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ukrainian territory in the country's east. the biden administration says if beijing does provide weapons it will pay a real cost. >> we're not just making direct threats, we're 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 china could be? >> well, bianna, it's been clear, china has been weighing this for several months ...

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 cnn's ivan watson is in kharkiv, ukraine and nic robertson is in london. ivan, walk us through exactly what the icc is alleging here. >> reporter: they're issuing arrest warrants for none less than the russian president himself, vladimir putin, accusing him of alleged war crimes for what they say is the illegal abduction of ukrainian children, forc...

One of putin's 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. but he is trying to show himself to be some kind of peacemaker in much the same light that perhap...

>> general, what's 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 they've -- they're 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 13th point which was, of course, removing all troops from the sovereign state of ukraine. but i do...