you know, for a couple of years there was bad communication. so good communication with chinese officials and to make sure that the us government understands that having us business in china, active in china, competing in china is good for the companies and is good for the united states. now the treasury secretary is also wanting to push back on china about overproduction whilst also advocating for favourable conditions for us businesses in china. do you think she s going to be able to achieve that? no. ina word. not today, but i think we need to keep that message coming. you know, if you drop a talking point, the chinese will feel, 0k, well, it s solved. so market access will continue to be a strong message as well as national security. she s going to be talking about national security and perhaps they ll talk about some areas where they can cooperate in perhaps third world financing to help alleviate third world debt. china dominates the sector and its cheap solar panels ar
good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. five bulgarian nationals have been sentenced to a total of 25 years in prison after being convicted of the biggest benefit fraud ever in britain. the gang stole almost £54 million by making thousands of fraudulent claims for universal credit. the judge said they d systemically plundered the state s support mechanism to steal eye watering sums. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports. taxpayers money thrown around like confetti by a multi million pound fraudster. the scale of the scam astonished investigators. now the gang behind it have been sentenced. the full story of britain s biggest benefit fraud can be told. prosecutors say thousands of people were flown from bulgaria to london, that ids were then used to make claims for the main benefit universal credit. police officers. when the fraudsters various premises were raided, investigators found an extraordinary amount of evidence. 900 mobile phones
lockdown inviting them to a bring your own booze party to which about 30 or a0 people turned up in the gardens in lockdown. that was breaching rules because of the time you are only allowed to meet with one other person from outside your household outside. even that day, government officials had been on television warning people that those were the rules. so it was seen very much as a real embarrassment at the very least to the government at the time, orwhen very least to the government at the time, or when it came out, rather, a year later. so they will be no doubt that will be talked about in question today in the inquiry. then we will be hearing from lee cain, the director of communications for the director of communications for the prime minister, and that is going to be significant also, because we have also had an indication of the private correspondence going on between lee cain and other senior officials during that time which gives you a bit of a glimpse of some of t
backin back in 2022 msps here at holyrood to pass legislation and that legislation was to make it easier for someone to change their legally recognised sex in scotland but it was blocked by the uk government who believed it was encroaching on the reserved areas, areas affecting the rest of the united kingdom that msps are not supposed to legislate in and it has been a bit of a political argument for some time. scottish green is calling on the next uk government to lift that the veto. i got some time withjohn swinney the leader of the snp before he took part in the pride march and they asked what he wanted the next government to do. we asked what he wanted the next government to do. asked what he wanted the next government to do. we have passed leuislation government to do. we have passed legislation in government to do. we have passed legislation in the government to do. we have passed legislation in the scottish legislation in the scottish parliament which is the demo