where has a history left? it's tracy ah, legal healing their dreams. ready to journey? stuart's august 14th on the w. ah ah, this is these are the news live from berlin? nancy percy leaves high one as tensions rise with china. the us house speaker has promised america will not abandon the island. a visit has enraged beijing, which is now staging military drills. also in the program. the ship carrying

ukrainian grain is heading for lebanon after passing inspection checks under a deal with russia to resort exports. plus a mystery sink hole. that's baffling. officials in chile it's opened up in a remote mining area in the desert. the company working the lamps as that has no idea why. ah, i'm really mohammed walking to the program. you as how speaker nancy pelosi has ended her controversial visit to ty one with the pledge of solidarity. she says america's commitment to the islands, democracy is iron clad. closely was given a warm welcome, but had trip enraged china, which sees taiwan as its own territory. beijing has reacted by launching military drills in the region. taipei says chinese fighter jets have crossed the line,

dividing the taiwan straits ministers from the g 7 group of leading nation say close his visit is their excuse for china's aggressive response. 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 stopover 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'm very proud, came to taiwan to make unequivocally clear. we will not abandon our commitment to town and we are proud of our enduring friendship. today the world say it's a 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 furious, painless in a sort 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 in fact, 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 mandates, as she 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 by the 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 ye? yeah. i used to china's threats. i feel numb. i don't feel particularly nervous, but i think that the media is exaggerating the matter. yet yet young dog with taiwan now effectively surrounded by chinese military fears of a new crisis in the taiwan straits, arising all eyes and now on beijing, valerie tan isn't unless, with the more cato institute for china studies in berlin, she says close his visit will not help ease tensions between beijing and taipei. i

can definitely say one thing with relations between china and taiwan has already had a historic low. so obviously her trip to taiwan does little to improve or repair cross street relations. but that's, it really sets the stage for our bilateral relations between china and taiwan. i'm going to proceed from now on what you're going to see more militarization. we're going to see an increase in intensity and frequency of economic coercion. increasingly that will be to know how to treat, tie one. the question right now is, can it get any worse for now, what we've seen is china is also quite capital, not too sure, as we will also have to best some, if not most of the consequences. it does happen in a rock, the sheer leader will cut off all sutter as demanding the dissolution of parliament and new elections. his block won the most seats in national polls last october,

but he fell to put together a coalition. his support was, are occupying parliament and his urging them to stay. oh, the protest to say they won't leave parliament until the political change. their leaders demanding becomes of reality. a saw that it wants the current government removed and fresh elections. he's told his support is to continue the protest, but outside the parliament building from my knowledge to wall, well, dear revolutionaries and protested, i stay there and continue the job until our demands are matching. it will not bother hundreds of else others support is occupied parliament and bucked us fortified green's own. nearly a week ago, they stormed in when homage she i so donnie of rival was nominated as prime minister since then. thousands of counter protesters have been calling for sellers support is to leave parliament, but they are determined to remain una,

yeah, we're building for the next generation. we're building the future of the next generation . if we don't succeed in this revolution, we will lose the country and never get it back again without the uh huh. the protestant, brought sleeping bags and food. and some are even bringing their job like a block mud, a barbara from baghdad. he comes to the chamber twice a day to offer his services. young man, oh it's on us. when a chef comes to cook or a barber comes to camp people's hair. this boost morale. i want to help others. are they on raw decide in law? it sounds like the occupiers plan on staying for a while yet the 1st ship carrying grain from ukraine since the russian invasion is continuing. it's jenny, off to passing inspections in tacky. the rezone was checked by the united nations ukraine. turkey ad. russia is hoped, more shipments will now be able to leave ukrainian ports. it's

a sight for sore eyes. from many around the globe, a ukrainian cargo ship loaded with tons of corn entering the bathrooms, bound for them at least. but as it left, the black sea at 1st had to make a stop, and it's done boil there. the ship with searched by a team of inspected from ukraine, russia, turkey, and the you in russia has been blockading ukraine's ports since it invaded in february. but turkey in the united nations negotiated a deal between moscow and keep last month allowing ukrainian exports to resume. russia insisted on the inspections to make sure outbound ships are only carrying grain of fertilizer and that inbound ships and not carrying any weapons. this ship called the raw zoning, is the 1st to leave under the deal. it left a test on monday, and after inspection and symbol will continue on to its destination,

lebanon. ankara has hailed the safe passage as a huge success. ukraine's president belong to me as lensky, however, is skeptical. if they should, thanks to the un in partnership with turkey today. we've had the 1st ship leave with grain, but it's still not much sure of that. and then we will continue the more in total, the consequences of this war, terrible grains, not only for ukraine, but for the whole world. to do the delicate fil lensky says many more ships will be needed. turkey says as many as 3 ships will be able to go through the inspections daily attack, he's president, to type adon, will meet russia leader vladimir putin this week, d w. sorry. and jones has more and that's from assemble. well now do you have to realize that these countries have mutual and conflicting interest?

norfolk go to courses organs as well as a major energy of this i have is green deal is seen as a top item on the agenda for president at one. he's put his diplomatic prestige on the line as a vindication of maintaining close ties with his washing, counsel of letting me of putin. this is the 2nd meeting within a month, seeing the 2 liters. 0, one says those contacts are vital along with turkey, a balanced approach, not enforcing western sanction. 90 says put him in a position where he can mediate between russia and ukraine and possibly possibly down the line reach a possible end of the cranes president thought him is an an ski has condemned comments by former german chancellor. gerhard schroeder suggesting that russia wants to negotiate a solution to the wool shorter spoke to vladimir putin in moscow last week. the ex chancellor is a friend of putin and served on the board of russian oil giant was left. he has refused to distance himself from polluted, and has also met with him in march on

a south south piece mission. lensky sharply criticized. shortest latest trip to moscow moves early to. first of all, it is simply disgusting when former leaders of major states with european values worked for russia, which is at war against these values. he yeah, a couple year property since bonnie ac rush is using these people as messengers fed them to say that the terrorist state allegedly wants negotiations, but her voice is shambria prussia really wanted to end the war again. it would not be pushing its reserves to the south of ukraine right now, getting ski b and there would not be mass graves of murdered innocent people on ukrainian territory. that when the glue b, y has like a some other stories making headlines around the world. un secretary general antonio terrace is launching a fact finding mission to ukraine. the team will investigate the killing of prisoners held by russian back to separatists. both ukraine and russia requested the inquiry and will sent it's terms ukraine. here as president biden has signed an

executive order to make it easier for women seeking abortions to travel between different states. if the latest in a series of actions taken by biden, since the supreme court reversed the constitutional right to abortion, women's groups and chileya campaigning for a new constitution. they back proposed text focusing on social rights, gender equality, indigenous will talk to me and the environment. society appears divided many preferred the existing constitution brought in during the piano shade to take the ship will make his will vote the next issue. next up. now saying in today and the authorities there are investigating a giant sink hole that appeared in a mining area over the weekend. it's not clear why the ground collapsed, but fingers are being pointed at a canadian mining company. a sinkhole larger than

a tennis court. this perfectly circular hole appeared mysteriously in chiles at a comma desert, looking to solve the mystery of what caused it. residence here. think there may be a clue in the location of the crater close to a copper mine grim. okay. i get the are they must them on if we believe the ground here shows and the mining industry has gone too far and failed to keep in mind the possible negative effect, their actions could have on this region and specifically on our community and push out. but on with that are going into the land is partly owned and operated by canadian mining company. rejecting accusations of guilt, the firm says it does not have the answers, not an image a. we have no clue as to what might have caused the material to fall in a lift in the me info material. the local authority has set up security around the sinkhole to safeguard the lives of the people living just 600 meters away. a team

of specialists has been dispatched to investigate the cause for now. community is living around the site are worried. the sink hole could continue to grow. now shafts in mexico city have broken their own record for crating. a giant sandwich snack measures an impressive 74 meters long weighing more than 800. he knows a team of sandwich make his finished preparing it in just under 2 minutes. and once the judges confirmed the new record portions was sold off. fillings range from 2 to check the traditional ports to beef as well as chicken to the more exotic fair, including crocodile and ostrich. looks delicious. his reminder of odds. how story. how as government says it has scramble jets to warn

off chinese aircraft in this defense zone, beijing is running a series of military drills in retaliation for us. how speaker nancy pelosi visit to the island. you're watching the w news live from berlin up. next is our documentary, the last hope, looking at the economic crisis in lebanon, are mighty, can't find much more news analysis and video on a website that is d w dot com. that's watching, take care about. ah ah riddle for the blue climate? ah, we're going to have some epic. moreover, water willy never is becoming a scarce commodity.