government forces and russian backed rebels. mark lobel reports. military drills in belarus that were meant to end with russian tanks going back to their bases. not anymore. tanks going back to their bases. notanymore. leaving tanks going back to their bases. not anymore. leaving the fear of war hanging over its nearby border with ukraine. but after a series of phone calls, the france presence as the us president and present putin could meet to discuss the crisis, offering hope of a peaceful solution french president. president biden has french president. president biden has said french president. president biden has said he french president. president biden has said he will - french president. president biden has said he will meeti biden has said he will meet present putin at any time if it will help prevent a law and evenif will help prevent a law and even if the die is cast, until it is settled, until we know that the tanks are rolling and planes are flying and aggression has
classified information, dana, that russia did ask for military assistance with some degree of specificity in public sources and economic assistance. the chinese ambassador to the united states denied that they were going to provide military assistance. if that turns out to be a fact, that is a good thing coming out of that. i ve spoken to that same ambassador last week for over an hour and they certainly are parsing their words now on russia. certainly they aren t condemning russia s actions but also saying they are looking for a diplomatic, peaceful solution. that s different from where they began with. but yes, this is an important meeting in nato. china looms over it because they can provide significant assistance to russia. they already have offered up their credit card system to replace mastercard and visa which are no longer working there. they ve already offered up their limited telecommunication
years, they re right. but we re here now. you re there now. you serve as our eyes and ears from the safety of our warm studios here, and i wonder, let s leave the debate about semantics for the people smarter than both of us. what is happening in ukraine, in your view, ali velshi? reporter: look, the issue here is they didn t want this war in the first place. they would like it to end. but nobody can trust what s happening. the tv that they get here, the propaganda that they get here is russian propaganda. they know it s not true, because they re hearing what the russians are saying is happening in this country, and it s just not what s actually happening on the ground, so as much as people want peaceful solutions, they look to istanbul last week for those negotiations, they re hoping for some sort of peaceful solution. they re not getting it right now. and they are emboldened by the fact that their small military and their much smaller than russian country has held off an invasion
BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) Argentina on Monday reaffirmed its legitimate sovereignty rights over the Malvinas Islands, also known as the Falklands. On the