migrants are camping out in freezing temperatures as the white house asked the supreme court to live title 42 today. nearly 60 across 12 states with a massive storm over the holiday weekend. ranging from the great lakes all the way down to rio grande. the death toll 28 in western new york where blizzard conditions left parts of the state buried under 4 feet of snow backing up in the thousands. 500,000 are waking up in the dark this morning. carley: cleanup efforts in buffalo as president biden approves emergency declaration for the storm. even more snow could be in the forecast period and the mayor of buffalo is slamming looters who destroy stores during the blizzard. people who were out looting and people are losing their lives in this harsh, winter storm is just absolutely reprehensible. i don t know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror here they are the lowest of the low. ashley: looters did not appear to be an
very well, thank you. how are you? and the glasses allowing deaf people to see real time conversations right before their eyes. hello and welcome to the programme. she knew it would antagonise beijing, but that hasn t stopped nancy pelosi, america s third highest ranking politician, from paying a high level visit to taiwan. she s just met the taiwanese president after addressing parliament and made it clear that the us would not abandon the island. china views taiwan as its own and the foreign ministry summoned the us ambassador in beijing to protest against pelosi s high profile trip. mark lobel has the latest. side by side with the taiwanese president america s third most powerful politician and actor provocation or a necessary show of support? nancy pelosi delayed high profile visit was never without risk, the anger of chinese has led to the us ambassador being summoned, nancy pelosi was handed an award for her strong ties to taiwan. ., , . , taiwan. today i am my delegati
messaging and we told them the status quo is probably okay. they need to back off. frankly, i think they probably will back off. but they are making a lot of noise right now because they have a tremendous and present the lack unprecedented protest back home. when you talk about president biden he s headed to a post-christmas vacation so you talk about the response from him, don t you think it should comfort most of the world including taiwan and the united states, for sure, for him to respond in some way, shape or form? yes, look, the clarity, this is a diplomatic back and forth. and you can t make a chess move on responded to. what we should be doing, obviously, closer to taiwan making it clear and often gone through the streets they are making it clear we are very much on taiwan side. it is our ability and
side, many officials from the us side, from the taiwan side, whose side, from the taiwan side, whose effort made this event possible. thank you also very much possible. thank you also very much to possible. thank you also very much to the media friends with us today much to the media friends with us today and also hundreds right us today and also hundreds right now watching the live transmission. right now watching the live transmission. studio: so is president transmission. studio: so is president tsai transmission. studio: so is president tsai ing-wen i transmission. studio: so is president tsai ing-wen of l president tsai ing wen of taiwan thanking the press, who have just posed questions to us house speaker nancy pelosi, an extremely controversial visit to taiwan. and what nancy pelosi was talking about there was the success of the taiwanese tech sector. when we look at their computer chips, they pretty much power everything we are using, whether it be our smartphone,
of the us speaker s visit the biden distraction one stupid voice is triggering a crisis. we said that we oppose any you to lateral changes to the status quo from either side we do not support taiwan independence and we said as i said again yesterday we expect cross strait differences to be resolved by peaceful means. for these two resolved by peaceful means. for these two key resolved by peaceful means. for these two key trading partners not the trading blows but an immediate cause on goods as a result of speaker pelosi s visit bans on citrus fruits and some fish exports from taiwan while exports of sand blocked the other way. low level disapproval, awkwardness diplomacy and a threat of much worse. taiwan s status remains uncomfortable. mike lobel, bbc news. doctor oriana skylar mastro is centre fellow at the freeman spogli institute for international studies at stanford university and a non resident senior fellow at the american