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a furious response from beijing threatening a spike intentions. also coming up, the vatike fall out from an american drone strike against all kind up after the u. s kills terrorist leader. i'm and also watery in a cowboy don't attack washington and the taliban accuse each other of breaching the terms of their piece deal. ah. hello that i marina muhammad. your as hell. speaker, nancy pelosi continues her controversial visit to ty one. close. he has met with the president of ty, one saying when she also is due to meet with human rights activists. china were seized high one as a breakaway province, is angry about the trip and has threatened a military response. close. he is not there as a u. n. n, a us envoy,

but she is the highest ranking us official to visit taiwan in 25 years. 43 years ago, with the taiwan relations act, american made a bedrock promised to always stand with taiwan. and all this strong foundation we have built a thriving partnership, grounded in our shared values of self government and self determination focused on our mutual security. it is in the region and across the world committed to the economic ties that power prosperity for all of our while at let's go to washington d. c and speak to d w. so me, some a scandal says to me we just heard nancy pelosi speaking there, but remind us again why she decided to make this trip now. well, this was actually part of a trip to the indo pacific region. she was there with the congressional delegation . and if you listen to what nancy pelosi has been saying, she said this is

a trip about security economy and democracy. and she said, we heard that clip earlier that she's come to taiwan in friendship and peace and to show solidarity with taiwan. and the reason that nancy pelosi wants to show that solidarity now, as she says it is china who has been stepping up pressure on taiwan with its saber rattling stepping up, for example, incursions into taiwanese a aerospace and also the crackdown that we've seen in hong kong in recent years, so she has said that it is important to send a message. now it is a strong sign from the speaker of house. i do want to add that this is also very much a signature piece of nancy pelosi, his own agenda. she's been a long standing vocal critic of human rights issues in china, and she actually visited genamin square in 1091 to, to support democracy there. so she is seeing her time in congress come to an end soon. she's 82 years old. so this is being called as something of a swan song for her personally, but again, we're here. this is about for nancy pelosi reaffirming the u. s. his commitment to honoring democracy in taiwan. but how much is this like he to complicate things for

you as president joe biden, because the white house has been distancing itself from her visit. and clearly, as you say, they said this is really up to had to make the decision to travel, but by then distancing the situation. are they trying to steer clear of aggravating for the tensions with china? well, there's been a lot of readings of that where he left there's no question that this is definitely a complex geopolitical issue. the white house president biden did express concern about nancy pelosi going to taiwan. so did the defense department and assured americans that they would be ready to defend nancy pelosi, in the event of an escalation in china's rhetoric and response. it has a pure to put the president in a difficult situation, but it's also important to know that there is some speculation that perhaps the white house is privately condone this visit as a way for the u. s. to reaffirm this commitment and stand up to china without it coming directly from president biden and his administration. of course nancy pelosi

is the speaker of the house. so she's representing a different branch of government. and it, that would be in line with a shift in the u. s. tone and rhetoric that we've seen on in taiwan america as long as it has a strategic ambiguity policy so that it has official diplomatic ties with china, but unofficial ties to taiwan will continue to support a democracy in taiwan and president biden himself a did a challenge that when he said in may, that he would defend taiwan, the u. s. would defend taiwan of china attacks. those statements will walk back. but still it's important to note that what we're seeing from nancy pelosi this visit, is not entirely out of line with some of the tone and rhetoric that we've seen from the, the white house itself. and more generally, what is the feeling that domestically about her trip to the, to what taipei so there has been plenty of support for speaker policies, visit, and certainly from democrats and 26 senate republicans. i issued

a statement today saying they also stand behind this trip and say that it is consistent with the u. s. as policy on china and the region. and, and, you know, there has been the accusation that democrats have been to week on china and, and i was seeing commentators on fox news which represents the right wing republicans here. they were begrudgingly praising a nancy pelosi but the voices are mixed on both sides of the aisle. commentators here have been pointing out that the u. s. is already engaged in another big security challenge, which is the war in ukraine. and that there's not a strategy here from nancy pelosi and that aggravating china could put the us squarely on a collision course with 2 world powers at once. so a china and russia at a time where beijing and moscow have already been deepening their alliance. so the concern there being that this visit could actually push them closer together into each other's arms. so we are seeing a mixed reactions here despite the support that nancy pelosi has seen from members of her own party and from the republican party. let's just take

a little bit deeper into that, how much was, could relations between china and the united states get at this point? well, of course, that is the concern here that this could, as i said, aggregate aggravate china. and that's why the u. s. military has moved its own carrier into the area as a warning to trying to make clear they are ready to protect nancy pelosi but also that they are reaffirming that they're standing behind taiwan. but they're already regular. so many pools on that u. s. relationship with china, many observers here say that if this goes by, if this trip goes by without a serious retaliation from china without further military escalation, besides the drills that we've seen china carrying out a very close to taiwan in some saying, even in tie one's air space, if that is the past without another serious escalation, they believe that this could be a, perhaps just another irritant or another pull on that relationship, but that it will remain fairly frosty, between china and the us. the other reading,

of course, is that we could see another escalation from china, further escalation, the u. s. responding. and we could see this, this relationship as i said, which is already is seen as frosty, descending even further. thank you for that. send me some misconduct in washington dc. now russia supreme court has ruled that ukraine's as of regiment is a terrorist organization. the decision could mean har sentences a fight as will being held as prisoners of wool. the as a regiment is the ukrainian military unit with the far right and nationalist background. it was the focus of russia's claims about fascist elements in ukraine. the group fought for months during the siege at a steel plant in mario pal, rushing back separatists are calling for them to be executed. this was the as of steelworks earlier this year, inside thousands of fighters from the so called as of regiment. from within the

tunnels under the steel plant, the regiments leaders sent out video messages. this is our repeal to the world as could be the last appeal of our lives. we are probably facing our last days if not hours, the enemy, our numbers as $10.00 to $1.00, but they didn't last much longer. order to surrender by the government and keith, the steel plants, defendants were taken prisoner, russian officials called them nazis. the group does have a far right history. we found that in 2014 as a volunteer militia to find pro russian separatists in the don bath region. current members have rejected being cold nationalists or radicals. however, they say they're patriots. russian media also said the group mistreated civilians and matthew poll, but without evidence. videos showed fighters helping civilians evacuate in the days

before the surrender. since then, the captured fighters have become ponds and the game potential assets in an eventual swap or ceasefire negotiations, as the war groans on without them. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. voters in the u. s . state of kansas have voted to maintain the rights to abortion in the deeply conservative state. the vote was the 1st statewide referendum on abortion. since the u. s. supreme court overturned the national right to the procedure in june. the vote has been seen as a test case for abortion rights. nationwide, vigil has been held in the democratic republic of congo for the victims of last week, steadily anti un protest. 36 people died in clashes between the united nations, peacekeepers and civilians. protesters accused the mission of failing to protect them against malicious and our calling for their withdrawal demons, government,

and who the rebels have agreed to extend the civil war truce for another 2 months. the car cease, fire has been in place since april. the longest period of peace in 6 years, the conflict has caused famine and the death of tens of thousands. now the united states and the taliban have accused each other of violating agreed to terms after a c, i a during strike, killed the al qaeda leader. i'm an elder warri, us officials say all the worry being there broke the doha agreement on the american withdrawal from afghanistan, the killing has raised scrutiny of the taliban as it seeks international recognition. and 8, he was america's most wanted the mastermind behind 911 who evaded capture for 2 decades. i'm a nozzle worries. death is a major victory for us president joe biden with one that comes nearly a year after washington's botched withdraw from afghanistan. ok, as green note,

the white house says to strike in capital is prove that biden's over the horizon strategy where threats are managed without boots on the ground is a success. so there, this action demonstrates that without american forces on the ground in afghanistan and in harm's way, we still remain able to identify and locate even the world's most one terrorist. and then take the action to remove him from the battlefield. that is the definition this mission of when we talked a year ago of over the horizon counterterrorism capability. but the victory also casts down on the taliban commitment to the 2020 doha agreement. the islamists vowed not to allow of janice down to become a safe haven for terrorists threatening the united states. yet as the warry was being housed in a mansion right in the capitol kaboom, it shows how valueless all the taliban assurances have been to the united states

about not being in league with al qaeda whole. he could not have been there could not have been recorded this b i t treatment. if not, the taliban were cheek angel with al qaeda. with mistrust brewing efforts by the taliban to legitimize themselves on the world stage could suffer a major setback. for south american countries have launched a joint bed to host the sucker world cup in 2030 argentina, uruguay, chile and paraguay presented their bid at these antonio stadium in wanted video. that was the venue of the 1st world final in 1930. and where they want the final to be played at century later. it's the 1st time south american countries have made a joint bids. the content last hosted the world tough in 2014 germany won the title in brazil and at wimbledon champion novak jock of it has thanked fans for

a petition trying to get him into the united states and the u. s. open tennis tournament later this month. but it's unlikely that the, that the united states will change its cobra 19 protocols to allow the unvaccinated jock of it into the country. an online petition in support of the serbian has edged closer to its target of 50000 signatures. and talk of it says he's preparing as though he will be allowed to play in the us, but his website shows no upcoming events. and the 1st hard court warm up tournament is underway in washington dc. la his reminder of our top story. us. how speaker nancy pelosi met with taiwanese president, sy in when during her visit to ty, one is the highest level trip to ty, one by a u. s. official in 25 years. china has threatened to respond with military

exercises of ty, one's post. he watching the w news live from berlin. you can find much more on a website that is d, w dot com for all the latest news analysis and video also on social media as well. you can check us out at d. w. news on twitter, facebook and instagram. i'm really mohammed, thanks for watching. take care bye. ah, people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away from water. families plain vollmer. thank.