war wounds, things that you see on movies. by the end of this year, we ll see prices dropping. it is frustrating, it is not ideal. and i think, you know, things are complicated in the world right now. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is thursday, june 8. today house committee investigating the riots at the u.s. capitol will start revealing what it has learned. this multimedia review of the attack will be unveiled for a primetime american television audience for the very first time. the bipartisan panel will show how huge crowds supporting the former u.s. president ransacked the capitol on january 6 of last year and they will try to convict donald trump in the court of public opinion saying he is responsible for major abuses of power. among the key witnesses, a capitol police officer who was hurt by rioters and suffered a major brain injury and yet she still prevented many from entering the building. and we ll hear from a documentarian whose
so y the map here because the goal was to create a land bridge between russia down the south into these new gains through the donbas and into crimea to give russia access to warm water ports in the black sea. these would be ports that function year-round, important to economy, important to trade, important to security for moscow. and what they are doing is taking the gains that we see and solidifying them, building railways, making access, flowing from ports up into russia. salma, thank you. that is the military movement on the ground. there is a wider issue with grain, isn t there, clare, because ukrainians are accusing russia of stealing grain, selling it, presumably using that money to fund the war? well, yeah, this is what comes from the leader of the russian backed military operation in zaporizhzhia region, he says that the
here s our asia pacific editor celia hatton on that rapid transformation. back in the 90s, china decided to start a going out strategy, and that s because china had a lot of domestic problems it needed to address. it had too much for currency because it had imbalanced trade with lots of countries overseas. it had industrial overproduction, so it had too many factories making things that weren t being used, and so it decided to invest a lot of that currency overseas in big infrastructure projects because that s what chinese companies are really good at. they re good at building railways, they re good at building ports and dams, and so this spending started to snowball. many loans are being lent by chinese banks, and in some cases, the details are being kept secret from chinese officials. critics fear that secretive loans are saddling poorer nations in sky high debt. celia has this example.
there is a sense that perhaps china s approach to developing nations has been political, and the intentions are not pure. why is china in these countries building railways, building infrastructure? i think the most credible story is that china had a lot of excess capacity in its construction firms in about 2013, when it started the belt and road project. this excess capacity was exported to the rest of the world in order to generate revenue for china, and their construction firms. and also to build trade ties with the rest of the world. there have been some concerns about transparency in these projects, whether they have been given sufficient due diligence or not, which is hard to tell, particularly because china approves so many of these projects annually. but it has been quite helpful to many countries,
china in these countries building railways, building infrastructure? i building railways, building infrastructure? infrastructure? i think the most credible infrastructure? i think the most credible story - infrastructure? i think the most credible story is - infrastructure? i think the | most credible story is that china had a lot of excess capacity in its construction firms in about 2013 when it started the belt and road project. this excess capacity was exported to the rest of the world in order to generate revenue for china, and construction firms. and also to build trade ties with the rest of the world. there have been some concerns about transparency in these projects, whether they have been given sufficient due diligence or not, which is hard to tell, particularly because china approves so many of these projects annually. but it has been quite helpful to many countries, it has built a lot of bridges and highways and ports and so on. it will be interesting to see how the g7 co