to double its numbers in the last decade. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president biden has spent more than two hours on the phone with his chinese counterpart, xijinping. the two leaders both issued warnings about taiwan, which has once again emerged as a key point of tension, following reports of a possible visit there by the us house speaker nancy pelosi. although the visit hasn t been confirmed, mr biden told xi jinping, 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 burned. joe biden responded to that with on taiwan, the us policy has not changed. let s speak now to craig singleton, a national security expert, and former us diplomat, who s a senior china fellow at the foundation for the defense of democracies. thank you forjoining here on bbc world news. it was something of a marat
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Im Zachary Cohen in washington and this is cnn hello and welcome to her viewers here in the United States and Around The World. Im wolf blitzer in washington. And we start with Breaking News once again, any moment now, the United Nations Security Council is leaning in new york for an Emergency Meeting discussing the very volatile situation right now in the middle east, there is growing worry Around The World after iran launched. And the precedented attack on israel arrives firstever direct assault on israeli territory from directly inside iran Israel Defense versus say, they shut down almost all of the 350 rockets and missiles so fired of the country overnight. Many of those rockets and missiles were shot down by the us and the uk. Were getting a first look at the destruction, though. Take a look at this this is some israels never team airbase. A senior us military official says there was no significant damage throughout the country as a result of the air Defense System israel Presiden
ukraine. the defence minister saying that troops are making slow and steady progress as per usual in the south of the country, and, surprisingly, an announcement on saturday that they have captured some territory in the east of the country where fighting had been fiercer. a lot of russian forces were putting up a tough fight there. they claim that they have reclaim some territory which has been under russian control in the dona disc region. they did not say where witches cost a bit of scepticism but it illustrates that the message ukrainians want to send as their number one is putting an end to this. regaining their territory. number one is putting an end to this. regaining theirterritory. no matterwhat this. regaining theirterritory. no matter what happens in russia, that is what they are getting on with. hours to have reacting and responding to those events that have paid out? you responding to those events that have aid out? ., ~ ., , .,, ., paid out? you know, people here are absol