and dining office and johnny our services will be our guest at frankfurt airport city, managed by fraud. ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. china begins 3 days of military variables around taiwan, chinese state media as forces practice and the sacrament of the island. taiwan says the exercises threaten regional stability and security. also coming up. trying to clear the fog of war. we look at how british intelligence rates,

the ration of bands and ukraine's battle ground city of buckman. ah, i am eddie micah junior. welcome to the program. china has begun 3 days of military drills around tie one. the friends official said that more than 70 chinese planes have crossed the media and line that separates the self government island from china aging called the move eastern wanted chinese state media is also reported to have said that country's military. it hasn't none. in sacrament of the island, taiwan is wanting that a drills threaten regional stability and security become off of china, was i good by a meeting between towns, preston, silent, gwen, jewish. how speak are kevin mccarthy. los angeles. earlier this week between concert as the self william island group, how we province. narrowly i spoke to

d. w correspondent, william young in taiwan, whose monitoring the situation that defense ministry over here is closely monitoring all day activities by the people's liberation army around taiwan. a lot of the collaboration and coordination have been made between the naval forces and also the coast guard. and they are keeping a very close eye about how the air force by the p o, a is really operating a lot of their fighter jets because a lot of the experts are saying this next 3 days is in fact a very important exercise for the p o s air force. this is a very important area at that time when is pain a very close attention to. so in august last year we saw a similar drill is when the venue as how speaker nancy pelosi that taiwan. how are people in taiwan comparing both drills? so last only because the drill is

a lot more dramatic and the scale is much bigger. and there, it also involves the fighting of firing some of the missiles that flew over time one. so people were, in fact a lot more attempts back them, but this time because the skill of the military exercise is much smaller and the duration is also shorter. so, so far, how many people are not really being alarmed in, at the same time the government has been keeping the public at a very, very, up to date pace. and so i think right now people are trusting what the government has been sharing with them by the same time, i do think this is just going to make people more aware about the possible frequency of this kind of activities launched by the chinese going forward. after business in the us area this week for us then size as taiwan will continue to work with us. what you see happening in the long term. i think the long term trajectory of it depends on if the current ruling party stays in power or not. if

so, they will double down with the heightened relationship between taiwan and the united states and continue to push for high level exchanges between the 2 sides. and if that's this trajectory that we're looking at, then china is definitely going to continue to also enhance the frequency of this kind of military activities. and likely, this is just going to become a new normal and then increase the overall tension and possibility of any kind of miscalculation down the road. ok, did of your correspondence, william young? thank you. i'll conflict and you as court rulings have cast uncertainty over access to we common abortion drug made for stone has been widely available for 20 years by the judge in texas suspended approval of the drug. then shortly afterwards, another judge in washington state ordered authorities to keep the drug on the

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will likely end up in u. s. supreme court. that's the got more news making headlines around to wild israeli prime minister. benjamin netanyahu has ordered them. mobilization of board are police and additional military units after 2 deadly alleged attacks on civilians. the latest incident to please on friday evening in tel aviv when the driver rammed his car into the districts, killing an italian tourist, the brother of the alleged attack, i said, it was an accident. the u. s. navy says it's deploying a guided missile submarine to the middle east that nuclear power vessel is capable of carrying up to $154.00 tomahawk cruise missiles. analysts call the movie sure, forced to word he ran after recent attentions. according to british intelligence reports, russian forces have made significant gains in backlit, in east, in ukraine, the british se fusions troops have probably taken the city center along with the

west bank of the baton. with got reva ingrained in nice that bad admits the situation is difficult. mood has been under seed for months, seen some of the fiercest fighting off the war. with this footage, purportedly shows heavy fighting nearby lute pro russian channels on the social media platform. telegraph are full of similar clips. drone footage of central, but moot british intelligence sources, say the areas now likely under russian control. ukraine's military is simply calling this situation difficult. nobody was given a direction of barking. the enemy is trying to take the city completely and is continuing its attacks. while them key is says that despite the tough situation,

ukrainian troops are holding ground against russian units that have them out numbered. ukraine's military says russia is making tactical advances, but paying a high price for them but the pressure is mounting. ukraine's supply lines are reportedly increasingly at risk. this footage shot on thursday shows the main road into the city. one of the key supply routes. ah. yeah. were you, how did we make it down this road? well, we made it through with god's help was a boy. as the battle for buck moved rages, the pentagon says it is investigating a leak of classified u. s. and nato documents concerning ukrainian, military readiness and losses. both ukraine and the u. s. say the documents may

have been tampered with and could contain misinformation that would benefit moscow . military analysts from glad bitch eliana had his thoughts with me on a decision. ukraine must make. well, eddie, what the ukrainians are deciding in the next few days is whether the losses that they are inflicting on the russians are worth the losses and sec sustaining themselves, which are calculated by the way they've been observing. now for the last 2 or 3 months, the problem they have, according to british intelligence, is that they withdraw route is now threatened the 506 road west, out of back, moot. once that become seriously threatened, you credit will make a decision which could happen tomorrow. could happen another week or 2 weeks, but they will have to make the decision to, to withdraw very quickly. they've demonstrated in the past, if they do that, they can conduct a fighting with all very effectively as they didn't ask and several other places over the last year or so. so that's what's happening on 10th street fighting in the

center. so british intelligence said, russia likely keywords and here likely took part of the city, including the center. what do you read into the use of the word likely ukrainians have been exceptionally good at the control of information. so i think it's genuinely the case of western intelligence services are not cited on what's happening in detail, and that's the way it should be. ukrainians will, and we in fact would be the same. we would call an operational security. so what british intelligence and other analissa doing is, is looking at the evidence available from both sides on, on social media channels, from their own recognizance. and they have analyzer assess, says actually that that's what's happening and also assess by the way, what's happened the last few weeks, is that the but the wagner group, which have been supposedly leading in batman promised to take the city,

have now been, have developed much better command control arrangement, the army, and they've been reinforced by the airport so that sustained a momentum which we thought that russians last about a month ago. how could the situation on the ground evolved the spring? well, there will be a difference if we are certain that the offensive will be designed to shape the environment for a re taking of crimea. that's the central gravity in this war. that is, as general, how to set on this very channel the critical ground crimea. so we can expect the ukrainians to attack over the next 4 to 6 weeks. probably, sooner than later, i suggest towards crimea, with the objective of forcing the russians essentially collapsing russian forces. and we can expect that to happen very, very quickly. however, viewers should have in mind, i think that the other thing, the kinds of very good out of the last of last year is deception. so watch out if

there is an assault somewhere, it may well be a fight. and let's hope the dale receive to see the russians in so doing, but to ask a question directly looking and offensive within the next month. ukrainian forces developing now about 3 quarter sprint. 680-0000 people that are moving forward to the jumping off points operation the battle they will take place from artillery quite soon and we will see that assault going forward from leverage military analyst. thank you. thank you so now about paris, some olympics over a year away. the debate over irrational ban still rages, but it's not just russian, at least that i in limbo, meaning ukrainian athletes also phase and uncertain future ukrainian trends. half the i said on the 2024th time again, the artistic swimmers have spent years training. but marina and lady slaver alexey

gave up find themselves facing a cool choice. what's him with him? we don't want to meet the russians at competition, so the co, if they go, we won't go, we don't want to meet them. and we cannot meet them was and was, and in general, all the federations, whether ukrainian or international should do everything they can to not let them participate or what the official group was. phoebe after rushes invasion. ukraine has threatened to boycott the games. if russian athletes are allowed to participate, but the international olympic committee has had that russian athletes should be allowed to compete, as neutrals, along with the main purpose of the olympic games is piece. what piece can they be with russia? it's your own. if the ios, he allows russia to take part in the olympic games, then these games are not about piece anymore on themes and what would be the message behind? it was even under a new tro flag, they were under the neutral flag at the last olympic games and it didn't change

anything. they started a war each over the so i removed a want that has made training and preparation for the games extremely difficult for ukrainian athletes. despite the future hanging in the balance, the sisters insist they more determined than ever. and you are not up to date up next on d. w reporter looks at trans communities in pakistan, eddie micah juniors the name. thanks for watching staging from all use that a top of the up each time for a brain update because this orchestra called the brain continuously adopts itself.