wisdom about life, the universe and the rest that were series. 40 to the answer, almost every thing this week on t w. one mm. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, chinese warships and fighter jets around taiwan for a 3rd consecutive day of military exercises with the successful completion of operation joint sword. beijing says its military was sending a warning to ty, one 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 documents, keith might have to rethink its coming counter offence. at 25 years after a fragile peace deal, there are words 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 items. in response to the exercises, the us sent a sent a guided missile destroyer through contested parts of the south china sea. taiwan

says it won't lead 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. there at defense unit, closely monitored the encroaching forces. it selfish and see dozens of chinese aircraft 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, con, post rational and assault form manner. meanwhile, are earth 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? do united as tier distributed the court for china to show restraint in a shawl 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 residents of taipei and ching i have do. i did opinions on china as the decent military exercises. he parallel bashing that at the most common people probably aren't afraid, at least the mean these and being debt. everyone thinks that china, but certainly not thought of already, because they don't need to sort of walk through a company, can use other methods to pressure taiwan. huck a young. she had to buy or just exist engine financing. i think china turns out a very normal thing going because closely we need to show our attitude and we also need to show our ability to react like this,

or the for me or dress ok. china military pressure on taiwan continues to intensify . and it's up to tie fi and it's defect till you as a lie to guess feather china next show of course will just be a drill in chung as an associate professor at the national university of singapore . and earlier i asked him about what these drills demonstrate about china's preparedness to potentially strike taiwan. so these drills they demonstrate, again, china's ability to mount different kinds of operations. this includes potentially blockade. this potentially includes airstrikes, muscle strikes, so on and so forth. but i guess it's not going to mentally different from what the p r c has been doing over the past few years. it's 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 time one towards attraction. now 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 a military escalation? so i think many nearby countries are worried they're increasingly worried. japan certainly is because the challenges some of his territory, the last round of missile exercises from august. some of those missiles fell into the japanese exclusive economic zone. or 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 because beijing is 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 taiwanese president and others who have 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 there i separating taiwan from china. however, the sanctions i think are largely symbolic. the individual sanctioned 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 a way, a response to what the us had done previously in terms of sanctioning chinese officials for, for engaging human rights abuses on. and so 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 u. s. intelligence documents was apparently leaked on line. the highly classified documents include strategic information on the war in ukraine, and they have compromised a coming counter offensive. keith has played down the league saying its 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 nato 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 you crane get 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 spinal malice 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. throw them off some of the material distributed online, the pews 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. here are 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 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 wanted northern ireland to become part of the republic of ireland, held a march to commemorate the 1916 east, arising against british rule in ardent. now all this is happening just

a day before you as 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. largely at that largely ended 3 decades of bloodshed on april 10th, 1998. the irish and british prime minister signed the deal to set up a new government that would share power between protestant and catholic factions. it was later ratified by referendum northern ireland, as part of the united kingdom, but many and the catholic minority want to be part of the sovereign republic of aren't. now, there are worries that brags it may have put the fragile piece at risk. lately, whole 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 grew up large. he segregated with catholics and protestants going to different schools and he had them kids were involved with each other. ha ha. and here,

that's his word of got to meet each other and either there meets they would never of not each other, just want to play the st. avail. thought all the young men and boys here are aware of potential threats. if you're pos in certain areas that are conflict or partisan, um, if you, if they know your protestant, that might not like it for most of the time, a small like that, they're sort of, um, calm dynamo. and they're more forgiving. 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 the brakes it is bring in northern ireland, closer to the republic of ireland, but on the thir, the side of the divide. many catholics, a hoping for reunification with the republic of ireland. but 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 brackets. it 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 carrier just behind one of these walls. since break seats, residents have noticed a rise intention to to our sheena that caused even more debate between the 2 sides of the community. once perhaps i came along, people children that read littles liam's and yet or something. some politicians are blocking the regional assembly over breaks it, leaving

a dangerous political void. the 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 islands 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. or duncan maro is a professor of political science at ultra university in belfast. and he told me 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 arrangements about the relationship between britain and ireland and british nathan irishness, which was a careful balance. and to make that happen,

the local politicians were then work together and power sharing in an agreement. one of our problems has been that since brag that's a new question come into the northern and in politics, which is the border, should there be a trade border between the european union and the united kingdom in northern ireland, which will be a restatement of all the old divisions that were there, or do we need to have a border then which manual which if you like, managers trade between great britain and 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 your agreement the so called windsor framework. it is. ready 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 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. his reminder of the top story we're following for you this era. chinese war ship,

some fighter jets have been circle taiwan on a 3rd consecutive day of military exercises. beijing says it's a warning to the id to after it's president met with a top us official. that's all for now after the break close of zooms in on the out of service satellites that are littering space and there's plenty more use analysis on our website, d, w dot com and you can follow or social media channels or handle is dw newsprint. gov. we'll be here from the top of the next hour for me on the team and brilliant, thanks for watching. take care. ah. when you work as an architect all in or not at all, women in the architecture. why are they so invisible to the larger public? we decided to ask them what is the poetry the secret of a house.