War, because, erm, the democracies seem to be able to get together to form a meaningful deterrence, so whenever there is invasion contemplated. So if we deal with the matter very carefully, theres still a great possibility for us to maintain peace as we all need. Cheering. Tsais predecessor, president ma ying jeou, had tried to negotiate with china, even holding a meeting with president xi jinping in singapore. Tsais strategy has been completely different. Instead of trying to conciliate china, shes built up taiwans own defences. Nearly doubling spending, buying new fighterjets and developing taiwans first indigenous submarines. Today, the lion dance is to celebrate the opening of a new Special Forces Training Base on the outskirts of taipei. Another tangible example of where this new Military Spending is going. So i guess for president tsai, this is a sort of demonstration of what shes been trying to achieve in Defence Policy over the last eight years, because, you know, part of her b
A definitive plan because, you know, the world is changing, the situation in china is changing, but the world is very different now, especially after ukrainian war, because, erm, the democracies seem to be able to get together to form a meaningful deterrence, so whenever there is invasion contemplated. So if we deal with the matter very carefully, theres still a great possibility for us to maintain peace as we all need. Cheering tsais predecessor, president ma ying jeou, cheering tsais predecessor, president ma ying jeou, had tried to negotiate with china, even holding a meeting with president xi jinping in singapore. Tsais strategy has been completely different. Instead of trying to conciliate china, shes built up taiwans own defences. Nearly doubling spending, buying new fighterjets and developing taiwans first indigenous submarines. Today, the lion dance is to celebrate the opening of a new Special Forces Training Base on the outskirts of taipei. Another tangible example of where th
Concerns with a new storm, especially here on sundays forecast. Well continue to wrap this up. Well have another update at 6 10 and also 6 19. We want to take you out to storm ranger right now, our mobile Doppler Radar. You can see it situated here. It is in the elements and here to track our weather. Again, more updates throughout the hour. People are keeping a close eye on stream levels and areas around the north bay prone to flooding. Were live where getting ready for flood waters is a way of life. This area is in the business. Nay ear so ready they have these apparatus ready where they can put flood gates to hold the water and almost every business mad sandbags at the ready. This art gallery owner has been through it before and hes ready if the water keeps rise in the creek below him. I end up raising my painting and putting the computer and chair up or i take some stuff home. Reporter bank erosion in 2005 left his tiny shop on a slope. And less than three weeks ago the creek wa
It is 7 00 here in london. A parade of military might in of peace talks on tuesday. Fighting continues in the east. Angela merkel is warning not to expect a diplomatic breakthrough when president putin and president poroshenko talk. This is classic angela merkel. She is managing expectations. She is tempering expectations. She is visiting kiev, and she said, dont expect much on this meeting on tuesday. Trip washe quote. My aimed at preparing such a meeting, which wont bring about a breakthrough. Merkel also called for resolution of the dispute between ukraine and russia and gas from on natural gas transit and delivery. She said there wasnt a red alert yet, but the clock is ticking. Winter theloser to situation will demand and consume more energy. What is the latest on the ground in ukraine . These holdout cities are being surrounded by progovernment forces. At the parademe in kiev president poroshenko talked about the need for another 3 billion euros in additional funding. Quote e actu
Disturbing. A Police Car Driving through a crowd gathered for illegal street races. We will have more on this story ahead. Lets begin with the new twist we are now learning about. Forearm President Trumps desperate attempts to stay in power during his last days in office. The wall street journal is reporting that trump pushed the Justice Department to ask the Supreme Court to invalidate joe bidens victory. This comes a day after the president considered replacing the acting attorney general who wouldnt support his efforts to overturn the election. We are now joined by one of the koeshd entz who broke this story. Jess brachb covers the Supreme Court for the wall street journal. Thank you for joining us. You write that the president wanted this intervention with the Supreme Court right after the Court Dismissed a lawsuit tiled by texas the state which was seen by many as his last legal hope. Your article states he wanted us, the United States, to sue one or more of the states directly in