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hearing, has held what the us calls candid and constructive talks with china s foreign minister in beijing. this at the start of two days of meetings with chinese officials. mr blinken emphasised the need for diplomacy and keeping open channels of communication us officials added. the trip to china is the first by a top us diplomat in almost five years and comes months after an earlier visit by the secretary of state was postponed when a suspected chinese spy balloon flew in us airspace. can this trip reboot relations? to discuss this and what s at stake for the world s two biggest economies, i m joined by alicia garcia herrero chief economist at natixis. good to have you on the programme. from your perspective, when we are looking at trade, the two biggest economies in the world, how important is this trip? extremely important. and the main reason for this trip is not even trade, it s about assurance to really avoid a military conflict in taiwan and i think tha ....
It will hold those prices for at least eight weeks, it says. facing a cost of living crisis, we re changing our shopping habits. we re buying more own label products and experimenting over where we shop. so we should see price cuts primarily as a product of the hot competition for our business. in recent days, we were also warned by tesco that labour costs are much higher now than a yearago, and margins are low. so perhaps we shouldn t rush to see today s price cuts as the beginning of a bigger trend. david waddell, bbc news. lunch breaks aren t what they used to be. the cost has gone up. that s if you get one. new research suggests that the global average lunch break is just 35 minutes per day, with a third of workers eating lunch alone that s according compass group s global eating at work survey 2023. analysing insights from 35,000 workers across 26 countries it found that the length of time workers spend on their main ....
no, not in new york, in d.c. p. in a diner. it improves dramatically but no food. it begins this morning with a massacre in afghanistan apparently by an american soldier and this morning as well. the taliban is vowing revenge. the soldiers from the joint base in washington state here s how it went down. door to door he went yesterday morning in kandahar province opening fire, i ll killing at least 16 people while they slept, many children. president karzai said the dead include 9 children, 3 women. and after the attacks the soldier then returned to his base and surrendered. president obama today offering his condolences. karzai, however, is furious. is calling the killings intentional and, quote, acts of terror and unforgivable. sarah is live for news kabul, afghanistan, this morning. hey, good morning to you. what s the latest on this? good morn, soledad. i just saw pretty gruesome images in western afghanistan where this happened and there were some witnesses al ....