beheading ukrainian prisoners we are live in ukraine, plus cries for help. dramatic new +911 calls from the bank shooting that left five people dead as we re also learning new details about the shooter s past and in a story you ll see first on outfront fears growing the u. s could be dragged into a war with china as beijing says its military. it s ready to fight. let s go, outfront. good evening . i m erica hill in for erin burnett. outfront tonight beheaded two horrific videos out of ukraine that appeared to show russian troops mutilating ukrainian soldiers. the video is not surprisingly graphic and what we re about to show you. it s just a few images from these two videos. so in this one image, you can see what appears to be a russian soldier crouched over ukrainian screaming in pain as that masked soldier. uses a knife to behead him. images from a second video, and here you ll see what appear to be the bodies of ukrainian soldiers that have been beheaded by russian troops
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says that Japan is ready to provide any support necessary to Taiwan, "a neighbor across the sea," following a powerful earthquake that struck off the east coast of the island.
Taiwan pledges to donate 60 million yen ($418,800) to Japan to help its disaster relief after a powerful earthquake jolted Japan's central Noto Peninsula and surrounding areas on New Year's Day.
separatist forces, collusion with external forces and unnecessary move to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity. china s exercises like similar drills last august, followed high profile meetings with u. s. house speakers. nancy pelosi and taiwan kevin mccarthy in california. meetings the foreign minister calls crucial to counter decades of diplomatic isolation by beijing. china cannot dictate how taiwan make friends. and china cannot dictate how our friends i want to show support to taiwan support, including nine rounds of weapons sales to the island under the biden administration alone, us intelligence believes the people s liberation army is acting on orders from president xi jinping himself. the p l. a told to be ready by 2027 to take taiwan by force. one u. s general, claiming it could happen even sooner in 2025 2