have el musfar and to follow do korea drift along with exploring modern lifestyles and mediterranean meeting. people actually hearing their dreams maybe to journey in 10 episodes distorts. august 14th on d, w this is did up the news asia coming up today. the wider fallout from us house speaker nancy pelosi is visit to taiwan. china is our military maneuvers and announces military drills. se asia nations in don have gold for com. but could the renew tensions across the taiwan straits affect their security? plus i made warnings of climate change. the impact residents of fiji are already facing rising sea levels, forcing many to abandon their cherished homes. ah

. i british energy. welcome to d w. news asia. glad you could join us. china is conducting military maneuvers in response to us. how speaker nancy pelosi is visit to taiwan. these are taking place in the skies and waters around taiwan. and i said to expand to live fire drills from thursday, but they are being watched by countries in the wider region for ministers of southeast asia grouping of nations. i'll see on a beginning a series of meetings in cambodia to discuss current issues in the region. and it is already cavities. tensions over taiwan tie are set to figured in the talks. oh, we hold that, you know, concerned, but these do not take actions that may not deteriorate escalade detentions. and i don't think that the escalation of tensions will help them to sol,

the problems all, you know, so be differences. and i again emphasize the need, you know, for all the concerned part these to reaffirm you know, the position to all of this basic principles so that we can make sure that you're no time on street or will be a peaceful or part of this region. and gentlemen, are from manila is richard had area and he's an author columnist and political scientist and has written extensively about china's relations with se asia missions . richard, and what do you see is the wider impact of nancy pelosi is taiwan wizard on us young missions. well, definitely there's the element of geography, right? so if you're in the philippines, taiwanese just across to lose on the street. so if anything happens straight will have a direct impact on countries like the philippines. there's also the aspect of south china's c, as you may know, installed chinese embraces huge parts of taiwan. and it's also we're number of

saudis, asian countries have claims and we have seen, based on recent reports that china, one of his retired party measures is to conduct life fire exercises across salt, trying to see falling the visit of nancy pelosi to tie one. the other thing, of course, is the fact that taiwan and china both have very good economic relationship with many can be seen to region. so even the majority of saudi's asian countries have a one, china policy, meaning diplomatically on to recognize beijing as a representative. upgrade your china, but they have also very robust economic investment ties with taiwan. so that's why this is very complicated for a lot of us in the region, which is we're also emissions of during we've been reluctant, i've been there to pick sides between the u. s. and china, when it comes to the rivalry and the pacific, but do you think they're slowly being pushed into the direction of picking one right. well not picking aside is a picking. it isn't choice in itself, right? so definitely there are countries in saudis, asia, which will be fence ethers are forever old. don't try to do that. but at the same

now let's not forget the philippines, thailand, r u. s. treaty allies. so in an event of conflict, if god forbid it reaches that point, you know, basis in the philippines in thailand potentially could be used by american forces by japanese forces, by australian forces in an event of contingency. and then you have other countries like singapore, for incense, or even indonesia, which are a non aligned in terms of their formal diplomatic predisposition. but especially in the case of singapore does emerge as a vital, vital de facto ali, off the united states. so, i mean, the joke is that, you know, countries like the philippines are allies that don't act like alice. while, you know, countries like singapore are not allies, but the app like allies. right? so this is also the situation we have. it's much more complicated than people being prevaricating, but it's more also caution of new alignments and they nomic re aligns that are happening in the region. are given all verb, woodard der would se the inch admissions. let's just say awesome. what does have

been a better place to if this was, it didn't go ahead? would that have been the preferred option for us here? missions well, i'm sure even inside tie one. and as in as much inside in washington dc, we have a lot of people of raise their eyebrows and i've been asking ok, i mean we appreciate the symbolism of this. but if trying a response in an aggressive way, i mean, who are we going to fall here? right? i mean, you could say that maybe the u. s. was the one who provoked china while others would say, let's also see what china will do because they've china shows restraint and so forth. they have shown a degree of respect or strain that, that also says something about raising china and what kind of super power it's going to be in the coming big. it's not for is saudi zation quantity circ concern. i mean, they're hoping that china does not respond aggressively and doesn't deploy aircraft carriers among waters and that the u. s. will not escalated because we don't want to be caught in between the giants as much as possible, including for yesterday are like the philippines. or do you think that there is a risk or in the,

in the next few weeks appears to be doing might become more assertive when it comes to the total disputes with southeastern conditions such as the philippines, indonesia and so on and so forth. well, if you look at a technical, textual analysis that words that prison a teaching thing has used, or the statement that have come from chinese arts, you know, state owned our newspapers. they don't indicate the kind of aggressive response or military action we saw from china less compared 219951996. the last time we had a huge crisis committee, their crisis in the taiwan strait. at the same time, we know that presidency g b also is facing economic slowdown at home. he will have and political transition later this year. so i think the timing militates against a much more militaristic response, but it kind of a mid range arch, you know, a shot across the bow kind of response. i think that is something we're going to see. but the problem though is, mistakes can happen. you can have unintended,

a classroom and incidence, and that's something we're very worried to watch at the same time as you correctly pointed out. the other question is, what is china going to do to saudi's asian counties? is it going to pressure saudi's asian countries to distance himself from nancy pelosi visit, or even say something critical about it? so those certain things we're going to watch out. so a lot is really, are gonna depend on what china going to do on both military and diplomatic front in the coming months and weeks richard or was a pleasure talking to you, we'll have to leave a bear up. thanks so much for joining us today. richard harrigan. new zealand is warning the 10s of thousands of people may have to move to higher ground because of climate change. and mr. james shaw told reporters that about $70000.00 coastal homes were at risk from rising seas and many more indolent homes . what at risk from flooding rivers? he was speaking as the government released its 1st ever climate adaptation plan. an

over the course of the last year or so, there have been new zealanders all over the country who have experienced 1st hand, the increasing impact of climate change in their communities. so people are now experiencing with increasing severity and increasing frequency, the floods, the droughts in the storms that are associated with a change in climate. now we have known about climate change for more than 3 decades . and, you know, during the course of that time, there were plenty of opportunities for us to start to take action on climate change and on adapting to the fix of climate change. and to tell you the honest truth, we did not take up that opportunity as a country, or frankly, as a planet. what that means is that we are now in a situation where we're having to do more work all at once in order to in order to get started. one country that has already been forced to take drastic action in response to climate change is fiji and archipelago of hundreds of islands. 2000

kilometers to the north of new zealand. very religious are already flooding a sea levels rise. and as we report of those affected, have a message for the rich countries. they blame for global heating. paying respect to deceased parents or grandparents is no longer possible into a go village. the cemetery has been entirely submerged. the village has lost half of its land because of coastal erosion. and this is happening not only in total, but all along the coastline of the 50 islands, the sea level before now the water doesn't come inside the us. now right now we are experiencing a she is here with very high, not like before, but all efforts to tame the sea by building stone walls seem hopeless. for the

villagers, there's only one solution, relocation. we need to know what the 1st of all is to be completely abandoned. in 2014 inhabitants started to move to higher grounds. they still miss their old lives . were very sad when we moved up to the new real estate. because she left our grand parish barris behind we left our big houses, we would have the she leaving the see also means giving up their traditional lifestyle. most people are fishermen, but it is unclear what will happen to the next generation here. every child knows what climate change means. the islanders have a message for the industrialized countries. a vehicle for us, vehicle was more lesions with it. you know. there is not

much time left on the coastline of the 50 islands. 1.5 meters of land per year just disappears as a nation, not unfamiliar with the destruction wrought by natural disasters, japan is forced to innovate to save lives. a team of researchers has not developed a snake shaped robot that can climb bob steps and navigate tight spaces to help rescue or save those in need. so this 1.7 me to long robot snake made look like a toy. but if anything but it's ultimate goal is to save life during disaster relief, it can search from missing people and gather information at places where rescuers won't be able to reach central high player cameras attached to the head in the tail . and you can control the robot from the distance by watching the footage from

those cameras. it's a long and thin robot, so it can go through narrow places and climb on high steps using its advantage in length. awkward. we'll go out with a game console is all the robot needs to get into motion. once the snakes had received instructions, it will calculate the movement of the body automatically. with over 40 motors, it's extremely flexible. the research is se conditions in a real disaster site could still be challenging for the robot. for i want the want border with the robot may get stuck in situations that we didn't expect, such as being caught by wires or something like cloth that has less friction against the wheels or whatever thought this thing. i your go there. well, it's not good at the operation has to stop at a place where the robot can no longer murder or their mother. consider the team is now conducting further research to make the robot fitter for the missions. and if they're successful, japan may see the 1st snake robot rescuer already in

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