life between islands will include work by over a0 artists, a mix of those who came to the uk in the 19505, artists of caribbean heritage and some who have been inspired by the islands. on one level, it is an art history, of the caribbean connection in british art from about the 19505 right to now, as a continuing story mainly of artists of caribbean descent, of course. but it is also shows how the visual arts act as this amazing lens through which we can see a broader cultural, social, political story. london s famous new year s day parade will be returning on the 1st of january. but restrictions mean the traditional parade has been replaced by a ticketed arena show. it will be at waterloo place near piccadilly circus. let s take a look at the travel situation this morning. there s a good service on the tubes apart from the piccadilly line which is part suspended. for all other travel news tune in to your local bbc radio station.
QUITO, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) Ecuador will expand the protected marine area at the Galapagos Islands by 60,000 square km, creating one of the largest nature reserve
that s in jeopardy. bret, it was embarrassing walk back. what the president should do is make it clear that the united states will support taiwan if mainland china attacks taiwan. that war game is probably correct if china seizes those islands we have few credible options. that s why it s so important to establish the deterrent upfront that they don t seize the islands. we have several other steps we are going to take to support taiwan like helping them build up their cyber defenses and it reserve forces providing them with missiles and sea mines all of which would help deter invasion of taiwan. most importantly we need to make it clear that the united states will support democracy in taiwan and stand up to chinese attack. that s the simplest way to deter that attack from happening in the first place. bret: couple more foreign policy things. one is this administration wants to get back to the table with iran. your thoughts on that? well, i think the administration is not just try
of our views. so are you sayings that the united states would come to taiwan s defense. yes. if they are attacked. yes we have a commitment to do that. president biden is deeply committed to the taiwan relations act. the united states will continue to assist taiwan in maintaining sufficient self-defense capability. there is no change in a policy. bret: essentially had to walk that back. and then you have the word game played out. the washington post. the united states has very few credible options to respond if china were to seize a set of islands administered by taiwan in the south china sea under scoring the need for washington and taipei to build deterrence against limited chinese aggression according to the results of a war game conducted recently by foreign policy experts in washington and the asia pacific region standoff spotlighted the challenge commanders would face responding to incursion of the islands without provoking full blown war that walk back was essent