designed to restrict china s ability to buy high tech microchips and it is now considering an executive order to curb us investment in sensitive areas. but ms yellen told her chinese counterparts that any such measures will be highly targeted. i that any such measures will be highly targeted. highly targeted. i emphasise that it would highly targeted. i emphasise that it would be highly targeted. i emphasise that it would be highly - that it would be highly targeted and clearly directed narrowly at a few sectors where we have specific national security concerns. i want to allay their fears that we would do something that would have broad based impacts on the chinese economy. that is not the case. that is not the intention. and i think this is an example of what i said about how to address national security concerns. a, how to address national security concerns. a senior market analyst security concerns. a senior market analyst told - security concerns. a senior market
to the emergency takeover of the swiss bank credit suisse, but are the fears now easing. turning powder into bear. a german brewery comes up with a new product that could change the whole alcohol market and be good for the planet. president xi of china is on a state visit to russia where he s been warmly greeted by president putin. the summit has been the focus of a good deal of speculation following the publication of china s plan to settle the acute crisis in ukraine . mr putin said that moscow was always open to negotiation. but the americans have already warned that the chinese peace plan could be a just a delaying tactic. the visit comes just days after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for president putin in relation to alleged war crimes. from moscow, our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. just three days ago, vladimir putin was named as a war crime suspect by the international criminal court, but that didn t stop china s president from f
landfall in recent hours in western cuba, bringing winds of up to 125 mph. it is heading north, florida is bracing for man is full on thursday. it will bring a storm surge up to ten feet around the tampa bay region, half a metre of rainfall and winds other road 120 mph, so really dangerous conditions with both of those storms. closer to home, typically autumnal, lots of rainbows because we have the mix of sunny spells in blustery showers staying with those for the rest of the day. low pressure towards the east at the moment is driving and showers for part of eastern scotland, heading south into eastern england and there will also be rain towards the south west, so for the likes of cornwall towards the channel islands, more prolonged spells of rain, sunny intervals elsewhere and peppering a fairly heavy showers, winds of 30 to a0 mph but not so windy as over the past 2a hours also. temperatures between about 11 and 16, feeling cool by you are exposed to the brisk north westerl
instability in the west bank does not continue. that includes making sure that extremist settler violence stops. we as you know if they can steps this week in the united states to impose visa restrictions on it responsible individuals and necessary it will take further action but we have seen some progress there. what more needs to be done to ensure that this extremist violence ends. finally on gaza, it s very important that even as we are focused on what s happening day in, day out, that we are also not only thinking about but working on what comes next up is eagerly building a foundation for a durable peace and durable security. tomorrow we will have a chance to welcome colleagues from around the region here in washington, from the arab league in the organisation of islamic cooperation and i look forward to attending those discussions with them. we had a chance to discuss our approach to the people s republic of china. we are aligned on key challenges that we face in the in