back when trump was being inaugurated. i can t say it any more clearly what it means to for for washington, d.c. to be a sanctuary city and to ensure that people who live here feel free to call on their government for help and call on the government for help. she did red state governors like abbott and texas and deucy in arizona have been sending illegals to our nation s capital by bus for the last few months. some even arrived as recently as this morning. this is a very small little tiny portion we re talking about four thousand people out of millions who have crossed our border and now the border is seeing that border states have been dealing with since biden and harris came in office. it s not in my backyard. the department of defense, of course, is jumping all over this saying, quote, the secretary takes this request for assistance very seriously. the question now becomes if it s so easy for bouser, then call in the national guard to get legitimate immediate response f
nearby, insisting there is nothing to see. one even pointing his gun threateningly towards us. shrinking glacier streams in the himalayas are creating a water crisis we have a special report on getting tap water to villages. hey, josh, it s gillian, how are you doing? very well, thank you. how are you? and the glasses allowing deaf people to see real time conversations, right in front of their eyes. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. nancy pelosi, america s third highest ranking politician, is right now in taiwan, on a visit that s infuriated beijing. ms pelosi is due to visit taiwan s parliament and meet the taiwanese president on wednesday morning. tensions are high. china considers self ruled, democratic taiwan as its own territory, and it s been flying warplanes close to the island. four us warships have also been deployed to the region. our correspondent, rupert wingfield hayes, reports from taiwan. t
in the himalayas are creating a water crisis we have a special report on getting tap water to villages. hey, josh, it s gillian, how are you doing? very well, thank you. how are you? and the glasses allowing deaf people to see real time conversations right before their eyes. she knew it would antagonise beijing but that hasn t stopped nancy pelosi america s third highest ranking politician from paying a high level visit to taiwan. in the past hour she s been at the taiwanese parliament but before arriving there the chinese foreign ministry summoned the us ambassador, nicholas burns, to beijing to protest against the visit. during her meeting with taiwanese politicians she insisted that she had come to taiwan in what she called peace for the region . we come in friendship to taiwan. we come in peace for the region and our chair of the veterans affairs committee, representing our veterans, understanding the value of peace and the avoidance of conflict. i am sure he will
scientists examined satellite data gathered during the past four decades over the entire arctic circle. now on bbc news: india s wait for water. from the hot desert to the cold mountains and dry arid plains, only a fraction of the 200 million homes in india s villages have tap water. bbc s divya arya investigates. when you can t get water from taps, life revolves around where the water is. india s villages house 200 million families. only a fraction have tap water. it s very hard to carry pots of water repeatedly on your head from that source of water to the village, which is almost a kilometre from here. from the hot desert. ..to the cold mountains. ..and dry, arid plains. it s backbreaking. i want to find out when will the walk be over? when will water come home? in 2019, prime minister narendra modi made a promise. to bring water through taps to each home in every village by 202a. he said it will ease women s daily lives. i ve set out on a journey across the country to che
is crippling new york renters, with average manhattan prices surging above $5,000 a month. welcome to world news america, on pbs and around the globe. after days of speculation, the speaker of the us house of representatives, nancy pelosi has arrived in taiwan sparking fury from china. mrs pelosi is the highest ranking us official to visit the island since 1997. the chinese government has threatened military action and in a statement said her visit seriously infringes upon china s sovereignty and territorial integrity . taiwan is self ruled, but claimed by china the result of a regional rift dating to world war two when china took control of the island from japan. but when communists took over beijing in 1949, the defeated chinese nationalist forces fled south to taiwan. the us has no formal ties with taiwan, and only 13 countries recognise the island s sovereignty. 0ur asia correspondent rupert wingfield hayes reports from taipei. the speculation has been swirling for d