one of the world s biggest online, crime websites online crime websites is shut down by police in seventeen countries. is shut down by police in 17 countries. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7 in the morning in singapore and 4 o clock in the afternoon in simi valley in california, where us house speaker kevin mccarthy greeted taiwan president tsai ing wen at the start of a meeting that has already infuriated china. in the last hour, beijing has promised a resolute response. mr mccarthy is the most senior american politician to meet a taiwanese leader on us soil since 1979. the meeting took place at the ronald reagan presidential library during a stopover on president tsai sjourney home from latin america. china claims taiwan is part of its own territory and discourages the island s leaders from meeting foreign officials. the two leaders held a press conference earlier. here s what they said. the friendship between the people of taiwan
good evening, welcome to the programme, we have got a packed two hours for you this evening. including a special investigation tonight into the execution of an unarmed ukrainian soldier. we will tell you who he was and who was involved. and we will get the thoughts of a formerjudge who sat on the panel of the international criminal court. big developments in scotland today, where police have arrested peter murrell, nicola sturgeon s husband, in connection to the snps fundraising and finances. but we will start with the split screen events we have watching through the day, president zelensy in warsaw, emmanuel macron in beijing. it s his first visit to china in four years. and from a chinese perspective, emmanuel macron is probably the most important politician in europe. it is the french president in particular, who has continued to engage with putin to find a diplomatic solution to this war in ukraine. and they see him as the man who can push the european union towards a mor
in israel and the occupied west bank. a raid by israeli troops in nablus on wednesday left 11 palestinians dead and about 100 wounded. now on bbc news, the travel show now on bbc news, omegle: matched with my abuser. a warning this programme contains descriptions of sexual violence and disturbing scenes. we tell children, don t talk to strangers, because we, as a humanity, know that adults and children are at different levels. when alice logged onto omegle at the age of 11, she had no idea that she would be matched with a paedophile. he had ill intentions, evil intentions. i was consistently being forced to do things that a child should not have to do. omegle is a hunting ground for predators. any time that - i ve been on omegle, a very high percentage of it is for a sexual purpose. - there is, 100%, definitely a dark side to omegle. omegle is quoted in dozens of cases against predators the world over. but now, alice is fighting back. this will be the first case that
shares of mufg, mizuho and smfg were all down around 8% in trading. the nikkei exchange was down over 2% overall. here in europe, we ve seen credit suisse drop another 5% in early trading. on monday, major us banks lost around $90 billion in stock market value, bringing their loss since svb s collapse to nearly $190 billion. many are now speculating the federal reserve will pause its plans to keep raising interest rates, designed to tame inflation. we re nowjoined by greg swenson, who is an international investment banker and founding partner at brigg macadam. good to have you with us. let s pick up good to have you with us. let s pick up on that thought about rate because that progressive increase increase in interest rates has been one of the things cost for the collapse in svb. will the federal reserve be looking at this closely? i think the key word is maybe. goldman sachs came out yesterday suggesting that they would pause and not raise rates at the next meeting, but tha
balanced position , welcoming its readiness to play what it called a positive role in a settlement. the united states says it s extremely concerned by violence in israel and the occupied west bank. a raid by israeli troops in nablus on wednesday left 11 palestinians dead and about 100 wounded. that s according to palestinian officials who say several of those killed were civilians. now on bbc news, click. this week, it s game on in helsinki. a cityjust the size of glasgow that house some of the most innovative, influential and successful mobile games companies in the world. we re going wild in the scottish town that s turning your phone into a one stop tourism shop. it turns visiting a city into a game. - absolutely. look out, alasdair! there s a lion on the loose! and we re crossing the multiverse to see the bedroom artist behind the bafta nominated everything everywhere all at once. there s something very big and bright going on in north london. come on in and we ll show yo