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more now from hong kong. once the approach of nearly 150 war plains in waves sent over several days, has clearly alarm taiwan speaking at a session of ty, one's parliament defense minister to choir chang, warned that in 4 years china would be capable of invading the island, which was a little hero, china does not currently possess such capabilities, but we must consider the consequences. in our judgment by 2025, they will have more comprehensive capabilities. taiwan regularly holds drills to prepare for such an invasion. thanks in part to sophisticated military equipment from its ally, the united states. it so far been confident of deterring any aggression. but china's rapid military buildup has been closing that cap and making it, but enormous pressure psychologically. and operation on taiwan would in taiwan

society as well. as i one armed forces, it also appears to be looking to undermine ty, when's president saying, when, who has been coal to the idea of closer relations and is seen by china as an obstacle to its ultimate goal of unification. with these latest incursions, it seems bay ging wants to send a message about the changing dynamics across the taiwan strait. not only to taiwan, but to the international community, including the united states. at a time of increasing tensions with washington in an apparent attempt to deescalate the situation, you as president joe biden weighed in on the ongoing tensions by didn't seem to confirm the united states continued commitment to giving china diplomatic recognition in return for beijing not threatening taiwan militarily, we agree. bye bye. i want agreement that we are new. we made it clear

that the he, i this latest spent comes at a significant moment for the 2 neighbors with china. having just marked the october 1st anniversary of its founding and taiwan about to celebrate its national day and both with very differing ideas of what their future relationship should look like. rob mcbride, al jazeera hong kong alita is from e u and western balkan countries. now gathering for discussions in slovenia, the plenary talks will focus on ear investment in the balkans and uncovered 19 recovery. leaders are also expected to discuss wider issues including afghanistan, china, and european energy prices. while let speak to our correspond, natasha butler. she's in brother. she joined us from there now and natasha. can you talk us through the agenda today? do we expect anything concrete to come out of this meeting

or the real focus. so this summit is on enlargement and at the moment, leaders for me, you and the 6 western balkan countries are locked in talk some discussions and negotiations. now what the leaders of the western balkans wanted to become part of the european union. but in recent years or the expression process a seems to have well not any stall, but pretty much round to a whole to math lesson, feeling somewhat disillusioned and frustrated. they say that they what they want for miss summit is real progress that they will move forward towards a full membership. now i believe you for its part is saying that it's going to send a very clear message in this summit to the western balkans that they are indeed one day are going to be part of the you. but we don't have any time frame for that or but the head of the commission as levant delay and she said, look,

there are some obstacles in the way. there are problems with corruption in the region, the rule of law. and there are tensions in the region, most notably between serbia on kosovo, ongoing, his sorry tension there. that of recently been flared up again with border patrols being stepped up on the border between these 2 countries over dispute over car registration place. so there are lots of things that need to be sorted out 1st, as say you leaders before these western balkan nations could become part of the you . of course, natasha. this is also a real transition moment, isn't it? for the you with power dynamics potentially shifting, given the elections we've seen, and germany and elections next year and in france. is there a sense that any of that transition might play into the relationship there with these western balkan states? i think there's clearly a sense of enlargement fatigue. among some you member states, most notably

a frogs netherlands. and the denmark, for example, have brought up concerns that they have over enlargement. blueberry 27 member states ready added the best of times. it can be challenging to find unanimity on a variety of issues. you also have an issue in which some member states are actually blocking this succession process for the west balkans. i'm thinking of, for example, all bulgarian e you members state that is in a dispute with north macedonia where the vulcans country over over language and is blocking their accession talk. so they're all a multitude of problems are also concerns and some are you member countries over how enlargement could affect migration, immigration, being a topic on many elections in europe. we saw that recently in germany. we'll see that again, next year in france bought there were those who say that the you cannot turn it back on the western balkans or legal disillusioned of course, because then they may look elsewhere. we've already seen the growing influence of

russia and china in the region. and that is something of course that you would want to avoid with the balkans are on the european continent and they don't want them to become a security risk. so there are, are some lead is a you leaders arrived to who said it is more important. of course of the went west . the balkans are in the you been out that out of that for there at that meeting force. and berto, thanks so much natasha on are moving on and an investigation is underway into when or authorities, and a pipeline company in california actually learned about a major oil spell. it's now merged. it took 3 hours for a pipeline to then be shut down. once that damage was discovered, alexia bryan, reports of huntington beach, in california. an ecological emergency is unfolding. look at it, look at this is everywhere. oil puddles on the once pristine, sand, and workers, and has met, suits cone, the shore on

a clean up mission. any discharge boil into our sensitive coastal waters is damaging to the environment and it is disruptive through the economy at a minimum. this is a significant incident and i want you to know, ah, how seriously those of us that live and work in california take it here. but as the days pass, more questions are being raised about how quickly authorities and the pipeline company responded to the incident. the coast guard was 1st notified of dirty water on friday night. at that time in the approaches nightfall, sheen's can be very difficult to see on the water. the information from the reporting source, the costar investigator spoke with was inconclusive. so it was saturday morning before it went out to investigate the reports that same morning about who i am and alarm had sounded and amplify energies control room warning that pressure had dropped in the pipeline. early finding show, the company waited more than 3 hours to shut it off. the pipeline had been split

open and apparently dragged more than 50 meters along the ocean floor, possibly by a ship's anchor. it st. hundreds of thousands of liters of oil spilling into the water. and on 2 beaches and protected marshland, california governor says the spell is more proof aging oil platforms need to be phased out. so it's time once and for all to disabuse ourselves that this has to be part of our future. this is part of our past, and we can moralize and talk about the good old days. we can talk about how important these rigs have been to the prosperity of this country in the middle class. but at the end of the day, this is about the stellar of normalcy versus the fresh air progress. safety advocates have pushed the years for tougher rules on detecting spills and things like automatic valves to shut down the flow of oil. but the industries resisted such measures because of the costs involved along this coastline. beaches could

remain closed for weeks, and the pipeline companies being investigated for possible negligence. experts say it's too early to know the full cost to the local economy and environment. alexia brian al jazeera, and they are option of the come ready, have volcano on the spanish island of the palmer has intensified. it's already prompted the evacuation of 6000 people and destroyed nearly a 1000 homes. let's bring in our correspondence and how he's on the island for us. jonah. this is already the largest eruption on the palm and 100 years and it's still going oh yeah, it's still going and it's still got a long way to go the eruption. you see behind me there taking place against the lovely blue sky in relatively still calm, mild conditions this morning. but as ever, with this eruption, things may be about to change. the wind that has tended to blow the enormous plume of volcanic ash towards the south southeast in recent days is due and

a change were told by the spanish weather service that possibly as early as this afternoon. it could turn to a northerly direction, sending that ash towards the other side of the island and potentially impacting on air traffic. now that would be very, very bad news, particularly for the tourism industry here that is seeing the beginning of its annual high season come and go frankly, with very few tourists inside already one big international to a company to he has canceled tours and package holidays to la, palm island for the next 3 weeks and deep underground signs of another impending potential change. 78 earthquakes that his birth tremors, i suppose really, that have taken place in the last 24 hours or the depth of around 10 to 15 kilometers have been joined by more much deeper around 35 kilometers deep. and that suggests to the vulcan ologist, that there may be

a new mcmurry system forming deep under ground that could fuel this volcano for many weeks to come yet. and you know, the facts and statistics continue and they are pretty extraordinary. 250000 tons of sulfur dioxide has so far been emitted into the atmosphere by the volcano satellite imagery showing the plume of smoke and ash hovering over the canaries of north africa and the mediterranean region, but drifting as far west as the caribbean. and as far north as the arctic a 100000000 cubic meters of molten rock and lava thrust down the side of the mountain there towards the sea, entire community is wiped essentially off the face of the map. and as you said already this, the most significant volcanic eruption on this island in the past 100 years eclipsing its 2 predecessors in 19711949. china, ha ha, with all the nations for us from the island palm that. thank you so much, jen. well, there's still plenty more ahead here to snooze our,

including wine protest, as in southern iraq say taking to the streets is more effective than heading to the polls. every morning, the fisherman lives for the dead sea and the come back by late evening. but the touch of them not as good as they used to be airport from bangladesh where pollution and climate change are devastating fishing communities. and after a few weeks of downtime the us open champion is ready to resume playing more on that later in scores. ah, now the nobel prize and chemistry it has just been jointly awarded to, to scientists for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction. the royal swedish academy of sciences says that the work of benjamin list and david mcmillan has had a great impact on pharmaceutical research and is already benefiting human kind

greatly. or let's bring in poor research outside the royal speech academy of sciences in stockholm for us. who this is kaley and award for research with real practical implications here? yes, the starship, perhaps not quite as earth shattering for the lay person as a yesterday's prize in physics for the coin modeling research. but the price has just been announced on mayor on the steps of the rural swedish academy of sciences in stockholm and a big one in the science world. and benjamin list of germany and david mcmillan of the usa for they work on development of asymmetric or got a ketosis. now, my old chemistry teacher would be shocked to see one of his worst students. i'm trying to get his head round this on our books. this essentially relates to chemists ability to construct molecules and this is needed in everything from energy in but trees to creating durable materials to even inhibiting the process

the progress of diseases. and before the work of these 2 scientists, it was thought there were only 2 catalysts, and those are things that can accelerate chemical reactions without becoming part of them. i was thought they were already metal, and enzymes, but the work of benjamin list and david mcmillan has shown that they're all now these organic catalysts. and the idea is that this now makes the processes in all sorts of industries. a lot more efficient, a lot greener, which can also tie into garza the prize in physics affecting affecting us all with climate change. as we now look forward to the rest of them though by week the literature price smarter than going to also for the pace prize. barker install, convey economics next week. always there for us in stockholm. i think pool that your chemistry, your chemistry teacher be very proud. thank so much. well, let's now bring in jennifer newton. she is the r s d content editor for chemistry,

while that's the monthly chemistry news magazine published by the royal society of chemistry. she now joins estron cambridge in the united kingdom. jennifer, i did think that paul did a fairly good job that, that if you can give us a little more detail here. so this was awarded for the development of asymmetric organic catalyst. this, can you explain a little more to us non chemists at what that is? right. shay and ok. catallo system, catalysts that things it chemistry used to died and speed up chemical reactions. and yet, like your carson said that all phenom of metals i or you can use enzymes as well. but mcmillan unless showed that you could use small organic molecules say things made from carbon, oxygen and hydrogen to to guide yo yo chemical reactions. and you need to bear in mind that chemist want to make molecules in very particular ways you can often make and you can make molecules in different ways. but if,

if they're the wrong mirror image of each other, then that can have consequences, especially when you're making pharmaceuticals, you want to make your molecules need to be very precise. and by using am, oh comic molecules as catalyst, it's got lots of benefits in terms of the volume and in terms of costs, metals out from very expensive and also in terms of toxicity. so the work of these cases, it's got incredibly far reaching, i'm applications and it is what that is, is, is only going to be expanding over the years. and yet this is a really, is a very interesting and know about price. it wasn't exactly what we were, may be expecting that definitely big names in the field. but they one at the top of our predictions list. got to say that, but that does not mean that it's not an, an incredibly important award capitalist suggest best central to everything in

chemistry. so it is very significant. and you mentioned the environment there and i see the nobel committee and its deliberations also said that their discoveries helped to make chemistry green. i, can you explain a little more about nothing? how does that work? so you need to think if you're using, i'm using metals, you've got her often mine for metals and that has environmental consequences. where is when you using a carbon oxygen and hydrogen that, that kind of that's what our bodies are made for the elements. our bodies are made from, i'm said by using these kind of organic molecules when you have your catalyst might end up in the waste and, and so that's, that's better for the environment you're, you're not contaminating your, your waste products with metals. and oh, so you can often maybe run your reactions on the mo, the conditions. so you're not applying as much heat and using as much energy to drive that reaction. so yeah,

that's whites go. environmental benefits. last is when a one for their work on crisper and obviously this has huge, practical implications as well. how significant is this in terms of that, the broad implications of the research and, and how it can actually be, be put into use by various people around the world. i mean the main, i'm the main use a pharmacy to cause because i'm, you want to be out to make molecules that you can't, that may be and that may be organisms to mate. but that's difficult to recreate in the lab. and using these catalysts, you kind of help to make these bio active compounds and they might have implications for things like a cancer drugs and all sorts of other drugs that they catalyst used to make all sorts of, of molecules. sorry, it's a very am wide reaching prize, and that's yeah, that's why it's really interesting, obviously. yeah. chris, but was, was very biological in its applications and how it worked this years. yeah, it's

a very, very much a chemistry prize. i mentioned that carrie, she can mean she will be very, very excited about it and be talking about it is to come 10 of the news in there. the odyssey concentrated the chemistry wild speaking to us from the u. k. a great to get your expertise and thoughts here with us now to 0. thanks for joining us. jennifer. thank you. now moving on and turkish, and as i advise johnny forces have begun a joint military drill near the border with iran. the 2 countries you recall expanded their defense ties after lost his war against armenia and the disputed to go on a car back region. this drill comes after relations wasn't between bach, who and terran, i've around supportive media and as a, by john's relation with israel. iran, how the military exercise along its border with azerbaijan last friday. well, its now speak to a correspondent wrestle said he's in istanbul. wrestle was this drill a planned one, or was this a bit of a last minute decision? how significant is this?

well, i have talked to the sources from the turkish side and there i was there been any size at all me that this was not at planned military exercise, but after iran initiated the that the war games in close to the us at b johnny border than it has been decided to conduct such a military drill a joint military drill as retaliation. these are not the official lines, but these are coming from the a did the sources because just couple of weeks ago or 0 b, john pakistan and turkey has a, has how are conducted another, you know, a much are how you are a kale. they have conduct their military drill there. so this was not the plan, but did just after the escalation of the passion between azerbaijan and iran, that this does, this very has been decided to be conduct without origin, has arrested some of the did the figures close to iran and also put the control

over their talk that passes from the i did the, from the iranian side to as there be john and that escalated the situation there in a retaliation. iran has conducted the military drill. and also, just yesterday, iran has decided to band the flight from us there be john to notch at one. so today as ebay, john started to use armenian aerospace to reach natur, one, which is quite exceptional. consider in the hospital issues between our salvage and armenia. but it is also closely related to the normalization process that is going on between turkey, azerbaijan, and armenia. so an escalation is in the tension, but also there. are there political talks also going on now? or can contain hind in vessel sat there for us in a standoff accent. mantresa i was trailer will stop sending asylum seekers to

detention centers and pop a new guinea, a practice that's been widely condemned by rights groups and the united nations. been doing so now for the past 8 years under deal with the pacific nation. the detention center in pop in new guinea will be closed at the end of the year bars. australia will continue to send migrants to the island of new room under a separate deal. australia's home affairs minister says the countries strict to immigration policy that will not change to the pandemic now. and the number of people who died from coven 19 in the united states. so far this year is higher than all of those recorded last year. more than 700000 people have now died in the us as a result of the corona virus. ah, you can hear there. the fatalities were marked at the washington national cathedral by its bell being run $700.00 times. more people are reported to have died from the

disease in the us than any other country. but tens of millions of americans are still refusing to get vaccinated. when a russia has recorded more than 900 deaths for the 1st time since the start of this pandemic, more than 25000 infections also reported in the past 24 hours. officials that while the numbers are concerned, there are no plans to reintroduce the lockdown. the criminal has called on people to get vaccinated saying it's the only way to stop the virus from spreading. well, let's be to saga fall off. he joins us now from puddles in russia. he's a deputy editor in chief of profile. it's a weekly magazine. thanks for joining us. so i'm curious. what do you think is actually driving these numbers? i see all the cases in moscow are now delta variant, and there's also been talk of a 4th wave. i think the, the main problem of the wireless is that a lot of people reject to make it. and i know the people more my

friends, which are strategic, and they say never, never, never. and the same time as for me and my family, we have, we've got books in a too much of this year and we feel our so very well. but still the people like me, we are minority. so i think the problem works in age. what do you think is behind all this broad vaccine hesitancy that within why are people not wanting to get jobs? i see that residents may now also be able to receive vaccines not actually recognized by the government. many bo big her. they're discussing this topic in internet and social networks. and the kind of for my son is home for the last 2 months,

from maybe from the school year. and for this main opinion is against the rocks and ation. they say it's impossible to wage their good luck for the time . so probably they try to to use something not to real maxine terry, i don't know why. well, despite the numbers that we're seeing, no, sergei, i see russia had just 16 week locked down earlier this year. how does that play into the spread to people feel like there should be another lockdown? perhaps? oh, my personal opinion, maybe in certain ways it must be done because a 4 hour in detroit, we try to go to the work as soon a seldom as possible because so many working process who can do it through the

internet from a computer. and that was, and maybe one week, maybe one in 2 weeks we'll get together with trying to we are the masks in our old still struggles. but anyway, for your whole 503 or 4 percent. promo with the total with it. and i'm really sorry to hear that sergei saga fell out there speaking to us from puddles city in russia. thanks so much for joining us here. now. is there a 2nd still a head here on al jazeera. ah, my bridges have sedans main supply route to sandstone, and the 70 year old rock lima who just broke her own record. all the details coming

up with hello, a good to see there's been major flooding in north western italy after record rainfall fell in some spots we saw about a meter of rain. so these were the scenes a torrent of water, this car being swept away. and all of this happening about a year after extra tropical storm ali swirled through this same area. now on wednesday the energy is move him further toward the east. some big storms over the northern shores of the adria exceed toward the east coast is wall then? oh yeah, there's this. the boar, when for northern parts of croatia seen guts here of about a 150 kilometers per hour. so that can cause some damage off to the united kingdom right now and our next autumn storm rolls in for northern parts, also toward the east for

a huge swath of scotland. there are weather alerts in play warning of the risk of seen some flooding off to turkey right now. we've got some mix of sun in cloud for it's stumbled 20 degrees down in antalya. we'll get you up to 29. western africa. northern parts have gone up picking up a $140.00 millimeters of rain over the past 24 hours. so that's about twice the amount of rain you should see for the month of october. look at this on wednesday, it slides further toward the south. we've also got some heavy falls for cameroon, affecting to walla, with a high of 31 degrees. that's it for me, we'll see again soon. ah. after decades of conflict between successive colombian, government and the fox, mount cisco relief and historic peace, the code in 2016 so fight is lay down. there are 5 years on a rising defense and brutal.