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football door. clint grab a crucial win against fellow title hopefuls, union berlin to stay within striking distance of the top of the tape that and much more coming up in our sports ah unexpired. welcome to the program. china has begun 3 days of military drills around taiwan. defense officials said that more than 70 chinese planes have crossed the median line. that separates the self governing island from mainland china. beijing called the move, a stern warning chinese state media also reportedly said the country's military is rehearsing and encirclement of the island. taiwan is warning that the drills threaten regional stability and security. they come after china was angered by a meeting between ty, one's president in when you s house speaker kevin mccarthy. in los angeles. earlier

this week, beijing considers to self ruling island to be a breakaway province. earlier i spoke to dw corresponded william young in taiwan, who's following the latest developments. so the defense ministry here continues to pay a very close attention to every move that the people's liberation army has conducted . so far. i think the government here is trying to not start any panic among the population here by the same time they are ensuring the people that every move of the people's liberation army is within the very close observation of the coast guard of time one and also the navy, i think it's also worth noting that the we're encirclement is being used by the chinese media to basically try to, i think impose a sense of panic in a crisis here in taiwan. but so far we're not seen the effect of that being really played out here is a bit of vision, vo here though,

isn't there because in august last year we saw another simulated blockade when the venue as how speaker nancy pelosi visited taiwan. how are people that are comparing both drills? i think because of the duration of this exercise to day, that's a about 3 days and we haven't so far not really seeing any firing of the missiles like last time last august. so i think people right now is not really concerned, but last august they really see that as an eye opening experience of how much of china is willing to do in terms of intimidating and also showcasing its military might around sy, wine and the a quasi blockade that they, a staged last august was basically a, i think, a blueprints that they will likely use again in the future whenever the time one of president is meeting very high level u. s. officials. and earlier this week,

president sigh was in the united states saying taiwan would continue to work with united states. what do you, what do you see happening in the long term here? i think as we are counting del about 9 months into the next election where she is no longer able to ryan, she is really trying to create a room for her, a successor, basically to ensure that there is enough trust between time one in the united states so that whoever that comes in would continue to be able to double down on this relationship that has really been elevated during the last 7 years during her term. and i think of, we are going to just see the tony's government going into that direction, relying more on the u. s. especially on its defense as china continues to expand its military might. and at the same time, i really showing that they are going to not rural any possibility of the re unifying with time one, ultimately a, c, d, w correspondent,

william yang in taiwan. thanks for that. ukraine's defense ministry says keith is bolstering its defense, is along its northern border with bella. ruth, by laying thousands of anti tank mines and digging you trenches over the past 6 months, moscow has repeatedly increased its true presence in the neighboring country, sparking fears of a new offensive on keep from the north. when russia invaded ukraine in february last year, or sco launched at the attack from key on keep from belarus. for more on this word now joined by marine, i meet on a defense analyst at king's college. in london. marina keith has announced it will strengthen its defences on his border with bellows. why is that? oh, thank you for having me. that's a very good question. and perhaps it will look back to february 2022. when russia launched its attack on ukraine from the bellows territory,

perhaps it is logical for ukraine given the current situation to, to create so to say, deter, and by denial, by making it much more difficult for the russian forces. should they choose to attack again from baller rues to get through the ukrainian defenses? so it is a way to deter the russian forces and to ensure that the ukrainian forces wouldn't be always stretch if the ukrainian armed forces have to be deployed to the barouche and border if there is an attack indeed. and there's a lot of talk of a spring offensive in washington and in ukraine itself. of course, you expect to see any breakthroughs this spring. well that's, that's a $1000000.00 question. i guess everybody is waiting to see what is going to happen and houses counter offensive is going to be staged. and there are many speculations

were ukraine might be going to attack. some analysts say that it could be to the south to get to crimea and to disrupt a russian logistics to caught the russian forces off and that would be direction of merely topple or even maria. but for instance, there is another possibility, were the ukrainians could just approve along the entire a line of defense and, and see you were russian defences are shaky and then try to break through there. so we, we don't quite know what we know and what is the most important factor here is that the ukranian armed forces are capable of staging such a counter attack, which would require leadership and skill technology aside. ukraine has received a lot of technology in including tanks, including armored vehicles, however, conducting combined arms operation, namely using tanks, mechanized infantry,

electronic warfare, and close air support. it requires a lot of practice and coordination. so a lot of will depend on how well the ukrainian army can master combined arms operations in terms of the success of c spring offensive. and just a final question about electricity. ukraine says it will resume exporting electricity for the 1st time after months of russia attacks on its power grid, or kind of a victory does that represent well, there are many ways to look at this. you know, a in russia was striking the power grid to coerce the citizens to basically put pressure on the government on the one hand, on the other hand. and the russians wanted to make winter operations as difficult as possible. and also create the costs for ukraine. and so we have to do to look at it from this kind of context. were you have different levers that russia is trying

to use of psychological economic lever and the military lever. and so from, from the psychological perspective, it did feel given that ukraine is going to explore it and there she again, but we also have to bear in mind that, that ukraine has received a lot of generators from europe. ukraine has also georgia, the european network of transmission system operators for electricity. so essentially this is creating a lot of cost and a lot of that for ukraine. so from that perspective, i think russia has succeeded to impose the costs. ok, thanks for that insight. minor mirror, we'll leave it there. defense analyst at king's college, london. thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. thousands of israelis have taken to the streets in the latest protests against the government plan to limit that judiciary powers demonstrator. say the proposal is a power grab. the weekly rallies are continuing despite ongoing negotiations to

find a compromise between opponents and supporters of the law. police in iran say they are installing cameras in public spaces to identify and punish women, not wearing a headscarf authority say the move is to protect the country strict. she job law. a growing number of iranian women, however, are choosing not to wear, had scars in a show of defiance. ah, i'm for german football now. and after a heavy defeat against byron cost them their place at the top of the league bush adornment were looking to bounce back on match day $27.00. and in their wasted 3rd place. union berlin, who themselves still had an outside chance of winning the league. but dorman, want a thrilling battle of nerves to remain hot on byron's heels. shortland were desperate to reaffirm their title credentials after last weekend, humbling at byron. and the pressure was on

a wind through noon would put the berliners right back in contention for the unlikeliest of championship winds. the hosts looked to have dispelled any signs of a hangover in a slick 1st half. a well worked move, so daniel malin give them the lead on 28 minutes. rafael guerrero was given too much knee, and mullin nipped in front of nico, guess a month to make it what no for diamond at the break. but who knew have confounded expectations all season they did so again, just after the hour geraldo becker did well to tea. kevin barons and his crew finished made it 11 but dormant took the lead again with a little help from the berliners. jose gwyn inadvertently played the perfect through ball for use of the cookie and the superset made no mistake and 79 minutes that proved to be the winner and it keeps it in tears it is man just to

points behind buyer in the title race while unions dreams of an improbable championship when look to be over and in the other top came on saturday by and unit b fryeburg one neil to hang on to 1st place in spite of darwin's victory. some lack luster defending from firebird allowed barne to win the ball back at the edge of their opponents box with batista to firing in a long range rocket for the games. only gorse. absolutely nothing. fryeburg keeper mark flatten could do to stop this swerving strike from his fellow dutchman. and there it is. let's take a look at the bundles the result so far this weekend. there are those winds by dorman buyer, labor crews, and beat frankfurt, and mines and breyman share the spoils. cologne down osburg her to berlin are now battling leipzig on sunday. glad back take on was burg. boykin battle stood guard

and half in heim face chalka. as take a quick look at some of the other news from around the world of sports. now, los angeles lakers kept their hopes alive of avoiding a spot in the plea and tournament after $12011.00 of 7 win over the phoenix suns. broad james and anthony davis combined for 30 points. the lakers had no 18th of their last 9 games. the super bowl champion travis kelsey through the ceremonial 1st pitch before baseballs cleveland guardians, season opener. but let's just say his pitching skills, need some work. kansas city chiefs tied and took it in stride and it was seen laughing it off afterwards. i think so you got to put a little arrow with the paras summer olympics over a year away. the debate over a russian ban still rages, but it's not just russian athletes that are in limbo. many ukrainian athletes also face an uncertain future fees. ukrainian trends. half the i sat on the 2024 summer games. the autistic swimmers have spent years training.

but marina and lady slobber alexi gave up find themselves facing a cool choice when watson was when we don't want to meet the russians at competition. so the co, if they go we won't go, we don't want to meet them and we cannot meet them was and was, and in general, all the federations, whether ukrainian or international should do everything they can to not let them participate or what the official moved that was phoebe after rushes invasion ukraine has threatened to boycott the games if russian athletes are allowed to participate. but the international olympic committee has said that russian athletes should be allowed to compete as neutrals. and i'm with the main purpose of the olympic games is piece. what piece can they be with russia? it's your own. if the ios, he allows russia to take part in the olympic games. then these games are not about

piece anymore on themes and what would be the message behind? it was even under a new tro flag, they were under the neutral flag at the last olympic games and it didn't change anything. they started a war. we'll need to know where we put. so a real, a war that has made training and preparation for the games extremely difficult for ukrainian athletes. despite the future hanging in the balance, this history insist they more determined than ever. of next sunday, debby reported looks at trans communities in pakistan. i'm a spicer, like to watch you cream was like sticking points if you will tie what you insert, that ward, you want to be. finish your studies. now you have a st. jude from the train. you can choose to go back or somewhere else. currently, more people than ever on the move worldwide in such of a better.