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met with chinese counterparts, and us officials say expectations for the meeting are low. tensions have been steadily growing between the countries. earlier i spoke with the bbc s china correspondent stephen mcdonnell. stephen, its been a very tense few months between both sides, i think it is fair to say and the white house has now been saying that expectations are low for this particular trip, so what is this visit all about? well, the goal of the meeting is the meeting itself or rather meetings, i should say, because they do not expect some huge breakthrough as a result of antony blinken coming to beijing butjust starting to talk again, possibly lining up future meetings so that more high level us representatives can come to china, more chinese high level representatives can go to the us and, you know, we are talking about serious matters. i mean, at stake is trying to avoid war, for example. it is quite an incredible situation when you think about it. a few years ag ....
it s been five years since a secretary of state has met with chinese counterparts, and us officials say expectations for the meeting are low. tensions have been steadily growing between the countries. live now to the bbc s china correspondent, stephen mcdonnell, in beijing. we just saw antony blinken touching down a little earlier. what will be on his agenda? the first thing he what will be on his agenda? tue: first thing he will what will be on his agenda? tte: first thing he will be doing, the first serious thing is meeting his chinese counterpart, chinese foreign minister qin gang. tomorrow he will meet huang yi and he is actually above qin gang, the communist party is official and he may even meet president xi jinping and if he met the leader, that would be very symbolic and sent a message out in china for sure that beijing is taking it seriously and the idea of reaching out to washington and washington is also taking it seriously to reach to china. nobody is expe ....
hello this is bbc news. the headlines: as the investigation continues into an explosion at a petrol station in county donegal police in ireland name the 10 people who died in friday s disaster. it isa it is a huge impact to a small rural community, they are all local people, they are all very much involved in the community, they will people who were shopping in the local shop. ukranian officials say 17 people have been killed by a russian missile strike on an apartment block in the south eastern city zaporizhzia. cabinet ministers are urging tories to rally behind prime minister liz truss, to avoid risk of defeat at the next election. now on bbc news it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday this sunday night i m chetan pathak, coming up on the programme: max verstappen s crowned world champion again but there are questions around safety in f1 after an eventful japanese grand prix. and wales leave it late to beat scotland as they make a winning start ....
people, die hard fans i think is really bad for her. and people who had booked already and were look really looking forward to it, come on. forthose really looking forward to it, come on. for those people who have actually done that for four. for all means inflate some of your prices but allow fans to go there. i think the authorities should encourage people to revise their figures downwards. otherwise i think people should be in the streets singing, and i don t know, find some alternative accommodation. but it is alternative accommodation. but it is a great, fun and i think it is great that it has such a revival in the uk did so well. perhaps they will win. that s it for the papers this hour. the papers will be back again tomorrow evening. dojoin us then if you can but for now, goodnight. hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. i m jane hill. and taking us through this week s releases, as ever is mark kermode. hi, mark. hi. so we have three very d ....
chris page has the details. blown out walls, a crumpled roof and tons of rubble, with the signs this was a lethal explosion. the blast triggered a wave of devastation and desperation. local people hurried to what was left of the petrol station to see who amongst their friends and relatives may have been caught up in the incident. some drive tractors to start removing the debris. a coastguard helicopter arrived to help tell if the injured to hospital. paramedics and firefighters from northern ireland came across the border to join their colleagues in the irish republic in the operation. they searched through the remains of flats which were above the garage shop, and largely collapsed. there were reports that several people who were reports that several people who were trapped managed to make contact with the emergency services, but it still isn t clear how many are missing. krishna is a small village with about 400 residents. never with the community have imagined facing ....