Coating the coming of 78 who are including 6 for an actual help to live a few things off of the just on 6 am henry most go in the stumble and in my review, this is all the international bringing the news from across which i, thanks very much for joining us. This our what were going to start now with breaking news coming out of taiwan, where at least one person has been reported that and 50 more injured off to the strongest earthquake in 25 years. Hit the eastern coast of the island, sonoma. A warning has also been issued. So one of the several us places we might in the change of 7. 00 at closing major line slides off the shops cuz she need to shake the islands as well. As some people said to stop in collapse, buildings. Thousands of people have seen less without power. No, ty, ones last is quake of this gay left thousands of dead and images listened on the warnings of also not being issued in the philippines and in southern japan, urging residents to evacuate to Higher Ground or further away from the coast mind a way of civil ready reach to japanese islands . Lets get more now and this breaking the story and cross life to asia. Political risk analysts works fine. Gold joining us from taiwan ross, thank you very much. I just want to ask, i know youre in taipei, where weve seen tiles folding of building several people being rescued from a partially collapsed warehouse. Can you describe what you felt when not was quite kitchen, how youre feeling right now some earthquakes. They started out small and they got stronger over the succeeding seconds. They started quite just started out strong and got stronger. And anyone with experience with earthquakes or who lives in a 1st grade. So wed know immediately that the earthquake was, was a very big one. Very, very serious. So were seeing reports, as you mentioned, a building collapses. Briggs or tiles falling off at the sides of buildings, land slides. Keeping in mind that the Center Center of taiwan pretty much from the top to the bottom of the island is, is a very mountainous area. So a lot of images of a very large land slides are coming across. As you mentioned, theres been blackouts. And i think authorities are still trying to, trying to get a full picture of, of the damage keeping in mind that the, the areas close to the epicenter. Uh, they are mountain yes. And there are role villages of Higher Elevations in the mountains. So i think its still going to take some time to get a full picture of what the actual damages and rules where exactly were you and, and what did you feel you said that the some of those quick start of school, but you mentioned all 5 that this was pretty big, straight away. Thats right. I was actually did my fly at the sides and uh, the window frame started to shake the, the curtains or shades started to shake violently. Even in my flight, i have several things, fell off shelves onto the floor and i, i immediately ran to the doorway because experts say it safer to be in a doorway because things like light fixtures, are things on higher shelves might fall down. And, and similar, literally the local news is reporting images of, of the school children, for example, being quickly ushered outside of the building into the athletics field to again, shes to try and mitigate the risk that things would fall down and hurt that. But again, uh, your account under cash or overestimate how serious this was right from the beginning. And also its now about 3 hours since the earthquake here. But weve had a lot of after shops over the past 3 hours. And some of the after shops are very, very strong as well. Yeah. Just want to talk about some of the, the devastation that weve seen so far down in the i believe its called the quality inn, which is one of the worst it cities. Weve seen evacuations taking place, the with collapse, buildings up further north and in the headland. This is lakeesha island towards hartsville, i believe, known as to his line and is completely sunk into the sea. Though weve heard from spain, shang, the stories that are willing to step in and help in the off the most of space. Quite. Do you think that the time when these government is likely to accept that given how big this quake was . Probably not, at least from what were seeing reported on the local media as of the moment. I think taiwan search and rescue and, and other resources. Uh, whether at the local government level or the Central Government level here as of the moment there sufficient. And frankly, even if the top, even if taiwan did say it needed Additional International assistance, or given the state of political relations between taiwan and, and mainland china, its very unlikely that taiwan would accept and offer a call from china. They would probably of up to countries like japan or the United States to provide assistance that says, claim to be the strongest phenomenon when a quarter of a sudden, for the last one back in 1999, where we saw thousands of People Killed the think 2 and a half 1000, almost killed and around 10000 injured. What has tie one being doing to pass for know the big one . Yeah, its a, its a great question. The, the earthquake and 1999 that you mention that was the epicenter was onshore. In fact, it was pretty much right in the center of taiwan, and thats why there were so many deaths and injuries. As a result, the art credit today was offshore. But to be fair to the taiwan authorities, i think they do enforce building codes, especially in recent a newer buildings. Uh it, although there were some building collapses. Today, im going to take a guess that those buildings werent necessarily up to code. There may have been some code violations, but they do have a lot of Public Service announcements. What to do in earthquakes. There are fire in north, quick drills in a lot of the Residential Office buildings and certainly in schools as well as tardies periodically remind people to keep an earthquake kid prepared at home in case they have to evacuate. So i would say itd be fair to the authorities here. They do a reasonably good job of preparing this society for a switch. What do you think is the concern now of even more . Um, you know, trim is coming away and then of course in the wind to regions, were seeing those warnings of signal armies potentially in the philippines on japan as well. Sir, its always a concern when theres earthquakes in this region. Its called the ring of fire for good reason. And yes, unami risk is very significant for japan. We dont, we try not to get those kinds of so, you know, i mean shooting taiwan. I would but certainly japans offshore islands as well as open nava and even though home islands theres a risk so you know, i mean thats why did japan media radical media or Logical Agency emission immediately issue is the nami warning and well have to monitor that in the coming hours to see if there is, in fact is, you know, i mean in japan, i was just one final question. Very briefly, we know that taiwan is leading semi conduct. A manufacturer which produces the worlds most advanced semi conduct is hot to evacuate its production lines. Its a close down the production for the moment. What kind of impact economically could a big its quite like this half the time on as well. As you mentioned, taiwanda is where the most advanced semi conductors are made. But the, the people who run these companies are very good at what they do, and theyre certainly very good at building their buildings and production wise to withstanding earthquakes. I would expect that production will resume very quickly. Okay, thanks very much for bringing us up to date on that not breaking news and tie one of the earthquake um now the risks of so you know me in the region that was age of political risk. Analysts, Russ Feingold while attend special session of the Un Security Council. There was accusations that both the u. K and us are trying to destabilize syria and also the whole middle east region by supporting is way any crimes. That was the claim coming from iran and also from syria. Now the session had been cool to address mondays, flight bias, where the forces on the re new consulate in damascus. The representative of the United States and united kingdom. Once again, its right to deny its responsibility for the Current Situation in syria. Broad, the region by false, see blaming your on your, on the strong, the rejects these allegations you are on is never speaking to contribute to the spillover of the conflict in the region, nor does it to escalate or esper, the pension to the entire region. Despite expressing concern over this feel over the up, the attention being the region of the United States tries to misuse the situation to destabilize syria on the regions. Look to them on the as rarely occupation authorities would not have committed this aggression against a protected diplomatic headquarters. Protected under International Law. Had it not been for the blind support of the United States to you and my country, syria holds the war criminals of the Israeli Occupation government and their partners in the United States administration. Fully responsible for these attacks and their repercussions on regional and International Peace and security shop. The, you know, the meeting took place in the Un Security Council chamber of the 15 member body leads. The United Nations convened to discuss the recent attack carried out by israel that resulted in the death of 7 iranian officials, including a top general. Now b, u. N. Meeting indicated, clear differences as the United States and its allies would not condemn israel actions. Now, russia was pretty harsh and its words showing that what israel did was a flagrant violation of International Law. However, the United States that it couldnt confirm where the attack took place and that prompted a rather Interesting Exchange between the United States and russia. Heres some of what we heard on the floor of the Un Security Council meeting and wants to be clear. We do not yet have confirmation of the status of the building that was struck in damascus. Any confirmed attack on property that was in fact a diplomatic facility would be of concern to the United States. So as you to see if they knew we listened attentively to the speeches of all western countries. Im a once again struck by this say, this is a mind double standards from the level of balancing act. So it was difficult to understand why were here until the representative for from say anything except for what if, condemnation to britain, the, is ready, violation of International Law, kona east. If it was your embassy of consulate in the region of things, would you react to the same way . Visual rules based on an old is evidence. The us always has 1st hand information on any master. Look how amazing it is this time. Washington still has no confirmed information about the strike on the radian comes to the general, hard to believe and the speeches of the u. K. And the us that were not hints, but direct references to the fact that a rom m. Siri themselves were to blame the israels attack on the radio, comes to that. Its difficult to imagine. The great and blasts were made. There was no need to call on others to de escalate and labeled the victims on the is attacked as aggressive in this context. Any possible escalation of the situation will be entirely on your conscience. That was russia, referring specifically to the fact that france said that the entire situation was the fault of the ron, that the strike took place in the context of an escalation that france says, was iran salt making here, ron responsible for the incident . Its also important to note that china spoke about how important it is not to attack Diplomatic Missions and consulates and china reference to an attack on its own diplomatic facility that took place 25 years a go. This is the representative of china, can work on the doc for 125 years ago. The Chinese Embassy in the South China Sea was hit a us led nato air raid causing casualties and damage to personnel. We are deeply moved by the grief of the iranian government and the people in deeply sympathized with them. According to the Vienna Convention on Foreign Relations and the recognized basic principles of International Relations. The security of diplomatic institutions cannot be violated if we let this kind of act go without a bottom line, and without consequences, we will all be guilty. Siegel and the red line between International Law and International Relations has been broken again. And again, there was a chance meeting in the Un Security Council chamber as iran, it says it plans to retaliate against the israel strike that violated not only serious, territorial or integrity, but also he had an iranian diplomatic facility. Now at this point, so many are looking on the meeting and seeing clear differences as the United States, france and other nato countries would not condemn this action by israel, which many are noting the hypocrisy of when we hear so much from these western leaders about a so called rules based global order a lot, the main thing, the french delegation put the responsibility over the regions escalation on iran and syria. We discussed those accusations with john list. Daniel, as all he says is, well, is pushing the us to join the world by instigating or conflict in the middle east. And theres no evidence that syria or a or a ran had anything to do with the october 7th attack. Absolutely no evidence whatsoever. In fact, it ran has tried to reduce the level of hostility, according to, to American News out outlets like in new york times, theres no interest on the part of syria or iran, i in whitening the war. I. So this is completely a red herring. The u. S has a that has 40 years of hostility towards the fords that ran on its record of the us launch the proxy war on syria. That just devastated that country you know, fences back, you know, decades in terms of economic development. The us is extremely hostile that has boss so therefore the is the us does not mind terribly if uh if israel terry is that a stripe like this, the western countries are very closely or allied with the israel. Theyre not going to condemn is real there. That i think its warns awesome. They are also hospitalized to a ran. And so therefore, in the end as well as syria, of course, israel has every intention of whitening war because the war, the more assessed. So the more it was, the us and to the cops, and thats what is real. So this comes as iran has reacted with fuel to the latest is really attack on its called select in this area that resulted in the depths of 13 people, including several high ranking offices strikes against diplomatic premises, of course, violate the Vienna Convention. Eye witnesses have been describing the scale of the devastation. I was like, i didnt know what happened to the one moment i was standing on the sidewalk and the next i found myself on the opposite one. I thought i was hallucinating. I didnt know what to do, but not every time i become a little optimistic and think things are okay. I find that things are growing significantly worse. Weve never seen entire buildings collapse and homes exploding a building, collapsing on it. Civilian inhabitants. Its a lot since it around this president has about to take action against israel following not to attack. He says that such escalation will not go unpunished. Once again in a terrorist crime and in gross violation of international regulations, the dirty hands of design, this regime have been stained with the blood of generals and officers of our country. Design history team has put blind assassinations on its agenda, but it should know that it will never achieve its sinister goals with such in humane measures. This cowardly crime will not go on, answered if one is infuriated by these were the air strike on monday that killed 2 high ranking r t. C generals and 5 officers at its consulate and syria. Among them was a burglar general mohammed resolved so heavy, a Senior Commander in the lead the votes for so these womic revolution, gar score, which is of course the for an operation arm of the r g c. So he was one of the longest serving members of the r g. C. He 1st joined the forces in 1980 during the iran iraq war, when he demonstrated Exceptional Leadership skills and rapidly assigned to the ranks of just 20. He was leading a battalion of soldiers and b h, your iran, iraq war, and 2005. He got his 1st high ranking position and as the commander of the i r g, cs ground for she later became the head of the thoughts force and syria and lebanon. So have you reported we played a pivotal role in coordinating with his ball law and other pro iranian miller. Shes in lebanon and syria, which led to the stop, which meant all, once we know today as the access of resistance thats engaged in fighting israel and attacking us spaces recently, im at the gaza war. So its safe to say that he was a heavy wage military figure, not only for a one, but for the whole resistance acts as many describe him as the highest ranking iranian general to be killed since that he was assassinated. A General Hospital imani, backend 2020. Now, while it was mission to the United Nations has labeled incident as a terror attack. A wave of condemnation has also poured in from across the world, calling these way the attack a breach of International Law to china condemns the attack on the, you know, on an embassy and see the, the security of people medic. Institutions can all be violated and serious solvency, independence and tutorial integrity should be respected. The Current Situation in the middle east as turbulence, and we oppose any options that lead to an escalation of tensions. The government of guitar completely rejects the targeting of diplomatic and consular emissions and states its Firm Position and rejecting violence and terrorism regardless of its motives and reasons. The attack is an unacceptable violation of the sovereignty of syria and undermines its stability and security. Be responsible act of the as really forces is a major escalation in an already volatile region. The head of the russian for an intelligence surface has also called these ray the attack on the iranian consulate, an ugly and criminal step. The Russian Foreign ministry has also condemned this. Right. And now moscow has called for a Un Security Council meeting on the issue upon the air was request, which is to take place later on tuesday. Everyone has also place the blame, mainly on washington, saying that the was full and on wavering support for israel has led to, quote, is wells insulins in overstepping all international conventions. After the attack, the Iranian Foreign ministries summoned a Swiss Embassy official who represents washington, intertwined during the meeting. It runs a foreign minister wholesale. I mean, the young said that the us as a supporter of israel must be held accountable for this latest incident. However, washington has reportedly denied its involvement in the back and said that i didnt didnt have any information it was going to happen in general. So have you had been on till of eves head list for a long time and the idea fused . Any opportunity to take down the top i r g c commander of course. Its not the 1st time as well has targeted Iranian Military advisors and syria. Back in january 5, all our team members lost the lives in and hes ready air raid on a residential building and syrias capital damascus. One been responded by targeting a most sides center in your box, curtis down region now as tensions escalate. This 52 to one is us speaking about a hard fatality ation against this latest is really strike, which has raised fears out of the cycle of violence would intensify across the whole middle east. Well meanwhile, following the serious strike, israel has threatened to daily attacks on a sign in mays roughly the same every day. We gain further evidence that we find ourselves in a multi front war that is both offensively and defensively. We see evidence of this every day, including over the last few days. We operate everywhere every day in order to prevent our enemies from gaining strength. And in order to make it clear to anyone who acts against us all over the middle east, that the price for action against israel will be a heavy one. For me and us, maureen, co intelligence, self assess golf course so believes that such an attack can only mean is well, is looking for serious escalation. The 1st well is real, but it has been striking targets in syria. But for some time now, for the purpose of interdicting your ronnie in capabilities in syria. And so to have such a senior, a rainy and revolutionary guard commander in syria up together with, you know, a country of other persons in one place was i think just too tempting of a target for israel. And the fact that they chose to strike a building that is protected under diplomatic convention, shows that israel no longer cares about the rule of law about International Law. And this brings us to the deal. I think there ultimate motive, benjamin danielle, who understands that he is only viable as a leader of israel, so long as he is in war. Hes a wartime leader right now. The moment the current conflict stops, he loses his ability to stay and power. Hell be removed from bower. Were looking at a situation where his role is under tremendous pressure to try and wrap up the, the, the, the conflict and gaza, away from us. And israel is looking to expand at least Benjamin Netanyahu is governments like you to expand this conflict. And therefore, is taking the extraordinarily bold and youre responsible actions in hopes that youre on will provide, you know, find its way to carry out actions that could be your be get a larger complex. So i think this is part and parcel. The broader is really strategy of expanding the scope and scale of the conflict in the region. The idea has admitted to making a grave mistake by killing 78 workers, 6 of whom was foreign nationals if they came in and asked strike ongoing. So this to i was not carried out with the intention of homie w, c k, a well, cuz it was a mistake that followed me say, then defecation, night during the war in a very complex conditions. It shouldnt have happened. This incident was a grave mistake, an independent body will investigate. They ensued then slowly we would have completed the next coming days. We will then from the conclusions and the implement them immediately. The 7 victims represented the us Non Profit Organization will central sion, the foreign volunteers came from as far as poland, canada, australia, the u. K. And the us, the w. C. K. Cool. This incident, a tragedy adding the aid workers on civilians should never be talking to. Joe biden has also called for swift investigation into the incident on the line that as well is failing. He says to protect civilians as this tragedy is not a standalone case. The us president joined a long list of officials whos been commenting on those killings, expects the broader investigation to be conducted and to be done. So in a swift and comprehensive manner. Us will continue to process your will to do more as well to ensure the safety of humanitarian workers and will continue to do all we can to deliver this assistance to Palestinian Civilians and gosh, the seaside human tragedy that should never have of that is completely unacceptable. And australia will say full improper accountability as you would expect for have this food have a good we certainly have already contacted this rally government directly. We are contacting the is riley and best of that uh to ask uh for accountability here. Uh, the truth is that, that this is beyond beyond any reasonable circumstance that someone going about providing aid and humanitarian assistance should lose their loss. Rendition nationals are reported to have been killed. It is essential that humanitarian workers are protected and able to carry out their work. We have called on the east realtor immediately investigate and provide a full, transparent explanation of what happened with these. With the latest statistics published by the will bank and the un which shows the house of the population, garza is on the verge of a stall of ation. More than a 1000000 people have been left homeless and 75 percent of those in gaza has become internally displaced now. Ok, some policy lead bushel kelly. The says the aid workers should never be targeted. And an immediate safe spot is of course needed. The Health Workers have been systematically targeted or attacked indiscriminately attacked hospital top bakeries, uh, water and sanitation infrastructure, telecom as was, i mean the list goes on and i mean they do, we have 70 percent of civilian infrastructure decimated in gaza. We have almost 60 percent of homes of peoples homes. More than half were talking about peoples homes, either destroyed or damaged. My own family actually ends up off. Um are now displaced in the living in a tent and not far from gosh, the city has been internally displaced 4 times now. But their house was burnt. I mean this situation is just hellish. A vote is long gone. Long gone. Bouchard people are stopping to death. There is a famine already in effect across gaza and here we have more foreign nationals being killed for a national is working for an engineer who simply trying to deliver food and to gaza. We also have this Un Resolution quoting for an immediate ceasefire. Israel is not paying attention to that resolution for a ceasefire. Israels really not paying attention to the aid workers who are doing to monetary and work and gaza. My question to you blueshot is at what point is israel going to start listening to the Global Community . We have been calling for a cease fire from week one and a permanent one because its the only way for us to be able to operate is the only way for us to be able to send our teams to the fields. And so the, to the ground to, to reach the most Effective Community communities, the most vulnerable of people in gaza. We cannot deliver aid effectively under relentless bonds. And the way for that to stop is also to keep the call of those organizations, human rights organizations, or do you National Organizations to stop arming israel and to stop the transfer of arms and weapons to israel. And many countries have, he did call and we welcome back. But that pressure needs to continue. Where did you come to . Condemnation are no longer enough. Maybe the real action to end this because not only not just the posting and these really, Everybody Needs an end to this. And on the Government Purchasing jury slim turned violent off to the crowds attempted to break into the prime ministers residence. 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