and its 10 million inhabitants. as beijing prepares to host the winter olympics next month, it s turned to extreme measures again in the fight to maintain its strict zero covid 19 policy. 0ur china correspondent, robin brant reports. 27 days into lockdown, confined to her apartment. hello. senlin is one of millions in china still subject to the ultimate covid control. translation: when covid hit| wuhan, the country didn t have much experience dealing with the outbreak. but now it s different. it s better. she s in xian, a city famous for its motionless army of terracotta warriors, but normal life for 13 million people there has come to a halt. there s fresh evidence, too, that some people have just had enough. crowd clashes with police at a compound in xian, where they ve been in
to the arming of the ukrainians with this kind of narrative about president putin s intentions. about president putin s intentions. , intentions. yesterday we were talkinu intentions. yesterday we were talking about intentions. yesterday we were talking about the intentions. yesterday we were talking about the meeting - intentions. yesterday we were talking about the meeting in l talking about the meeting in geneva between the american secretary of state and his russian counterpart sergei lavrov role, diplomacy but then a lot of harsh words. a lot of harsh words. what can we look at a lot of harsh words. what can we look at if a lot of harsh words. what can we look at if we a lot of harsh words. what can we look at if we think - a lot of harsh words. what can we look at if we think about i we look at if we think about the week ahead? that diplomacy didn t get very far last week, it continues this week with a visit from the british defence secretary to moscow to visit his co
that tweet comes as the first images were released of kim jong-un s secret trip china. chief foreign correspondent richard engel joins me now. what do we know about this meeting with china s president? i think quite a bit. china has now put out a lot of images of this meeting. it s been blanketed across the media in north korea. both countries hailing it as a success. even president trump saying that it was a success with president trump appearing to try to take some credit for it. but for china, this was an important agenda. it was an important meeting. it wanted to make sure that the diplomacy didn t get out of beijing s courtyard. and china rolled out the red carpet. china s president wanted to make sure kim jong-un s first summit was with him. and that his first ever trip abroad since taking power in
things to the north koreans. joint military exercises between the u.s. and south korea. north korea calls it a wild act. the drills are legal under international laws unlike north korea s nuclear program. they say the military exercises are a dress rehearsal for invasion. more troubling to the north koreans are what they view as repeated hints from president trump and members of his administration that if diplomacy didn t work the united states would consider the bloody nose option of a preemptive strike on north korea s nuclear facilities. north korea making it clear if the united states were to conduct military action they would, in their words, inflict resolute and merciless punishment. the message is they are willing to talk. if they feel the united states puts them in a corner or provokes them they ll strike back militarily, threats we have heard before. we also have kim jong-un as the north korean leader with more nuclear weapons than ever before. he displayed them on the eve of
didn t even respond back last year when we did this in the summer. and we ended up filing a federal lawsuit in october. well, we got the court ordered the production of documents and here they are. it s about 420 pages. we re still by the way doing a full analysis of this. what s fascinating three things right off the top. number one, despite the f.b.i. s protests to the contrary there is email exchanges between the f.b.i. and the department of justice so when the f.b.i. said there were no documents that wasn t correct. number two, that the f.b.i. s senior counsel and chief of staff to james comey was in the loop on this whole discussion of how they were going to handle this unusual event of the former president of the united states meeting with the then current attorney general loretta lynch while his wife, the former secretary of state also the democratic nominee for president was about to be questioned by the f.b.i. in