but not what they do. live from washington, this is bbc news. welcome to viewers on pbs in america the us investigates the leaking of dozens of intelligence document, including details of training and weaponry for ukraine. one tennesee lawmaker reinstated days after he and a colleague were expelled for calling for stricter gun control laws. and taiwan hits back at china after it completes three days of military exercises around the island. hello, i m sumi somaskanda. we begin here in washington, where us national security officials are trying to contain the fallout of a major document leak,
reach, their ability to have a fence or a pretext for these exercises and these really provocative moves as threatening to them and clearly the freedom part of being able to be free and meet with whoever you want they certainly do not understand. that may be the case but if we see these type of provocative military drills, as you ve just called them, is there perhaps some room to reconsidering these types of meetings if they are going to trigger that kind of response from china? there is no triggering of china. china has been planning this for a long time and they have openly stated so. president xi has been saying that he wanted his military to plan to even if necessary to take taiwan from military force. this is all a pretext. certainly in the united states we can t start saying people who are in the united states that we re not going to meet with them because we might offend china.
lastjuly, mr mccarthy said he d like to lead a congressional delegation to taiwan if he became the house speaker, but according to reports, the tsai really managed to convince him to meet in the us instead, because of because of taiwan s security concerns. the us has also tried to downplay the meeting, pointing out that it was president tsai s seventh transit since taking part. both the us and taiwan have described it as a stopover or transit rather than a visit. still, call them official visits or not, these meetings have been going ahead under president tsai. but there is an election coming up on taiwan and we can t say what will happen if the election saw more beijing friendly governments really come to power in taiwan. around the world and across the uk.