nearby, insisting there is nothing to see. one even pointing his gun threateningly towards us. shrinking glacier streams 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 in front of their eyes. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. nancy pelosi, america s third highest ranking politician, is right now in taiwan, on a visit that s infuriated beijing. ms pelosi is due to visit taiwan s parliament and meet the taiwanese president on wednesday morning. tensions are high. china considers self ruled, democratic taiwan as its own territory, and it s been flying warplanes close to the island. four us warships have also been deployed to the region. our correspondent, rupert wingfield hayes, reports from taiwan. t
it s sunday, the 24th ofjuly. our top story: holidaymakers and hauliers are being warned to expect a third day of disruption around the port of dover and the channel tunnel. a major incident alert remains in place as officials work to clear a backlog of more than 1,000 lorries stranded on nearby motorways. simon jones has the latest. working through the night at the port of dover, to try to clear the backlog of traffic. and there is a third warning, but that they may as we approached all of the roads, in all directions, i think the infrastructure around the ports and the channel i think the infrastructure around the port, around the tunnel, needs to be looked at. because it isn t fair on the locals. the immediate challenae fair on the locals. the immediate challenge has fair on the locals. the immediate challenge has been fair on the locals. the immediate challenge has been to fair on the locals. the immediate challenge has been to get - fair on the locals. the immediat
we re beginning with chaos in the skies during what may be the busiest weekend so far this year for air travel. according to the flight tracking website flight aware more than 900 flights were canceled on sunday alone across the u.s. since friday there have been more than 3,000 flight cancellations. so the airlines are blaming weather problems and ongoing staff shortages, in particular a shortage of pilots, so can travelers expect more of this as we enter the peak summer travel season? cnn s aviation correspondent pete muntean is live at reagan national airport. a lot of unhappy travelers this morning, pete. reporter: no doubt, john. in fact, a lot of people probably still trying to get home even today after traveling this weekend. these new numbers are huge, but the cause of this really is not. we were reporting over and over again that airlines got a lot smaller over the pandemic and that has led to these massive flight crew shortages. the deck of cards really comes tum
a specific ethnic group, the han chinese. that s not supposed to be allowed but they are doing it. to chinese leaders the concept of diversity, equity and inclusion, those concepts make no sense at all. when nancy pelosi took off for taiwan the day aboard a u.s. military jet, the chinese government did not issue a statement applauding her remarkable display of spunky girl power. no one in beijing congratulated her for breaking glass ceilings as the very first speaker in history to identify as a woman. no one in china even mentioned that. instead chinese leaders treated china s foreign minister declared nancy pelosi s mere presence greatly undermines peace and stability across the taiwan strait proving that in asia as in-home, things rarely improve when nancy pelosi shows up. the question is why did she go in the first place, that s the real question. the official line in washington is her trip was designed to reaffirm taiwan s status as a u.s. ally. okay. accept the problem
of ukrainian grain needed to feed the developing world will start to rot, if export routes are not reopened soon. rock music. back after three years, the iconic glastonbury festival opens its gates to music fans again festival goers hello and welcome. a california jury has found the american comedian bill cosby was liable for sexually assaulting a woman at the playboy mansion in 1975 when she was 16 years old. the court also ordered that cosby must payjudy huth, who is now 64, half a million dollars in damages. she spoke of her relief after the victory in court. mark lobel reports. justice forjudy huth, after the man, known to millions as america s dad, bill cosby, is found by a jury in a civil trial to have abused her a0 years ago at the playboy mansion. it has been torture, it has, ripped apart, thrown under the bus and backed over and this to me such a big victory, it really is.- victory, it really is. judy huth testified victory, it really is. judy huth testified that -