turns against the law and later it turns out they were under pressure turns out they were under pressure to try to reaffirm beijing s principles towards taiwan beijing s principles towards taiwan and apparently they had been taiwan and apparently they had been resisting those pressures. beijing been resisting those pressures. beijing has kind of really influence this election on all fronts influence this election on all fronts and that is something people fronts and that is something people in taiwan are very conscious of. a lot of talking about conscious of. a lot of talking about how beijing is trying to swing about how beijing is trying to swing the election. 30 about how beijing is trying to swing the election. about how beijing is trying to swing the election. so much at stake not swing the election. so much at stake not just swing the election. so much at stake not just for swing the election. so much at stake not just for the - swing the election. so much
that s something that people in taiwan are very, very conscious of. there s a lot of talk here about how beijing has been trying to sway this election in either direction. yes. so much at play. so much at stake. not just for the people of taiwan, but the broader region and international players as well. we ll be keeping a close eye on it here throughout the day. thank you very much celia forjoining me. back to you. the us says it will send a team of senior officials to ecuador to help its government fight the criminal gangs that carried out waves of deadly violence this week. more than 22,000 ecuadorean troops are carrying out a massive crackdown on the violence that followed after one of the country s biggest narco kingpins escaped from prison. today, authorities confirmed that another top gang boss, fabricio colon pico, also escaped. prison gang members are stil holding nearly 200 guards hostage at jails across the country. the president says the criminals are terrorist and