the, the, this is data, new news live from berlin, lodging tay, wins taiwan presidential election. the ruling democratic progressive party's candidate emerges victorious over his 2 opponents for the presidency. his election will set the trajectory for tense relations with china for the next 4 years. also on the program, the us military strikes who the targets in yemen for a 2nd day with the leaders vowed to retaliate and warrant that us and british interests are now considered legitimate targets. the

next by, sir, thanks for joining us. in taiwan, the ruling party candidate, launching today has won the presidential election, giving his party the d p. an unprecedented 3rd term play took a comfortable lead or leading the vote count head of his nearest rival and the opposition k empty. china claims taiwan as its territory and in the run up to the election called the a dangerous separatist. the dvp champions taiwan separate identity and rejects pages claims of sovereignty over the on it. and for more and this we can talk now to bonnie glazer, who is the managing director for the a new pacific at the german marshall fund and joined us today from washington d. c. a. bonnie: what does a logic taste when mean for tie one as well. first and foremost, it's a victory for taiwan democracy that despite china is attempts to interfere in the elections. of that they did hold

a legitimate election. only 40 percent of timelines voters are cast. their votes for lighting does start with 60 percent voted for the opposition. and that is an expression of dissatisfaction to some extent current policies. but nonetheless, i expect that there will be consistency, especially in foreign policy. that means approach to china to the united states and uh, and to europe. i do think that ty, once a partnership with the world with democracies will remain very strong. and you mentioned continuity in foreign policy. liking tay has said he vows to defend taiwan from what he calls china's intimidation. what is a james initial reaction? been to his victory as well been doing, expected lighting got to win and so they were well prepared. the initial reaction and my view is relatively marked china. we integrated statements that it has

set up for some time and the emphasis was on warning against separatist activities . and foreign interference, that particularly means the united states. the statement from the taiwan affairs office in beijing also reiterated that re unification is inevitable. and this of course, was a statement made by cj and ping in his new year's address, where he said that reading the cation is a historical inevitability. so once again, this is consistent with prior statements. and if we can just go to washington and involve the americans in this, president biden said after the vote that the us does not support the independence of tie one. uh, what does this mean? well, that's a long standing us policy to not support taiwan independence. i think we stating

that at this particular time was important to reduce the potential for a very strong reaction from badging. i think that does not call into question your support for taiwan, which i expect will remain rock solid. i know what do you think of the possibility or the risk of some kind of military escalation in the past years and months there has been a ratcheting up uh, you know, military exercises in the region. are things going to calm down now? or can we predict that far ahead or? i don't think this things will calm down. i expect the china will continue to put military pressure and growing economic pressure on taiwan. that said, i do not expect china to use force in the near term. i think that china is interested in preserving the stability in the us china relationship that was achieved in the summit between siege and ping and presidential byron in their

summit last november. i think central bank is focused on his economic troubles, to corruption in his military. and i do not think that he wants to take risks by using force against taiwan at this point that said in the growing uh, in the next 4 years or longer. uh, there is a possibility that china could decide that it does need to use force against taiwan . but that will depend in part on lighting, does policies toward major and toward china, as well as us policies not only enter the by new ministration, but also of course, depending on who is the price event in the united states next year, understood bonnie glazer from the german marshall fund. thank you so much. thank you. or let's have a look at some other stores making use around the world. now, thousands of pro palestinian protesters have marched in central london. it called

for a cease fire and jazz as the conflict between israel mazda approaches, it's hundreds de london's metropolitan police said some $1700.00 officers were deployed for the march is rarely forces have carried out raise on the alpha road, refugee camp in the occupied west bank and conducted air strikes, targeting, southern gas and the territories, how most run health industry, since at least 60 people were killed in those strikes is really military says they've destroyed rocket launchers and killed several fighters. israel says it's negotiated a deal with cutter to allow medicine through to hostages being held in the gaza strip. how much is the leading to? is the lead rather to be holding more than $100.00 people captive there after kidnapping them during the october 7th the terror attacks in israel? the us as carried out a 2nd day of military strikes all the who the rebels in yemen. us officials have the new targets posed a threat to shipping in the red sea,

which has been disrupted by who the attacks and recent weeks with the leaders have vowed to retaliate following the attacks. the after massive air strikes on who's the targets. the ripples said, at least 5 people were killed. as 2 waves of strikes had 28 targets in parts of game and controlled by the rebels. the us and u. k. c, the strikes were acts of self defense. the who was these are backed by iran. they've been targeting ships in the red sea for weeks with the group releasing this voltage in november. i've been spiker is appearing to see the best. so it claims the attacks are in response to israel is warren gas. it against the radical islam is how much organizations it's the u. s. b u and other countries. i'm labeled a terrorist group a different ship though, the us. it's connie launched another attack on saturday, destroying a who was the radar station with

a miss file present in spite and warrant there would be more to come if the who these didn't leave shipping alone. we will make sure that we respond but he also said that who these main allies knew better than to escalate the conflict at the united nations. the us once again pointed the finger at turned on. we need to also be clear about the role of iran in these attacks without arriving in support in violation of their obligations under resolution $2216.00. the who these would struggle to effectively track and strike commercial vessels, navigating shipping lanes through the red sea. and the goal for the then to the iran is how i russia is currently waging a war of aggression against new crane. but it condemned the striking claiming that

they were against international law that make up. that is, that's it, though there is no authorization for the arbitrary act that the us and its allies are carrying out in human. and there is the risk of a full fledged war not only in human, but throughout the region. it's a worry, shared by some, including these protesters in seattle. but washington, once again, sees air strikes as the least bad option to keep a conflict from spreading. it must pick things up now with a maritime enlisted. the center for maritime strategy is in baltimore and united states. welcome back to dw air strikes as the best way to keep this conflict contain what, what do you make of that as well? i, i think we have fall in the fall of one of the funding middle principles of military strategy, which is to know your enemy, your know, your adversary. i like them to. so game incentives and most people are weak on the backend. but some people are very strong in their back end. so if you're playing somebody with a strong back in, you don't do what you would normally do and,

and he to it. and that's exactly what we've done. we've hit add to a very strong back handed or even underhanded player, and we are unfortunately realizing now that this is not have the effect that we want it. we have to keep the goal in mind, which is to stop there are times on shipping. and unfortunately, this is only exacerbated an existing problem within human, which is the divide between the government of human and these rebels who operate as terrorist. and so we've actually strengthened to the recruiting for this terrace organizations by virtue of drawing attention to them and hitting these targets in a way that hasn't actually taken out their full capabilities. but allow for them to find we have proof in the narrative that they are fighting against the us and u. k, which is something they have taught them henry for the last decade as a way of trying to mobilize force behind them. so we're in a situation where we, we maybe made the situation a little bit worse rather than better. i can't understand how that might have helped recruiting for the who these and so on. but what about shipping,

which is the, you know, reported objective, protecting it. is it gonna be anything just as i was fortunately, don't think we're there yet. um, as the, the ability to attach shipping is, is fairly easy. we seen, you know, mercedes ropes and ladders being not to undermine the ability for, for ships to flow freely and for the freedom navigation to continue unimpeded in places like somalia, the gulf of guinea, the straight of a single 4 and the pseudo and celibacy. so the ability to disrupt shipping is, is pretty easy to do. the problem now is that, uh, the hutus now have more motivation because that approach of attacking shipping as it had been what's garner them all this attention. so yesterday, even after the 1st set of strikes, we saw an attack and, and just to be very clear, this was against a vessel that was carrying russian crew. this was not against and his really vessel or vessel in any way tied to israel, but who have a long past the point where they are narrative of supporting palestine supporting

guys. that is, it holds any water they are now attacking shipping, and he goes backwards, getting them the attention to the desire. and we have a position now where they may continue to lash out in somewhat of a haphazard or reckless way of making all shipping unsafe throughout the region. and it just started quick final question if i may, as regards the military capabilities of the united states, the united kingdom, if they wanted to engage in constant showing environment of, of who they talked to, they have the means, or are they overstretched as well? i, i think that i is really impressed and i can answer in terms of just looking at weapon supplies and stocks. but i think we have the ability to operate with a lot more force than we have. but unfortunately, the who these also have an ability to respond with a lot more force than they have, and that's where we need to be prepared. and so what we need to focus on are the non kinetic ways of dissuading difficulties from continuing to a shot attack shipping. first of all, the voice, the narrative from the israel guys and situation. second level them

a terrace organization which is what they are mobilizing, support the government of young men and re engaging, mobilize and support. those we're suffering most from this, like egypt, like much of the rest of the world who's, who's also reliant on shipping and not protect the ships that around is using in the southern red sea from the hook, either errands and erratic attacks. so if, if so these start watching these, these attacks, how do we, we should do know, you know, good in helping protest be is the radians ships who are providing bogie intelligence and the positioning like the side is like the best shot and other so we need to we need to rethink our strategy and focus on the adversary that we have not the one that we wish we had. okay, thank you for that in robbie of the center for maritime strategy. thank you so much . i. so i've got some other world news now. thousands of people have rallied in hamburg calling for a ban on germany's far right. a f d party protest had been triggered by the exposure of an alleged plan to deport

millions of people with non germanic ethnic backgrounds, including german citizens, investigative journalists, a party members discussed the proposal with a neo nazi group near berlin and accusation. if the denies turkey's defense ministry says its air force has carried out, strikes on courage, militants interact in syria. officials say the targets belong to the band. curtis 10 workers party, or p k. k. the strikes come a day after 9 turkish soldiers were killed in an attack on a turkish military base in a rack. a mudslide in northwestern columbia has killed at least 33 people. an injured dozens, landslide buried, a busy highway linking the cities of keep go and knitting and completely engulfed several vehicles. an unknown number of people are still missing and that's all from us for now. up next, our text show shift with

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