Where having a baby is becoming something of a lockdown trend. We begin in the us, where President Biden has pledged to rebuild americas alliances and re engage with the world, in his first major Foreign Policy speech. Its a markedly different tone to the America First approach of the Trump Administration. Mr biden said solutions to problems such as Armed Conflicts and Climate Change could be solved only by working with other nations. We are stepping up our diplomacy to end the war in yemen, a war that has created a humanitarian and strategic catastrophe. I have asked my middle east team to ensure our support for the United Nations Led Initiative to impose a ceasefire, open humanitarian channels and restore long dormant peace talks. We can now speak to gerald 15, the Senior Vice President at the Senior Vice President at the middle Eastern Institute who previously served as Us Ambassador to yemen during the obama administration. Thank you forjoining us. How much involvement has the us h
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discussion it lasted about 35 minutes, during which time the chinese leader acknowledged that the two sides had candid and in-depth conversation and acknowledged common understanding. it appears that any talk regarding any more contentious topics may have happened away from cameras. remember, this visit was already delayed once after a chinese spy craft was found drifting over the u.s. president biden this weekend called that airspace intrusion silly. but blink s visit he said to the country could serve to ease tensions. the white house recently acknowledged that china had secured a i do buckeye base in china there had been tensions to sooth. this conversation between blinken and xi capped hours of high stakes meeting between the secretary and other chinese officials including top diplomat wang ye, according to the state department, the meeting with ye, quote, underscored the importance of importance and manageability competition between the united states and china through op
targets linked to houthis in yemen. president biden has issued the following statement today at my direction us military forces together with the uk and support from australia, bahrain, canada and the netherlands successfully conducted strikes against a number of targets in yemen used by houthi rebels to endanger freedom of navigation on one of the worlds most vital waterways did it let s get some immediate reaction to this development in the statement from the us president. let s quash now to washington and our correspondent there. what can you tell us? figs correspondent there. what can you tell us? correspondent there. what can you tell us? as you said we had a statement you tell us? as you said we had a statement from you tell us? as you said we had a statement from the you tell us? as you said we had a statement from the white - a statement from the white house confirming that the strikes have begun, saying it was the us, uk and lists a number of nations includ