you ll hear the point he made at the end there, how crucially he views the war in ukraine, not only for the country itself, but for europe and beyond. that s where his emphasis was on much of our conversation. what he s referred to as the rules-based international order, which is part of what s at stake when it comes to ukraine. there will certainly be a lot more on that topic, poppy? how fascinating, also, oren, to get to sit down with him a day after we all see this video of a chinese warship getting within 150 yards of u.s. and canadian ships in the taiwan strait. what did he say about that, and the broader context of u.s./china relations right now. for him, one of the important aspects here is levels of communication between beijing and washington. and that s where, although there are some successes, some breakthroughs here, there are also some challenges. defense secretary lloyd austin who was just at a defense conference in singapore did not meet with his chinese counterpart,
coronation of king charles iii in london. security s tight there. the excitement for the big event is building. chief correspondent and uk native jonathan hunt has a preview. good evening, jonathan. reporter: good evening, rich. it ll be a uniquely british ocompilation and like the country itself, and i say this as a britt it ll be grand and colorful, weird and wonderful and faintly ridiculous. and as the sun rises on london on what is now coronation day, the day 74-year-old king charles waited his entire life for, tens of thousands of people are expected to line the streets, some of them having camped out for several days to get as close as possible to the king and camilla, the queen consort, as they travel to westminster abbey for the lavish ceremony and return via a gold horse-drawn carriage to buckingham palace where the newly-crowned king will, as british monarchs do, wave to his subjects from the balcony. it s a sense of tradition that lasts long before me and i
now. it s quintessential towers and bells have been the backdrop and soundtrack of much of my colleagues and own reporting during the course of this war. in a, way st. michaels monastery and the recharge of this country itself, joseph stalin s past view of the monastery could stand as a precedent, validating putin s war in ukraine. the monastery was built in the 11th century, and was named after st. michael. whom they consider to be the protector of kyiv. while the characteristic golden dome and the bell tower, they were added in the 1700s. later, the soviet union, under joseph stalin dean this ukrainian culture with no historic value, and ordered its closure during the 1930s. a couple years later, he ordered its entire destruction. blowing it up. after ukraine gained independence in 1930, one following the fall of the soviet union, a movement began to reconstruct the monastery. no nuggets importance in part
the deutsche bank is paying russian troops and russian soldiers. you know, you cannot be sanction oil and gas, that this will not only continue, but also extend the war too muddle the and other countries. that is why we have to think strategically. ukrainian infrastructure is not just important for the country itself, but for the rest of the world because of how much food that ukraine produces. president zelenskyy spoke about this yesterday. here he is. there will be a crisis in the world. the second crisis after the energy crisis provoked by russia. now, it will make a food crisis. this will be the case if we do not block the roads for ukraine. it will not only affect the countries of europe and asia
gallon. senator, your reaction to the president s ban, u.s. and a partial ban by the u.k. i think the president is exactly making the right move. and here s why. think about it this way. we eare using economic pressure as our big counter to putin right now. and we ve got two ways we want to do that. one is for the country itself, for russia and the second is for his oligarchs. we re looking for every way to tighten the vice as hard as we can, make this painful. and one way to do that is when he s built an economy based on oil is to say we re not going to buy your oil and hope europe s going to come along with us and that s one more way to tighten down on the russian economy. to try to soften the blow and at the pump, the president also