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Hello and welcome to News Air from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez.
And coming up later, we 'll be getting the latest on the crisis at the heart of the UK government
for the beleaguered Prime Minister Keir Starmer as a senior minister seems set to quit
and challenge him for the leadership.
More on that coming up in half an hour.
But we are going to begin in Beijing because just about an hour ago,
Air Force One touched down at the city's airport for the first visit to China by a US president in nearly a decade.