welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. a potential visit to taiwan by the us house speaker, nancy pelosi, is stirring alarm in presidentjoe biden s administration. officials are concerned the trip may cross red lines for china and fears there s no potential exit path. beijing, which claims sovereignty over the island, has already issued harsh warnings, even suggesting a possible military response. against this backdrop, president biden is expected to call president xi on thursday, for the first time in months. gareth barlow reports. this is taiwan. to beijing it is the breakaway province that must become part of the country, if need be by force. to washington it is of the territory of the us has pledged to defend, if it ever comes under attack. an island nation of 23 million, at the centre of a struggle between two global superpowers and it is a potential visit to taiwan by nancy pelosi, second in light of the us presidency, we will be the host ranking
welcome to bbc news. a potential visit to taiwan by the us house speaker nancy pelosi is stirring alarm in presidentjoe biden s administration. officials fear the trip may cross red lines for china, and that there s no exit path. beijing, which claims sovereignty over the island, has already issued harsh warnings even suggesting a possible military response. against this backdrop, president biden is expected to call president xi on thursday for the first time in months. well earlier i spoke to oriana skylar mastro who s a center fellow at stanford university s freeman spogli institute for international studies. i began by asking whether she thought us house speaker nancy pelosi was right to plan a visit to taiwan. my my personal view is these types of political manoeuvring is whether it is nancy pelosi going to taiwan or president biden saying that the united states is definitely going to defend taiwan only exacerbates tensions and doesn t help the united states with the fu
than an hour passed between the first 911 call and when the shooter was killed. cnn s shimon prokupecz pressed authorities for answers divergent a press conference friday. you say there were 19 officers gathered in the hallway or somewhere. what efforts were made to try and break through that door you say was locked? what effort were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another door to get inside that classroom? none at that time. why? the on-scene commander at the time believed it had transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject. you have people who are alive, children who are calling 911 saying please, send the police. they are alive in that classroom. there are lives that are at risk. that s not we re well aware of that. right. why was this decision made not to go in and rescue these children? again, the on-scene commander considered a barricaded subject and there was time and no children at risk. obviously, you
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Everyone. Im judge Jeanine Pirro along with harold ford jr. , Jesse Watters, dana perino, and greg gutfeld. Its 5 00 in new york city, and this is the five. Fake eyelashes and butch bodies. The real housewives meets wrestlemania on capitol hill. With a little bit of Jerry Springer on the side. Bickering lawmakers lobbing trashy schoolyard insults at one another and completely derailing a very important congressional hearing. The purpose was to hold attorney general Merrick Garland in contempt of congress. After he refused to hand over an Audio Recording of President Biden from special counsel robert hurs classified documents investigation. The big guy is now claiming executive privilege to deny the release, and kgpe was dodging like crazy when pressed about their hypocrisy when it comes to transparency. Why not release that, especially with a white has committed to change . The transcript, as you all know, is already out there. The recording of the audio could be politically harmful si