the environmentally friendly charcoal that could help reduce deforestation. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. ahead of the anniversary of the russian invasion of ukraine, president putin has addressed crowds in moscow s main stadium during a patriotic gala concert. he insisted that his decision to launch military action was entirelyjustified to protect russia s security. mr putin went on to stress that the cooperation between china and russia on the world stage is very important to stabilise the international situation. our russia editor steve rosenberg is in moscow. to russia s largest football stadium, they came in their tens of thousands, not to cheer on their team, but to support their president. from colleges, factories and state enterprises, they had been bussed in specially for a kremlin show, designed to show that russians back president putin and his war in ukraine. irina seems to. we weren t the ones to start this, irina says. i tru
keilar. and a flurry of new developments overnight surrounding the january 6th insurrection, just hours before the next hours gets under way. the new york times reports previously undisclosed emails from trump lawyer john eastman claiming he was aware of a, quote, heated fight among supreme court justices over whether to take up a case on the 2020 election. but even more than that, the times reports a response from another pro-trump lawyer, quote, odds of action by the supreme court before january 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be wild chaos on january 6 unless they rule by then either way. this was about two weeks this email before the insurrection. the times says this raises questions about a link to the idea of the violence that ultimately took place. much more on this in just a moment. but first cnn is learning exclusively what an adviser to former vice president mike pence will say at today s hearing which focuses on th
this is bbc news. the latest headlines: ahead of the first anniversary of the russian invasion of ukraine, president putin once again defends his special military operation. china s top foreign affairs official is in moscow for talks with beijing expected to unveil a possible peace plan. the us state department said the visit to russia by chinese diplomat wang yi on the eve of the anniversary of the invasion of ukraine was further evidence of beijing s alignment with moscow. dean cheng is an expert in chinese military and foreign policy. i asked him what he thought may come out of these meetings between russia and china. i think that above all, the two sides china and russia are trying to project a bonded approach to the west. that is to say that moscow and beijing are on the same sheet of paper, that they both oppose the western narrative that china is squarely on the russian side,
the football finally begins today. it does indeed, yes, the world cup, after so much talk, buildup, it kicks off today here in ohio in qatar, four months later than initially planned as the tournament was moved from the summer months to avoid those searing temperatures to the winter months here today, and it all gets under way, that match kicking off at four o clock this afternoon but you have to say, following those comments made by the fever president gianni infantino on the eve of this tournament, many of thoseissues the eve of this tournament, many of those issues and talk around them is certainly not going to go away. after yea rs of after years of continued controversy, today the first world cup in the middle east finally begins in qatar. are largely desert state with little footballing history. all eight world cup venues