by supporting russia. speaking at the shangri la security gathering in singapore, volodymy zelensky complained that beijing was discouraging other countries from attending a summit scheduled in switzerland in mid june. china has denied taking sides in the war. sura njana tewari reports. ukraine s president desperately needs help to forge his path to peace. the russian offensive in kharkiv has battered the north east of the country for weeks. glide bombs fired by aircraft in russian airspace, pummelling ukrainian trenches. the us is helping kyiv fight back with advanced weaponry, but is concerned about escalation and has restricted their use to targets inside ukraine. president zelensky complains that his hands are tied. pressure on washington has been building. finally, in a meeting with us secretary of defence lloyd austin, a change in policy was made official. but zelensky told the bbc that it is still insufficient. translation: is this enough? no. i have mentioned the exam
female president. the frontrunner, claudia sheinbaum, and her main rival, xochitl galvez, are well ahead of the only male candidate in opinion polls. ms sheinbaum, who is a former mayor of mexico city, has the backing of the outgoing president, lopez obrador. it s been the most violent election campaign in modern mexican history. over 20 local candidates have been killed across the country during the campaign, and two people were killed in separate attacks at voting centres in the central state of puebla. our correspondent in mexico city, will grant, before we get into the candidates, tell us what it s been like covering this campaign, considering how violent it has been. if campaign, considering how violent it has been.- violent it has been. it has been very violent it has been. it has been very violent. - violent it has been. it has been very violent. i - violent it has been. it has been very violent. i made violent it has been. it has l been very violent. i made it out t
claims that we re innocent, we re not doing that, it s playing a double game. last year, beijing proposed a peace plan and back in the anniversary of the war in february 23. and it s pretending to be a neutral broker and it s not. and we see that today because zelensky has he s inviting everyone. he s in singapore, he s inviting the world to come to a peace conference in switzerland later this month. and he did not invite russia and the chinese have snubbed him. so he s very upset. and he s not only upset about the snubbing, that china is a hypocrite. he s really upset because russia is using china to try to undermine other countries from participating in this swiss peace process. so that s why zelinsky is so upset today. china, for their part, have denied taking sides in the war. melinda, what impact do you think this forthcoming peace summit in mid june could have on the conflict on the war on going in ukraine? so, steve, don t write any