Nhk worlds estella mack has more. Reporter the summit will be the first since taiwan and Mainland China split 66 years ago following the civil war. Relations were hostile for a long time. But in 1993, the heads of the private liaison offices from both sides got together for the first time in singapore. The situation started to improve in 2008 with mas election as president. There was a breakthrough last year when two sides held their first ministerial meeting in china. Translator were going to meet in a place other than taiwan or china. This is an historic first for us. It shows that our relations have matured. Reporter ma describes his talks with xi has an historic milestone. He says the dialogue will be aimed at maintaining peace and stability, and its unrelated to taiwans upcoming president ial election. Some regional experts disagree. They say the meeting has been timed with the january election firmly in mind. Mas Ruling Nationalist Party is polling badly. President ma has tried t
Ifill plus, could building more dams be a solution for droughtstricken california farmers . Ifill all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by n an on board explosion, and there are reports of mysterious debris at the crash site. Said not to be passed. Its hoped the examination of flight recorders due to start tonight could turn rumors into answers. All thats known at this stage is that the russian airbus appeared to break up in midair after leaving the egyptian red sea resort of Sharm Elsheikh and that all 224 on board perished. Egyptian investigators say they will solve this mystery but warn it could be a long process. They announced today that chinese president xi jinping and taiwanese president ma yingjeou will meet saturday in singapore. Its the first such meeting since 1949, when communists won chinas civil war. Woodruff the head of u. S. Pacific forces played down tensions with china today, over disputes in the South China S
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanks for joining us. The head of egypts investigation into last weeks Russian Airliner crash in the Sinai Peninsula said today while the plane was on autopilot, the cockpit recording registered a noise in its last second. All scenarios are on table. It may be the lithium batteries or one of the passengers, it may be an explosion in the fuel tank, it may be fatigue to the body of the plane. It may be that something exploded. Sreenivasan the head of the investigation told reporters the recording is being sent to a lab for further analysis, and it is still too soon to
The leaders of china and taiwan are set to meet saturday for historic talks. They will mark their first top level meeting in over 60 years. Hour,oming up this Stephen Carroll will be reporting live from the web summit in dublin. Stephen he has been ceo of some of the worlds biggest companies. We will be live from the web summit in dublin, finding out what john scully is going to do next. Genie we will start at the vatican, a place that has been rocked by a new scandal that some people are already calling. Atileaks for more on this, i am joined from rome about josephine mckinnon. What did you learn . i just came from a press conference releasing the book called the merchants in the temple. He found the vatican is at war with itself. He says pope francis and the reformers are trying to introduce radical changes with greater transparency, facing extraordinary obstacles and resistance from conservatives and others in the vatican who do not want to lose their position and power and do not w
And workers plead for help on their cell phones as rescue teams in lahore scramble to find survivors in the rubble in a pakistan factory collapse. Stephen carroll is live from the dublin web summit. Stephen music, satire, and social media, and High Technology brings them altogether. Up for discussion on the last day of the web summit. I will be live from dublin with the latest in 15 minutes. First, the crash of the russian plane in egypt was likely caused by a bomb, according to british and American Security sources. They say evidence now suggests that an explosive planted on the an explosive was planted on the aircraft. Britain and ireland have suspended flights to and from Sharm El Sheikh in egypt. Billiton reports. Russian and egyptian investigators continue sifting the evidence. A passenger of plane that broke apart in the air. They have extracted some information from the flight data recorder, but they are still working on critical voice recorder information, which was damaged whe