progressive party william lai shortly. especially after we have had two concession speeches from the other two opposition parties, the kuomintang as well as the tpp, the taiwan people s party. let s set this in some context, i m joint here on the rooftop by a taiwan historian. albert, give us some context to what we have been seeing. the dpp looking like they are going to have a third successive term as president of taiwan? president of taiwan? yeah, it is unprecedented. president of taiwan? yeah, it is unprecedented. from president of taiwan? yeah, it is unprecedented. from 2000 - president of taiwan? yeah, it is unprecedented. from 2000 to l president of taiwan? yeah, it is - unprecedented. from 2000 to 2008, the dpp had two terms and then 2008 to 2016, the kmt had two terms so this would be the first time that the dpp had won three times in a row so it does mark a new uncharted territory for taiwanese politics. democracy in taiwan is incredibly vibrant but democracy in taiwan d
these text messages and it doesn t apply to you, you re not looking for a job, there are three things, really. firs of all, you want to ignore it. second of all, report it because it is useful intelligence for the authorities. in the uk, you could do that by forwarding your text messages to 7726 that spells out spam on your keyboard and then, of course, delete it. just a reminder of our top story today. that is the result of the taiwan election. you are looking there at the democratic progressive party s william lai who is set to become taiwan s next president. the ballot boxes, the only closed about five hours ago but in the last hour we had concession speeches from the two major opposition parties. speech is effectively conceding defeat.
henry kissinger came up with an artful compromise. we will agree all chinese on the other side the strait maintain there s one china and that taiwan is part of china, without ever explicitly saying whose version we back. this is the winning of one-china policy based on strategic ambiguity. but as the people s rub rose, taiwan was downgraded with the united nations booting the island from it. and in 1979, the carter administration officially dropped diplomatic recognition of taiwan in favor of the people s republic. that same year, warhawks in congress backed defensive arms sales to taiwan. a few years later, the reagan administration secretly assured taiwan would would continue to sell arms for its defense. with mainland china insisting support of its claim to the island, pressuring companies and countries alike to accept the idea that taiwan doesn t really exist.
see a houston parking garage through all the smoke. firefighters say cars on the upper floors somehow caught fire. nobody was hurt. a florida man caught a wild monkey in his back yard. i mean caught on camera. the primate has captivated the tampa bay area this past year. he appeared to be hungry and was scooping food from a bird feeder. officials have been trying to capture the monkey for a year and still it evades them. in south dakota the spring flood fight is on as lake poinsett rises. there are more than 90,000 sand bags protecting the shores. so far no buildings or homes have been damaged but flooding is expected to keep on coming. local officials say it s possible the sand bags will need to stay in place for two years. this building in taiwan doesn t look so special but if you look deep ter s constructed of plastic bottles, 1.5 million of them, the contractor saying he and his team were inspired by