hey, this for the people need to know what is happening there. you know were series guardians of truth. watch know on youtube, d. w documentary ah ah, this is didi of the news live from berlin. china begins 3 days of military drills around taiwan. chinese state media essays forces are practicing the encirclement of the island. taiwan says the exercises threaten regional stability and security, around installs cameras in public places to identify and punish women not covering

their hair authority say the move is to protect the country strict. he job law will to talk to a human rights act 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 china. beijing called the move a stern warning chinese state media also reportedly said the country's military is rehearsing on encirclement of the island. taiwan is warning of the drills, threatened regional stability and security. they come after china was angered by a meeting between taiwan is president sy, in when and us house speaker, kevin mccarthy, and los angeles. earlier this week,

beijing considered the self ruling island to be a breakaway province. earlier i spoke to d. w correspondent, 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 in circle men 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 seeing the effect of that being really played out here is

a bit of visual view 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 mean 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, a 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 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 down about 9 months into the next election where she is no longer able to run, she is really trying to create 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 of its

d. w correspondent, william yang in taiwan. thanks for that. and it's time now to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. china has denied an accusation by the world health organization that it with health data concerning the origins of coven 19 aging accused w. a show of conducting a smear campaign after its chiefs at china should have shared genetic information about the virus earlier that exist. thousands of israelis have taken to the streets in the latest protest against the government plan to limit the judiciary powers demonstrate or say the proposal is a power grab weekly rallies are continuing despite on going negotiations to find a compromise between opponents and supporters of the law. conflicting us court rulings have cast uncertainty over access to a common abortion drug. a judge in texas suspended the longstanding approval of myth prestone. shortly after another federal judge in washington state ordered

authorities to keep the drug on the market and at least 17 other states. police in iran say they are installing cameras in public places to identify and punish women, not wearing head scars. they say the women will receive text messages, informing them of the consequences. they will face authority, say the move is to protect the country strict. he job law despite risking arrest a growing number of rainy women rather are refusing to wear, had scars in a show of defiance. cbs, you keep is an iranian german, activists and filmmaker. we asked her whether the cameras are likely to be an effective scare tactic. well, nick, let me tell you i'm because i'm the i'm german international flooring news agencies. television stations cannot be in iran every day.

and it seems like a big news, but we are used to being seen everywhere and all the time and maybe $23.00 more cameras will be installed or maybe now they have met with the russians and the chinese. maybe we have new technology in the wrong soon. i don't know. but being seen everywhere is something that we're used to. and cba as you know, full well, it was the death in police custody of g o. massa, meaning that spark the country's biggest protest in years, but authorities held firm and we seemed to be witnessing a tougher crackdown of light. but what, what is your take on the situation? they are getting tougher and tougher. they are getting more brutal. the tortures are getting worse and worse, women are being men and women are being raped in prison. people are being set

free after 4 years and 7 months and they sit in the car, drive home to see their families and only a couple of hours after the release. they captured them again. there it, everything is getting very tough and i often have to sink of an wounded animal and which is biting, and barking, and trying to defend the rest of this little life that still in its bones and see. but i'm sure you know of this mysterious wave of illness. some people suspect poison attacks that has said many school girls in a ran to hospital know what speculating what's going on. does all that contribute to the climate of fear? it does contribute to the climate of fear, but it also makes clear that the regime islamic republic, criminal islamic republic is, is in its last days no government can do something like that to so many

people to, to the population and continued to exist that everybody knows that that is not possible. and look, we were just talking about cameras. they signed protesters demonstrates as you of people who fight for freedom and democracy in iran, within 2 hours like this. take them to prison. but they can not find the people who have poisoned thousands and thousands of goods in schools. i mean, nobody believes that they have nothing to do with that. it's under their control and the people who do it, do it with their, with their permission. and in, in it's their order, if not, i mean, this is totally clear. ok, thank you for, for that inside that was, i see bush a, keep an a raining german activist and filmmaker. thank you very much.

ukraine's defense ministry says keith is bolstering its defense, is along its northern border with bella ruse by laying thousands of anti tank wines 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 of last year, moscow launched its attack on keep from melrose. short while ago i ass marino meet on a defense analyst at kings college london. why keith says it's planning to strengthen defenses on its border with fellows. that's a very good question. and perhaps if you look back to february 2022, when russia launched to 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 m ukrainian armed forces have to be deployed to the berlin ocean border if there is an attack indeed. and there's a lot of talk of a spring offensive on in washington and in ukraine itself. of course you to 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 how's this counter offensive is going to be staged? and there are many speculations we're 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 we're the ukrainians. good. just a prob along the entire a line of defense and, and see you were russian defenses 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 will depend on how well the ukrainian army can master combined arms operations in terms of the success of the spring offensive. just a final question about electricity. ukraine says it will resume exporting electricity for the 1st time after months of russian attacks on its power grid. what kind of a victory does that represent? well, there are many ways to look at this. you know, 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, the russians wanted to make winter operations as difficult as possible and also create the costs for ukraine. and so when we have to do to look at it from this kind of context, were you have different levers that russia is trying to use up psychological economic lever and the military lever. and so from, from the up 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 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 debt 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 to fence analyst at king's college london in q. and finally, an italian artist has created a giant portrait of pablo picasso in an italian field to mark the 50th anniversary of his death. daniel graham body in it used a plow to carve the work into a 25000 square meter area of wasteland. and caston, yarrow in verona. province. cambodian says he was inspired by picasso's 19 o 7 so portrait to create what he says is the largest image of

a spanish artist in the world. i will. picasso died on an april 8th, 8th, 1973 in france. and up next on d. w. a documentary looks at delayed at justice in the post war period for west germany's city and roma. i'm nick spicer for me in the entire news team here in berlin. thanks for watching with a.