welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. secretary of state antony blinken meeting face-to-face right now with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. the high stakes one-on-one is part of blinken s efforts to meet with china s top diplomat. an effort to lower the temperature amid rising tensions between the u.s. and china. cnn s kylie atwood in beijing this morning. just the fact that their meeting is a huge meeting, kylie, we learned 90 minutes ago their meeting was a go. what do we know about it? reporter: that s right, it s here in beijing, the secretary of state who is the first cabinet member to visit china from biden administration in 2 1/2 years. sitting down with president xi, we don t know much about the meeting because it s so ongoing. here s what we do know, there have been a number of hours that the secretary has engaged with chinese officials over the course of the last days in beijing. spending more than five ho
hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom and i m rosemary church. just ahead u.s. secretary of state antony blinken wraps up his high stakes talks with china s top diplomat. we ll go live to hong kong to hear what each side is saying now. another holiday weekend marred by gun violence. we re following shootings all across the united states. and russian opposition figure alexi alexei navalny facing new charges expected to appear in a moscow video link this morning. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. we begin this hour in beijing where top diplomats from the u.s. and china met for talks in efforts to attach down tensions between the world waste two largest economies. hours ago u.s. secretary of state antony blinken held closed-door discussions with china s top diplomat one day after meeting with china s foreign minister. both s
hello and a warm welcome. it s monday, fresh start to the new week. i was supposed to be on holiday, but i m happy to be with all of you. welcome to you in the united states and around the world. i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster from london, just ahead on cnn newsroom. this is the final day of antony blinken s trip to beijing. as they stabilize. china is definitely feeling the heat. i think you ll see a much more tempered response. the weekend of deadly gun violence. the chicago suburb of willo willowbrook, the juneteenth. violent shoot-out between pennsylvania state troopers and a suspect armed with a hunting rival. what has been called the massacre has shocked the nation. we have come to understand over how many months so many could die. it s been time to stop paying for it. live from london, this is t cnn newsroom. with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is monday, june the 19th. 9:00 a.m. here in london and 3:00 a.m. in mississippi. three dangerous
live in des moines. ron desantis is up first, followed by nikki haley. stay with us. ac 360 begins now. tonight on 360, a live report from perry, iowa, scene of the latest school mass shooting. what authorities are saying about how it unfolded, which included their discovery of a makeshift bomb at the scene. that and what a student says tonight about what she went through. also tonight, a new batch of unsealed documents in the jeffrey epstein sex trafficking scandal. what s in them and who. and later, house democrats say they have the former president s number, and knits the millions. what s in the report of how much foreign government money went into trump s pockets during the trump presidency. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight in iowa, but not for the reason you would expect, not for presidential politics. take a look. these are pictures tonight from perry, iowa, northwest of des moines. a vigil, one of two after a day that began with what is a
ahead of the coronation but first, here is. let s have a look. british national anthem plays. the national anthem, of course, being sung, you can see prime minister rishi sunak and the later of the opposition labour party sir keir starmer, they are gathering at the palace of westminster four days before the coronation in what has been described as a celebrate a reception. the king and queen consort will go want to meet members of parliament, the prime minister, sir keir starmer and other members of parliament in this reception held at the palace of westminster. preparation is well under way for the coronation, it is almost a week to go. that is a nice painting, or is it a picture? it looks like the sun with lots of flags sticking out of it. maybe his granddaughter old grandson drew that. almost a week to go and we expect a guestlist 2000 at westminster abbey just down the go and we expect a guestlist 2000 at westminster abbeyjust down the road from where these pictures are