latest sports news. thanks forjoining us on the programme. lots to get through but we start with football on a busy night of action around europe. in the premier league there s been two huge matches with implications at both ends of the table. manchester united moved back into the top four, after a 1 0 win over brentford at old trafford. marcus rashford with the goal in the first half. it s a victory that lifts united back above tottenham in the race for champions league places. i think we played very good foot tall, especially the first half, it s not easy against this very good team. we took great chances, the first half especially. the second half it was better but we saw what i missed on the sunday, and we do it over the line. and manchester united are level on points with newcastle who stay third but improved their goal difference even further with a 5 1 demolition of west ham at the london stadium. callum wilson and joelinton had them two up, before kurt zouma
at the start of a three day summit. the leaders are delivering opening remarks at the great hall of the people during the first event of a packed schedule today. the french president said it would focus on economic ties and stability. macron is expected to press chinese officials, including li qiang and president xi to do more for peace in ukraine. we will bring you more on the talks as they take place later. this summit comes as tensions between china and the west are running high. and as taiwanese president tsai ing wen is in california meeting with us speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. here she is meeting lawmakers despite objections by china. mccarthy stressed the need to speed up arms deliveries to taiwan. china, which has long considered taiwan as part of its country, denounced the meeting, accusing the us of seeking taiwanese independence. it comes on the heels of other high profile summits, including then speaker of the house nancy pelosi s trip to taiwan last year.
of newjersey christine todd whitman and miles taylor who served in the trump administration as chief of staff at homeland security. welcome to the programme: there was a moment this afternoon when the website, flightradar, crashed because so many people were following the progress of a plane that was tracking a circuitous route from malaysia to taiwan. and that is because flight spar 19, was carrying nancy pelosi, house speaker, and the highest ranking us visitor to taiwan, in some 25 years. she landed safelyjust after 11pm, accompanied by a senior delegation of house committee chairmen, in defiance of escalating chinese threats. just after landing, the washington post published the speakers opinion piece, in which she explains some of her thinking. in the face of the chinese communist party s that might be the official white house position, but at such a delicate moment in us china relations, the pentagon was not in favour of the visit. remember china views taiwan as a brea
similar to the one that the u.s. has been predicting in a full fledged support of ukraine in its war against russia. that is, the u.s. remains a force that can unify nations to stand up against the worlds of socrates, whether in the west are in the east. one of the aggressors in america wants to contain is north korea, which has been flaunting its nuclear arsenal recently. the country has performed 16 missile tests so far this year, including a test of long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles, that would be capable of reaching the u.s. mainland. senior u.s. officials are warning that north korea could perform another weapons test, while biden is in the region. so, far that has not happen. as serious as the north korean threat, is its potential trouble comes from china, from north korea s strongest closest allies. the other goal of president biden s visit to asia this week, including his physical presence there, is to counter china s growing economic and military and dip