a dw com a new kind of drill for tire one. these forces training to repel a chinese invasion. they hope it never comes, but his pensions rise across the taiwan strait. civilians and civilian infrastructure are becoming more a part of taiwan military planning. even if it gets us backing in the event, the possibilities with mainland china. taiwan is outmanned and outcomes. the islands leaders walk a dangerous line. prepare for attack without sibling to china, that it wants one. i'm going blue cross in berlin. this is the day. the image of the, you'll know, it's a dire situation in the taiwan strait. good relationship between mainland china and us are tense out of the drill is important for our residents to know how to

evacuate our suicide total drug. we saw that in the warren ukraine fund. i'm not worried, i have confidence which i want it to be. that's why we need to prepare ourselves. now. also on the day, the countdown is on with the parents olympics. just one year away, the i of see says bringing people together in the name of athletic competition is an anti towed to the world's divisions. we need these unifying power more. is it never the olympic games must. all of us have built breaches as the olympic games must never erect adults welcome to the program. taiwan annual military drills have begun this year, simulating a response to a possible attack by mainland china. the week long exercises are taking place and

mid rising tensions in the region. beijing has held its own military drills around taiwan and its more plains have made its frequent incursions into taiwan. these aerospace not far outside the time in these capital black hawk helicopters approached how you own international airport. and so yeah, cost massage. launch a spring into action. the trop assigned a price to land anatomy troops the pallets they seize and occupied, the access to control facilities. but they are quickly defeated by time and these infantry a soldier, hoist the items flag in victory on the box. what is over? halfway across the straight on the strategically located pettigrew island location of the major advise troops and tanks as well as the dead mounds and soldiers file on off shore targets in taipei,

simon's bladder across the city and civilians, head for cover in the subway as the traffic outside comes to a standstill. these are just some of the scenarios. taiwan is preparing for in the set, united knew a 100 klein, military exercises, drills involving police, fireside to civilians on the on forces. the main focus a possible invasion by china. beijing claims taiwan as its own territory. chinese forces and conducted to drills in north is around the island in the past year. yeah, you know, so let me just go to the, we all know that it's a dire situation in the taiwan strait. now we have to prepare for an attack from china, which could happen any time kind of when that happens, it will definitely cause many deaths and injuries at times. we saw that in the warren new training, so that's why we need to prepare ourselves. now if you're out judge, i'm to be going for some time going to use the drills along with the promise of us

support provides comfort, which i'm not too worried. the china has used both diplomatic and military intimidation to what you tie one before. besides one half the support of the united states, while others remained apprehensive, i think a work would really happen, and when it happens, the situation will be quite different from the drill. i feel like everyone is doing their best to be accommodating, but i don't know what it would be like in case we're really happens from the old plan is given and everyone heads back above ground. and while these are the drills for residents of taiwan, never mind to the ever present the threat grooming just across the board to let's take a closer look at these developments. and for that, i'm joined by elizabeth lar, she's a professor of international affairs at the university of mary washington, specializing in china, taiwan relations and there for professor. very good to have you on the day. let's

have a look at these exercises. what do you make of them? are they helpful? are they realistic? what, what do you see? or of course, they are helpful. they are treat annual exercises. the hump long exercises are conducted every year for preparedness and, and also in the, at the same time that timeline is also carrying out another set of exercises called the one on the exercises. and so what these do is they, they, you know, test taiwan readiness. what is perhaps significant about this year's hun blong and one on exercises is that the civilians are much more involved to you as you just saw, the footage of civilians taking shelter, practicing on going down into shelters. you know, in the past it was largely kind of read out, you know, on the out, etc. this year also you can see that's, that's how it was military practice of protecting tell you in the airport,

which is the major international airport that you know, the civilian airport so that most people come in and out of. and that would be extremely important in the case of the, you know, an attack from mainland china, as you know, china in just over the weekend, you know, up to it's aggression against taiwan. it's sent 37 aircraft. um, you know, in the taiwan strait 20 to cross the median lie line. i'm really honestly until i'm speaker policies visit to taiwan. last year of training had refrained from crossing the media line and now it's occurring with much more frequency. and so that is quite concerning is ty, once preparation it's readiness, it's a level of defense to do these things match the potential threats faced by mainland china. that is hard to say we might leave that to the

military folks. but to make it more simplistic, i think um, you know, united states is the world's, you know, strongest military in terms of global fire power. it's number one, russian number 2, china, number 3. now taiwan is $23.00. it's right. 23 in global fire power. um it is deficient in aircraft, um it, it's navy and certainly it's manpower type. one used to require o male citizens to undertake 2 years of military training after high school and before college, as the previous administrations did wait with that, they tried going to an all voluntary force and didn't meet their quotas. and so now the young try want to use that need to do 4 months that's being extended to one year military training. but it's not very serious training. so man power is certainly lacking outside the regular armed forces. there's just not

a lot of preparation. i can imagine that calibrating the response and calibrating the writing. this must be a tricky balance because on one hand, taiwan wants to be ready wants to be able to defend itself. at the other hand, it does want to attack an ice china and escalate tensions. where do you see that balance to i don't see so much in terms of balance. i see what's going on is a china under she jin chang has become much more aggressive and it's claims to taiwan and, and trying to claim. so that's a response to the current administration. president site when it's find one, you know, secretly wanting, you know, permanence of political separation from mainland china. so i think the thing to watch now is the 2024 taiwan presidential campaign taiwan will on the hold presidential elections in january of 2024. a lot of this is

to influence the current campaign and to influence that election. a lot of this is designed in beijing to intimidate the chinese population to say, wow, we don't want to elect someone who is going to actually lead us to war. that is going to cause china to attack us. and so trying, even though it says it doesn't interfere, you know, in other countries um affairs and certainly doesn't see taiwan as a country. but it's certainly is trying to effect the election. and that's tie one's domestic political situation. what about china? what's going on in china? that is potentially giving g g paying the impetus to, to, to, to bluster a little bit or well, you know, that kind of be hard to say because a male in china is a government policies is quite opaque for goodness sakes, there, there it minister of foreign affairs has gone missing and now is being removed from

any electronic evidence that he actually was a foreign minister that that's changed on. and so it's hard to know what's going on in the halls of john. hi. well, we do know is that the chinese economy is having a real problem. it's starting to have extra labor shortage even though there's a huge um, useful unemployment problem going on. but she just thing really he really wants to unite to tie one with the mainland. he wants that to be his legacy. so no matter the domestic situation, he's going to keep preparing for that. a lot of unknown still to uncover for sure. but for now we're gonna leave it there with professor elizabeth lars, thanks very much for your time and your insights. you're welcome. the same of what we're very grateful to president biden for having

filed the lawsuit a and b. but as of the daycare, the governor of texas, the money, and what he's doing is acting your responsibly for k, all he's doing is playing his base last canada propaganda program. that to it listening, they are to mexico's president authorized mine while lopez open the door responding to the latest dispute along his country's border with its northern neighbour. the united states divided administration is suing texas governor greg abbott for installing a floating barrier across the rio grande river, which separates the us and mexico the white house as the boobies post humanitarian concerns next coast as the barrier violates and sovereignty the texas governor meanwhile argues he was forced to take action to control the flow of migrants over his border. and let's get more on all of this with dw as washing correspondence

stuff on simon's 7. always good to see you. let's start with greg abbot down in texas. always a thorn in joe biden side. he said he welcomes the federal government's lawsuit. what point is he trying to make? yeah, the texas governor is up for a fight and he said as much as you pointed out, he is trying to make well as the mexican president pretty much nailed it down a point to his base bands to every republican in the south for them immigration, my grand problems are still a big, big topic. it's not at the moment on the national level that high, but if you live in the south or close to the border, this is something of concern and greg about tries to make this point with this floating barrier. keep in mind though, the so called loan style operation loan size in place for years now customer 1000000000 of dollars. and this is greg advert the governor of texas sending

national guard troops and state police officers to the border to help protect his border. as he says, and he's also of course, as we all know and have witnessed that is sending a migrant from texas to other states to give them a feel. how that is to be, as he claims been over run by migrants, which is so tell us the numbers actually not the case. so that's not really factual . so that's at least at this point of view and of course migration and immigration, a long pre 8. so by the ministration, what is their answer? well, the answer is that the, mr. ever does exactly that for only political reasons and also that, and that's why they are 5 suited on, on monday against the texas, that the texas is violating federal law. and this is the federal rivers and harbors appropriation act and a section of that. and that says that you can't just put

a structure up in any waterway in the united states or bordering the united states without approval from the federal government. so he didn't get this approval. that's why the doj now. so this is the only aspect the doj is take it a met, the national guard troops and the state police officers at the border or more popped wire at the banks of the rear brandy. on the texas side. this is not part of the subject, but of course the us government, the federal government by the administration. fan square says i bought governor of texas. you were in the wrong get rid of this loading barrier. okay, so maybe this plays well with the republican base. it plays well with people who don't want people crossing the border. don't want people from the outside coming in . um, but we have an election coming up a presidential election coming up. does immigration have a chance to actually be an issue that a candidate can score points on either side that we can both spend?

what ever we want on executive is to be the truth. this will be a top topic and a major topic in the presidential elections. in 2024 and leading up to this, we're early in the free campaigns there. so the republicans are still trying to figure out who will be our candidates on the democratic side, typically it will be joe biden and may be useful, but you will be donald trump, we're going to see the spot. this is happening. if whoever is the g o p, kevin, to the republic, get it in the presidential election. he will, he will for sure, make immigration migration illegal. immigration, a top topic of the campaign. why? because a lot of republican base folders didn't even independents. they are in those rule areas in the south, in the states which border mexico. so they need to be gripped. they need to be voting for the g o p. that's at least what donald trump or whoever else will be the

candidates are thinking. so they will make immigration a top topic. we both can be sure about that. okay, so plain politics, how about actual reform? is there any chance of congress, the parties and power to pass meaningful immigration reform? so now you're heading me with a trick question. the answer is no, has been tried before, but it's not going to happen right now and is actually not even on the horizon. at least i can see it, and i'm in good company with many, many experts, and many, many people are much smarter than i am. there's nothing on the arriving horizon to do any of comprehensive new immigration policy really will move the ball or push the envelope in the right direction, whatever the right direction is here, but in a direction that's not happening. this is going to be a topic for political circus and for the campaign and 2024. and it will remain that i'm sure you'd have your correspond stuff on simon's handling those trick questions

and all other questions quite well from washington. thanks very much. it's been more than a week since russia left a deal with ukraine allowing green ships safe passage from ukrainian ports global. we prices have spike by as much as 15 percent over concerns for food supplies. the european union says it's ready to move almost all ukrainian agricultural goods by road and rail through its territory. moscow, meanwhile, is stepping up. it's a tax on ukrainian export infrastructure. and british intelligence has warned of another russian c blockade. ukraine's rainy river port in flames. film from the remaining side of the boat after we did a tax on the best of the black sea port, russia has now begun targeting alternative export routes as well. on monday you printing the forward has reported several warehouses, full of grain destroyed by drones,

ukrainian port town under the name of the star wars show before russia's invasion in 2022. the cream was the 4th largest exporter of green, mainly wheat cord, and barley ship via the black sea to country such as egypt, bangladesh, and indonesia. what was the start of its full scale war? the russian navy block, all green exports from ukraine, seaports. food and security and soaring prices on the market where the results deal broken by the u. n. and turkey. last summer allowed for a limited exports of last week. rush i pulled out of the green, leading cream and its allies gets again scrambling for solutions. roughly 60 percent of ukrainian green already passes through so called solidarity lanes, alternative land roots through e u. member states bordering ukraine. and there are plans to further increased capacity like here. and there were many of ports of deluxe and the border.

ukraine is a different real track gauge than most of its european neighbors. but a duel track system is being extended into lots to make deliveries across the board are easier. and with a recent attack, some of the printing ports, there may be more work here. so some of these use, the 2nd us from the ukraine inside are there 4 days ago we had a meeting organized by the european and the daniel commission. see, let me show the movie. i'm good, where we discussed how both, pri, you, loud and good. lots will be essential parts for transporting grains out of few crane, but not just only serials. d g d 's broken unless you wanna watch it. in the meanwhile, on the black sea itself, the remaining port of constance has already become a major alternative route for retraining and bring since the beginning of this year, it has handled more than $15000000.00 metric tons of greens. a 25 percent increase

on the previous year. at the moment there was additional capacity. the poor director tells us that this could change when remaining farmers also started shipping their later harbors to constance to 6. see the solve this problem is the entry is the speed or the flow itself. so it means that one day, the pro 5, or we can profile mazda block right, by using the speed, making the movement of the great more efficient. he gains the warranty fees for both the math and reading and fall. whether by land or by sea operators everywhere are seeking to increase capacity as the global grain prices continue to rise. today marks a year before the start of the paris olympics, as part of publicity offense and the french capital. a clock set up near the eiffel

tower has begun counting down the days and hours till next year's opening ceremony . organizers say they want the games to be spectacular and sustainable. aiming to avoid the problems that have played the event in recent memory. the olympic city of paris presents itself and its splendor, and the organizers show themselves accordingly, self assured, and full of confidence. pull back the only moment when we welcome the welds on 26 of july 2024. we will be ready and on schedule. once again, we are extremely ambitious and more ready. that's what it looks like. precisely one year before the game start, i will see president who is boss, witness the progress 1st hand during his visit to the athletes, the village. 14500 athletes and stuff will call the facilities that temporary home

next year. the olympic games berries 2024 will be the 1st ever holding the games with trend parity of the i a see has a located exactly the same number of quota to female and male athletes. 95 percent of the rain use our existing or temporary batteries. 2024 planes to cut the games. carbon footprint in half compared to the average of london. 2012 and re your 2016. a key element is the short distance between the olympic venue use all of them uh, within a radius of just 10 kilometers, which means the majority of the athletes should be able to reach the competition side. and on the 30 minutes,

these are things this all you do successful games and leave them on a legacy concert sample. so in this case, an ecological legacy producing 6 that on who, when you come to paris in 2025, you'll be able to swim in the center. not just the athletes that everyone will be able to swim in. and then this is all a sudden this then river will not only be a competition venue, but also a spectacular backdrop for the opening ceremony. breaking with history, the athletes won't be introduced by marching into the olympic stadium. but instead, the parade will be held on the same with votes for each national delegation. the cd is to become an integral part of the games, not just the setting. terrace is planning big speaks and finally on the day he made famous time is on my side,

mick jagger is now proving it celebrating his 80th birthday. today. rolling stones front man shows no sign of slowing down. the band is even planning a release to release an album of new material later this year. in honor of long time drummer charlie wants to see him. on the far left he died 2021, the surviving stones towards europe last year to mark the bands. 60th anniversary that has been no shortage of birthday. congratulations, of course. but i think we should take a look at this tweet from jagger's song writing partner keith richards, who is a very youthful 79. have a look the. 2

2 2 2 2 the ocean i guess i'm lonely, may we keep saying this to each other? oh, perfect. but i mean, you know, that's another good and uh uh, give me a call. let me know what it is like us. well, time is no longer on our side. we are done for the day, but don't go anywhere. you can always find this on twitter at dw news, mark me at w in blue cross and will of course have much more for you online on youtube and d, w dot com. thank you very much for spending part of your day with us at the desk. bye. for now, the

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