us now. great to see you as always. this is a serious escalation. how do you see it? this is an escalation that china had been worning about in the weeks prior to this trip that pelosi was taking p the question is was it worth it, was anything substantive made during these meetings that she had on the ground there, symbolically this was a huge move, showing once again the united states stands in support of taiwan. and their autonomy there. that having been said, given the tensions, not only in the region right now, in china s escalation, and xi s escalation, as he s approaching his party congress meeting later this year, set to become the third term, unprecedented leader of that country and leader for life, was it worth it. with all of the focus now on ukraine, would this actually benefit taiwan and its security, and that s the question really going forward there, holding embargoes now on trade between china and taiwan, and, you know, the taiwanese obviously embraced this v
peacefully we have to take action including military action but today, ukraine virtually produces or manufactures nothing, they have been dry to maintain their manufacturing capability but actually they have been importing things for free. free loading. but, you know, it will come to an end sooner or later. we can join my colleague vitaly shevchenko who has been watching the news conference, it s been going on for about an hour so far and what are the main headlines? so about an hour so far and what are the main headlines? about an hour so far and what are the main headlines? so far we have seen a very the main headlines? so far we have seen a very heavy the main headlines? so far we have seen a very heavy focus the main headlines? so far we have seen a very heavy focus on - the main headlines? so far we havej seen a very heavy focus on ukraine. vladimir putin yet again defended his so called special military operation against ukraine by saying russia was forced to star
reporter: it is a really fast moving situation here on the ground north of moscow. we have already heard from the court, from the judge today, saying there will indeed be a verdict, that will happen later today. we re not exactly sure when it is going to happen, but this trial is something that is ongoing. they have just gone into the break, we have already heard a lot happening. the prosecutor made the closing arguments for the prosecution and demanded a sentence of 9.5 years. 9 years and 6 months for brittney griner, and also on top of that, a fine of about a million rubles, that s about 16 and $17,000 fine. that was 9.5 years obviously a lot saying that the prosecution believes that guilt was proven, they believe that brittney griner took in those vaping cart r into the court. brittney held up a picture of a team she plays for here in russia, remember, when she took the stand a couple of weeks ago, she said she wanted to come here so badly and so quickly and therefore accidentally
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is good quality would get. so high quality fish is sold abroad because it fetches a better price there than in russia. the new version of it one time when you look down from the bridge to the river was black it teamed with fish should be oil. and drink grew up here his father was also a fishing inspector he knows how sharply fish stocks have declined. or going up with you know there are lots of cultures on this river because the fish here are easy to catch poachers and crazy money if they get just one ton of caviar they see it as a bad year and every time and so the more than a million rubles that s a minimum of fifteen thousand euros even though fish stocks have declined coaching is still a lucrative. soundin