and a half hours of talks, plus a two hour dinner, with his chinese counterpart, foreign minister qin gang. american officials described the talks as candid and constructive, but the only concrete development thus far is a commitment from the two countries to loosen visa restrictions on each other s citizens, and to hold more talks in washington in the future. for its part, china s state media reported that. qin gang pointed out that the taiwan issue is the core of china s core interests, the most important issue in sino us relations, and the most prominent risk. right now, mr blinken is meeting with wang yi, the director of the chinese communist party s office of the central foreign affairs commission effectively the country s most senior foreign affairs official. live now to our china correspondent in beijing, stephen mcdonell. i m sure you ve been watching the meetings closely over this whirlwind trip. right now, secretary blinken meeting china s top diplomats. what sh
have more details as well. let s take a look at what we know about the titan. the missing submersible weighs about 23,000 pounds or roughly 10,400 kilograms. the titan is about 22 feet long or 6.7 metres. it s also capable of reaching depths of up to 13,123 feet below sea level roughly 4,000 metres. and with the help of four electric thrusters, the titan reaches speeds of about three knots, or three miles per hour. we ve also learned today from the new york times that in 2018, submersible experts expressed concern to 0ceangate ceo stockton rush, who is on the titan. the authors of the letter expressed unanimous concern over the approach taken by 0ceangate when building the titan, and warned of potential catastrophic issues with its design. live now to our correspondent carl nasman, who is boston. you have been following the latest developments, has the coastguard giving any indications of signs of the location of the submersible? well, they are looking for this vess
hello and welcome to the programme. the us coastguard has launched a search and rescue operation, after a sub mersible used to take tourists to view the wreck of the titanic went missing in the atlantic ocean. the vessel with five people on board lost contact about one hour and 45 minutes into a dive to the wreck. the titanic, which sank in 1912, lies nearly 4,000 metres beneath the surface, around 600 kilometres off the coast of newfoundland in canada.from boston , our correspondent jessica parker reports. designed to plunge the depths of the ocean, this is the titan submersible, now missing in the north atlantic after contact with the vessel was lost. it sparked a frantic but complicated search. 0n the bottom, particularly very deep, it s going to be difficult to rescue it. none of the conventional submarine rescue methods, which are designed mainly for naval submarines, would be able to operate down at the depth of the titanic. even if it could get down there, the hatc
a second vigil will be held in nottingham later to remember the victims of tuesday s attack. the families of the two students killed joined thousands at the university to pay tribute to them yesterday, and urged everyone to look out for each other. police in nottingham are still questioning a 31 year old man on suspicion of murder. we re joined now by our reporter jo black, who s in nottingham. this is a city shrouded in grief. what is the mood like today ahead of the second video? trier? what is the mood like today ahead of the second video? the second video? very quiet here in nottingham the second video? very quiet here in nottingham at the second video? very quiet here in nottingham at the the second video? very quiet here in nottingham at the moment. - the second video? very quiet here in nottingham at the moment. there . the second video? very quiet here in i nottingham at the moment. there will be a second video later. but yesterday there was a video where i am