let me start with the breaking news international criminal court that issued arrest warrants for putin and one of his commissioners for war crimes both accused of unlawfully deporting ukrainian children to russia joining me from london, nbc foreign correspondent megan fitzgerald explain the charges against putt yun putin and what it might mean this has been a month s long investigation that started in september. and the lead prosecutor for the icc saying that they were able togather enough evidence to bring about these arrest warrants he went on to say, want to read the statement, he said the pretrial judge as sesed there were reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect bears responsibility the statement went on to say that they found evidence that suggests these children were taken from orphanages and along with children in care homes and taken to russia. we know there was a u.n. report released yesterday that detailed a list of alleged war crimes by russia one of them
after the house speaker kevin mccarthy met with taiwan s president in california. house foreign affairs chair michael mccall leading the delegation in taiwan, warning that china better think twice before launching or even considering launching an invasion. so being here i think sends a signal to the chinese communist party that the united states supports taiwan, we re going to harden taiwan, and want them to think twice about invading taiwan. our correspondent there has traveled to taipei, taiwan, with the delegation, beating them there along the way. what are they saying to you today? hello. good morning to you both. look, things are getting very seserious around the island rigt now after two public shows of support from congress. this is angering china. we have learned now that there are three chinese ships that have encircled taiwan, and on top of that the chinese have announced that they will stop and inspect any ships in the taiwan strait for the next three days. t
police fired tear gas at these protesters, who threw projectiles at them and set bins on fire. people also are not stopping this situation. we ll monitor it, bring it to you, in a live report. so none of that is keeping them out of the streets. the police are trying their best to corral them. pretty peaceful in this picture that we see right now. some of the video that we ve seen come in has been kind of back and forth between how rowdy the situation gets. this is a battle over what can france afford to pay for anymore, and people who say they deserve to have what they ve worked for all their lives. i m harris faulkner. you are in the faulkner focus. a bipartisan congressional delegation just touched down in taiwan today, one day after house speaker kevin mccarthy defied china s threats and met with taiwan s president in california. china still claims sovereignty over taiwan, something the united states does not recognize. in response to that meeting, china threatened they
russia and other countries taking aim at the u.s. dollar. promising an alternative currency of their own. then there s china itself inserting itself and more conflicts. playing everything from peace maker. we have you covered on growing frick tions in taipei. welcome. i m neil cavuto. we have a busy show. let s go to aishah hasnie on taipei trying to see what s going on. aishah? hi, neil. good to see you. so absolutely we expected to see some kind of response from china to these back-to-back meetings not only with kevin mccarthy but now this delegation that landed today. they re due to stay in taiwan for about three days. that is a number of days that china plans to inspect ships that are passing through the taiwan strait. on top of that, the people s liberation army, navy sent three ships to surround this island a few hours before the u.s. deligation landed. house foreign affairs chairman michael mccaul is leading this delegation. i asked him about those chinese ships duri