a compromise over same sex relationships but will it please traditionalists or gay couples? hey, josh, it s gillian, how are you doing? very well, thank you. how are you? and the glasses allowing deaf people to see real time conversations, right before their eyes. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. she knew it would antagonise beijing but that hasn t stopped nancy pelosi, america s third highest ranking politician, from paying a high level visit to taiwan. she is due to attend taiwan s parliament and meet the president on wednesday morning, despite warnings from beijing not to travel there. we have heard in the last few minutes that is where she is now. a highly symbolic gesture to step forward inside the centre of the democratic taiwan system. it s self ruling territory but china insists it is part of its territory and that has created significant anger within beijing. in a measure of china s anger, the us ambassador has just been summoned. to the
in the himalayas are creating a water crisis we have a special report on getting tap water to villages. hey, josh, it s gillian, how are you doing? very well, thank you. how are you? and the glasses allowing deaf people to see real time conversations right before their eyes. she knew it would antagonise beijing but that hasn t stopped nancy pelosi america s third highest ranking politician from paying a high level visit to taiwan. in the past hour she s been at the taiwanese parliament but before arriving there the chinese foreign ministry summoned the us ambassador, nicholas burns, to beijing to protest against the visit. during her meeting with taiwanese politicians she insisted that she had come to taiwan in what she called peace for the region . we come in friendship to taiwan. we come in peace for the region and our chair of the veterans affairs committee, representing our veterans, understanding the value of peace and the avoidance of conflict. i am sure he will
because beijing itself believes that there needs to be reunification between taiwan and china, and that taiwan is a part of course of the chinese nation. so it is a meeting, which is high in symbolism, but it also has had, as a result, some more significant moments. we have seen military manoeuvres, both by the chinese and american vessels being sent into the region as well. low level, in terms of that military operation, and it is not engagement, it is just operations in and around the seeds of around taiwan. but nonetheless, it has ratcheted up nonetheless, it has ratcheted up further the very difficult relations that currently exist between beijing and washington. it has been an awkward scenario for the white house because they do not have control over nancy pelosi, there were some effort to persuade her not to make this journey, effort to persuade her not to make thisjourney, but effort to persuade her not to make this journey, but it has been made and they will stand sup
so, yeah, i think the point is this agreement was very flawed, it is a very weak agreement, it doesn t protect us national security interests, and it is meaningless. really, the biden administration should have scrapped the deal when they came to power injanuary 2021, and now it is clear that there is no need for it, and, in fact, if i canjust make one last point. 0k, briefly. yeah, i think the us needs to halt its engagement with the taliban, and it needs to reinstate the travel ban on the taliban, because that s only allowing them to gain legitimacy, when they do things like attend international conferences, which they did in uzbekistan just two weeks ago. some other news for you now.
point about the agreement was that it was going to be the model that allowed the current situation to develop, for the united states to get out? yes, i think united states to get out? yes, | think that s united states to get out? yes, i think that s right. united states to get out? yes, | think that s right. | think- i think that s right. i think this shows the doha agreement was meaningless. you can drive a truck through it and that is exactly what the taliban has done, and anybody who is following the situation closely, who is reading about what is happening, the united nations has been very clear that the taliban remains allied with al-qaeda, that al-qaeda is rebuilding its strength in afghanistan, so yeah, i think the point is this agreement was very flawed, it is a very weak agreement, it doesn t protect us national security interests, and it is meaningless. really, the biden administration should have scrapped the deal when they came to power injanuary 2021, and now it is cle