[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw news alive from berlin us. how speaker nancy pelosi leaves taiwan as tensions with china rise policy to parts taipei after promising to help boost the islands self defense. the high ranking visit prompts fury from china, which responds with military drills. also coming up on the show weeks oper a deadly cracked down on europe. some border with africa migrants accuse spanish police of illegally forcing them back into morocco, dw, meets those who say they were beaten,

and denied the chance to claim asylum. and inspection complete a ship carrying ukrainian grain is back on its way. after passing checks in turkey, under a deal with russia to restart exports. plus living in the shadow of chernobyl. d. w. visits a town where residents are worried about a possible disaster at ukraine's contaminated nuclear site. ah. hello, i'm claire richardson, thanks much for joining us. he was how speak our nancy pelosi has used her visit to taiwan to deliver a statement of solidarity. she said her country would do whatever it takes to boost ty, one's ability to defend itself. a policy departed from the capital tie pay a short while ago. she spent less than a day on the self governing island during which she met with the president and

addressed parliament. though she was not there as an official representative. and policy visited despite stark warnings from china, which responded by boosting its military drills in the seas around tie one a trip that has set the region on edge the speaker of the us house of representatives, nancy pelosi arrives in taiwan, making her the highest level american official to visit the island in 25 years. pelosi stapo was kept deliberately ambiguous, amid stock warnings from china, and the threat of a military response. despite reservations in the biden administration, the white house insisted that pelosi had a right to choose whether to visit and choose. she did to day our delegation of which i am very proud, came to taiwan, to make unequivocally clear, will not abandon our commitment to town. and we are proud of our enduring friendship. today,

the world safe is the choice between democracy and autocracy. americans determination to preserve democracy here in taiwan and around the world. we may, iron clad, beijing's response was fear, painless illness or what pillows he has done this by no means the defense or protection of democracy, but a provocation and violation of china sovereignty and territorial integrity. which means that china has vowed punishment under the one china principal. beijing views the self governing island as a break away province and has not ruled out re unification by force. it has announced a series of live fire military exercises surrounding the island, which taiwan warns will amount to an air and sea blockade. but despite china's threats tie, once president sighing then was resolute. mendez fishy k, facing deliberately heightened military thread. what i want will not back down,

we will firmly uphold our nation sovereignty and continue to hold the line of defense for democracy. on the ground in the capital, taipei opinions were divided. some feared retaliation from china. and that way, after pillows, his visit. what i want is not targeted. i think she is making trouble for us. of course i am worried about military confrontation. while others were less concerned? the hotel you? yeah, i used to china threats my feel numb. i don't feel particularly nervous, but i think that the media is exaggerating the matter. is that with taiwan now effectively surrounded by chinese military fears of a new crisis in the taiwan straits, arising all eyes and now on beijing says we heard in that report, nancy pelosi is visit tier taiwan not authorized by president joe biden. and in fact, was discouraged by

u. s. military command. so let's talk about all of this with a des mikella cook. now joining me now from washington d. c. i, michaela nancy, policies was it is high, one has made some serious waves. beijing obviously furious. but how has her trip gone down in the united states already here. it's no longer the top line news after there was a whole series of primaries overnight, but it is seen generally as a so of us strength and also the strength of us democracy because nancy pelosi did not need authorization from the u. s. president. that there is a separation of powers as a hallmark of democracy, and that's also something that the president himself president biden did stress, that nancy pelosi is free to take any kind of trip that she, a speaker of the house decides to want to take despite the fact that there was advice, not necessarily to engage in that, but there's

a lot of back door talking that has been going on at not least the u. s. president talking to c as in ping as the chinese premier just week ago for over 2 hours. and we've also learned that this was the subject of a lengthy discussion between the 2 foreign ministers at the g 20 meeting earlier in body weeks ago. so there was a lot of communication in advance. so increasingly there are signs that what we're seeing playing out is a play book that was more or less agreed on by both sides, both determined to appear strong. and certainly china taking what they call of provocation. and what the us says is now up to china to define whether they want this to become an all out escalation into a conflict were kill. although the white house said she did have the right to go to

taiwan, much of the top leadership had urged her not to go. why is that? well, there is, of course, a fear that any kind of misunderstanding or such a trip would be seen as a provocation that would married an escalation of by china. and although china has no interest in a full escalation, we see that by essentially exports blocked into china of a certain tie when he is good, but not the most important one, which is the electronic shipped production of 50 percent of which actually takes place in taiwan making it a center piece of global supply chains and also vital from china's export industries and china to is not determined to let itself be harmed by this. and what we've seen is the u. s. portraying this as routine which it isn't as somebody that's high level speak of the house that kind of visit is 25 years ago. while

china saying that this is a provocation. when really what nancy pelosi is saying is every affirmation of pledges, the u. s. has actually enshrined in a law which is that the united states in 1979 committed itself to supply goods, military goods, and the capability for taiwan to be able to guarantee its own security. so and on paper, nothing new that but every a formation of those old pledges as seen as such a provocation. i. d. w correspondent, mckellar coroner in washington, d. c. for us. thanks so much for that. when human rights groups are calling for an independent inquiry into the deaths of at least 27 migrants on the spanish moroccan border. a preliminary investigation by morocco found that most of the victims likely suffocated, went up to 2000 people, tried to storm the border in melia,

in late june. the tiny spanish exclaims of malia and say you to are the european union's only land borders with africa. making them a focus for migrants and refugees. a report on phillips sholtes traveled to morocco and sent us this report. a warning that it does contain disturbing footage. ah moroccan border guards round up and attack people trying to get over the fence with violence and contempt. in a situation with no solution for either side it's difficult to tell who is alive and who might be dead. a truen was there that day that he'd you even in the floor, the heat use homework. you know, after you knockout, you know, if you don't know anything, you come move they, they will leave you. if you come move there will hit you tell you you can move. we

meet a troon in the derelict school in casa blanca, where he's been living. he levels serious accusations against the spanish police. he says he had already reached european territory where he was seeking asylum, but he maintains the officers forcibly deported him. they send you back to the morrow, kill. sometimes they are allowed to morrow. can police to inter inside to pull you out? local journalist, javier, and gusto was inside the spanish city of melia. when crowds stormed the border in june. he confirms a trans account to go get him with america. ah, i saw several dozen migrants minus we'll get over the model and know it out of ha alada new illegally devoted street, away america mean up with didn't even have like johns to game asylum you up with? yeah, i don't want to. spanish police simply send them back. there will be, oh my god. that's illegal. under international law,

many of the migrants were from countries entitling them to refugee status in europe . we put the claims to the head of the regional government. there might be one or 2 cases that have been many attempts to get across the border. recently we were all worried about the wall rising green prices, missile and be been going hungry, or there are real consequences from all of that or less realty. i was totally literate. melia is a small city with a population of around $90000.00. it's one of the few european territories which has a land border with africa. journalist javier says spain as happy to pay out millions to its african neighbors. to keep migrants back from its border. matter of course, affairs alice morocco missing. he doesn't know the will for us. we want to be seen as a beacon for human rights. but he yeah, yeah. what i would have lucky in this fence, for example, was previously especially wishes type of raise

a shot bob wire. i'm rights activists complained that the spanish took him down to that that would, but then speed just bade morocco more money than with any money. and now exactly the same res offense has gone up on the other side. what would it be known? in a little monkey? several spanish cities saw protests after the unrest on june 24. the interior minister now has to testified before the european parliament, but the prime minister pedro sanchez has praised the security forces on both sides, back in morocco, a true remains. undeterred, he's already tried 10 times to get into spain, and he's ready for attempt number 11. earlier i spoke to dw corresponding christine mooney in brussels, and i asked her what the moroccan government has said about those deaths at the border. they maintain that most of the people who died on that day died in stampedes and there were over a 1000 or 2000. in fact, a people trying to,

to cross that border on that day. they, they say that many of them died in, in the stampede. they also say some fell to their deaths as they tried to climb over the very high fences on that border. i human rights groups. i have said that they've talked to a lot of people who are there some eye witness accounts, that there were a lot of people who were injured, who did not receive immediate medical attention. and that might have actually made the difference for people who sustained as serious injuries. the spanish prime minister has been on record blaming people smugglers for, for that day's events, alleging that they orchestrated this attack that he caught. and he's praised the moroccan border security officials for helping to protect spain's a border. now these 2 spanish escalades are the european union's only land border with africa. what role does the you have to play here? at the moment at spain has an agreement with the morocco and it is sort of outside

of the and bits of the european union. and so in the aftermath of this, there was a discussion in the european parliament where impeach, for example, i highlighted the fact that the european union does have a border agency. it has court front x and they would like for the commission to encourage spain ad to, to allow front x to, to, to play an active role. in these 2 exclaims, as so to say, this is something that spain has been consistently refusing to do, insisting on it's a cooperation with the moroccan officials. there was also an agreement between at e u level, between the e, you and morocco to strengthen cooperation when it comes to migration. but the emphasis in these agreements has been more about tackling the human trafficking element and perhaps looking at ways at which the creative ways and the new strategies that, that people are employing to try to reach european shores. not so much in terms of opening up safe passages for people who genuinely ado deserve asylum. who right now

have no real aspects or prospects to be able to claim ad that asylum. so no doubt human rights groups across europe. again, putting an emphasis on this, it's again at dinner. this is the latest flash point, if you will, at revealing how, how fraught european migration policy is. and of course, calling for your more human rights. and i'll have to point out here clear that the number it as far as this incident goes is 27 confirmed, but there may be very well more people are who died on that day. certainly many rights groups believe that they talk could be far higher than is reported currently or correspondent christine were in brussels. thank you so much for that update. you're watching the w still to come on. the show brushes, invasion of fueling fears of a, another nuclear disaster. did you visit the ukranian town where residents are anxious about a nother potential accident at the contaminated chernobyl? nuclear sites are 1st let's get you up to speed on some other stories making headlines around the world's tree. long as new president has called on m. p 's to

form a unity government to help revive the countries battered economy. renelle vicar missing had told parliament he was hopeful of ironing out a debt restructuring deal with the international monetary fund. the president was propelled to power last month after public protests force his predecessor to flee the country. the army and burkina faso says it accidentally killed civilians during a counterterrorism operation in the country. se residence of pon, jo, a village near the border with togo, say more than 30 people, were killed in an air strike on monday. for kenneth faso has been battling a jihadist insurgency, which is now spilling over into toko and the 1st ship to export grain from a ukraine port since the russian invasion has been clear to continue on its journey . after passing inspections, a ship called the rezone was inspected to day while anchored and turkish waters. as cargo was scrutinized by monitors from the u. n. ukraine, turkey and russia,

which demanded inspections to ensure ships are not carrying arms. at the rezone departed odessa in ukraine on monday, carrying 26000 tons of corn, and has now passed through the boss for a straight and is on its way to its final destination tripoli, in lebanon. or from istanbul, the ws. dorian jones told me how the operation happened. the whole search procedure took around 3 hours according to united nations. they describe it as a complete success. you have to understand, but this search policy was made up of the united nation ukrainian and russian office. and the fact that the ukrainian, or russian all working together on what is potentially complex operation, is seen as a major booth with a whole project searching of the ship. the theme of the whole grain agreement relief up to 20000000 tons of ukrainian trends in black sea pulled all the ships

involved in the shipping. this train boat going to ukraine and coming back and you will all have to be shot search. the fact that this procedure went very well, they find that this old can look at the un said that this is a proof of concept which basically think it will now be applying to the major search false and to run pump the operations and get these brain on to well, i mean that all sounds very positive, but how confident do you think we should be that this will continue smoothly? well, we have to realize that during the month and it takes you to reach this point. many people said that this whole idea had no chance of what we're talking about exporting a grain from a war zone and people. so this isn't practical, but thanks to the intent to the united nation, i'm very anxious to feel they see that the fact that it's 1st ship going on to the market. well, market is assigned to the people. these project can work and it can happen. now the

whole idea to do momentum. so he says there are 3 motions waiting to go, the ukrainian, or the thing, as many 17 ships could be heading to the market in the coming days. and there was a recognition in many ways that you have a mental grain meeting getting to, well, the markets in the world, great price soft pull, little make it very difficult for parties to pull out of this field. and also there's a recognition, there is a right, there's $20000000.00 pounds of ukraine in grain inside on that has to be shifted. serve a new hobby, so great can go into those silence so, so everyone knows that they have to walk up and get this grain or in the next 120 days on 12 boxes before the deal reaches the end of its agreement. dorian jones, for us in a stumble while ukrainian engineers are once again in control of the turn, noble power plant after russian forces took over the facility in the early phase of the war with moscow. unrelenting military strikes, the threat of

a leak or explosion at the nuclear plant remains. database funny fetch our went to meet residents of the surrounding areas who are doing what they can to protect themselves against radiation poisoning, children over dusty, a bottle of iodine. this would be natalie on 1st protective response in case of a radioactive lea, don't think you could ask of us from bob. i went to take care of my child at that and gave her a 10 drops of dis when they put up one of the dishes her expect on of a big but i don't know how useful it is 40. i had thought for li asthma. natalia wasn't born when the chernobyl disaster happened in 1986. what the family trauma seats deep hope is that didn't stick on the was the cur. lindell. can you imagine you lock up your home and leave it? if you look up your youth and leave it me, my father left every day hospital though, and this is still very painful for him. well, isn't that they've been lost it. her father helped with the channel bill cleanup. pretty much every one in our family has had cancer,

even though they now live here in st. low voltage, a town built for chung, noble survivors. the russians haven't attacked, but it's equally 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't warn you got you can expect anything from him. am same from his bella, rosie, a neighbor. luke, a shanklin. got those. i'm afraid to come. go much the die by you see jan nobel with the still dangerous remains of the nuclear power plant. disaster is just 50 kilometers away. this is the town of pretty piet, once they're 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 novels rose again after russia and forces occupy char, nobody for

a while. and early stages of this war, in fact, troops moved artillery through highly radioactive areas, kicking up con, terminated dust. we won't stay here for long. in snellville teach, 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 and what's her and what's his weak. 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 i wasn't zagat, and from oxford there's no information how to protect our children, and it's emotionally exhausting. but them in a time comes on, we need to talk about it. it would be too late,

but in both for the long or the war continues the more dangerous it feels here on the last reassurance, the little bottle of iodine provides and here some other stories are following for you. the u. s. state departments as there's an increased risk of anti american violence. after a cia drone strike killed the head of al qaeda. it is urgent that his ends to be wary of possible terrorist attacks in response to the death of i'm and i was a widely while harry was killed in a drone strike in the afghan capital cobble. the death toll from a wildfire in california is north, has risen to, for the blaze, has destroyed more than 100 homes since erupting last friday. authority say the mckinney fire still remains out of control, despite rains earlier this week. it's one of many places burning in the west of the country. and the u. s. state of kansas has voted in favor of protecting abortion rights in a major victory for pro choice groups. the referendum is the 1st state level

electoral test since the supreme court overturned the nation wide right to abortion, guaranteed by roe v wade. earlier this year. it was the resounding results found to cause the celebration, the pro choice advocates 59 percent of voters chose to protect abortion rights in a largely conservative u. s. state with ties to the anti abortion movement. for some the relief was palpable. i'm you were ready to be from kansas tonight and i feel like my stay just showed up in bullies with me and my female friends and everyone. i mean, we are protecting some others. so the kansas poll as an indicator that plans to restrict access to abortion. out of step with the public mood if abortion rights are, are protected here in kansas and again, republican leading state, i think that that indicates that there is a big did the states have those trigger was probably are out of stuck with what their electric watch,

abortion opponents who supported the proposed amendment said they felt an obligation to protect the rights of the unborn. ah, 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 other people that are losing life have no voice. if people don't 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 this state constitution indicates a clear determination from kansas citizens to protect women's rights. sports news now and wimbledon champion. novak joke of it has thanked fans before he petitioned, trying to help him travel to the us open tennis tournament later this month. but the west is unlikely to change its cove at 19 rolls to allow the unvaccinated joke

of edge into the country. and the online petition is getting close to its target of $50000.00 signatures. joke of asia saying he's preparing as though he will be allowed to play. but his website shows no upcoming events. and the 1st hard court warm up tournament is already underway in washington dc. and for south american countries have launched a joint bed to host the soccer world cup in 2030 argentina order wide. sheila and paraguay presented their bid at the sentinel rio stadium in montevideo, and that was the venue of the 1st world cup final. in 1930 and where they want the final to be played a century later is the 1st time south american countries have made a joint bed. the continent last host at the world cup in 2014, when germany won the title and brazil. and we got a reminder of our top story at this hour. he was how speaker nancy pelosi has departed taiwan after a visit,

which has raised intentions with china. policies that the u. s. would help boost high one's ability to defend itself. china has announced increased military exercises off, ty, ones, coast coming up after the break made in germany, looks at how russia is dodging sanctions with an overland trade route to india. course is always more on our website that we found. actually, you dot com, thanks much for joining us with.

with who is it just a sanctions loophole, or is it heralding a new era? explores new trade with because western ports are clues to russian freighters. the route from st. petersburg to bye is how much faster is the war ukraine, a game changer for world trade made in germany next on

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with is the moment unleash on on violet bass and re imagined that these teachings or elements to us. ah, gandhi's legacy starts august 6th on d. w. ah, ah, ah. ah. ah, phil eating russian caviar and filling up on russian gas. the west's plant isn't really working. following its invasion of ukraine heavily sanctioned russia still has france, even with the world's top economy, the u. s. banning russian oil and europe's economic engine. germany weaning itself