wisdom about life, the universe and the rest that were series. 40 to the answer. almost every thing this week on t w. ah ah ah, this is dw news alive from berlin. china begins 3 days of military drills around taiwan. chinese type medias to its forces are practicing the encirclement of the island. taiwan says the exercises threaten regional stability and security. also coming up and a parent con,

ramming attack leaves the tourist did and several injured in tel aviv driver identified as an israeli arab is shot dead as the violent spiral. israel calls up military reserves. ah, i'm jared read. welcome to the program. china has become 3 days of military drills around taiwan. chinese type media says the country's military is rehearsing and encirclement if the island. taiwan meanwhile, is warning that the drills threaten regional stability and security. they come after china was angered by a meeting between ty, once president sy, in when and the us house became kevin mccarthy. in los angeles earlier this week by gene considered the self ruling island as a branca white province. and earlier i spoke with d. w correspondent,

william young and taiwan and asked him about the scale of these latest chinese drills. so does not lead the largest drill that we have seen and heard about is from the 3 day trip 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, and other same time. there are some smaller skilled life fire drills. different parts of china have already announced, including in the neighboring fujen province, as well as in the region is just north of the town streets 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 multi layer in multi dimensional military exercise and simultaneously. and i think this is definitely a stern response to the meeting between kevin mccarthy and time when at the same

time, we need to remember that the duration of the trail 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 military drill around time one following nancy pelosi visit to timeline is william. you've just hinted at it how you interpreting beijing's explanation as to the purpose of these later fix aside. i think the aging definitely feels the need 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

a time president is continuing to get to meet high level us officials, they are going to continue and normalize these kind of military exercises that sizes around time one. and william would have been the reactions in taiwan. i think so far, how many people are not panic, lee responding to the situation? i think because right now they're 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 of these 3 day, extra precise, 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 might. so i think we will have to observe as the military drill progress over the next 2 days. okay, to w correspond

a william young the thanks william. and as we've been hearing, ty, ones defense ministry said beijing was using a visit by president sy. he went to the united states as an excuse to launch the military drills. psy went there 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's stressing that taiwan would continue engaging with the world on the route we have shown the international community that when we faced pressure and fritz, shy one will be more united. we will neither 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 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 which of the u. s. anti one colluded, to enable taiwanese cit. protests to undertake political activities in the u. s. a . compelled weeping. while taiwan has been self governing since 1949, the ruling communist party in the mainland sees it as a breakaway province, which must be united with china by force if necessary. and avenues now, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has mobilized police and army reserves in response to true attacks against civilians. the latest happen friday evening until a v, when a driver rammed his car into a group of tourists. police said a 30 year old man from italy died. 7 others were wounded. incident came just hours

after to his riley's were shot and killed in the occupied with bank dw corresponded rebecca reaches. he's in jerusalem, she has more 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 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 or like a 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, jarrett is unclear, are following the attack last night. there was a statement issued by the prime minister's office saying that they mobilized police

and army reservists in efforts to counter terrorism, but nothing specific or other than that announced so far as the defense minister has 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, that jewish holiday of pesa and the easter and eat the christian easter as well. it's attention very high. hm must issued

a statement after both of those attack saying not claiming responsibility by praising the attacks and promising to maintain if there were any more violence at the mouth that they would maintain a strong defense. so definitely a tense we can here. okay. rebecca reaches their interlude jerusalem, rebecca, many facts. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world today. north korea has carried out another test of what it's calling an underwater attack drone capable of carrying nuclear weapons. state media said 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 caused uncertainty of access to a common abortion drug. a judge in texas suspended the long standing approval of me for priest on shortly afterwards, 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. gus kabbage with espionage rational authorities arrested him last month in the city of your counter wynberg, accusing him of trying to obtain a classified material. the newspaper denies good coverage was buying and is demanding his immediate release. well, according to british intelligence, russian forces have made significant gains in bad moods in east, in ukraine. now the report is russian troops of likely probably taken the city center along with the west bank of the buck. motor river ukraine denies that bonded meets the situation is difficult, but mood has been under siege for months. think some of the fuses fighting of the war. dr. dr. mark martin is a senior fellow in war studies at king's college, london. he told me that the russians making slow progress, but at great cost. he also gave us an insight into,

into how intelligent services gather information from the battlefield. 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 very, very slow progress at great cost to the russians. it's not too clear. well, that seems 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. yeah, they failed to close the news if you like to travel as 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 costly for them. progress, but patchy as you say, mike. now i want to ask you about this, 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 inclusions? 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 is 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 mood this coming spring? i don't think the breakthroughs are going to be in by the russians are going to try and cut the supply lines and that may necessitate ukrainian withdrawal. but if the credit can hold that supply line, then they'll hold back moot. 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 region. okay, that was mike martin from the king's college in london. there mike, many, thanks. thank you very much. you're watching the w news. he's a reminder of the top story we're following for you. china has launched 3 days of military drills around the taiwan, the defense ministry, and time. hey, did the drills threaten regional stability and security? they came off to revisit by ty, once president, sighing when to the waste. your watching d. w. news with major and rate will be back with another bulletin at the top of the hour. you can find more at d, w dot com and on social media to i t w news. now before we go away, going to levy. we the 2 of the picasso museum in paris,

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