Hello, im samantha simmonds. Welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. We start in china. Americas top diplomat, antony blinken, has told the bbc that he is prepared to take steps against china if beijing continues to send key supplies to russia which are used to aid its invasion of ukraine. The Secretary Of State has been holding talks with the chinese leader, xijinping, for talks in beijing where he also raised concerns about taiwan, and industrial espionage. Mr xi in return called for greater mutual co operation, so both countries could succeed. After that meeting, mr blinken sat down with the bbc s laura bicker heres a little of what they said. Thank you forjoining us. What were the biggest points of contention for you and your chinese counterparts . Whats really important is i was last here ten months ago and that really kicked off much greater engagement between our countries, diplomatic engagement with a number of my colleagues coming to
Russia is doing in terms of influence efforts in the United States trying to sow division that are already apparent in the us evidence that they tried to influence and maybe interfere in the elections. Terrific to have you here, kylie. Thank you so much for sharing this breaking news reporting. Weve got major new developments. Lets get right to them developing news for you this morning, donald trump just arrived at court, were watching that hallway for you to see if hes got anything to say today before critical testimony gets back underway . In historic Hush Money Trial this hour, the former publisher of the enquirer, david pecker, back on the stand under crossexamination as the defense tries to know formalized conversations, pecker told the jury about that involve trump, Stormy Daniels, and efforts to catch their stories and kill them because they were unflattering to donald trump cnns beringia and grasses live outside of court. As we wait to see if donald trump has anything to say. H
I dont know what was achieved over the last six plus hours. None of the Witnesses Today were fact witnesses. None were involved in the investigation into the alleged activities in the first place. Whats more, none of the witnesses testified today of direct knowledge of what republicans have been claiming about joe biden. Whether its smoke today, we got more smoke. Thats fox news host neal cavuto with the same assessment that came out of yesterdays Impeachment Hearing and came out hearings before, about the inquiry into hunter biden and how joe biden got so fabulously wealthy off his crack addict son. Yeah. Lots of luck, fellas. Okay. As House Republicans failed to produce evidence linking the president to his sons business dealings, were going to have a lot more from that hearing. On capitol hill, it may take a miracle to stop a Government Shutdown right now. Were going to have the latest on any lastditch efforts to fund the government before sundays deadline and were going to show you
Oswald killed jfk which could only mean ted cruzs father was involved in jfks assassination. It was a stress. But at the time trump was running against cruz for the republican president now, trump was already well on his way to becoming the partys nominee, but ted cruz was still hanging on, and he was refusing to leave the race much to trumps vexatious. By The Morning Of May 3rd Trump was calling into his favorite morning show. His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to oswald being shot. The whole thing is ridiculous. By the end of that day ted cruz hadha dropped out of the president ial race but not before responding to trumps allegations. You know, donalds source for this is the National Enquirer. The National Enquirer is tabloid trash, but its run by his good friend, david pecker, the ceo whos endorsed donald trump. So the National Enquirer has become his hit piece he uses to smear anybody and everybody. The national ybenquirer has become trumps hit piece he uses to smear anybo
And through meaningful partnerships with families, they become centers of their communities. Real solutions for kids and communities at aft. Org when i was your age, we never had anything like this. They become centers of their communities. What . Wifi . Wifi that works all over the house, even the basement. The basement. So i can finally throw that party. And invite shannon barnes. Dream do come true. Xfinity gives you reliable wifi with walltowall coverage on all your devices, even when everyone is online. Maybe well even get married one day. I wonder what i will be doing . Probably still living here with mom and dad. Fast reliable speeds right where you need them. Thats walltowall wifi with xfinity. Many may of 2016, you could find this Bomb Shell On Newsstands and apt the supermarket checkout in your local grocer. It was everywhere. Ted cruzs father linked to jfk assassination. Top u. S. Spy poses president ial race bomb shell. The blood, the mission, the blood money, the mission.