before its release. hello and welcome. china is preparing to begin a series of large scale military exercises in the air and sea around taiwan. it s a response to a visit to the island by the speaker of the us house of representatives, nancy pelosi. the exercises will include live fire drills. mrs pelosi vowed the us would never abandon taiwan. taiwan is self governing, and lies about 160 kilometres across the taiwan strait. it sees itself as independent, but china views it as its own. this is solely nancy pelosi is due to hold a joint press conference the next few minute with the south korean national assembly speaker. as soon as she does take to the stage we will bring that to you, for now let s talk about the latest developments. with me is our news reporter azadeh moshiri. we are waiting to see her appear in south korea but the most controversial visit was this time yesterday when she was in taiwan. was in taiwan. she is on this next leg was in taiwan. she is on this n
Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected as President during the first session of South Africa's newly elected Parliament late on Friday. He was re-elected with the
Cyril Ramaphosa, leader of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC), has been re-elected by the National Assembly as the President for the next five years.Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, who presided over the first sitting of the .