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response from the bbc this afternoon but, for now, it looks like, anyway, the culture secretary is pretty happy with the assurances she has had the director general although this is clearly far from over. thanks very much for now. just a reminder that that was a tweet from lucy fraser, the culture secretary, saying that she has been assured by the bbc s director general tim davie, there we go. i ve spoken to bbc director general tim davie. so there you go. let s take that conversation between the culture secretary and head of the bbc has taken place and then she carries on. the bbc needs to establish the facts and take appropriate action. i will be kept updated. so that is the latest on that. let s move other news now. the us president, joe biden, will arrive in the uk this
evening, ahead of a meeting with the prime minister, rishi sunak. the two allies have disagreed in public over the us decision to send controversial cluster bombs to ukraine. the issue has dominated the build up to the visit. jonathan blake reports. mr president, thank you. a presidential visit will always focus minds and offer an opportunity to do business. good afternoon. joe biden arrives in the uk a month after he and the prime minister signed a new agreement to strengthen the longstanding relationship between the uk and the us. the president of the - united states, joe biden. downing street sees the president s visit as an opportunity to take stock of progress on the so called atlantic declaration. ahead ofjoe biden s arrival, rishi sunak said the us was the uk s most important trade, defence and diplomatic partner, and the alliance was part of the foundation of britain s strength and security. but that alliance is being tested on the issue of cluster bombs, which the us is supply
ukraine. the uk is one of many countries to have banned the weapons with a record of killing civilians. and yesterday, the prime minister said the uk discouraged their use. the uk a signatory to a convention which prohibits the use of cluster munitions and will continue to do our part to support ukraine against the illegal russian invasion. a sensitive subject and difference of opinion on the crucial issue of support for ukraine in response to the russian invasion. but there will be ceremony as well as substance to this visit. after talks with the prime minister in downing street, the president will meet the king at windsor castle. jonathan blake, bbc news. the united states treasury secretary, janet yellen, is leaving china after a visit to try to strengthen economic ties, saying she believes the two countries can have a healthy relationship.
of the animals guts cutting down on natural methane production. it s just one part of efforts to reduce the levels of greenhouse gases created by the farming industry. tom heap from the bbc s countryfile programme has the details. it s a fact of life. cows release a fair bit of gas. the government estimates around half the uk s methane emissions comes from cows, and globally that livestock produces around 14% of greenhouse gas emissions. it s one of the reasons there have been calls from climate campaigners to reduce livestock farming. scientists from the scottish rural college have now succeeded in extracting a chemical called haemanthamine from daffodils, and laboratory tests using an artificial cow stomach, have shown it could reduce methane by 30%. the scientific world is very focused on reducing emissions. so this is really exciting. that there is a compound that can potentially reduce methane emissions. it looks like a big step. now feeds with the chemical added are being test