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
liverpool and real madrid fans descend on paris to support their teams in the final of european club football s most prestigious prize. and i live at the stadium, six hours until kick off in what promises to be one of the great champions league finals. people are facing huge disruption to their travel plans as the half term break gets underway. dozens of flights have been cancelled and there have been long delays at ports and on the roads, and for cross channel services. and there are warnings that the disruption is likely to continue for more than a week. let s take you through the latest developments. easyjet is cancelling more than 200 flights over the next ten days from gatwick airport, insisting it needs to in order to provide reliable services over this busy period . there have been long queues at london s st pancras station for eurostar services across the channel, as families head to disneyland paris and football fans try to get to the french capital ahead of the cha
attacked more than a0 towns in the eastern regions of donetsk and luhansk. concerns raised by families of two small children who were later murdered weren t taken seriously by child protection officials, says a review. and the man with a new lease of life after a double hand transplant. and coming up on the bbc news channel the mass exodus at manchester city women continues, as the club announce that defender lucy bronze will leave at the end of her contract this summer. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the chancellor rishi sunak has been setting out the government s measures to address the rising cost of living. the chancellor said his package is worth £15 billion. it is expected to be partly paid by a windfall tax on oil and gas companies something ministers had previously opposed. the measures include 8 million of the lowest income households will receive a one off payment of £650. and from autumn, 8 million pensioner households will receive a
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