to get her british citizenship back. we begin in moscow, where china s top diplomat, wang yi, has met president putin, and reaffirmed their close relationship. the trip to russia by wang yi comes just days before the first anniversary of moscow s invasion of ukraine. here s the meeting between the two. during their talks, mr putin said relations between his country and china were reaching new milestones . he also called on the chinese president xi jinping to visit. earlier, wang yi also met his russian counterpart sergei lavrov, where he said the relationship between the two countries could not be influenced by other nations. let s hear some of what wang yi had to say: translation: i look forward to reaching new agreements. our consultations on strategic security are highly effective between our two countries. they play an important role in strengthening trust and cooperation in a shifting international situation. much is being made of the seating arrangements for president
chinese particularly after the incident, the chinese president has promised a trip to chinese president has promised a trip to taiwan as well. i think increasingly, the chinese leaders sees increasingly, the chinese leaders sees an increasingly, the chinese leaders sees an inevitable all out strategic confrontation between china and the united confrontation between china and the united states. and if that is inevitable, china is going to garner as much inevitable, china is going to garner as much potential allies as possible and try as much potential allies as possible and try to as much potential allies as possible and try to urge as many powers to stay is and try to urge as many powers to stay is neutral as possible as the message stay is neutral as possible as the message that was delivered to european members and security conferences to stay and exercise strategic conferences to stay and exercise strategic autonomy and also, there is really strategic autonomy and
that means is the danger is perhaps we are going to be increasing and moving from the economic realm to the military and security realm. good to talk to you thank you for coming on the programme. well, let s return to moscow and bring you pictures from another event there today. thousands packed into a stadium in the russian capital to hear from president putin as part of a patriotic gala concert to mark one year of russia s invasion. surrounded on stage by members of the armed forces, he spoke of russian warriors heroically fighting this very moment on the borders of historically russian lands. he also falsely claimed the entire country was supporting those fighting in ukraine, which he said made everyone a defender of the fatherland. as with tuesday s state of the nation address, today s speech was laden with religious and mystical imagery, and conspiracy theories. let s hear some of it. translation: right now - there is a battle on our historical