but going by what we ve already heard from us officials one major goal mightjust be simply improving communication. live now to san francisco. we can speak to sumi somaskanda. the white house has been playing down what we can expect. it is an important meeting, nonetheless? that is absolutel important meeting, nonetheless? twat is absolutely right. this is being called a significant meeting but they are talking about talking, about re establishing a lot of communication, not only between president biden and president xi at the highest level, but military to military. there was this accusation from the us that china had flown a spy from the us that china had flown a spy balloon and then either shut down the spy billing. the chinese rejected those accusations. at that time the us military try to help china never depicted. it was a source of great consternation in the us. who do we call in the future, will somebody pick up? that is the basis of what they are discussing, by 30
hello, i m vishala sri pathma. we start with the latest diplomatic efforts from the israel gaza conflict. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has met the palestinian authority president, mahmoud abbas, in the occupied west bank city of ramallah for talks on the gaza conflict. mr abbas told mr blinken there must be an immediate ceasefire and an allowing of humanitarian aid to the gaza strip in gaza, hamas say at least 45 people have been killed in an israeli air strike on a refugee camp. the israeli military says it s investigating. the air strikes began after gunmen from hamas the group designated as a terrorist organisation by the uk government killed at least moo israelis and kidnapped more than 200 others on october 7th. the hamas run health ministry says, since then, more than 9,700 palestinians have been killed. in the past hour there have been reports that communication and internet services have been cut off. further north three children and their grandmothe
good afternoon. a serving metropolitan police officer has appeared in court charged with the kidnap and murder of sarah everard. sarah, who was 33, disappeared whilst walking home in south london 10 days ago. her body was discovered in woodland in kent a week after she went missing. 48 year old wayne couzens appeared before magistrates this morning. as our correspondent, helena wilkinson, reports. arriving at westminster magistrates court this morning, pc wayne couzens believed to be in this police van. the 48 year old met police officer joined the force two years ago. today he appeared in the dock charges of kidnap and murder were formally put to him. it s ten days since sarah everard disappeared in south london. her body was found here in woodland, near ashford, in kent. extensive searches are continuing close to where her body was found. 13 miles away, the police officer s house in deal, in kent, is also a focus. and an old garage, in dover, where he used to work is b
good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. a serving metropolitan police officer has appeared in court charged with the kidnap and murder of sarah everard. sarah, who was 33, disappeared whilst walking home in south london 10 days ago. in south london ten days ago. her body was discovered in woodland, in kent, a week after she went missing. 48 year old wayne couzens appeared before magistrates this morning as our correspondent, helena wilkinson, reports. arriving at westminster magistrates court this morning, pc wayne couzens believed to be in this police van. the 48 year old met police officer joined the force two years ago. today he appeared in the dock charges of kidnap and murder were formally put to him. it s ten days since sarah everard disappeared in south london. her body was found here in woodland, near ashford, in kent. it was identified through hard dental records. extensive searches are continuing close to where her body was found. 13 miles away, the police o
hello and welcome to bbc news. we ll be getting more on all our top stories this afternoon, including tonight s doorstep vigilfor sarah everard, when we join the bbc one bulletin with clive myrie in a few minutes time. but first to the american city of minneapolis, and one of the largest pre trial settlements in us history $27 million to the family of george floyd. he s the african american man who died while being restrained by police officers in may last year. lawyers for his family say the city has agreed to settle in the civil case for damages. separately, a former minneapolis police officer, derek chauvin, is standing trial on criminal charges, including third degree murder, following the incident. here s the floyd family lawyer, ben crump. the financial compensation most directly impacts george floyd and his family, the future of their family. but it is the policy reforms that affects all of us. today marks the one year anniversary of the killing by police of breonna