hello and welcome. president emmanuel macron of france has told xi jinping that he s counting on the chinese leader to bring russia to its senses over the war in ukraine. mr macron made the comments at the start of a meeting with mr xi in beijing. the french president is in china on a state visit. in his opening remarks, the chinese leader told his guest that the two countries could overcome their differences. but on the issue of the war, that will be difficult. france has aligned itself firmly behind ukraine. china has given support to moscow. earlier, the bbc s mariko oi explained what a good outcome might look like from the meetings. well, i think it s fair to say that there is a lot to discuss, as president macron has been facing those rather embarrassing pension protests back home so he wants to score some economic victories and he wants to push for closer trade and investment ties, basically an accord which if ratified could boost investment ties there. and of course is
the former chief executive of scottish national party peter murrell has been released without charge by the police, pending further investigation into party finances. mr murrell, the husband of former first minister nicola sturgeon, was arrested on wednesday morning. a police search resumed on thursday morning at the couple s glasgow home. let us cross live to our scotland correspondent james shaw in glasgow. what is the picture they re just now? $5 what is the picture they re “ust now? , what is the picture they re “ust now? m what is the picture they re ust now? m , what is the picture they re ust now? as you can see, the scene behind me now? as you can see, the scene behind me is now? as you can see, the scene behind me is a now? as you can see, the scene behind me is a big now? as you can see, the scene behind me is a big police - now? as you can see, the scene l behind me is a big police evidence tent obscuring the front of peter murrell and nicola sturge
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counsel investigating donald trump could finally get testimony from former vice president mike pence. that could be incredibly significant. you know, it s a month of pushback, and now pence, it appears, is going to finally testifying. the special counsel s investigation into trump and his actions on january. six. a spokesman for the former vice president says he will not appeal a judge s ruling in order that he must appear before the grand jury that s investigating the insurrection and trump s efforts to overturn the election. that means pence could testify about the one on one conversations he had with trump leading up to that day, including what we know is a heated phone call that happened the morning of the riot when pence, refused trump s efforts to get him to try to block the certification of president biden s win, plus a cnn exclusive this morning as cnn sources are telling cnn that former national security officials have testified that trump was repeatedly warned he di
after the house speaker kevin mccarthy met with taiwan s president in california. house foreign affairs chair michael mccall leading the delegation in taiwan, warning that china better think twice before launching or even considering launching an invasion. so being here i think sends a signal to the chinese communist party that the united states supports taiwan, we re going to harden taiwan, and want them to think twice about invading taiwan. our correspondent there has traveled to taipei, taiwan, with the delegation, beating them there along the way. what are they saying to you today? hello. good morning to you both. look, things are getting very seserious around the island rigt now after two public shows of support from congress. this is angering china. we have learned now that there are three chinese ships that have encircled taiwan, and on top of that the chinese have announced that they will stop and inspect any ships in the taiwan strait for the next three days. t