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hearing, has held what the us calls "candid" and "constructive" talks with china's foreign minister in beijing. this at the start of two days of meetings with chinese officials. mr blinken emphasised the need for diplomacy and keeping "open channels of communication" us officials added. the trip to china is the first by a top us diplomat in almost five years and comes months after an earlier visit by the secretary of state was postponed when a suspected chinese spy balloon flew in us airspace. can this trip reboot relations? to discuss this and what's at stake for the world's two big...

welcome to the programme. russia strikes kyiv again, just as a delegation of african leaders visit the ukrainian capital to discuss peace solutions. also tonight: a two—year investigation into the minneapolis police department in the wake of the killing of george floyd has found that officers routinely used excessive force and discriminated against black people for years. we'll have an update from kalamata, in greece, where officials have denied a series of reports that suggest the migrant boat which capsized 50 miles off the south coast did so because a rope was attached to it by ...

You got to say . Everybody is welcome. Your phone or needs you. Get in touch. Text and call. The Text Messages are coming in already. Now the news. Former top Civil Servant at the Department For Education says the budget for repairing schools with failing concrete was halved. Jonathan slater said it was frustrating that funding was only given a50 schools after a by rishi sunak. The government says it will do whatever it takes to fix the problem. Keir starmer is expected to reshuffle his cabinet today, although most senior roles will be unchanged. Former Civil Servant sue gray is set to begin h...

Gb news. But first its the news with addison. With ray addison. Thanks, emily. Good afternoon. 1 01. Our top stories this hour. Parents are being told classroom closures due to crumbling concrete are not a return to the dark days of school lockdowns. Writing in the school lockdowns. Writing in the sun on sunday, education secretary Gillian Keegan said the government had no choice but to order the full or partial closure of more than 100 schools and colleges as labour is planning to force a vote to compel the pm to publish a list of all of the schools at risk. Shadow education secretary Bridget...

Good morning, sir. So the questions of many parents are now asking of government, why act only now, just days before the start of The New School year in england . We went through this exhaustive survey of 22,000 schools after the initial incident in 2018. Then in the summer months, new information came to light that suggested that some of the buildings that had previously been classified as safe might not be. And so the Education Secretary acted immediately on that. The chancellor said the government would spend whatever it takes to keep children safe at school, although it is not clear what t...