welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. secretary of state antony blinken meeting face-to-face right now with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. the high stakes one-on-one is part of blinken s efforts to meet with china s top diplomat. an effort to lower the temperature amid rising tensions between the u.s. and china. cnn s kylie atwood in beijing this morning. just the fact that their meeting is a huge meeting, kylie, we learned 90 minutes ago their meeting was a go. what do we know about it? reporter: that s right, it s here in beijing, the secretary of state who is the first cabinet member to visit china from biden administration in 2 1/2 years. sitting down with president xi, we don t know much about the meeting because it s so ongoing. here s what we do know, there have been a number of hours that the secretary has engaged with chinese officials over the course of the last days in beijing. spending more than five ho
ukraine s president gets the red carpet treatment in poland and a pledge of fighterjets. one of the world s biggest online, crime websites is shut down by police in 17 countries. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. china s foreign ministry has condemned a meeting between tsai ing wen and the us speaker of the house in california. it vowed a resolute response. mr mccarthy as the most senior american politician to meet a taiwanese leader on us soil since 1979. the meeting took place at the ronald reagan presidential library during a stopover on president tsai journey home from latin america. climate china claims it as part of its own territory. here is what was said at a press conference. the friendship said at a press conference. tue: friendship between said at a press conference. tte: friendship between the people of taiwan and america is a matter of profound importance to the free world and it is criti
they proved to be not fit to address the specific context of the russian aggression against ukraine. nevertheless, i would like to remind all of us that lastjuly the secretary general activated the mechanism, which is called caac, the mechanism of children in armed conflicts, and the united nations started collecting information and monitoring the situation. the united nations and the special representative of the united nations on the children in conflict will report to the security council thisjune orjuly, and then the decision will be taken whether the russian federation will be listed as a violator of the rights of the child in the conflict. right. but even if they come to that conclusion so what? that does not get the kids back to ukraine. yes, you re right. but i think the pressure is mounting and the fact that on march 17th, the icc issued the arrest warrant for putin and lvova belova really pushed the russian federation to the wall. and the fact that they had this m
one of the world s biggest online, crime websites online crime websites is shut down by police in seventeen countries. is shut down by police in 17 countries. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7 in the morning in singapore and 4 o clock in the afternoon in simi valley in california, where us house speaker kevin mccarthy greeted taiwan president tsai ing wen at the start of a meeting that has already infuriated china. in the last hour, beijing has promised a resolute response. mr mccarthy is the most senior american politician to meet a taiwanese leader on us soil since 1979. the meeting took place at the ronald reagan presidential library during a stopover on president tsai sjourney home from latin america. china claims taiwan is part of its own territory and discourages the island s leaders from meeting foreign officials. the two leaders held a press conference earlier. here s what they said. the friendship between the people of taiwan
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