day to day spending and save some money. the beef with beef. china has suspended beef and dairy imports from lithuania this week. why? well, china s customs authority did not give a reason for the suspension but last year lithuania decided to allow taiwan to open a de facto embassy in the baltic state. booze is also off the table. china s customs authority said it had received a report from chinese consumers that there was a problem of tampering with the production date and expiry date of lithuanian beer exported to china . lituania says that s total nonsense. suranjana tewari is following the story. how much of a sore spot is taiwan regarded by china? as you mentioned, definitely ties between these two countries deteriorating and beef being the latest product to be caught up in it all. as she mentioned this is all about the de facto embassy that lithuania opened, taiwan opened in the rainier last year in the
crimes. the eu s result is being tested by a trade row between china and lithuania. china has dropped buying some products from the baltic state, prompting the european union to complain to the world trade organisation. so why is there beef between the tiny european country in the world s second largest economy? beer, beef, dairy and run stopping these products have been cut up in a diplomatic showdown between lithuania and china. but why? it all comes down to lithuania s relationship with i want. last year, taiwan opened a de facto embassy in lithuania s capital called the taiwanese representative office. the problem was the use office. the problem was the use of the name taiwanese stopping many countries taiwan s representative offices under the name chinese taipei. that touched a nerve with china because it claims taiwan as part of its territory, even
institute was widely seen as a de facto embassy on the self-will an island china plays taiwan as its territory and criticize the opening of the institute as harmful to us china ties. israeli police have begun evacuating jewish settlers from fifteen homes built illegally in the west bank two protesters were arrested after scuffles broke out during the operation israel s supreme court order to make shoes because the homes were built on private palestinian land. like. french president emanuel michel has denounced to italy s refusal to take in more than six hundred migrants stranded aboard a rescue ship in the mediterranean president s macor accuse the italian government of cynicism and said it had an obligation under international law at least sending ships to help transport the migrants to spain. after more than
as with anything in the middle east it all seems to be zero sum one side gets what they want and spasms result on the other side of the spectrum. when harry truman recognized jerusalem in 1948 and sent his ambassador to the hole land he couldn t get there. and he took up residence in tel aviv. that became the de facto embassy. that s sort the historical accident that resulted in the u.s. embassy being in tel aviv. today america did right a historical wrong and put the embassy in the proper cap of israel, jerusalem. palestinians may have a capital in east jerusalem but as you know, nicole there is also the broader issue of israeli and palestinian peace. i don t think we are closer to that today. let me put you on the spot. yeah. would the obama administration consider doing this? it was considered because it
people say it doesn t seem likely, the congress itself will lift the embargo. there are democrats who oppose this move today. the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, bob menend menendez, put out a statement that said president obama s actions have vindicate it had brutal behavior of the cuban government. what s your reaction to that? there s going to be opposition in the congress. i don t think there s any tway congress will relax the embargo in any way so what the president is doing is taking executive action that he can take on his own. like opening up an embassy in cuba. he can do that i think the exchange of ambassadors is very big and i think senator menendez and a lot of cuban americans rightfully are saying, hey, you know, let s make sure that there are significant human rights improvements not just in the treatment of political prisoners