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a message to beijing and arrested for exposing police torture. an eye witness revealed torture attack fixed by an elite funding of issue police unit is arrested soon after the broadcasts and investigation. ah, i've been expanded, you're welcome to the dublin news asia. glad you could join us starting tuesday more than 17000 us in the philippines troops will be holding the largest ever joint military exercises between the countries called the bally cut on drills. these are an annual feature, but this year the size and scope is big up for one troops we be rehearsing how to think a ship with the rocket barrage in waters across the south, china sea and taiwan straits. now this is where attention has been building for

years between manila and washington on one side and beijing on the other. china and the philippines boat lake, a beating claims to island groupings in the south china sea. and this is influencing what the philippines will be rehearsing. in these latest drills, philippines exercises spokesperson, colonel michael lago said, and i caught in order for us to protect our sovereign territory. we really have to drill and exercise how we are going to retake an island. that's been taken away from us and joining me now for more context on this is walter columnist and political scientists, richard hid area and richard the kind of drills we are seeing currently thinking a vessel in philippines, territorial waters for the 1st time using coordinated artillery, an air strikes, is this a message that manila is sending to beijing?

oh there's, there are a lot of messages being sent here. i mean, just a short back story actually solve this war against were supposed to be, conduct that way to the north of the philippines, particularly in the last north, which is where the mark with this war in charge of the philippines once again come from. but interestingly, presidential sister and senator, i me a barcode who heads the foreign affairs committee, kind of grilled the military men the author month and asked them to relegate it because she felt was too close to tie one and to provoke. they've said they brought it down in nudge and relocated to south trying to see what's under. let the message . it's very clear. we are preparing for war. we china, particularly if something really happens there in the sol, janice, and this policy exercises are huge. $17000.00 troops more than twice the size last year, which was already one of the biggest, the type. it's 5, the nature of the location. everything speaks volumes. i wonder if washington is also sending a message to beijing because given that the philippines as a treaty ally of the united states, is that

a possibility that philippines gets dragged into any conflict over taiwan as well. were just too close to tie one to not be affected by any potential conflict there. and i cannot be neutral. so that is why the philippines decided to be part of an effort integrated the terrance of ford, not part of approval cation effort, but the joint hands with the united states. but by the way, there's another tre, larger the lines of the coming to get her. everyone talks about all close australia, u, k, u s. but the big one to also watch out for a quiet, subtle one but important one which i called jobless japan, philippines u. s. 3 larger alliance. that is very much about the whole 1st island chain. so not only taiwan, but both east trying to install, trying to be so us is i want to say carolling, but mobilizing all of the st. the allies. and now the philippines, i would argue that is the new star, i like the united states. so this is also a message by us that, hey, it's not just me versus you china. i got

a lot of our leasing the region sort of understand the for the being the strategy more particularly president marco's and strategy to deal with beijing. there is the territory disputes in the south china sea and then there is the obligation to washington as being treaty allied with washington. so what exactly is the philippines? a strategy with regard to china? what probably folks can read my books, explain the whole strategy, but to keep it very brief. what i can say is the philippines over the past decade has really realized how serious is the implications for the philippines when it comes to the sovereign rights in the south. china sea and also now the philippines wake up to the. busy possibility of potential war in taiwan. so our geography has been our advantage. but right now it's also a point of vulnerability. so different filipino presidents, i've tried to deal with different the former president keno the late president keno, tried to double don in his life with the united states while taking confrontational

stats or china. and it is quite a, it's a free nick way. we had a totally different position under the succeeding president under the saturday. so now under for them and markers junior, senior junior were having a much more let's a synthesis of those 2 position whereby we're not trying to unnecessarily provoke china. but definitely we want to keep our insurance policy and that's the united states. but as they said, it's not just the u. s. markets, it's also reaching out to japan, to australia. we're already talking bought the alternative quad core logic lives with strategy, finding us. but the syllabus is also working quietly and building relationship with france, with germany and audrey major european power, not to mention india, which is also beginning to arm the philippines. so it's a diversified, multi victor oper option. but clarity, the u. s. alliance is front and center as far as market, you're a junior deter, and strategy is concerned in all of this, how does proven marco's in 10, dealing with the domestic pollution that you alluded to little earlier?

yeah, i mean, just to be clear, i don't think the domestic opposition is strong enough yet. but as they said, the fact that the location of the by, like an exercise was changed in response to i'm more close presidential district opposition. the fact that the former president the person now coming up vocally and criticizing it to father, now you have business man including trying to be going to be some stuff on one hand and then left. this progressive national group on the other. all of them coming to getting criticized and did that means that should china, you know, you know, shot the cross and, you know, shut about, make some warning here and there. then that could really give some, i'm sure some people that they may be barking june is going a little bit too far. so this is why i'm hoping that prison margaret junior really realize that the implications, including secondary consequences, what it's doing because he should be prepared for potential retaliation from china on the softer stance in terms of not investing the philippines that much in terms

of, you know, rolling boxes or trade initiatives with the philippines, but on the harder side that could have been should prepared for other potential retribution from china, including the fiber war free zone. i'm on water. so the philippines should really get the best help we can get from it's alex, should china moving that direction? nevertheless, my hope is that we don't, will prevail in china will realize that they have to win back the philippines because under the, let's be honest. the terry gave them everything he, he downgraded our lives through the us. he did not invoke our arbitration case in the chinese the he loved them and yet didn't get much out of that. so i think offer some real concessions in the philippines. economic political then maybe market junior can recalibrate, solve these foreign policy, prevent the u. s. in recent months, so in short, wait for a new plot to it in the coming years. if china is also willing to make some big changes and it's direction of foreign policy towards the philippines. always a pleasure talking to you. reach out. thanks so much for this today. my pleasure.

ah, did avenues have learned that a man who shared his experiences of being tortured by bank, the vicious elite counterterrorism force, has been arrested 23 year old and the fees mohammed oliver spoke to d. w's investigative unit about his alleged abuse at the hands of the rapid action battalion, or r a, b. d. w documentary inside the debt scored in collaboration with sweden based mithra. news collected the count of the inner workings of the rab, and revealed alleged instances of extradition. killings enforced his appearances and torture and joining me for more w shows up on islam who was part of the dw investigative team that uncovered these allegations against the rapid action battalion of the what the latest we know about

in a few moment items whereabouts. i was normal dollar me didn't jail. now where do you know his skills contacts confirmed that police had taken him from his apartment in taca at around 6 30 pm local time on sunday he was then taken to a person. however, he was held for some time contacts off alone, also told d w that he had been taken to jail after the appearing in court on monday. and is this revenge for speaking to dublin news? as you know enough, as moment alma recounted his experience of being brutally tortured to d w's investigative team at the hands of bangladesh. elliot counterterrorism. post that, that beat action, battalion, or lab, he was at a state just days after that story was published. my colleagues now mc on that and big it us will go are part of the blue investigative team that interviewed album. they have said his account of what happened was

a vital part of the study at conrad sage. quote unquote, we wanted to talk to our loan because we knew he had to spend time in wraps, secret detention facilities, which was something our who sell blogs had talked about. and it was important to us to corroborate their accounts with all that sources, including his testimony. what i have noticed, it seems the police are in a hardy to address the alum and defense officers of the force have given various reasons for his attis. initially, they said he was at a state in some old cases that are filed back in 2021 or even 2017. but local newspapers pointed out that he has been sent to jail in a new narcotics case filed after he was taken to police custody on sunday evening. as police reportedly ceased 26 bottles of alcohol and 32 o'clock ends from his

apartment. during the raid on sunday, or for the remainder of potter investigative documentary uncovered. and while the reaction has been since it was ad about week back. the joint investigation by d. w and nitro news shed new light on city of human rights. abby was committed by rap to whistle blowers claimed that hyde and king politicians used the elite silence political opponents. and this is for the 1st time to former rep commanders a share details about the units in working and activities, including mod, our daughter and enforce disappearances. d, w, and near to news have made to both man and verify that identity is one of the whistle blowers that effort to wrap as a death squad. however, bangladesh, the minister of foreign affairs said in it, eat in response to the w that these claims contradict their own investigations and the elegance and made appears to be not

a pierce not to be authentic. at that documentary has been viewed several 1000000 times in bothers and abroad. so far, wheeler leave it there for the timing, but thank you so much for joining us today or for toll islam. thanks so much. and you can watch that entire investigation on the youtube trammel of d. w. a documentary that does it for today. we'll see you tomorrow. at the same time, by a frosty adventure in an electric car. we take a neo he l 7 on a drive through the north of china, covering 1500 kilometers of ice, snow and extreme temperatures. can the battery would stand the cold?

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