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china launches his biggest ever military drills in the seas near taiwan now is that the us house speaker nancy pelosi left the island. ah. hello robin. you're watching others. they were like, my headquarters here in doha also coming up 3 killed during renewed fighting of the disputed nicola car, bach regent. russia, the cases as the by john of breaking a ceasefire. as president joe barton size and executive order on the ball. she'll make it easy for women to travel between states for the procedure. and warnings of social media platforms in kenya, spreading hate speech and disinformation ahead of a general election. ah,

welcome to the program. the chinese military has conducted live ammunition drills of the taiwan strait. just a day after us house began nancy place, he ended her controversial visit to tiny pain. the drills encircled the island pie . one says chinese naval ships and military aircraft have made several incursions. its territorial waters, a senior chinese diplomat describe place the strip as manic, irresponsible, and irrational. a series of drills are focused in 6 exclusion zions that surround ty, $13.00 of the zones overlap areas. taiwan says a part of it territorial waters. when some places just 20 kilometers off shore, the drills include long range live ammunition shooting into the taiwan strait. china has warned all vessels to avoid the area for 72 hours. nearly half of the global container fleet passes through this waterway every year. she's english single koli callaghan shampoo that so what we are taking and we will be taking our

necessary and a timely response and counter measures which have been fully thought through and seriously assessed. and they are aimed at protecting our sovereignty and the security. they are in line with international law and domestic. last, they are a warning to the provocative ers and also aimed at protecting regional stability. and the piece that i went straight. patrick focus more beijing's reaction from the chinese capital. john is foreign ministry said to day that it was compelled to wax in self defense and all the action that was being taken was targeted at taiwan separatist forces. state media reported just after noon that long range live firing drills were being carried out in 6 exclusion zone surrounding taiwan and its population of 23000000 people and their precision strikes have been conducted and achieved the expected results. there's also lots of bon verified video that circulating on social media, showing rockets being fired from china in the direction of taiwan. it's,

i want also said that had to chase away our air craft as well as a war ships that had crossed over the median line. this is an unofficial board which is generally seen to prevents any possible mishaps from either side. and this did say that they expected the reaction to be greater than anything that we've seen in recent years. but china says the us is the provocateur and urged it to immediately recognize the one china principal for the sake of security in the region. now, teddy chang is tracking the military exercises from bangkok. they'll be gone, going to sunday, possibly even monday, say the chinese navy. and today there have been several instances where they have encouraged, very close to talk what taiwan regards is, its own independent territory, which of course 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 dividing at taiwan and mainland china. and we understand that time when he's the taiwanese air force have been tracking some sort of object that has been fired off its eastern coast to be a good pollen, as the international editor of taiwan plus you join senior vice calling from ty, we could help you with us on the program is compiling. china has been threatening military drills now and it is a reality. how's tie? one reacting. that's right to him. but i'm just going to start off by adding on what tony chang has said. local media is saying that these military drills will be extended monday morning about an extra day. and then also we are hearing about an extra, an additional area has been added to the already sick zone that these military drills are going to be taking place in waters off. i want to that essentially

blocking off the entire island main island of taiwan. that the ministry of national defense have confirmed that they have launched the systems and reaction to ballistic missiles that have landed near those taiwan waters and are monitoring the situation to call this intimidation. but the big issue here again is the fact that the island is being blocked off the ministry of defense. that amounts to a blockade. they're asking shipping routes to be change the scene for airlines to reroute their flight to so it's not just affecting people in taiwan in the sense that they feel like they're being surrounded by these military drills. but it's also affecting daily life here to be good for us, for editor of taiwan plus, joining us from type a thank you. by the way, cave nancy plays, he's taiwan trip. foreign ministers from the regional express concerned about the possibility of open conflict between major powers. delegates from the 10 member

assay unblock holding talks in cambodia capital. that is to say that concerned the volatility could lead to miscalculations and urging maximum restraint. the crisis in may law is also on the se in agenda representatives from the military to have refused to attend the meeting. but the state said, said the block may reconsider its policies towards me and more from us. levy has more from put on time. in fact, we heard the cambodian prime minister who incentives countries also chair of the ozzy and the rotating are the in championship, say the situation in the or not appears to be deteriorating. and he was referring to the recent execution of for democracy activity coming so soon after consenting, self made a personal plea 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 its response, particularly in rural areas where there's also frequent internet blackouts,

more than 11000 people have been detained. more than 2000 people have been killed off. it's quite clear that the are the and 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 neon wasn't invited to audience. now on my was in that invited send a non political representative, but they have declined to do so. now what's not here 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 into engage with the national unity government. that's the shadow, civilian government, all me on my but doesn't seem to be taking any concrete steps towards that direction. and of course, what complicating matters is the level of support that 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, a lover of visit min online, the gin to lead to innate the door on wednesday. but it's tensions mounted to nancy

place. he is a to taiwan indonesian and the us holding the largest of a joint military exercises well than $5000.00 and personally taking part. mission drills also include japan a more than a dozen observing countries. jessica washington reports from south sumatra in indonesia, a show of unity and strength. indonesia and the us have held annual military exercises for more than a decade. but this year is different, as the exercises expand to include other countries in asia pacific. early as thursday been region 14, altogether for armies military sit on the other 2 to do this kind of mine train. and when we're together like this for stronger when we're to go work and we're better joy partners. troops will participate in live fire exercises,

medical training, search and rescue operations, amphibious exercises, and more. in its 16th iteration, the guru to shield exercises have expanded with its largest, ever roster of participants and a number of countries participating for the 1st time. japan is among those countries, including in paratrooper training here in south sumatra, australia and singapore are also taking part faster and other countries including france, south korea and india, are invited to observe the 2 week drills. the exercises are happening at a time of growing concerns among the us and its allies about china's military assertiveness on issues such as ty, one and the south china sea. they'd be willing to put on the washington is trying to protect confidence in the existing international order food and take steps to help insure it for you. because the u. s. neglected china's unilateral behavior for a very long time. and now they're making more of an effort to be able to respond

militarily to china. in that regard. indonesia is naughty us ally and has long pursued a foreign policy which it describes as free and active. but it has also pushed back against china's maritime incursions into its waters. journalists here asked the indonesian armed forces commander, undeclared, the dekessa, whether the exercises were intended to send a message to beijing. so either not at all, we have always done this training. if someone wants to read it that way, well, that's not our intention at all. any these drills involving several countries will continue until mid august. jessica washington out is era, but to roger indonesia, iraq's influential, she had a politician with that. also there is demanding an early election. he says dialogue with political rivals has proven to be futile. so though delivered a televised address, searching support is to continue sit in at parliament until our demands and met. so

there is block one the most seats illustrious parliamentary election, but there has been political deadlock ever since. been many loudy will. who are i am not willing to engage in dialogue. we have just a dialogue with them before and gained nothing but corruption and havoc despite their empty promises and gestures. promises have not been fulfilled by i will not approve of bloodshed, but reform could not be achieved without sacrifice. docile jibari has moved from baghdad. he put to rest all speculations ever ongoing here over the past few days that there was a lot of behind the scenes, a meetings taking place and that eventually he would join a dialogue process. but certainly that is not going to happen. as he said, what is critical now is whether or not the various other factions within the government will accept his call. and there is no really functioning government at the moment after the elections that were held last october. since we'll cut off

souther instructed his m p, 's, 73 of them to withdraw in june. the country has been in limbo. so the question now is whether the other sides will accept the fact that there should be another election help. the next process that will come is the speaker, parliament would have to basically dissolve parliament and then they will have to announce new election. it is unclear what the other side that will be involved in this. i will have to say in the coming hours, we'll have to wait and see, but certainly most southern standing his ground urging these protesters to continue . what he calls is a peaceful revolution that will eventually hopefully get their demands. met their ordinary iraqis. we've been speaking to say they are tired of all these politicians and they're back and forth and their divisions. they just want to see their country back on its feet and the infrastructure to be funded properly so they can get on with their daily lives. well, phil had here on out there,

one of america's most prominent conspiracy farris is going to find out how much money he'll have to pay the calling a school, shooting a hoax. ah, there are 2 things we need to talk about for the weather story in australia. have one that 1st is the wind. it's been days of fierce and howling winds that continues on friday through south australia. the 2nd is the re now most of that activity has pushed out toward sea. this looks a bit threatening toward brisbane, but is just going to shuffle in more cloud cover there. and we are tapping into some tropical air. so brisbin at $27.00 degrees as fall above where you should be for this year, the weather alerts and play for this batch of what weather coming into that southwest corner of new zealand. meantime, for the north island, full of sunshine and gets been with the high of 18 degrees southeast asia,

indonesia. so the ways the island, the rain has been intense there. that's destroyed nearly 500 homes and a tropical depression has form near hong kong. so tell you what this is going to steer. days of rain into the city. so very soggy forecasts there. it's been about the heat as of late for japan. so this city just north of tokyo, almost 40 degrees. it's remember the national temperature retro for the country is $41.00, so wasn't far off that, but the heat's been flushed out with the wet weather. that's one through tokyo, it's got to have 29 degrees. meantime for the northeast of china, we've got some thunder. downpours to be expected. ah, ah diets define who we are. but who are we? if we don't know what we're reaching in a disturbing investigation into globalized food fraud,

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but the demand debasing. stop the drill. taiwan says chinese naval ships and military aircraft has entered what it considers it have a tauriel waters. and delegates from the 10 member us in blog holding top income baby as capital ministers from the region of voice concerned about the possibility of open conflict between the major pilots. now there's been renewed fighting between armenian allied forces and the as the by john, the military along the disputed nicole to kind of our region kind of by forces say that they lost 2 fighters. one of the by johnny soldier was also killed armenia. and as by john, have been locked in a decades old dispute for the territory. the going to cut back is basically controlled by ethnic armenians, but as a by john sees parts of it. after conflict in 2020, would you looser figure out us in 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. russia's defense ministry has responded to the violence in his statement. and it says, the situation is aggravated the sci fi regime was violated by the armed forces of as by john. it went on to say, the command of the russian peacekeeping falls with representatives of azerbaijan and a menia are taking measures to stabilize the situation. let's bring him, he said he's a former us ambassador to us by john and also being a us mediator for the nicole and kind of a conflict. johnson via skype. from istanbul, mr. b, it's a good time with us on the program. in your opinion, what's lead to the sudden uptake and violence after months of general quiet? well, so hope throughout these months there has been increasing tension, constant attention and occasional skirmishes. but yeah,

this is the most serious level of the resumption and fighting recently. and i know there's a lot of frustration, there's frustration in back who, because it feels like it's trying to move forward on a piece signing a peace treaty that both sides have agreed to do. but prime minister pushing on of armenia, who also sincerely seems to want to get to that peace treaty is being blocked by his own domestic political opponents, who periodically have staged big st. protests claiming that he essentially committed treason by agreeing to a cease fire way back in november of 2020. and so there are all sorts of forces beneath the surface on both sides that want to keep the pot stirred, even as a national leaders want to get to a peace treaty. how difficult is domestic politics fully armenian either right now? it's difficult, so you know, they were accusations of assassination plots against him. right, right. when he signed the piece agreement or the spider statement, the november 2020 and then so he actually rallied and his political organization

won parliamentary elections a year ago in june. and that helped him consolidate his strength, but that the opposition is still out there. and you know, many of these opponents that come from the old system and the so called kara bar klan armenian leaders who fought in the 1st no go, no car about war. and for them making any sort of concession is something they want to make political use shadow and probably sincerely believe is, is not patriotic. even though armenia lost the 2nd cut about, oh, in your opinion, what is the position that would, you might say, fulfill the ambition of all armenians, both paul, political and public that would allow them to find a long term solution and peace still with us by john is the one there is, but the medicine is bitter. so the look that this territory has always been recognized as part of ours or by john. even the armenian government will legally

and officially recognize these territories we're talking about as part of ours, or by john, even though there armenian troops there now who had agreed last november of 2020 to withdraw entirely. so the solution has been outlined, and it would be that the, are all the armenian troops, leave russian peacekeepers depart as the armenian troops leave. and then there will be no return of all the control to the armenian, or to the other by johnny forces of those hours, or by joining territory. but armenian, if they wish to get to remain in car box, and eventually they'll have to be some sort of a negotiation about how they govern their own lives. there will be elected officials, or willy officer by john ones have to be full fledged citizens or by john there's a question of the legal status of the part of car bach, where there are still armenian troops that needs to be negotiated, but should probably be postponed. while you are by john, that ensure security for all the armenians who remain in this in this enclave.

uncles that anyone can really ignore the fact that russia is the arbiter of the currency fire. and in the present, global climate doesn't really want to see another conflict in the region heat up, right? hold it's doorstep. what can it do? i very much agree. and in all my years as the mediator, you know, we were completely at odds the u. s. in russia, when it came to georgia, and when russia invaded georgia in august 2008, we were equally together in brainstorming. even with done president of russia and foreign minister, lovegrove brainstorming on the outlines of a long term settlement. and those pieces have more or less been agreed at one point or another. so russia, its main rule. now, since you can't really claim the mantle of a peacemaker given its invasion of ukraine, is to fulfill its obligations in terms of peacekeepers. and i have to admit the russian p keepers have done a pretty good job and keeping the forces separated. but it's impossible if one party or the other wants to stimulate some sort of

a confrontation. it's very hard for peacekeepers to stop that. but the russian peacekeepers need to keep playing their important role. so it's good to get your insight to a former batter. matthew breeza, thanks so much for joining us. thank you right now. yes, present, joe biden, her signed a new executive order on abortion. the move could make it easier for women to travel between states to get the procedure. it's bike and 2nd executive order on the subject. since the supreme court overturned law, mark roe vs wade ruling might kinda as move from the white house. another salvo in the battle to restore reproductive rights. the 1st meeting of a task force which will explore ways in which to restore a woman's right to choose and protect her in the process executive or make sure health care providers comply with federal loss. women don't face delays or denials, medically necessary care. and this executive order adventures, research and data collection to evaluate the impact of people dr. health crisis is

having on to hell and other health conditions. president biden signs and executive order director of the secretary of health to advance access to reproductive health care services. and we're going to continue forward including, for example, and making sure medication. abortion is available to women throughout this country and we won't stop, but the executive order is limited in scope. and president biden has long insisted that congress needs to pass legislation, restoring the rights embedded in roe v wade. president biden says he'll support removing the filibuster in the senate in order to allow reproductive rights legislation to pass by a simple majority. this is described as a nuclear option, which president biden has generally opposed in the past in a possible sign of things to come, the head of november's midterm elections. the fight to restore reproductive rights

was boasted by a significant victory at state level. voters in the conservative state of kansas have rejected the measure that would have repealed the right to an abortion that had been part of the states constitution. they voted no particular neighbor neighborhood and no one came on the borders of cages. placene this for the american people vote to preserve and protect the rights and refusal, let them be ripped away by politicians and my ministration has are back. the department of justice has also weighed in announcing that total through the state of idaho, which is one of the many in producing an abortion ban. in the wake of the supreme court decision. the contention that the state is contributing a federal law that guarantees the right to emergency medical treatment might kinda out 0, washington rights comparison. can you say social media has been used to promote

false information and hate speech ahead of next week's presidential election platforms that facebook say they've taken action to prevent it, but critics say it's not enough. as malcolm web explains from by 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. recording and what we like to call information warfare where people lead recording audience of each other and leaking them. you've got very clear attempt at incitement and his speech and just usage of hateful

rhetoric and visual image to you to try and sort of 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 the poll is this part of it? but it was after the election 15 years ago. it disputed results led to waves of ethnically targeted violence. and role of social media is exploded in the ways in which you used to misuse the develop live rights group. the concerned in the event of a disputed result. worried about what kind of messages political leaders might send to their supported house on the campaign trail candidate to talking less about this new city. more about policy that in past elections, including how to tackle with flooring prices of food and fuel. deputy president

william retail is 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 team to deny spreading the problematic social media content, but both say the other side could be doing it. business, the social media companies is blooming in kenya. so right group say they're not doing nearly enough to monitor and remove dangerous content. the government agency responsible for preventing interacting conflict has said facebook could be suspended in kenya. if it doesn't tagged by them. we're pulling 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 and the capacity to do it. that's all the work of the wheel to do it. so we have given them a motivator and what is opposed 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 enough. malcolm web al, to 0, nairobi, kenya. hey, ron, twin you as talks, i hate to claim that a school mask of in 2012 was a hoax. will soon find out how much money he needs to pay to parents who lost children in the shooting. he's being sued for liable and stuns to be find $150000000.00 or more. rosalind jordan explains long after the 2012 sandy hook school massacre. alex jones called the deaths of 20 children and 6 adults. a hoax. a plot he said to expand gun control in the united states. that was too much for many of the children's families. they sued jones, a high profile conspiracy theorist for libel isn't true. now

a jury is deciding how much jones should pay in damages to one of the families. on wednesday, prosecutors revealed jones apparently didn't turn over all of the evidence required during the original trial. they announced they had a copy of every text, an email from jones's mobile phone, about sandy hook material. they say they just received from jones's lawyers. that is how i know divide to me recently been asked, texas nothing. did you know that she, i told you the truth, this is your very measurement. the judge told the jury to ignore the lawyers allegation, but to remember that jones had been uncooperative during the original trial. jones tried to apologize to the families for his earlier claims while testifying on tuesday, which is out of which unreal as a summary of yesterday. and as i said here, you're showing as our version real.