Militants. The announcement about his visit was made by the us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken after late night talks in tel aviv. Antony blinken also said the us and israel had agreed on a plan to allow humanitarian aid into gaza. In gaza itself un agencies have warned of a deepening humanitarian crisis. More than 2800 people have been killed by israeli air strikes. Hamas, which is designated as a Terrorist Organisation by governments including in the uk and us, said it fired a barrage of rockets at jerusalem and tel aviv overnight with sirens sending lawmakers into bomb shelters. A Draft Resolution at the United Nations on israel and gaza failed to pass the security council. Western nations voted against it because it failed to condemn hamas. We can show you the scene in gaza, it is just after 11 oclock there. All eyes on the next stages of what happens next. We can talk now about that with our correspondent anna foster in northern israel. Bring us up to date with the night of deve
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Putin and xi, a lot has been made of their kind of personalfriendship. a lot has been focused on the fact that there s this unlimited kind of nature to the ties. where i d describe their ties is very much as. they re increasingly close but there are very much limits, actually, to bilateral relations. i think a lot of people in the west expected that china would be more critical and more nervous about what russia was doing, because, you know, they don t like trouble, essentially, do they? china trying to have this very balanced neutral stance, as they describe it, is what we would have expected them to see. but you re absolutely right. china is incredibly well integrated into the global financial system. it does not want this sort of situation. they ve said that themselves. what about ordinary chinese people? i mean, what are they hearing? in terms of state media, they have been quite restrained
Vladimir putin s invasion of ukraine is going. yet china s entire approach to russia at the moment seems to be based on the personal links that president xi and president putin have created between themselves something you don t often see in international relations. ankur shah is a bbc china analyst. china and russia have incredibly close ties. putin and xi, a lot has been made of their kind of personalfriendship. a lot has been focused on the fact that there s this unlimited kind of nature to the ties. where i d describe their ties is very much as. they re increasingly close but there are very much limits, actually, to bilateral relations. i think a lot of people in the west expected that china would be more critical and more nervous about what russia was doing, because, you know, they don t like trouble, essentially, do they?
Yet china s entire approach to russia at the moment seems to be based on the personal links that president xi and president putin have created between themselves something you don t often see in international relations. ankur shah is a bbc china analyst. china and russia have incredibly close ties. putin and xi, a lot has been made of their kind of personalfriendship. a lot has been focused on the fact that there s this unlimited kind of nature to the ties. where i d describe their ties is very much as. they re increasingly close but there are very much limits, actually, to bilateral relations. i think a lot of people in the west expected that china would be more critical and more nervous about what russia was doing, because, you know, they don t like trouble, essentially, do they? china trying to have this very