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ukrainian territory in the countrys east. the biden administration says if beijing does provide weapons it will pay a real cost. >> were not just making direct threats, were just laying out the stakes and consequences how things will infold. and we are doing that clearly and specifically behind closed doors. >> cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond joins us now, so, jeremy, some intense discussions as we go going on behind closed doors. any idea how imminent this potential for c...

has now issued an arrest warrant for vladimir putin. prosecutors accuse putin and another official of illegally deporting ukrainian children to russia. we expect to hear from president biden perhaps reacting to this at any moment but first cnns ivan watson is in kharkiv, ukraine and nic robertson is in london. ivan, walk us through exactly what the icc is alleging here. >> reporter: theyre issuing arrest warrants for none less than the russian president himself, vladimir putin, accusin...

One of putins demands may now well be that charges be dropped against him and the other russian. >> it very well could be. i do want to turn to this meeting we expect next week between putin and the chinese leader xi jinping. xi says that the meeting is about peace. do you buy that? >> i think he is trying to show himself to be a peacemaker. they issued that 12-point peace plan last month. of course they forgot about the 13th point which is to remove all the russian troops from sovereign ukraine...

>> general, whats the reaction to what you hear there? >> well, obviously, we need to take this seriously, victor. but, you know, the chinese have been doing this for a long time. and you know, we -- i believe that theyve -- theyre not really serious about providing support in a big way to the russians. i think that although they are making public pronouncements to the contrary, perhaps, or at least they try to pardon me by putting out this 12-point peace plan. of course, they forgot about the 1...