factors in play, demographic factors, the pandemic through a hammer in everything. i think if they say, look, here s what we know, here s what we don t know and we re doing the best we can, i think that s trust building. any one of the cross currents in the global economy now would be newsworthy and unsetting. and there are many. and coming out of this pandemic, we tried to measure the economy, is it recession, maybe not recession. we re just trying to get back to normal at this point. we re still reacting to a pandemic, and trying to figure out where we go from here. fair question about what would be normal in 2022 and going forward because i think another thing he has to address, and you talk about this, is possible we re just in a different era, that the u.s. economy and the world economy is moving to a new place where, you know, we can t expect 30 years of low, really low interest rates. i totally agree with that. i ve been writing that for some time. i have a new b
administration to end the remain in mexico policy put in place by his predecessor. these decisions also marking the end of justice stephen breyer s time on the bench. in less than an hour, he will officially retire after 21 years, leading the way for ketanji brown jackson to officially sit on the supreme court. pete williams is here. pete, we obviously want to talk about the history playing out, but let s talk about these last two meetings of the session. on a 6-3 vote, what the epa wanted to do which was encourage the power generation community in america to shift to more renewable resources like wind and solar is such a big change that only congress can give the epa the authority to do that. it can t do it on its own. and because congress has never done that, the epa has no authority to do that. the chief justice writing in his opinion, it is not plausible that congress gave epa the authority to adopt on its own such a major change in environmental regulation. on the seco
at the age of 93. taiwan has scrambled fighter planes after chinese military aircraft entered its air defence zone. beijing is protesting against the visit by the us house speaker nancy pelosi, who vowed her country would never abandon the island. china has also begun manoeuvres around taiwan that are affecting air and shipping links. taiwan is self governing and lies about 160 kilometres across the taiwan strait. it sees itself as independent, but china views it as its own. from taiwan, here s rupert wingfield hayes despite what china has been saying, today s meeting between nancy pelosi and taiwan president ing wen didn t look terribly sinister. president tsai began by presenting ms pelosi with taiwan s highest civilian honour. she in turn praised taiwan s democracy and promised america would stand by the island. our solidarity with you is more important than ever, as you defend taiwan and your freedom. we are supporters of the status quo, and we don t want anything to happ
before its release. hello and welcome. china is preparing to begin a series of large scale military exercises in the air and sea around taiwan. it s a response to a visit to the island by the speaker of the us house of representatives, nancy pelosi. the exercises will include live fire drills. mrs pelosi vowed the us would never abandon taiwan. taiwan is self governing, and lies about 160 kilometres across the taiwan strait. it sees itself as independent, but china views it as its own. this is solely nancy pelosi is due to hold a joint press conference the next few minute with the south korean national assembly speaker. as soon as she does take to the stage we will bring that to you, for now let s talk about the latest developments. with me is our news reporter azadeh moshiri. we are waiting to see her appear in south korea but the most controversial visit was this time yesterday when she was in taiwan. was in taiwan. she is on this next leg was in taiwan. she is on this n
also in the programme: one of america s top lawmakers, nancy pelosi is reportedly expected to visit taiwan on tuesday, putting further strains on relations with china. doctors successfully separate conjoined twins with shared fused brains in historic virtual reality surgery. champions! champions! and as england s lionesses celebrate winning the euros 2022, we ll talk to gurinder chadha, director of the classic celebration of women s football, bend it like beckham. now look my god, we did it! cheering live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news: president biden has confirmed that the al-qaeda chief, ayman al zawahiri has been killed in an american drone strike conducted in kabul. zawahiri was on the fbi s first ever most wanted terrorist list following the 9/11 attacks, which he had helped to coordinate alongside osama bin laden. this is what presidentt biden announced a short time ago. m