program fifty five kilometers of tarmac stretching between hong kong and macau and the chinese mainland china opens the world s longest bridge. but first a quick check of some other stories making news around the world archaeologists in peru have uncovered wooden statues thought to be eight hundred years old the figures were found in the city of china john in the north of the country one of them is female i highly unusual find researchers believe that they ve marked the graves of important people in the city once the biggest in south america. u.s. national security advisor john bolton is set to hold talks with russian president vladimir putin in moscow after meeting foreign minister sergei lavrov a day earlier this follows u.s. president donald trump s announcement that washington is ready to pull out of the thirty year old missile treaty and build up its nuclear arsenal. and u.s.