Morning. This is deja vu news live from berlin and counting is under way in afghanistans president ial election the vote took place in the shadow of taliban attacks several people were killed and Dozens Injured as blasts near took place near Polling Stations also coming up. Protesters mark 5 years of demonstrating for democracy in hong kong they were out on the streets as they have been for the last 4 months this time marking the anniversary of the socalled Umbrella Movement. And
also coming up Lego Media In Helsinki thousands of builders have gathered in the finnish capital to celebrate the iconic plastic box theyre told to piece together and make a city. Oh my gosh waiter welcome to the program afghanistans president ial election day has been marred by approximately 68 taliban attacks most of them by rocket at least 5 people were killed and scores more injured according to the interior minister the Islamist Group threatened to disrupt the election with violence and had warned voters
that. that would hurt russia at a time when they need the gas sales. it would also hurt europe as a time when they need that gas supply. one more for you, colonel, on a different topic. there is so much going on in the world. there were several dozen fighter jets that china said near taiwan over the weekend. they did not explain why they were sent in that direction. taiwan scrambled some jets as well. the significance of, one, the movement of those fighter jets and the timing from china, from your perspective? so, victor, there are several things going on here. number one, the chinese are testing what we call the air defense zone that taiwan has. this is where taiwan sees what is coming toward it and tries to identify what kind of air assets they are. the chinese, the people s republic of china has actively tried to gauge what taiwan sape
and asia and other parts of the world. 141 countries called out what putin is doing in a u.n. general assembly resolution, so there is immense solidarity around the world that anyone who is helping vladimir putin is going to have costs imposed upon them. we have sanctioned belarus, for instance, which is standing with vladimir putin, so it is critical that the prc, the people s republic of china understand the choice here. belarus is different than china, though, do you have an explicit promise from europe and other nations to impose sanctions on china if they support russia? again, i don t want to get ahead of the president, i don t want to get ahead of what decisions xi jinping will make. i think it s quite clear where the united states stands and we ll work with our allies and partners as we have done at every step of this process to move forward in solidarity. we heard sergey lavrov the
perception and any sort of escalatory perception that would be accompanied by our moves. and so that is why part of the reason why we re continuing to supply our ukrainian partners with this massive amount of security assistance, so they can effectively take on the russians. and what you ve seen, bianna, we re now three weeks into this. russian forces have been stalled throughout large parts of the country. i think that speaks to the effectiveness of the bravery, the courage that ukrainians are defending their country. you re not answering my question about the planes, but i want to move on because we have a couple of minutes left. as mentioned, the president is speaking to chinese president xi as china is doing close to nothing as you know to pressure putin to stop this war and could very well be helping russia both militarily and economically, according to u.s. intel. what are the tangible tools that president biden has now to force china not to do so? you re right. the prc, the