and the high profile meetings with two white house speakers. kevin mccarthy in california last month. we see chinese sand. china is reclaiming land to build a new airport. the mainland getting closer every day. we hope the war does not break out here. we think it s basically impossible for our military to defend kinman. but they did defend the itland. tens of thousands of troops from day want repelled the forces. china now has the world s largest navy. the islands are no longer strategically valuable and almost defenseless if the pla decides to make a move. many here calling for the
it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start with china and taiwan because china s military has carried out another day of simulated attacks on the self ruled ireland of taiwan. chinese state media say operation joint sword is using all elements of the military to prac s simulated precision strikes on key targets. meanwhile, the darwin s defence ministry says it has spotted 70 fighterjets and bombers and ii fighterjets and bombers and 11 navy vessels on sunday. the drills began shortly after taiwan s leader angered beijing by meeting the us house speaker gavin mccarthy in california, a move that china considers to be fuelling calls for independence for the island that it considers its own. for more on this story we can speak to
president visit to the us last week. lots more on the bbc website as always, but for now thanks so much forjoining me. do stay with bbc news. hello. compared to the week gone, the week ahead looks different weather wise and that there ll be more rain around. rain totals totting up right across the country as this chart shows. but where we see the green colours appear, the hills of wales, parts of scotland, we could see 60 80mm of rain before the week is out. notjust wet, it s going to be windy at times. some of the windiest conditions will be through tuesday and into wednesday around some of these western areas. gusts of wind maybe up to 60mph. bearthat in mind, if you ve got any of this week under canvas or if you re on the move. now, the change to the more unsettled and changeable conditions has already started, this weather front pushing eastwards overnight into the morning, bringing outbreaks of rain for all. through the morning, some of the wettest conditions will be across the so
not insignificant. we saw the chinese sim youulate attack in and around taiwan. we saw this graphic out of beijing that seemed to show one of these missiles striking in taipei provocative exercises have been going on the past three days in addition to the fact it was in response to the meeting with president tsai, the house speaker in taiwan, and kevin mccarthy in california last week, just hours after that meeting, a u.s. delegation arrived in taipei and spent three days meeting with high-level officials in taiwan, including on saturday meeting with the president, freshly back from her visit to the u.s. one of the reasons officials believe the intensity of the exercises is slightly muted from where it was last year is because that meeting with kevin mccarthy occurred in california it that is seen by some here as a win, win, win.
trade agreement but also, of course, militarily for deterrence. we know that the best thing that we. checked piece. this is a people that are peace loving. that s one of the really terrific things about this trip is to meet the people of taiwan understand their prosperity, their hopes for their children and their future . there are peace loving people , and so we support them in their deterrence against any aggression. and speaking of that deterrent, you know there are a lot of weapons shipments that the us has promised to taiwan. they haven t all made it there. a lot of them have not. how important is it? and what are you hearing from officials there about expediting the delivery of those weapons. well that is certainly one of their concerns that they have raised with us during our conversations that we re going to be meeting with president side tomorrow. obviously she had a meeting in california with speaker mccarthy