there s a very mixed japanese reaction to that. finally, let s look at that big issue that hangs over the whole of east asia. is china more likely now to invade taiwan after the g7 than it was before? i don t think so. i think we re where we were maybe even a year ago. i don t think the calculations have changed. that s because. two reasons, really. i think the chinese economy is really relatively stagnant at the moment. i think for now, xijinping has made the calculation that he simply can t afford to invade taiwan. i also think that there have been some forays lately for china to speak to some of its adversaries, to kind of bring down the tension. and i think it needs to do that while its economy is still struggling. but the taiwanese are pretty certain that they are going to get attacked, aren t they?
but there is no doubt that belatedly the russians have learned to fight better. and nato s weapons aren t reaching ukraine in sufficient quantities yet. explosion. few expected the ceasefire to hold in any way. the bbc correspondent james waterhouse has covered the war from its earliest stages. i caught up with him when he had just arrived in the city of dnipro to report on the fighting in south eastern ukraine. there isn t a single ukrainian city which is untouched by russia s latest tactic really. we thought its strategy of targeting ukraine s infrastructure would stop as the weather improved, but it s clear that the kremlin wants to sustain the pressure on both the ukrainian population as well as the ukrainian air defence stockpiles, which are under strain. so it has become an aerial
is really relatively stagnant at the moment. i think for now xijinping has made the calculation that they can t afford to invade taiwan. i also think that there have been some forays lately for china to speak to some of its adversaries, to kind of bring down the tension, and i think china needs to do that whilst its economy is still struggling. but the taiwanese are pretty certain that they are going to get attacked, aren t they? i think it s a very nervous time in taiwan. we have taiwan s presidential election coming up injanuary and that is going to be key. who is going to win the election? i think at the moment if we look at the polls i think the opposition has a really good chance of getting into power. if that happens, the opposition is much more pro china and in favour of fostering ties between taiwan and the mainland. and so i think the outcome of the election will tell us a lot about what xi jinping s calculations might be moving forward. ecuador is a delightful country, but it
functioning civilization. and in lieu of them, it is clear that things fall apart and the only thing you can do is to put people out of the public sphere away so that other people aren t hurt by them. that s the best we can do. and it s obligatory that we do it because people are being killed. and if you don t do that, you wind up with a society in which 11 year olds treat carjacking like a sport because they know they can get out of jail very quickly. here s fox two in detroit. police arrested at 11 , 12 and 14 year old for stealing high end hellcats of the jefferson north. what they think it s fun. you know, they think it s fun and there s no penalty to it. head of the detroit police commercial auto theft unit, lieutenant clive stewart stunned over the trio of kids arrested monday right here on the storage lawn of the jefferson north plant. in a separate incident this just 14 years old and alleged
the fifteen boxes for review within seven days. that was in april. in other words, joe biden s administration signed off on all of this months ago and merrick garland just executed it. obviously. so if you think that s troubling, how about this? a clear demonstration of priorities we have never seen. the administration announced today that they re going to send anotheray t three billion dollars to do you not to the families of the hundred and eight thousand people who died of opioid ods last year. no, to ukraine. and to be clear, this is not emergency assistance. the money will buy dronesnd and weapons aren t expected to arrive in ukraine for severalwe years, years. soap if you re keeping track, we ve now sent and this is the public part of it, this is notub the budget stuff. but publicly we sent 10 billion