harris: china surrounding taiwan. air, water, watch. harris: yep, they hit every quarter they could possibly imagine to at least some presence in land and sea. and precision missile gnomic missile strikes in the taiwan strait. that country s air force joined by navy and it simply creating a blockade now. and the target are said to be the closest ever to taiwan s spirit and as i said to come in they were surrounded. look at them appear here the president of taiwan is urging citizens to stay on high alert as intensifies their information war and calling on the international community to help support a democratic taiwan. and critics are going after the white house for the way it is handled, the house speaker s visit to taiwan purity former assistant secretary of state told politico about arguing about pelosi s travel we made a spectacle forcing beijing to react. have we done the trip quietly as we usually do, it would have generated none of the brinkmanship that we are now s
archie battersbee s parents apply to the european court of human rights to try to postpone the removal of his life support, which was due to begin today. a review has found former met police chief, dame cressida dick, may have breached professional standards during an investigation into the murder of the private detective daniel morgan. the delivery of ballots for the conservative leadership election is delayed, after the security agency gchq warned that cyber hackers could change people s votes. another hosepipe ban is on the way, after all the hot dry weather more than a million people will be affected in kent and sussex. hello, good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. foreign ministers from the g7 have said there is nojustification for what they called china s aggressive military drills in the taiwan strait. the exercises which are taking place over the next four days from tomorrow are in response to a visit to taiwan by the speaker of the us house of representatives
civil rights campaigners, who s died at the age of 93. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the european court of human rights has tonight refused an application by the parents of archie battersbee to postpone the removal of his life support, effectively ending the family s legal battle. doctors who say archie is brain stem dead were waiting for a decision from the court before beginning the withdrawal of his treatment. the 12 year old has been in a coma since an accident at his home in essex in april. let s go live now to the royal london hospital in east london, where archie has been receiving his life support treatment since april. charlotte gallacher is there. charlotte, can you bring us up to speed with these latest developments?- speed with these latest developments? speed with these latest develoments? , . , , speed with these latest develoments? , , . developments? this was the news that archie battersbee s developments? this was the news that archie battersbee
could, in the end, be meaningless. according to reporting in politico reinhart carefully reviewed signing off and considers the affidavit to be reliable. judge reinhart also notes that donald trump s legal team has not at this point filed anything, anything at all in the legal battle over the affidavit that is despite their public demands that the affidavit be made public in all of their bluster and extreme rhetoric about a supposed lack of transparency from doj. rhetoric that, of course, has led to a surge in threats against doj and the fbi. team trump s total silence on the issue in court raises even more questions about what politico terms the throw everything against the wall response to the search itself. they write this. trump and his team have not yet settled on a single approach about what may come, in. trump has often used litigation to delay and has loathed to go on offense particularly when he s likely to lose. while it is unclear whether the former president or an