the 22nd commonwealth games are finally underway. the opening ceremony took place on thursday evening in birmingham. now on bbc news split at birth: twins divided. february of 2018, there was a 2020 episode about louise wise agency separating identical twins back in the mid 60s, and my older sister who s adopted, called me and said, can you imagine if either of us was a twin? and i said, well, that s ridiculous. and i remember getting a shiver all over my body thinking, wow, what if this was real? in the 1960s, an adoption agency in new york, the louise wise services, began a policy to deliberately split up identical and fraternal twins, and place the infants in different families. the adoptive parents were never told that their children had siblings. any louise wise adoptee from the 605 has every right to think perhaps they have a twin. the separated twins were placed in a controversial study to explore what makes us who we are, and how much is defined by nature versu
in the last decade. president biden has spent more than two hours on the phone with his chinese counterpart, xijinping. the two leaders both issued warnings about taiwan, which has once again emerged as a key point of tension, following reports of a possible visit there by the us house speaker nancy pelosi. although the visit hasn t been confirmed, mr biden told mr xi that washington strongly opposed any unilateral moves that would change the island s status, or undermine stability across the taiwan straits. president xi said: joe biden responded to that by saying, 0n taiwan, the us policy has not changed. so where does that leave us? with an assessment of that phone call, here s the bbc s barbara plett usher in washington. the chinese are pretty blunt about their position on taiwan and that readout said that xijinping had emphasised that position, which is that taiwan is part of china and there is no room for taiwanese independence, that he had told president biden that
to double its numbers in the last decade. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president biden has spent more than two hours on the phone with his chinese counterpart, xijinping. the two leaders both issued warnings about taiwan, which has once again emerged as a key point of tension, following reports of a possible visit there by the us house speaker nancy pelosi. although the visit hasn t been confirmed, mr biden told xi jinping, that washington strongly opposed any unilateral moves that would change the island s status, or undermine stability across the taiwan straits. president xi said: those who play with fire will only get burned. joe biden responded to that with on taiwan, the us policy has not changed. let s speak now to craig singleton, a national security expert, and former us diplomat, who s a senior china fellow at the foundation for the defense of democracies. thank you forjoining here on bbc world news. it was something of a marat
[ gunshots ] police tackled the gunman. now described by police as a 41-year-old unemployed man. police say this man has admitted to the shooting. state broadcaster nhk is quoting police who said that he used a homemade gun. we ll take you live to tokyo for updates in a moment. what a shock for that country, for the world. right now here at home, former white house counsel pat cipollone is on capitol hill for closed door testimony today, speaking to the january 6th select committee. we are watching that closely. first, our top story japan s former prime minister shinzo abe, the longest serving prime minister, assassinated during a campaign speech. cnn senior correspondent will ripley joins us now from taipei, taiwan. the circumstances of this particularly in a country with so few instances of gun violence just shocking. what more do we know about the shooter and the circumstances? reporter: yeah. you re talking about a country with half the population of the unite
several have outlawed abortion immediately under the so-called tigger laws that will ban or restrict most abortions in roughly half the country. the biden administration weighing options to try and protect abortion rights. former acting attorney general math i hue whitaker joins us in just a moment, but first alexis mcadams is lye in new york city live in new york city with the protests, but let s start with david spunt live at the supreme court. we can hear those crowds still gathering on both sides, chanting, jeering or cheering. david, what s the latest from there? reporter: a lot of energy outside the united states supreme court, that is for sure. things were quiet early this morning, but things began to pick up with several how coming outside the high court to lend their voices just a few hours ago. we re going to take just a little bit of a pan of the crowd right now. you can see there s quite a crowd out here. both sides of this abortion issue out here, though wher