Kilometres South West of cape canaveral. Making its way across florida. The new leader has delivered his national address since he became leader injanuary. He called on the people of taiwan to be courageous and brave amid escalating tensions with china. He pledged to defend the islands sovereignty. It makes most of the well s advanced chips. Lets speak to a political Scientist And Assistant professor at taiwan university, and a nonresident fellow. Thank you forjoining me. First of all, the speech, what have you made of it, what do you see is the most important Top Lines . What we have often important Top Lines . What we have often heard important Top Lines . What we have often heard from important Top Lines . What we | have often heard from William Lai since he came into office was a bit more of a snarky tone and how he addressed china and relations. We saw a Tone Change in the Speech Today where we saw far more pragmatic level headed language in regards to Cross Trade Relations and th
And coming up on Bbc News, linejudges at wimbledon will be a thing of the past as the all England Club controversially update to electronic Line Calling for next year. Good Evening And Welcome to the Bbc News at six. This is the West Coast of Florida Tonight as millions of people brace themselves for the lethal Hurricane Bearing down on them. The category 4 storm with sustained winds of 155 miles an hour is still about 12 hours away. Its expected to be the most powerful storm to hit florida in more than a century. This is where the hurricane is expected to hit before it passes right over the state of florida. Forecasters are warning of torrential rain, flash flooding, High Winds and possible Storm Surges of 10 15 feet. Surges happen when water moves inland from the coast. This is what it looks like from space, this was filmed from the international Space Station earlier today. It shows just how vast the hurricane is. Our correspondent Gordon Corera is in tampa. And conditions are alrea
Storm of the century. Benjamin netanyahu speaks with President Biden as a senior Israeli Minister says this countrys response will be precise, deadly and surprising. And a record breaking Day Forjoe Root as he becomes englands top Test Match Run scorer ever. On newsnight at 10. 30pm tonight well bring you fresh insight on the stories of the day, with big interviews and our regular panel of newsnighters and of course, look at what the papers are saying about tomorrows news. Good evening, welcome to the Bbc News at ten. Hurricane milton is now only hours away from reaching the West Coast of florida, but ahead of it high winds and torrential rain have already caused damage and destruction. President biden s calling it the worst storm for 100 years and its forced more than 7 Million people out of their homes and into shelters or safer areas. From space, this is from space, this is what it looks like what it looks like as captured in these as captured in these images filmed from the images
Democrats are in a box. They are trapped inside and it is a box of their own making. Slowly but surely, Kamala Harris is being exposed for what she has. An empty pantsuit. Even when obvious questions are asked, she wont answer them. Just because you have changed your position on so many things. You were against tracking and now your ford. You were for medicare for all and now you are not. So many of the people dont truly know what you believe or what you stand for and i know you have heard that. Speak when the last four years, i have been Vice President of the United States. Ive been traveling the country and listening To folks and seeking what is possible in terms of common ground. I believe in building consensus. We are diverse people. Geographically, regionally in terms of wHere we are in our backgrounds and what the american people do want is that we have leaders who can build consensus. WHere we can figure out compromise and understand, it is not a bad thing as long as you dont co
Thank you very much. Let s start with that concept of a multi front war. Israel is, of course, at war in gaza. It s at war in lebanon now, and it is in a de facto war with iran, which is unfolding day by day. In your view, are any of those fronts avoidable, or is all of this unavoidable? well, you can add the houthis in yemen, you can add some militias in iraq and in syria. So, it s actually. . . And we have some problems in the west bank as well. So, it s a really a big mess now. Yeah. But in your view, as a security veteran with long years of service in special forces, and then, of course, as director of the mossad intelligence agency, is netanyahu in a place where he inevitably had to be, or is some of this avoidable? well, you know, it s a bit hard to say. If we rememberjust a year ago when the hamas started their attack, their murderous attack, immediately hezbollah joined the party. As you remember, and a week later, the houthis started their block on the bab el mandeb strait, an