its abortion services. and how do countries adapt to climate change? we ll be looking at new zealand s plan to deal with the impact of global warming. welcome to bbc news. taiwan has scrambled fighter planes after chinese military aircraft entered its air defence zone. beijing is protesting against the visit by the us house speaker nancy pelosi, who vowed her country would never abandon the island, china has also begun manoeuvres around taiwan that are affecting air and shipping links. taiwan is self governing, and lies about 160 kilometres across the taiwan strait. it sees itself as independent, but china views it as its own. from taiwan, here s rupert wingfield hayes. despite what china has been saying, today s meeting between nancy pelosi and taiwan president ing wen didn t look terribly sinister. president tsai began by presenting ms pelosi with taiwan s highest civilian honour. she in turn praised taiwan s democracy and promised america would stand by the island. our sol
in a major victory for pro choice groups the conservative state of kansas votes to keep its abortion services. and how countries adapt to climate change and how countries adapt to climate change. new zealand s plan to deal with the change. new zealand s plan to deal with the impact of global warming would with the impact of global warming would lead to coastal communities being would lead to coastal communities being abandoned as the sea level rises? welcome to bbc news. we begin in taiwan and the continued fury from beijing after the visit from the us speaker nancy pelosi. in the last few hours taiwan s defence ministry says it scrambled jets to warn off twenty seven chinese warplanes in its defence zone. nancy pelosi has said her delegation s visit was intended to make it clear that the us won t abandon the island. taiwan is self governing and lies about 160 kilometres across the taiwan strait. it sees itself as independent, but china views it as
and how do countries adapt to climate change? we ll be looking at new zealand s plan to deal with the impact of global warming could it lead to costal communities being abandoned as the sea level rises? welcome to bbc news. we begin in taiwan and the continued fury from beijing after the visit from the us speaker nancy pelosi. in the last few hours taiwan s defence ministry says it scrambled jets to warn off twenty seven chinese warplanes in its defence zone. nancy pelosi says her delegation s visit was intended to make it clear that the us won t abandon the island. taiwan is self governing and lies about 160 kilometres across the taiwan strait. it sees itself as independent, but china views it as its own and has said it will carry out several days of live fire, military drills, in the sea and air around the island. from taiwan, here s rupert wingfield hayes despite what china has been saying, today s meeting between nancy pelosi and taiwan president ing w