senior american official to visit the island in decades. china has warned that america would pay the price for her visit. a man has been charged under the trees and act after allegedly being found with a crossbow and the grounds of windsor castle on christmas day. adverts featuring edited model should come with warnings and nonsurgical procedures need tighter regulation. that is according to a group of mps investigating the impact of body image. a snorkeler suffered a leg injury after allegedly being hit by a blue shark off the coast of cornwall last week. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the energy company bp has recorded its second highest three monthly profit in history. between april and june is made £6.9 billion, three times the figure for the same period last year. in the oil trading performance was exceptional and it expects to pay more than £i performance was exceptional and it expects to pay more than £1 billion in uk tax this year. but the news comes as dome
of newjersey christine todd whitman and miles taylor who served in the trump administration as chief of staff at homeland security. welcome to the programme: there was a moment this afternoon when the website, flightradar, crashed because so many people were following the progress of a plane that was tracking a circuitous route from malaysia to taiwan. and that is because flight spar 19, was carrying nancy pelosi, house speaker, and the highest ranking us visitor to taiwan, in some 25 years. she landed safelyjust after 11pm, accompanied by a senior delegation of house committee chairmen, in defiance of escalating chinese threats. just after landing, the washington post published the speakers opinion piece, in which she explains some of her thinking. in the face of the chinese communist party s that might be the official white house position, but at such a delicate moment in us china relations, the pentagon was not in favour of the visit. remember china views taiwan as a brea
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. despite the sabre rattling from beijing the third highest ranking offical in the us government arrives in taipei. the us warships are put on high alert, as chinese fighterjets buzz the taiwan straights. the white house not entirely in favour of this visit, but they have defended the speakers right to travel. another big test for the republican party and donald trumps place, within it some key battleground holding primaries today as we head closer to the mid terms. and with household bills soaring beyond the means of millions of british families, the oil and gas giant bp, records its highest quarterly profits in m years. tonight with the context, former republican governor