people thought behind the past they live for the people need to know what is happening there in our series guardians of truth, watch know on youtube, d. w documentary ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. china's dance 3 dies of military drills around taiwan. chinese type media says forces are practicing the encirclement of the island. taiwan says the exercises threaten regional stability and security. both are coming up and

a parent car ramming attack leaves the tourist did and several injured in tel aviv driver identified as and his riley arab is shot dead as the violent spirals. israel, coal soft, military reserves. clos trying to clear the fog of war. do you think we can use finds out how british intelligence writes the russian advance in ukraine's in battle, ground city of back, moot? ah, i'm sorry to read. welcome to the program. china has begun 3 days of military drills around taiwan by ging has called to move a stern warning. chinese state media is also reported to have said the country's military is rehearsing. an encirclement of the island. taiwan main time is wanting that the drill, straighten, regional stability and security. they come after china was angered by

a meeting between ty, once president, sighing when and us house speaker, kevin mccarthy, and los angeles. earlier this week by gene considered the self ruling island as a breakaway province. we can get more now from dw correspondent william young. he joins me now from the city of may r. lee in western taiwan. william. hi. we understand that chinese state media is calling this a rehearsal of an encirclement. what's the reaction to this in taiwan where you are so far, tony's people have remained relatively calm. i think because of the fact that a lot of these exercises are still conducted with a distance away from the time when eastman island. so oftentimes they are following what the government has shared with the public and so far as the 20s or defense ministry has not really set up any alarm. but they did in say that they are in fact

a closely following it. and i think one of the things that is very important about this military exercises that it's an emphasis on the name on actually the air force. and so in fact, a lot of the experts are predicting that set on the 2nd day, which is tomorrow. the twenty's defense ministry may be sharing a lot of information about frequent activities of chinese spider just around the taiwan strait and also on other side of time. one, william, how differently or seriously perhaps are these rules that are happening now being perceived in taiwan compared to previous ones like these enormous drills? we saw, for example, in august last year. right. i think you point out something very important. this is the 2nd encirclement that the chinese military has emphasize since last august. that was the 1st one and that one followed the former us. how speaker

municipal eastman's visit to taiwan and laughed at for 7 days. and this time, this is only going to last for 3 days, at least, of based on the chinese information. and i think that's how many people are still trying to get used to how to gauge these much larger skill, military exercises. but it does seem like it has become a pattern that is a response of aging is going to deploy when ever a very high level official from the united states is meeting the time when he's a president. and i think this is just like paging, sending a signal to both type in washington as they try to make the meeting between when he's president and the us house speaker become a tradition. the chinese are also going to make it a routine for them to practice these and circle around time one, william, you just mentioned the taiwanese president. sy, she said on saturday, taiwan is going to continue to work with us. you also mentioned that she visited

there earlier this week to what do you think these the statements and these moves are going to main more longer term if we talking about drills, intentions and things like that. i think of the highest message is definitely directly sending towards washington because as we nodes currently, the foreign affairs committee chairperson michael mccaul is right now in time one visiting and he met tie during a lunch banquet today. and these comments are made during that lunch banquet, and i think it's just reiterating the fact that time one will hold its ground and then continue to strengthen its own defense capability. but it also helps that washington will continue to offer the military assistance and also the training that's necessary for taiwan to be able to actually catch up with all the new weapons that are coming from washington. and at the same time, ensure that the tactics that time once military are using is actually up to date in

terms of the tactics that are being shown in the military exercise. the carry out by the people's liberation army rice w, correspond william young very in taiwan. william, thanks so much. thank you. in other news now, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has mobilized police and army reserves off to 2 deadly attacks on civilians. the light at the time took place on friday evening until of eve. when the car, when a driver, i'm sorry, ran his car into a group of tourists hours earlier to israelis was shot and killed in the occupied with bank. ah, a tourist hot spot illuminated by the flashing lights of emergency responders. tourists wandering the beach side boardwalks of tel aviv had little warning before . com mounted the pavement and rammed into a group of pedestrians near by police responded quickly. so claim,

so when these men would hear in the 80 approach, they identified the vehicle and also identified of weapon, the cock than the suspect. tried to lead father of ethan, the policeman, shot and killed him. val google, the attacker, identified by israeli authorities as a 45 year old is riley, arab man, left a scene of carnage in his wake. when we arrived on scene, we noticed 8 uh people laying on the floor ah and mass and burying, ah conditions of injuries. ah one of them 30 year old male, severely, a critically injured. ah, which, despite our greatest efforts to save his life, we had to ha, i call his death on the scene. the victim has been identified as 35 year old italian tourist, alessandro perrine, the attack has added fuel to an already volatile situation in the region. hours

earlier, 2 british israeli sisters was shot dead while driving in the occupied west bank. the recent surgeon violence follows to raids on jerusalem's alex, a mosque by israeli security forces, and has ignited fears of a wider escalation. and a w correspondent rebecca reaches he is in traversal em. she has law now about 8th attacks. well, jared, as you said at around $930.00 p. m. local time, last night we heard about a ramming attack of 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. 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 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, jarrett is unclear, 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 inflamed. 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

jewish holiday of pesa and the the easter and eat the christian easter as well. it's attention very high. her 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 weekend here. okay. rebecca rita's there in truly jerusalem, rebecca, many things is a round up now of some other world news headlines. the u. s. navy says it's deploying a guided missile submarine to the middle east. the nuclear powered vessel is capable of carrying up to $154.00 tomahawk cruise missiles. analysts call the move of show of force towards iran after recent tensions. north korea has carried out another taste, avoided schooling and underwater attack drone capable of carrying nuclear weapons. state medias to the drone traveled for over 70 hours before it was detonated. it's

in response to joint military drills by the us, south korea and japan. conflicting us court ruling have cause doubt over access to a common abortion drug. a judge in texas suspended the long standing approval of me for priest on shortly after another federal judge in washington state ordered authorities to keep the drug on the market. in the 17th dates that filed the lawsuit. according to british intelligence, russian forces have made significant gains in back move in east in ukraine. the report says russian troops of likely taken the city center along with the west bank of the buck motor river. ukraine denies the spot admits the situation is difficult, but mood has been under stage for months. think some of the fiercest fighting of the war. dr. mike martin is a senior fellow in war studies at kings college london. he told me earlier that the russians are making slow progress,

but at great cost. 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 seemed 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 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 to 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 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. and you're up to date up next on d. w shift is looking at the data protection concerns surrounding the chinese on video sharing up tick tock is more d w dot comment on social media to dw. i'm tired, reading berlin, thank you for watching. have a great day when you work as an architect to go online or not at all.