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explanation full of a southern removal of china is fine. minnesota from office chain gun was replaced and want some observance. a was a political purge by the chinese government. and while 5 suite through northern algeria killing dozens and forcing hundreds to meet the safety, thousands of 5 by just trying to get the place is under control, the i'm told me a lot of people welcome to the program. taiwan is conducting military drills as part of an exercise, simulating a possible response to a possible attack by china. some of the drilled involve exercises by the civilian emergency services. responding to an attack, helen holds the drill every year, but this time they happening against the backdrop of simmering tension. as westbank

jang, china has its own managing drills around a taiwan and incursions of its war planes into taiwan. squarespace are frequent dw correspondent each n e is following the story for us and joins us now from ty pay the capital of taiwan each and good to have you on the program. the drills come at a time of heightened tensions with china. what message is taiwan? trying to put forward the message is really clear as some experts in taiwan has told me, this is true is taken more seriously by the tanya as kaufman and it's kind of telling badging that taiwan is renting off at $0.02 and response on to a potential chinese invasion, but the experts also and i'm so sorry, size search act by such true shouldn't be seen by the world as an active publication because most of the exercises are focused on how to defend not how to

initiate and attack. but as you mentioned, china is still, you know, sending word planes and worship around. so i want any happens really frequently nowadays. so it's such kind of materials to carry out by taiwan. like the goal is really to the curb aging. and from even considering carrying out a real invasion. and so how i was trying to make the price higher the so high that china as president sheeting pain when not, you know, want to pay the price was in the tie. one thing as land lessons from the one ukraine and that this will play a role in the drills. do we know more about that? yeah, um, actually today's under ro is a great example of how taiwan is learning some of the same strategies from ukraine . because like, it's a lot like this morning on taiwan carried out of the for the 1st time military

drill at tow in international airport, which is the largest and b, the civilian airport in taiwan. and you know, like, this is an idea coming from the war in ukraine because out of the very 1st beginning, a russian attack, one of ukraine, airports and ukraine managed to take it back later. so it kind of reminded taiwan defense ministry that how long ago an important an airport can be like during a war. so this morning, taiwan, a soldiers are like practicing how to prevent chinese army from power shooting into ty wants airport and is in airport as the control tower is taken over by the chinese army. like, how is how on these suitors can reclaim in these kinds of, you know, like a new new strategies are coming from the lessons learned from the ukraine. and at the same time, a super tie fluid is heading towards ty, one,

what effect as best had on the drills? well, this is really an unexpected situation, but you know, like time one and a half a experience hyphens any time. so people and the golfing are prepared for that because those high flows, high senior selling from the south east waters of taiwan from the south west. so he kind of like cars, heavy rain and, and strolling in 1000 and east, and taiwan 0. 1 of the airport trail style was supposed to take him twice in east high one. and it was cancelled on yesterday. so and either on the same day like i was pressing tying when tested positive for a copy 19. so you saw this use drill has seen a lot of you know, external destruction that has to be overcome. all right, thank you for bringing us up to speed dw, you generally in taiwan now has been silence

from the authorities engaging as to why the foreign minister was suddenly dismissed from his post chain gang hosting. here with us secretary of state, i me blinking any of this year had been absent from public details for more than a month. chinese state media and made the announcement say that he'd been replaced by his predecessor in the role that come in his policies for the 1st one, the old phrase of gene is being removed from the foreign minister ministry websites. any we heard from anyone, a senior analyst with the razor group who focuses on us china relations and we asked them if this was the sign of a political pudge. and there's a lot of speculation, there, lot of rumors and swirling around the deformed minister. but what we do know is you said, as we speak in real time, images of june gung are being removed from the ministries website. references was previous diplomatic activities are being scrub from the ministry's websites would

certainly suggest that there's some political infighting going on there. a lot of speculations. you one, your one room or, or one i should say, a room or, you know, one assertion has been made is that the speed option gone just send within the ministry of foreign affairs ranko, some of his more senior colleagues. and certainly there were frictions between personal frictions, between long e and entry and gong. so again, i think some personal animates that works and political motivations that work. but now as long as you're heading up, not only the ministry of foreign affairs, but also the central florida parents commission, wong e now is going to be overseeing not only the substance of foreign policy, but also its implementation. i think the warranty is a much better known entity, diplomatically, i think that you'll also be a more challenging interlocutor for the united states. i'm you mentioned in your remarks, the meeting between the us secretary of state anthony blinking in his recent visits to beijing. and it's noticeable that his meetings with i can gun we're a little bit warmer than he has meetings with one a so long. he's a more well known entity, a more prominent entity, but potentially also more challenging interlocutor for the united states. i don't

think this personal change is going to have a significant impact on the us china relations. i think that the relationship broadly has been competitive. it will remain competitive in a range of domains. i think what we might see is perhaps a little bit more of the return to china is a sort of diplomacy in long g is known sometimes colloquially, for so called wolf where diplomacy a more assertive, perhaps even abrasive style of diplomacy. we've seen that on display and his interactions with us counterparts. and i think that we might see a return to that type of style of diplomacy. not only dealing with the united states, but it with the west more broadly to a belgian quotes has convicted 6 men of motto with a terrace motive for their part in the 22016, the bombing attacks in brussels. now another 2 were found guilty of membership and a terrorist organization. the trial was the biggest in belgium's legal history spending over 7 months of $32.00 people died in the bombings at brussels airport

and a busy subway station in the city. the so called as nomic states that is carried out the attacks the immediate aftermath of brussels international airport. for 16 people died in the 1st of 3 bombings that day, including at the train station and then a subway. chaos as smoke filled the departure hall. the roof caved in. bodies all around. people from almost a dozen countries died in the attacks. and the sold on the heart of the european union. a mass of search for the suspects followed the so called as law mac state claim to responsibility. authorities eventually arrested 10 man charge them with murder, attempted murder, and membership. the terrorist group. the trial lasted 7 months before prosecutors wrapped up their arguments. the jury began deliberating earlier this month. since then, the jurors have been working towards the verdict under high security in an

undisclosed location. sentencing is expected to take weeks for the final decision, not expected until september. thousands of firefighters have been deployed to contain wildfire as raging on all the areas mediterranean coast of the country. struggles with the reca breaking heat wave of there is into a ministry. he says it's recorded nearly a 100 blazes across 16 provinces. more than 30 people have been killed, including soldiers trying to put out the flames. one finds a binding across al jerry is northern and eastern coastal regions. 5 bye to administrate at cost of backing to control dozens of places in forest and agricultural areas. big stream heat and high winds have made it harder for emergency crews to contain them. as things buzz in to the nights and orange globe

shrouded the mount, this cub bailey region. 5 is spread to residential areas sweeping through several villages. montebello jury is northern provinces, have been torched, homes, trees and land left in ashes. the people woke up at 6 am surrounded by the lots of calamities intact and that's mobiles the peace be upon the souls. people's houses are found. some toys died and some drug cause fled to reach in a battle. the flames have spread as far as el jerry, as buddha was too busy. yeah, to some residents tried to salvage what they could, but others were only able to watch from a distance as a livelihood were destroyed. not just the fire started throughout the template side . it's brent through pennyman law and at that boot at boston dining everything and it's past some people lost everything, i guess,

defies or false people to evacuate. many trying to flee by land and sea to reach safety for the 5 season in both algeria and to see it has been particularly bad this year, with blistering temperatures reaching 48 degrees celsius. much of it exacerbated by a heat wave. that's a broken brick holes in several mediterranean countries, and investigation is underway to find out what caused the latest outbreak. meanwhile, efforts continue to put out the flames. but it's a race against time as well. hot weather is expected in the coming days. to pilots of uh, what's the bombing plane have been killed while fighting wildfires in greece? their plane crashed into a ravine and exploded after one of its wings clipped a tree. 5 miles of dealing with wildfire all over greece. but the islands of, of yet coal full and roads are especially badly effected. the

better against wide fire is not letting up increase. the dentist's strong winds have fueled more outbreaks on 3 major tourist islands. the local people joined with 5 fighters deck invited 5 hundreds. we tried to put out the fire with our hands, with water, with everything we have my funds, pets, a boat is key, but there was a tragedy vent. this water bumping yet croft clipped a tree and crest was sliding by advise on the creek island of the despite fest who efforts both wireless on board died gulf who is also among the was taped areas. he had to 55 to 10 volunteers have been dealing with a major vide 5 and helping people to leave certain areas. we

effectuated the village, we are directing residents to tennessee. over here we are volunteers, we do whatever we can. we are fighting. seeing homes consumed by flames has been a huge shock to island residents. first of all, i lost many are worried about the effect divide fights will have on their businesses pick up the stuff here because mainly they main, incoming de silent is sort of difficult. now who have calculations and people have done it on competing because this data is going to be disaster for the silent for able to get it kind of the high temperatures upset to rise. even further increase also shows up wanting that the danger from fires will remain extremely high in nearly all parts of the country. reminder of the top story of the following, this, our or this taiwan is holding a series of exercises as part of

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