries in the bonus league. this year, dormant or challenging for the lead title, while chalka are fighting relegation. the numbers are all in favor of a victory for don't mind when if he's chalka in the viet davi don't mind unbeaten in the last 8 league matches. and if scored a whopping $22.00 goals, if that isn't enough, the 2nd place team is taking on the 17th in the boonies z a table. but does any of that matter? not according to the document coach. bit as an inch be as always this will be a match shape by emotion and intensity on where your rank on the table has

he was nominated by ceasing ping and is a staunch ally. the president also coming up iran and saudi arabia re to restore ties and re open diplomatic missions. the surprise agreement between the long term rivals was brokers by china and baseball may not be their day job, but check players are going up against some of the game superstars when they played japan in the world baseball classic ah, i'm marrying a evans team. welcome. in china, lee chang has been appointed as premier, the nation's 2nd highest post. it follows his nomination by president she she ping . lee is now tasked with running the government and managing the economy. his post was confirmed during the annual parliamentary session. it's the 1st time it's taken place in full in 3 years after being scaled back during the pandemic. for more, we can stated journal as to 5 in freshman who joins us from beijing hired to you father. so tell us why li chang was chosen for the premier ship. yeah, i think of for once and he's his pro business background. we know that he and her recently

but on the other side, he's also a very, i'm strong ally off seating ping. they've been knowing each other for a very long time, and he's very loyal to see. i mean, that was also very clearly visible, am directly or just one year ago. and leach young as our party secretary of shanghai implemented a very radical 2 months locked down at which basically brought the economy to a standstill. and a many r shanghai residents were really suffering from food shortages in the 1st 2 weeks. and i mentioned this explicitly because our beijing gave the order to implement or is the 0 corporate strategy and leach and followed. so he's really kind of, you can say, a party soldier who are implemented seating things order. and i think he was also in some way revolt watered for his legality. so you have those 2 aspects who are also a little bit a contradiction to itself. well, we should also mention that over the past few years present, she has actually been shifting the power of the premier to party institutions. so will the premier role that lee is going to be filling even al

fund his war in ukraine, trying to put on the most reassuring smiles chinese president she didn't ping, and as russian counterpart vladimir putin pledge to straighten ties, putin increasingly isolated by the west for his invasion of ukraine is forced to turn east for friendly handshake fall. so clara, on the issue of the ukrainian crisis. china has always adhered to the purpose and principles of the united nations charter, adhered to an objective and impartial position, and actively promoted peace and negotiations. gigi charles saw talk ho, beatings, refusal to condemn the war on ukraine has been the driving force of this friendship to instead, she has proposed a so called peace plan could be panning his counterpart, the opportunity to blame the west. and ukraine. amaya is full as really we believe that many of the provisions in the peace plan put forward by china. she is a consistent with russian approaches exhaust flow and can be taken as the basis for a peaceful settlement when they are ready for it. in the westy and in chief an however we are so far we have not seen such readiness

it follows his nomination by president she sham ping. li is now tasked with running the government and managing the economy. his post was confirmed during the annual parliamentary session. if the 1st time it's taking place in full in 3 years after being scaled back during the pandemic. a short time ago, i talked to journalists, father in crash more in beijing, and he told us more about china's newly appointed premier leech. thank. yeah, i think of for once and he's his pro business background that we know that he and her recently served as a party secretary of shanghai, the number one economic city of the country. and during that time his record is quite solid. he attracted a lot of foreign businesses and most notably attested to shanghai. and if you talk to or see all or started found us, most of him appraised them. this is quite a pragmatic. he listens to their concerns. so they're said. but on the other side, he's also a very, a strong ally, office heating ping, they've been knowing each other for a very long time. and he's very loyal to see. i mean, that was also very clearly visib

scott aware of each one of those from welcome to 30 minutes of news and analysis. official shooting ping is set to visit moscow next week to meet with the mer putin that we plan to discuss from the russian chinese strategic partnership to pressing global issues, including the war and ukraine. the signing of bilateral agreements has also been announced with more details to follow. the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson wine, gwen bin, has emphasized this coalition is a win win partnership and is not aimed at anyone any 3rd party in particular. should you meet with your gentry? you, president, seizing pings, state visit to russia will be a journey of peace practise true multilateralism based on the principles of non ally, non confrontation and non targeting of 3rd parties promote the democratization of international relations. build a multi polar world pattern, improved global governance, and contribution to world development. china will uphold an objective and impartial position on the ukraine crisis and play a constructive role in persuading and promoting peace talks. the development

she, jim ping was elected president by 2952 votes to 0. no one is centered. so that kind of political theater aspect is still very much there. i think what's been different this time around is that behind the political pageantry, there's been what we've seen is this political power play which has been going on about installing. she, at the most, at the pinnacle of power in china is really coming to fruition now as far as he's concerned. tomorrow we'll, we will see the appointment of leach young as, as premier, replacing the coach young. and that's important because he's basically a she ally, and this means that in the top leadership in the, in the standing committee of the politburo, it's going to be all of his allies. where's the coach? young was supposedly allied with another faction and there was always a bit of a bit of tension there. whereas now he's just surrounded by allies. so he's in probably the most powerful position since about the dong in the, in the sixties and seventies. yeah, she has installed himself in a very powerful position, but he also f

the international latest pictures with president putin and welcoming the chinese president, teaching ping and moscow. that's at the hold informal one on one folks today. the heads of the 2 states are set to discuss, pressing bilateral, and global issues over the coming days. and for now, we can have a quick listen to some of the common training. and she's free turning in to the community. across the world interview, this man's a lot of interest and we see you even a little bit point to the father and i want to know there him when you can say susan in china, you have been able to build framework for developing and making this faith stronger and it has been quite effectively and this system is much more effective event in many countries. and this is quite obvious to you really shamika is missy toad. so sir, the market mechanism. so we had an ability go hand in hand. even were there any confident teacher political line? ha ha. when being the don't return shantia her be pretty loosely and isn't this yellow sheet on a free, tangible results. gigi, the tunnel we and pollution, one of those can

what are the international gigi ping arrives here in moscow on the heels of his reelection. his 1st international trip brings him straight to russia to discuss the emerging multi polo world with president is the cheapest supplier or roy in the world by a big margin that machine. so real african done for you. and i forgot shipping out to be in the are just market india increase his rice export to africa as the country supplies the continent with the crucial food staple to meet its needs. also south africa, braces for nationwide labor strive to make colds from the political opposition for president. i'm off also to resign with the multi polar will take center stage today in moscow with the africa summit and the arrival of china's president. he's come to moscow for his 1st international trip since winning reelection, big things happening today or nazi international. and the meantime, we are coming to live from the russian capital, as the russian president is now taken to the stage to address the 2nd international russia africa summit. let's listen here. they're all delegations

she gin ping quickly realized its importance. during his time in office, china has developed a keen interest in the northern polar region. when she's in king became president of china. that was the time when china sort of came onto the map showing his need for natural resources has driven she jin pinged to negotiate with the arctics. great powers. but they mistrust him. what he is china, really after beijing's involvement in the far north is a game changer. beijing claims to be a near arctic state. there are only arctic states and not marketing states are yours in time. even the u. s. will recognize the importance of china's participation in arctic affairs to the new arctic. geo politics aren't just playing out in the world's capitals and the media envoys, entrepreneurs and middle men travel to the polar region, some a chinese. but there are no wages. icelanders, swedes and americans to the chinese were actually securing their interest. but for us, it was an opportunity to, to be accounted for for don't want a little bit of chine

[000:00:00;00] a with the headlines off international as gigi pings trip to moscow directly after his re election is an indication that russia and china relations of entered a new era. that is the message from the russian prime minister during his tuesday meeting with china's the president. also ahead for you this hour, ah, so a wrong actually tons of tables on from accused in the country of violating democratic principles as it cracked down on protests right there in paris when it wasn't for the french president who was condemning iran approach to demonstrations . both of the prime minister of palestine slamming israel for being driven by an extreme race. this policy, this company is just off to one of israel's top officials said there is no polished indian nation with at all sorts of talks going on today. the many behind closed doors, it is day to putin and it's chinese come to pop here and moscow and here at all to international will be covering all that live comments all day. ah, so what russia china relations have successfully overcome many difficulties over the years and that de

also coming up, john, as president announces he is heading to russia. teaching ping will travel to moscow next week. aging has offered the kremlin proposals to end the war in ukraine. and the west fee is china could be trying to portray itself as of turkeys president. finally approved spin lands, a beat to join nato. he's president richard typo on announced the move after talks with the finished president in ankara. ah, i'm anthony how'd walk into the program? we start with some breaking news just in the international criminal court in the hague is issued an arrest warrant for vladimir putin of alleged war crimes in you credit for it and has not responded to the warrant, but he's foreign ministry dismissed it as being of no significance, the court said, warrant was issued on the 13th suspected involvement in the unlawful deportation and transfer children from occupied areas of ukraine to russia. russia is not a member of the i c. c. so it has no legal obligation to cooperate with it. as a denies committing atrocities in ukraine. let's get more from our correspondent this year shilton in b