corruption and political crimes, ah, in our series guardians of truth and watch no on youtube dw documentary. ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, chinese warships and fighter jets to ram taiwan for a 3rd consecutive day of military exercises with the successful completion of operation joint sword. beijing says it's military with sending a warning to taiwan after the islands president met with a top u. s. official. last week. also on the program. ukrainian officials are playing

down a leak on line of documents containing highly classified u. s. intelligence. but with the pentagon confirming the authenticity of the documents, keith might have to rethink it's coming counter offensive. and to 25 years after a fragile piece deal, there are worries that brags it may be putting the good friday agreement at risk in northern ireland. ah. on pablo foliage, welcome to the program. china has ended 3 days of military drills in the skies and sees around taiwan. beijing says it fulfilled all of its military objectives, including practicing precision strikes and blockading the island. in response to the exercise is the us sent a guided missile destroyer. true contested parts of the south china sea. taiwan

says it won't let up on combat preparedness. and that it's closely monitoring china's forces in the region simulated target to strikes off chinese military on taiwan. china dubbed it joined flawed in circling the self ruled island of taiwan that it claims as its own. taiwan seas did a defense unit, closely monitored the encroaching forces. it selfish and see dozens of chinese at gov, crossed the median line of the taiwan strait ways. no impatient to escalate the situation. the hours he on forces will uphold our sovereignty, and the men had our nation, no security. yeah, compost, rational, and assault fall manner. meanwhile, our air defense, the illness half remained. i'll high alert. the military exercise was

a demonstration of pigeons, anger. what would the taiwanese president's visit to the united states? the united states distributed the card for china to show restraint in a shore force. the united states deployed a naval destroyer into waters, claimed by beaching, triggering board belly, cause frederick from china. tensions are rising in the region and the residence of taipei and change. i have do, i did opinions on china as the decent military exercises. hippa law, beijing suck at the most common people, probably aren't afraid, at least, but the mean, these and being that everyone thinks that china will certainly not start of ari fleet because they don't need to start a walk through a company. can use other methods to pressure taiwan. ha k your she had to provide audrey just exam and analysis. i've been china turns on a very normal thing. happy because firstly, i need to show our attitude resort. and we also need to show our ability to react

like this. what can do for me? oh, judas. okay. china's military pressure on taiwan continues to intensify and it's up to taipei entered defect a u. s. a lie to guess, feather. china's neck. sure. port will just be a drill. ian chang is an associate professor at the national university of singapore, and i asked them what these drills demonstrate about china's preparedness to potentially strike taiwan. so these drills they demonstrate, again, are china's ability to mark as are different kinds of operations. this includes potentially a blockade. this potentially includes on airstrikes, our missile strikes, so on and so forth. but i guess it's not fundamentally different from what the p r c has been doing over the past few years. i. it's a more concentrated, but the nature of what it's doing is pretty much the same. so in the sense,

i think there's a lot of normalization already actually on taiwan towards attraction that let's zoom out a little bit. taiwan has condemned china for undermining peace and stability in the region. how worried are other nearby countries about add a military escalation? so i think many nearby countries are worried there increasingly where each japan certainly is because the challenges some of his territory, the last round of missile excited from august. some of those missiles fell into the japanese exclusive economic zone. the philippines are certainly worried. i think the also because part of the exercises ex exclusions on was drawn just what 20 miles off of philippine church waters. and any escalation could potentially embroil other regional countries. but i think this is also a case where if a regional countries are concerned, then it's a matter of bring this up to beijing as spacing as the side that is engaging most

reaction. and there has to be some thinking about ways to discourage beijing from escalating that china has also issued sanctions against the ty, when he's president and others who traveled to the u. s. to shore up support. tell us a little bit about the sanctions and how china justifies them. so china claims that the sanctions are on split is people who are intent on separating taiwan in their i separating taiwan from china. however, the sanctions i think are largely symbolic. the individual sanction probably don't have much intention of traveling to china, nor do they really have any intention of owning property or investing in china. so it's really symbolic. it's really in a way, a response to what the us had done previously in terms of sanctioning chinese officials for, for engaging in human rights. it was on and so for professor john, thank you for your insights. professor ian chung from singapore is national

university u. s. media reporting that ukraine has been forced to change some of its military plans after a trove of us intelligence documents was apparently leaked online. the highly classified documents include strategic information on the war in ukraine, and may have compromised. a coming and counter offensive cave has played down the leak saying it's military tactics were always subject to change. so let's take a look at the leak now in more detail. top secrets u. s. government documents that were definitely not meant to see the light of day detailing ukrainian armaments weapons deliveries, russia, maneuvers, and spying on allies. among the revelations, ukraine's air defenses are allegedly in danger of running out of ammunition in a few weeks. ukraine's troop losses are set to be high, but not as high as rushes. they also hints at night to plans to support the ukrainian military in an upcoming spring offensive. i think the russians already

knew all this, this. this is information that's come to light for us, but none of this will be new to the russians or to the ukrainians. so yes, of course there's a vulnerability if, if we're not able to help ukraine getting more munitions or more systems for their aaron missile defense. but i think they will have already anticipated what those vulnerabilities are. russia is playing up washington, spying on allies and potentially that might cause you've seen your leaks. the quite interesting, the being studied and lazed and widely discussed. the fact that the u. s. has been spying on various heads of state for a long time, especially in the european capitals has already caused various scandals. that's known. i get the catalog by the mas, some of the material distributed online appears to have been altered,

but the pentagon is racing to find the source of the leaks. experts say it's unlikely that outsiders were able to steal the data and suspect that it might have been an inside job. time for a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. a boat with some 400 people on board as a drift in the mediterranean sea and is taking on water. the support service alarm phone says it received a call from the vessel, adding that nobody on board could steer because the captain had left. it's believed the boat departed from libya on saturday night, heading for europe. police in louisville, kentucky say a suspected shooter who killed at least 5 people at a bank and the center of the city is dead. at least 6 other people, including one police officer, have been treated in hospital for injuries. police have been pelted with petrol bombs during a republican parade through the northern irish city of dairy, also known as london dairy. the violence occurred as the demonstrators who want

northern ireland to become part of the republic of ireland, held a march to commemorate the 916 east arising against british rule in aren't we'll all of this just a day before u. s. president joe biden begins a 4 day trip, both to northern ireland and the republic of ireland and northern ireland marks the 25th anniversary of the landmark good friday peace agreement that largely ended 3 decades of bloodshed. now on april 10th, 1998, the irish british prime minister side the deal to set up a new government that would share power between protestant and catholic factions. it was later ratified by a referendum northern ireland is part of the united kingdom, but many of the catholic minority want to be part of the sovereign republic of arnold. now, there are worries that brags it may have put that fragile piece at risk. lately hold boxing club used to be staunchly protestant to day. young boxes from all areas

of belfast are allowed to train here, including catholics. young people in northern ireland often group largely segregated with catholics and protestants going to different schools, if any of them had written valor of each other. ha ha. and here that is word of got to meet each other, neither their me, they would never of not each other. just want to make the street to fail, thought all the young men and boys here are aware of potential threats. if you're pos in certain areas that are conflict partisan, um if you, if they know your protestant, that might not like it. but most of the time, the sound like they're sort of um, calm dynamo. and they're more forgiven. just around the corner though, protest militants have being celebrated. it's a loyalty to britain that defines the so called loyalist paramilitaries, but still have a grip on areas like this. some protestants are angry because they fear that their

british identity is being strict away. and that breaks it is bring in northern ireland, closer to the republic of ireland. but on the other side of the divide. many catholics, a hoping for re unification with the republic of ireland. park she and used to be a member of the i r a. he spent 18 years in prison and was released under the piece process. today he is sure that a united island can be achieved entirely peacefully. what i think brag said has dawn, has accelerate the discussion and a bit around our united ireland there. because we have seen that the, the day in m. o and the driving force behind praxis was english nationalism throughout belfast and other areas in northern ireland. so called peace ball, separate protestant and catholic areas. bombay street is in a catholic area just behind one of these walls. since breaks it, residents have noticed, arise intention to,

to our sheena. that's caused even more debate between the 2 sides of the community . once per actually came along, people children that read little slims yet or something. some politicians are blocking the regional assembly over breaks it, leaving a dangerous political void. that is a concern. if there is an access to exclusively democratic and peaceful means of expressing a political views, that there is m a certain logic and in some people's minds to the use of violence to express political viewpoints. half northern ireland mocks 25 years of the good friday agreement. it's hoped that for the younger generation, which grew up with relative pace, the troubles confined to history. duncan maro is a professor of political science at oldster university in belfast, and he told me earlier more about the ambitions of the good friday agreement and

its legacy 25 years on the good friday agreement was the very front down agreement . it was against the backdrop of the violence but had tried to make a new arrangement about the relationship between britain and ireland and british nathan irishness, which was a careful balance. and to make that happen, the local politicians with their work together and power sharing in an agreement. one of our problems have been that since brag that's a new question come into the northern and politics, which is the border. but should there be a trade border between the european union and the united kingdom in northern ireland, which would be a restatement of all the old divisions that were there? or do we need to have a border then which manual which f like managers trade between great britain, scott and whale and northern ireland. for that question of where the border goes, has made it really, really difficult and recently united kingdom and that you have made it and your agreement, the so called windsor framework. it is hoped that that will be enough to bring the

unionists to up to now have been boy coughing the arrangement to come back into local government. but at the moment, that's not sure i'm not certain. and if they don't, then maybe we'll have to be into a new agreement or some kind of reform of the agreement. all right, you are up to date bare spanner. g is up next with tito. you news asia, that's after a short break, and don't forget you can stay up to date on all the latest news ads analysis on our website. you don't need dot com. i was on our social media chapel or handle is dw news. i'm pablo funniest. thanks for watching, i'll see you again at the top. the next are tiger. with these places in europe for smashing in the records. step into a bold adventure. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters. discover some of you are record breaking sites.