hello and welcome. we begin in northern ireland where final preparations are being put in place forjoe biden s visit to mark the anniversary of the signing of the good friday agreement. the white house says the us president is very excited for his trip, which will also take him to the republic of ireland, where he has his ancestral roots. he lands in belfast later today, from where charlotte gallagher sent this report. the us president is coming to town. belfast is really gearing up at the moment for the arrival of us presidentjoe biden. with his presidentialjet, air force 1, tonight. this building is the location forjoe biden s main public event in this trip isn tjust main public event in this trip isn t just about celebrating the good friday agreement and the good friday agreement and the 25th anniversary. it s looking forward to the future of northern ireland and many of the people studying here are part of the generation that don t remember the troubles or perhaps weren t
china is looking ahead, i even further. and yet stillj china is looking ahead, as even further. and yet still i china is looking ahead, as is taiwan, to elections next year. china wants an outcome where the winner is not proindependence, so china s keeping that in mind isn t it whilst it plays out all these military exercises.- whilst it plays out all these military exercises. that s very true and it s military exercises. that s very true and it s very military exercises. that s very true and it s very interesting l true and it s very interesting because everybody though these military exercises have heightened tensions in the regionf heightened tensions in the region f you look at them in the context of what happened after most visited taiwan last august, it is not as severe as that. remember, at the time, there were miss tile launches that landed in japanese there were miss tile launches that landed injapanese waters. it was very, very tense so. china was trying to make a point w
potential for violence and troubles in afghanistan. showsy you in which they are subject to misinterpretation of events. it is none sen. this is the regionf the world where all sorts of bizarre and conspiracy theories flourish and it is part of the atmosphere in which we have to live and part of the world iniv which we live that you have to deal with this kind of thing. i m sympathetic to the president who tried to get this guy not to do this. which he is not going do. although some other penny ante pastors across the country are saying they are going to do it. it is also because of the internet. this in the internet there is no sense of proportion.qu everything is equal. all flat. all vi viral and he started wia tweet but that tweet went into e in world where everything is given equal importance and bloggers picked it up and in the middle east people read it and they think it is important.