in taiwan. and what they're facing domestically and how they think about that in the context of cross-strait relations. then we'll have a very interesting panel secondly on the 2016 elections in taiwan, how that is shaping up, how we expect that to affect cross-strait relations. i think it's fair to say that there is a lot of speculation with regard to what might happen in the cross-strait relations context, should either the dpp come back to power or if the kmt manages to win and stark commentary out there about how the mainland might react to those scenarios. it will be useful to get panelists' impressions. then a luncheon speaker with shelley rigger, a distinguished scholar in the field. she'll talk to us about how to think about the state of cross-strait relations and what that means for the various political pieces that are going on. this afternoon we'll wrap up with a presentation on the u.s.'s taiwan policy with several of our colleagues here at csis but also folks from outside who are lo

-taiwan relation, u.s.-taiwan prc relations. for a long time, the mainstream analysis of cross straight relations has been that the status quo is pretty stable. it can be sustained for a long time. but there's no immediate reason for anybody to be panicking. but that there are circumstances under which this equilibrium could be disrupted and i guess the question i want to ask today is am i crazy or do we see those circumstances beginningjqa p prc, as well as by the economic value, the economic necessity of

-taiwan relation, u.s.-taiwan prc relations. for a long time, the mainstream analysis of cross straight relations has been that the status quo is pretty stable. it can be sustained for a long time. but there's no immediate reason for anybody to be panicking. but that there are circumstances under which this equilibrium could be disrupted and i guess the question i want to ask today is am i crazy or do we see those circumstances beginning to come together now in a way that we may actually have to start thinking about the possibility of a disruption of this stable equilibrium in the taiwan strait. i have three things i want to do very quickly today. one is to spell out those circumstances under which the status quo could be threatened. the second is to point out some evidence that those circumstances may be beginning to manifest themselves. and then third, to mention, of course this is where i refill the glass, at least halfway up, so that i can still be my optimistic self, i want to talk about some of the forces and factors that

-taiwan policy. we are very honored to have three distinguished guests on the panel giving us their insights today. i will keep the introductions to a minimum because these people are familiar to most of you in the audience. dr. mika greene, my colleague here. asiar vice president for and our japan chair here. obviously, a professor at georgetown and a former staffer at the nsc during the george w. bush administration. he is acting as senior director for east asia. another foreign service officer, extremely experienced. and one of the most renowned experts on u.s.-policy -- u.s.-taiwan policy. in the triangular relationship among u.s., taiwan, and china. another state department officer who is also currently a resident at georgetown university. we are honored to have him here as a senior fellow helping us think through a lot of these interesting issues that are happening in east asia right now. without further a do, we will turn it over. >> the first thing that i did 's book. alan romberg everyone to

in taiwan. purple line. and also notice that. so, let me just introduce some of my personal analysis about that. so, when a survey was first conducted in 1992, during the early years of the administration, almost half of the taiwanese reported having identity as you can see. surveyed report. so, the chinese identity at that time will be about a quarter of about 25% was even higher than the taiwanese at that time. very beginning of this survey. and seems 1992, taiwanese identity has been on the rise, when the chy these identity has experienced a decline. p percentage for identity, the pink line, however, have remained relatively stable, but there are some changes right after 2007 and 2008. so, this poll is available on the website of the election studies center. but two critical points. that deserve further attention. the first turning point was in 1997, as you note, about the time of the crisis, the act of the -- meso crisis. that was the first time a shock arise of the taiwan identity, the gree

-taiwan policy. we are very honored to have three very distinguished guests on the panel giving us their insights today. i'm going to keep the introductions to a minimum because these people are obviously familiar to most of you in the audience. dr. mike green, my colleague here at csis, senior vice president for asia and also our japan chair here at csis, obviously also a professor at georgetown. and a former staffer at the nsc during the george w. bush administration, acting as the senior director for east asia and many other previous roles both in academia and government. ron berg, likewise, extremely experienced foreign service officer, 30ish years, give or take. and certainly one of the most renowned experts on u.s.-taiwan policy, the triangular relationship between china, the u.s. and way to juan and many issues. bob wong, an active state department officer still at this stain, currently in residence at georgetown university wrest doing some teaching and we are very honored as well to have him

-taiwan policy, a triangular relationship between china, taiwan and the united states and many other issues. and then robert wang, currently in residence at georgetown university where he is doing some teaching and whether it honored as well to have him with us here at csis as a senior fellow helping us sort of thing through a lot of these interesting issues that are happening in east asia right now. so without further ado i'm going to turn over to dr. green to kick us off. >> thank you, chris, thank you, everyone for staying after lunch. we appreciate it. it's great to be up here with three guys covered an awful lot about this issue from. when i took over as the senior asia person in the nsc, the first they did was read alan romberg's, read and memorize especially good alan romberg's book, which i'm about to say for all they had a bit of dollars of taxpayer money does not actually exist within the u.s. government. so i've would help me read his account. and bob long service greatest inch i and beijing and taipei wn i was there. so let me make a few comments on how i think we the u.s

most of my to discuss on taiwan, japan more broadly. one thing that sets this presidential election apart in taiwan is the likely hood that they will length the first female president. this is not unusual in asia. in fact if you look over the period from 1945 to 2014 there have been 11 female presidents or prime ministers elected in asia. the side note here is all 11 were either the children of a former leader, the wife, the widow, et cetera of a former leader, former president, former prime minister or a member of a democracy movement. hung would be the first without this familial ties. to put in contrast, the other female prime ministers, presidents sense 1945, only three of them had these family ties. some examples for example in asia, park geun-hye. she's also unmarried and when she ran for the national assembly shfs a major issue. she said she was married. she was married to her country. that sort of died off later. another point much comparison with taiwan is there's arguably greater opportunities for women in lower level election

and many of them, because the market size is small in taiwan and because taiwan's -- let's call it relative success in the 1990s, leads to some people thinking, hey, we really need to reach out more worldwide. >> i'm curious what -- how this works logistically? the government actual lynn vesting in some of these companies or is it merely a facilitators, they find private funding? >> facilitator. in fact, we know government is not appropriate do business, nor really helping on the entrepreneur side. so in fact, the government delegate this task to a non-government organization, each industrial technology research institute with about 6,000 researchers plus some other contractors, kind of like our national lab here in the u.s. so while the -- as we mentioned, like tsmc, was a spinoff from ishii. morris chan, the chairman was, he has the tradition of spinning off companies. we, here, in fact, want to leverage the interaction with the local talents, the 500 startup, many, many others. >> larry, as you bring in young taiwanese, you also are teaching them about how we do things in northern califo

and taiwan has more than 90 of the them. inside, the equipment is on an industrial scale including the freezers. this one can hold up to 850 tons of the fish. during the high season, the crew can fill this space in about two weeks. but fully loaded ships don't return to port. instead, they offload their cargo on carrier vessels which make regular trips from taiwan to collect the frozen sari. that allows the fishing boats to stay at sea for six months at a time, meaning the owners can catch more fish at less cost. >> translator: taiwan's sari fishery has maintained stable growth over the years. this has been helped by improvements in fishing technology and marketing techniques. taiwan will continue its sari fishing in international waters. from japan, china, taiwan and four other countries met for the first time in tokyo to discuss the situation. japan's chief delegate said marine resources must be used sustainably and called for international measures such as fishing regulations. the group will meet on a regular basis, but s

taiwan will be closed due to an approaching typhoon. back to you. >> we are keeping track of that typhoon. thank you for that live from the tokyo stock exchange. >>> south koreians like their beer. many are no longer content with plain old lager. they crave flavor, character and unique brews produced by dedicated artisans. in short, they are hooked on craft beer. changing tastes and a market trend that is lifting spirits. >> reporter: these are good times for the discerning drinker. restaurants are serving craft beer in south korea, after just a handful two years ago. this bar offers more than 40 kinds from fruity and sweet to nutty and bitter. after returning home, they wanted more choice. >> translator: with craft beer, it's easy to find one you love. we now have more variety to choose from. >> reporter: the craft beer explosion couldn't have happened without a change to the law. until last year, only big breweries were commissioned to sell beef off the production site. that restriction allowed just two makers to dominate the market.

across the eastern-facing shorelines of taiwan.rosses the taiwan straits, that wrap-around effect bringing moisture and heavy rainfall to the greater taipei region. perhaps allowing for landslides and mudslides being a possibility. you see the darker shades of purple and pink near the center of the storm. again, that is intensifying, and that indicates wind gusts, again, over 100 kilometers already. our computer models depicting the system very well. it's going to impact the southern islands, taipei is next. here's a look at the population density. easily exceeding 1,500 people per square kilometer over northern taiwan and the region this, fuzhou and shanlou. the national weather service out of fairbanks, alaska, has tweeted to the world, yeah, that is some record-setting snowfall. over 6.5 inches of snow. they beat the record from 1996 of just under one inch. a sign of things to come. i know it's alaska, but it seems too early to have the snow pictures, george. >> alaska. wow. a lot of snow. i just got back from chicago. they had

the central taiwan mountain range, interesting.ns that rise up to about 3,000 meters in height. think about this. this becomes a tropical cyclone graveyard. as the storms came, category 4 interacting with the mountains. the mountain really shreds the storm system apart. once it emerges on the other side, the conditions there downgraded to a category one. i want to break it apart. we know in the northern hemisphere, based on how things rotate there. the area of the strongest wind are expected, just offshore of taiwan, this island had the highest wind gusts ever observed in japan. 292 kilometers per hour. the last time was in the 1960s. it's about the speed that you would have on a commercial airliner as it's taking off at your local airport. here's the storm system sitting in place across portions of china. fell apart rapidly. lots of mountains over this area. it will produce 2 h 00 to 300 millimeters on rainfall. that on top of what's already occurred. a life threatening scenario, especially when you consider the population that si

. >> reporter: we are in taipei's biggest train station just a day after the typhoon struck taiwan operations here have gone back to normal. although businesses are still closed as well as schools and offices, most of the roads have been cleared of debris, more than 7,000 people were evacuated in preparation for the typhoon. the mayor said they are prepared as they can be but it's very difficult to assess the damage of this one. however, if you look at the situation now and how quick the government has responded, it has seemed to be the test case for how other asian countries should also respond in disasters like this one, more than 300,000 are still without power. but most of those 7,000 have been evacuated are now able to return to their homes. by the end of today, the typhoon has already left taiwan's area of responsibility and it's just a matter of time before every operation here is back to normal as well.

obviously, taiwan is a variable that is -- it is often the variable in the u.s.-china and the largest foreign-policy challenge the united states faces in the decade ahead. in that context, everyone will immediately recognize the importance of getting taiwan policy right. is the argue that that

on the province across the taiwan straits. here's a look at the forecast for taipei. the wind gusts will exceed 100 kilometers per hour. it will only get worse from there. not only a wind maker, it's a rainmaker. over 300 mountains above 3,000 meters that will help squeeze out the available moisture and we could dump 250 millimeters of rain or more, by the way, george. that has the possibility of bringing landslides, mudslides, all kinds of problems associated with the strength of this type of a typhoon. something that residents in taiwan, the islands and southeast china need to hon. tore very closely and have final preparations under way. >> we talk about densely populated areas. >> especially on west side of taiwan. roughly 300 people per square kilometer. >> thank you very much. >>> part of a campsite in queensland australia is underwater thanks to this massive sinkhole. it was opened off a busy beach in the region. this video shows the severity around 140 people were evacuated as the sinkhole swallowed a car. >>> a caravan

>> -- in taiwan do you want to go? >> i want to look at records of oversea chinese offices that encourage chinese-americans and try to manage them and control them to suppress their political deviance. andchinese in the 1920's 1930's were far from democratic. i like to see how chinese-americans coming from a racially unequal and divided a placefared in china, where political control is much more ominous and violent. >> how is the communist control of china able to maintain a firm grip on the time? >> in the time i am looking at, the 1930's, the communists were often on their last legs. the nationalists have been able to beat them. weakened the nationalist government and they were able to rebuild. they emerged a stronger force. so, the communist were not much of an influence on the chinese-americans i am looking at. it is the idea of the nationalist government try to make sure that the commonest are not an influence on anybody and you had an incredible political suppression. >> doing all of work, did anything surprise y

thousands have already been evacuated from taiwan's outlying islands. the typhoon has disrupted plans here, real stations are operating double today in order to accommodates those who are trying to come home because the typhoon has come ashore ashore r than earlier predicted. high wind speeds and driving rain. taiwan's weather office says dujuan has stronger winds than in 20 years. dujuan threatens to be worse than many have seen before. the true damage is still being assessed. >>> protesters are on the streets in hong kong demanding political change. a year ago, tens of thousands rallied to demand democratic reform and the right to choose their next leader, without the interruption of the chinese government. shut down key operations for 79 days but failed to receive concessions from beijing. rob mcbride has more. >> they came to the spot where a year ago, thousands forced their way through police cordons to start the occupy movement. in a carnival atmosphere, it was a chance to remember the community that flourished for 79 days. >> to think about what

and taiwan's? >> the only thing i would say in response to that with a volunteer force is that they're said to be pretty expensive and the ministry of national defence has bad working on that transition is saying it will take longer and not be 100 percent but to get back to my point they're running into problems two years ago with the legislature. all of good intentions are necessary but not enough on the part of the policy makers to make it happen. so if we hold might responsible if the tpp happens to win the presidency and we don't get there. [laughter] >> the queue for the waterfall discussion. the queue for talking about the one side in which we seek this powerful man has a lot of difficulties at hand however we have forgotten this is a man who has taken bold action with bold decisions he means what he says and he will do what he will do. said recently he said the issue of taiwan cannot be a drug on for generations so that worries me does that worry you as well? >> i read about that and was cha

typhoon heads to taiwan and a double dose of moon magic and star gazers across the world get a rare lunarat. ♪ first afghanistan where security forces are battling taliban fighters who raided the city of kunduz and the city is reported to be in lock down after the early morning attacks from several different directors, it's the second time this year taliban gunmen threatened the province of kunduz and we are live from kabul and can you tell us what happened there? >> jane, call ban claimed into kunduz 200 bed hospital where they are looking for injured people and this has worried local residence and residence say the taliban are also searching houses looking for government officials. taliban, now there are unconfirmed reports, we cannot independently verify but there are reports that taliban have taken control of kunduz of the council and high peace council office and currently the clashes are ongoing with security forces and taliban fighters are now trying to block the roads leading to the hospital where they are trying to prevent getting injured people to the hospital or any medical hel

and taiwan is particularly vulnerable.n the north of the island, that's more or less where this thing is headed. it's quite a big storm again. it's got a very obvious eye to it. and the worst of the weather is always around the eye wall. the cloud is covering all of taiwan at the moment. the potential from the storm is quite nasty the wave heights are already 12 meeters and stay at that height. the rainfall potential is at least 300 millimeters and the storm surge is lifting as the ocean water as the egos over. it's at 1.8 meters, once it goes across taiwan, it goes across the straight towards the chinese mainlands, similar courses in august so not that long ago, currents position of this typhoon as it makes its lands fall in the 76 hours or so is a category three. winds over 200-kilometers per hour, gusting 250. traveling northwestward unsurprisingly. it will, by this time tomorrow, probably be in the chinese mainland by which time it will fall apart. clearly it's potential to bring quite did he have -- quite a lot of dev

the system's slowly making its way to japan as well as taiwan. it's now expected to get very close to the okinawa islands by sunday local tim as a powerful storm, and it could get close to north of taiwan, especially taipei area by monday, and the third target is eastern china, so taiwan, southwestern islands of japan, and china are in the ring of fire. this is number 21st storm for the western pacific. t typically, we see 18 storms so far this year, so the western pacific has been very active this year. a lot of rain is affecting mainland japan. there is a front in the system that's continually feeding ample moisture from the south. now, yesterday and the day before yesterday, regions were battered by extremely heavy rainfall, record breaking rainfall reported, 120 millimeters fell in parts, and today, heavy rain is affecting central portions of japan, and owase saw 515 millimeters 23424 hours. rain is fallingn the area, but rain moves away by saturday so we are looking at drier conditions starting saturday in tokyo, and temperatures are warmer

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after leaving taiwan, the next target, mainland china, was not taking any chances. in southeastern china, thousands of fishing vessels were turned to shore. ports were closed, and soldiers helped to anchor votes. in taiwan, even after the typhoon left, the risk of mud slides and other dangers remained. in some places, 900 millimeters just 24 hours. about one third of the average annual rainfall the island gets. time to repair the many roads that were damaged. with still two more months before typhoon season is over, residents around little cause for relief. bbc news, taipei. ♪ jane: the u.n. refugee agency said the number of migrants across the mediterranean into europe is double the total for 2014. over 500,000 have already arrived in europe, with the majority coming from syria. with an 80,000 have traveled through croatia in the last fortnight. our correspondent is on the croatian border with serbia, where she has been following their journey. a on the move again after night in the open in eastern croatia. the authorities caught off guard and a few thousand people

outlying islands typhoon disrupted many plans for people as taiwan celebrate the mid autumn festivalus stations like this one are operating today to try to accommodate those who are trying to go home. now, we have spoken to the mayor of taipei today and say they are as prepared as they can be but taiwan is still realing from the devastation and this was a month ago where more than eight people were killed by that typhoon alone. now the typhoon is expected to hit and make landfall around 6:00 p.m. and many are wor worr saying it may be devastating on the city. historic visit for the u.s. addressing sex abuse in the church. spain heads for a constitutional crisis as they win a landmark election. ♪ >> al jazeera america, weekday mornings. catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. get a first hand look with in-depth reports and investigations. start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. open your eyes to a world in motion. ♪ welcome back and let's recap the headlines now russian president vladimir putin to meet u.s. president barack obama on the sidelines of u.n.

taiwan is where they have the strongest win seen here in more than 20 years. people say they are used to typhoons which is part of life. the true extent of the taj is -- damage it's causing is being assessed. >>> violent unrest in the central african republic has gone into a third day with a gaol break at the main prison and an attack on police headquarters. thousands of protesters called to the rearming of the army, claiming 30 people, despite u.n. french peacekeepers. >>> more than 100 buses carrying refugees arrived on the serbian side of the border with croatia, with each car youring an average of 65 passengers, thousands crossed the border as they journey towards europe. many barely touched serbian centery, having been bus the to the border with macedonia. temperatures fell sharply. there's warnings of problems ahead. shell announced it's putting a stop to alaska drilling. oil was approved after president obama approved the arctic drilling the the well will be schemed. >> german prosecutors launched an investigation into the former chief executive of volk

it's definitely leaving taiwan's area of responsibility by 1:00 p.m. local time. gmt heading now towards china. still a lot of worry over the possible delays in infrastructure and transportation, but at this point right now it's out of taiwan's responsibility by 1:00 p.m. local. >>> thousands of refugees have been cueing up at the croatian serbian border as they journey north towards more prosperous e.u. countries. more than 100 buses have arrived at the border down. the croatian government says more than 70,000 refugees entered the country in the last few days. colder temperatures are making it difficult for refugees to his stay healthy. >> there is more and more people who are old are in this sun rabble groups. as the cold is coming. and so a lot of pregnant women who give birth on their exodus and a lot of small children under five years. mostly they are healthy, but they suffer from injuries that was due to this -- this road that they took. and also they can't prevent, par hygiene, related diseases. >>> spain's prime minister has addressed the nation with a pl

typhoon makes landfall in eastern china after causing chaos in taiwan.hell pulls out of the arctic, good news for the environment, look at what made them quit. ♪ in afghanistan taliban fighters are firing missiles at the main airport of the northern city of kunduz where security forces are stationed, the city was seized by taliban fighters in the early morning rain on monday and first stephanie decker has details. >> there are no government troops left here and taliban fighters in control of large parts of kunduz city and here they are raising their flag in the city square and this battle is not over, the afghan government announced a major operation to recapture kunduz. >> translator: in the first place we should take care of the civilian casualties and the enemy has heavy damage including air strikes and operations, i don't want to go into detail of the operations. >> reporter: special forces have been brought in and the u.s. military confirmed an air strike on the outskirts of the city on tuesday morning. it is proving difficult for some reenforcement

looking on social media it looks like the eye is about to reach the coast of taiwan now and the stormtrength as it goes across anywhere which is not good news for taipei and it's unusual and much of these things go across the land and fall apart and this maintains category three 12 meter height of the waves and storm surge and 300 millimeters of land and it's dangerous and soon to hit land. >>> a special time to gaze at the moon, a combination of lunar events which has not happened for 33 years is am -- amazing to world watchers around the world. >> the sky lights up with what is called the blood moon, two events a total lunar eclipse and a super moon, when the moon is at the closest point to earth appearing bigger and brighter than usual. >> translator: i like it very much. it makes me feel small, even smaller than i really am to see how big and immense the universe is it. it is spectacular. >> this is on the famous beach and the color is as a result of the moon being eclipsed by earth's shadow do and still reflecting sunrise and sunsets from across the world. the event was visible f

given how taiwan has done, i think it can go down, you can believe taiwan has the most room to go downgie: ok, thank you so much for highlighting all of that for us. usually basedwoo, in new york and coming from us to us live from tokyo. next, we will hear from the biggest wind turbine maker and why the industry is entering a golden age. stay with us. "first up." ♪ ♪ angie: the world's largest maker of wind turbines is saying it is not seeing a slowdown in china and instead predicts 2016 will be a growth year. the head of asia-pacific, chris bofay, spoke to stephen engle at the world economic forum. had theompany has highest record quarter ever in the history of terms of revenue and earnings. on top of that, orders, the second highest quarter was just announced. globally, we see a strength across the globe. hasnice thing for vestas been this year alone we booked orders in 27 countries so we seeing a broad growth. stephen: how is this happening? everyone around the world is looking for growth. oil is at such low prices. how is this renewable succeeding when oil prices are low? chris: it

. >> with cti of taiwan. will the volatility of the stock market have any negative impact on ping's position when he comes here for a state visit next month? will it make him more acceptable or easier to make deals or concessions to the u.s. another issue with taiwan, we all know that the taiwanese is dependent on the mainland. it's slower than expected growth and potential financial crisis have any impact on taiwan. are there anything that taiwan can do to prevent that? thank you. >> yeah. >> let me say this. you look at the fact ris right now, brazil is in recession. recently four years ago china was growing at almost 10%. it's probably half of that down and grinding down slowly. when ping comes to washington in september, he won't be strutting in. so you've seen -- again, the u.s. economy has always written off on 81-82. it's, you know, it's resuscitated once again. the fundamentals are pretty strong while asian corporates. >> loading, u.s. corporate balance sheets are in prestine condition. i was in they

jonathan, the typhoon is making a bee line towards taiwan but at a rather slow pace. how long will it impact the region? >> i think that we're going to be dealing with this particular system for next 36 to 48 hours. it's a very slow moving storm with strong winds within the core. you can look at t clearly defined eye associated with the typhoon. it's kicking up gusts up to 2 kilometers per ur. this was reported in yonaguni. we're looking at the system to slowly move to the west-northwest. look at the speed it's crawling at 20 kilometers per hour. whenever a strong system slowly moves it's going to dump a lot of rainfall for a long period of time and that means we're dealing with flooding issues and strong winds for the next 36 to 48 hours for taiwan. look what's happening here. winds of 180, gusting to 2 a 2. pressure down to 925. we're looking at this rainfall to last for the next day or so. in taiwan note the possibility of seeing rain over 500 millimeters over the next 48 urs and then okinawa, strong gusts, high waves. we're seeing some of them jumping up to 13 met

it's heading to taiwan. it's larger than taiwan itself. magnificent on the satellite picture, but not so friendly if you are underneath it. the wins around 240 k/hr, and will intensify over the next 12 hours. as it makes its way towards taiwan, expecting it to pass over to tai pie, winds of over 200 k/hr. it's a nasty system and we are talking heavy wane coming in as well. we have big seas rolling in too. it will come in from a northerly direction. it will bring heavy seas in. a storm surge, wave height of 13 meters. the picture pushing through. it is passing across the islands in. as we go into the strait. much of taiwan sees heavy rainfall. life-threatening floods are a possibility, there has been over 3,000 evacuations taking place, passing into the eastern side for tuesday >>> still to come - turkey's tourism industry needs a boost. what will put off some seekers. >> and from argentina, a mother is hoping that the hope's visit to the united states will save her son's life. >> in sport, while lionel messi will take an unwanted midseason

. >> fighting leaves 24 injured in the north-eastern tip of taiwan. most wounded were hit by flying debris. hundreds of thousands of homes are wowed electricity. downpours could trigger landslides. we have the latest from taipei. >> train stations are starting to operate again. there have been reports of landslides in the taipei city. 24 people are believed to have been injured, and more than 33,000 people and homes are without power. it's seams as if the preparation of the taiwanese government and the infrastructure of the city itself, has really helped, contained the damage that the typhoon has wrought. it's not as bad as people feared is to be. there's a lot of cleaning on the roads. debris cleared up in order to make sure that life goes back to normal. it's leaving taiwan's area of responsibility by 1:00pm local time. and is heading to china. right now there's a lot of worry over infrastructure and transportation. right now it's out. taiwan's xobilityy. >> activists in hong kong marked an ear anniversary, a large celebration of political celebrati

taiwan is where they have the strongest win seen here in more than 20 years. people say they are used to typhoons which is part of life. the true extent of the taj is being assessed. >> violent unrest in the central african republic has gone into a third day with a gaol break at the main prison and an attack on police hours. thousands of protesters called to the rearming of the army, claiming 30 people, despite u.n. french peacekeepers. sunday night fighters attacked the police headquarters. late on monday 500 inmates managed to escape from bangui's main prison >>> the president of maldives has escaped unhurt from an explosion on his boat. the government says it may have been a problem with the engine, but it's too early to say. his wife and others were injured. the president took power at a disputed election in 2013. protesters in hong kong have been out, marking the first anniversary. a year ago tens of thousands took part in huge rallies to demand democratic reform and the right to choose the next leader without conference from the government. scientists at

go see a doctor, because it's not supposed to be blue. [ laughter ] earlier this week, a woman in taiwan fulfilled her husband's last wishes and invited strippers to perform at his funeral. she said it was the least she could do, because when he asked for strippers at his funeral, she murdered him. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] a farmer in india is claiming

when you think about the island of taiwan,s the densely populated for mountains.storm system as it interacts with the mountains will squeeze out the moisture. it is so strong that it could retain typhoon status. the rainfall, somewhere on the order after a half a meter or 20 inches in the forecast in the isolated mountain communities. this is a life threatening landslide situation. we're talking about 300 millimeters. and in taipei, 6.9 people in the metro. bring in the skyline, seventh tallest building in the world. when you get to the top, you're increasing the winds about 30% more than the ground level because there's less friction. but as we close in, monday 9:30, the peak winds around 126 kilometer per hour. and throughout monday night and tuesday morning. a dangerous night for a lot of people across this region of asia. >> we'll be watching that closely. >> india's prime minister says social media has changed his life. he meets with facebook ceo and opens up about the internet challenges facing his country. we're back with that in just a moment. st like eddi

did to send a strong signal that he was taking taiwan doubt it very dangerous path. so in march of 1996 they being conducting a series of live fire missile at the sizes in the taiwan strait that disrupted maritime traffic. in response the u.s. decided to act and dispatch to carrier task forces to the region. faced with such an overwhelming display of force and lacking the means to effectively counter it, china's leaders were forced to back down except a humiliating defeat. there was no accident that just a few short months later they entered into the first contract. the sole remedy been designed specifically to attack and destroy the u.s. aircraft carriers. norwood is proud to be a one time event. would you be surprised to learn since the cold war russian defense assistance has been crucial to the dealt with of china surface and at the surface warfare capabilities. nor has this been solid and historical phenomena the recently, over the last abuse in a few cases, russian defense assistance has continued to play an important role in the development of china's maritime

you have people from taiwan and longtime immigrants who came during the railroad days and they're alloing to have different views and i think they do watch it fairly closely, as an example, one of the topics that might come up is an election in taiwan so that taiwan, the americans who are here will be watching that to see if anything comes of that. >> to go back to the south sea -- south china sea discussion, i actually think there are things that can be done and this is again, optimistic and even idealistic. there are six countries claiming sovereignty and the u.s. is not one of them. however, the u.s. is the deterrent factor and there is concern if china moves too much, military aircrafts on the artificial islands that the u.s. will move against it, and china should be concerned that we may react that triggers the regional conflict. so to me, claiming sovereignty is fine and people will do this and it will take years and years of unraveling who actually owns those islands, but it doesn't mean that claiming sovereignty equals action. you don't necessarily have to take action there, a

. >> it is now 4:38 and next on "action news" a typhoon battering taiwan turns deadly and has led to cancellation of a concert for a rocker with ties to our area. >> a new app delivers lotto tickets right to your smartphone. how it works and what state is the first to try it. that's coming up. david. >> still got jackets on the kids this morning for temperatures in the 60's. i don't know, though, a lot of them could probably do without that because it is so muggy and this afternoon it's shatters and tease but maybe an umbrella coming in handy. i'll have the latest on future tracker6 and word of a tropical storm that has formed down near the caribbean and is on its way here with at least some impact. that's coming up. back to school? how about...back to blinds! during blinds to go's early fall savings sale, save 20 to 30% on all the season's latest looks in cellular shades and cascade double shades. that'll really make you look smart. blinds to go. blinds for life. back to school? how about...back to blinds! during blinds to go's early fall savings sale, save 20 to 30% on all the seas