the north and south. north korea s military said it responded by firing ten artillery shots. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with zeinab badawi. welcome hardtalk with zeinab badawi. to the special editio of welcome to the special edition of hard tour from the taiwanese capital, taipei. people here in taiwan which is self governed live under constant threat from china which lies about 160 kilometres across the waters. beijing claims taiwan as part of its territory, and in the past few months has carried out hundreds of military sorties near taiwan, hundreds of military sorties neartaiwan, leading hundreds of military sorties near taiwan, 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 and taipei welcome to hardtalk. thank you, happy to be here. xi jinping reiterated at the recent china party
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
life and legacy of the home run king. terrance moore, thank you very much for being on today. that wraps us up for this hour. jose diaz balart picks up msnbc s live coverage right now. and good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz balart. we have breaking news. we got word president biden will be delivering a speech tonight in washington d.c. nbc news chief white house correspondent kristen welker joins me with that. what do we know about this? jose, according to sources familiar with the president s plans tonight, he is going to deliver those remarks at 7:00 p.m. eastern at union station here in the nation s capitol and the focus is going to be democracy. we have heard him say this. he was at a campaign event in florida yesterday where he said democracy is on the ballot. now, in a release from the dnc, they previewed this by saying the president will address the threat of election deniers and those who seek to undermine faith in voting and democ
right now on andrea mitchell reports, less than a week before the midterms, the president will give a major speech tonight from washington on why he believes the future of democracy is on the ballot. barack obama has been crisscrossing the country for democrats. liz cheney crossing party lines. the basic question that you should be asking yourself is, who will fight for you? if the people in our party are not doing the job they need to do, then we re going to vote for the people in the other party, because we are americans above all else. this hour, a deeper dive into online misinformation campaigns in the wake of the attack on paul pelosi. this time, looking at pennsylvania. new reporting on how capitol police missed seeing the break-in live on video despite a security camera on the house. new we action to a north korean barrage of almost two dozen missiles, setting off alarms in south korea and new intelligence that kim jong-un is helping to arm russia against ukr
ladder that was attached to the building. he fired, climbed back down and somehow got away. a rifle was recovered at the scene. the atf is tracing the firearm. the way this works is, they will trace the firearm to the original owner. if it was sold to other people, they will trace that as well. and then the atf will visit that owner or owners to find out if there s any link between that person and a potential suspect. high pressure s police commander is urging people to shelter in place as authorities search for the suspect that is still at large at this hour. we re talking five hours after the shooting. this comes two weeks after the president signed a bipartisan gun law that is meant to dwell the scourge of mass shooting in the united states. the president condemned the shooting and offered support to members of the high pressure community. we expect him to speak any moment during his fourth of july address. we have fox s peter doocy is at the white house with president bid