In singapore on saturday. Nhk worlds estella mack has more. Reporter the summit will be the first since taiwan and Mainland China split 66 years ago following the civil war. Relations were hostile for a long time. But in 1993, the heads of the private liaison offices from both sides got together for the first time in singapore. The situation started to improve in 2008 with mas election as president. There was a breakthrough last year when two sides held their first ministerial meeting in china. Translator were going to meet in a place other than taiwan or china. This is an historic first for us. It shows that our relations have matured. Reporter ma describes his talks with xi has an historic milestone. He says the dialogue will be aimed at maintaining peace and stability, and its unrelated to taiwans upcoming president ial election. Some regional experts disagree. They say the meeting has been timed with the january election firmly in mind. Mas Ruling Nationalist Party is polling badly
Nhk worlds estella mack has more. Reporter the summit will be the first since taiwan and Mainland China split 66 years ago following the civil war. Relations were hostile for a long time. But in 1993, the heads of the private liaison offices from both sides got together for the first time in singapore. The situation started to improve in 2008 with mas election as president. There was a breakthrough last year when two sides held their first ministerial meeting in china. Translator were going to meet in a place other than taiwan or china. This is an historic first for us. It shows that our relations have matured. Reporter ma describes his talks with xi has an historic milestone. He says the dialogue will be aimed at maintaining peace and stability, and its unrelated to taiwans upcoming president ial election. Some regional experts disagree. They say the meeting has been timed with the january election firmly in mind. Mas Ruling Nationalist Party is polling badly. President ma has tried t
Wayne, the Contra Costa County District Attorneys Office has filed felony assault charges. Against fired Richmond Police officer eric smith junior. The das office says the former officer has been charged with assault with a Deadly Weapon causing Great Bodily Injury for striking a suspect dozens of times with a taser. Richmond police held a News Conference about the incident earlier today and showed video of what happened. We warn you, the video is graphic found fours dan kerman has the story. He was in the Early Morning hours of april 9th when Richmond Police officer eric smith junior. Confronted a drunk driving suspect. But Richmond Police say his actions violated the departments Excessive Force policy. My goal today is to be transparent about what happened so that we can begin the process of rebuilding community trust. Richmond police chief piece of french played Surveillance Video and officer bodycam video of the incident during a News Conference wednesday the video shows the office
Russia has cut gas deliveries to germany through a key pipeline to just 20 per cent of normal capacity. Moscow says the reduction is because of Maintenance Work on the north stream, one pipeline. The German Government has described it as a power play. More wildfires are burning across europe. One of germanys most Popular National parks is threatened by ablaze, which has spread from the czech republic. Global warming has made droughts and heat waves, more intense. This is dw news from berlin. Youll find much more on our website. That is d, w dot com. Ah, taiwan has been holding its largest ever military drills to practice repairing a chinese invasion intentions are being further stoked by rumors of a potential visit by us. How speak at nancy pelosi so just how dangerous are those growing tensions . Im fil gail in berlin and this is the day ah ginger than we are firmly opposed to speaker pillows. Hes visit to taiwan. I think that its important for us to show support for time may evolve i
Russia has cut gas deliveries to germany through a key pipeline to just 20 per cent of normal capacity. Moscow says the reduction is because of Maintenance Work on the north stream, one pipeline. The German Government has described it as a power play. More wildfires are burning across europe. One of germanys most Popular National parks is threatened by ablaze, which has spread from the czech republic. Global warming has made droughts and heat waves, more intense business dw news from berlin. Youll find much more on our website. That is d, w dot com. Ah, taiwan has been holding its largest ever military drills to practice repairing a chinese invasion intentions are being further stoked by rumors of a potential visit by us. How speaker nancy pelosi. So just how dangerous are those growing tensions . Im fil gail in berlin and this is the day ah ginger, we are firmly opposed to speaker pillows. Hes visit to taiwan. I think that its important for us to show support for time with them, even