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World Business Report: First broadcast 15/11/2023 22:32 GMT : Biden and Xi meet for first time in a year

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First broadcast 15/11/2023 22:32 GMT 

First broadcast 15/11/2023 22:32 GMT : Biden and Xi meet for first time in a year

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Biden and Xi meet for first time in a year ahead of key summit

US President Joe Biden has met Chinese leader Xi Jinping for the first time in a year for talks that may ease friction between the two superpowers.

US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are meeting in San Francisco, California to discuss relations between the two countries, which deteriorated earlier this year. We find out what this means for them going forward.

The union representing thousands of Starbucks workers in the US will stage a walkout on one of the coffee chain's busiest days of the year. We get the latest from a Starbucks worker in the US.

And the Vatican has confirmed an existing ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons. The latest ruling comes in response to a bishop from the Philippines who expressed concern about the growing number of Catholics in his diocese joining Masonic lodges. We hear why the church has taken such a severe view.

(Picture: U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of APEC summit, in Woodside. Credit: Reuters)

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