they go on to say they are incredibly proud of who he was, and what he achieved. so, that you can read that on our bbc news live page and we will bring you more here on bbc news throughout the day. we will turn to one of our other top stories in taiwan. more now on taiwan which has been hit by it s biggest earthquake in 25 years. the government says at least nine people have died and more than 700 others have been injured after an offshore earthquake struck the east coast of the island. earlier i spoke to william yang, a journalist in tapei who told us about his experience of the earthquake. the morning at about 8.00am i i was woken up but this very lasting earthquake shake, it was shaking left and right and then up and down and i heard thing falling off my shelves and immediately realising that this is an earthquake that a scale we haven t experienced for many year, so i hid under the table and my first instinct as a journalist is to check the information and see where the e