finally, become the person he's always wanting to be and i haven't moved this very badly. oh, in that re credit and we'll go through with it. i was born in stuart's march 30th on d. w. 50 dublin years. aisha coming up to date taiwan, on alert following the ukraine wall. it's not a threat from russia, but it's ally, china that's pushed up military readiness on taiwan. but is this sufficient to defend this f governing island from invasion? a taiwanese military expert explains anabolic famous focused on the truck artist don's his brush on to a new canvas and can barely keep up with demand. ah,

i british benji, welcome to d, w, and use asia. glad you could join us. the water ukraine is making ripples a continent away in taiwan. faced with the ever present threads of a chinese invasion, the island has raised its alert level that a left level was demonstrated recently through a military exercise on the island of don, yin, which is under, ty wants control, so just fired anti aircraft and machine guns in a simulation exercise that compared to the rest of taiwan don't gain lies just 16 kilometers from china's food. you will see t the constant threat of an invasion from china has forced a reorganization of di, one's armed forces, bought of that has been to try out doubling the training time for ty, one's reserve force. that force is made up of the roughly 1650000 young men who

served the mandatory full months in the countries military. did look on respondents . zachary lee was at one such training event. juan hong way received his call up letter weeks ago. to day, long as saying good bye to his friends before he begins to weeks in an intensified military training program. locals are calling at the toughest taiwan has ever seen him. yet 14 days is a bit too long. it's like basic training for military service, and it's kind of a waste of time also. it's also a huge inconvenience for my employer. but since the russia ukraine war began us, i've thought about a war between china and taiwan. what if china, really a texas by and with that in mind, kwong is joining 15000 other reservists for the program. he'll spend 10 hours a day on combat training, such as shooting weapons. and no days off. taiwan president says taiwan cannot let

down its guard. you know, the situation ukraine has once again proven national security relies not only on the systems from the international community, but also on a unified citizenry. this training is undertaken not only to protect and defend the nation, but also to consolidate in a fight from the to the, to the, the paging views taiwan as a break away province, while the taiwanese have long seen china as a threat. the russian invasion of ukraine has re ignited these concerns. some in the military worry about taiwan is ability to fight off and attack the pac on it. because you are fighting. we don't want to see a situation like the one in ukraine here. so we must be strong and perform well in each of our roles. we need to be able to refine our skills. this is the most important purpose of the training programs. gina, good waiting, she read us. well,

i guess ukraine can be seen as a wake up call for taiwan. people you already comes in the polish from china and you have stevens has the approval for the russian invasion. doubling chinese 24000 of re service is only the 1st set for that you can see move. i expected means earlier this year, taiwan reported the largest incursion of chinese air force jets in months. experts here say it needs to improve its security without helena. when many taiwan is surrounded by the ocean, 99.7 percent of our goods are imported from overseas. if the people's liberation army were to block taiwan by cutting off shipping lions good and operationalizing air see battle that the threat is clear and urgent. it's on the we see just means he already see the we see i pay is worried that beijing could take advantage of the ukraine crisis to raise pressure on the island wong and his fellow reservists. hope

that doesn't happen, but they'll be ready if and when it does, but it doesn't probably be. i'm joined now by a kitchen area and fun. he's the military in cyber affairs consultant for double think lab a civil society organization in taiwan. mr nel welcome. what lessons would you say is taiwan drawing for its own security from the invasion of ukraine on? well, there are several on ashley. so for example, most important one was actually really to buy emerald lee. i and an article just yesterday, we're talking about the importance of the importance of a motivator to reserve the concepts of the territorial defense force. and oh, so you know, we incorporate the earlier concept of overall to pass concepts on what that means is that a people is only as strong as the world to fight. and it's important to utilize the

window of opportunity in high performance, including a what of a beta reserve and conventional force in order to inflate the maximum amount of damage to the invaders. what are some of the other changes that need to happen in a taiwan military strategy? i'm glad to talk about the titanic total defense for the creation of all defense force. and we wanted to see, i want to, for example, trying out a pilot program to increase the amount of training for the service, the existing service. what does that need to be doing to make its defensive strong ok, thank you. so in order to do this, 1st of all, a winning media strategy as a given, as we've seen, you train. the most important thing is to keep the people's on, sorry, sorry, it is important to keep the people's marolla and also the training up. so of winning media strategy in order to communicate no definitive terms to the people that we

will buy until the end. that is, that is of the paramount importance. and to that end of coalition, especially the defense i'll call the best coalition. planning with allies is another important step in this, because unlike ukraine, how one does not share any one borders with any other country, any how any assistance to tie one would have to come from overseas. and that, that brings us to the importance of another aspect. into one's potential war, which is called the war reserve stuff that has been discussed before, which basically talks about putting munitions and other reserves into one but not under the control tower. one. before the beginning of the conflict. i just like to talk about the united states. yeah, i mean the united states is the biggest supply of

a taiwan and is also bound to taiwan by the taiwan relations act. how did the time when he's military planners factored in the united states in any potential invasion scenario? thank you. well, currently on top one has its own plan to actually conduct its own defense without having that, without having a support from the us. it is of course, welcomed, and in the grand scheme of things on a us of support we be required. and this brings us to another very important aspect of the lessons learned from ukraine, which is to alicia planning. as we can see from ukraine, the importance of ice star support intelligence surveillance targeting. and because the support is all pero importance, and this is something you or allison coalitions could provide to you without actually sending troops and actually firing weapons on the enemy for you.

as you have been dropping, i wanted to sort of sum up what you were saying briefly. if you could tell us, do you think all this will be enough for taiwan to defend itself against any chinese attack? if you were done, ashley, you know, she was in degree. yes. i believe this would be enough hard or the bigger is a war. the bible, 4th thing that we could only do the best we can. and the most important aspect of all of this i will say is the will of the people let me put the kitchen area and find from a double think lab as they were society organization in taiwan. thank you so much for joining us today. thank you. ah, pakistan's,

well known and colorful truck art is made possible by artists like heather lee. but our toilet lined asked him to turn his brush on to a new canvas. ali suddenly found himself, king of a new niche market. even stuck in traffic, you can see art on the streets of pakistan. these decked out lorries are a common sight and behind them i'm veteran truck artists. and i can't really merge the like gum from a family which has long been involved in truck us. we used to live right in the center of a truck yard, so i've had an affinity for trucks since i was a child with a lower for you, was berlin. lee ali is full of creative ideas in 2002. his work was even exhibited at the smithsonian museum in the us, which brought him international attention. but recently alley has dawned his brush

on to something completely new. bright white sneakers or gill da here. the medical and i had a client came to me from the us asking for a painting on some shoes at that number. vega, i told him again an exorbitant fee to discourage him, but he agreed. so i decided that do it, then the painted sneakers are quite a pair, the feature common motifs from classic druck art, south asian animals, and cultural icons. xander it's been a part of human nature since the beginning of mankind to want to look good and to make things around him look good with some of a lease lions. pay close to 400 euros for a set of these kicks as the price for a walk of art that may not last long. the acrylic and enamel pained kinship off, but ali says new orders keep rolling in,

thanks to social media. and that's it for today. this was more now website from the region. staying with the theme of color were leave you now with pictures from holy celebrations across south asia in those in both india and pakistan. attending out for the california festivities. see you next week. and happy holy the back! aah! with

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international debt obligations after waste and sanctions over the war hold its financial dealings. central bank can't access it's foreign dolah reserves and had said it might pay a roubles which wouldn't have been accepted by creditors. another dollar denominated payment is due in $2.00 weeks. this time for $2000000000.00, major ratings agencies have downgraded rushes, credit writing on my colleague, cassandra. so it is here to run us through an important part of russia's invasion of ukraine. whether or not you can actually afford this war. tell us more about the financials behind all of this, right? the stakes here been are huge. you've outlined some of them. but the way that the payment schedule works. this is one of the 1st big test test that moscow has about whether it can meet its international debt obligations under what.