[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin us. how speaker nancy pelosi visits taiwan and delivered a strong message. america stand with taiwan. the highest ranking

us politicians to visit in 25 years draws a furious response from china with more military trails near the island. also coming up a waiting inspection, a shift carrying ukrainian grains safely crosses the black sea and reaches turkey, ukraine's president says, one boat isn't enough. and living in the shadow of chernobyl, dw visits a half empty town where residents are still worried about a possible disaster. at ukraine's destroyed nuclear plant, plus the aftermath of california is the biggest fire this year. he w visits the wreckage left by the flames and meets residents made homeless by the still burning blaze. ah,

i am pablo police. welcome to the program. you are have speaker nancy pelosi. m has used her visit to taiwan to deliver a statement of solidarity, saying her country would do whatever it takes to boost ty, one's ability to defend itself. pelosi met with taiwan president site in when, after earlier addressing the self governing islands parliament. she's the highest ranking us politician to visit taiwan in 25 years, though she's not there. as an official representative. pelosi ignored stark warnings from china, which views the island as its own territory. she says she supports the status quo between beijing, anti pay and praised, tie ones, democracy. we have to show the world, and that's one of the purposes of action. to show the world. as the people, taiwan parish, their coverage to change their own country to become more democratic,

the democracy that has evolved to a stronger place now and offers a very strong contrast to what's happening with the mainland china. well, policies visit has drawn a furious response from china, which has announced more military drills around taiwan earlier, dw washington correspondent to me, so misconduct told us about the reaction there. well, public, there's certainly been a lot of coverage. all of the networks here were closely following her visit with live coverage of her landing there. and here in washington, there has been a good deal of bipartisan support for the speaker at 26 senate republicans issued a statement saying that they stand behind her. and that they see this trip as consistent with the u. s. as one china policy. and, you know, during the trumpet ministration as china became a key focal point. the accusation had been and continues to be. the democrats have been too weak on china, and i was watching fox news, which is the main network for the right wing here. and they were begrudgingly

praising nancy pelosi as well, which is quite unusual. but i have to say the voices are mixed on both sides of the aisle. so some commentators here pointing out the fact that there doesn't appear to be a strategy from nancy pelosi that she doesn't have a concrete outcome from this visit that she can achieve. and secondly, that the timing is not ideal because because the u. s. is already engaged in another huge security challenge, namely the war in ukraine. and that, that is going to be difficult to balance. and there is the concern that the u. s. it might be on a collision course, essentially out with 2 world powers, china and russia by aggravating china with a visit like this. and this comes at a time where beijing and moscow have already been deepening their alliance. so the concern pablo being that this could push them even closer to each other's arms, if you will. suit me. what about the white house? where does president biden stand on nancy pelosi visit? well, it is a very complex issue. i mean, the white house, as you mentioned,

president biden did express concern about nancy pelosi going to taiwan. and he did not actually tell her not to go, but there were concerns from the department of defense as well. and with the white house. so focused on the war and ukraine, it has been seen as a bit of a distraction, perhaps. but there has been some speculation that the white house might have privately condone this visit by nancy pelosi as a way for the us to reaffirm its commit to taiwan. and stand up to china without that actually coming directly from president biden and his administration. as you know, nancy pelosi as the speaker of the house represents a different branch of the government. and you also have to remember that in general, we have seen a shift in the u. s. tone and rhetoric on taiwan. the, the policy for a long time from the u. s. has been one of strategic ambiguity, so it has official diplomatic ties to china, but also unofficial ties to taiwan, supporting democracy there and president bite and just in may said openly that the u. s. would defend taiwan if china attacked the white house try to walk back those

statements. but the point they're pablo is that it could be said that this trip by nancy pelosi is not entirely out of line with what we've seen from the white house and from president biden himself. so me briefly, if you could, and you touched on it a little bit earlier, how much worse could relations actually gap between china and the us? well, the relationship certainly isn't in the best state at the moment. remember some of the pulls on this relationship, the biden ministration announcing that diplomatic boy caught the beijing olympics. they've sparred over everything from economics to technology and security. so the relationship already isn't pretty frosty territory. it could get worse. pablo if we see a further retaliation or response from china, if there's an escalation in that response, in that the u. s. feels that it has to respond as well there we could see the, the retaliation or the deterioration rather of the relationship fall even further. thank you, sumi sumi, so misconduct in washington,

dc. mac was far from the german liberal party, the f t p is a member of the defense committee in the german parliament and head of the german taiwanese association. i asked him whether it was wise for pelosi to visit. i want to be wise indeed. i think it was more than time for the to tie bon a tug on need support for more and more perceives all over the world. now mike was begging, has warned, of very serious consequences, policies visit with trigger we, we've already seen some military exercises announced what consequences do you expect? i think we're still new the last year. actually this china also reacts to strengths and we have seen what happens in market season bird or not. then together, i think nobody needs a 2nd february, the 24th. so the reaction of the world's free society to defend each other.

and this defense reactions also need to visit policy to tie, bonded very strong to move that boss are needed right now. would you say that western attitudes on china are changing unique? yes, they are changing and it's more than times of the change. i think china approval over the last year that is not willing to develop into a democracy that does not willing to defend liberal values that is not willing to accept the freedom of speech. we have seen this on, in many places as an hong kong, as an, as it's john province. so there's so many cases that china is becoming more and more aggressive against its own citizens, but also for the threatening other countries as well. so do we action of those countries who has the opportunity to face time and should be to to face china

should be to face china macos. let's talk a little bit about germany's position, the german foreign minister and in a box that this week the germany would not allow china attack taiwan. what role should germany and be you have in this dispute? germany and the open union can just have the economy roles in this process. germany, it's not as military, it's supposed to be. so there can be really going to make issues that come some time on. we can have we trade association agreement with type odd we can help have on, on the economy issues. we can also support tight bond if it comes to the development of military facilities. eddie fence also may be a development of submarines. germany has some type abilities that comes to submarines said operates never water, for instance. just can be things that can be done by germany. germany cannot play

an actor, jerry walden as part of the world. how close would you say we are to a military confrontation over taiwan? i'm really worried that we might have a military confrontation with within the next 5 to 8 years. i was washing d. c. last november and the same people who said that they're very scared, said we will have the military conflict between hooton's russia into grain. this winds are also set and they were right about that. they also says it's and they are very scant that we may have military conflict between china and taiwan was in the next 5 to it is. so this is from something that can be can be resolved by now that's the only way to resolve it is military things will be shown by the countries in the region as to be shown by american state as united states. that ought to be shown by korea and japan. marcos father,

member of the defense committee of the german bonus tag and head of the german taiwanese association. thanks. well, the 1st cargo ship to leave ukraine, since the russian invasion is under inspection in the black sea of turkey's coast, a team with personnel, from russia, ukraine, turkey, and the when is inspecting the vessel to see if it complies. what last month's agreement between the us, moscow and keith, to block grain exports, are actually seeing live pictures of the ship at the moment on your screens. now, the sierra leone flagship departed odessa, on monday, carrying $26000.00 tons of corn, is currently anchored off the coast of a stumble. and if given the all clear, it will set sail to its final destination lab and on will dw correspondent dorian jones is in istanbul, and i asked him if the ship carrying ukrainian grain will be inspected today.

one of the p s. sometime this morning, a p made up of you when turkish russian and ukrainian officials will bowl to ship and carry out the search to confirm that the ship, what the ships manifest, this is what the ship is carrying. now this process really is key to this green. the deal i'm getting is estimated. 20000000 pounds of ukrainian grain on to well, market is estimated as many as a 100. a 150 ships will need to go through this searching procedure of ships coming out as well as ships going into the ukraine, that this is key to achieving the target. if, if everything goes according to plan such as you'd like to take an out of the couple of hours at the most off about the ship to then proceed down the sample bus was, was way i'm behind me to the mom or a c and onto 11 where did expect to deliver cargo? 26000 pounds, of course, to the urgently needed lebanese population. so it's an important logistical

situation there. no. dorian house central role is turkey taking in the restarting of exports from ukraine will take you paying a pivotal role. not only in helping to broker the initial agreement, but tweets of ministration the, the whole organization of the logistics of it is all being carried out here in the joint coordination center where there is russian military officials, ukrainian counterparts as well as turkish and un officials. now, all of the organization of this massive operation is going to be organized, the convoys out of the ukraine. the impulse prove the heavily mind voltage, then allocated waterway through the black sea fruit to its time bulk. the searches that are carried out both in and out of ukraine, organized through here and turkey. also, not only on the logistics, i will say this moving the whole operation. this, we have to remember that there are 2 warring policy of ukrainian military and russian. town composites are war in ukraine,

but the same time they need to work together. and turkey having good relations with both sides as seen as also capital to smoothing the whole operation, both on the logistics side, but also on the why the level if there are any missteps. one step back turkey will be working hard to make sure that this still continues to work during you've just touched on it. there at turkey's relations with both sides will say no turkish president reggie pie of added the want us to meet the russian president vladimir putin. later this week, is there any indication of what we can expect from that meeting? what can be packed agenda you have to realize that turkey has conflicting as well as shit, interest posture, extending from the north africa, middle east, the caucuses, the both and not to mention a massive energy partnership as well, or this energy, this grain, the a will be seen as a key part of those talk, given the fact that other one sees these 2 great deal as a vindication of he's often criticized thoughts of painting close relations with

his washing out of all blood to me. and this is the 2nd meeting face to face within a month between these 2 leaders. and notably turkey has not enforce weston sanctions against russia. that is doing a lot of criticism. but 3rd one is always maintained. he needs a balanced approach. if he's going to achieve the mediating role between ukraine and russia, now this green deal, if it succeeds, will be seen as a major indication and also strengthening across the argument when these 2 sites already put some kind of piece talk as a no one will be very well place, a key to all that is they have to make a great deal work. thank you, daria. you don't use dorian jones in a stumble. ukrainian engineers are once again in control of the chernobyl power plant after russian forces took over the facility in the early phase of the war, but with moscow's unrelenting military strikes. and the threat of a leak or explosion at the new care plant remains dw correspondent. finally, for shar, has visited a town near tr noble where residents are taking measures against radiation

poisoning and the potential of another disaster. at the d commission to power plant, children opened as the a bottle of iodine. this would be natalia's 1st protective response. in case of a radioactive leave topic, you could ask of us from boston. i went to take care of my child that picked and give her a 10 drops of dis, ready? proport. this is her 2nd of a big, but i don't know how useful it is. 4th grade are for li, asthma. natalia wasn't born when the chernobyl disaster happened in 1986, but the family trauma seats deep. good. but if that didn't stick on the was the colonel. can you imagine you lock up your home and leave you lock up your you and leave it. leslie my father left everything. dan huffstutter and this is still very painful for him. well is you let that in? law's sister, her father helped with the channel bill cleanup. pretty much every one in our family has had cancer, even though they now live here, it's leveled to

a town build for chang, noble survivors. the russians haven't attacked, but it's eerily quiet since the war began. nearly half of the population has left people worry about putting, turning the war nuclear here. all that would need would be a conventional strike on the nuclear plant. i can have one you got if you can expect anything from him, am same from his bella, rosie a neighbor luke a shanker. got those. i'm afraid them go much than that. yeah, by using jan nobel where the still dangerous remains of the nuclear power plant disaster is just 50 kilometers away. this is the town of pretty piano once their home to channel bill workers abandoned since 1986 and last for ever the passing decade. so radiation decrease in parts of the exclusion zone. but we're told that recently radiation now was rose again after russia and forces occupy char, nobody for a while in the early stages of this war. in fact, troops moved

a tillery through highly radioactive areas, kicking up contaminated dust. we won't stay here full. in slow voltage, they are renovating this school bunker. the mayor sands with 500 people could find shelter here from a rocket attack, but not a nuclear disaster, which he doesn't to discuss. women, why was we shouldn't create panic among people. we must understand there would be no escape from that. we shouldn't waste our resources and emotions on it, her mother and what's the sweet. natalia disagrees. she would like more information from the government. how she can best protect her daughter when she should flee. yet i told them amazon zagat than from oxford is no information. how to protect our children? it's emoji exhausting. but then when the time comes on, we need to talk about it. it would be too late, but i didn't vote for the longer the war continues, the more dangerous it feels here on the last reassurance. the little bottle of are you,

dean provides. let's get you up to speed thou on some other stories making headlines around the world. the association of southeast asian nations has warned it will reconsider a peace plan agreed with myanmar if the country's military readers execute any more prisoners. the execution of for opposition activists last month was condemned by members of the 10 nation regional block. jamar has no representatives of the ongoing as the on somebody in cambodia. the u. s. state department says there is an increased risk of anti american violence after a cia drones dry killed the head of al qaeda. it is urged its citizens to be wary of possible terrorist attacks in response to the death of i man outs our hearing. he was killed in a drone strike in the afghan capital capital when you're watching, didn't you still to come?

he leaves correspondent visits homes destroyed by california, recent fires, and carries out a special request for a man who's lost everything in the flames. while the issue of abortion has divided the united states in recent months with several court decisions and state laws, restricting access to pregnancy termination. but in the state of kansas, a referendum that could have seen abortions band has failed. the outcome shows even some conservative voters are wary of the anti abortion movement. it was the resounding results. and of course, the celebration, the pro choice advocates, 59 percent of voters chose to protect abortion rights in a largely conservative us state with ties to the anti abortion movement. for some, the relief was palpable. you were to be from kansas and i feel like they just showed up in raleigh told me that they are going to take care of me and my female friends and everyone are going to bring in the safety. we are protected,

some others saw the kansas pole as an indicator that plans to restrict access to abortion out of step with the public mood. if abortion rights are, are, are, are protected here in kansas. and again, republican leading state on i think that that indicates that there is a big did the states have those trigger was probably are out of stuck with what the electorate was. abortion opponents who supported the proposed amendment said they felt an obligation to protect the rights of the unborn. but when we pull back and look at the scientific evidence of what happens in that one, not the emotion and not on the fact that i'm, i feel like i'm losing something. the people that are losing life have no voice. if people on their own, like me, don't speak for them. the strongly held views on both sides were reflected in a sometimes bitter campaign. but the decisive vote to keep abortion protections in

the state constitution indicates a clear determination from kansas citizens to protect women's rights. wildflowers in the u. s. state of california have burned through huge areas of forest and displaced thousands of people. several people have died in recent days. some of them caught in their cars trying to escape the flames. while decades of drought and rising temperatures have made california more vulnerable to fires with scientists linking the increased risk to climate change. in recent weeks, a major fire came close to yosemite national park raising fears for its ancient trees and endangered animals. one of the largest places to hid california this year it has subsided, but it's still burning. dw stefan siemens went to my repose. county where people are now living intense after their homes were destroyed. aah!

any day they can use helicopters in their battle against the oak. fire is a good day. the fire fighter say the place is carving deep wounds into the generally beautiful mountainous landscape. it is also leaving many mariposa city and county residence, wounded and scarred the towns elementary schools versus a red cross evacuation center. now, mostly local volunteers are providing food, clothing, medical care, and of course shelter for all who had to run from the flames for all who need help now in one way or another. yeah. like back fires have impacted different neighborhoods and communities and throughout the last month, the residents there. just wondering if they have a home to return to so trained read crossers are able to provide that emotional care that they're needing right now. we're one of the many who lost their homes and everything with it is rotten mcguire. he was surprised by the oak fire while at work perfectly well. so it was just

a quick mean lesson 40 minutes from when he saw it. tim, as to get home, we have a few items and the flames were just mailed the driveway. there's only one way out, firefighters are still putting out spot fires, he and there. and the electric company's repairing, destroyed, power lines, the neighborhood. rodney lived still under active evacuation orders and not allowed to go back home. the u. s. marines, redwin, s. s. for favor. can you run trigger? we are. what would you like an american flag in a stake? yes, just posted on my property. okay. by my house, take all the pictures. cuz really i don't want to see it right now. okay. oh, sent flags. warm it. minutes later, we're meeting roughly in a motel room where he stays temporarily to pick up his flag. it doesn't matter just if you guys will practice. it'll give inspiration. you. i'm glad i came when i'm

not ready. we are following carol fire pressed information officer jonathan with his help. we're trying to find rodney's house. you think that did or is it one more up? not sure if this is it. the sign at the bottom added the address on and finally we signed it front yard. i guess there was a car parked slo shed, some work here. house there's nothing left there's nothing left. as rodney asked us to, we post his replacement flag for the one his father brought home from world war 2 actually, and which he lost with everything else in the fire. shortly after we are back with rodney in his motel room, i guess after running for his life just days ago he sees what is left of his house

for the 1st time. this was the home. oh my god. oh my god, we would have to guess so, but i was trying to see more beyond cute that you guys now, babies don't like i need to see the damage like a deal as thousands of fire fighters continue to put up a fight against the oak fire every day healing from the wounds it cost is next for nature. and for a lot of people in mariposa county. well here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. this r u. s. high speaker, nancy pelosi has met with taiwanese president site in when, during her visit to taiwan. it's the highest level trip to taiwan by a u. s. politician in 25 years. china has announced increased military exercises of ty, one's coast in response. the 1st ship carrying ukrainian grain since exports restarted

is now anchored off the coast of turkey. it's cargo is being inspected today under a u. n. deal to and russia's bach. 8 more ships are waiting to depart. you credit for it. well, you are watching detail with your news from for lenders. more news on our website, d, w dot com. of course you can follow us on our social media accounts. on pablo phone alias up next is our environmental magazine. eco, india examining efforts to improve urban life by developing green spaces for me and the team here in berlin. take care. see again at the top of an extra, ah ah,

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