it too, which is oh it expect to be for this sum of the year and august, still more of that rain on both sides of the red sea, which could certainly lead to some flooding. we know there's been flooding across pakistan, particularly in baluchistan province, but things are now starting to dry out. so that's certainly good news that is wet as it has been up to turkey. we go, the winds still a bit breezy through the boss for a system. ball has a high 31 degrees on thursday, and off to africa, we go. it's our usual bursts of rain coming off the ethiopian highlands moving further toward the west. but look at this batch of range is toward that southeast corner of chad. that could certainly produce some flooding that will dip to the south. it's a fairly quiet pitcher, but some showers for the free state in kazoo luna tall. and we'll see some more cow cover filter in a cape town with a hive. 16 degrees on thursday ceasing ah ah,

china launches its biggest over military drills in the seas near taiwan hours after us. how speaker nancy pelosi left the island. ah little robin. you're watching old, they're alive. what headquarters here in doha, coming up in the next 30 minutes, 3 killed and renewed fighting between our media and as a by john sparked by the disputed nicola carbonic region. here as president joe biden signs and executive order, all abortion make it easy for women to travel between states for the procedure. on warnings of social media platforms in kenya, mal spreading hate speech and disinformation ahead of a general election. ah

ah, welcome to the burgundy. chinese military is conducting live ammunition drills the taiwan strait just a day after us house speaker, nancy pelosi ended her controversial visit to type pe. now the drills are encircling the island tie. one says of chinese naval ships and military aircraft have made several incursions into its territorial waters. athenian chinese diplomat describe posey trip as manic, irresponsible, and irrational. now the series of drills all focused in 6 exclusion zones of surround taiwan, 3 of the zones overland areas. taiwan says, a part of territorial waters in someplace it's just 20 kilometers off shore. the drills include long range live ammunition shooting into the taiwan strait. china has warned all vessel to avoid the area for 72 hours. that is half the global container fleet passes through this waterway every year. nancy pelosi is now in

south korea, where she met the speaker of the national assembly kim jung, po and tony chang is tracking the latest development from bangkok. let's just start with tony joins us now. the chinese military build up and those exercises in the region and the response to that. it's still ongoing. apparently they are. they will be going to sunday, possibly even monday, say the chinese navy. and today, there have been several instances where they have encroached very close to taiwan, regards its own independent territory, which cause the time when he is regard as their own territory. 10 naval ships briefly crossed what's called the median line, which is the, the area, the binding, taiwan and mainland china. and we understand that time when he's the time when he's air force have been tracking some sort of object that has been fired off its

eastern coast. so tensions remain very high. although i think the time when these military say they were prepared for this, there, anticipating it, they're not going to react to this stage and they seem to be relatively relaxed about it. one would imagine as the week progresses, that these, these exercises will slowly wind down. although again, the, the chinese military have said they may extend them by day they want international maritime vessels and planes to keep out of the areas around taiwan and says, now 6 areas which effectively block off taiwan. it is a very impressive show of might that is of a c, china's intention. but i think at this stage now that nancy pelosi has moved on the so hopefully things will start to dial down as the days go on. so let's, we'll continue to monitor obviously those exercises in the taiwan straits and you

touched on nancy pelosi heading to south korea. what do we know? what's the timeline of shad jewel and who should be meeting along the way? well, she's already met the, the, the head of the, the speaker, the national assembly. they announced the statements together, again, fairly predictable stuff. i think this part of the ship was certainly not expected to be as high profile as, as yesterday in taiwan, not nearly as much media attention, nonetheless, a very important stop for nancy pelosi. south korea is seen very much of the solid ally of the united states in the region. there are us troops based in south and in the joint statement where the national assembly, she said that she was very committed as was america to the new clarity. ation of the korean peninsula that we have seen a number of high profile missile tests the last 6 months coming of the dpr k. and she expressed concern about that. and again, these to the statements you would expect about the long term commitment to their

relationship with south korea. but she's not meeting president, you in person. he's on holiday. they have spoken on the phone. and i think to the certain extent, the south koreans a trying not to make this too much of a high profile visit. they don't want to anger the chinese any more than they already are. china is an important trading, but most important trading partner for south korea. so i think they're happy that nancy pelosi is there, but it also be happy when she moves on late as a day to talk you tony chang force in bangkok. thanks. tony will join you through the day as the situation changes, thinking now in the wake of nancy pelosi is taiwan trip. foreign ministers from the association of south station nations have express concerned about the possibility of open conflict between major powers. delegates from the 10 men, the assy unblock holding talks income. dodie is capital minutes to say that concerned volatility could lead to miscalculations and the urging maximum restraint

. now the crisis and me him hours also on the i see on the agenda, representatives from the military june to have refused to attend. the meeting, members states said on wednesday that the block may reconsider its policies towards me and my sister in florida, st. louis, who's at the meeting in panola pan at the meeting seem very focused on me and mar and it seems we taking a very firm stand in that part try . and in fact, we heard became bodie and prime minister who sent these countries also chair of the audience, the rotating audience championship phase. the situation in the on not appears to be deteriorating and he was referring to the recent execution of for democracy activity coming so soon after who's in self made a personal lee on their behalf of execution. not to go ahead. and of course, he's also referring to the situation in young way,

in some places it's descended to and warfare where the military has escalated. it's responds particularly in rural areas where there's also frequent internet blackouts, more than $11000.00 people have been detained. more than 2000 people have been killed off, it's quite clear that the audience let peace plan that was agreed to by the june in april last year is not working. and that's the reason why the foreign minister of nano wasn't invited to audience now and my was in that invite to a non political representative, but they have declined to do so. now what's not clear though is how to move forward on audience, on, on me. and that doesn't seem to be any sort of unity. there are some calls for our the and to engage with the national unity government. that's the shadow, civilian government, or not, but doesn't seem to be taking any concrete steps towards that direction. and of course, what's complicating matters is the level of support that now is getting from the authoritarian powered china and russia, and china and russia made

a very pointed show of that support by having a foreign minister. so gay love rock visit min online. the gentle leader in navy door on wednesday. of course, no one can ignore the fact that pelosi is in the region. what sort of reaction are we getting from political leaders? while pelosi and the congressional delegation visited malaysia and singapore, before they headed to taiwan. and in those 2 countries, they were very warmly received that they met high low, high ranking officials, including the promises of those 2 countries. but of course it is hello the visit to taiwan and the respond that generated from china that has all the member states consent. they issued a statement to say that there is a risk of miscalculation that could be to conflict needs that could escalate to confrontation. and they don't want to see that. now they have in that statement that they were very careful not to take sides. they said they,

we found that they, they support china, the one china policy member, they said they, we have from china the one china policy, but they were also very careful not to criticize hello sees visit. they were very careful not to take sides. essentially, this is a dispute between 2 global power between us and china, but of course our concerns could spill over to the region. but that is not the only way to ensure we do so i'm sorry, we have to get straight to beijing. we're, we're listening to the chinese foreign ministry in the daily briefing as to what's going on in the region, especially with nancy pelosi visit by the foreign policies recognized and committed to by the governments. if the relevant government can do nothing about the violation of its legislatures of the countries foreign policy, it can only prove their political impotence and the ineffectiveness of the countries governance on this serious question. there is no point to play games with

words or try to switch policy interpretations and nothing will come out of that against china's just response. this says every thing about their hypocrisy and abilene, ireland, but now they're suddenly vocal. and they're making accusations against china's just response. this says everything about their hypocrisy and ugliness. and 3rd, there is only one version and one connotation of the one china principle. that is there is only one china in the world. anti one is part of china. and the government of the p r c is the only so legal government representing china. this was decided by the resolution 2758 of the 26th general assembly of the year when the 1971. it is the basic norm in international relations and the political foundation for a $181.00 countries including g 7 to establish diplomatic ties with china. and nothing should be inserted into what guides this one, china, principal, and 4th,

historically. and currently the g 7. let 99 states personify invasion and the coercion so as the the g 7 deserves. those allegations they have made against china and the g 7 must not forget that they do not represent international community. they only represent a tiny minority of the world as a math and barney mr. martin, bonnie from singapore has seth the g 7. this dictate tauriel globally, and this is fully reflected in the statement. so for those 4 ministers we are now in a set 3rd decade in the 21st century. we must not let our mind stay behind over a 100 years ago. a christian from bloomberg or china off from russia. you are the chinese or foreign ministry spokesman, finishing her speech of the waiting for the translation as we were. for those of you watching us here on al jazeera, let's crossover back to tony chang. tony,

of course we were talking about are the military operations in the chinese straits, but obviously the chinese again adamantly are expressing their position on the situation. and. and now quoting un, historical un resolutions about the one china policy really standing very firm about where tie one stands within that they are. and i think that is entirely predictable to a certain extent, that they are very angry about this visit. i don't think isn't in a doubt. i think everyone is very aware of deposition. but i mean, i think also it's important to state that nancy pelosi herself is maintained that this doesn't change us from policy. they're not changing that. that position as such. they still believe in a one china policy, but they are also exercising their right very clearly to visit to taiwan and to

show support for the time when he's government as well. i think what is going to be interesting to see is just how far china is prepared to go. we were already seeing the military might. in those exercises in the taiwan straits, i think that again was entirely predictable. the only hope is that, that there isn't some kind of spill over there, some kind of accident. we've also got the u. s. aircraft carrier, ronald reagan, going through standard exercises in the philippines seas. so they're relatively close at this stage. but it remains to be seen how long china will keep this up for and how much it'll push. i think again to look at what's going on in nancy and chinese foreign minister, one years down the how much is he going to put pressure on countries within this region to be a bit more vocal and opposition? i think that's a concern to i think in this region in particular the,

a lot of countries be quite keen to see america actually take a positive stones to reengage itself in, in asia, and to make something of a stand to china against china. at the same time, bill should be very concerned because for most people, her china is their largest trading nation. it is in economic superpower in this region. and that is a power which china is very well known to wield and decided to use it against many countries. it would be a real concern. so i think people watching very carefully at this stage, just to see whether this is china in sort of brief outburst of anger, this is going to be a much more sustained period of hostility stay with a said tony, you, let's go back to beijing, listen to the a replies from the press been given by the chinese foreign ministry. let's just listen lety. them respectful sovereignty into town integrity. this principle of

international relations will just become empty was andr, separatists and extremists will only redouble their cane boldness, and in a peace and slippery the heat on has been hot. one in this region will be seriously jeopardize and also state council. the one you said that this incident is a single handedly orchestrated and caused by the us and a maris and a cause. and consequences are crystal clear. and china has downward here, sir, diplomatically possible to the maximum extent to that avoid this crisis imposed on china. but we will not tolerate any harm to our co interests and the national rejuvenation. so we will not just sit by and watch the united states play the taiwan card and thus of its own domestic politics and self interest of some politicians. and we will not tolerate tensions confrontation and asset peroration in this region. so what we are taking and we will be taking our necessary and

a timely response. and the counter measures which have been fully thought through and a seriously assessed. and they are aimed at protecting our sovereignty and the security . they are in line with international law and domestic laws. there are a wanting to the provocative us and also aimed at protecting regional stability and the piece that i was straight. so everybody should be very clear about this and directly opposed to recklessness and the provocation of the u. s. continued to support our just position and the measures to comment the protect regional and anti one straight piece i had like we thought about them since you t n pelosi says in a statement on august the 3rd, the congressional delegations message, how long should we use them as a strong statement that america stands was high. one can you comment? it is not the 1st time we hear you as politicians say that they are standing together with certain people. but history and effective repeatedly showing that them whom other us politicians claim they are standing together with will become

the targets of chaos and disaster. look at iraq, syria, olivia, and afghan, is down and also look at what pelosi call a beautiful sight to behold in hong kong and the people, the separatists who are responsible for that. what has become of them? just look at that. he think my n river latasha even children is healthy. i just heard the news that they you know they originally shadows meeting but as they pass enough are mr. long e and the japanese foreign minister has been cancelled. can you confirm this news? and the 2nd is it china's decision to cancel the meeting or is it because something on the japanese part doesn't have anything to do

with the jew several statements. you can see that yeah, i see very clear logic in the 3 questions you raised out. just give one answer to your questions. you're absolutely right that china will no longer arrange for meeting with japan because japan together with other members of g 7 and the you made a responsible statement accusing china and the confounding right and wrong. and it burdens the behavior of loud 18 china sovereignty on the part of the united states . the chinese people is strongly displeased with that. so we will now to go ahead with the meeting between the 2 foreign ministers. japan has the historical responsibilities over the crimes events down on the taiwan question, so it has no position to make those on warranted remarks on tie. one next question. question from re i know that t as in showed our can i'm don't on the density side.

attention am i that bothers, have ownership down, should pass, you can figure it jungling are and seeing interest you can plot tar, learn focused on trying to their son because i'll just shoot you a chance on teach him hotline lunch. if i'm in the, i'm, if he goes, well, look, i can say is that china you're with has also when time communication with all rather than parties on the ukraine crisis, including with ukraine. we have had close communication. sanguine next question. sir, i'm interested or if you were phoenix, tv, and question on made health, the u. s. senate passed a resolution a peruvian accession of land, sand and, and i swear them into nato,

and that will be the largest expansion of nato. do you have any comment on this? oh, your engine when, where our european security, china always hopes that our plant is, can follow the indivisible security principle and respect each other's reasonable security concerns. and on that basis have dialogue and communication and follow the security outlook of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security and ability, balanced, effective, and sustainable security framework for regional peace and lasting security. and that is why we have of while we're a global security initiative, and this reflects our consistent position and regional security issues. now about nato itself, we know that people has been reflecting on the role of nato, whether nato has what kind of role that play. hm. nato has played in regional security according to nato itself, for it has

a certain rationale. but as we have seen from iraq to olivia from afghanistan and to cost of all, et cetera, ever since 2001, nato has launched wars that have resulted in over 900000 deaths and about a baby that includes $400000.00 civilians. and those was also cause displacement of tens of millions of refugees. so what kind of role is nato play and how should it play as well for well peace and stability. and what kind of mindset should natal adopt when it plays as well? so this is a serious question for natal members to really think about next question. the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson taking questions on the range of subjects, mainly to the issue of tie one. let's go about to tiny changes in bangkok, monitoring events for us. and earlier in one of the questions that she was asked tony, she basically firmly put the blame on the situation so far around taiwan on

the us where she was, she quoted for mr. y e. by saying that the u. s. a single handedly orchestrated this scenario. we wouldn't be in this position if pelosi hadn't arrived. basically, i'm just paraphrasing there. so even if pelosi and the white house were trying to separate the ocean to say the white house themselves are trying to distance themselves from the police, the visit, beijing's not buying it. no, it isn't. and i think from a b james perspective, this is very much seen as a new unilateral movement by the americans acting together biden and policy acting in step. and i think to a certain extent, that ignores the fact that we proved that earlier this year there were a group of members in the house of representatives who visited taiwan. it has been a regular occurrence to a certain extent,

although not of the see the level of the speaker of the house. it's something that china really doesn't like. it clearly presses pressure points for them. i think also at the moment they are rather aware that they're in a little bit of a more sensitive position than they have been in the past. a covert shut down to put an awful lot of pressure on the chinese economy that but since the beginning of this year we're starting to see the 1st cracks, the phenomenal growth that you know, i think so many people have got used to in china over the years is really starting to slow down quite dramatically. and i think it's in her that, that were to certain extent, that is part of america's estimation to they're looking at china. i think they want to try and press some of those pressure points to see how china react. we can see at the moment clearly very angrily and you heard there are already down and fernand pen meetings between the japanese foreign minister and the chinese foreign minister

cancelled as a sort of a knock on effect of this. i think what will be interesting is how long that goes on. how long are we going to see these tensions rising? what will a response be economically, militarily, and diplomatically? one would imagine, certainly it will continue for the next couple of weeks. but if it goes on in 2 months and possibly even years, i think that would be a real issue. and that's what leaders in this region and watching quite carefully. is this going to push china into position where it becomes very defensive and very angry consistently, or will it just be a brief blast of halter and then things will get back to normal to anything for the moment in bangkok. thank you. now there's been renewed fighting between on media and as a by john along the disputed nicola cutter by region. i mean, he says it last 2 fighters, one as a by johnny soldier, was also killed armenia and as a by john have been locked in a decades old dispute. the territory inside as

a by john the go to car back is mostly controlled by ethnical. armenians, but as a by john sees parts of it after conflict in 2020 would you, lucifer us, and on august, 3rd, members of illegal armenian armed groups in the territory of azerbaijan, where the peacekeeping contingent of the russian federation is temporarily stationed, grossly violated the provisions of the november 10, 2020 statement and committed an act of terrorist sabotaged against the units of the as a by john ami rocks influential. she eyed politician looked at the other, is demanding an early election. he says dialogue with the government is also proven to be futile. so those are delivered a televised to try searching supporters to continuous sit in parliament until the demands of met. so those block one, the most seats in last year parliamentary election. but there's been a political deadlock ever since been any doubt you will. who are i am not willing to engage in dialogue. we have to to dialogue with them before and gained nothing

but corruption and habit. despite their empty promises and justice, promises has not been fulfilled by i will not approve of bloodshed, but reform could not be achieved without sacrifice. the british intelligence says a ukrainian strike could disrupt russia's operations. nick has shown the strike had a trade that was reportedly carrying ammunition, intelligence officials say the rail tracks have probably been damaged. throw away is used to ferry alms into russian occupied kitchen from crimea. the sense that they strong chance moscow will repair it in a few days, but russian forces and their supply routes will be vulnerable. in the meantime. writes campaign is in kenya, say social media has been used to promote false information and hate speech ahead of next week's presidential election platform such as facebook say they've taken action to prevent it. but critic say the measures of falling short as malcolm web reports from my ruby can use electro commission has started trucking ballot papers

to polling stations. warehouse in the capital, nairobi, writes groups say the democratic process faces this sinister and hidden thread on social media. dungan with doom has used digital tools to document coordinated misinformation, campaigns on facebook, twitter, and take told him next team and you've got, you know, dr. recordings and what we like to call information warfare where people lead recording out of each other and leaking them. you've got a very clear attempt at entitlement and hits, which and just usage of hateful rhetoric and visual imagery to try and subtle ramp up people's emotions. my do i do some of the content images and videos from 2007, when more than a 1000 people were killed in violence that followed that yes vote. the electoral

commission says this time, it's on track to hold a free and fair election, preparing the materials and running a poll is this part of it, but it was after the election 15 years ago. it defeated results led to waves of ethnic, targeted violence and role of social media as exploded in the ways in which we used to misuse the develop. that's why rights groups are concerned in the event of a disputed result. worried about what kind of messages political leaders might send to their supported alpha on the campaign trail candidates talking less about this new city. more about policy that in past elections, including how to tackle the flooring prices of food and fuel. deputy president william if one of 2 main contenders for the presidency. his main rival is form a prime minister right over dinner. those can that it's campaign teams deny

spreading the problematic social media content. both say the other side could be doing it. business for social media companies is blooming in kenya, writes group say they're not doing nearly enough to monitor and remove dangerous content. the government agency responsible for preventing interethnic conflict has said facebook could be suspended in kenya. if it doesn't tagged by pam, we are calling out of specific entities because repeatedly, they're not abiding by what they're supposed to abide by. they have the capacity, they have the means to do it in a capacity to do it. that's all the back of the wheel. to do it for we have given the motive ation like it was supposed to, the government has since said facebook won't be suspended. it's owner matter says it's taken extensive steps to remove hate speech including automatic detection and content monitoring teams for rights groups. so these measures don't go far.