on leash on violet pass and re imagined lally's teachings for relevance to gandhi's legacy. shorts. august 6th loan b w. ah ah ah . this is, these are the news live from berlin, taiwan on edge as time as steps up military drills. beijing puts on its big a show of force around the island in decades. follow the controversial visit by us . how speaker nancy pelosi class. the former german chancellor gerhard schroeder is

criticized over his links to russia's leader vladimir putin and mysteries sink hole . but the baffling officials in chile, it opened up in a remote mining area in the desert. the company working the island says it has no idea why. ah hello, that i'm really mohammed. china is stepping up its military activity around taiwan as tensions rise. following the u. s. how speaker nancy pelosi, his visit to the island. beijing is preparing its biggest show of force around taiwan and decades. the government in taipei says it scrambled jets to warn off chinese aircraft which entered it's air defense zone. and the defense ministry says it's websites came under cyber attack. pelosi left taiwan pledging washington's iron clad commitment to defend democracy. 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, will not abandon our commitment to taiwan. and we are proud of our enduring friendship today the world say 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 furious, passionate sort what pelosi has done this by no means a 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 is 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 came facing deliberately highland 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 pelosi 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. allah, get lorna since vincent is ebony is joyce lee in its high pace of joyce. just talk us through the series of military drills in conducted by china in these key areas around tie one so on wednesday, evening china strong over taiwan. what's 10 cayman islands?

the taiwanese military fired to each of them, which is in line with standard practice today trying to go into your conduct life. i addressed within 6 zone the wrong and taiwan jones steward on north north, east and south west oak. taiwan appear particularly close to a territorial waters. it appears that asian ones are to practise locating the island if it had to go into a war and a child. and it's worth noting that chinese citizens have expressed huge disappointment at the, at the authorities. the lack of action to stop hello many were expecting the p l a to shoot hello, playing down or at least turn her away mid air. so the public, this content is very, he is a very huge blow to see things authority, especially when he's under pressure to look strong ahead of hockey meeting later

this year. many fear that the pressure could prompt china to issue even top a measures against taiwan has also been a suspension of trade in ports as well as exports. how is this affecting high want in practical terms? yes, china has the mandate in post of more than 2 thousands with products from taiwan, including g homie and see for products that is around 2 thirds of or be registered with info i town from taiwan. and in the past, china hit thing. go products from the primary sector and such as specific fruit, all fish, but this time the targeting processor is to so the damage to the sizable and meanwhile, china also suspend the exports of metro sand to taiwan, metro and is widely used for construction and in countries the taiwanese authorities have downplayed the impact of the band fighting that the important

natural gas accountable. less than one percent of taiwan. symmetric, the mon, or the posture. yes. and i can imagine there must be a serious concern around further provocation taking place. what mean the general reaction amongst the public, their anti pay? well here in taipei, them who it is for now. generally. com as people are very used to china. right? so you all cautious, but want to anxious. i would say the taiwanese all pressure has that, that china's ambition is to turn the taiwan strait a no on no one international waters and makes the entire area west of the 1st island chain in the western pacific. it's the year influence. so if china got what it wanted to show us was that the impact would be fatal. well, the safety and the yes that, that, you know, regional countries. so ok,

now law for example with the japanese and it's very close to taiwan. japan has express concern china's military jose asset that the p l. a. exercises in their maritime areas are overlapping with japan exclusive economic zone. so region that's very concern. all right, that store see speaking to us in taipei, thank you very much indeed. and you're crazy, president devoted me as lensky has condemned comments by the forward german chancellor. gerhard schroeder suggesting that russia wants to negotiate a solution to the wall. shorter is confused, is refusing to cut ties with the rush and lead up and is facing investigation by his own party. it was a so style diplomatic mission to the criminal and vladimir putin spokesman

confirmed that former german chancellor, gerhard schroeder, metro russian president on the moscow visit last week in an interview with german media. schroeder said that put in once a negotiated solution to the war in ukraine, and that the recent grain deal could be slowly expanded into a ceasefire. damages ukraine's president followed him as a lensky made clear what he thought of the former chancellor's diplomatic efforts. moves old rust or 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, cowboys, property sinless. bonnie, ac russia is using these people as messengers, their them to say that the terrorist state allegedly wants negotiations, bearablewood ah, scotch holders and long standing friend of putins. soon after leaving office in 2005, he accepted a job with russian energy company gas from lay to became chairman of the

supervisory board of another russian energy giant. ross left florida has refused to distance himself from the russian leader in march. shortly after russia invaded ukraine, he travelled to moscow to meet putin, his wife, posting this picture of herself praying for peace with the kremlin in the background. schluter has been scornfully continued ties with russia. some of his privileges as a former chancellor have been withdrawn and he is facing an investigation by his party. the social democrats over his kremlin lynx the 1st ship carrying grain from ukraine since the russian invasion is continuing its journey. after passing inspections in turkey, the rezani was shocked by the you in the united nations ukraine. turkey as well as 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 stumble. there the ship was searched by a team of inspectors 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 keith last month, allowing ukrainian exports to resume. russia insisted on the inspections to make sure the outbound ships are only carrying grain of fertilizer and that inbound ships and not carrying any weapons. this ship called the ravone, is the 1st to leave under the deal. it left odessa on monday and after inspection in istanbul will continue on to its destination. lebanon. ankara has hailed the

safe passage as a huge success, ukraine's president vladimir lensky, however, is skeptical. you should done thanks to the un in partnership with turkey today. we've had the 1st ship leave with grain, but it's still not much mutual. and then we hope that it will continue the more in total, the consequences of this war. a terrible blow grains, not only for ukraine, but for the whole world. 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. well, they have to look at some other stories, making headlines around the world. authorities are blaming arsonists for a wild fire in north west spain. the blaze was started in the autonomous region of galicia, saying is having its worst year on record for wildfires and has lost more land than

anywhere else in europe. women's groups in chile are campaigning for a new constitution. they're backing a text focusing on social rights, gender equality, indigenous autonomy, and the environment. society of his divided. many prefer the current constitution brought in during the pinochet's dictatorship. lawmakers will vote on the issue excellent. and staying in to lay authorities are investigating a giant sing hawk sink hole that appeared in a mining area over the weekend is not clear why the ground collapsed, but fingers upping, pointed at a canadian mining company. a sinkhole larger than a tennis court. this perfectly circular hole appeared mysteriously in chiles at tacoma, 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. oh,

graham. ok. i get up yet. i must come on if we believe the ground he has chosen, the mining industry has gone too far and failed to keep in mind the possible negative effect. their actions could have on this region, frankly, 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 animals, a we have no clue as to what might have caused some material to fall in a lift in the me. info my dad yell. 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.

well on his reminder of our top story, the sour china is stepping up, its military activity around taiwan, those tensions in the region rise us. how speaker nancy pelosi ended a controversial visit to the island pledging america's iron clad commitments to defending its democracy in watching these every news live from berlin? i'm really mm hm. it's coming up next is over like his business with my colleague robots season by rico movies in germany to learn german lloyd from the cool. why not learn with him? d, w, learn, and course eco's fake. oh i'm going to have it ended go listening place of morning.