united states. really interesting to - united states. really interesting to hear. united states.o, it's adele. the singer's new album, 30, has shot to number one, overtaking abba to become the fastest—selling album of the year so far. its lead single easy on me has been number one for a sixth consecutive week. her opening week success with 30 ensures all four of her albums have now reached number one — a record for a female act. let's get more from sean mandell, freelance entertainment reporter joining me from los angeles. it the dell as popular as ever? she is. but there is some comparisons going on right now her album 30, and her album 25, which was released in 2015, that adds a really blockbuster rise to the top of the charts. in the us, for example, that had about 3.3 million albums in the first week, 800,000 in the uk, this time with 30 she has had over 260,000 in the uk. about 660,000 in the us. it's still a precipitous decline for her from those numbers still a precipitous decline for herfrom those numbers back in 2015. but there are a lot of factors at play that don't nec

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the chinese side, the united states had no justification to talk to china from the position of so-called "strength." i think china feels comfortable enough to tell the unitedtates in very serious and straightforward terms that the relations between china and the united states should be level. nobody should lecture the other from above, and china and the united states need to deal with each other as equals. this is reflected very much in this virtual meeting today. president biden and xi jinping seem to get along very well, they respect each other. they like each other. they can get along with each other. the working level people, the secretary of state, national security advisers in china, need to deliver all of the goodwill demonstrated by the heads of state. this gives hope that china and the united states will not go to war for my go to conflicts, go to each other's jugular, they will get down to business to treat each other as equal. and then, the world is big enough to accommodate both china and the united states. >> this virtual meeting if i understand correctly, is essentially one step up from a phone call but far below a face-to-face meeting. obvio

to open potentially the largest resell for offshore oil and gas drilling in the united states history. drilling in the uniteddrilling in the united states histo , ., history. would you accept that as at history. would you accept that gas at least — history. would you accept that gas at least is, _ history. would you accept that gas at least is, it _ history. would you accept that gas at least is, it is _ history. would you accept that gas at least is, it is often - gas at least is, it is often referred to as a transition fuel, that it will hope to get us to where it needs to be. i don't think so. the science is very clear. again, we have to fade out all fossil fuels fade out all fossilfuels including fade out all fossil fuels including gas as fade out all fossilfuels including gas as quickly as possible but it is also possible... we can't afford to make the transition without international support and that is what has been missing from these negotiations all along. brandon wu thank you very much indeed. . ~ brandon wu thank you very much indeed. ., ~ , ., ., brandon wu thank you very much indeed. ., ~' , .,

united states get along with each other? and this should be the key thing that biden and she, you be need to talk about it. i don't think the united states will lose their sanity of the mind if china surpasses the united states. because these 2 countries have very, very different systems. and i don't think china has any desire or commitment to replace the united states as the top dog of the world, because we simply see no fun of becoming the top dog of the world. that's why she didn't being said, the world should be big enough to accommodate both china and the united states. fundamentally, china, the united states, should not be enemies against each other. they should be partners and friends with each other going forward. liked her. i'm sorry to interrupt you, but i want to come to glenn on this because the meeting, as we mentioned before, was 3 hours long. we only saw a small proportion of it. clearly there was stuff that was being discussed or not in public. what evidence going forward? you think we should look at to see whether or not this meeting has actually had an impact, pause negative on relations between china, the us and

united states. professor sonia gibson _ is the united states. ed states. professor. sonia gibson rankin, appreciate you being with us. the polish government has denied that the country's strict abortion laws are responsible for the recent death of a 30—year—old woman — who had complications with her pregnancy but wasn't able to get a termination. huge protests have been held in warsaw, and other polish cities, calling for the near total ban on abortion to be scrapped. poland is one of the most devoutly catholic countries in europe. courtney bembridge has this report. crowd chanting. chanting, "not one more". tens of thousands of protesters marched to the health ministry in warsaw, after the death of a pregnant woman reignited the debate over the country's strict abortion laws. it has been a year since the poland's constitutional court ruled in favour of a near—total ban on abortion. protesters are highlighting the recent case of a 30—year—old woman who died halfway through her pregnancy. her family says doctors had been aware of severe faecal def

you can see the cars sort of rolling down here going towards the united states. so united states checkpoints, united states officials here, and the people that live in this city, tiquana, they've got a really cross border lifestyle. they've got call to the if you're a resident into one or you can go 25 miles into the united states. so a lot of people do that for their shopping, where they want to go to restaurants when they want to go to cinema and krishi when they want to see family. and they want to see friends who are the over the other side of the united states. so it's a really big deal for them. the people, the women speaking to that they've been able to get back into it. of course, there's another population in cities like pick one or met school board with the united states, not so floating migrant population. many of the morning seek asylum in the united states that wouldn't get into that country where they feel that they are going to have a better future. we spend time with some of those people as well. some of them are in a tank camp just by the side of the buddh

united states.— to have ever been president of the united states. moments in histo . the united states. nited states. moments in history. thank you for - the united states. moments in history. thank you for bringing j history. thank you for bringing us up to date with that. the white house and the united nations have joined demands to find out what's happened to the missing chinese tennis player peng shuai. she hasn't been seen in public since alleging she was sexually assaulted by a high—profile former chinese official. tennis officials have dismissed an e—mail supposedly sent by her, saying the allegations were untrue and that she is all right. our sports correspondent natalie pirks has the story. she is a tennis star in china, a former doubles world number one who won wimbledon. but now the united nations has added its voice to the clamour of bodies all wanting to know the same thing — where is peng shuai? two weeks ago, in this social media post, peng shuai made serious sexual assault allegations against former vice premier zhang gaoli. "like an egg hitting a rock, or a moth to the f

it might be heading towards a civil war because the united states, it falls within the object of the united states, because the united states decide that it was the company or it will leave the country so that it will be burning that hands without the fire. that's going to be america said to do his troops from the rank by the end of the year. it's not going to work in the situation. it could we be looking at another, i've got this done well, i believe that the americans are pulling up from a gun to stand some other places in the middle east, but they don't want the regions to fall into the hands of their, your asian opponents, may namely, china, russia and iran, and that's why they are leaving these regions in both of us so that they would be like burning battles. that's set up a certain point in china and in the north west of china and central asia that could affect the nation that she could show in the effect. the stability in we saw an afghan is done isis, kate rearing. there had always chasing the americans out of the country towards the end. could you see, i says prospering equally in

united states. and if it's here to limit it, what the united states doesn't know at this point is whether or not this has already made its way to the united states. in the interim, it is taking what it says are precautionary measures. 7 countries, including sa, as well as south africa, now prevented in terms of the travelers coming to the united states as the united states use as this period in order to try and figure out the severity of the strain and how they will deal with it. now again, the u. s. president expect to update the american public on exactly what that will look like right now. what we expect is that the president will be urging the $80000000.00 americans still not vaccinated to get vaccinated to get a booster. but what we think is that the president will stop short of putting in place further travel restrictions with respect to international travel, as well as domestic travel. now in terms of how the united states is handling this, we know already the pharmaceutical companies are tweaking the current booster to address some of the properties. what little they know so far about this va

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united states— table. and so, we in the united states are _ table. y excited by the fact that this raises ambition on a global— fact that this raises ambition on a global basis. it sets standards by which _ global basis. it sets standards by which we — global basis. it sets standards by which we will measure. it asks everybody to be part of the process. and everybody to be part of the process. ami we _ everybody to be part of the process. and we have done something significant on notjust negation, but increasing adaptation, resilience, skilling up adaptation fihahce _ resilience, skilling up adaptation finance and moving forward on loss and damage, as tough as that has been _ and damage, as tough as that has been previously. i want to affirm to some _ been previously. i want to affirm to some of— been previously. i want to affirm to some of those of you who have been concerned _ some of those of you who have been concerned that we look forward to participating constructively in the dialogue — participating constructively in the dialogue on loss and da

united _ working. such a critical two weeks in the united states. _ working. such a critical two weeks in the united. such a critical two weeksj in the united states. the summit, the virtual summit between the president of china and president biden on monday all about climate change and what they can agree together. and then the negotiation in congress over the build back better bill which has billions of dollars of climate provision within it. whether that passes or not, what comes from the meeting on monday is critical to the direction the united states goes. critical to the direction the united states goes-_ critical to the direction the united states goes-— states goes. certainly that is why while we are _ states goes. certainly that is why while we are here _ states goes. certainly that is why while we are here seen _ states goes. certainly that is why while we are here seen that - states goes. certainly that is why i while we are here seen that vote for example not going through congress at the same time as the infrastructure bill, it is of course reveals that difficult moment in the us histor

united states and we are supposed to be nice to them. the country that's creating core tons were for every one time we produce in the united states, the united states has led the world in reducing emissions in the global community has increased tenfold for every time ton that we have reduced and let me say again, the strategies in europe and california, creates them braided we need to follow strategies that work, we can continue to do which are all trying to do now, the technologies and taking actions away from the innovators andva t the end of the day resulting in higher emissions and higher prices is a flawed approach and we have the evidence to prove it. it's impossible for us to continue in this direction. >> yeah five business days to do so and i like to welcome our witnesses and will hear from experts on the challenges and opportunities for internationale climate action as world leaders prepare to gather in glasgow for cop26 global climate summit and first paris france and his senior fellow at the global climate program where she focuses on long-term climatena strategies and nationally determine contributions mobile of leveraging these

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united nations by almost all the countries in the world including the united states, including all the five member states. japan acknowledged that. this is the cornerstone of china's foreign relations with all the countries in the world. with all the unitedns. the united states cannot have the cake and eat it. in 1979, the into the states severed relations with taiwan. they canceled a treaty between united states and taiwan. they withdrew all u.s. troops stationed in taiwan. if they want to reverse that, in my guest but the consequence will be there will be no more diplomatic relations between china and the united states. and the real legal status between china's mainland and taiwan is the civil war. taiwan ended up with its current situation. it is because of the potsdam declaration. it is because of a civil war in china. the nationalist forces fled the mainland and settled down in taiwan. if the united states keep provoking that, they will provoke the resumption of a civil war and do you think the u.s. wants to send it sons and daughters for a civil war between china's mainland and china's taiwan province? i don't think the united states wants to shed the blood of its soldiers for taiwan. ever since the beginning of the 1960's, china's

how the relationship, economic relationship and partnership between africa and the united states. us dipped with a united states not buying much. so countries like nigeria in terms of oil, as well as the preference by trying to look in what into the united states, as well as his body language and sometimes approaches about africa and african leaders as distance the united states or just as some african leaders away from the united states and china has been catching in on that, apart from that african leaders, many african leaders actually looking for lows, quick loans to fund development activities. but a lot of people are lot of economic analysts in africa as well as the united states and europe, believe that much of these funding is being siphoned away by corrupt politicians. some of the problems they've been having with the united states is the assistance the united states, europe and other western powers that such knows are coming with some stringent conditions with china. it's different. many of these african countries go to china and get quick lewis to fund their projects, or sometimes some of thes

united states leads to many changes in u.s. foreign policy, i don't know. whether it leads to how other countries view the united states, i cannot answer that question. i have not seen the polling data. it is interesting to note how global this movement was, which i think is something here in the united states we might not necessarily appreciate. host: as we end 2021, where should we be watching when it comes to foreign policy for the united states and around the globe? what should we keep our eyes on at the end of this year? guest: the top crisis sadly will be the civil war in ethiopia. this is the second largest country in africa by population. it is a very diverse country. it is at war with itself. what is so horrific about this war is how starvation is being used as a weapon of war. both sides are committing horrible human rights abuses. the government of ethiopia is refusing to let a into areas under the can -- aid into areas under control of the rebel movement. there is a widespread humanitarian crisis happening. the capital city may come under attack. like we saw in syria, when a country disintegrates lik

. —— minsk to stop the united states have chimed in. the minsk to stop the united the united states trial _ have chimed in. the united states trial that _ have chimed in. the united states trial that mac - have chimed in. the united i states trial that mac strongly condemns the lukashenko's condemns the lu kashenko's regime condemns the lukashenko's regime and the callous, inhumane, regular migration flows across its borders. but the belarusian _ flows across its borders. but the belarusian president denies encouraging them and blames the west for the inhumane treatment of migrants at the border. under international law, poland has to assist anyone seeking asylum, even if they arrived illegally. but for many here, the destination is not poland but beyond. the destination is not poland but beyond-— the destination is not poland but be ond. ~ �* :, :, :. but beyond. we're not going to poland, but beyond. we're not going to poland. we _ but beyond. we're not going to poland. we go _ but beyond. we're not going to poland, we go to _ but beyond. we're not going to polan

know the facts or is doing so for disingenuous reasons, trying to undermine the fabric of the united united states. a lot of the rhetoric surrounding this case and you know, in the tron is want to focus on the race has about play the very prominent role and not to spine both the shooter being wise and all 3 victims being white as well. why do you think that's, that's the case? well, looked for 2 reasons. one is, there is a movement in america, you know, the political left that sees things only through race. i mean, this is, this is the concept of critical race theory where race is critical to your theories and, and so by definition, this is the only way that they can see any issue in america. it, everything is about race. math is now racist. grammar is now racist, according to these people to whom race is always critical to their theories. you know, the, the other reason is when you rely on new sources that are providing you this false information. me when you're being told that that written out is a white supremacist when there's absolutely no no reason whatsoever to believe that not, not in the

united united states. well, they haven't signed up. and today, i think we can say that the end of coal is in sight. the progress we've seen over the past 2 years. would it seem like a lofty ambition when we took on the court presidency back in 2019? who to thought back then that to day we're able to say that we are choking off international co financing. or that we would see a shift away from domestic co power under simmons joins us live from glasgow and root. so on coal, what are the agreed well, there is an agreement. so this involves. busy more than 40 countries, but excludes the big players as you are just pointing out there. and that includes china, the united states, and india. now, the position is this, that coal is actually the single biggest contributor to climate change. and more in a 3rd of the world's electricity is fired by coal. so we have a situation now where they want to set out on this, which is deemed energy day, a plan to bring in a whole raft of commitments right across the board. and it doesn't just include the countries 40 countries of that that i mentioned. it also includes financial institutions, dozens of them, and, and also other organizations all over the world to try to get the whole issue of coal being used to power up uh the, the pollutants that sweep a global warming across the whole world. now not only that, that the day is also going to be committed to effectively at talking about coming off the addiction to fossil fuels. so right across the board, but lots of commitments, no solid guarantees. that's one of the problems here. briefly, andrew, can this be described as a success? if you're missing the 3 biggest us

nations, not the united states, cannot have the cake, i eat it back in 1979, the united states did the right thing. they sever the relations with taiwan. they cancel the defense treaty between the united states and taiwan. they withdrew all the u. s. troops, station leading taiwan. now if they want to really reverse that, be my guest, but the consequences will be there will be no more to provide the relations between china and the united states and the real legal status between channels. mainland anti one is the our finished a civil war. why taiwan ended up with his current situation. first of all, it's because of the cairo declaration pottstown declaration. secondly, it's because of the civil war in china, the nationalist of forces, fred, the mainland, and settled down in taiwan. so if the united states keep provoking that they probably will provoke the resumption of the civil war. and do you think the u. s. wants to shit its sons and daughters plot for a civil war between channels, mainland and china as taiwan province be. ready my guest, i don't think the united state

in what way should we, all of us outside of the united states see as a national security threat to the unitedl actors interfering — states? well, external actors interfering and _ states? well, external actors interfering and exploiting - states? well, external actors interfering and exploiting it i interfering and exploiting it and using it for more propaganda and some were discord turning it right again against the united states. but it's really undermining our means of collective action. i'm speaking out and opened by match to get the attention, particularly to the people on capitol hill on how for them to go down on this path rather than infighting, stepping up to the plate and seeing ways we can unify ourselves again. we just had the g 20 meeting, and this really important climate summit in glasgow and everyone is looking to the united states to lead. our internal discord, our inability to actually pass legislation or even speak to each other in civil terms is undermining our capacity for taking action on major existential issues that affect everybody. existential issues that affect ever

of the game of influence between the united states and china, you know, china has distributed 1.1 billion vaccines. that's according to some data, guy. and the united states has delivered about 190 billion vaccines. you know, the chinese vaccine may not be as effective, probably as effect as u.s. vaccines, but how do you think the united states has faired when compared to china when it specifically relates to sort of vaccine diplomacy coming out of this coronavirus pandemic? >> well, i've been among the members of congress who have argued we should do more for the world. obviously we need to make sure we take care of americans, and if in this case we get people, the remaining folks fully vaccinated and also get boosters in peoples arms but also we step up our efforts around the world. and you're right, china has practiced from the beginning this vaccine diplomacy and has tried to leverage the gifting and sometime even the sale of their vaccines to gain concessions in other areas, whether it's military, economic or so forth. and so, you know, the united states needs to step up our efforts there. now, there are, you know, just from different things t

that's the result of the united states or just this unit, kind of a mutual hostility toward both both of you threatened by the united states. they have grown increasingly goes together. so nice. it's kind of finds it. so someone isolated with facing this are very substantial long and demon b. again, you know that we can bring up a new cold war paradigm. but on china's and nominally a communist country, it's run by a communist party. but it doesn't want to export its ideology. unlike during the 1st cold war, russia, well, it's just a conservative country out there interested in its own self interest here. but how, how do account is american exceptionalism play in this? because i'm the one hand, you know, if you're just said, you know, there's a finally, a reckoning, a recognition. finally, it took a long time that there are other great powers. ok. but the, there they're not this, these 3 great powers are not the same for the u. s. is very and tend to export. it's ivy ology rules based order and all that other nonsense here. and that's what for me, makes it dangerous because the, that r

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to see the written weekend but they didn't want this powerful united states because spain had lots of territory in north america and if united states got too strong spain would have to defend this territory against the united states. as they say the basic listen to this as things are complicated and if you are the leader of spain or the leader france you have to figure out how what this is all going. >> you mentioned canada. canada was in an interesting situation in this and i think the american revolution and the french and indian war before it although i should point out it wasn't the french against the indians. you have native americans on both sides but i had occasion to visit an exhibit in washington d.c. the game the war of 1812 from a canadian perspective. that's a little ahead of the game in this book but certainly the factors that the canadians had a very different respective and in canada it occupied a kind of ground that many of the american colonists would have liked to make apart of the newly independent colonies and from the book it makes it quite clear that americans even had a hard time understanding american

who's of course russian born but works in the united states lives. united states is interesting because he was a key, contribute to one of the key pieces in the puzzle this steel dossier. and if obviously he's proven guilty, this will go even further in mitigating those allegations of russia collusion and into bunking. many of the contents of that steel report, we'll have to see what further information we get from the department of justice. and of course when investigators behind this probe ok for that done. thank you. ok, let's bring can i guess now can speak to private investor and writing charles or tele pops on the big screen. they're very good to speak to. i believe you're in new york, so i appreciate you taking the the time out in the day for you. we spoke about this, this chapter dungeon kerry his role as the da says main research is a role that emerged last year. we knew about this a long time ago. why only now is he being arrested and charged with line? well, i think this is a matter that potentially affects the most senior members of the politica

happening in cyber is happening on infrastructure within the united states but because so much of the cyber infrastructure is in the united states. and we rely on it so much, yet we are concerned about actors from outside the united date. -- united states. one aspect of this is understanding how we do that while at the same time, we recognize there are strict limitations and different sets of laws and frameworks any fact that exist for how it is we collect and treat and disseminate information that we collect on foreigners outside the united states versus u.s. persons in the united states, and that we are managing within the intelligence community a range of operators who are focused on different spaces. the fbi takes the lead within the united states paid the cia's focused externally. so, you have these spaces where you have to bring together the picture, but you also have to maintain the frameworks that separate these pieces, in ways that are both intellectually understandable, but also that are respectful of civil liberties and privacy and the different protections those have . and thinking that through is a huge piece