china s threats of retaliatory measures. soon after nancy pelosi s arrival they announced a series of military options and drills were defying their warnings. details tonight from the pentagon. speak of the pentagon edge watching china s defense ministry, 21 chinese warplanes entered its air defense identification zone as tensions between the two global powers under a new phase. supporters and critics it gathered as house speaker nancy pelosi arrived in taiwan with five other members of congress, just before midnight. she is the highest ranking u.s. official to visit the island democracy and first house speaker to do so since newt gingrich 25 years ago. taiwan s tallest building welcome to speaker pelosi with a simple message, thank you. china s foreign ministry warning that the u.s. is playing with fire and might get burned. we will continue to operate in the seas and these guys of the western pacific as we have done for decades. we will continue to support taiwan. the
environment. finland takes the step of a nato membership in order to strengthen not only its own security but also in order to strengthen wider transatlantic security. this is not the way from anybody. like you, mr. president, said, nato is protective. defensive. not a threat to anybody. at the same time, we must not forget that at this very moment, the brave people of ukraine are fighting not only for their own freedom and democracy but our common security. finland together with the eu and the united states stands firmly behind ukraine. so, mr. president, once again, i want to thank you for making history with us. thank you. mr. president, thank you for welcoming the prime minister and me to the white house. the bonds between sweden and the united states are strong and long standing. as you know, swedes first established in your home state of delaware in 1638. we were one of the first countries to recognize united states as an independent nation in 1783. since then, our
In some instances during the war in gaza. The document says however that the Us Government does not have complete information to verify its assessment. It also finds that, despite israel not fully cooperating with us efforts to get humanitarian aid into gaza in the initial months, it does not currently assess that israel is prohibiting or restricting the transport of aid supplies. Its been a difficult week for Us Israel Relations. President joe biden said the us could suspend certain Arms Shipments to israel if it launches a full scale invasion in to rafah a densely populated area where over one million civilians are sheltering and in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Our correspondent tom bateman has been at the Us State Department and sent this update. This report has been three months in the making with President Biden under growing pressure from human rights organisations, from the partys Democratic Base over the way that the weapons were being used by the israelis in gaza. Wha
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we will continue to operate in the seas and these guys of the western pacific as we have done for decades. we will continue to support taiwan. the chinese military announced a live fire exercises in six areas around taiwan from august 4th to 7th after nancy pelosi and her delegation lead. chinese state media says a series of military operations will begin tonight. the exercise has threatened taiwan s ports. the u.s. military deployed four warships east of taiwan, an aircraft carrier, the uss ronald reagan left a visit in singapore last week. a guided missile cruiser, a navy destroyer and uss tripoli, and amphibious assault ship are also nearby. this is not the first time pelosi has challenged china. in 1990 when she unfurled a banner in tenement square which said for those who died for democracy in china. chinese guards tried to stop her. in an op-ed published in