a compromise over same sex relationships but will it please traditionalists or gay couples? hey, josh, it s gillian, how are you doing? very well, thank you. how are you? and the glasses allowing deaf people to see real time conversations, right before their eyes. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. she knew it would antagonise beijing but that hasn t stopped nancy pelosi, america s third highest ranking politician, from paying a high level visit to taiwan. she is due to attend taiwan s parliament and meet the president on wednesday morning, despite warnings from beijing not to travel there. we have heard in the last few minutes that is where she is now. a highly symbolic gesture to step forward inside the centre of the democratic taiwan system. it s self ruling territory but china insists it is part of its territory and that has created significant anger within beijing. in a measure of china s anger, the us ambassador has just been summoned. to the
in the himalayas are creating a water crisis we have a special report on getting tap water to villages. hey, josh, it s gillian, how are you doing? very well, thank you. how are you? and the glasses allowing deaf people to see real time conversations right before their eyes. she knew it would antagonise beijing but that hasn t stopped nancy pelosi america s third highest ranking politician from paying a high level visit to taiwan. in the past hour she s been at the taiwanese parliament but before arriving there the chinese foreign ministry summoned the us ambassador, nicholas burns, to beijing to protest against the visit. during her meeting with taiwanese politicians she insisted that she had come to taiwan in what she called peace for the region . we come in friendship to taiwan. we come in peace for the region and our chair of the veterans affairs committee, representing our veterans, understanding the value of peace and the avoidance of conflict. i am sure he will
because beijing itself believes that there needs to be reunification between taiwan and china, and that taiwan is a part of course of the chinese nation. so it is a meeting, which is high in symbolism, but it also has had, as a result, some more significant moments. we have seen military manoeuvres, both by the chinese and american vessels being sent into the region as well. low level, in terms of that military operation, and it is not engagement, it is just operations in and around the seeds of around taiwan. but nonetheless, it has ratcheted up nonetheless, it has ratcheted up further the very difficult relations that currently exist between beijing and washington. it has been an awkward scenario for the white house because they do not have control over nancy pelosi, there were some effort to persuade her not to make this journey, effort to persuade her not to make thisjourney, but effort to persuade her not to make this journey, but it has been made and they will stand sup
six committee. former chief of staff mark meadows and deputy. the justice department, this week, letting these trump associates off the hook, declining to charge them with contempt of congress. scavino and meadows cooperated with the committee at first, but trump s former chief of staff, turning over more than 2000 text messages. consulting to the january six committee, even describing meadows as the mvp of witnesses. starting november 3rd, november 4th, in a middlesex messages, all the way to the end, it is a roadmap. and i would have to say at this point, i think mark meadows is the mvp for the committee. i think they should pay him. the data that we got from there actually allowed us to really structure and effective investigation. well, the committee now calling the doj s decision on meadows and scavino, quote, puzzling. while praising the swift indictment of former trump advisor, peter navarro. navarro was arrested friday for defying the january 6th committee subpoen
committee investigating the house insurrection. five congressmen are subpoenaed including kevin mccarthy. and new evidence of possible war crime in ukraine. an exclusive on the general who ordered some of those acts of brutality. announcer: live from cnn. russia is reacting to finland s announcement that it homes to join nato with threats of retaliation. former president dmitri medvedev warns that it would strengthen its western flank. they called it a radical change in policy and a treaty vial participation will bring consequences. philipish leaders say their finnish leaders say it is a drastic change in the security environment after ukraine. helsinki admits there are no direct military threats right now and its extremely long border with russia is secure. finland has been a member of the european union since 1995. for years we ve been a very close partner to nato. so in that sense, this will not be such a major one and maybe it is not as big as people might think.