paralympic committee. our sports correspondent laura scott was watching. a new paralympics begins, hoping to showcase the positive power of sport and the strength and resilience of para athletes. but eight years since the sochi winter paralympics began under the cloud of russia s invasion of crimea, these games in beijing open amid another conflict, another crisis russia s invasion of ukraine. i am horrified at what is taking place in the world right now. the 21st century is a time for dialogue and diplomacy not war and hate! but this was a message the state broadcaster in china didn t let chinese audiences hear. more than 600 athletes will compete on the snow and ice for 78 gold medals. but as many of them paraded today in the bird s nest, there were none from russia or belarus, after they were banned
emirates abstained. martha: very interesting saying china didn t want any other countries to interfere when it comes to their region. we ll see where this goes. david, thanks very much. so poland now can see this war so close to their borders. we will take you there live next. mm. [ clicks tongue ] i don t know. i think they look good, man. mm, smooth. uh, they are a little tight. like, too tight? might just need to break em in a little bit. you don t want em too loose. for those who were born to ride there s progressive. with 24/7 roadside assistance. -okay. think i m gonna wear these home. -excellent choice. it s my woke-up-like-this migraine medicine. it s ubrelvy.
country but not taiwan as a sovereign country. it s an integral part of china. they don t want to destroy taiwan to take it over. they want to absorb it over time. so they re trying to draw a distinction here. the reason the phone call was so long today was to explore where china s limits, what will they do, what will they not do. can we encourage them to differentiate in that way in their thinking. you know, ambassador, we re getting dribs and drabs out of what transpired in the conversation today. we re told that xi jinping had told the president that china didn t want to see a ukraine war. the war reference is something that even russia abhors. don t call it a war. they did. i m wondering if that is the case, the significance of that. yes, it is. the chinese are very careful when choosing their words. they have chosen to call this a war. he did so also in his phone
it is uniting nato and it can become encircled if they don t play their cards were correct. i know he watches the five, he should negotiate this thing out of here. he has leverage over putin. if he can get putin to pull back some way, somehow, that would make the chinese look better but they didn t look so good after that. judge jeanine: i do agree with jesse. initially when china didn t reduce be a twin everybody else was doing it. and they also sustain from multiple boats to send to russia, there is something going on. armed intelligence indicated there was something going on. but i think she s shaping is smart enough to understand that as nato has in some way strengte western world, they don t want to be in a position where they are undermining our sanctions against russia because they will suffer and i think they absolutely agree and it s
its, not the foreign minister of china. ~ ,, ., china. indeed. when you look at the fact that beijing china. indeed. when you look at the fact that beijing is china. indeed. when you look at the fact that beijing is sort china. indeed. when you look at the fact that beijing is sort of caught - fact that beijing is sort of caught in the middle of all of this, if thatis in the middle of all of this, if that is fair to say, does china want to get involved and put it south on the global stage in this way? weill. the global stage in this way? well, china didn t the global stage in this way? well, china didn t really the global stage in this way? well, china didn t really lunch the global stage in this way? well, china didn t really lunch the - the global stage in this way? in china didn t really lunch the war in ukraine, but china must have been warned by putin that something was going to happen when putin visited china at the start of the olympics. so the president knew this wa