of horror every day, including hospitals underfire and an entire population deprived of the basic means of survival. as soon as the news conference starts, we will return to it. time for a look at the business news now with ben thompson. we begin in the us, where world leaders have been arriving in san francisco for the ongoing summit of the asia pacific economic co operation, orapec. but all eyes will be on the high stakes meeting between us presidentjoe biden and his chinese counterpart, xijinping. the leaders of the world s two biggest economies have a lot to discuss including their ongoing disputes over trade, technology, taiwan and the drug fentanyl. for more on this joining me now is drjie yu, senior research fellow on china at the think tank chatham house. thanks for being with us on the programme, and i m looking up the agenda and there are just four hours set aside for the meeting of the two world leaders. the white house already playing down expectations of what t
five judges unanimously ruled against his flagship policy to deal with illegal migration. they said rwanda has a poor record on human rights and also that if they go to rwanda, there would then be a a real risk of genuine refugees being sent back to the countries they d originally fled from. mr sunak said the ruling was not the outcome we wanted but he said he s now looking at a new agreement with rwanda in the form of a treaty. here s our political correspondent, ione wells. today was judgment day. does the government have the right to send some asylum seekers to rwanda? the verdict, no. the judges agreed there were substantial grounds to believe there was a real risk that genuine refugees could wrongly be sent back from rwanda to countries they fled from. the changes needed to eliminate the risk of fulfilment may be needed in the future but they have not been shown to be in place now. the home secretary s appeal is therefore dismissed. they also agreed there hadn t
and sent us the latest. well, apec has started here and it s really a huge moment for the city of san francisco. it s the biggest summit to be held here since the united nations charter was signed here in 1916. and this is really a huge economic summit. you re talking about more than 50% of all of the world s trade belongs to the 21 nations who ll be attending here this week. and we re talking about 40% of the world s population, by the way. so it s a big economic conference. but by far the biggest ticket item here is the meeting betweenjoe biden, president biden, and his counterpart in china, president xijinping. now, relations between those two nations have not been particularly good of late. they last met last year in indonesia. and since then, you had that moment where the american government shot down a chinese spy balloon. you ve had flaming tensions in the south china sea. and you ve also had joe biden ramping up a ban on high level ships, which really hurts the chines
taiwan and the drug fentanyl. joining me now is george magnus, research associate at the china centre, oxford university. so many things on the agenda, but what will be the priority? weill. so many things on the agenda, but what will be the priority? what will be the priority? well, i think it would what will be the priority? well, i think it would be what will be the priority? well, i think it would be a what will be the priority? well, i think it would be a delusion - what will be the priority? well, i think it would be a delusion to i think it would be a delusion to think it would be a delusion to think that there s going to be a sort of loving and the problem is that the countries had in trade and technology will make any headway but having said that, both leaders have a vested interest in trying to stabilise what is their most important external relationship. and there has been tittle tattle about there has been tittle tattle about the kind of things that might be