stephen mcdonell, thank you. _ jon sopel is in rome.is view was not enough and president biden is now pointing the finger of blame. he president biden is now pointing the finger of blame.— finger of blame. he is trying to oint the finger of blame. he is trying to point the finger _ finger of blame. he is trying to point the finger of _ finger of blame. he is trying to point the finger of blame - finger of blame. he is trying to point the finger of blame at - finger of blame. he is trying to i point the finger of blame at china and russia, but looking at the situation in the united states, yes, joe biden wants to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on tackling climate change but he can't get it through the senate where there is a 50-50 through the senate where there is a 50—50 split and one of his democratic senators from west virginia where cole is king doesn't want anything to do with it, so he is stuck. he is not providing the leadership he hoped to be able to. let's not get too granular about us politics, let's go with a wider lens

here's stephen mcdonell on why. n: this city will be hosting the winter olympics, and the plan right now is to have local residents filling the stands. you can imagine it is adding an extra degree of pressure on officials to yet again rein in the coronavirus in cna. other countries, they have god to -- gone to a living with covid strategy, but not this country and this city. officials are still opting for a plan which is back to zero covid elimination. every time there has been an outbreak using contact tracing, using localized lockdowns, and certain other targeted measures, chinese officials have been able to rein it in. maryam: this is "outside source ," live from the bbc news room. the united nations warns of a countdown to humanitarian catastrophe in afghanistan, with millions facing starvation. fast-moving events in sudan -- doctors say at least two people have died after the military seized power and dissolve the civilian government and arrested the prime minister in a coup. troops are on the streets of the cap

from beijing, here's stephen mcdonell.d that it had several sources saying that china had tested a hypersonic live vehicle — in fact, a nuclear—capable hypersonic live vehicle — and that this had taken the us intelligence agencies completely by surprise. now a hypersonic missile would travel around the globe in low orbit, then dipped down into cruise mode, honing in on its target. the point is very tough to track, much tougher than the conventional ballistic missile, for example, because it doesn't follow the same predictable arc. and, because it doesn't follow such a predictable arc, it's much harder to intercept. of course, if china has developed this technology, it would be a huge deal. the problem is the chinese government denies that it's carried out such a test. the foreign ministry spokesperson said today there had been a test, but that it was a spacecraft test, that china had been going through different versions of reusable equipment to make space travel more affordable, and that as part of this test, modules and

stephen mcdonell: tear gas, which is being fired. _ you can see from above behind them, the riot policerucks. in hong kong, beijing has been clamping down on dissent since the start of the protests in 2019. the clashes between the police and pro—democracy demonstrators may have subsided for now, at least. but the same cannot be said for the online world, where the battle for the narrative still continues. furious edit wars have been raging behind the scenes on wikipedia between pro—democracy and pro—beijing points of view. our team of investigators have spent weeks looking into these edits, mostly in chinese languages but also some in english. this article is about the yuen long attack in 2019 which saw about 100 men wearing white shirts attacking people in a transport station. there were allegations that these men both had triad connections but were also in cooperation with the police, ultimately backed by beijing. but on the chinese wikipedia page of the incident, the second of these pictures was removed and then two days later, well over 100 further edits was made to the page. change

we can cross live to beijing and our china correspondent stephen mcdonell.legation here to glasgow. how receptive do you think they'll be to the warnings they get from the international community? well, xi jin - in: international community? well, xi jinping hasn't _ international community? well, xi jinping hasn't travelled _ international community? well, xi jinping hasn't travelled anywhere l jinping hasn't travelled anywhere for nearly two years, as far as we can see china's leader has not been to a single other country since the outbreak of the coronavirus in wuhan here. it's thought partly because they don't want him to catch covid — so by not turning up in person at this conference, i don't think it should be seen as a snub or anything like that, because he hasn't been going to even the anniversary of beijing being recognised at the united nations, for example. china does want to be part of this international discussion on climate partly because it has no choice. china is already facing the immediate impacts of climate change in terms of disastrous wea

here's our correspondent stephen mcdonell in beijing to explain.tries, they've gone to a living with covid strategy now, but not this country and certainly not in this city. right now, officials are still opting for a plan which is back to zero, covid elimination. and every time there's been an outbreak, using contact tracing, using strict, very localised lockdowns and certain other targeted measures, chinese officials have been able to rein it in. and it looks like that's what they are going to try again now. for those who want to come to china to visit family and friends, to study, to take in the sights, many analysts will be saying to them, "don't plan on doing that for at least another yearata minimum," because in october next year, the communist party will be holding its once a year congress, a very important political meeting, which is when the president will go beyond his second term, and the chances of anything being eased on the covid front between now and then is probably pretty slim. and who knows how long it will go after that? now to r