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It comes to taiwan. We have managed those differences and done it in a way that is preserved. Peace and stability as to what measures will take if pelosi dares to go. Then lets wait and see also carry up a ship carrying ukrainian gray has left a ukrainian port for the 1st time since russia invited back in february with the war threatened to unleash a food crisis. How much of the world . This was a rare moment of good news. This ship the merchant vessel rosanna, is loaded with 2 commodities in short supply corn and hope. We begin the day with reports of a visit that could spark a crisis between the United States and china. Multiple sources say that the speaker of the u. S. House of representatives. Nancy pelosi, well visit taiwan as part of her current asian tour. If true, this would make her the most senior us politician to visit the self governing island for 25 years. The u. S. Doesnt officially recognize tie ones statehood, but maintains close informal relations. Chima views taiwan has a break way province and says itll bring the island back under beijings rule. And the Foreign Ministry made its view of any such trip. Quite clear. Hello. Hed read out his leaky pelosi visits taiwan. It would grossly interfere in chinas internal affairs. Horrible, seriously under mine, chinas sovereignty and tyranny, tauriel integrity wantonly trampled on the one. China principal seriously threatened the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait high and severely damaged china. Us relation as it will only lead to a very grave situation and consequences. Her whole with new days ago, nancy pelosi refused to say whether her asia trip would include a stop in taiwan. I dont ever talk of that my travel because it, some of you know its a security issue. Its a security issue for every member of congress traveling, especially abroad. But for the speaker, it is an additional security issue. And for those traveling, let me visit comes at the time of strange relations between washington and beijing with age, blaming the other 4, escalating tensions. He didnt please dont play with fire. Well i that was chinese president. She jan pings message to was u. S. Counterpart joe. Biden, in the most recent talks, china claims the u. S. Is dangerously close to crossing a line on taiwan with its messages of support for the islands. Independence in may. Biden broke with years of u. S. Policy by promising military support. If china tried to invade are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan . If it comes to that . Yes, you are. As a commitment we made the u. S. Says china is the one disrupting the status quo. Over the past year, she jan ping has provoked taiwan with incursions into its air space and calls for an end to taiwanese self rule. Fool, im sure the Historical Mission of the reunification of the motherland must be and will surely be realised. Negotiate a jing, seize the island as a chinese territory temporarily occupied by the political airs of those who lost the chinese civil war. 1949. Since then, taiwan has governed itself, running regular military and civilian drills to prepare for a possible chinese invasion. To pass that china has laid out off is neither a free and democratic way of life to taiwan. No sovereignty for 23000000 people. Many in the west see it as a fight between democracy and authoritarianism. But thats not the only reason why the u. S. Is involved. Taiwan is integral to u. S. Strategy to check chinas power in the pacific. The Taiwan Strait is one of the most important shipping lanes and global trade. And the majority of the worlds advanced semiconductors used in everything from smartphones to cars. Jobs are made on the island, tries to relocate production line. If china successfully imposes its rule on taiwan. That would be a big blow to the u. S. And a victory for she didnt pan, do yall eat him . But he was, and biden on. I both have a lot to lose your teeth. They know a full blown war could be the worst Case Scenario for both their country slunk would eat on. Oh, me not. Lets take a closer look at this with professor elizabeth fry. And laura, shes a president of a large consulting and off of politics and society. In contemporary china, she joins us from middlebury and the last 8 of them on to welcome to d. W. Professor, why do you think nancy pelosi is doing this . Well, she had planned a trip to asia back in april, but then she had tested positive for coded, so she could not travel. And so now is the time for that long awaited trip. And of course, she is going to Asia Singapore and melinda, japan and south korea. And so she said that she would stop in taiwan. You know, as you know, we have very close unofficial relations with taiwan. She has also said that she is taking this trip to reaffirm us commitment to the region. Now the problem is if she doesnt go, yes, she had said ok, were making this trip as a commitment, but she doesnt go to taiwan than it looks like. What about that commitment to taiwan, to supporting taiwan . And so this is, forgive me for interrupting, but she actually did. She talked in general terms about the u. S. Being committed to taiwan. But as far as i understand, no one from a from her side was officially said, yes, were going to tie one of my reason for going to taiwan would be to do this. Shes outlined all the stops on her i, you should trip. My question really is about will, why is she put this on this on her itinerary seemingly out of the blue . Well, you know, some people are saying that shes looking at the mid term elections in the United States where a lot of americans are critical of democrats as being like, you know, soft on security type issues. And it appears that the Democratic Party is going to take quite a drumming in the mid term elections. So some people are saying that shes going to show that she is tough on security issue. She is tough on china. And taiwan, of course, is, is, is the hot button issue where you would indicate ok, you know, this is our commitment to the region where tough on china. I should be able to go, im the speaker of the house. A. Taiwan is a democratic entity. We have good relations with taiwan. Why can i not go right and we, weve already heard the chinese Foreign Ministry promise where they called a firm and strong Counter Measures if this trip goes ahead. But heres a Foreign Ministry spokesman. A child is young, taking things out just a notch. Well we would like to once again warn you with that we are fully prepared and waiting. The Peoples Liberation army will never cease by idly sociable larosa. How concerning is his talk of ami involvement . This is very concerning, especially now that they have made it public, that the chinese and ministry of defense and Foreign Ministry have made it public. If pelosi does, in fact, you know, it tend to land in taiwan. Are they going to stand idly by . You know, they cannot look weak in the eyes of the world to either. And, you know, china, the Chinese Communist party has that twentys Party Congress coming up in october. And she jumping does not want to look weak in the eyes of the world. You know, china says weve had that 100 years of humiliation thats over. You know, the Chinese People have stood up and so that they are, they are very serious about using some type of action. Now lets, if it, in use action against her plane, you know, the next day that evening, day down the road or Something Like that, theyll take more action against taiwan. And that is, you know, the, that the chinese um, you know, air force has been encircling taiwan pretty regularly. They have gone into time once an aerial identification zone several times the day now for seeing taiwan jets to scramble to exhaust them. And so china has innumerable things, it could do to taiwan. It could make more trouble in the Taiwan Strait. It can, it can do overflights over the island of taiwan. So i anticipate that this might open the door for china to be more aggressive toward taiwan. Im what about the speaker herself . Is it unusual full, the speaker of the house to undertake this sort of a Foreign Mission . No, its not unusual for the speaker to take Foreign Missions. Now. No foreign, no us speaker. The house has gone to taiwan, and about 25 years Newt Gingrich was the last to go. And when he went, the u. S. In china were on very good terms. Right now the us in china are probably of the lowest point in their relationship. Since since the normal is it normalization of relations in 1979 . So the situation has changed. The security calculus has also changed. You know, back in 97, chinas military was, was pretty weak and was not anywhere strong as it is now. Anti ones military was stronger now that security calculus across the Taiwan Strait has completely changed and the last 25 years. So the situation is much more testy and its much more dangerous militarily. Ok, well well know in the coming i was. Thank you so much for outlining that. So clearly for us, professor Elizabeth Rollins larosa, president of a large consulting o castillo house. Postpone the introduction of tougher border controls with serbia. After the plum triggered rights and police was shot at authorities of my removed road blocks put back by ethnic serbs, the riots started off because of a government and im the decision that would force people in majority ethnic so barriers to swap their license plates for kosovo, issued wont. Sirens rang through the night as police shut to burn jak and yet a new border crossings in northern kosovo. This came after serbian demonstrators shot at authorities and blocks roads close to the border crossings. They were angry by to new ruling from the cost of government that ethnic serbs can no longer use. Serbian id cards in kosovo and car owners with Registration Plates issued by serbia, wed have to change them for kosovo license plates within 2 months. The stand off left, many people stuck at border control. Unable to get back home. And i cannot, we arrived here last night and the police asked us where we were going. We told them we were going home on. I got to Police Stopped us here because we cannot pass it on. I knew this, serbian president said, his government would preserve peace at any cost but long. Bruce melissa. If they dared to persecute serbs mistreat serbs, kill serbs, serbia will win. Thats all i have to say. The cause of in government released a statement, maintaining that multiple aggressive acts were perpetrated this afternoon and evening. Instigated and planned by bel great authorities. Tensions between the 2 countries are neither worse. Theyve been in years kosovo, declared independence from serbia in 2008. Serbia has refused to recognize causal statehood, even though it has no formal control. Their causal, as fragile peace is maintained by a natal mission, which has 3770. 00 troops on the ground nato. As k for said that they are prepared to intervene. If stability is jeopardized. They released a statement saying that our nato led k for our mission is fully focused on the daily implementation of its you and mandate to ensure a safe and secure environment and freedom of movement for all the people of kosovo. The cost of and government has agreed to postpone the new rulings until september 1st. As the ethnic serbs have removed the barricades. Soldiers from both sides continue to patrol the border following the unrest. Lets get into this with a really good ra sick. Hes in that is if a d w programs and an expert on the western all can see joins us from us. Capitol bell. Great, welcome, rudy. Good. So now the, the barricades have come down to these new regulations have been suspended, but i guess this is not the end of this problem. This is exactly all. It looks like a bunch of 30 days. So we can expect the same thing to happen and 30 days again. Ready unless there is not any kind of solution in the mean time. And youve been speaking to people in belgrade, one of ive been telling you about this latest flare up. First of all, everybody told me they werent afraid of any war and they supposed to be very unlikely that it comes to an escalation. But then when talking a bit longer to the people, you notice that they are actually afraid which is quite understandable. Looking at the fact that there have been trouble in this area in the former yugoslavia since 1991. There has been no war since 999, which was the nato bombing of serbia liberation if you want to put it like this. Of course, that used to be a proven so, so if you have before, but there have been unrest at a regular basis ever since then. And people are a bit nervous. Yes, they are. Right. And its, its easy to forget about this, especially the, the war in ukraine and going on that there have been simmering conflict between serbia and cost of, of, for decades to it has never come to real escalation. Actually, a real escalation is as well, very unlikely. As you already mentioned, theres almost 4000 nato troops standing in the area. And all companies but Bosnia Herzegovina in the neighborhood are natal member countries. Still, people are looking at the ukranian conflict and they, it reminds them on the worst they had. Here are the former yugoslavia, back in the ninetys. Right. And as you say, nato troops still there who or what are they protecting and how effective are they . They are protecting peace in kosovo. They are protected in the you for mission which is in the and a Major Mission as well. In both the other piece of bosnia and the neighboring countries from albania to cray shot are all but bosnia and herzegovina and serbia on the 2 members. So they are protecting the allianz as such. Right . And if you look at the, the wider context. So b as probably rushes closest ally any human. Does any of this have a connection to the war in ukraine . It certainly has in terms of that. Russia has 4. G, us use the rest of the balkans, s a hot stop for trouble making for making problems for the International Community or disrupting the piece and the process is leading to peace here. On the other hand, the next rushing border is far away. There are no Russian Troops nearby and by the soviet is really an ally of russia is a good question. So yes, completely dependent economically on the european union. The russians in west, in westland here, is down to 1. 7 percent. So its basically not important. And i think this is more so propaganda battle than anything material. And youve got to wonder theyre given all these, given all these tensions and given that russia is sort of looking over everyones shoulder at this. Why did cost of our choose this moment to impose this when this was this, besides this notion of changing the driving license or the license plate . It themes from the outside not a major issue. Thats true is not a major issue for the People Living either, but it is a major issue. Busy for the cost of our government because of us been treating possible ever since the country became independent or even longer in that fashion. So its kind of understandable that the Prime Minister ill be in court at a certain point once this to change and she doesnt have to seen any other means to go into that direction. Ok, thank you so much for joining us. I mean, thats a clearly really rough in belgrade. What like the sound of the 1st commercial vessel to leave the ukrainian port of desa since russia invited in february, the rezone is carrying 26000 tons of coal destined for lab. And on russia and ukraine signed a deal in a stumble on the 22nd of july, clearing the way for ukraine to exploit millions of tons of grain that have been bottlenecked by the war. The lack of ukrainian food exports. A set price is soaring and raised fears of a food crisis in many parts of the world. The secretary general of the United Nations which help broke the deal said this, this sheep, the merchant vessel rosanna, is loaded with 2 commodities in short supply corn and hope. Hope for millions of people around the world will depend on the smooth running of ukraine sports to feed their families. What we have witness to vain, or this is an important starting point. It must be the 1st of many commercial ships bringing relief and stability to global food markets. Regrettably correspondent bagget a sugar is in cave. I asked her how ukrainian or authorities a sh were assuring the safety of the ship that left addresses today. The main issue with safety was obviously that most of the ports along the black sea, our mind, especially the odessa port in order to prevent them from possible russian advancement to, according to the dia, ukraine, over the last days, hasty mind a small portion of the port and pilot bows have guided the ships through a sort of safe pass passage through it through the port. Everything went well and for the 1st ship, and it is expected to arrive in east central air tomorrow and will then be inspected by a joint group of russian to pish and un inspectors in order to make sure that its only grain on the ship. And then the vessel can continue its air, its journey to lebanon. And this, this deal hold for a 120 days. I think how optimistic are authorities in ukraine that it will hold, and that shipments will continue. So today they praised the 1st ship, leaving the odessa port as a great breakthrough. But because its, its obviously very important for the ukrainian economy. But if youre talking with the people on the street, they are not overly enthusiastic. Because one reason might be that it might take some times when i said it might be even take weeks until the full capacity of the operations will, will reach the plant 5000000. 00 ton of exported grain every month. The 2nd reason is, is really that many people here think this a corridor might be over soon, because there might be another attack. They dont trust the russian claims, not to attack those ports, especially after only hours after the grain you were side, russia had attacked the ports. And in addition to that, the heavy attacks on the portal town of nikolai, which is not far from odessa, are continuing as well. So theres not 2 men and 2 men much trust here in this agreement. And that it will last long though because wanted to better sugar in kiff speaking to me, a little earlier england have returned home to la rapturous reception into fog a square in Central London after winning euro 2022 football total. It was a huge, successful ins, isnt also for the sport with wreck old crowd turning out to watch the games. Oh, its taken 56 years, but its finally come home. And it took the women of england to achieve what the men have failed to do. And the secret that the lioness is success simply theyre very, very good football players. Very, very good people. Yes, maam. The willingness, the commitment, the resilience of the behavior towards each other. The support has been so incredible and most of all the willingness to want to win so badly and they won. Its a victory, not only for the lionesses also england, but for womens football worldwide. The euro 2022 was a festival of footballing progress and exciting game playing in front of crowds that were bigger than ever before. Ah, i think england have hosted an incredible totem and im gonna change the game in this country and hopefully across europe, across the world. But we said that we wanted to make our legacy about women and thats what we did. They may have fallen at the final hurdle, but the tournament runs up. Germanys National Team also did the country and the sport crowd receiving a heroes welcome. When they arrived home in frankfort, also krauter may depart in changing the fate of womens all the same. Its ne, eurostar eager, but its not back to business. As usual. We hope were really at the start of something in our sport. Will stay on the ball and wont let the state and to nothing unless we hope will get a lot more exposure. And that will inspire a lot of girls to take up the game of football. And we hope we can change the way football is organized and viewed and our game will be given the respect it deserves. I prefer not. The england team have already in their funds respect. After english fans were staffed of major tournament success for so long. But once the parties over its hoped that when will give a massive boost to womens football at all levels of the game mattress. Michelle nichols who found fame playing tenant to her in star trek has died aged 89. A family said a great lights in the firmament is no longer no longer shines for us. We shall nichols broke down barrows for black women in hollywood, including sharing an interracial case with co star william shatner. Martin luther king is said to have personally encouraged her to stay in the series when she was considering quitting. She later worked for nasa recruiting more astronauts of color and more women days, almost done, but the compensation continues online. You find this on twitter. 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