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i kind of like a superpower. there were serious over 40 to the answers, almost everything this week on d w ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is dw news live from both in china as dante, 3 dies of military drills around taiwan. the defense ministry in taipei says the exercises threaten regional stability and security will get the latest from taiwan . also coming off an apparent car running attack leaves a tourist did,
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and several incidental levine, the driver identified as in his riling power of his shot dead as the violence spirals israel called soft military reserves. ah, i'm jared raid. welcome to the program. china has begun 3 days of military drills around taiwan. badging has called the exercises are quite serious warning against taiwan separatist forces. ty, ones defense ministry, said the drills threaten regional stability and security. now they come off to china, was angered by a meeting between ty, once president, sighing when and us house because kevin mccarthy in los angeles earlier this week badging views, the self ruling island as a blank away province. and earlier i spoke with w correspondent,
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william young and taiwan and asked him about the scale of days latest chinese drills. so definitely the largest drill that we have seen and heard about is from the 3 atrial that will be surrounding taiwan. basically taking place in different parts of the taiwan strait as full as in some parts of the eastern side of time. wine. in the same time, there are some smaller skilled lifeline trills. different parts of china have already announced including in the neighboring gen province as well as in the region that is just north of the tow industries and also near the high non island which is near the south china sea. so i think once again, this is just trying to show showcasing that they have the ability of launching a mo t layer in low t dimensional military exercise simultaneously. and i think this is definitely a stern response to the meeting between kevin mccarthy and time when at the same
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time, we need to remember that the duration of the trill that have been the noun so far, is still slightly shorter than the drill that we saw last august after china carry out a one week know 3 drill around time one following nancy pelosi visit to timeline is william. you've just seen today. how are you into printing beijing's explanation as to the purpose of these later sticks aside? i think the gene definitely fills the knee to showcase that they are frustrated and they have the ability to respond in a very resolute way. they have repeatedly before the meeting set. they will resolutely defend national security and territorial integrity. and so i think these actions are the exact response to what they said, and at the same time, i think they are warning and time one and washington. they don't approve any high level meetings and exchanges between ty pay and washington. so as long as
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a time on president is continuing to get to me high level us officials, they are going to continue and normalize these kind of a military exercise that sizes around time one. and william would have been the reactions in taiwan. i think so far how many people. busy are not panic lea responding to the situation, i think because right now they are still waiting to see if any larger skill, exercises, or threatening moves will be made by the people's liberation army. and as this is just the 1st day off the 3 day exercise, we are likely going to see paging revealed more moved or maybe more tactics that they are likely to use in a situation of threatening time one through their military mind. so i think we will have to observe as the military drill progress over the next 2 days. okay, to w correspond
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a william young. the thanks william. thank you. and as we've been hearing, taiwanese defense ministry said beijing was using a visit by president sighing when to the united states as an excuse to launch the military journals. so i went to the us this week in defiance of chinese warnings. taiwanese president, sighing when completed her trip 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 threats tie one will be more united. we will never given because we are suppressed, nor will we stopped communicating with the world because we are hindered things good yet jargon. chinese military incursions into taiwanese as space and territorial waters have become more frequent, taipei views as late as moved by beijing, as
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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 cit protests to undertake political activities in the u. s. which will me somebody who compelled weeping while taiwan has been self governing since 1949, the ruling communist party and the mainland sees it as a breakaway province, which must be reunited with china by force if necessary. in other news now, israel israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has mobilized police and army reserves in response to, to attacks against civilians. now the latest happened friday evening until aviv, when the driver rammed his car into a group of tourists believe, said
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a 30 year old man from italy died. 7 others were wounded. now the incident came just hours after to his rallies were shot and killed in the occupied west bank. we can get the latest now from t w correspondent rebecca riches in jerusalem. rebecca. hi. what more can you tell us about these attacks? well jared, as you said at around $930.00 p, m. local time, last night we heard about a ramming a tag, a 45 year old man, as he was later identified a palestinian with israeli citizenship. he took a car and he drove onto the pavement in quite a busy tourist area in tel aviv on the promenade, near the beach in front of many international hotels. and he hit 8 people, killing one italian tourist injuring 7 others that were identified as a mixture of italian and british tourism. the attacker was then killed at the scene, as you also mentioned. it came after another deadly attack in the occupied west
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bank. earlier in the day where a family of settlers were driving in the jordan valley, their car came under attack by gunfire and then ran off the road, killing 2 of the young girls and the mother is in a critical condition. now tensions has been very high in israel following 2 knights of raids earlier this week by israeli police at the alex and moscow is the holy month of ramadan. there were people inside the mosque, there was video that circulated where the, the police quite brutally beat some of the people inside the mask triggering outrage. it also triggered militant groups like her mass and others to say that they would be retaliating, and that they would maintain a strong response. so tensions very high at this moment. indeed, rebecca, what reactions could we possibly see from israel to these attacks that you've just been describing? it will likely be reaction exactly what shape that will take yet jerad is unclear,
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are following the attack last night. there was a, an is statement issued by the prime minister's office saying that they've mobilized police and army reservists in efforts to counter terrorism. but nothing specific or other than that announced so far as the defense minister is bolstered security in the west bank. the occupied territories and elsewhere, and there is a definitely a much heavier police presence here in jerusalem. you can feel it all around the city, particularly around the old city, but everywhere across the city, there were calls yesterday after that attack in the west bank for members of the far right coalition. for a very strong response, netanyahu will likely want to, to show that he's being tough, that the government is, is giving a tough response. but they'll want to balance that with the extremely high tensions of the moment that i'm talking about and not inflame the situation further. or we are looking at a stressful weekend, a very tense weekend. here we have 3 holy festivals converging. that's ramadan. the
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jewish holiday of pesa and early easter and eat the christian easter as well. it's attention very high. her mast issued a statement after both of those attack, saying not claiming responsibility by praising the attacks and promising to maintain or if there were any more violence at the mouth that they would maintain a strong offense. so definitely a tense weekend here. okay. rebecca rita's there in truly jerusalem. rebecca, many facts. okay, let's get around up now of some other world news headlights. north korea has carried out another a test of what it calls an underwater attack drone capable of carrying nuclear weapons state media. so the drone traveled for over 70 hours before it was detonated. it's in response to joint military drills by the u. s. south korea and japan. conflicting us court rulings have cast uncertainty over access to a common abortion drug. a judge in texas suspended the long standing approval of me for pris,
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done. shortly after another federal judge in washington state ordered authorities to keep the drug on the market. in the 17 states that filed the lawsuit, russia has charged wall street journal reporter evan gush cabbage with espionage. russian authorities arrested him last month in the city of get your catherine book, accusing him of trying to obtain classified material. now the newspaper denies coverage was buying and is demanding his immediate release will. according to british intelligence, russian forces have made significant gains in back moot in east. in ukraine, the reports is putin's troops have probably taken the city center along with the west bank of the back move to river. ukraine denies that, but it meets the situation is difficult. back mode has been under siege for months . seeing some of the fees is fighting of the war quick. we can get more now from dr. mike martin, who is
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a senior fellow in war studies at kings college london. mike. hi there. what is this latest reported advance? tell us about the state of back most the state of play and back moved in your opinion. so the russians have been trying to take boots for 6 months and only really in the last couple of months and they made some progress. but it is very, very slow progress at great cost to the russians. it's not too clear will that seem more likely now that they're actually going to be able to take it? and i'll give you a reason for that. that being very, very competent. at the moment, the russians control the city on 3 sides, yet they failed to close the noose. if you like to travel those you kind of forces instead they're moving forward building by building in the city center. so there is progress on the russian side, but it's very, very slow and very closely for them. progress, but patchy as you say, mike. now i want to ask you about this,
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this report from the british intelligence. it's saying that russia likely took parts of the city, including the city center. how do intelligent services reach these types of conclusions? so there are a number of methods that i think we can put into 2 buckets. so there's traditional methods and that would be listening to communications, liaising with the ukrainians, and also using satellites and look at where the dispositions of different forces are. but actually something new has happened in the last 10 years, which is social media. so all intelligence i hang out on twitter and telegram to look at all the videos uploaded, and that gives them a really good up to date picture of what's going on. do you expect to see any breakthroughs in back? moot, this coming spring? i don't think the breakthroughs are going to be in by the russians are going to try
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and cut the supply lines and that may necessitate ukrainian withdrawal, but if the ukrainians can hold that supply line, then they'll hold back. on the other hand, i think the ukrainians are merely holding back to tie the russians up and they are going to try and make some breakthroughs elsewhere in ukraine. for example, in the south by that region. ok, that was mike martin from kings college in london. there mike, many, thanks. thank you very much. ok, he's a quick recap now of the top story that we are following for you at this hour. china has launched in 3 days of military drills around taiwan, the defense ministry in time. i said the drills threaten regional stability and security. now they come after a visit by taiwan. president sy, in when to the us where she met house. because kevin, the coffee and an italian tourist has been killed and several others wounded in
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a car rounding attack in tel aviv israel has tightened security and cold on reserve is as violence in the region escalade. and you're up to date up next on the w is sports life which profiles one of the world's best skateboarders. she's just 15 years old and we're all set to go beyond the citizenship. and then we're all in as we
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