effort in ukraine with lethal assistance, something that we re watching very, very closely. as beijing reacts by telling the us to keep out of its relationship with russia, we look at whether there s a danger the war in ukraine might become a proxy warfor the us and china. also coming up on newsday. two weeks after being struck by catastrophic earthquakes turkey is hit by further tremors. a bbc investigation reveals widespread sexual abuse on tea farms which supply some of the world s most popular brands. and real treasure from cambodia dating back a thousand years or more
in the last 12 months. the kremlin believes it will win a trial of endurance, ukraine don t want to wait to find out. jeremy bowen, bbc news, kyiv. there are growing concerns in the west about china s role in the war in ukraine and whether it might supply weapons to russia. speaking during a visit to turkey, the us secretary of state antony blinken reiterated that he d told china s top foreign policy official what s at risk if it provides weapons for russia s war effort in ukraine. mr blinken said it would cause a real problem for china in its relations with other countries. we are concerned that china is considering supporting russia s war effort in ukraine with lethal assistance, something that we watching very, very closely. as i also said, and as president biden said going back many months when the aggression first took place and he spoke to president xi jinping, he told him at that point that there would be real consequences in our own relationship were china to provide legal
reaches out and tries to work across the aisle on things like cures for cancer, dealing with the opioid epidemic, all parts of the unity agenda he announced last year he ll try to build on this year. jake, the fact that the house is now controlled by republicans is going to make for a different visual tonight. but it is also going to make for different politics. how are the republicans planning to handle tonight s state of the union? well, ideally if their leadership had their way they wouldn t do anything stupid. but there is no guarantee on that, jose. listen, i think there is going to be a lot of things that president biden talks about that republicans won t agree with, no surprise there. but what republicans are looking out for, number one, is what he says on china, what he says on the competition with china, the balloon, all of the dynamics that we re well familiar with, vis-a-vis china and the debt limit. that s something a lot of republicans want to hear and talk about and g
battlefield? if we were to do that what would the consequences be. taiwan vis-a-vis china. will south korea to north korea. erdogan has eyes on greece. we spent billions and billions of dollars as russian counterintelligence part of security apparatus. nobody has ever complained about that. this is it a large extension of that this was putin decision to invade ukraine. and we either believe that freedom loving democracies have to support other freedom loving democracies or we don t. because, if we do nothing, if we allow ukraine to fall, that s going to send a signal to xi jinping, kim jong un, ayatollah and every other dictator out there. brian: they can t fight, they are not organized. they stole from their own military money that was there vladimir putin unestimated his own ability. terrible war plan. with patriot missiles in place that might wipe out theoretically the only offense that russia had. long range rockets because, in