against its journalists. the 76th annual british academy awards take place in london later with the german language film, all quiet on the western front, leading the field with m nominations. the us secretary of state antony blinken has alleged that china is considering supplying weapons and ammunition to russia for its war against ukraine. he was speaking to cbs news after meeting china s top diplomat wang yi on the sidelines of the international security conference in munich. he said he d warned mr wang of consequences if material support was provided to moscow. mr blinken told cbs that chinese firms were already providing non lethal aid for russia s invasion. he was asked if support given to the mercenary group, wagner, amounted to military support for moscow. there is open source reporting that chinese companies are providing. surveillance equipment to that mercenary group, the wagnerl group, fighting in ukraine. does the us consider this to be providing military. suppo
and president putin had a meeting in which they talked about a partnership with no limits. and we were concerned that among the lack of limits would be chinese support for russia in the war. we ve been watching this very closely. to date, we have seen chinese companies and of course, in china, there s really no distinction between private companies and the state, we have seen them provide non lethal support to russia for use in ukraine. the concern that we have now is based on information we have, that they re considering providing lethal support. and we ve made very clear to them that that would cause a serious problem for us and in our relationship. lethal support. what would that entail? what are you thinking? weapons. that s ammunition. primarily weapons. primarily. there s a whole gamut of things that that fit in that category. everything from ammunition to the weapons themselves. that was antony blinken speaking to
chinese firms were already providing non lethal aid for russia s invasion. he was asked if support given to the mercenary group, wagner, amounted to military support for moscow. there is open source reporting that chinese companies are providing. surveillance equipment to that mercenary group, the wagnerl group, fighting in ukraine. does the us consider this to be providing military. support to russia? we ve been concerned from day one about that possibility. in fact, if you go back to the very first conversations that president biden and president xi had about russia s war of aggression against ukraine just a couple of weeks into the war, president biden shared with president xi our deep concern about the possibility china would provide lethal support to russia in this effort, as well as engage in the systematic evasion of sanctions. and the reason for that concern was just weeks before the aggression, you ll remember that president xi
this is bbc news. welcome, if you re watching here in the uk or around the globe. our top stories: the us secretary of state says china is considering supplying weapons and ammunition to russia for its war against ukraine. we have seen them provide non lethal support to russia for use in ukraine. the concern that we have now is based on information we have that they are considering providing lethal support. borisjohnson urges rishi sunak not to drop the northern ireland protocol bill as speculation mounts of a compromise over post brexit arrangements. a uk based iranian broadcaster which has covered anti government protests in iran extensively says it s had to suspend its operations in the uk following threats