that the, the kind of increasing show down that's taking place with russia could just push russia into china's hands. and the china is the really big kind of long term threat to the western model. given that it's economically so much more powerful and much larger than russian. so that's kind of the backdrop tool of this. but now this crisis obviously being an intensifying and what is the chinese position? well, at the weekend when the, the pharmacy took place to pass in the munich security conference is annual conference and security that takes place in germany, that this was totally dominated by this crisis. and the beginning of his speech, he kind of opened with a tie rage against the united states and saying that the united states is trying to divide the world into a kind of a new old war scenario. pushing back against that very much, and also voicing strong support for russia's demands from the west that we've been hearing back in recent weeks. is the diplomacy is continued russia demanding from the west to get security guarantees. claiming that the expansion of nato in europe has been a m

the relationship between russia and china only seem to have been deepening. >> first of all, we have to remember vladimir putin's assault on ukraine flies intohe face of every one of china's foreign policy principles. respect for state sovereignty. mutual respect. nonaggression. win-win solutions. yet, china has tethered itself to this increasingly unhinged autocrat in moscow and find itself now in an impossible position. hence all that can do is all that you mentioned, these platitudes about the need for diplomatic solutions, deflect all the blame onto the united states for allegedly inflaming -- fanning the flames of war. romaine: give us a sense of why that tether is there, is a geographic, political, economic? >> there is no economic benefit for china in one a lot of pure putin is doing to the extent that it drives a dagger through the heart of globalization. nobody has benefited more than china. it is the world's second-largest economy, has interests all over the world, including billions in ukraine. ukraine is china's largest trading partner. on a broader level, china has an interesting global stability. it wants to push back against t

there is a great fear that we are going to force people into an alliance, russia and china into someut they are already there, they are already cooperating. as far as i'm concerned the president needs to show strength and he's failing to do so. >> shannon: of the lead up just hours before as we knew these forces were amassed and we had every indication that putin was going to move forward across ukrainian borders, former secretary of state now climate envoy john kerry sat down with the bbc and this is what he talked about being his primary concern. >> so i hope president putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do on climate. >> he's worried about admissions, the same john kerry who will take a private aircraft wherever he wants to go, he's out there talking about climate change. i have to tell you if you live in kyiv right now and you have russians knocking on your door with guns and tanks and missiles, i don't think climate changes at the top of your list, i really don't. i think john kerry is an absolute joke, i don't think he's doing anything to help re

what do we believe this new spring new change there will inject more vitality into china. russia relations torsion? the only the only that is the so i would like to thank you for inviting me to the opening ceremony of the bay ging olympic winter games, muslim republic. we know that that is will say heavy task. but we believe that our chinese friends have is always made excellent preparations for this large scale of n for that. but, but the look at that, your group of middlebury, it but the new russia, china partnership goes way beyond the winter olympics. china added its support for russia, but the tensions with ukraine. both lead us highlighted their aligning views and global security, while accusing the u. s. and nato of a cold war, ideological approach to defense policy. a show of unity and mutual backing amid fears in the west that moscow is preparing for military action against ukraine. so let's get more on this story from michael kim edge. he is a history professor at the catholic university of america and a former state department, russia, ukraine, expert under president obama. and

this special day we meet we believe this new spring new change there will inject more vitality into china. russia relations torsion. they're only the only it is the so what i would like to thank you for inviting me to the opening ceremony of the beijing olympic winter games. muslim people that we know that that is will say, have a task that we believe that our chinese friends have is always made excellent preparations for this large scale event. but the look at that recruitment, middlebury, it. but the new russia, china partnership goes way beyond the winter olympics. china added its support for russia, but the tensions with ukraine. both lead us highlighted their aligning views and global security. while accusing the u. s. a. nato of a cold war, ideological approach to defense policy, a show of unity and mutual backing emit fears in the west that moscow is preparing for military action against ukraine. as get more now, man journalists have encroachment in beijing and moscow, and beijing, a calling. this is strategic partnership and one as without limits. what's meant by that yeah. when they say

chief adversaries are china and the iranian regime sliding toward nuclear weapons, not pushing russia into china's a way to deescalate and give ainsurances to putin behind the scenes, speak softly, carry a big stick, not the opposite. edward: what happens next, you referenced this briefly, but what's the ramifications? the chinese are watching this, the chinese president and the russian president formed a partnership it seems. and is chinese looking at taiwan looking at ukraine? >> i don't think that xi jinping the chinese dictator is going to be emboldened if we don't do something in ukraine. i think he'd like for us to get bogged down in ukraine the same way we'd get bogged down in middle east back waters. we need a bigger navy and air force, i think that xi is watching, but i don't think he's drawing the conclusion that our intelligence is drawings. edward: thanks, christian. we're watching this all morning. thank you for your time. the surge at the southern border is not stopping. 2,000 new apprehensions in two days. we'll take you there live. entresto is the number one heart failure brand pre

we believe this new spring new change there will inject more vitality into china, russia relations torsion. the only the only fiercer i would like to thank you for inviting me to the opening ceremony of the bay ging olympic winter games was lam webinar. we know the titles a heavy task, we believe that our chinese friends have is always made excellent preparations for this large scale of n. for that. to put the look at that group, middlebury, it. but the new russia, china partnership goes way beyond the winter olympics. china added its support for russia, but the tensions with ukraine. both lead us highlighted their aligning views and global security, while accusing the u. s. a nato of a cold war, ideological approach to defense policy. a show of unity and mutual backing and mid fears in the west that moscow is preparing for military action against ukraine. earlier i spoke with journalist fabi on crunch more in beijing, and i asked him about china's stance in the ukraine conflict. it's quite ambivalent . so at china's official stands is that they support a peaceful m solution in the ukraine

for this time. china obviously does want to see a conflict between europe and russia. after all, china even does not want to enter into conflict with the states. chinese economy is complimentary. you also want to trade off. but for this time, china's position to continue to trade with russia to not to mention, russia is clear, china tier to his tie and even pick a deals. we've done an intention to follow west to century russia and china has urged or parties who not escalate into military conflicts. and hopefully i'll resume dialogue as soon as possible. i think, as you say, as you say, china resulting or sized to negotiate and find a diplomatic solution. but do you think professor shall at this stage that's possible? well, ah, bill was some last media hope on the 21st, which are putting in french press, then talk on to to am and france that, that bite an input. do you have a subsidy for the french to put a proposal for diplomatic summit about ukraine, about security strategic stability in europe. but with a condition that russia were not to enter into ukraine. however, when macklin said that the u. s. has changed, but

heequities, basic resours are up we had aluminum prices shooting up 3% out of the china ukraine and russia will play into this. analysts saying china could look to russia to source aluminum you have that in today's session. yields is something to watch here is the two-year yield it is up the highest point since june of 2020 the german two-year is up highest since september of 2015. brian. >> rosanna, thank you very much. >>> back here at home, the team of bank of america was out with a note over the weekend defending the call for seven, that's right, seven fed reserve rate hikes this year t from the note quote, u.s. consumers and companies are sitting with a record $19 trillion in cash the unsustainable leverage that we saw during the financial crisis is non existent today bank of america said if the crisis taught us about the risks of leverage and corporate debt levels are locked in to long-debt and low rates versus before the financial crisis which is how we got there. joining us now is dan veru dan, good morning. i know you have your views on the market do you think we'll get seven rate hikes this yea

drive russia into the hands of china. i mean, that's a real triumph ironically, isn't it a western diplomacy? but one of the point i want to make and you know, people have been talking about possible neutralization of crime and finland as ation as a word, it's been years. i've been looking at the case of finland and, you know, the things established a modus vivendi with the soviet union without any help from the west. it was the skill of their own leadership and what they decided they were the conditions of their independence. and you know, i'm looking for some initiative by you pray. i mean, i don't know, i don't know what, what negotiations are going on between ukraine and russia. i'm not privy to that, but it's some, some so some of that solution has to lie with ukrainians themselves. what kind of relationship do they want with russia, which is consistent with their independence? and i'm going to feel for that. i mean ukraine isn't to united country finland was more or less united things also for the russian. and i'm i

russia to bring in gas as well. but i think russia, china is always into trust men, personally, leveraging the relationship quite well and getting good prices from the russians. and secondly, never being too dependent on a never giving into the new grand schemes of the russians have. yes, i talk about a convention then ship, of course the country's work closely, but it's not yet the kind of grand laws and energy so that the russians might seem to be discussing till you would say that beijing has the upper hand in this energy partnership with moscow? yes, i think very, very much so, i mean, russia has really nowhere else to turn. it has the pin market of course, which has its geopolitical and environmental complexities right now. and then it has a chinese market which is called big fast growing, but which is very remote in the main sources of russian gas production high. that's one reason for this. the oldest this, this gas food supplies coming from one of the few filters is relatively close china, right? before we talk about what impact they'll be on the european gas market. i want to find out more about russia. chin

commodity deals that were recently announced, china financing russia's attack on ukraine and other countries. this is something to be worried about the world dividing intosia and china and their friends on one side, everybody else on the other. arthel: we are looking at pictures of vladimir putin and xi jinping. one president at a time. donald trump has great relationships with both of those presidents as he always told us. could donald trump give vladimir putin a call or some form of communication and say knock it off, come back to the negotiating table. can he do that? if he does then he is the hero in this. >> i don't think putin will listen to trump or anybody else. he has a domestic political constituency that is not happy with the way the invasion is going. no foreigner will have any effect on vladimir putin except if president biden says we are cutting all economic relations. then putin might decide to withdraw. arthel: where do we go from here? >> we need to kick russia out of swift, freeze every russian bank account and provide even more legal aid to ukraine. this is freedom's front line. we have no choice. defend ukraine is defending the inter

anchor: what are we look deeper into the relationship between china and russia, over the years do you it has turned into more of an enduring alliance, or as you say is this meant to be a convenient partnership? >> i think it is far more than a convenient partnership. it is basically an alliance [indiscernible] economic ties, energy ties, military ties are substantial. clearly there is a common worldview and a common antipathy for the united states. we should take this relationship very seriously, and both countries are going to continue to work to constrain u.s. power globally. i think we should take this very seriously, and i look at this jot statement with concern and trepidation. anchor: evan, thank you so much for that analysis. while the world worries about potential new russian invasion of ukraine communities in the east of the country a counting the cost of a conflict which has already dragged on for years, since 2014 14,000 people have been killed, among them soldiers and civilians. our international correspondent reports on one family and their loss. ♪ correspondent: it was a

military alliance, the strongest, the world is ever seen against but also drawing in russia and eventually china into a global conversation about how we do security pulling room political analyst on form, executive director of the trans atlantic british american security information council . thank you for your time today. and you are the u. s. continues to saudi arabia raising worrying questions, either president biden's pledge to help end the war in yemen on the saudi lead bombing that we've got the story and more coming out of this very short break. stay within the what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on, often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk join me every 1st bit on the alex simon. sure. well, i'll be speaking to guess with the world politics. sport business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then. every country in the world will eventually make big coin legal, tender. the only difference will be a

factors into the china-russia relationship. >> the obvious question is are you then prepared for a new cold war? do you believe that america's allies are going to be prepared to make the kind of choices based on values? i ask not to suggest that i disagree, but as somebody who spends my time thinking about that you have experience negotiating with partners in asia and europe. -- the world that it is not clear to me that the world is prepared to make those kinds of choices. i would love to get your reaction. your characterization of u.s.-russia relations versus putin is him -- putinism has in some degree of applicability to xi jinping. we are focused on xi-ism and putinism. there clearly is a set of ideas that xi jinping has adopted about governance at home and abroad. they align with putin not perfectly, but a substantial degree of discomfort with the international political order, some aspects of international security. it is an open question about whether or not a different relationship with the west. as you have seen a commentator did. i do not know if there are similar voices in ch

now, china and russia are very close relations, and the 2 leaders of china and russia have declared their opposition to the continued expansion of nato into your crane. this is very important. i hope when the dust finally settles, ukraine will no longer seek to become a natal member. and possibly the best way out of the dilemma is for ukraine to become a country of permanent neutrality, which will really go a big mile in helping solve the dilemma facing ukraine and the region at large. now this war in ukraine will have global consequences, economically speaking, financially speaking, as well as geopolitically speaking. i just hope this war will be brought to an end as soon as possible with minimal disruption and rules of war need to be followed very close. i should also right, mr. guy, i'm doing in the studio by south get who i'm saw that have plenty of questions for you. but let's just talk about those red lines that russia was very adamant about, you know, we've never changed this line. it. how do you read line? and us and nathan needed to compromise with russia no matter how many meetings were held, no compromises were made. and so is

because our economy are a meltdown, if there's one thing we should be doing is pushing russia into the arms of china that's what we have done for the posturing militarily building up on the western part of russia or sanctions or whatever it is, we have blown the situation terms of foreign policy because our money, our economy is taking and we've added $7 trillion worth of debt in the last year, the russian economy is no better where we are right now worldwide economic meltdown understand that everybody something like that., it probably sent a lot of this going back and forth we nuclear powers, i'm telling you, it doesn't give a warm fuzzy feeling one 30,000 troops on the border, who is serious with maybe around ten to 12,000 american troops, we are not serious at all, we are pleased troops case something happens, they struck up first. it's a most dangerous part of the situation, our men and women in service in this country are being used as shields to get us into a combat situation. kennedy: well said. panel stick around, coming up, super bowl breakdown with monday evening quarterback jimmy thaler a

into sports. and olympics to, which is a very dangerous view to take on and russia and china are urging the west to not fall back into another cycle where they're merrily reliving the mistakes of the past. absolutely, we'll continue to follow all of these stories. boom, bend swan and christie. i thank you. thank you. saying in the energy sector, oil prices continue to store with west texas intermediate surpassing $90.00 per barrel for the 1st time since 2014. that puts the us benchmark up over 20 percent so far. this year. efforts are gains of 50 percent in 2021 alone. it also signals that a $100.00 per barrel oil is right around the corner with international benchmark. right? crude. over $93.00 on friday after i hit $90.00 mark earlier this week. but opec plus can, can you just say it's sticking to with current schedule is by months of pressure from the by ministration the cartels out on wednesday. we continue with the planned increase production by $400000.00 barrels per day and appears to be shrugging off concerns over ongoing geopolitical tensions all enjoying those profits as increased demand

feel steel you back up so far this a de facto alliance of authoritarian putin and russia, xi jinping in china and intoy're going to push and probe with the bayonet and see how far back they can get us. they're able to connect these dots. >> josh very briefly people do look at america the rest of the world looks at america see a divided country. they see isolates and seems to be on the rights america does not seem to be willing to put the military muscle where it has in the past. and they sense opportunity don't they? >> a little about that i totally agree with cliff xi jinping is part of looking over the taiwan strait said i think at this point is probably a matter of time before he starts. but the point here as at this point, 33 years after the fall of the berlin wall america simply does not have the wherewithal. does not have the desire, the wherewithal or even the moral courage to actually fight multiple conflicts on the mobile stage at the same time. china is by far the biggest threat to the united states by far. and to that extent what's happening in russia in ukraine while tragic this footage is

we believe this new spring meeting will inject more vitality into china-russia relations. >> i wouldike to thank you for the opening ceremony. we know that this is a heavy task but we know our friends have as always made excellent preparations for this large-scale event. >> but the new russia-china partnership goes way beyond the olympics. china added its support for russia over the tensions over ukraine. both leaders highlighted their aligning views on global security while accusing the u.s. and nato of a cold war ideological approach to defense policy. a show of unity and mutual backing amid fears in the west that moscow is preparing for military action against you rain. -- against ukraine. >> i spoke with a journalist earlier in beijing and asked about china's stance in the ukraine conflict. >> it is quite ambivalent. china's official stance is they support a peaceful solution in the ukraine conflict. however, today's statement showed clearly that the solidarity of beijing is with moscow and how far it will go we are not sure. we know that beijing does not want any further militar

i think that in the big scheme of russia into ukraine, it is really china, china is looking to see what we'll do. this could turn into a domino effect if we don't handle this right, i'm not saying send troops in, but all these nato alliance they have to unite with america leading the way that means our leadership has to step up. trey: you were singled out for valor and heroism, if there is a ukraine soldier watching you, and they feel they are out manned. how does that soldier mote motivate themselves if they are fighting again odds like that? >> understand that love will always override hate. this is your 21st century david versus goliath. don't forget why you are fighting. these russians will start questioning. why they are doing this if you are over there fighting, whether you are in military or just a citizen who is picking up arms, and willing to defend your country, don't underestimate resiliency and power of a person who is defending their home and because of what they believe in over someone coming in over hate, love will always override, that i believe, even if putin comes in a

china for easing trade restrictions with russia. well, western powers trying to pressure moscow into india's offensive. scott morrison was reacting to reports of aging is fully open to russia, wheat imports, china sake supply, i positive role in world affairs, thy size, i think pace. and i welcome those sentiments. and i welcome the comments which talk about trying to get to a position where these, these vile of ex concern. but that said, you don't gallon, throw a lifeline to russia in the middle of a period when they are inviting another country that is simply unacceptable from the reports that we have seen. and i will join nations decide. this is not a time to be easy, tried restrictions with russia. we should all be doing the exact opposite. but it's been out to natalia and his senior for the to her institute to covers international politics and economics join just now from beijing. i know welcome to the show. first of all, let me ask you, what's your reaction to what's happening in ukraine? while nick, i mean it's, it's a tragedy. there's an old saying that the grass gets trampled when elephants fig

china is position. i think it was russia really does have to take into account if it does decide to launch in operation against ukraine. launch an invasion of ukraine because russia and china have a growing alliance. we saw president putin at the start of the olympics there. busy in china, but when ye, although he said that russia security concerns need to be respected. and he said that the mince agreements are the only way forward that needs to be a new road map to get back to them instruments. he also made the point that the territorial integrity and sovereignty of all countries should be respected. well, if you were to, if you, if a russia was to, to, to invade ukraine or that would breach the territorial integrity and sovereignty of ukraine. it also would be a breach of article 2 of the un charter, the founding document of the un, or that came into force at the end of world war $2.00 and $1.00 of the key documents in international law. also, he was keen, he mentioned it more than once in a speech about what nato actually is in the fact that it poses no threat to were to president putin. it's a defen

people played the danger there in recent days by crossing the border into neighboring russia. there on this, china, we speak to some of the refugees. extremely terrified. that's why when we heard about the vaccination, we gave up everything and team here. volunteers helped low and even organize a little show for the children with the dogs. first, i was very emotional, helpless to cheer up. with questioning the mainstream narrative and a 100 countries worldwide 24 hours a day. this is ancy international, ukraine's at security and defense council has declared a nationwide emergency. it also made a point of excluding don, yet scan lugens from this. the position that still needs are not from the countries parliament before coming into full force. meanwhile, the tension in dawn bass remains high. this video was a shade exclusively with r t and boss to show the shelling of don. yet, according to local authorities, 3 civilians were killed by ukraine's forces in the last 24 hours. and over new guns, the militia reports 2 civilians were killed when a car was hit by an anti tank missile. of correspondence f

90000 people to play the danger there in recent days, by crossing the border into neighboring russia. they're all, there's china. we speak to some of the refugees for extremely terrified. that's why when we heard about the vaccination, we gave up everything and came here. volunteers help.

russia and china. i know iran has been brought into the fold. bout this partnership of china/russia/iran heard what is it mean to america after we know president obama cut defense spending through that frustration years ago but also tells about the readiness of the military right now particular in the navy as it compares to the china navy? >> your absolute right. during the obama administration their deep cuts to our defense spending we have modernization plans in place that would have keptns us at pace with what china and russia were planning. now we are trying to play catch-up. if we do not have reinvestment we will be behind for the first time in my lifetime in a situation where china and russia have military capabilities that are greater than our. own. but a obviously is of grave concern you look at china, russia, iran there are no countries that threaten china, russia, iran but there are number of countries china threads russia currently threatening and iran itself including its threats to miisrael and seeking of atomic weapons. this could o

china and the role of china in watching this situation unfold because you look at the situation where russia might be cut off economically from the west and that pushes russia into chinese fold and russia is much smaller than china the russian economy is somewhere between south korea and canada chinese economy, much bigger the population, much bigger. if russia needs access to banking, finance, international markets and all the rest, it might have to turn to china in a few year's time rather than to the west and that might make russia sort of a second fiddle in some ways to the chinese growing empire that's a consideration that he's going to have to make. >> we've got about 45 seconds before we expect the president brian, is this so much about, do you mean money or do you mean economic leverage? >> i disagree with your guest, politely and respectfully. if it wasn't about money, the sanctions won't work it's disprovably true. also, why spend 11 billion on the nord stream 2 if you can just go into ukraine i was in sochi olympics in 2014 a couple of days before they annexed crimea this has been going on for eight years now in this region with more than 15,000 in th

. >>> as most countries of the west russia to condemn vladimir putin's russia from moving troops into ukraine, china'se stands out for its unwillingness to say much of anything about russia's actions. the move highlights the delicate balance between russia and one of its most important allies. joining us now, bianna golodryga, cnn senior global affairs analyst. this has been remarkable. china has been very specific and careful about not condemning what is going on in ukraine. >> and remarkable given that china has historically always valued the sovereignty of other countries, right, and not invading them. also notable that in 2014 after russia annexed crimea, china never acknowledged that as well. but we have seen a lot change in those past few years and we have seen some strange bedfellows now come out of it and these two call each other best friends, they share a lot of common interests, and a lot of common autocratic views, right. they both extended their terms. now they can be rulers for life. and they have met some 38 times, the balance has shifted historically between the soviet union and china'

say say that a better tomorrow is not going to be by the us trying to contain china or russia, or by splitting the world into 2 competing covers. it's not right. if anybody is trying to do that, i think they are on the wrong side of history. the u. s. president joe biden said after that meeting that it really didn't change anything in the relationship between the 2 great powers, meaning russia and china, that there was absolutely nothing new there. and you mentioned that it was a fairly short trip on the trip. and then these are all ubiquitous on line communication when you can. so all the problems online. is there any relevance, any additional factor in that the personnel exchanges can contribute? well, i believe personal contact is always very important. yes, we can always talk. leaders of different countries can always talk online, but it actually means a lot. the same thing with the french president going to moscow to meet a president. right. he could have done it online, but a personal visit makes a lot of difference. so i think it's quite important between china and russia to have the leaders to meet e

and so was it a good idea to try to get china to convince russia not to go into ukraine? went to china because at that china might be able to hold some sway over russia. the two countries have been doing a lot recently to bolster relations. they've been doing that for trade reasons, but primarily for global security reasons. they are aligning themselves against the united states. china is looking at this and looking at what is happening in ukraine it has not condemned russia for this invasion. it is not called it an invasion. it is trying to walk this careful diplomatic line and saying there should be negotiations. but it is not really done anything to russia to prompted to participate in those negotiations. remember, china is like russia. they're both authoritarian states. they're both trying to extend their power around their respective regions. china is looking at this in saying hey, the soviet union got it wrong and the dissolution of the soviet union, we got it right. we shot the protesters, we stopped the freedom movement. now, let's see whether or not russia gets it