sophisticated weaponry is helping ukraine challenge for key cities, in the south and the east. us presidentjoe biden and china s president xijinping held a phone call today, and there were warnings and assurances about the us position on taiwan. taiwan is an island off china s south east coast. it behaves like an independent state but beijing considers it part of china, and says it will re take it, by force if necessary. there have been tensions between the us and china over that possibility. and today, xijinping told joe biden that the us should abide by the 0ne china principle with regard to taiwan according to chinese state media. with regard to taiwan and president xi said: those who play with fire will only get burnt. joe biden responded that on taiwan. the us policy has not changed. let s remind ourselves what this is all about. back in may, this happened. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan, if it comes to that? yes. you are? that s t
was it one rule for them and another for the rest of us? also tonight. yet another mass shooting in america. 19 primary school children and two teachers killed by a gunman in texas. innocent lives cut short. ten year old amerie had just received an award, the youngest victim was just seven. where in god s name is our backbone to have the courage to stand up to the lobbies. thejonny depp amber heard defamation trial super model kate moss appears on video and denies the allegation that the actor pushed her down stairs. and coming up on the bbc news channel. big ambitions at chelsea. the consortium led by todd boley gets government approval to take over as the roman abramovich era comes to an end. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. so, the long awaited final report on lockdown parties from the senior civil servant sue gray has been published. it is not simply the extra detail we now have that is both revelatory and damning, but what it says about a prevailing cul
there are fresh tensions over gun laws in america after 19 children and two teachers were killed in a school shooting in texas. the republican state government governor was confronted by his democratic. excuse me. sit down. you are out of line, and an embarrassment. sit down. you are doing nothing. supermodel kate moss appears in the trial ofjohnny depp and amber heard and denies thatjohnny depp pushed her down the stairs. good evening. so the long awaited final report on lockdown parties from the senior civil servant sue gray has been published. it is not simply the extra detail we now have that is both revelatory and damning but what it says about a prevailing culture that allowed such behaviour to take place multiple examples of a lack of respect and poor treatment of security and cleaning staff, even an altercation breaking out and someone being sick. sue gray squarely blames political leaders and senior officials for allowing sixteen events to go ahead in breach of