beijing cares about that.ou see from the 1990's on the prc carefully crafted its elaborate military modernization to counter two long-standing u.s. approaches to power projection. one was aircraft carriers, as deployed during the 1996 taiwan strait crisis. the other it was the multi-month time phase forest deployments that moved america's military might from the constitutional u.s. into the theater before an operation. like desert shield before desert storm and subsequent regional buildups proceeding war in iraq and afghanistan. since then we have seen beijing work hard to focus military concepts and capabilities toward an approach that would keep us out of the western pacific in a crisis. so, we are changing the game. it includes changing our software necessary. we are considering, for example, what it takes to be in place earlier, with more distributed, mobile, lethal, and resistant force posture in the island chain to maneuver, communicate, strike, and resupply into and around a battle space that is highly

it will please beijing if london does not follow donald trump's lead.here are risks that come with this new partnership. rachel reeves keeps using the word pragmatic, what she says she's trying to do is to balance the uk's economic needs with its security concerns. but that brings up some serious issues because china will bristle at the mention of any human rights concerns, at the mention of allegations that its supporting russia's war in ukraine and allegations that it's spying in the uk. it seems the meetings went well. the total value of what we have agreed today is worth £600 million over the next five years for the uk economy. the uk imports more than twice as many goods from china than it sends here. this relationship is not one of economic equals. but the chancellor for now is betting on beijing, in that hope that it will eventually make britain better off. now it's time for a look at today's sport. with mark edwards. well, it's the oldest cup competition in the world and there's a full fixture list of fa cup 3rd round ties in england on saturday

i think beijing just brought this dynamic on itself. i think the other thing scholars will try to figure out is, was xi jinping or was the ccp going to have to have a strong authoritarian, totalitarian or face the possibility of sclerosis, corruption and eventual collapse? and they chose they chose a totalitarian. and this is what we've got. yeah i think by 2011 and 12 there was a sense that they'd run out the game when it came to economic and that there was a kind of a ponzi that eventually wasn't to keep producing the kinds of economic growth and there wasn't economic growth, you know, what was the point of the party if wasn't providing the whole, you know, sort of growth model? yeah, i think was in 2007 the premier himself, the number two guy in china, wen jiabao, said think was unstable, uncoordinated and unbalanced or something like that to describing the economy. things were were but you know and now we've seen of course, they've gone this much further and the lack of a free press meant that, you know, the ponzi scheme, typified b

we will discuss the state of relations between london and beijing next.elcome back. some lines dropping according to reports from reuters. the u.s. has found china unfairly dominates shipbuilding. this was a probe initiated in 2024 by the u.s. trade representative. and the findings are again according to reporting that china unfairly subsidized its ship industry, unfair financial support for for informs -- for foreign firms. the report has found china unfairly dominates the shipbuilding industry. now to the maker of iphones, apple and its fortunes in the chinese market. shares are lower after an analyst said it expected iphone shipments would fall short of wall street estimates. a securities analyst sees 220 to 220 5 million iphone units shipped in 2025 compared with a consensus of about 240 million or more. apple shares fell in u.s. trading last friday after the news. we keep track of that story for you as suppliers face the pressure. the u.k. chancellor is returning to the u.k. from china where she reached deals worth 600 million pounds to the british e

laura bicker, bbc news, beijing.wad madani from the paramilitary rapid support forces. the leader of the rsf acknowledged the loss, but vowed to continue fighting the sudanese army until victory, even if it took another 20 years. the rsf militia, which has controlled the city for the past year, has been accused of widespread human rights abuses — and just this week, the us officially designated its actions as a genocide. since sudan's civil war began, tens of thousands of people have been killed and more than 11 million have been displaced. the un says the war has created the world's worst famine. for more on this i spoke to youssef taha of bbc world service. tell us more about the significance of this victory we're hearing about by the sudanese army. this is very significant because the rapid support forces have been holding wad madani for over a year. so this is a very major defeat for them, and that was reflected in general hemedti, mohamed hamdan dagalo, also known as hemedti, in his tone and his rambling audio m

but a new generation wanted greater personal freedom and students from beijing normal university and took over tiananmen square in may 1989. i was fortunate enough to be there. i spent day after day and night after night in the square for weeks and came to love and admire the students for their innocence and courage. true, the students had partly been manipulated by top chinese politicians who wanted to get rid of deng xiaoping. everyone knew from early evening onwards that this was to be the decisive night. commotion. so far, the crowd's had the best of it with the attack on the armoured personnel carrier and the tank but everybody knows that the army has the power to do something about this, to clear this entire place if it chooses to. the only question is does it choose to? eventually, though, deng managed to find a general who agreed to drive them out of the square by force. when dawn came on the lith ofjune, we watched the unforgettable man with his shopping bags who blocked an entire line of tanks near the square. but when i left beijing a day or so later, i saw the ugly afterm

much more on rachel reeves' trip to beijing i rachel reeves' trip to beijing on our website. to minus 18.9 celsius on friday. it is the uk's code this january night in 15 years and the coaches january overnight temperatures since 2010, when the temperatures dropped below —15 degrees several times at various locations across the uk, including —22.3 on the 8th of january, in at the heart. across the uk, temperatures were widely around —42 —1010 on saturday morning with some freezing in parts of the east midlands and eastern england. is a very low temperatures if you experienced them, hopefully, your 0k. a real contrast to what is happening in the united states because we are continuing to monitor those devastating fires across los angeles, where firefighters are continuing to battle them at. absolute devastation and there is a night—time curfew on going there because it is the middle of the night. will have much more updates across bbc news so do stay with us. hello again. it was a bitterly cold night across many parts of the uk. temperatures widely below freezing and we had sc

rachel reeves in beijing. rachel reeves in beijing.l reeves in beijing. rachel reeves in that trip to china which has been criticised given the uk public finances situation, the ongoing turmoil, uk borrowing costs hitting a 16 year high and we fall in the value of the pound as well. rachel reeves maintaining that decision, defending her decision, defending her decision to travel to china in order to, she spoke earlier to say that she wants to improve economic ties with china. and she wants to ensure that growth will be delivered which will make working people in every corner of britain better off, as she put it. she wants that relationship to be improved. any fallout we will bring about we're going back to the ongoing fires across los angeles. we have been watching the destruction of so many homes and we have this report. they got out. that's what matters most. amid the ash and ruin, a hug from dad promises everything will be all right. even if this family doesn't yet know how. when the fires tore through altadena in the dead of night,

into _ wield tariffs to try and force beijing into submission. - wield tariffs to try and force | beijinghis work confusing, i must say. it was hard to tell what he meant. at one stage he was talking about how the us should somehow get 50% of all the money that tiktok makes in china but without saying how that would happen or that if he was to impose a tariff on china, on what, on the entire economy, on certain goods? all this just seems to be him shooting from the hip as he often does. for the hip as he often does. for the moment we have not had much response from china, no official response anyway in the coming hours, however, there will be a press conference from the foreign ministry here and we could hear some comment from them but i think they will be via the track laying it cautiously at the moment because there is no official announcement and they have seen it all before with donald trump throwing around a threat and backpedalling on them a few days later even a few hours later. it will be interesting to see what the chinese foreign ministry has to say in the foreign ministry press

it will retaliate against us and us friends to you in beijing. katrina is thank you very much. indeed. joining us now is political economist of david mon live from beijing, so thank you very much indeed for being with us. what's your assessment of china's position when it comes to a trump administration? and there are some of them, the chinese administration who believes that trump will be transactional. i think the more realistic minds seeing that people call trump transactional as if he was a very successful businessman. when we know that he managed to go through many bankruptcies, leaving him with assets that he protected. he didn't contacts, they didn't pay us off shore suppliers. she didn't play light labors, building work as a new america on many occasions. it's kind of gauge trust from a business. so i think the real estate, i know that this is very unpredictable and trump will do whatever he feels is going to make him look strong. and he'll do whatever puts him on the line. like there's a lot of dips in his thinking around tariffs on china, or even the few things he said of so

now miss reeves will be the most senior british official to visit beijing in seven years.you mentioned, a concerted effort by labour to build bridges with china. and ties have been strained in recent years with allegations of chinese hacking and spying and its jailing of pro—democracy figures in hong kong. now, miss reeves is travelling to china with senior financial figures, including the governor of the bank of england and the chair of hsbc. as for what's in it for china, well, one of the main goals is more cooperation on financial services. china is moving up the value chain and the uk could help, given its expertise in services and financial services. china, of course, is expected to be at the sharp end of donald trump's aggressive trade policy, which could result in tariffs of up to 60% on all chinese goods. chinese officials are already contending with a rapidly declining currency and a stock market sell off, and a protracted property crisis. the uk is unlikely to be able to resist taking sides. but rachel reeves and her delegation might be hoping for something of an

a symbol of beijing's growing influence south america —— peru.dge of peru's coastal desert some 50 miles north of the capital, a small fishing town looks set to become a major hub for trade in a region the us has long considered its own backyard. this giant newport is a game changer, not just for peru, but the wider latin american region, and at a time when the newly elected president donald trump is looking to clampdown on trade, china has set its eyes on peru, making peru a strategic base on the global geopolitical chessboard. the man overseeing the port �*s operations, mario, says the port will dramatically speed up trade that will bypass america entirely. you speed up trade that will bypass america entirely.— speed up trade that will bypass america entirely. you are going to have expressed _ america entirely. you are going to have expressed to _ america entirely. you are going to have expressed to shanghai. j to have expressed to shanghai. it is a huge opportunity for south america because right now all the materials that you export to asia,

you're joining us live from beijing, somebody's comments. so katrina will, may just started you from the call most ministry, anything more? they said well it's important to watch what the comments ministry says because of trump does decide to impose carrots. it's this office that's going to dictate how exactly they're going to respond. so far, they seem to be extending an older bronze to the trump administration. they said that the spokesperson said that china is willing to work with them to create healthy and stable trade environment that they want to manage the dispute properly . and the tires are not be on stage. instead, that types of motor and the home china, the us and home, the global, a whole global markets. you'll see that went on to talk about china. and it's time to continue opening up. she said that china was ready. the 2nd largest impulse that in the world, that remains lots of opportunities for other countries for foreign investors to take make the most of the chinese market and that it's committed to working towards improving

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is that is our correspondents monitoring events in beijing. let's speak to journalist bhadra sharma who joins us from kathmandu. i understand that the tremors were felt as far as kathmandu? yes it was... many people who are still in their bed, they were sleeping actually, and it was a strong tremor, so... i woke up and i quickly noticed it is a strong powerful, powerfully strong, so ijust came out of my home, when i came out of my home, when i came to the area, many people were on the street or out of their home, because they have noticed, we are used to, to come out of home anywhere we feel the tremor because many people had been experiencing this short of earthquake in the same years, and today's earthquake reminded me... in nearly 9,000 people had died. and you mentioned that earthquake, after than earthquake, after than earthquake, after than earthquake, a lot of the survivors went into buildings to try and save themselves but now we are seeing that a lot of the survivorings in this area are afraid to go inside the buildings after those st

a golden share gives beijing influence over the strategy. aside from that, china has export rules in place to prevent chinese companies from selling certain software algorithms. that is integral to tiktok. china will have to have a say in what happens next if that includes a development but that is not what china wants and not what bytedance wants to see. tom: we will see how it unfolds. an interesting twist in the story as we count down to the supreme court decision on the fate of tiktok u.s. annabelle, thank you. they eu is considering expanding its investigation into whether x broke content moderation rules. elon musk's company is accused of failing to tackle illegal content and disinformation. the top digital officer told bloomberg they are looking at whether a livestream conversation between musk and germany's far-right leader gave a political candidate an unfair advantage. >> x, the investigation has been going on for one year so it is quite broad, the scope that the commission is investigating. we are assessing if the scope is large e

let me go to mark stewart, who is out in beijing. mark, i understand it's very late there, but what are we hearing about this call between donald trump and president xi? it sounds as though they did talk about tiktok. according to the incoming president here in the u.s. >> right, jim? and that's not something that's actually been acknowledged, at least thus far, by chinese officials. it's this call is being summarized as diplomatic goodwill for, for lack of a better word, xi jinping calling for a new starting point in this u.s. china relationship. but when it comes to the matter of tiktok, let's be very clear. as someone who is here in china, beijing does not want to come across or appear to be taking orders from the united states. so what happens next is going to have to be something that china is very comfortable with, not just from a business standpoint, but from a politics and optics standpoint, because as we have seen in recent years, china is trying to establish itself as a leader in a new world order. and it wasn't that long a

on climate the chinese government has said beijing is concerned that the us has pulled out of the parisigh moral ground, actually, it is a bit of a benefit in one way for xi jingping. it is also a potential benefit for china because it is making so many electric cars, so many solar panels, selling them all over the world. but it can also say, you know, which government is the progress one when it comes to sorting out this crucial massive problem for humanity? on trade, at the moment beijing is taking a bit of a wait—and—see approach because donald trump has threatened all these tariffs but no clear indication as to when they might come, or if, or how much etc, despite the fact there has been a bit of a threat to impose tariffs if they change is not agreed to a new tiktok deal. but the comment from the foreign ministry spokesperson is beijing is willing to strengthen dialogue and communication with the us, and he said there is a huge space for cooperation between the world's super powers when it comes to trade.— world's super powers when it comes to trade. they are trying to be positive

that we might come up with among the experts, what would be the pushback in washington and beijing toboth? so i think we need to have dedicated experts what you might call a more skeptical audience, and that includes sitting policymakers in both countries. and then -- and then slowly try to incorporate, you know, those individuals if not those individuals then at least bring those arguments to the table when we're discussing concrete areas of potential collaboration and climate agriculture. okay. >> thank you great answer lily and thank you so much on wonderful to see you again that's a very important question that you asked at this phase in -- in our project. as we have wrap up really excellent conversations earlier this year and look forward to what we'll be doing in the future wing the what that we do is building on what lily said it is bringing in those skeptics -- well, i think it is two sides it is bringing those who are very open policymakers very open to collaboration and informing them about -- about the potential risks of this. and it is bringing in this scept ticks afraid o

why has rachel reeves chosen this time to go to beijing?ain has no choice but to engage with china as the world's second largest economy, and obviously, the uk's fourth largest single trading partner. so her argument is that by developing and deepening ties with china, the benefits for the economy here can be seen. she is pointing to the £600 million she has negotiated in business this weekend. but this trip, and i suppose more importantly the longer term government approach to china, is fraught with potential difficulty. in the immediate term, there is market turbulence we have seen in the last few days, the cost of government debt going up at the same time as the value of the pound goes down. you mention both the conservatives and the liberal democrats have said that she must return to address that she must return to address that people. but there were also questions, i suppose, for also questions, i suppose, for a longer term closer relationship with china. what might cheap chinese imports mean for british steal production, for example a

the conservatives have accused her of fleeing to beijing.p was about opening doors to british business. it is the number—1 mission of government to make our country better. and that's why i am in china, to unlock tangible benefits for british businesses exporting and trading around the world to ensure that we have greater access to the second—biggest economy in the world. and when we have this pragmatic conversations with chinese leaders and, indeed, chinese leaders and, indeed, chinese businesses, we will always be acting in britain's national interest.— national interest. rachel reeves- _ national interest. rachel reeves. to _ national interest. rachel reeves. to the - national interest. rachel reeves. to the us. - president biden has criticised this week's announcement from meta that it is closing its fact—checking operations. mr biden described it as shameful. he made the comments during a wide—ranging press conference intended to highlight his record on the economy. let's take a listen. the idea that, you know, a billionaire can buy som

targeting underscores beijing's determination to acquire intelligence on its biggest rival, accordings who spoke to "the washington post." china's growing cyber espionage operations fbi director christopher wray called the most significant campaign in history, largely flew under the radar in 2024. but experts warn that such attacks are likely to increase as beijing seeks to gain a competitive advantage in technology, economics and security. friday's sanctions are tied to a previous cyber hacking operation in which flax typhoon seized control of more than 260,000 internet connected devices, including cameras and routers which u.s. officials say the chinese government used to spy on sensitive organizations. flax typhoon has been active since at least 2021, but u.s. officials say they were only able to rest control of the devices from the hackers in september. the chinese operation infiltrated numerous sectors including university, media organizations and government agencies causing significant financial loss as organizations scrambled to replace their infected hardware and their softwar

you can see my backdrop, i am here in beijing.an see the tall buildings, that is not the case in those mountainous regions. these houses are low—lying, they are made of bricks and we have seen footage ofjust collapsed and they have fallen on people, and rescuers are combing through the rubble, trying to find survivors. we have also seen many people, elderly, children, out on the street, being treated by both the army, by the police, and by rescuers themselves. hundreds of people, hundreds of rescuers have been despatched. president xi jinping announced this morning that he issued instructions to ensure that civilian casualties are at a minimum, and those who have lost their homes can be at least housed somewhere warm, and somewhere dry for the time being. that is going to be a challenge, becausejust as getting rescuers in there is going to be difficult, it will be really difficult to get aid trucks into these mountainous regions. so we are monitoring chinese state media, we are seeing the pictures coming in and we are hearing the

she tried to calm the market yesterday, she's off to beijing at the weekend.t's about the long-term to try to rustle up more investment for the future, but she needs to deal with this now. she was planning to do a speech when she got back from beijing reaffirming her commitment to the fiscal rules, but we continue to see these difficulties in the markets today. there's an expectation that she needs to say something. at the moment, what we got yesterday was a signal that if she ran out of headroom she would choose spending cuts, as you say, over more tax rises, that's going to be politically difficult and the reason i say it's more like the 70's then liz truss is because at least liz truss had an idea of how to grow the economy and her tax cuts. it looks like according to now she might have no choice but austerity. tom: the jobs data, the job situation in the labor market in the u.k., it seems to be a is less and less convinced it will go further with rate cuts. there are tensions here when it comes to the labor market. >> remember the official jobs data has be

let's go live to beijing where i'm joined by stephen mcdonell, our china correspondent.ration where you are? there has been a mixture of chinese people tuning in and others not paying any attention. the fact of the inauguration happening has been reported in the press here. as you would expect, some engaging in it and others not really. it is interesting that when it comes to china and tariffs, he did say i will impose swingeing tariffs on china. that has not happened as yet. although his official first day has not begun. it official first day has not beuun. , , , begun. it seems tied up with tiktok. yes. _ begun. it seems tied up with tiktok. yes. donald - begun. it seems tied up with tiktok. yes. donald trump l begun. it seems tied up with | tiktok. yes. donald trump 's tiktok. yes. donald trump �*s comments on tiktok and what he intends to do about this were confusing and not clear, as if he was making it up as he was going along. what we know is he has given tiktok a 75 day extension which i suppose enables him and team to bring a new plan for tiktok. he mentioned he

thank you so much for that update. katrina, you live for us from beijing. the . is there any forces i have carried out multiple attacks across the gaza? the latest as strikes target to the house in darrow bala can at least full palestinians and wounding several others. the home was located near a medical facility run by the u. s. agency for palestinian refugees that were capitalism has the latest on these riley strikes from there all by the, in central gaza for the most fee is a quite charged with tension and fee regarding the continuation of these wait a minute to strikes postcards and what we have seen during the past 24 hours was very fluids, the because many human to built up neighborhoods have been targeted and gaza. city has it's considered to be the epi center for the lights, the strikes. and the reports though, still emerging from northern gods and suggested to the ongoing of bill jo, single parade, shocked by his when he ground forces on the facility of the engine. you see in the hospital, in the north of district, i'm a new escalade thing at mid just be

we heard some officials in beijing saying well, elon musk, we like him -- i'm paraphrasing, of course- he could be a possible suitable buyer of tiktok but the beijing government all along does not want to sell but it is bytedance, the supposedly private company, that has to sell because of this national security legislation. but again, who will come forward in the next three months once this executive order is pushed through and whether congress agrees that something can be done within that timeframe? and a 50-50 joint venture will be a lot more difficult to get past the more hawkish members in congress who say this is a national security threat and cannot still be in the hands of the chinese communist party. lizzy: donald trump likes a deal , or so i have heard. chief asia correspondent stephen engle, we thank you. we will continue this conversation. donald trump and xi jinping holding talks ahead of the u.s. inauguration over the weekend. discussions that could set the tone for relations between the world's two largest economies. elizabeth ingleson from the london school of economic

let's bring in terrence baker in beijing. what stood out to you, james? >> the things that stood out to me where you saw the continuation of the story we have had all year, which is the strong industrial side of the economy, strong at ports and lackluster retailing consumption side. but you did see industrial production pickup in december and we saw that in the pmi's and that is partly due to the stimulus domestically and also the huge amount of exports china shipped out last year, $3.6 trillion last year, driving growth. don't look at the 5% target that they met but the nominal gdp value. that is telling you we had deflation last year, second full year of deflation and the gdp deflator was about -0.8 and going forward that's the more important number to look at than the inflation-adjusted growth numbers so they were able to meet their target and underlying that prices are falling, company profits are following, wages are falling and people are not confident about this economy and last year you saw government stimulus going through, government spending go

shares trade lower in beijing. plus, the global trade conversation continues at the world economic forum in davos. we hear from the german finance minister and the ceos of barclays and the hong kong stock exchange later this hour. let's check in on the markets. the latest message from president trump, not so fast china. 10% tariffs could be in the offing as soon as february 1. downside pressure on mainland shares today. the impetus more broadly for markets is the ai push. you are seeing that reflected in the surge in the stock price for softbank. we break that story down for you in more detail. european stocks set for fifth straight day of games. up to tens of 1% according to the european futures. ftse futures pointing to gains of 1/10 of 1%. s&p futures looking to add pretense of 1%. the nasdaq could get that left from the ai infrastructure spend plan coming through from the trump administration, currently looking to add 150 points. let's look across asset. treasuries relatively stable. the 10 year still above the

bytedance's co-founder lives in beijing. china does collect data on u.s. citizens.od case, which is why congress was so strongly supportive of this bill, there is a good case that you cannot trust kino when it comes to this, despite tiktok's arguments. caitriona: the issue of china is one thing, but there is also the issue of free speech. if this ban goes ahead, what does that mean for future provisions of the first amendment and free speech and platforms used for that? >> i feel that for tiktok's lawyers, because they have a heavy lift to try to persuade all the courts they've come in front of, that the free speech rights of a chinese company resident in beijing are worth considering. one of the justices pointed out that free speech is part of association, and we have laws that say you cannot associate with known terrorists. that could be the president. so the free-speech argument has not gotten as much traction as tiktok might have hoped. caitriona: the way around this ban, according to lawmakers, is for bytedance to sell tiktok. there is no appetite to sell it, b

doesn't want to see develop in beijing.inly, the trump administration will not alter course on that. we would expect to see the trump administration not only embraced certain types of export controls applied by the biden administration, but perhaps try to expand them and look for ways to retaliate as well, and try to maybe foster some domestic investment in these areas as well. katie: mike, great perspective as always. that was mike sheppard, joining us from washington. let's keep the conversation going. another story we are keeping an eye on is the future of h-1b visas under the new administration. here is former representative denver riggleman weighing in on the elon musk influence on the matter. he spoke with joe mathieu earlier this week. >> i would have lunch with him to tell him what i thought. >> what's going on with him here? we are already seeing a breakdown over the h-1b situation. the maca versus musk situation seems tenuous. will he still have the presidency or a year from now? >> no, no. what's interesting abou

is that a win for beijing?> i think it really depends on beijing's view on how much they need to be in control of the narrative. >> as the u.s. supreme court and incoming trump administration debate tiktok's fate, the rise of rednote raises new questions and concerns about americans embracing yet another platform under chinese government control. so now you have this surge of american tiktok refugees joining the more than 300 million, 300 million, mostly chinese on rednote. you have cross-cultural memes popping up. all these conversations the government censors in beijing and probably, you know, just try to keep keep up with all of this and monitor this. which is why rednote has put out a job posting. they're looking for people with very excellent english skills. they say it's for back end data processing. you've got to wonder if they need some help to try to censor all of this english language content. i need to say, for legal reasons, we've been trying since tuesday by phone and email to reach rednote, and th

what beijing could potentially do to it. and that was the crux of their reasoning today, pam. >> and so now you have donald trump, who told me on the phone this morning that, look, the decision is ultimately up to me. congress has given me the decision to do it. now we know the law allows this 90 day extension. if there are actual, real, tangible negotiations happening. but bytedance has said it doesn't want to sell tiktok. and so there's this looming question of what's going to happen sunday when this ban takes place. and between that time and when donald trump takes office monday officially, and what options are available to him? >> yeah, i'm curious what he's being advised as far as how much discretion he has. i don't think this law as it was passed and as president biden signed, it really gives the president elect, future president trump, a whole lot of flexibility in terms of being able to put the brakes on it once it goes into effect. there's a couple different options he has available. one, he could quickly see if he

he traveled to beijing in 2017. i remember watching donald trump and and and president xi jinping really being warm with each other that frayed during covid 19. so this is where it begins right now. but a phone call between the two leaders today, i'm told, talking about fentanyl, talking about. yes. a tiktok also other things really is setting this new tone. the question, though for the trump administration, as any u.s. president. what is this us-china relationship going to look like? that blistering campaign rhetoric, of course, has cooled somewhat, and it's in both countries interests, of course, to have a productive governing relationship. donald trump clearly wants to do that. he invited president xi here. he's sending his vice president instead. that's extraordinary in and of itself. so for all the questions about the logistics of this inaugural, one thing is clear china front and center. >> front and center. there, along with, you know, elon musk and the tech ceos. thank you very much, jeff zeleny. now in chin

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there were a series of meetings in beijing, in washington. think it is fair to say that for those of us who are not experts in this but watching what's going on, the press statements talking about the american and chinese side, something change there was significant progress. now, there still debate deep skepticism of the chinese it is pervasive in our political system and our foreign policy circles. this was a bit of a standout. it was very difficult to achieve a whole lot of cooperation and other health related fields. but, in this area there was an exception we saw some major gains. tell us, as you are in conversation with skeptics on this what do you point to as the concrete steps the chinese have taken that do attest to the fact that things have changed and improved? >> steve, i think that meeting last november was an important one. it allowed the two leaders to agree to cooperate on the measures. this was an important measure perhaps the most important measure. what has happened since, and understanding of what we need to get done first

so that is kind of the view from beijing. it's going to take a lot for something to perhaps facilitate a sale, because beijing does not want to be in the position of being told by the united states about what it can and cannot do. it wants to call the shots of its own. in this entire drama. and then we have the ceo of tiktok, who, as you have mentioned, has formed this relationship with president trump. in fact, president-elect trump. in fact, he released a video message with a thank you message of sorts. let's take a quick listen to that. >> we are grateful and pleased to have the support of a president who truly understands our platform, one who has used tiktok to express his own thoughts and perspectives, connecting with the world and generating more than 60 billion views of his content in the process. >> i should tell you that chinese citizens are very curious about what is happening in this debate in the united states. i mean, this saga is a prime point of interest on chinese social media. in fact, the ceo of tiktok and

beijing held its huge annual gala to start the new year.wan welcomed 2025 with an impressive fireworks display, using all 500m of taipei 101. midnight in india was marked by a firework display in mumbai. in the uae, fireworks are set off from the world's tallest building, the burj khalifa in dubai. and in new york, the times square ball makes its way to the top of its pole, ready for the big apple's curtain to rise on 2025. nickjohnson, bbc news. last few hours, tens of thousands in london brought in the new year, as a massive fireworks display erupted around the historic elizabeth tower in westminster, also known as big ben. that's despite bad weather causing other new year's events across the country to be cancelled. here's a bird's—eye view of the scene showing the colourful spectacle that welcomed in 2025. just before that, paris rang in the new year in spectacularfashion. millions of people from all around the world flock to see the city of lights every year in france during this festive time. people lined the streets and toasted to a

speaking in beijing, rachel reeves said the trip was about opening doors to british business.eed today represent pragmatic cooperation in action. they represent common ground being found on areas like financial services, trade, investment and the climate. they support secure and resilient growth, providing mutual benefit for both the uk and china while safeguarding national security. as the first duty of government, the total value of what we have agreed today is worth £600 million over the next five years for the uk economy. overall, this government's re—engagement with china already sets us on course to deliver up to £1 billion of value for the uk economy. this includes across our financial services in which the uk is a global leader. a major search is continuing for two sisters who were last seen in aberdeen city centre on tuesday. eliza and henrietta hoostee�*s brother has told the bbc they seemed "fine" in the days running up to their disappearance. 0ur correspondent catriona renton is in aberdeen and sent us this update. they were last seen on two o'clock in the morning,