hello, i m sally bundock with the top business stories, and we begin with the upcoming face to face meeting between us presidentjoe biden and china s president xi jinping. the two leaders are meeting on wednesday on the side lines of the asia pacific economic cooperation summit in san francisco and the world will be watching to see if they can soothe their fraught economic and diplomatic relationship. in their first face to face talks in more than a year, they are expected to discuss the ongoing trade row between the two countries, as well as washington s measures to restrict beijing s access to advanced computer chips, citing people familiar with the matter. let s discuss this with brian coulton chief economist at fitch ratings. good morning. we will talk about the cletus meeting on wednesday but today finance leaders are gathered. what is expected from them? i leaders are gathered. what is expected from them?- expected from them? i think there will expected from them? i
probably made the right decision. and coming up on bbc news, two of european football s heavyweights, france and belgium, go head to head at the euros with kick off this afternoon in dusseldorf. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. a head teacher convicted of grooming and sexually abusing four girls has been sentenced to 17 years in prison. neil foden was the head of one school in bangor in north wales, and strategic head of another. he d been a well known and well respected figure in the local community before his offending was exposed. made a superhead in 2021, headteacher neil foden was a regular on the tv and radio news. none of us know for certain exactly how their work is going to be assessed. but in september last year, he was arrested after a girl came forward with allegations of sexual abuse. her evidence would prove pivotal. because she was quite involved with the defendant, she had a lot of evidence to give, not only in terms of her own account, but a
i m wolf blitzer in washington along with kaitlan collins. this is america s choice, election day in america your headquarters for all the crucial issues driving voters to the polls. key races are in mississippi, kentucky and ohio. the first polls close in hours from now. these races can help us get a sense of where the voters are. we ll see in abortion rights will continue to be the driving force so clearly in last year s election after the supreme court overturned roe versus wade. in ohio tonight, voters are deciding to enshrine the right to one in the state s constitution. and governors contests in kentucky and mississippi, along with control over the government of virginia, where all 140 seats in both the house and the senate there are up for grabs. . we have live team coverage of it all. jessica dean is in richmond, virginia. kyung lah, you re no franklin county, ohio. what have voters been saying as they cast their ballots today. reporter: what you re he
welcome to the beat weekend, let s get right into the headlines. this is a debate that certainly is memorable. but not in a very happy way. it seems to be another in a series of shared american experiences and memories that feel more infamous than famous, more traumatic than cathartic. and so tonight, together with you right now, as we are still within these first 24 hours of that face-off, we re going to take stock with the evidence, trying to look at the significance and the fallout and the actual real possibilities. we are not going to devolve into, or take too much time with the fantasy screenplay scenarios, because while there is talk of rain play style solutions, what matters more, for what this is about what we are going to do, is what is possible. indeed, the screenplay talk, the fantasy talk me tell you about the reactions of the dark of the democratic party, it may matter in that sense but not of the screenplay coming true. what if it is true, in what we ve seen i
letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. happy friday. happy friday. thanks, nicole. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. i m joining you on this friday, june 28th, a day that marks a major shift in this presidential race. it s something you can basically feel and that many felt in their core. the emotion hitting probably before the logic or any intellectual observations, even as president biden first walked out to the stage. at this debate which his campaign pushed for. earlier than ever. and then delivered a performance that has, for now, up ended this race and done so so swiftly the discriminations had begun long before he and trump walked off that very stage. this is a debate that is certainly memorable but not in a very happy way. it seems to be another in a series of shared american experiences and memories that feel more infamous than famous, more traumatic than cathart