good evening, welcome to the programme, we have got a packed two hours for you this evening. including a special investigation tonight into the execution of an unarmed ukrainian soldier. we will tell you who he was and who was involved. and we will get the thoughts of a formerjudge who sat on the panel of the international criminal court. big developments in scotland today, where police have arrested peter murrell, nicola sturgeon s husband, in connection to the snps fundraising and finances. but we will start with the split screen events we have watching through the day, president zelensy in warsaw, emmanuel macron in beijing. it s his first visit to china in four years. and from a chinese perspective, emmanuel macron is probably the most important politician in europe. it is the french president in particular, who has continued to engage with putin to find a diplomatic solution to this war in ukraine. and they see him as the man who can push the european union towards a mor
translation: china has proposed a peace plan i and we have welcomed it. but do we agree with it in its entirety? no, but it is interesting. it shows willingness to commit to resolving the conflict and so if it is not a peace plan, it is a desire to have a responsibility to try and build a path towards peace. i hope to be able to participate in initiatives that are useful to the ukrainian population. but president macron will face challenges if he shows any support for china s blueprint for peace in ukraine, which has already been dismissed by the us and president zelensky who was today in warsaw. poland has taken in more than a million ukrainian refugees since russia invaded, and has played an instrumental role in persuading other western powers to supply tanks and increasingly sophisticared weaponry to ukraine. this was as much a thank you as working out a way forward. who was today in warsaw.