And london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7am also in beijing, where chinas president xi jinping has become arguably chinas most powerful leader since chairman mao. In the next few hours the party will announce the names of the new Leadership Team who will work with him. They may not be household names outside of china but these men, and they will probably all be men, give the world an important insight into his priorities. And it shows how president jinping has consolidated his power ever since he first became leader five years ago. Robin brant is in beijing for us. Todayis today is the big reveal, the new Leadership Team of president xi jingping . Leadership team of president xi jingping . Yes, it is very important we get this visual moment where these seven men walk out from behind a hoarding and are revealed. They walked out in seniority. We get xi jingping, then his premier. Then the five new faces. As you say, not household name
And london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore. 1. 00am in london and 8. 00am also in beijing, where chinas president xijinping has become arguably the countrys most powerful leader since chairman mao. In the next few hours the party will announce the names of the new Leadership Team who will work with him. They may not be household names outside of china but these men, and they will probably all be men, give the world an important insight into his priorities. And it shows how president jinping has consolidated his power ever since he first became leader five years ago as our correspondent robin brant has been telling me. Yes, its hugely important. Firstly we get this very visual moment where these seven men walk out from behind a hoarding and are revealed to chinas 1. 4 billion people, but also to the world. They walk out in seniority. So we get xi jingping first and his premier li keqiang, he stays in post. Then the five new faces. As you say, not
List . Booktv wants to know. Gene yang is a graphic novelist and new National Ambassador for young peoples literature. Tell me what that position means. Its kind of an amazing thing. Be the National Ambassador for young peoples literature, as a position, was started in 2008, and every term is two years. The whole point is to get both more kids reading and kids reading more. Host more kids reading. How do you do that . Whats the end game . Guest well, i do a bunch of appearances. I speak at book festivals and at schools. And were also doing a lot of online things. So ive started two blogs, one about my writing process, one about what im reading, and were also doing a video podcast where i interview people about what books influence them. Host this position was created by the library of congress. Guest uhhuh. In conjunction with Childrens Book council. Host okay. How did they reach out to you . Guest i got a call from my editor. I dont even know how the Selection Process works. Host you
Reading. Every ambassador picks a platform that they want to work on. I want kids to get outside of their comfort zone. I want them to read books about people that dont look or live like that. And then third i want them to read in formats that they may not be familiar with. A lot of my friends would only read those books. And nowadays i see kids are exactly the opposite. For those i want them to find a chapter book. You talk about diversity in your book. We need diverse books. What is the Current Publishing landscape in regards to diversity in characters and authors and publishing. I think the push is readers want to books books that reflect the world that they grew up in. We live in an incredibly diverse world. We want that reflected. I deftly think its taking steps in the right direction but we need those played out. Theres still a lot to do. Who did you identify with garnet. Its a strange thing. It was a really big deal when i was a kid when a chinese or chineseamerican showed up on
Mediate the crisis. Deadly winter. We went to the war and god blessed me with a son. I lost him to the cold. I lost him to the war. Syrian refugees increasingly facing new danger dying from the cold as temperatures plummet. And back to school. Any is months after al shabaab gunmen killed 148 people at a Kenyan University the school reopens. It is a bad thing that happened. But that does not stop us from continuing with our life. And new students are registering for class. Good evening im antonio mora, this is al jazeera Americas International news hour. Tonight we begin with worldwide condemnation over north koreas claim it successfully tested a Hydrogen Bomb. The white house called the test a provocation and u. N. Secretarygeneral ban kimoon said it was a clear violation of international law. North koreas announcement caught its neighbors off guard and left them angry. Tonight, both japan and south korea are vowing to make north korea pay for its actions. With the announcement came a