Hello, im samantha simmonds. Welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. We start in china. Americas top diplomat, antony blinken, has told the bbc that he is prepared to take steps against china if beijing continues to send key supplies to russia which are used to aid its invasion of ukraine. The Secretary Of State has been holding talks with the chinese leader, xijinping, for talks in beijing where he also raised concerns about taiwan, and industrial espionage. Mr xi in return called for greater mutual co operation, so both countries could succeed. After that meeting, mr blinken sat down with the bbc s laura bicker heres a little of what they said. Thank you forjoining us. What were the biggest points of contention for you and your chinese counterparts . Whats really important is i was last here ten months ago and that really kicked off much greater engagement between our countries, diplomatic engagement with a number of my colleagues coming to
Salvaged from the Titanic Which Go under the hammer this weekend hello, im geeta guru murthy, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. The us top diplomat, antony blinken, has told the bbc that he is prepared to take steps against china if beijing continues to send key supplies to russia which are used to aid its invasion of ukraine. The Secretary Of State has been holding talks with the chinese leader, xijinping, during a trip to beijing. In an interview with the bbc, mr blinken said that hed made it clear to his chinese counterparts that they had to stop sending key components to russia or there would be consequences. sot thank you forjoining us. What were the biggest points of contention for you and your chinese counterparts . Whats really important is i was last here ten months ago and that really kicked off much greater engagement between our countries, diplomatic engagement with a number of my colleagues coming to china af
hello welcome to bbc news, i m mark lowen. we are coming to you live from southern israel. israel has promised to provide proof to back up its claim that hamas was using gaza s largest hospital as a command centre. hamas has repeatedly denied the allegations. president biden says the us has asked israel to be incredibly careful, as its military operation at al shifa hospital, which began yesterday, continues. the one thing that has been established is that hamas does have headquarters, weapons, material below this hospital and i suspect others. our correspondent lucy williamson has been with the idf at al shifa hospital where israel has promised to show proof of a hamas command centre at gaza s largest hospital. she spoke to us from jerusalem. israel is really coming under pressure to prove why it carried out the operation it is carrying out in gaza and driving into gaza last night it was clear the scale of the military operation there. parts of city looked as if it had been
about support for taiwan in the event of a piercy attack. clifford hart, national security council s china and taiwan director formally, thank you for speaking to us. we will find out very soon if us presidentjoe biden talks about taiwan and the south china sea in remarks he is expected to deliver after talking to china s president, xijinping. they talked forfour china s president, xijinping. they talked for four hours at an estate near san francisco, they took a nice stroll in the garden afterwards as well. this of course is the first meeting between the two leaders for a year and a day. they last met in bali at the 620 last year. and we may be seeing. no, not president bidenjust and we may be seeing. no, not president biden just yet. you are looking at pictures of the press conference, where we are expecting us presidentjoe biden to deliver remarks after his meeting with china s resident, xijinping. this meeting comes after a year, the first face to face meeting they ve had