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in greece, the search continues for the nearly 500 people who remain missing after one of the worst migrant boat disasters in the mediterranean in years. at least 79 people are confirmed to have died with up to 100 children travelling in the hold. nine suspected people smugglers have been arrested. officials are denying reports suggesting an overloaded fishing boat sank when coastguards tried to attach a rope to the vessel. louisa pilbeam reports. this new footage is said to show the boat in the hours before it sank. you canjust make out how crowded it is on board. abc verify has determined that this video was filmed this week and that the shape of the vessel and the weather matched the known details of this tragedy bbc verify. hope is all but gone for the hundredth still missing. kassam abu zede is waiting for news of his 21 year old wife ezra who risked the journey with people smugglers after she was denied a visa to travel to germany to live with him. she had been stayi

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met with chinese counterparts, and us officials say expectations for the meeting are low. tensions have been steadily growing between the countries. earlier i spoke with the bbc s china correspondent stephen mcdonnell. stephen, its been a very tense few months between both sides, i think it is fair to say and the white house has now been saying that expectations are low for this particular trip, so what is this visit all about? well, the goal of the meeting is the meeting itself or rather meetings, i should say, because they do not expect some huge breakthrough as a result of antony blinken coming to beijing butjust starting to talk again, possibly lining up future meetings so that more high level us representatives can come to china, more chinese high level representatives can go to the us and, you know, we are talking about serious matters. i mean, at stake is trying to avoid war, for example. it is quite an incredible situation when you think about it. a few years ago it w

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it s been five years since a secretary of state has met with chinese counterparts, and us officials say expectations for the meeting are low. tensions have been steadily growing between the countries. live now to the bbc s china correspondent, stephen mcdonnell, in beijing. we just saw antony blinken touching down a little earlier. what will be on his agenda? the first thing he what will be on his agenda? tue: first thing he will what will be on his agenda? tte: first thing he will be doing, the first serious thing is meeting his chinese counterpart, chinese foreign minister qin gang. tomorrow he will meet huang yi and he is actually above qin gang, the communist party is official and he may even meet president xi jinping and if he met the leader, that would be very symbolic and sent a message out in china for sure that beijing is taking it seriously and the idea of reaching out to washington and washington is also taking it seriously to reach to china. nobody is expecting

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