developments. the united states turned up the pressure on russia earlier. it s imposing fresh sanctions on at least eight oligarchs and associates of president putin. those targeted include, alisher usmanov, owner of a giant mining company, and the kremlin s spokesman dmitry peskov. 0ur correspondent duncan kennedy in washington gave more details on the extent and aim of these new sanctions. well, they re pretty extensive, coming on top of these other sanctions that have been in place against president putin and others close to him over the past few days. again a united front not only from the united states, but other sanctions announced in coordination from other capitals as well. president biden said the existing sanctions were already having a profound impact and that it was time to take these things a step further. he actually described these eight oligarchs as people who ve lined their pockets with the russian people s money whilst people in ukraine are having to hide in subways,
living in those breakaway territories. georgians are saying the struggle with ukraine as one. they want to be part of a european family, they want to become a member of nato and that is why they were punished by vladimir putin back in 2008 and ukraine is being punished today. china, along with the indiana united arab emirates, abstained on that un resolution vote. 0ur correspondent has this assessment the view from beijing. officially at least, china has neither endorsed nor criticised russia s invasion of ukraine. however, many people will see a phone call today. with vladimir putin speaking as a form of support. think about it, in the middle of a war there were two leaders having a chat, discussing how things are
negotiations and peace talks and ceasefire, but that depends on the russians and ukrainians, basically the russians. figs basically the russians. as russia continued to pound ukraine, the prospect of it holding you meaningful talks to end this war theme at the moment vanishingly small. the us turned up the pressure on russia, early imposing sanctions on at least eight oligarchs of president putin. those targeted include the owner of a giant mining company and also the kremlin s spokesman. president biden announced the move. in the state of the union address, i announced that the department ofjustice is going after the crimes of russian oligarchs, and the attorney general spoke to that earlier. and who line their pockets with russian people s money while ukraine and their people are hiding in subways from missiles that are being fired indiscriminately. today i announced that we are adding dozens of names to the list, including one of russia s wealthiest billionaires, and i m banning tr
which is the fact of the matter is, as things stand, the european union is still spending more than $1 billion a day on buying russian energy, oil and gas, and that is simply funding the kremlin s war machine, and it s being used to hammer the people of ukraine. that is the state of affairs now. you re trying to fight russian tanks with the banks, as it were, and it sjust not going to be fast enough. well, you know, ithink your equation i don t buy your equation. europe has to still fuel its economy in one way or the other. they re buying oil at the international market and they are, through a dramatic hike in gas prices and oil prices, hurting their economies, so they cannot kind of take down their own economies and, at the same time, resist what russia is doing. i think, you know, the signals here of quite comprehensive sanctions, quite comprehensive aid, quite comprehensive political unity in europe will make its mark.
another prison term he was convicted of fraud and sentenced to nine years in a maximum security prison. human rights groups have denounced the verdict as politically motivated. afterwards, mr navalny who has criticised the kremlin s war in ukraine accused russia s leaders of being war criminals. 0ur russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports. the images are grainy but the meaning was clear. kremlin critic alexei navalny already a prisoner, was about to receive anotherjail term. his prison colony had been turned into a courtroom, his supporters call it a show trial. he was sentenced to nine years, maximum security, for fraud. this was mr navalny just over a year ago. russia s most prominent opposition figure detained when he flew into moscow. his arrest and imprisonment sparked nationwide protests. but what followed was