hello and welcome to the programme. the us coastguard has launched a search and rescue operation, after a sub mersible used to take tourists to view the wreck of the titanic went missing in the atlantic ocean. the vessel with five people on board lost contact about one hour and 45 minutes into a dive to the wreck. the titanic, which sank in 1912, lies nearly 4,000 metres beneath the surface, around 600 kilometres off the coast of newfoundland in canada.from boston , our correspondent jessica parker reports. designed to plunge the depths of the ocean, this is the titan submersible, now missing in the north atlantic after contact with the vessel was lost. it sparked a frantic but complicated search. 0n the bottom, particularly very deep, it s going to be difficult to rescue it. none of the conventional submarine rescue methods, which are designed mainly for naval submarines, would be able to operate down at the depth of the titanic. even if it could get down there, the hatc
the readout was that china sort of scolded him and the americans for being the cause of this. so i think as far as i can tell, so far, largely optical. i think one of the interviewees said the causes of this are structural and great power rivalry in a sense and they are not going to go away. i think the big question is less whether there was a positive tone in the meeting, but really what is the substance, and so far we have seen very little. and as a reporter indicated, the military to military communications launch has not been reopened. one of the main issues is really about taiwan. the us has given its recommitment to a one china policy. what message does that send to taiwan? as far as i could tell from secretary lincoln simply reiterated the us one china policy which is different from beijing s one china principle. i think the chinese have been very clear about that. i was in singapore with the chinese defence minister, a pretty tough and clear direct speech that included specific