now to some of the headlines we re following at this hour. pope francis peace envoy is traveling to moscow tomorrow. the vatican says the visit is a gesture of humanity meant to encourage a path to peace. the pope himself is not going, though. remember, he s recovering from abdominal surgery that he had earlier this month. also, home prices in april rose for the third straight month. the latest index showing the cost to own a home went up a half a percentage point from march. the increase comes after an uptick in february that snapped a seven-month streak of month-over-month declines. if you re looking to buy a vowel, ryan seacrest is your guy. he has a new gig. he s been named the new host of wheel of fortune in a multiyear deal. seacrest will replace pat sajak. secrest is set to take the wheel in 2024 alongside vanna white.
there s a few, very few leaders around the world, that mr. putin is willing to listen to. president xi is one of them. so, our message to china has been, and looking in the, use that influence that you have, with putting, to encourage him to get out of ukraine. to pull his troops out. in short of that, if you want to be involved in a peace profit process, we ve said, china can have a role. but for that wall to be credible, it s got to start with a foundation of understanding of what president zelenskyy will accept as a peace offer. it s worth noting, alex, president-elect of ukraine, who of course, arrived here in hiroshima on saturday, met earlier this week without peace envoy, that china has designated to try and work between russia and ukraine to find a way to end the bloodshed there. one of the many ways we ve seen president zelenskyy on a one man diplomatic whirlwind mission throughout the world. meaning, earlier this week, with leaders in the united kingdom, france, germany, it
billions for being too honest. i can t nastier and nastier got. i contrast that with the fact that what we all know for mr. pence and others is that nowhere in the hours along attack on the capitol, specifically an attempt and its hack on the vice president, do the president ever picked up the phone again to say how are you doing my friend? yeah. i m with a pack allotted to my final question here. china s xi jinping told ukrainian president zelenskyy that he wants to send a peace envoy to ukraine and other nations, to act as a mediator. it follows his meeting with putin as well as brokering a diplomatic deal between iran and saudi arabia. it feels like this type of global leadership used to be the role of the united states. are there concerns that the u.s. is being diminished on the world stage? should the u.s. be taking the lead a negotiating peace between russia and ukraine?
reach out to chinese officials over dangerous incidents, like the balloon incident, and asked to have a dialogue, asked to have an emergency phone line. that red phone that we had with russia, so that in the event of some uncertainty, a missile launch, we re not quite sure what s going on. you can pick up that phone and talk to russia before we launch nuclear mitchell s or something catastrophic. so, it s important to have communication. we re asking for communication. it s important that we have peace in the pacific. we haven t changed our position on that. we want peace in the pacific. taiwan wants peace in the pacific. but xi jinping and the chinese communist party have said that they want to start a war over taiwan. they want to invade taiwan the same way that vladimir putin, that were criminal, has started this criminal war over ukraine and europe. which brings me to this, because, she jinping told ukrainian president zelenskyy that he wants to send a peace envoy to ukraine and
Bosnians protested against constitutional changes imposed by the country's peace envoy on Friday, claiming he is discriminating against the main ethnic group.