91热爆

A senior State Department official said conditions were not right at this time for what would have been the first high level US-China meeting there in years. The visit was to come amid fraying tensions between the US and China.

Also on the programme: we speak to the Estonian Foreign Minister about the push for Russian and Belarussian athletes to be excluded from next year's Olympics; and we'll hear from South Sudan where Pope Francis is on a peace pilgrimage with other church leaders to try to end more than a decade of violence.

(Image: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria in Jerusalem on 31 January 2023. Credit: Reuters/Schemidt)