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telling russians in an address that it appears to have been recorded before this weekends rebellion, that he remains confident in his plans and ukraine. tomorrow has been declared a non-working day in moscow. but banks and russias stock exchange will be operating as normal. outside of russias borders, including in the u.s., putins grip on power appears to be weekend, if not eroding. >> hes been very strong for three decades. this is the first time the veneer of instability, he just see...

military talks. listen. >> china has a history of falling victim of foreign aggression, even today the u.s. and several of its side kicks grocery ininterfere in our internal affairs from time to time. china is not the old china of 120 years ago and were not iraq, syria or afghanistan. we will not allow any foreign force to bully, suppress or enslave us. whoever wants to do so will be on a collision course with the great wall of seal forged by the 1.4 billion chinese people. >> well get...

address to the country since anti—government protests erupted last month. his brother, the prime minister, resigned on monday. now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk from washington, im stephen sackur. when vladimir putin made that momentous decision to invade ukraine, maybe he calculated that the us was too weak, too polarised to offer anything more than ritual condemnation. if so, he was wrong. american weapons are now flowing into ukraine. unprecedented sancti...

Or, is it still an open question, it is a benefit to link a shank oh. i visited in 2013, 2014. the capital of belarus. met with fellow actions there. it was led by lukashenko at the time. as it is today. there was a lot less open dissent. what lukashenko was very clear about, his people were very clear about it, belarus did not want to be completely absorbed by russia. so, having someone like prigozhin under his control, it might give him a little bit of leverage a vis-à-vis putin. >> can evely...

So in the middle of this war where the united states is clearly staked out a side, backing the ukrainians, what is our leverage vis a vis putin right now? >> i want to be careful talking about leverage inside negotiations that are ongoing. thats probably not in paul or brittanys best interest for us to be talking about one side has over the other. quite frankly -- >> what about -- >> quite frankly, thats not what this should be about. what has leverage over the other or who has something on the ...