ah, you cuz i'm a cool, cool b u i is just me in the moon. oh, this is the dublin used asia coming up to date time andre houses repelling and invasion. the island is holding its largest ever military drills with an eye on counting china's arm thread. what can i do? so alone and how imminent is a possible chinese attack? i ask a member of taiwan ruling party and housekeepers in spotting a global baby of talons to try their luck, hence, killed in south korea's music industry.

ah, i british manager, welcome to the dublin years, asia, glad you could join us. taiwan is conducting its largest ever military drills which simulate the repulsion of an invading force. it's a scenario based on the increased military threat from china in recent years. beijing sees taiwan as part of its territory and hasn't ruled out the use of force to re unify it with the mainland that and the ongoing war in ukraine has forced taipei to actively consider how it would defend itself against a possible chinese attack. did not respond, and zachary li reports on how that concern is playing out in the military drills. the, the rules are all empty. only the south of the warning sirens can be heard. police instruct every one to 6 shorter immediately. cities, of course, high one,

shut down for 30 minutes for this nationwide military, 3. 0, military exercise in this year are the largest in taiwan history. as you can see behind me, o cause have been forced to put over to the side of the road and everyone is too thick show to do in the air read jail. how many people are taking the exercise seriously in light of the war? ukraine, that has served us a wakeup call for tie one over the thread from china. and i think the drills a necessary we should be prepared beforehand. so household thing was through the exercise, we know what instructions to follow in case of a war. i think if the government held drills more frequently, people would know how to react in an emergency situation. the total was because of the warn you crane, we want to know where we can go and hide when we get attack. for example,

where the chauffeur's in taiwan, the novel is, is the cell phone console dynamic ambulances and fire trucks play encoding rule in these 3. 0, the rescue workers. fact, he's putting out a fire after supposed may sell attack latino and he's got them and wants to make it as real as possible to risk public awareness of emergency warn me till 2 where the purpose of this years exercise is to test how we would react in a real war, and we will do a review after the exercises and see how we can improve one, the 3. 05 military exercise will conduct the same time. and this will again have ukraine in mate. reservists, dick launch inches under a breach. others boca some practice in urban warfare and on the open sea several ships carry out, may newberg. i was president how you win over to the field. i'm going naveed this

to you. this excellent job demonstrated the ability and determination of the soldiers of the republic of china to defend the country. let's continue to work hard and gotta homeland together. china's threads pump to pay one to stay the preparation for chinese. a pep, a sponsor page in is concerned in the attempts by high ones to come fonts. it's me, terry will be doomed to fail. i'm joined now from type a by law to chang. he's a legislator of the ruling democratic, progressive party and culture of violence, of foreign affairs and national defense committee. doctor law on the subject of a chinese invasion of taiwan thea, director b buns said a few days back. it was more a question of how and when they would do it, as opposed to whether does your government concur with this assessment?

also of all community imbalance in the time, i say it has become a wider and it also says about the units being balanced in the region will prompt you to take a more rigorous action against taiwan. so we have to pay for the worst case scenario. we are not in dose idea that it's about when that china, when bedtime one hour proudie just make sure that china will never use force against anyone. but show that factor into your thinking. do you think and envision of taiwan is imminent? well, it is a possibility that china, though men found the lessons outside russian invasion of cran, that china i can't take her. she'll wool and have the show work in the time was true. so we had to make sure that a towel one well pay our sales for the worst case scenario, a more employee, and we'll make sure that china will think twice before they move on to death. he's

gonna immediately actions against i one. and i am considering that a largest ever military drill of the taiwan is gotten to conduct and conducting is all about this. but when the chinese foreign ministry spokesman, johnny john was asked about there, he said, and i court taiwan to attempt to confront china militarily, is akin to a mantas trying to obstruct a chariot. in the end it is doomed to fail how many fuel costs the hyperbola aside, joe knew gen isn't wrong, is he and he is wrong cause tawana is needed to re capable of defending ourselves. but more importantly, every year we have this kind of ano needed to jail. ah, we pails ourselves full any possible evasion in any forms against taiwan or more importantly, ah, we are developing the so called a symmetry wilker to deter china on taking

a mutation against higher one. so yes, china is are developing his music power. i see it's gonna in the past few years, i, taiwan, he's also preparing ourselves, are in a similar way to defend ourselves. but can't i, one defend itself from a potential chinese and vision without direct u. s. military support? well, it turns east. the key is when you call it difficulties fan time one that is possible and is very likely that is how much has successfully deterred china. so i'm taking any, any mediation against time one. so we had to make sure that we have credible robust deterrence. does that involve a guarantee of your support and you as intervention militarily, as in dason green, put in that just i need attorney. i think the case of the are the best guessing point is you can, i can have a station again as russia and the political coalition. amanda, like to my,

to countries. i was also very important. so in that, in addition to military or to toys, economic and political cooperation among democracies, also very important in deterring china or any aggressors are taking a regular edges. now china has warned of god resolute and strong measures. if you ask how speaker nancy pelosi goes ahead with her proposed visit to taiwan. should she reconsider her trip? well, 1st of all, china opposes any visit by any far inputted coin eaters to tie one that happens all the time. and we should not allow. we cannot allow china to take a would you need to, i can visits how i know that. so you know, we are hopeful that dab speaker a unless he can come visit taiwan and i stacy that didn't defeat democracy countries. so we're hoping that she can visit taiwan. but again, we should not allow china to detect who can come to town. that's what you, sir,

but then when president joe biden sees of the u. s. military assessment is that the trip is court? not a good idea right now. is president biden being overcautious? well, i don't know why the president hasn't been and said that, but obviously yeah, they have concerns about any i wanted a, you know, events happening before the biden, as city in pina telephone cars. so that's probably one of reasons why ah, there will be decision takes a mo cosivity. i love that attitude towards that kind of visit. are you at all concerned about any potential cost to taiwan? if nancy pelosi visits the island, what china has always used these kind of application attention in italian shape to prevent, ah, to avoid any ha, you know, improvement ob ties. but it's how when you're on attentions and to deter honda for leaders to come visit one,

that's their skill and that's their strategy. but i don't think that that, that is that like to stay because we continue to see a lot of leaders can visit taiwan. when you leave there for the timing, but thank you so much for joining us to do a lot trying from the ruling a d p. p i guess ometer. thank you. we met ah k, pop. the korean music genre has gone global in its appeal and with it is drawing global talents to south korea in the hope of a korea. it is by no means easy to achieve, but people are more than willing to step up to the challenge. oh, it takes a lot of passion, commitment, and blog to make it into a pop. but i am new anderson was determined to go through the rigorous, dense and singing training that successfully chance out countless korean pop stars . ah,

she 1st discovered k pop in the u. k. before moving to south korea. to be honest, when i 1st started listening caper, whatever i no one knew what it was, i was the only person. however, these days i can just mention k pop and everyone's got like at least 3 groups and like talk to, they tend to go as keep up, grows into a world wide phenomenon. i and who has become one of the many global talents flocking to sol chasing a place in the industry. a getting a trainee offer is not easy, but making it as an idle is farts hover. the hardware paid off for korean, american singer alexa. the 25 year old recently one nbc american song contest. ah, she says her training and so contributed to her success. when i didn't begin training, i train every day of the week. i had dance classes every single day. i did those

for months and months and months and then i finally, the day came where my company told me i was getting prepared for debut. and like alexa, many more trainees have to go through a decade of training without knowing if they ever get to the view. this, in addition to harsh training conditions, has been difficult for overseas performers to adapt to experts say some trainees say dating and phones a band and weekly way checks are a must experts say the industry is now being forced to adapt so that they can draw top talons from across the globe. i know anderson has decided to take a different path. it was too much for the 24 year old. now what is it dancer and model? so part of a dream has still come true and that's it for to variables. of course mo,

from the region on our website, the devil dot com, forward slash asia, and as ever you can follow us on facebook and twitter up for regular updates for back tomorrow at the same time. and so you been good bye. india, a land of contrasts of ambitions of inequality. 75 years ago, mahatma gandhi peacefully led the country to independence, full of ideals. what is remained of his vision? what is the status of human rights and social justice in what's called the world's

largest democracy? willie cindy ahead it this is the pulpit tour unleash a non violent boss and re imagine that these teachings or elements to gandhi's legacy. sorts of august 6th on dw. ah ah, europe's travel chaos continues to wash and lufthansa walkers go on strike throughout germany calling for hey, right. the alliance concept, almost all flights into and out of the country, or talk to a reporter on the ground. it's not just and germany work as worldwide calling for a wage bumped to cope with the rising cost of living, but will pay increases worsen inflation. we'll talk to an expert and breaking the deadlock amazon workers in the us pushing for unionization. we'll get the story

from our u. s. correspond to that time again, d, w, business. germany is fly carrier airline. lufthansa has cancelled more than a 1000 flights due to a strike by ground st. off at its hubs in frankfurt and munich. the strike comes after dandy germany's largest trade union rejected of tankless pay offer. at the end of june. it's calling for a 9.5 percent pay rise for some 20000 workers. the work stoppage just adds to the challenges. lufthansa is already facing, including rising energy prices, inflation and staff shortages effecting thousands of passengers a day. here's what they're saying about the strike. ah, we have to stay in line to see if we get a flight. i get it right back because we are going to start that. okay. and also our parents, they're traveling to nigeria, so it's like we would if we don't get a fight back in like a few days, then we'll be able to see them for like almost 3 months because we have these people who are on strike. i think they have are you.