hour. what an inspire story. sandra: i love a good story with a happy ending. this very special conversation coming up as the student athlete, the sixth grader and his mother, all join us live coming up. we ll start things off with this fox news alert. john: secretary of state antony blinken wrapping up his historic trip to beijing and attempt to clear the air between the world s top two superpowers. sandra: they say the conversations were constructive but admitting they failed to reach notable breakthroughs on taiwan, slamming the talks as fruitless. the risk here of this renewed engagement strategy is we will abandon important defensive actions to engage in a series of endless fruitless talks with the ccp. john: a bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling on president biden to take a page out of his predecessor s playbook. he want to expand israel s diplomatic ties with countries in africa to keep china from establishing a bigger footprint there. sandra: we will
winfrey but he is out of his comfort zone on the stand. absolutely and as i found to my zone on the stand. absolutely and as i found to my cost zone on the stand. absolutely and as i found to my cost as zone on the stand. absolutely and as i found to my cost as well, zone on the stand. absolutely and as i found to my cost as well, going - zone on the stand. absolutely and as i found to my cost as well, going in l i found to my cost as well, going in the witness box is the loneliest place in the world and it s a lot more unsettling and traumatic than if you are on newsnight. you have some of the best lawyers who are pulling your life apart and it s going to go on for days. i was prosecuted for tax fraud in 2016 and i went in the witness box for four days and got decimated, really. i ve written a book about this which is coming out soon, time after time, about the emotional trauma when you are put through the wringer like that. he might have bitten off more than he can
of plastic pollution. just one of the issues under discussion on world environment day. it s seven in the morning here in singapore, and 3:30am in odisha in india, where the country s worst train disaster in decades happened. there s a growing sense of shock as the scale of the crash becomes more apparent. the rescue operation has now been called off with more than 275 people known to have been killed. a major investigation is under way. officials have confirmed that signal failure may have been a factor, but there are broader concerns, too. our correspondent archana shukla has been at the scene, we ll hear from there shortly, but first, let s show you this report. a painful search. sifting through photos. from hospital to hospital, and now morgue to morgue. inconsolable and traumatised. 22 year old himanshu can barely speak. his brother was on the train that crashed. can i see my brother, just once? he keeps repeating. at this makeshift morgue, he is just one of the many
breaking news from around the world, 24 breaking news from around the world, 2a hours a day. this is bbc news. turning to the war in ukraine now, and the us secretary of state has called president putin s invasion of ukraine a strategic failure . speaking in finland, antony blinken said the war had only strengthened the very alliances russia had sought to weaken nato and the eu. finland, of course, is the latest country to join the security alliance. mr blinken made clear that a strong ukraine was the only way to achieve a lasting peace. precisely because we have no illusions about putin s aspirations, we believe the prerequisite for meaningful diplomacy and real peace is a stronger ukraine, capable of deterring and defending against any future aggression. meanwhile, in ukraine itself, president zelensky has threatened to prosecute local officials if there is any repeat of the failure to open air raid shelters, which contributed to the deaths of three people in kyiv on thurs