live from mouth to in singapore, this is bbc news. it is live from mouth to in singapore, this is bbc news. live from mouth to in singapore, this is bbc news. it is newsday. live from our this is bbc news. it is newsday. live from our studio this is bbc news. it is newsday. live from our studio in this is bbc news. it is newsday. live from our studio in singapore. i hello and welcome to the programme. president xi of china is on a state visit to russia, where he s been warmly greeted by president putin. the summit has been the focus of a good deal of speculation following the publication of china s plan to settle the acute crisis in ukraine. mr putin said that moscow was always open to negotiation. but the americans have already warned that the chinese peace plan could be a just a delaying tactic. the visit comes just days after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for president putin, in relation to alleged war crimes. from moscow, our rus
as well as with india, latin america, and africa. putin is building his own anti western world. now, with xijinping here, russia can claim that it s not isolated, that moscow has powerful allies who view the world through a similar lens, that it doesn t need the west if it has friends in the east. but experience shows china always puts china first. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. i m joined now byjoseph torigian in washington. he s a professor at the school of international service at the american university in washington. thank washington. you very much forjoining us on thank you very much forjoining us on the programme. thank you very much for “oining us on the programme. on the programme. thank you for havin: on the programme. thank you for having me- on the programme. thank you for having me. could on the programme. thank you for having me. could china on the programme. thank you for having me. could china actually i
have no way to leave. millions, of course, want to stay, they support the taliban. and it is those people most of all who face this most uncertain of futures. they know the foreign forces are leaving, but they don t know what lies ahead for them. a report from the editors at gallup polling suggests that the taliban takeover in afghanistan came as no surprise to afghans. gallup has been surveying afghans about their lives every year since 2008, with the exception of 2020, because of the pandemic. and their data provides detailed insight into the situation normal civilians in afghanistan find themselves in today. for more on this we can speak now to the gallup editor in chief mohamed younis in washington. thank washington. you for that. what have afg ha ns thank you for that. what have afghans made over the years, i suppose of this political stalemate between the afghan