services be ala guessed at frankfurt and bought cd managed by frappe waterloo with this is dw news live from berlin. china starts 3 days of military drills around taiwan. after the leader of the island returns from a visit to the united states, i once defense ministry says the exercises threatening regional stability and security will go live far, corresponded in taiwan for more. the middle east on high alert as violence

escalates is really authority say at least one person is killed in a terror attack. and tel aviv, the government tightened security and calls up reservists. and to court rulings in the us lead to uncertainty about access to what are the most commonly used abortion drugs? vice president, kamala harris says, a texas ruined threatens the rights of women nationwide. ah, i'm here until new berlin, thanks for joining us. china has launched 3 days of military drills around taiwan, beijing called the exercises a quote, stern warning. ty wants defense ministry, said the drills, threatening regional stability and security. they come after china was angered by a meeting between ty was president saying when and us how speaker kevin mccarthy. in los angeles earlier this week, aging views the democratically ruled island as

a breakaway province. w correspondent, when young joins us now, lying from central taiwan. so william, what are you hearing about the scale of these latest chinese drills and where they expected? so these smells re, drills indeed came as a surprise after a initial stage of rather muted response. during and before the meeting between sy mccarthy took place in california. so far we have not heard any large and i think ongoing life, sorry, thrill after the announcement was made earlier today. but i think the time one defense ministry is keeping a very close eye about what kind of action and also what kind of military exercises will in fact take place over the next 3 days. i think this comes definitely after the french president and money my clone and also the european commission president

or so from july and left china. and at the same time, after time when president time, when came back to taiwan, it is by many experts estimation that they are time timing this after the european delegations left so that it's not going to be viewed as controversial by the europeans. and also contradict in the diplomatic efforts that aging is trying to push to get in, rebuild the closer ties with europe. so how executive asian and explain the purpose of these exercises. so as always, they view this as a response to what they describe as a collusion between the time when separatist forces and the external forces. and obviously this is in response to the high level meeting between tying one and us house speaker kevin mccarthy. and last august we need to remember the after former us how speaker nancy pelosi visited taiwan. they conducted

a one week military trail around taiwan. and during that military exercise, they also fight miss south over taiwan and the land into the exclusive economic zone in japan. but this time around the duration of the exercises shorter and also a lot of the experts are predicting that maybe a firing of missile is not going to be involved. so we are perhaps predicting and looking at a much shorter and also a slightly less intense military exercise around taiwan this time around. and that could just suggest that aging may not actually be mccarthy insights, meeting as serious a threat as pelosi visit to taiwan last august. right, that was d. w correspondent, william yang reporting for us to wants defense mysteries had beige and was using a visit by president saying when to the u. s. s. luke skews to launch the military drills. so i went to the u. s. in defiance of chinese warnings, taiwanese president sighing when completed her chip to the americas,

she sounded defiant upon returning to her homeland. it stressing that taiwan would continue engaging with the worldly. on the route we have shown the international community that when we faced pressure and fritz, i, one will be more united. we will never given because we are suppressed, nor will we stopped communicating with the world because we are handed things good job. chinese military incursions into taiwanese as space and territorial waters have become more frequent taipei views. this light is moved by beijing as a response to president size trip to the us. china also imposed sanctions on some us organizations. these include the ronald reagan presidential library and the washington think tank the hudson institute, which honored her with the leadership award. beijing said size trip and i meeting with a high profile figure like mccarthy violated the one china principal semi what's what the u. s. anti one colluded to enable taiwanese sit protest to undertake

political activities in the u. s. a compelled greeting. while taiwan has been self governing since 1949, the ruling communist party in the mainland sees it as a breakaway province, which must be re united with china by force if necessary. the u. s. has condemned a car ram in attack and tel aviv the killed in italian tourist and wounded several others. the attack occurred near a popular beach promenade is really medias say police shot dead the alleged assailant. this is the latest attack in a series of recent escalations in the region following police raids this week on true sums l. oxer mosque. the ws jerusalem corresponded tony kramer has more on the tel aviv attack. while as he said, there's another attack today, this time in television, a very popular area, a new the a c side, a promenade, according to the police,

a driver runs his car in to people walking on the promenade and then the car overturned the a driver. the attacker was then killed by a police officer and a municipality officer that were nearby a one person was killed in at least 5 others were injured according to the rescue services or a 3 of them are in moderate conditions. there was no immediate claim or anything for the attack by any organization. as far as you know, at this point, the mug end of it i don't rescue serves the said that most of the victims are foreign visitors from italy and from the u. k. so the, this attack is actually the 2nd attack to day after a deadly attack. also in the on friday morning in the occupied west bank. and we understand that prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called out to mobilize additional reserve for the units. that is

a police and also additional army units to be deployed d w as tanya kramer before the attack and tel aviv 2 british israeli women were killed the occupied west bank on friday. here's more on that attack. this is riley cow, was near the jewish settlement on camera in the occupied we spank. when it was attacked, 2 sisters were fatally shot while the mother was wounded, the area was quickly cordoned off, and a search for those responsible was launched. the agree mercourt journal at this very moment, our forces are operating in the field in search of the terrorists, or it is own a matter of time and not much time until we settled the account with them as we settled the account with all the murderers. without exception, over the last month of august re mahoney, the shooting came after israel had responded to rocket attacks from garza and

lebanon, with its own ear strikes. is rails ion dome ear defeat system, intercepted most of the missiles that was seemed its way and its defense. foresee that fired rockets at militant targets and garza and southern lebanon. local residents disputed the claims and i've been delivered on while we were home. we heard the sound of the air strike and we came to this area here behind me. the electrical installation was still on fire. and as you can see, if there are no military positions for has belong hamas or palestinians here of been, this is a sign of israel's weakness. they are trying to vent their anger by bombarding banana fields within the walls. and, and garza properties will also damage when israeli myself hes yeah, no, no unintended ally. if i were in the car i would have died money and the car can be replaced. but what a residence have to do with all of this law was to children of my 2 year old sister,

my parents and siblings have to do with all of this. oh hello. this is a residential area. there's nothing here but a home or crops, a building agricultural land. out of that i, you know, in jerusalem mid day prius at the, i'll ask them most, passed peacefully were earlier in the week violence had a ruptured between israeli security forces. and people gathered inside the unrest comes at a delicate time in jerusalem with the convergence of christian, jewish and muslim worshippers marking major holidays. to conflicting court rulings have thrown access to one of the u. s. is most commonly used abortion drugs into uncertainty. a judge in texas has moved to spend the long standing approval of abortion drug if a person but just minutes later, a judge in washington issued an injunction order and authorities not to restrict access to it. the justice department says it is appealing the texas ruling and

reviewing the other with a prestone is one of 2 pills used for medication abortions. the most common method of terminating a pregnancy in the u. s. u s. vice president kamala harris was quick to condemn the ruling out of texas for interfering with the food and drug administration. work a with here to tell us more about these rulings is d, w reporter alex whitman. so alex urban 2 rulings. and what exactly do both of the mean for access to this drug? well aaron, the texas ruling says that after a week that the grace period that the judge gave the federal government to appeal

this decision. but after this week, the da would basically have to repeal rollback its approval of this drug, initially, which was given over 20 years ago and pull it from shelves. but in washington state, a judge said that the f b, i would have to protect people access to this drug, for at least over a dozen states that were all signed on together in their, in the lawsuit there. so in a very short term, people can still access it, but after a week we'll have to say, well, of course, abortions when the most contentious issues in the united states. and we've already heard v p kamala harris way in on the matter what the reaction has been so far across the political spectrum. well, this is a somewhat predictable fault line, because this is one of the largest ongoing debates for decades in the united states . abortion rights. so there are established anti abortion groups that are celebrating this latest victory, the same groups that were behind the overturning of landmark abortion rights. and

supreme court case, robi wade last year. and on the other hand, you have democratic politicians like vice president harris and abortion rights groups who are asking how it's possible that one politically, a, a federal judge could overturn a, an approval of a drug. so this is very divisive as, as expected token, as we've seen. it seems like both sides are very much of loggerheads right here. what are the next steps in this debate in this process regarding this drug? right, so the justice department will appeal that, that's what the attorney general mer garland is already said. the justice department will appeal to texas decision and review the washington decision. and after that, it's very likely that this is headed on a fast track to the supreme court, right? that was due to your porter alex. what then? thank you for bringing us up to date. thank you. and here's a reminder of the top story. we're following for you at this hour. ah,

china has launched 3 days of military drills around taiwan facing called the exercises a quote, stern warning. taiwan is defense, ministry said the drills, threatening regional stability and security. they come after china was angered by a visit by ty, one's president in went to the u. s. israel's foreign ministry says at least one person has been killed and several others wounded in a car ramming attack and television for government has tightened security and called the reserves as the violence in the region escalates. and don't forget, you can always get the w news on the go. just download our app from the google play or from the apple app store. that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news. all right, that's all for me for now, but coming up next after

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