well that's in his update at this our coming up next in data lose asia. many on tie ones, matthew island spear a weeks long. digital blackout could be an act of sabotage, stuck in the past or prepared for the future. 12 years after the fukushima disaster activists warn against japan plan to ramp up nuclear energy production stories and more coming up on t t h and my colleague most chen, i'm glenn richardson in berlin from the team. thanks so much for watching. so i was just rescuing daughter from a farm this one this body job and i found it like this and i couldn't just leave it there should meet. 2 2

you, this is such a great bird with it was so dirty and cleaning of turn the entire bathroom into a mess. this is the water birds 1st. well, one of the most beautiful moments i've ever experienced a truth with a dock you series about our complex relationship with animals. well, i think i will live long enough to witness the end of factory farming. the great debate this week on d. w, or you're watching d. w. news, asia coming up today. did china do it? that's the question. taiwanese residents of math to are asking, they had their internet cables cut a few weeks ago, and no one knows why. and who did it class 12 years after their fukushima nuclear disaster in japan. the government wants to let go and vaughn,

but some local residents do not. and the documentary that has taken flight, even if its stars can't leave the ground. now in oscar contender, the film is a behind the scenes look at the pair of brothers bringing daily's birds back to health. ah, my name is melissa chant, thanks for joining us. there is a small set of islands that are a part of taiwan called matsu and they lie a just off the coast of china. in fact, they are much closer to china than they are to taiwan main island, making them what many call a front line and a border region between the 2 sides. so when residents of the island lost access to the internet,

and officials learned that the internet cables running under the sea and connecting the island to taiwan was cut. it was easy to suspect that a gene might have had something to do with it. already cut off by the sea tie one's mats to island is now facing a digital blackout mat. so lies close to mainland china. for internet residents rely on to underwater cables that connect to tie one's main island. but the cables were caught one month ago. the $14000.00 island is a, using a back up transmission for some limited access, but even so it can main waiting hours just to send a tags or to come out on those holding down the, the speed at which we receive online orders become very slow and the most troublesome saying is that customers can't make an appointment by phone. you know, what about the taiwanese authorities? say they identified 2 chinese ships in the locations of the cuts. the coast guard

said they chased one ship, but it sped back to chinese waters. and there is no evidence to directly show that beijing is responsible, ceases all gall you for, we can't rule out. the china destroyed things on purpose like us, u. s. navy research shows that the countries in the world capable of destroying or topping submarine cables or russia and china, or officials fear that mot. sue is just a warning. and that internet connections to the whole of taiwan could be under threat tension between china in the u. s has spiked over taiwan. washington does not have any official diplomatic ties with the island, but his vowed to defend it. u. s. saucers. say ty, one's president, sighing. when is due to meet with us. how speaker kevin mccarthy. in california, last year mccarthy's predecessor visited taiwan, sparking chinese military drills around the island. yes,

do you from beijing said it is seriously concerned by reports of size trip. china has never ruled out using force to bring the self governing island under control. young, no one should underestimate the strong determination and ability of the chinese government on people to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity. a looming threat of escalation and isolation that's already a reality for matt. su island. joining us by phone from matt to is when li, director of the office for ty wines political party, the democratic progressive party, that's president's highs up party when lee hello. thanks for joining us via an analog call and not a digital video chat like we usually do. so phone calls, it seems they're pretty okay. oh, clo melissa,

thank you for having. oh, well bone calls are relatively more stable than video cards since we are, we have been suffering from an extremely slow internet connections and early february, taiwan usually has some of the fastest internet on earth. i have officials told any of you how long it takes to repair the cables and bring it back to normal internet speeds. so both the module islands and the i wanted, as a country in general, rely heavily on summer cables to provide our internet connections. and at the moment since taiwan does not have its own submarine cable repair ships, we have to rely on the international repair ships and um, currently our repair ship for them as well. and its scheduled to arrive in late april, around april, the 20th. so that means

a huge gap in time from early february, too late april or even early may before the summer in cables are, are, are completely fixed. when the, you spend a lot of time on boats around matt. so who do you think was behind the cutting of the cables or do you think it's possible that they could have been accidents? well, at the moment, we cannot rule out any possibility. according to the location records. we see that since 2 of the submarine, cables were damaged in early february, 1 was damaged by a fishing boat, and another was damaged by a cargo ship and boat boats were chinese in origin or so at the moment, we do not rule out any possibility. however, i think it's important for us on the,

on the taiwanese side to remain better prepared for any type of emergency and any type of any type of situation. where are the security of our communications can be threatened when lee, thank you so much for joining us. good luck, ah, saturday marks, 12 years since the fukushima nuclear disaster in japan and as memories have faded, the government is now working to ramp up nuclear power in its effort to reach net 0 emissions. but not every one has left the power plant meltdown behind. despite the best attempts by officials to do so, o coma lies to 7 kilometers from the site of the 2011 fukushima nuclear disaster. the small town has since been decontaminated and new residential areas have been built, which are being marketed as affordable, low carbon,

and safe. but despite the shiny new look, there is skepticism, accent, cook did, but an enormous amount of money has been spent. fantastic facilities have been built offices, the park don't know, but there's still not a sense that life is returning here. continuity. so i'm not going to assume rubica mucho is an anti nuclear activist. she and others tried to sue the nuclear power plant operator, tap code. they were unsuccessful, but ruin co remains dedicated to a cause. her diary is peppered with the upcoming campaign events. i. but when you express your opinion about fukushima, you faced resistance with your people asked me how much longer i'm going to focus on the accident. i did the more you, i did it with 12 years on from the fukushima meltdown life in japan has essentially

returned to normal old nuclear power plants are being revived and returned to the grid. the government wants to get nuclear energy back up to 20 percent of its energy mix. just 10 percent less than it was before the fukushima is hasta. it says that's the only solution to the current energy crisis. this week than i got it, we are committing ourselves to the introduction of renewable energies. and we need to save energy to do. but nuclear power is also important. we must not succumb to the midst of absolute safety. and at the same time, you must make security a top priority through how youth incident or you go to la, doesn't did, i must've really cold lives in fukushima. she remembers the panic off to the accidents for her security means a life without nuclear energy in but this is a country that is experienced in nuclear disaster. yet climate change and the

energy crisis are being offered as reasons you to revive nuclear power to you sort of what i think this way of thinking is absolutely wrong. labor took them a letter that didn't the revamped town of a coma is sandwiched between areas that are still cordoned off and storage sites for contaminated soil. and on the horizon, there are the ruins of the power plant itself. this weekend will also be the oscars, and one of the documentary is nominated for an academy ward is the film all that breathes. it is about 2 brothers running a bird rescue clinic in delhi. it's hard to imagine that the stars of an oscar nominated film live here in the indian capital feathered ones. these birds of prey would normally be soaring through the skies,

but they are badly injured. they're getting treatment at this clinic in delhi, from brothers mohammed and nadeem. so my deposit cases are there was other than at the hand. yo, the most common injury who yet is from the kites. people fly. yeah, yeah. they're part of indian culture. yeah. my, the indian guy, he said it can guide flamed, but the kites have shop hedges side on the birds fly into them and them on fat. so when we are brought the 1st word in, we used to see them dying on the street dying of starvation. durango's toast are only cold running over them, buried wounded and all that on the day we close our doors. these are going to suffer a lot. these birds will be back on their order and dying, the sl open fruit, it to them barely to go to lay a philly crew accompanied the brothers for 3 years, gathering hundreds of hours of footage. the result is now in the running for best

documentary film award. at the oscars, there's certainly no hollywood glamour at the wild life rescue clinic, indelicate new birds have just arrived for treatment. one of them is an egyptian vulture, a particularly rare bird. 6 people work at the clinic. none of them are formally trained. the brothers originally wanted to be body builders. then they began caring for birds 12 years ago. we are planning to do it for last all her life and when la minded anyway, we die, someone else will have to take care of them from day one. we are thinking about her through a good stringer hospital to a proper place of bag bird hospital. not something with is it on a, out of our house. now, daemon, muhammad are looking forward to being in the audience on sunday to look for

sponsorship. their clinic survives on donations. they've rescued and released some 26000 birds so far. a success they see is greater than any potential award. that's it for the show. my name is melissa chan in berlin. thanks for watching and have a great weekend without don. i don't know. i know me to come london, so choreographer from south africa. he can get everyone moving and shows us what modern african dance can do because i think it's so important for you to not go called. so let's move over. what does go tells us about i think it all depends on who you either. karl got free, deeded lou lou,

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