prompted him to pause plans. for this judicial overhaul, so the defense minister officially now has not been fired. christine elliott got can thank you so much for that. keep us posted the us and the philippines, kicking off their a largest joint military drills in 30 years this morning over the next 18 days more than 17,000 military personnel from both of those countries will train on bases at the edge of the south china sea as cnn s selena wang shows us china has been conducting drills of its own. thank you. china s fighter jets fly around taiwan skies, military ships sail off its coast. china says it s simulating precision attacks on key targets in taiwan, while beijing has not launched any missiles, its military released this animation showing missiles fired from land, sea and air into taiwan, two of them explode in flames is showing the world its fury, launching three days of military exercises around
different views stand side by side together, including people of the opposition standpoint, staying for the country for its future president. moscow has blamed ukraine for the bombing, an allegation that keep denies. taiwan s defense ministry says it is closely monitoring a large number of chinese ships and warplanes now in circling the island in military exercises. china says the drills are retaliation for last week s meeting between taiwan s president and us house speaker kevin mccarthy. state media says the forces carried out simulated precision attacks against key targets on the island. taiwan s defense ministry reports at least 58 warplanes in nine ships have been detected in the taiwan strait sunday. it says more than half of those aircraft flew into taiwan s air defense identification zone. okay it is easter sunday in pope francis is presiding over easter mass. amid concerns about his health we had
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continues to ramp up its war drills around taiwan, escalating an already tense situation today. china says it carried out quote simulated precision attacks on key targets on taiwan island as part of the military drills, the three day war game exercises around taiwan come after the island s president met us. house speaker kevin mccarthy in defiance of repeated threats by beijing. the exercises dubbed united sharp sword have been denounced by taiwan and turning now to the middle east, where israel says it has carried out air strikes in syrian territory . israel s defense forces released a video it says shows strikes on a syrian military compound radar systems and artillery posts. the strikes were launched after israel says rockets were fired for um, syria toward the golan heights. days of violence erupted following an israeli police raid on the al aqsa mosque compound in
mishandled when it comes to this situation, and china has been conducting military drills in response to the president. taiwan meeting with the house speaker. kevin mccarthy that includes some simulated precision attacks. your colleague on the republican side , michael mccaul, on the foreign affairs committee says taiwan needs more weapons and training . you ve been to taiwan. you ve met with the leaders there. what do you think? do they need these weapons? look i have visited taiwan has spoken with the president and the passive, actually have author language in the defense budget to help the taiwan defend itself. i do think that it s more helpful to taiwan if we give them better weapons, not for them to conduct a war, but for us to actually deter china china right now, is that actually have the capability to fully take taiwan and a traditional invasion situation they re trying to build to that. now we can actually armed taiwan to the point where china will have to think twice about do