more than 5,000 athletes from 72 nations and territories will compete over the next 11 days. and the return of the tiger, why nepal kept its promise to double numbers in the last decade. it s 8am in singapore, and eight in the evening in washington, where presidentjoe biden has spent more than two hours on the phone with his chinese counterpart, xijinping. taiwan emerged once again as a key point of tension between the two leaders, this time sparked by a possible visit there by the us house speaker, nancy pelosi. although the visit hasn t yet been confirmed, mr biden told xijinping, that washington strongly opposed any unilateral moves that would change the island s status, or undermine stability across the taiwan straits. president xi said: those who play with fire will only get burnt. joe biden responded to that with on taiwan the us policy has not changed. so where does that leave diplomatic relations? well, with an assessment of that phone call, here s the bbc s barba
of cheer on wall street: amazon shares soar as it racks up sales of $121 billion in the last three months. hello there. we start in the us, with fears of a recession in the world s biggest economy. in the world s biggest economy are rattling people. official figures out on thursday show it shrinking for the second quarter in a row. two quarters of negative growth are what many countries around the world would define as a recession. not so in the us, as we ll show you why in a minute. us gross domestic product declined at an annual rate ofjust under 1% between april and june. that comes after a steeper 1.6% decline in the first three months of the year. but that hasn t hit the labour market yet. us treasury secretary janet yellen said the economy is now at full employment with the unemployment ratejust 3.6%. meanwhile, prices for groceries, petrol and other basics are rising at the fastest pace since 1981. he s what president biden had to say. both chairman powell and many
and the return of the tiger why nepal kept its promise to double numbers in the last decade. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 7 in the evening in washington where president joe biden spent more than 2 hours on the phone with his chinese counterpart, xijinping. the two leaders warned each other over taiwan which again emerged as a key point of tension. this time the tensions started because of a possible visit there by the us house speaker nancy pelosi. although the visit hasn t yet been confirmed mr biden told xijinping, that washington strongly opposed any unilateral moves that would change the island s status or undermine stability across the taiwan straits. president xi said: those who play with fire will only get burnt. joe biden responded to that with on taiwan. the us policy has not changed. so where does that leave us? well, with an assessment of that phone call here s the bbc s barbara plett usher i
over the next 11 days. and the return of the tiger how nepal has kept its promise to double its population of the wild animals in the last decade. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, ”pm in london and six in the evening in washington where presidentjoe biden spent more than two hours on the phone with his chinese counterpart, xijinping. the two leaders warned each other over taiwan which again emerged as a key point of tension. this time the tensions started because of a possible visit there by the us house speaker nancy pelosi. although the visit hasn t yet been confirmed mr biden told xijinping, that washington strongly opposed any unilateral moves that would change the island s status or undermine stability across the taiwan straits. president xi said: those who play with fire will only get burnt. joe biden responded that on taiwan, the us policy has not changed. so where does that leave us? well, with an ass
healthcare, prescription drugs and more. we need to show democrats across this country that the democratic party can actually get stuff done when we have 50 democrats in the senate, and i think that s where we are right now. so i m all about forward looking, brianna and hello, joe manchin. happy to have you. a new effort to form a viable third party, names from the right, left and center say they will succeed where others failed. soon we ll hear from the president of the united states live at the white house. he ll tout big progress on his agenda, a senate agreement that includes new climate and new health care investments. a package, the president will say in a way that will also take a big bite out of inflation. it is a smaller, but still significant piece of the giant goals the president and has party had back in the beginning of his term. the white house event is a presidential push to get this new senate deal to the finish line and, make no mistake, it is a president