leading to speculation that it is preparing for an invasion. taiwan has also been subjected to cyber attacks from china. my guest is the taiwanese digital minister, audrey tang. can taiwan really forge its own path? minister audrey tang in taipei, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. really happy to be here. president xi of china reiterated at the recent chinese communist party congress that china wants to strive for the prospect of peaceful unification with taiwan, but that he will never promise to give up the option to use force. just sum up briefly the mood for us, the reaction to that possibly new threat. well, there s a familiar message. we ve been hearing that for quite some time. of course, we have to prepare ourselves to face the authoritarian expansionism, but that has been the case for as long as i can remember. so people have not been at all worried by this renewed threat? not especially worried. of course, we ve been seeing renewed interest in, for example, countering
my guest is the taiwanese digital minister, audrey tang. can taiwan really forge its own path? minister audrey tang in taipei, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. really happy to be here. president xi of china reiterated at the recent chinese communist party congress that china wants to strive for the prospect of peaceful unification with taiwan, but that he will never promise to give up the option to use force. just sum up briefly the mood for us, the reaction to that possibly new threat. well, there s a familiar message. we ve been hearing that for quite some time. of course, we have to prepare ourselves to face the authoritarian expansionism, but that has been the case for as long as i can remember. so people have not been at all worried by this renewed threat? not especially worried. of course, we ve been seeing renewed interest in, for example, countering disinformation, cybersecurity attacks and so on. but i think the overall mood is quite calm. ok, because china has claime
into his home and cracked open his safe in what he called a raid. now, this is an extraordinary development and remarkable escalation of the investigations surrounding the former president. trump has already weaponized the search and using to fund raise already. here is how his son eric is explaining it on fox. to have 30 fbi agents, actually more than that, descend on mar-a-lago, give absolutely, you know, no notice, go through the gate, start ransacking an office, ransacking a closet, you know, they broke into a safe, he didn t even have anything in the safe. i mean, give me a break. the purpose of the raid from what they said was because national archives wanted to corroborate whether or not donald trump had any documents in his possession. and my father has worked so collaboratively with them for months. in fact the layer working on this was totally shocked, he said i have such an amazing relationship with these people and all of a sudden no notice, they send 20 cars an
finland, the first major federal gun safety legislation passed in decades, bipartisan, it includes incentivizing red flag laws, closes the boyfriend loophole and funds crisis intervention programs including mental health courts. and tomorrow president biden is expected to sign the bipartisan chips and science act boosting u.s. semi-conductor production and the making of cars, household appliances and computers. also this week he is expected to sign a bipartisan bill enhancing health care and disability benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. let s get right to capitol hill where they were up all night saturday into sunday, a marathon session, but the senate did pass the inflation reduction act. jessica dean is there. jessica, what is in this big piece of legislation? reporter: good morning to both of you. yeah, this is a big, big win for senate democrats who frankly, john and brianna, they didn t know that they were going to get to this point. this alm
hello and welcome to bbc news. the palestinian group islamichhad says it s fired over 100 rockets at israel. these images show the rockets being intercepted by israel s iron dome air defence system. it comes only hours after an israeli airstrike in the gaza strip, which killed a commander of the islamichhad group. the palestinian health ministry says at least ten people were killed, including a five year old child. this footage was released by the israeli army, which they say shows the moment the strike hit gaza. israel s prime minister yair lapid spoke about the airstrike in a television address earlier, where he promised to do whatever it takes to defend the israeli people. israel carried out a precise counterterror operation against an immediate threat. 0ur fight is not with the people of gaza. islamichhad is an iranian proxy that wants to destroy the state of israel and kill innocent israelis. the head of islamichhad is in tehran as we speak. we will do whatever it takes