新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/06/22（在线收听）

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Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Jingnan.

Coming up：

--The Saudi King has appointed his son as the new crown prince

--The British Queen's speech has outlined new government bills

--and the west African nation of Ghana is seeking greater cooperation with China

For more on this, we are now joined on the line by He wenping, senior research fellow at the Institute of west-Asia and African Studies at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences;Dr. Cui Hongjian, Head of European Studies Department, China Institute of International Studies;David Shinn,Former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso, Former Director for East African Affairs at the State Department, deputy Chief of U.S. missions in Sudan, Cameron and Mauritania.