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the headlines the united states is called on all sides in ethiopia, brutal year, long war to renounce and, and violence against civilians. this is the united nations human rights council, which was tom mission, international commission to investigate alleged abuses in the country. un says it's receiving credible reports all sides and he threw up his conflict are committing severe human rights violations. if you're, if you're dismissed, the council statement is politically motivated. 7th round of talks aimed at reviving the 2015 iran new plea deal is concluded in the austrian capital, vienna parties to the talks. i've been to resurrect the agreement. disease of wrong limits. it's nuclear activity and exchange for sanctions relief. it's been breached on both sides since the u. s. pulled out 3 years ago, us national security adviser says the talks are not going well, while the you says there's still a long way to go. all that i will be back with the news hour and 25

minutes time. look forward to seeing you then. bye for now. ah welcome to portal. i'm sandra goldman with more great content from the digital side of al jazeera. that's our website, social media, and podcast. in this episode we'll meet one of al jazeera as talented cameraman jill holton to hear what it's like to cover the refugee crisis in europe. and we've got a teenage boxing champion in the us who's not just fighting for titles. she's also raising awareness about missing and murdered indigenous women. it feels as though i'm calling on the spirits of those women and girls that have passed or been murdered and they're, they're watching over me helping me like but we're going to

start in taiwan. the island makes the news every so often because it's caught in a kind of tug of war between china and the us. and lately, things of really been heating up. so what's behind it? all my team and i looked into it for this episode of our explainer series. start here. ah, let's talk about taiwan. and the taiwan strait. because right now, these waters aren't exactly called us ships have been transiting, strike monthly, angering by j. china sending nearly a 150 warplanes into ty, one's air defense zone, forcing taiwan. spider jets to scramble with taiwan, caught in a kind of tug of war between the u. s. and china. there are genuine fears about where this could all end up. the only way that the u. s. in china would go to war, would be over taiwan. so why his taiwan such

a flash point between 2 of the world's biggest powers? why is the island not officially considered a country? and what do microchips have to do with it all with taiwan is an island stuck in a kind of political limbo. it's a democratic, self governing territory, just over the water as china, which claims taiwan is its own. but many taiwanese take issue with that. then you out in the us, which is taken on the role of neighborhood cox, and you end up with taiwan is the focus for many big competing interests. but to understand how we got here, you have to know the back story. one is ruled by imperial china for 200 years. then japan had it for 50 years after winning a war against china, but winter pan loft and world war 2 china, one of the victors got tie one back again. then you had the chinese civil war. now

the don't communist forces took over the mainland while the other side, the nationalist forces, a chunk shack escaped to taiwan. the 1949 china sort of split into. and you had to rival governments, one in taiwan, one in beijing, both claiming they were the true government of china. the site in taiwan was known as the republic of china, the r o c. and that's still the islands official named today. and on the mainland, the communist party declared a brand new chinese state, the peoples republic of china, p r c. for short. now remember us wasn't exactly a fan of communism treated. and so it was the r o c in taiwan that mostly gone to international recognition, including a seat at the un, but by the 1970s. that didn't really make sense anymore. the you, when passed a resolution confirming the representatives from the p r c,

as the only lawful representatives of china to the united nations. and so the r o c was out, we are in the circuit where our been so thinking. so what does all this mean for taiwan? political started today when that leaves it in that limbo we talked about at the beginning. now from beijing's perspective, it's pretty clear. china is one country and taiwan is part of it. right now, the island governs itself, the beijing's position is that eventually it'll be reunited with the mainland. and lately chinese president, she jin ping has been emphasizing that a lot and linking it to his big policy known as national rejuvenation piper. felipe . she walked home, either sweet, bought di for means off wishing her. yeah. and grown you. what? so what about taiwan status? according to taiwan, will the president sighing when and her party have never fully accepted the idea that taiwan is a part of china. but at the same time,

they're not explicitly pushing for taiwan to be recognized as independent. it is a bit of a fudge. really. they say that taiwan is effectively independent, so they just want things to stay the way they are woman equate cheney towards a shame on me and me an idea. okay, so what about the us? well, their position is also a bit of a fudge. and even has an official name strategic ambiguity. on the one hand, they do acknowledge that taiwan is a part of china and not an independent country. there's no official u. s embassy, anti pay for example. but on the other hand, they sort of want china to leave taiwan alone, and the u. s. has suggested they would defend taiwan militarily in certain circumstances or reports of united states is made clear to china that it would defend taiwan all if all chinese attack is unprovoked. and on the flip side is made, clearly taiwanda will not come to taiwan z dede only if the chinese attack is

provoked. so that's the big picture. if things spin out of control, we could potentially be talking about a war between the u. s. and china. it means that when things are tense around taiwan, it's a big deal and things have been getting tense. under president donald trump, the you got a lot cozier with taiwan than previous presidents. and biden's administration has effectively continued in the same direction. ah, over in taiwan, the political climate shift in 2016 when president sign when took over from a pro beijing president. she's been pretty outspoken against beijing. and the question of taiwan status has taken on new significance after people in taiwan saw what china did in hong kong. be both taiwan. so what they treated on home, we just realized that it promises it's not something we can trust account has been completely absorbed into china. the last remaining piece that is missing is taiwan

. then you and the fact that both taiwan and china are expanding their military. so when we see headlines about china flying, a 150 warplanes near taiwan, and the u. s. according to this wall street journal report secretly deploying troops there. well, it's no small thing. the potential for a war does exist. i do not think it is very high, but i do believe it is growing. there are few other factors that raise the stakes even higher when we're talking about taiwan. first up, it's location. it sits in what's called the 1st island chain in the western pacific that extends to japan and the north all the way down to indonesia in the south going through the philippines. and so if china were to take over taiwan and deploy peeling forces on taiwan that were truly posed an existential threat to japan. and japan, of course, is a very important ally of the united states. then there are those micro chips we

mentioned earlier. taiwan is a world leader when it comes to semiconductor technology, the tiny chips that the world has come to rely on their, in everything from smartphones to aircraft. as far as the smallest, most advanced ships go around 9, the percent of them are made in taiwan. it actually is a capability of china is aspiring to and so then there's this very important question of what would happen if trying to control that production. the other big thing about taiwan is that acts of the kind of lightning rod for the big political rivalry between the u. s. and china and how they see themselves and each other for the chinese perspective, it just seems like king of the mountain, the u. s. most powerful economic, military and political country and the world, and they want to stay that way. taiwan is now a mature and viper to proceed. and the united states has a long standing commitment to protecting and advancing democracy. let's not forget

about the 24000000 people who live there. a recent poll suggests around 10 percent of taiwanese say they want unification with china at some point. 34 percent, so they want independence at some point. but a majority 51 percent say they simply want to keep things the way they are forever . most people believe that the best scenario for taiwan for the the short one at least, is just kicking the can down the road, helping taiwan to preserve its freedoms. continue to have economists, prosperity having unlimited voice in the international community. but being able to essentially be an autonomous entity. things with taiwan might be ambiguous, but maybe it's better that way. maybe you taiwan is an example we're doing nothing is actually the best option. now if you've been following the news out of bella

roofs, recently, you'll have seen the desperate situation for refugees stuck at the border there. while in western europe, we've been seeing more and more people trying to make the dangerous journey across the english channel. jo holton has been covering the refugee crisis in europe for many years. he's a camera man for al jazeera based and berlin. and in this episode of between us, he takes us back to what was happening in 2015 and talks about the personal impact the stories had on him. ah, the refugee crisis was just starting in 2015. there was an estimate of the 1000000 and a half refugees arriving in germany. this amount gave rise to the fall rights cross euro. it's being made difficult for certain refugees to come here or to say, i'm jill holton. alger. there were berlin camera men and between us,

the refugee crisis has moved me emotionally more than anything else. in my career, the most refugees that we've met covering the story were fleeing the war in serial numbers of that people drowning and the mediterranean would rise day by day. it was quite an emotional ride for all of us as it seemed to see families, children, babies having to go through the stages of fleeing being endangered all the time. at that point, my 1st daughter was just born and it was quite emotional for me to cover because you compare it obviously to your own child. when you see a new born with their parents having to do that journey and had a very strong effect on me, it's touching me now. i mean these refugees

have to accept every risk to go to wherever they want to go. they jump on trains and they got underneath trucks. that was the one story that we covered or they would have pined this truck with people caged in. it was summer. it was 40 degrees outside and these people suffocated inside that truck. and it was left on the side of the road until i was found by the police covering that story. and it's not something you see every day being confronted with the smell of that people. you're often confronted with people that have not understood what these people have been going through. the toughest for me was to fill members of the i of the because you can tell that there are very, very manipulative that they are quite aware what they're telling you is not the

reality. but what they, once the viewers to believe there was a certain mindset these far right groups played on its fear, playing on the fears of people telling them that we will lose our culture, or we be overrun by refugees, fear of losing their job because a refugee might come and do that job for them. that's exactly what these groups one, they want them to be in fear of these people that strong right wing anti refugee sentiment unfortunately, spread much further into the whole of germany. we've covered stories where people that came from a guy in this town would have a job here and they would be well educated. they would learn the german language quickly, yet still, germany would deport them back to afghanistan. even though these people would be

clear again towards german society when people are trying everything to find their way in a new country, learning the language and culture and trying to be integration. it's very sad that i didn't get a chance with it as a strong movement by the fall, right? to credits the media by pushing the word lugan plaza. here in germany, i started filming privately kind of behind the scenes locks about what we actually do as a news crew. when we do report, i try to kind of find an angle and what makes the story interesting. i thought maybe giving an insight on how news outlets cover news incidence could try to counter those accusation as a camera man. your goal always needs to be to tell the story in the most sensible and touching way so that we can somehow get the viewer to get

a short insight of what's happening to somehow confront them with a reality that might not be their own to then have them rethink and question their own positions. okay, up next we're talking climate change. you've probably heard about the idea of carbon capture. but what exactly is it, and is it really such a great idea? here's net clark to answer those questions in just 2 minutes. ah, we need to reduce emissions and we need to do it fast, but we still need to power the economies of the world. so until there's enough renewable energy available. well, what we need to keep you to fossil fuels for that means more emissions into carbon capture and storage is how it works. the c o 2 emitted from the smoke stacks of power stations in other industrial processes

like steam and cement production is captured, compressed and then transported by ship road or pipeline, and stored deep on the ground in geological formations or in old, empty oil and gas reservoirs and because specialists in the oil and gas industry already largely had the skills needed to switch over to this process, every one's a winner, or are they will opponent say, developing this technology will just allow fossil fuel companies to keep drilling and extracting. plus their affairs, the c o 2 could leap back into the atmosphere, but something has to be done. emissions are still rising and we look set to overshoot, the temperature target of one and a half degrees centigrade. so we must find a way to stop the rot. another idea is direct air captured or dark, where you extract c o 2 directly from the a, mix it with water and put it under ground. the captured c o 2 could also help

produce low carbon jet fuel and be used to supply businesses such as drinks, companies, and food producers. these technologies are all a long way from being utilized. the scale required you would need millions of duct machines around the world to have any effect. therein lies the conundrum. office scaling carbon capture technology might just divert investment away from sustainable solutions and prolong the extraction of fossil fuels. for the way we're going the solutions, we need a not going to be in place soon enough. what a certain one way or another, a route to a 0 carbon future has to be found. okay, let's meet the teenage boxing champion who we told you about at the start of the show. this is yana ok. mosh who's using the boxing rang to raise awareness about what's happening to indigenous women and girls in the us. take a look at our story. ah,

it feels as though i'm calling on the spirit of women and girls that have passed or been murdered and they're, they're watching over me and helping me. i am in room, northern wisconsin on the monotony indian reservation. ayona oki most is training. i told her the 1st year i was nervous, correct. every time i wanted to put that out with my boxing and fight for those women and girls who can fight for themselves or make their voices heard, it's a long standard. other dental, indigenous women are not just in wisconsin, but well anyway, you find condensation. you'll find trafficking and murder of the engine and i feel pumped. i'm ready to go. ready to get in the ring. fight. 12 year old, a on us started boxing nearly 3 years ago. she's already won to national

championship competition and is currently rank number one in her weight category in the us. it takes a lot of determination and hard work, but if you put that in your full 100 percent, you're going to do great. when she started her boxing journey and the family was reluctant to let her go into the rank, i avoided it for i would say probably 2 to 3 months i was scared to begin with and to tell you the truth, i honestly thought she was going to come in here and get punched in the face and it was going to be over. the 1st thing i said is because of a honest personality she comes and she's so huggy. and i don't know if she's going to have the temperament to go out here and actually be a good boxer and well, to make the story little shorter. she proved me around as a former boxer, and as grandpa has passed down his knowledge to my grampa and his brothers helped me with a lot with learning different techniques. everyone has different styles of boxing,

so they helped me learn more about that, especially my grandpa, even the pen done, it couldn't damping. her enthusiasm covered, came rhone and we were basically in here one day training. and the next day we were told we had to call us wanted to continue training. there was no stopping at a ana, is a descendant of the monotony, indian tribe, wisconsin. the tribal lands encompass and the nominate county, a 358 square mile area, with a population of around $4500.00 over a quarter of the residence here live in poverty. for many kids, the monotony indian box and club, or a on a normally train is more than just a gym. a lot of kids come from homes where they don't have to parents. one parents are no grandfather or even kids that don't even have a large box all over the place. so that's pretty much it gives them a chance to stay grounded for a on boxing is also about changing the fate of many women in her community. it's

very empowering to know when i get in that ring that i'm fighting for, not just my community, but all of the indigenous women around. she uses her platform to raise awareness for missing and engage in the way she regularly posts information about missing women on her social media, and helps raise money to support charities, tackling the evidence. in the last year, 53 cases of missing american indian or alaska native women have been uploaded to the missing persons database. they make up more than 5 percent of the cases of missing women across the us. even though indigenous women represent less than one percent of the country's population, it's a statistic, a on his parents are all too aware of it, worries me all the time. because even though she is training to defend herself in the ring, that's not a $100.00 proof that nothing ever happened tour and she will always be able to

protect herself across the us. more than 84 percent of american indian and alaska native women have experienced violence in their lifetime. and research shows that 97 percent of victims face non native perpetrators that leads to difficulties when trying to prosecute offenders. there was this decision called the all the font decision which greatly affected tribal sovereignty and the ability to prosecute non natives on indigenous land. so if we have a non native person come on to tribal land and there is a murder in the marine on tribal land, we are not able to prosecute in many tribes. at the end of 2019, there were 563 active missing person records of indigenous women reports to adjust the numbers recorded or unlikely un under account. there are a number of reasons for including under reporting and poor relations between the police and the community. and indigenous women going missing is not an issue. so

it's 500 year old us problems and 1st contact and colonization when we had trafficking of indigenous for many young girls in it through government policy and attacks on our tribal sovereignty that leave us really extremely vulnerable and targeted by human traffickers. kristen welch is a community organizer with the local indigenous group, many konica. what we're really trying to do is just provide connection to our original identity to create wellness in our community and where you find colonization, you'll find trafficking and murder of the indigenous limit. it removes the next generation and indigenous women carry, you know, not only the physical generation, but a lot of that knowledge is passed on to our children. in wisconsin, kristen is seeing some progress toward more cohesion in tackling the issue. the attorney general announced the task force between the department of justice and indigenous communities to tackle the issue of my

w. it's really important for people to ask the indigenous people they original people in the united states. what that true history is, because in the books that's written by the winners, i hope that there's more young women coming up like i can value themselves and love themselves and such a way that, that power just out of them, like that's part of the cohort work is to raise up the future warriors are always been about protecting herself as well as her, the, with my boxing. i know that if anything ever happens to me, i have a chance to defend myself. and i want to teach my kids and future generations to defend themselves, so they don't end up being the now she's someone i definitely want in my corner. well that's the portal this week. remember there's a lot more great video and audio on our website and our social media channel. i'll

be back next week until then. see you online. ah, here's your weather report for asia and the latest on typhoon ryan. it's spinning around in the south trying to see more on that in a 2nd. but i did want to talk about east java, where we had a tornado tear through destroying at least 500 homes. and the rain's been coming both for java and also across sumatra. same goes across malaysia as well, and we've got this disturbance that we're keeping tabs on now to the latest on typhoon, right. as it's brushing up against that coast of vietnam, i don't think it's gonna make a landfall here. then as we head toward monday, veer's toward the east, over high nan and slamming into southern china as we'll keep on top of this over the next few days. northern china looks like this cool blast of air also impacting korea the 3 day in soul. and one sec, but we gotta talk about that snow toward the western side of honshu and hope kado.

it's been like this for a few days. so it's piling up now. so low temperature is now, but give it a bit by monday you're back in to double digits. temperature is a big story in australia that heat way, but 1st, where the wet weather is that south coast of new south wales into victoria. next i'll put the colors on the darker the red, the higher the temperature i think were in the thick of the heat wave on sunday temperature and port headland 45 degrees. some spots may hit 50 and plenty of sun across both islands of new zealand on saturday, sir. ah, a

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