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nearby, insisting there is nothing to see. one even pointing his gun threateningly towards us. shrinking glacier streams 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 in front of their eyes. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. nancy pelosi, america s third highest ranking politician, is right now in taiwan, on a visit that s infuriated beijing. ms pelosi is due to visit taiwan s parliament and meet the taiwanese president on wednesday morning. tensions are high. china considers self ruled, democratic taiwan as its own territory, and it s been flying warplanes close to the island. four us warships have also been deployed to the region. our correspondent, rupert wingfield hayes, reports from tai ....
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. ....
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 ....
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 sta ....
very well, thank you. how are you? and the glasses allowing deaf people to see real time conversations right before their eyes. hello and welcome to the programme. 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 s just met the taiwanese president after addressing parliament and made it clear that the us would not abandon the island. china views taiwan as its own and the foreign ministry summoned the us ambassador in beijing to protest against pelosi s high profile trip. mark lobel has the latest. side by side with the taiwanese president america s third most powerful politician and actor provocation or a necessary show of support? nancy pelosi delayed high profile visit was never without risk, the anger of chinese has led to the us ambassador being summoned, nancy pelosi was handed an award for her strong ties to taiwan. ., , . , taiwan. today i am my de ....