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Something, the chinese official state media says, the government s does not want to see. kevin rudd, former prime minister of australia, thank you for your time today. we dont have a lot of information -- sorry, also the author of this forthcoming book "the avoidable war, the dangers of a catastrophic conflict between the united states and xi jinpings china." a book that comes out at a remarkable moment, mr. prime minister. we dont know a lot as is often in the case in the moments just after the...

Strollers in neat lines dot lvivs city center. one stroller for every dead child murdered in putins war. we start our coverage there in lviv in the western part of the country. scott mclean is there. scott, those strollers part of a remarkable backdrop behind you today. >> yeah, youre right, john. this is meant to send a message. more than 100 children have been killed and the people who put these strollers here say that they would like the adults to protect the rest of the children in the count...

Imagine driving in on a t-72 and you are coming down, you know -- >> and you are a kid. >> and you have three ukrainian grandmothers standing there, stop, heeding that in their native language. what do they do? and now they are getting increasingly brutal, because they are fighting for their survival. when you have long skinny thrusts you have long flanks and you cant cover all that, and thats where the ukrainian forces can seep in behind them and wreak havoc. >> thank you very much. thank you f...

You just gave me your book that came out last november -- >> last october. >> october. i will be looking at that on the plane. i appreciate it. tell us about the ukrainians gaining the tanks and the russias losses so far. are they being over played in the scheme of things with the fact that russias onslaught continues, or are the ukrainian gains important on the battlefield? >> mika, they are very important. it looks to be implaquable and for the russians now, the withering of their forces there...

Create trouble while other democracies are preoccupied, and boy, are they right now. the author of the new book "the avoidable war: the dangers of the catastrophic conflict between the u.s. and xi jinpings china." and also joining us is walter isakson. is china taking advantage of the situation? >> china is deeply concerned about what is going on ukraine, because they got out ahead of their own skis here, and they are worried about the collateral damage for themselves in the eyes of the european...

On my information, has not violated the u.s. sanctions yet against moscow, and therefore it would take a brave move indeed to cross that threshold and even the military threshold despite russias request of xi jinping to help. >> and you write in the book its my judgment that xi jinping is likely to seek to use military means to recover taiwan if, in fact, political means fail. you say he views himself much like vladimir putin, as a man of history and part of his legacy would be to bring taiwan t...

Not just a co here upt bipartisan long-term american strategy for dealing with china and chinas rise, but it needs to do so in partnership with allies in asia and in europe. in part, the book deals with that, as well as how to navigate the dangerous decade ahead that flies with china, particularly on taiwan. >> mr. prime minister, i agree with you in needing a bipartisan approach, and i hate to ask you a question that some may consider to be partisan, but there are many americans that were horri...