ukraine. we believe that many of the points on the peace plan put forward by china are consistent with russian approaches and can be taken as the basis of a peaceful settlement when the west and kyiv are ready for it, this readiness is not observed on their side. since the war began, russia has become far more dependent on china. china has been propping up russia s economy amid western sanctions by purchasing its energy replacing western supp suppliers in electronics and aircraft and providing an alternative to the u.s. dollar. she is inviting putin to china this year and told putin they share similar goals. putin says russia has closely studied beijing s peace proposal for ukraine, a plan that washington says would solidify russia s grip on occupied land. china would not want to see putin fail. it would set a terrible example for the chinese system. reporter: china and russia have a complicated history, but their shared adversarial relationship with washington is drivi
humanity ceremony for president biden. yeah, and quite a collection of celebrities or as the president said masters of their craft from the arts from acting, painting, authors, pull blitz prize winners, kind of across the board seated in the east room as the president in a mostly light-hearted affair hands out the humanity medals of the arts. now, he did present a national humanities medal to elton john in person last year but this was the first in-person broader ceremony, technically the 2021 awards. while it was mostly lighthearted he did flick at the political instreak talking about colson whitehead s back-to-back pulitzer prize victories and noted he was considering perhaps going back-to-back, an allusion to the fact he hasn t said he will run. doing it with a philly guy and