we won t let beijing temper tantrum dictate. kevin court has the latest. good to be with you, america s solidarity with taiwan is more important today as the world faces choice says between democracy. nancy pelosi is just about to depart after a brief stop in tapei taiwan. she said this trip is about america s unwaivering commitment to the country. in terms of governance we commend taiwan for being one of the freest societies in the world. we come in friendship and leadership and want the world to recognize that. china condemning this highest level u.s. visit in 25 years as threat to peace and stability in the taiwan strait with the ambassador issues threat, the u.s. must pay the price for its own mistake and we mean what we say. despite its position it doesn t support taiwan independence, the white house says the speaker is entitled to travel as she sees fit and threats from beijing would be met measure for measure. there is nothing like the american military and spi
Hello, im lewis vaughanjones. Welcome to The Programme. We start in the middle east, where the palestinian president says only the us can prevent an Israeli Attack on rafah, where more than a million have fled. Mahmoud abbas is at the World Economic forum summit in riyadh. He will be joined there on monday by the us Secretary Of State, Antony Blinken. Other Key International figures are expected in the saudi city and Sideline Meetings are expected to discuss the war in gaza and the way forward. That could include further Ceasefire Talks a hamas delegation is reportedly in cairo for discussions there on monday. This is the appeal from palestinian president , mahmoud abbas, to the us, urging it convince israel to reconsider any offensive in rafah. Translation and i say here whats happening now in gaza, | and what will happen in the coming few days, and what israel will do by invading the city of rafah, all the palestinians from gaza are gathered in rafah and its only one small strike tha
Now on bbc news, all the latest Business News live from singapore. Threats of legal challenges and a new warning from businesses over president trumps revised travel ban. Activewear. The Fashion Phenomenon that is grabbing australia by the seat of its pants and is now heading to asia. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. This is Asia Business report. I am rico hizon. Its a tuesday. Us President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order, a scaled back version of his controversial travel ban. It bands new visas for travellers from six mainly muslim countries. Bans. Unlike the current ban, current visa holders are excluded. Some say it could hurt the us economy. The Last Travel Ban was met with a lot of confusion and a lot of misunderstanding about who was actually impacted. This new version of the travel ban certainly has a lot more detail. It is more specific in terms of people who hold green cards, for example. That said, businesses are still expecting that their businesses are going
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but missing from their statements or any calls for police reform. and that s because the last time we saw real effort to fix our policing system in this country, it was in 2021, after the killing of george floyd. and i remember covering that effort and, it was viewed as a very serious one. between senator tim scott, a republican, an african american man man in the senate, and also cory booker, at that time, they were the only two black men in the senate. and they were negotiating in good faith. they had brought in attorney ben crump, who s representing the family of tyre nichols here today, and also, the family of george floyd. really working on a measure that can be bipartisan. but those measures had failed at the very last hour, actually. vice president harris then senator, led the effort in blocking a republican deal, a more s scaled back version of the justice in policing act for george floyd. senator cory booker this morning, is actually calling for renewed effort. he said in a