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Should the highlight was when he took to the mic. take a listen. [speaking non-english] [applause] you recognize. it, and yun he received a standing ovation for his rendition of american pie. and the u.s. president, he presented him with a guitar signed from the great don mclean. back to rosemary. that s awesome, he actually has a very good voice. yes! very good. kristie lu stout, joining us live from hong kong, many things. thank you. well, china is trying its hands as peacemaker in ukraine and details on the first phone call between volodymyr zelenskyy and teaching ping since russia invaded. we will have that and more. ....
As beijing aims to portray itself as an objective and fair peacemaker, despite its close ties to moscow. volodymyr zelenskyy and she jinping spoke for an hour by phone on wednesday. president-elect ski said he made it clear that ukraine would not give up territory to russia to end the fighting. so let s bring in cnn s beijing bureau chief steven jiang. steven, how significant is this call between the leaders of china and ukraine? and what might come of this? yes, rosemary, in a significance symbolically, there has been rumors that this would take place especially when he came back from moscow and visited with putin last month. especially after the recent flurry of diplomatic slurs from european leaders like macron and von der leyen. and then of course you juxtapose that with china s growing desire to be seen as a global peacemaker after the deal they brokered between the saudis and iranians. ....
Custom between ukraine, russia and their positions and also a lot of people pointed out it s gonna take a lot more than a phone call to convince china s criticism and skeptics in europe that it s serious to play an unbiased role and of course as you know all of this has taken place when europe is increasingly a battleground in the strategic rivalry between the. united states and china, rosemary? steven jiang, joining us live from beijing. many thanks. and, we ll be right back. to finally lose 80 pounds and keep it off with golo is amazing. i ve been maintaining. the weight is gone anit s never coming back. with golo, i ve not only kept off the weit but i m happier, i m healthie and i have new lease on life. ....
The hospital from looting and they say that other parts of that capital, there are armed men inside of hospitals. it s just a total breakdown of the capital and if it drags on for several more days and, frankly, there is no sign that a cease-fire will be holding any time soon, at least for now, you re going to see almost a worst-case scenario for those in that hospital and in that city. david mckenzie, thank you. china s president xi jinping has spoken by phone with his counterpart vladimir putin for the first time since russia invaded ukraine. the chinese government never mentioned russia and refer to the war as the ukraine crisis. reporter: today, a long and mostly reasonable conversation i had with the leader of china. ....
Against humanity that they will be held accountable. more than 80 attacks we have seen, drone attacks, missile attacks, artillery attacks according to local military official there, killing at least two people so this is still ongoing and it is grinding on. we heard yesterday from a u.s. military official assessing the situation on the ground this is the u.s. general for europe who warned that the russians imprground forces are larger at this point now than they were at the beginning of the war. this is despite the significant losses that we know that the russian armed forces have sustained and he said the russian armed forces still has plenty of options on the table so this will be a significant concern for ukraine and no nato and ukraine s other international allies but that said, he said the ukrainians are in a good position when it comes to that potential for a counteroffensive and that the u.s. is still keeping that support for the ukrainian armed forces ongoing. ....