ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, china steps up is military activity around taiwan, beijing puts on its biggest show a force around the island in decades following a controversial visit by u. s. house speaker, nancy pelosi, also coming up below sees a visit, cast, a shadow over

a summit of the association of south east asian nations in cambodia. the regional block calls were de escalation to avoid a quote miscalculation and theories, confrontation and concern over russia. treatment of ukrainian prisoners of war and peace says moscow is behaving illegally with prisoners being sentenced to death on spurious grounds. we meet the parents of one man being held by russia. they fear might face similar things. ah, i'm the cough really. it's good to have you with us. china stepping up its military activity around taiwan as tensions rise following the us house speaker, nancy pelosi visit beijing as preparing its biggest show of force around taiwan. in decades the government in taipei says it scramble jets to warn off chinese aircraft

that entered it's air defense down a number of taiwanese ministry. websites has come under cyber attack. hello, c, left taiwan pledging. washington's iron clad commitment to defending democracy there. 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 stop over 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 faces the choice between democracy and all americans determination to preserve democracy. here in taiwan and around the world. we may, iron clad, beijing's response was furious. paylosity this or 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. 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 ben was resolute mandates,

as she k facing deliberately heightened military thread. what i want will not back down, we will firmly uphold our nation's 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 as either way after pelosi visit taiwan 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? i used to chinese 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. earlier we

spoke to our very own joyously and taiwan who told us about the latest and the situation regarding the chinese military drills. so chinese navy ships and military aircraft crossed the taiwan strait median lines several times to day. the drill was initially planned fall to last for 3 days until sunday, but the p l a and now is today that they will extend the drill for one more day until monday and they at, at one more shown full ally, fire drills. so that's a total of 7 songs right now, including an area just 20 kilometers from the south and city. how show up. china often holds military drills in the taiwan strait. but what we're seeing now is something else entirely, isn't it? why exactly are these lead? is exercises, so worrying what the true is unprecedented. this is the 1st time beijing tries to and circle with the i then like this. it's worth noting that on china,

us social media wave will and we chad chinese citizens have express huge disappointment at beijing, so that co action to stop hello see from visiting taiwan. how many were expecting to a p l. a. to shoot her playing down, but it didn't happen. of course. the public discontent is a huge blow to seizing things authority, especially when he's under pressure. sherlock strong ahead of a party meeting later this year. many fear the pressure coup, chromed china to took it even tougher measures against taiwan. and the drew could be practicing for a future invasion. the association of southeast asian nations is meeting and cambodia is capital no pen. china and the u. s. are also joining the summit. the meeting has been overshadowed by nancy pelosi, his visit to taiwan in chair. cambodia has urged all sides to de escalate tension in the taiwan strait. the regional block warned on thursday there could be

a quote miscalculation and serious confrontation. richard, hey, darian is the political scientists and has written extensively about china's relations with south east asian nations. and i asked him earlier, how much the tensions over taiwan would actually overshadow the meeting? well, it's element of geography, right? i mean, taiwan is actually perched at the interest thesis of nor does asian solid does. asia, you know, the philippines, the northern versions of philippines are separate from ty, one by just, you know, a very narrow street and is on street or in number of countries in the region, thailand, philippines, which are us street, the allies. some are partners like singapore who could be dragged into a con, think if something happens. now both tie one in, china have very robust economic relationship with a lot of conducing to region. tie one is a global semiconductor superpower. so what happened? start with effect. also, supply chains are on the regions, i think again, will do its best to come up with the statement. and at the same time,

on the sidelines, informally engage or trying to us and other parties to ensure that the situation is not getting worse than it is. i think there's a lot of understanding trying to have to put on some show too. so to, you know, to express the displeasure, but it has to be calibrated and not get out of control, because then you are going to be in a very soft tissue ation. it's lose this forever. what you have had an eye on china for quite some time now now basing launched what may be the largest ever military exercises and circling taiwan. did you expect this? oh yeah, i mean up the idea agent being not doing anything at all was completely out of question. right? i mean, he repeatedly war and biden and a us not to play with fire. right. and, and trying to doesn't one week, i mean, shooting thing is facing economic slowdown at home. he's expected to get a 3rd thurmond office later. he's here all but those are reasons for him to show something in return. i mean, to show a level of strength. but at the same time, i don't think she is looking for massive conflict. and you know, if, if there's

a perceived as we ought to look at these in 1995, 1996. no. all. when we had the last time, there was a major conflict in, in taiwan straits during that period when china was actually way weaker than the united states compared to today. and they had a less nation is either like, shooting being compared to the day that time did the chinese went as forest firing missiles close to the shore. so if i want, i don't think we're there yet. so yes, the situation is warning in this all trying to see ordering there on taiwan. there you're so lucky for economic sanctions, but we have to keep things into perspective. we're still not even at the loan. the 109596 taiwan street crisis and we don't want to even get there force or we don't want to get there and you say that cheating paint doesn't want to get there. but many observers believe that an escalation, either by choice or by accident, is only a matter of time. so would you share that assessment? yes, that is why it's extremely important and it is in france,

a bite on ministration has also been doing that. the super activated communication channel on both military and civilian level. because i think there's an anticipation that the probability for accidental cautious or some major incident is increasing by the day. and even if the nice below the situation did not create a word or 3, i think this is just an opening salvo in a very perilous episode. and us china relations as forest. i want to concern, and in the meantime, you can see even we didn't die one, they're increasing divisions on this visits. and some people are asking whether we want that this kind of expression of support by us. because they could still get a lot of support because nancy pelosi visited them and provoking this kind of response from china. interesting stuff, richard had erin, thank you so much as now get you up to speed on some other stories making headlines around the world today. un secretary general and tony good terrace has urged governments to introduce special taxes on the profits of oil and gas companies. his

comments come after some of the world's biggest energy firms posted record quarterly profits driven by surging energy prices. gutierrez said, it was immoral for companies to profit from the crisis. authorities are blaming arsonist or a wildfire in north western spain. the blades started in the autonomous region of galicia, spain, as having its worst year on record for wildfires and has lost more land to them than any other country in europe. authorities and sheila are investigating the cause of a giant sink hole that is open near a copper mine in the uh, tacoma, desert. the company responsible for the mine says that no personnel or community members have been affected. authorities have established a security perimeter and nearby mining operations have been suspended. women's groups in julie have been campaigning for the adoption of a new constitution. they're backing a proposal put forward by

a constitutional assembly focused on equality indigenous autonomy and the environment. society appears to bind it. the current constitution dates back to the dictatorship of august oqueeno, set all makers vote on the draft next month. and the 1st ship carrying grain from ukraine since the war began is on its way to lebanon. after passing inspections and turkey auditors from the you, when you brain turkey and russia check the rezone. it's hope further shipments will now be able to leave ukrainian ports. ukraine's foreign ministry says russia is treating ukrainian prisoners of war illegally and using them for political purposes, which is strictly forbidden. under the geneva convention, russia and proxy authorities and eastern ukraine have charged dozens of soldiers with crimes. 3 foreign born ukrainian soldiers have been sentenced to death on allegedly fabricated charges. dw beckett, a sugar met the parents of one man being held by the russians,

and they fear he could suffer a similar fate. each morning if gania would kabbage take some time for herself and quite to look at his son, she hasn't heard from mac seems since russian forces captured him 2 months ago. she scared there might be torturing him, or that he might be dead. you do cylindrical, i sit in the kitchen and just cry. well my husband is still sleeping. when he gets up, i wash my face and throw some nights and try to be strong for the day and not to cry any more. only in the early mornings i allow myself to cry. what's its difference as windows yeah, the couple invited us to their home because they want the world to know about their son. his parents say, maxine volunteered to join the army, even though he is a pacifist, he had worked as a journalist and activist campaigning for refugees and human rights. but when russia invaded, he decided to take more direct action to wish union school. so she directed me to,

he told me, i'm joining the army because i have to defend the values i've been fighting for my whole life. yes, this is bruce. they only realized he had been captured when a video of maxine being interrogated was shown on russian state media with to boucher. it was horrible. the 1st thing i felt was just horror. i saw my early childhood listen. so i thought that can't be true crow kremlin telegram tennis quickly called maxime, a nazi a nationalist. they even said he was a british spy because he had worked as a local producer for the b, b. c in 2003. maybe issues in the blue cross blue to my biggest concern is that they might not recognize him as a prisoner of war like they have with others e and that they would fabricate a criminal case against him. so using all those lies and twisted evidence,

latisha with some of a good, a storage it was use when you free our domestic intelligence office confirmed that russia is holding more than 7000 ukrainian so just prisoner, but they won't talk about any of it on camera because negotiations for prisoners swaps a top secret, a lawyer representing the families of more than 50 captured soldiers has agreed to talk with us. let us laugh, we could not see. it works closely with domestic intelligence to try to get prisoners back. he expects that russia will fire more and more criminal cases against ukrainian prisoners of war. i think this is so this is dawn mostly for their political purposes. when you create search and you know, important to person gray march, you know, you can use it to in their political, you know, treat but yes. again. yeah. and or like sunday i don't want things to get that far

. they fire the nerd into peer to the european court of human rights. they say they will fight with everything they have until maxine is friendly. earlier, a big it had joined us from cave and told us how people there feel about the prisoner's fate. how many people here in ukraine are deeply worried about the fate of the prisoners of war, especially after dozens of ukrainian soldiers were killed in an attack on a detention facility in russian health. aline sca am russia and ukraine are blaming each other for this attack that the assessment here in ukraine is very clear. they say m. russia has attacked the facilities only to destroy evidence of torture and mistreatment of prisoners and m a satellite image, which

a merge from the site seem a to, to support this claim. and now everybody is, is very worried. and we only now heard that the red cross, nor any independent investigators have again, been granted access to the side. and this for many here is again, like an indication that russia has to hide something and that they really might deliberately have killed prisoners of war. maxine the father in the report there said he was worried about the prosecution will fabricate charges against their son, that he won't be recognized as a prisoner of war. but p o w is can still be accused and cord campaign. definitely the em geneva convention stated very clearly they can be charged,

but only if they committed serious crimes. and not only for the fact that they took part in hostilities. so and we have been seeing such as charges here in ukraine as well. a russian soldier was charged for murdering at 62 year old civilians. so, and we hear from the general prosecutor that they are investigating more sauzie's in cases of alleged war crimes. as for russia, human rights organizations a criticized that russia and their proxy authorities in the down bass region never or barely, ever present really hard evidence for, for such charges of serious crimes. and just to give you an example, i am in june 3 am foreign born soldiers of the ukranian army were handed down death

sentences and beg, then the un human right office sharply criticized this. this verdict is saying that in such a trial, against prisoners of war itself would amount to a war crime. pickett, i shook 40, according to health experts, breastfeeding is the most beneficial way to feed a baby. yet the un says less than half of infants are exclusively breastfed in their 1st 6 months with world breastfeeding week. under way, it's trying to raise awareness of the issue. in the next report, we're taking a special look at france, which for years at that one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the entire world. mullin and matthew has a very young visited work to be a 5 month old daughter boone. she's a 3rd child, moline still breastfeed so once or twice a day. the world health organization says breastmilk is the ideal food for infants

providing essential nutrients that help protect against illness. brutal also drinks formula since melinda a lawyer had to go back to work 3 months after her booked. but juggling work, she says, isn't the only challenge when it comes to breastfeeding her daughter in france? all set on cuz people are surprised that they still breastfeed her. i came back from hospital after her birth and was really exhausted. people would say, why are you torturing yourself by breast feeding? take it easy, your husband should take her. now i did feel a bit job at or lower their families whistle till monday. this is her decision to nurse starting with the 1st child 6 years ago was not an easy one. i felt a bit alone. i was surprised when staff at the maternity hospital gave my son a feeding bottle. without my consent, i really wanted to breastfeed him. it was the 1st sign that something was wrong. it came out a summer that really mullins experience is not unusual in france. statistics showed

that less than 70 percent of mothers would start breastfeeding at all, and the number drops to just 22 percent after 6 months. experts see a big reason is frances, relatively short maternity leave to 16 weeks after baby's book. but the aversion to nursing once deeper than that carol l. v is a private lactation consultant in northern paris. she helps future mothers prepared to breast feed and helps troubleshoot when there's a problem with our printer, let every have to dishes, advising a client over the phone or so carol says, women wanting to breastfeed and france fis an uphill battle because of the lack of awareness across society, but it's a great lack of supports support from the community in general, the health care professional talk with help know much, much about breastfeeding. so as soon as there's some kind of issue, they will say, well, then you can go home, you know, making maybe you can drop right,

breastfeeding and, and use a bottle there. the french feminists in the seventy's weren't really in breastfeeding. in comparison to the swedes or the region mothers, our mothers didn't breast feed. so we don't have a culture that supports breast feeding. despite its look, breastfeeding weights, france is far from being the only country, but mothers switch early to infant formula. the world health organization says that across the globe, less than half of all newborns, uh breasted. within the 1st, i will flip or drink breastmilk exclusively for the recommended 6 months. and we can now speak to lawrence grammar strawn. he's the unit head in the department of nutrition and food safety at the w. h o, mr. grammar. strong. welcome to the w. according to your organization, less than half of infants around the world are exclusively breastfed in the 1st 6

months of their lives. why is that? so there are a number of reasons. so many barriers that women face when they're making decisions about how to feed their babies. these get into issues of the work, work situation that they're in. they don't get long enough maternity leave or when they to go back to work or adequate accommodations. oftentimes, health care workers are giving them the kind of support that they need, health care workers. typically no breastfeeding is good, but they don't know how to support it. they don't know how to address issues that come up with breast. they don't know how to counsel them, they don't know how to, how to deal with the questions that come up for them. and clearly there are issues with the marketing of breast milk, substitutes or formulas that give messages to mothers give messages to all of our society that well, it doesn't really matter. either choice is perfectly fine. so just do what we do, what you want, and by the way, we have a nice, easy product to give you here. and so that messages that are given out by the companies certainly work against the continuation of, excuse us. we just saw the example of franz,

how does the rate of breast feeding mother is very by country? so each country is different in terms of the kinds of policies that they have in place. the kinds of supports that they give to mothers. and so the range that the numbers range widely around the world from anywhere from like 10 percent in some countries to almost 90 percent in other countries in general, low income countries that tend to have higher rates of breastfeeding. but they to face their challenges. there's a culture, a longer culture there with, you know, continued. whereas western societies, such as the u. s, than europe have fallen away from a lot of breastfeeding. but it does seem to have been having some researches and so there's a kind of a be, be getting a little bit more equalization of those rates. we have to, of course, bear in mind that not all mothers are physically capable of breast feeding, but if they can, is it always the most healthy option for the baby to, to be nursed, especially now with the coven? 19 still around. i imagine there are

a lot of mothers who are concerned about this. so w h o has been very clear and recommending that even bothers who are positive with cope, it should continue to breastfeed the chances of transmitting the illness. it coated into their baby is extremely small, and babies tend to have very mild cases. we continue to recommend, even for mothers with colds. it is very rare that there are some circumstances in which it would recommend against there are some better ball conditions of the baby that we might suggest should breastfeed. but those really are quite rare. almost all mothers should be breastfeeding their babies for the optimal health of their, their baby, and for their own optimal health. those, those conditions of a mother who can't breastfeed, are actually quite rare. we would, we had not, we would tend to over emphasize them and use other situations that can be dealt with with good lactation care is just a matter of getting the right latch, get in right kind of practices to make sure that the baby is coming to the breast

and then making the breastfeeding work rather than just kind of giving up because we didn't have the right kind of care. lawrence commerce john unit had in the department of nutrition and food safety at the w. h. o. thank you so much for your time. thank you so much. sports now and football clubs in the english premier league are to limit the use of the anti racism gesture known as taking a ne, they're concerned that over you is could dilute the say no to racism message. the gesture will feature on the opening games of the new season this weekend and special events taking the knee became prominent in sports and support of the black live matter movement. and a volcano has erupt near iceland, capital, reykjavik, after days of earthquake activity. dozens of people were brave enough to make it to the side of the 300 metre crevice as much longer than the fisher opened by a nearby or russian last here that became a major tourist attraction,

drawing thousands of visitors. iceland has an eruption every 5 years average and this is the 7th in 21 years. but you're watching dw news station for conflict zone, where tim sebastian talks to former russian prime minister and we had a castiano. remember, you can always find all the latest news and headlines on our website that is d w dot com. i'm nicole for ally for me and the entire team. thank you so much for your company. with, [000:00:00;00]

with conflict, with little is known about the inner workings of the kremlin, especially with vladimir putin in power. with my guest this week, former prime,

you're from utah cassiano with me. and he knows more proper behind the close pool. a. d, w. his father was an anonymous band diner whose identity was a well kept secret. but very stevens didn't give up. after a long search, he found his father and match some of his $600.00 half siblings. now he's on a quest to end van dyna anonymity that welds biggest family in 45 minutes on d. w. a

weekend with cars carry thanks. money, effects of climate change. i've been failed to plug wired before a station in the rain forest, continued carbon dioxide emissions. have risen again young people all over the world are committed to climate protection. what impact will they have? because change doesn't happen on its own. to make up your room minded. d. w. the for mines. little is known about be in the workings of the kremlin, especially with vladimir putin in power of my guest this week for my prime minister . because cassiano worked on the putin in the early 2 thousands and he knows what happens behind the closed doors of the russian government. he says he feared for