of like a superpower, a 40 to be answered almost everything. this week on d, w ah, [000:00:00;00] ah . d w is long from berlin super power tensions in the spotlight. the u. s. house speaker defies warnings from china and welcomes taiwan president to california meeting highlights growing american support for the self governing island which beijing claims as its own. also coming up ukraine's leader. thanks.

poland for it supports in the war with russia. proposed president welcomes below 2 mirrors, the landscape to warsaw and promises to send ukraine more fighter jet. ah and the gulf really. he's got angry with us. ty, once president sighing, when has med with you as how speaker kevin mccarthy? the 1st meeting of this kind in the united states for decades, the face to face outside los angeles comes on what is technically a stomp over for the president kevin mccarthy's position as how speaker makes him number 3 in the u. s. political hierarchy and therefore the most senior american figured to meet a taiwanese leader on us soil since $979.00. the trip comes despite warnings from china. beijing claims the self ruled island of taiwan as its own and resent what it

sees as the united states meddling in its domestic affairs. at the end of the talks president sigh and speaker mccarthy gave these statements. taiwan is a successful democracy, thriving economy, and a global leader in health and science. and whether it's our deep commercial ties, strong people to people, relationships, or shared values, or cooperation with the people of taiwan. continue to expand through dialogue and exchange with shonda. when we are together, taiwan strives to be reliable upon to that well, that cornerstone. the stability in the region and the force focus now informed us how speaker and nancy pelosi was in taiwan last year. china reacted by launching its largest ever military exercises in waters around taiwan. i asked

china expert timidly, if we could expect a similar reaction to this visit or 1st of all, thank you so much for having me. well i don't expect the same degree of chinese reaction to in a way i think the fact that mrs. cy has come to the united states this time on the stop over and not the speaker mccarthy. visiting taiwan is sort of already seen at some form of concession to the chinese. so i expect the chinese to make a couple of statements. sports, we already see a couple of movements, maritime movements around one from 20 ships. but i would not expect a similar scale response, as we've seen when speaker closely visits talking about tough statements here as china's foreign ministry spokesperson,

reacting to the taiwanese presidents trip to the u. s. wilmington swimming fleet coach the us to abide by to one china principal. not to allow a sy england to transit in the us and not to arrange meetings between sy, any with officials. queen china very closely follow the developments and defend it . some empty entity to their integrity, how we would have to, can willing to enter with our really china, they're demanding. the u. s. a. bind by the one china principal, that's beijing's perception that taiwan is an inalienable part of china. but the cornerstone of us china relations is the one china policy. could you briefly explain the difference or one trend of principle that china really pushes here or leads absolutely no room for a corporation between democratic taiwan and other countries because it really insists on chinese full sovereignty. and that whatever matter, a foreign government wants to discuss with regard to time one needs to be discuss

bay genius, the sole legal representative, legitimate representative of one china, including taiwan. while the one china policy just sort of, except that the, the general fact sort of that there's one china, but the one china policy is much more room. it is sort of much more ambiguous. it does include the possibility of a number of somewhat sort of lower level of contacts between taiwan, the democratic government there in the united states. and that is sort of the deep friction here between china and the united states, but also a number of european allies of the united states at old. so i claim the one china policy instead of to one china principal. why do you think mccarthy is meeting towns president now with the message he might be sending to beijing there? well, it has to do. and in part olds with domestic politics in the united states,

there's hardly any bi partisan issue in washington left. but being tough on trying to is certainly one of them. and his predecessor speaker, osi has visited taiwan and has been very strong and talk message to bay jane. she has also sent a very, to me a message to the domestic audience that she, as one of the lead democrats really standing close with taiwan. and i think it came across the ones to sort of repeat very strong signal. i have. one is not just a very important domestic issue within the united states, but it is also of utmost importance in terms of technology, in terms of sort of the overarching rivalry between the united states and the people who are probably fine. kimberly, with the german council on foreign relations. thank you so much for giving us your take on sighing. when's that to california where she met the speaker of the house.

kevin mccarthy. thank you so much and let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. pensions between israelis and palestinians, or high after israeli police storm. the ok, so mosque in jerusalem on wednesday. authority say they were forced to enter the building, one of islam holiest sites to remove people they described as rioters. incident has sparked anger across the middle east. the united nations has demanded the taliban immediately revoke its decision to borrow women from working for the agencies. regional mission fell upon. authorities have said women in afghanistan will no longer be allowed to work their un secretary general and to enable terrorists described a been as an unparalleled violation of women's rights ukraine's president villa. demur. zalinski has been to the polish capital warsaw on a rare foreign trip. poland is a one of ukraine staunchest allies in the war with russia. the polish president

angie duda promised to send keith more make fighter aircraft and to push for ukraine to join nato. lou standing shoulder to shoulder greene's president on a visit to one of his country staunchest allies followed the mir zalinski was awarded bolan's highest order. the order of the white egan. he lito leader read the doom of the unknown soldier in warsaw. his gestures, the switches would crucially for you korean poland offered to seek more needle security guarantees folk eve at an upcoming summit. should lawrence, yes, would. i am firmly convinced that we will succeed in obtaining such guarantees for ukraine as well as an introduction to ukraine's future for membership in nato, which poland strongly supports him fall, cries gig, while warsaw is also the 1st needle member to send fighter jets to ukraine. at that

in for mig 20 nines are being delivered as of on that which brings the total to 8 polish meg. 20 nines delivered to ukraine's mcguffey movie. and today i told president zalinski that we are ready to deliver another 6 which are undergoing maintenance. e solve to go to one of them's lacresha, the bench sponsors are, i think in the future we will be able to deliver the rest of our mig 29 fleet to ukraine. just see if it is needed is already been just a backup with saba. he'd keep out of manama, i. d. zalinski packed his horse and said he wanted poland as one of the main nations falling in helping rebill ukraine. virtually wimbledon stand important point in our relations is the reconstruction of ukraine and say, gees not it will bring our businesses closer. our nations closer. then it's important for us that poland be one of the main partners. and the reconstruction of ukraine will to view green. it's a rare trip abroad during wartime for zalinski,

a shaw of tanks for poland support for keith. holland has taken more than a 1000000 refugees. many of whom gathered outside the presidential palace, where the duly does were meeting. during the visit, the landscape told reporters, the situation in the besieged ukrainian town of bolts is very difficult. it did not rule out withdrawing from the town. should ukrainian troops risk being surrounded by russian forces and military analysts still expect ukraine to launch a wider spring counter offensive. keefe insists it's goal is to regain control of all its territory. the front line near back moved. ukrainian soldiers are dug in. it's still unclear who's in control of the city. the u. s. and other bankers have advised the ukraine to pull out. and this thing, the cost is too high. both ukraine and russia have lost huge numbers of soldiers in

the battle. but ukraine and fis on defending the area as it prepares for a major spring counter offensive. done, it will happen. we are waiting. we do not know when it will happen. that's a good question, but we will be a part of it. about them, we are all waiting for equipment from the west. ours is pretty old and worn out. it breaks down quickly, so we're waiting for some new equipment from our partners abroad. that equipment is arriving slowly, but surely. western tanks, including british challengers and german, made leopards have arrived in the country. there are also rumors that us and swedish build g l s. d, be guided bombs. are already in use. these munitions fired from the back of a hi maurice truck. have a range of a 150 kilometers, nearly doubled the range of the high mars rockets ukraine now uses that would put

many more russian targets, including ammunition depots in ukrainian sites. ukraine's foreign minister says foreign weaponry is critical, seriously, a lot is on the plate as usually we very much appreciate everything that the united states have done specifically in the last month to help automate itself for the, for the, for the come by. the ministration has fulfilled this commitment to buy things again with a lot of what, what we need and to set an example to give an example to other other allies. ukraine says its goal is to liberate all of its territory, including the crimean peninsula. in russia hands for nearly a decade, analysts say ukraine would likely mount a major attack through the partially occupied chaper rees,

a region aiming at the russian held city of ma little paul. a successful push would cut through russia supply lines to its forces, further west. whatever form the counter offensive ends up taking much as at stake for ukraine. the countries western backers want to see russia defeated on the battlefield. not another back mote. than haunted, the former commanding general of us forces in europe and he outlined some of the considerations ukrainian military commanders have to take into account to pull off a successful counter offensive. well, thank you. my sense is that ukrainian general staff has done a terrific job protecting information and conserving the forces that they're going to need when they do and naturally launch this counter offensive. um, i think the finding around buck moot, that was very costly, but it also was necessary that the general staff could see that they were able to

stop russian forces their in back moot and to believe them out and to caused them to use a lot of resources without ukraine having to push its own armored forces into back mood. that's what they're going to need when they do launch their own counter offensive, which i would anticipate would be on a very narrow front to achieve it. a decisive effect, much like your previous journalist just reported to, to break the land bridge between crimea and the rest of russia. crimea, is the decisive terrain. you could kill every russian soldier within 200 kilometers or back mode. and that would not change the strategic setting, but if you liberate crimea, that changes everything. so the counter offensive will be aimed towards the liberation of crimea. and then the rest of the don bass, i think that comes later. as for were commanding general of the u. s. forces in europe, been hon, just speaking to the w a little earlier. and here is

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