Hello and welcome to bbc news. The United States and china have agreed to resume talks to ease the trade war between the worlds two largest economies. President trump and the chinese leader, xijinping, reached the agreement at the 620 summit injapan. As part of the truce, mr trump said American Companies can, once again, sell components to the chinese tech giant huawei, ending a us ban on such sales. From osaka, nick bryant sent this report. This was a day when the 620 summit of the worlds wealthiest nations essentially became a g2. These talks between donald trump and xijinping, by far the most consequential meeting of this global gathering. It ended with a cease fire inthe trade war, an agreement to restart talks that fell apart last month. But the us president made a major concession, lifting some restrictions on huawei, the chinese tech giant centre of whats felt like a commercial cold war. We had a very good meeting with president xi of china excellent. I would say excellent, as g
The us has blamed iran for suspected attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman. One is reported to have been hit by a torpedo. Crew from both have had to be rescued. This video is from the iranian navy and we think it shows the norwegian ship the front altair. It was carrying 75 thousand tonnes of a type of crude oil. And the crew reported three explosions. The tankers were sailing through the strait of hormuz. This graphic shows the path they took they were moving out of the gulf of oman when the explosions happened. Both were around 30 km from the coast of iran. The owners of both ships have called it an attack. Its the second serious incident involving a tanker close to the strait of hormuz in a month. No one has claimed responsibility but iran was first to respond. Its foreign minister tweeted. To explain one of the ships, this one is japanese owned. The other though is norway owned. Well, if iran has its suspicions, so does the us. Heres mike pompeo. It is the assessment of t
chief says turkey s president erdogan has now agreed to support sweden s bid tojoin nato. that was a priority for us presidentjoe biden, who touched down in vilnius on the eve of the summit. it s clears the last major hurdle for sweden s accession. let s take a listen to what the nato secretary general jens stoltenberg, had to say. i think what we did today builds and we did in madrid because they agreed to invite finland and sweden to become members and the ratification process has been finalised or finland, finland is already a full member and now president erdogan has indicated they are ready to ratify sweden. our correspondent lewis vaughanjones has been following developments in vilnius. it seems this nato summit here in vilnius will be getting under way after a very significant concrete achievement. ian s stoltenberg, the head of nato, announcing that turkey had agreed sweden could start the process to membership. ,jens. why is that so significant? within nato, each a
aged 20 , has claimed via a lawyer that nothing inappropriate or unlawful has taken place, and that the claims that first emerged in the sun newspaper are rubbish , and an invasion of their privacy. the sun says it stands by its story. meanwhile, the metropolitan police say they are making further inquiries but there is currently no investigation under way. the male presenter, who has been suspended, has not been named. here s our media editor katie razzall. for the first time at the bbc we ve had our own person talking to the person involved in this. they told us that the story as reported by the sun is untrue. now the sun says there is something quite another. the pants had to stand by their account and an interview say we did this to help, and that the presenter has got into their loved ones had come as they put it. the claims tonight on behalf of that empress are not true and they accused the bbc of lying about what happened when they made their complaint. so where
these are very well paid jobs, 0k? and the fear of losing a coveted position of that nature would mean that people would go the extra mile to meet the quotas and the targets. ijm told us that its targets aim to evaluate impact so its work can be most effective. but it denies staff are penalised if they don t meet them. fatima and the other children were able to return home after social services concluded they had not been trafficked and criminal charges against two of their relatives were also dropped. not without consequences. translation: whatever we got from our fish - and business to feed ourselves, we spent everything on the case. ijm ghana told us that it does not decide whether any individual is arrested or prosecuted with offences, and said that it is social workers who independently decide when the child might be put into care even if they are not victims of trafficking. after the raid, fatima stayed in the shelter for about four months. while you were away, what wer