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
retiring this morning marking the end of a more than 40-year career of military service. but the commandant s departure means for the first time in more than a century, the marine corps will not have a congressionally confirmed replacement to lead them. the republican senator tommy tuberville continues to block promotions for top military brass. dozens of them. since february he s refused to approve hundreds of high-ranking advancements over a pentagon abortion policy. this is a challenging time for all branches of the military. modernization, overcoming challenges and threats in ukraine, and europe. the strengthening of nato as well as threats in asia to taiwan. when you speak to pentagon officials, what do they say this particular hole means for them as well as all the others? it s a major problem as the pentagon and the service branches try to figure out how to function without having
concern over the broader impac new court rulings could have the abortion pill cases week t the supreme court. i do not believe that the courts have the authority to have the authority over the fd that they just asserted. i do believe it creates crisis should the supreme court d that, it would essentially institute a national abortio ban. later this hour, the chai the florida party will tell us about her arrest at an abortio rights protest, and the highly restrictive bill that could be implemented in her state thi week we re covering all the stories and new developments, with correspondents from new york t washington, to taiwan. first, to tennessee. what could be big developments as soon as tomorrow, on th expulsion of to bloc democratic state legislatures. the story still dominating newspaper pages there. nbc s kathy park joins me now. kathy, a lot of developments here to walk through
china, they are trying to do what they can to keep from escalating the tension with beijing at this point. not that they are going to let up on china in terms of their culpability over the original spy balloon, but they don t want to rupture the relationship versus a long period of time and they can t eventually return to some sort of a conversation which they can move on other issues. there are a lot of other issues. they know the chinese are spying on the united states, like the united states is spying on china. that goes without saying. so they don t want this to be a permanent rupture in the relationship, a hard time as it is communicating with the chinese over this issue and in recent months partially because of the visit by then speaker nancy pelosi to taiwan, now speaker kevin mccarthy is talking about going to taiwan, which could be another irritant in the relationship. they re trying to manage all these things and make a judgment as to what makes the most sense in terms of the
shot down the high altitude surveillance balloon, that was a potentially dangerous development. if there s a miscommunication and they don t have military-to-military hot lines, it could lead to a real problem. i asked john kirby about that, he said there are other lines of communication but everyone is acknowledging they would like to have that line open. and my last question to ryan, the reason the line was not answered was because nancy pelosi made a trip to taiwan. now there s talk of speaker kevin mccarthy going to tie tie taiwan, what s going on? reporter: he s talking around it every time the question is posed but he was very specifically asked about this a week or so ago, and said if he had any concerns that the chinese government has specifically said that they would not be in favor of a trip by the speaker to taiwan, and he specifically said that the chinese government will not tell