as mental health as his dw something they need to get more on our website at dw dot com. a new kind of drill for taiwanese forces training to repel a chinese invasion. they hope it never comes, but his tensions 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 croft and berlin. this is the day. the, you'll know it's a dire situation in the taiwan strait. good relationship between mainland china and

us. our tents out of the drill is important for our residents to know how to evacuate. our suicide told me to, i think we saw that in the warren ukraine fund. i'm not worried. i have confidence which i want 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 o c says bringing people together and the name of athletic competition is an anti towed to the world 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 the bolts. welcome to the program. taiwan annual military drills have begun this year stimulating 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 it's more plains had made its frequent incursions into taiwan. these aerospace not far outside the time, and these capital black hawk helicopters approached how you own international airport until you had crossed miss our launch a spring into action. the trop assigned a place to land anatomy troops the pout. they seize and occupied the access to control facilities, but they are quickly defeated by time and these infantry a soldier hoisted the items flag in victory on the box. what is over halfway across the street from the strategically located pen. do island location of the major advise troops and tanks, rolls, mountains and soldiers file an offshore targets in taipei.

simon's bladder across the city and civilians had 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 setting, not a new, a hot inquiring military exercises. drills involving police firefight to civilians on the armed 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 . and you know, it's, it's oval only is invalid. so though 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. sometimes we saw that in the warren, new crane, and so that's why we need to prepare ourselves. now if you're out,

judge him to be on for some time, going to use the drills along with the promise of us support provides comfort. oh will do. i'm not too worried. the china has used both diplomatic and military intimidation to what i want before. besides, i want to have the support of the united states, the others remained apprehensive. i think a war could 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 therefore 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? well, 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, in 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 22 across the median lie line. i'm really honestly until i'm speaker policies visit the 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 face by mainland china. or 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, you know, strongest military in terms of global fire power, its 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 the one hand taiwan wants to be ready wants to be able to defend itself. the other handed doesn't want to attack an ice china and escalate tensions. where do you see that balance? i don't see it so much in terms of balance. i see what's going on is a china an issue. jim ping has become much more aggressive in his claims to taiwan and, and trying to claim. so that's a response to the current administration. president site when it's, i want, 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, well, on the whole 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 certainly is trying to effect the election. and that's taiwan is domestic political situation. what about china? what's going on in china? that is potentially giving, keeping the impetus to, to, to, to bluster a little bit or well, you know, that kind of be hard to say because the mailing time is, of 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. what 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. in your insights. you're welcome. the same of what we're very grateful to president biden for having

filed the lawsuit a and beyond. but as of the date of 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 authorize mine while lopez open the door responding to the latest dispute along his country's border with its northern neighbour, the united states. the bided 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 last 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 loading barrier. keep in mind though, the so called loan style operation launch 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 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 d o j 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 join 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, 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 this 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 were early in the free campaigns there. so the republicans are still trying to figure out who will be our candidates. i'm the democratic side, that's clear, it will be joe biden, and maybe he's hoping it 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, makes the 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 graft,

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, it's off 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 gonna 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 the deal with ukraine allowing green ships safe passage from ukrainian ports. global reprises 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 and flames. film from the remaining inside of the border after we do the tax on this as a black sea port, russia has now begun targeting alternative export routes as well. on monday you

printing the forward, he's 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 shipped via the black sea to country such as egypt, bangladesh, and indonesia. that 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 frame 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 poor took a lot, some vulgar ukraine is a different real tract gage than most of its european neighbors. what 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 so now they 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 and go where we discussed top both by you loud and good. lots will be a central points for transporting grains on a few crane. but not just only serials. dns you these program that you want to watch it out of 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 grains, a 25 percent increase on the previous year. at the moment there is additional capacity. the poor director tells us that this could change when remaining farmers also start shipping their later harbors to constance. as 6 see the solve this problem is the tree is the speed or the flow itself. so it means that one day, the pro 5 or we can profile mazda is blocked price by using the speed, making the movement of the great more efficient. he gains the warranty fees for both or may have some pretty a follow 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 events in 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 26th of july 2024. we will be ready and on schedule. once again, we are extremely ambitious and more all ready. that's what it looks like. precisely one year before the game start, i was the president whom his boss witnessed the progress 1st hand during his visit

to the athletes. village. 14500 athletes and stuff were called the facilities that temporary home next year. the olympic games berry is 2024 will be the 1st ever holding p. games with trend parity of the i a c has 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 really 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 that competition

side. and on the 30 minutes, these are things this all see or do successful games leave a mom or a legacy hans apple. so in this case, an ecological legacy. who loses sick? let on. when you come to paris in 2025, you will be able to swim in a sense, not just the athletes that everyone will be able to swim in. and then that's all a sudden this then river will not only be a competition venue, but also a spectacular backdrop for the opening ceremony. breaking which 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 the states

and finally on the day he made famous time is on my side, mick jagger is now proving it celebrating his 80th birthday. today. the 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 in 2021, the surviving stones towards europe last year to mark the band 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 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, and give me a call. let me know what it's 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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