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What other things could we see from russia? perhaps weve been waiting for the cyber attacks that havent happened yet, if peace talks dont go anywhere. >> there will be a ramping up. this was a political move. you picked private citizens, like hillary clinton at the moment, and didnt pick people who might have much more to do with the current situation in russia. so, you know, i think there will be a ramping up. we may face some cyberattack risk and so on. but the long-term goal has to be limitin...

Internationals work, for years. that is the goal here. i think that vladimir putin holds some leverage over us, because of oil and gas, and things like that. we need to decide, do we want to be in a situation where that is still true in five years time? so, yes, there could be economic damage that putin can inflict back on us, but, i think we need to make a decision as a society, where we stand with democracies, or autocracies, whether theres a murderous tyrant, and more criminal, and it going f...

Opportunity to put in his pocket. >> john: you talk about united states rising above russia, what congressman waltz is saying he wants to make putin dependent on china, as their only friend that they can count on. >> absolutely. they would like to have everyone dependent on them and what better way than being able to access the minerals and real, just taking advantage of russia. they dont look at things and judge them based on humanitarian issues. they dont have a democratic principle, they are ...

Many more millions of jobs inside china depend on selling goods and services to the rest of the world. and thats why they need to avoid any possible sanctions or retaliation by the west, if they were in fact helping russia. >> phlem, your thoughts on that? >> yeah, i mean, look, the first thing is, weve gotta say that china has leverage over russia. its russias number one trading partner, and it actually could bring to bear some pressure on putin, to bring about a change of attitude and action i...

Mike: republican lawmakers are colored by the ministration take stronger action to help american stuck in rush including a basketball star and marie court veteran fred christina coleman is filing this part of the story live in los angeles, hello christina. >> hi mike, this week republican congressman burgess bowen and sent biden a letter expressing grave concern that the russians could use a wnba star brittney griner and other americans detained in their country as leverage. >> i have not been t...

Well as it comes in, that would be the worst outcome for china. the real question facing china is whether or not the u.s. and e.u. dare to impose the kind of sanctions against russia on china which obviously has a bigger and economic trade relationship with the west. are the leads and talks designed to put china on the spot? the u.s. is increasingly frustrated and annoyed with beijing because despite the huge economic leverage with moscow and not to mention the close personal relationship betwee...

The global economy, the chinese government did not believe that sanctions helped anyone, and therefore it does not bank to remap back sanctions. you can see here what the government is trying to do publicly, but as i say, it is very different to the messages being spread around here. china really does have some leverage with russia is one of the only key countries to be back in this invasion, but whether or not at any stage it decides to use this leveraged remains to be seen, and it has given no...

What actions are the u.s. prepared to take? >> every country around the world, especially those countries with significant leverage where with the russian federation, of course that includes the prc, the peoples republic of china, every country has an obligation to stand up to this brutal war of choice, to putins aggression against ukraine. of course, the prc has been an outlier in this and weve made very clear our concerns to senior prc officials just yesterday, as you mentioned. our national s...

Storms, having their? are you worried -- im thinking about whether you want to travel back to iran or not, at the moment, given that this deal has now been done. and, potentially, that its safe for dual nationals to travel to and from. >> that may depend entirely on whether the interest is out on that debt has been addressed. there is still an outstanding debt of more than 120 million, in terms of interest on that lump sum, if it hasnt been addressed in any deal. tensions may still be high. the ...

Deteriorating? >> some of it is strategic, joy. the idea that russia and china were together against the west when russia had been supporting china in its expansion in the east. president xi has to try to thread the knee l between maintaining a relationship with the largest neighbor saying it is still a friend of russia while also condemning the attacks in ukraine and not being seen as supporting that. now, china does have a significant amount of u.s. debt. it is technically $1 trillion in u.s. ...