minute since we had seen that as well. a lot to entertain us in washington. gillian turner in for sandra smith. tensions on the rise now as we fast approach a year of war in ukraine. stand strong. ukraine will never be a victory for russia, never. attack against one is attack against all. john: president biden blasting russian president vladimir putin for his assault on ukraine, but issue was left out of the speech. gillian: the president did not address putin s major nuclear warning to the west out this week, russia is suspending the nuclear arms control with the united states, opening the lid for potential weapons expansion. john: all of this as russian is looking to get a boost from communist china. xi jinping plans to visit moscow in the coming months. beijing wants to play the role of peacemaker. some skeptics wonder if xi might have another agenda and if biden will do anything to stop him. tiktok is here, the ford chinese battery plant is coming, farmland is
tonight with the context, brian taylor, political commentatorfor the herald, and leigh ann caldwell, political reporter for the washington post. welcome to the programme. there s been an evolution in the way the west views this war in ukraine, an evolution in the arms which nato countries are supplying first it was shoulder held stingers, then the hymars, next came the patriot missile systems, now it s a conversation over tanks. the red lines have shifted with the evolving nature of the war. in recent months, the allies have come to the opinion that a year long stalemate in ukraine is in no one s favour except russia s. so what would it take to allow ukraine to win rather than just avoid losing? what would ukraine require in order to punch through the russian defences in towns like bakhmut and soledar, from where the bbc s andrew harding reports. we are in an area where russian and ukrainian infantry now appear to be fighting at close quarters. clambering through the remain
deal between russia, ukraine, turkey, and the united nations, there is a lot at stake and ongoing efforts to revive the deal. we ve heard from the turkish president, president erdogan, who said he is hopeful that he can still mediate some sort of revival of this deal between president zelenskyy and president putin. of course, the united nations has been clear in its warning of the impact that a failure to write this deal will have on the countries most dependent on ukraine s exports over the last deal. we ve seen more than 32 million metric tons of agriculture ad goods being exportsed from the black sea ports and 700,000 tons of goods being distributed, shipped by the u.n. s world food program to its humanitarian operations for countries like afghanistan and yemen. so there is still a lot at stake. we ve heard that stark bawarnin from the u.n. s humanitarian chief. for many of those 362 million people, it s not a matter of
appointed border czar, mike banks, retired b.p. agent was tapped by abbott to help curb crime and accelerate building the state s border wall, this as governor abbott and gop lawmakers seek additional $4.6 billion in funding for border security. close to 4 billion has already been spent on operation lone star, officials say has resulted in the apprehensions of more than 350,000 migrants and more than 362 million fatal doses of fentanyl seized. however, texas dps also says since this crisis began, more than 1.2 million known got-aways have been recorded, so in other words, it s not known who is slipping into the country. agents in the del rio sector did recently catch three convicted child sex offenders trying to illegally enter the country. one had been previously deported as early as 2022 from the u.s. no shortage of agenda items to