with almost 40,000 kilometres of track, germany s rail network is the longest in europe, which makes it the perfect place to explore by train. but from berlin s vast central station, train. but from berlin s vast centralstation, i m train. but from berlin s vast central station, i m taking an even cheaperform of central station, i m taking an even cheaper form of transport for a spot of sightseeing. all right, we re doing it. we are crossing the tramway. fabulous. 0h, crossing the tramway. fabulous. oh, it s beautiful. i can see the tower on my left. and it s so cloudy, the tip of it is just unseen. alexander platts is these days the touristic heart of the capital. until 1989, it was the main public square in communist east berlin. i was born in 1990, which is a year after the berlin wall came down, so for myself and i m sure for a generation younger, there is no recollection of those news events. so being able to be here and just get a sense of what it might have been like i
my colleague steve lai is in taipei and joins me now. steve, hello to you again. extraordinarily quick, this, but you are thinking that it shouldn t be too long until we have some sense of the outcome? the outcome? yeah, we can kind of already see the outcome? yeah, we can kind of already see where the outcome? yeah, we can kind of already see where things the outcome? yeah, we can kind of already see where things are - the outcome? yeah, we can kind of| already see where things are headed as long as the percentages remain sort of the same in the difference between the candidates. i would talk a bit more about that with my guest and just amounts but first, he was shaimaa khalil who was at a polling station a little earlier. counting is almost finished in this polling station. so let me just take you through to show you what s been happening. essentially, they ve been they ve opened the ballot boxes, taking the ballot papers out and calling either the candidates or the
it s saturday, 13th january. our main story: the united states has confirmed it s carried out a fresh strike on a houthi target in yemen overnight, a day after both the us and uk carried out a series of raids on the iran backed group. the operation follows an attack by houthi rebels on commercial shipping vessels in the red sea. the group have said attacks in yemen will not go without punishment or retaliation . graham satchell reports. before and after satellite images show the impact of the american and british bombing raids. the americans say airfields and weapons storage depots were destroyed. the raf didn t take part in the attack overnight, but both the british and americans say the raids are vital to keep shipping routes open in the red sea. houthi militia have been targeting container ships off the yemeni coast for weeks. sometimes, like this, they have boarded vessels. in other attacks, they used drones and missiles. they say they are disrupting this key shipping
hours after the polls closed, election counting began. we have already had concession and victory speeches, from william lai of the democratic progressive party. what it means that a relationship going forward with china, that is the big question on everybody s minds. to help us with some of the answers for that, i mjoined by help us with some of the answers for that, i m joined by shelly rigger. she is a professor of asian politics at davidson college. thank you for joining me up here on the rooftop, just get your immediate reaction to the results we have seen, very much in line with poles so perhaps not a big surprise? hat in line with poles so perhaps not a big surprise? big surprise? not really, no. i think it is big surprise? not really, no. i think it is good big surprise? not really, no. i think it is good that big surprise? not really, no. i think it is good that william . big surprise? not really, no. i| think it is good that william lai won with a little bit m
we ve got our own show to make, so let s get on with this episode of newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, it s james here in the studio in westminster. and it s chris in westminster, too. here we are, and one story that s dominated this week, chris, hasn t it, which has been this post office scandal? but there s one story going to dominate next week, i think, quite likely, in so much as we can forecast. what s that? it is rwanda. so it s the return of the conversation about how you deal with illegal migration. and the government is keen to have this idea of sending folk to rwanda. as newscasters will be aware, it s been getting relatively long in the tooth as an idea, but it hasn t yet happened for a million and one legal reasons. there are also very transparent differences of opinion within the conservative party about how you do it, how you make it work, can you make it work, and what s the best way of making it work? there was a bit of a to do before christmas