ukraine s president gets the red carpet treatment in poland and a pledge of fighterjets. one of the world s biggest online, crime websites is shut down by police in 17 countries. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. china s foreign ministry has condemned a meeting between tsai ing wen and the us speaker of the house in california. it vowed a resolute response. mr mccarthy as the most senior american politician to meet a taiwanese leader on us soil since 1979. the meeting took place at the ronald reagan presidential library during a stopover on president tsai journey home from latin america. climate china claims it as part of its own territory. here is what was said at a press conference. the friendship said at a press conference. tue: friendship between said at a press conference. tte: friendship between the people of taiwan and america is a matter of profound importance to the free world and it is criti
we look at divisions over australia s colonial legacy with many young people shunning the holiday. and understanding apes. we look at new evidence that the way we communicate could have come from these animal ancestors. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. meta has announced it will reinstate donald trump s facebook and instagram accounts, two years after he was suspended following the capitol riots. nick clegg, the president of global affairs, has laid out the reasons for the decision on the meta website. he says. the former president has also given his reaction on his own social media platform, truth social, saying. let s bring in our north america correspondent, peter bowes. he s been watching this story very closely. peter, great to get you on the show. just talk us through the backdrop of this. why was donald trump in the first instance taken off the first instance taken off the platform? he the first inst
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sustained in a court of law because they don t exist. donald trump believes this prosecution could help his election prospects. he is now centre stage again, and his party, including his rivals, support his claim that he s being targeted unfairly for political reasons. we are a nation in decline, and now these radical left lunatics want to interfere with our elections by using law enforcement. we can t let that happen. things have certainly calmed down outside manhattan s criminal court today, and donald trump will not be back here again before december, when the next hearing is scheduled. but remember, he is facing several other legal investigations over the january the 6th riots, over declassified documents found at his home in florida, and over alleged election interference in the state of georgia. next year, donald trump may be having to defend himself in several different legal cases at the same