including some top secret material. the documents first appeared on online platforms such as twitter, lichan and telegram, as well on the messaging platform discord. the leak reveals information about the deployment and state of ukrainian and russian forces ahead of a ukrainian spring offensive and appear to outline us training and equipment being provided to ukraine ahead of that offensive. there are also suggestions that ukraine s air force may not be able to withstand more russian attacks. other leaked material included intelligence on other countries such as china, israel, and south korea. officials say they do not currently know the source of the leaks. the bbc s barbara plett usher has more. the pentagon says the us is still very much in the finding out phase. we are told that this is a serious risk to us national security and that it is a matter of top priority. a number of government agencies are working together to try to find out how this happened and what the poten
east, suggesting one of the jets took off from one of china s two aircraft carriers. china has confirmed that the shandong aircraft carrier, currently deployed in the pacific, not too far from taiwan, has been involved in the drills and the japanese military said jet fighters and helicopters took off and landed on the carrier 120 times between friday and sunday, so all this seems to indicate that they were simulating a blockade. taiwan says it will stick to its posts but do you think these military drills will cause taiwan to rethink holding meetings with us lawmakers when it sees that kind of response from china? that s hard to say, but if the aim is to deter us and taiwanese politicians from getting closer, it achieved a bit of success. this time around taiwan appears to have ta ken steps to really reduce tensions around that meeting between president tsai like and kevin mccarthy.
military exercises have caused instability and are not the responsible attitude of a major country. china just completed three days of military drills around the island, though the taiwan defense minister says there are still eight military ships operating in waters around the island. taiwan is a self ruled island off the coast of china, which beijing sees it as part of its own territory. china called these drills a stern warning , after the taiwanese president, tsai ing wen, visited the us and met house speaker kevin mccarthy. i spoke to our correspondent joao da silva. tell us more about these military drills china says it has completed. they are essentially i understand simulated circling the island. exactly. it seems that for the first time the chinese military has simulated strikes from the east, or pacific side rather than the west, where china s mainland is. that means that they practised encircling the island, notjust that, taiwan s defence ministry released a map showing the
this certainly is very concerning that these documents would have been leaked. there certainly is an inventory of and understanding of who has access to them. we are going to be working diligently to find who would have had these documents and who might have leaked them in this situation. certainly this is espionage and if it turns out to be american, they are a traitor and they will be held to justice. while we have you here i also want to ask you about china because we have seen chinese warships essentially encircle taiwan in a response to the taiwanese president meeting with the house speaker, kevin mccarthy, here in the us. china said it has successfully completed three days of military drills. what do you make of that? it continues to show that as an authoritarian regime, they are threatening taiwan which is a thriving democracy. it certainly was startling to everyone that when china reacted to nancy pelosi as a speaker going to taiwan and then now is reacting to the president of
were interested to his constituents. that is exactly what he did. the message may be loud but you have to look at the actual message and he was speaking for his constituents so i would encourage any legislator to always speak for their constituents and the constituents of the district felt they were not being heard and silenced on issues about gun violence in our society so representative jones doing what he promised what he would do, represent them and amplify their voices so if you find himself in that situation again, we has to amplify the voices of his constituents, i would encourage him to do so. it is not about always following the rules. of course we want to follow the rules and have decorum but sometimes you have to speak out for people. kyonzte toombs thank you forjoining us here on our programme. kwantay toomes speaking to us there, lawmaker in the tennessee house of representatives. let s get more on taiwan now. its president says china s