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hello, i'm emily. angry. this is al jazeera alive from dough house are coming up. my leadership and voice will not be diminished. if i am not on this committee for one term democratic us congresswoman, the ill han or my is removed from a powerful house committee by the new republican majority. more sanctions and more military aid e leaders make ukraine's president. but membership to the block is not on the agenda. and the donnie meltdown continues. the indian stock exchange limits share trading in one of the countries the biggest conglomerate. ah, we begin in the united states where the pentagon says it's tracking

a suspected chinese spy balloon spotted over its air space. there are reports, military leaders decided against shooting it down or over the state of montana because of the risk of falling debris. official say the balloon was flying over sensitive science, montana is home to one of the only 3 nuclear missile silo fields in the us. canada government says it's also stepping up security after 1st detecting this surveillance balloon for more on this. let's bring in malcolm davis, who's a senior analyst with the australian strategic policy institute, and joins us from camber. malcolm, thanks so much for being on the program. firstly, how do we know it's a chinese surveillance balloon? well, it's fairly obvious that the u. s. track that just focus, we're seeing social media images of at the moment doesn't mean the north american air defense command. nora didn't track it. coming over the aleutians, we have a good track record. and also he would make very little sense or the chinese to fly

a balloon carrying scientific or meteorological instrumentation over us icbm fields. so i think all the evidence suggests that this is a chinese, the violence system. so why would you use a balloon when we have a network of satellites and more advanced technology? but certainly in terms of gap rein, optical intelligence taking images of, of the sites on the ground, satellites are much more effective. but in this particular instance, the balloon takes a long time to go over the required locations to do intelligence gathering. and that makes it ideal for signals, intelligence, or electron. i can tell her to the 2nd and eland. it's a more effective platform in that regard. because it can loiter over an area, gara a lot of information suck up radio transmission. soc sec up electronic transmissions. or then the satellite, which moves at 28500 kilometers per hour. so i think that in this particular

instance, the chinese have decided to use a balloon rather than a set. what we mentioned that montana is heim to one of only 3 nuclear missile silo fields. is that the kind of intel at this balloon will be trying to gather i think it would be, i mean, when you're talking about nuclear missile silos, one of the things that happens is that your strategic command is constantly sending signals to the silos to the crews. and the launch control casuals, or to make sure that those systems are working perfectly. so something like this balloon with a 2nd payload underneath it. and you can see the social media imagery of the large solar panels and a series of antennas in the middle. something like that would be able to gather that intelligence, gather those transmission's, analyze them, send them back to china. so this would be the sort of operation that could be

conducted with this sort of capability. malcolm, what you make of washington's decision to publicize the discovery of this elaine ahead of the secretary of state, anti lincoln's visit to buy g. but i think the tell washington, our little choice was already being observed by the general public or put on social media. they had to say something. and so very clearly it's a chinese bullying her with an intelligence gathering mission. or they probably felt this was a provocative act on the part of china, or they weren't going to let the china get away with this. so i think that it was in the us interest to actually publicize this and make it clear that they consider this a provocative act. even we have secretary of state anthony lincoln heading to china . so really appreciate your insight. thank you so much. malcolm davis, the senior analyst with the astronomy and strategic policy institute frontier. thank you. as bringing katrina you now who joins us live from beijing. katrina,

we've heard from north american authorities on this balloon. but what's been the response in china? we haven't had anything at all from the chinese government as yet. we do know that the u. s. have communicated to chinese officials the seriousness of this situation . we are expecting some sort of response within the hour when china's foreign ministry holds its regular briefing this afternoon. but just to recap what exactly we've heard from the u. s. they say that the tracking and a legit chinese surveillance balloon. it's quite large. the size of euclid's of 3 boxes in high altitude and this is high above the commercial airline level. so currently poses no threat to airlines and they say that it is floating above. what the u. s. have said is sensitive areas that does not pose a significant risk when it comes to intelligence gathering. and also reportedly there was some discussions in the biden administration about whether or not to shoot the balloon down and it was decided and not to go forward with that plan

because of any danger. devry possibly would have posed people on the ground. now, as i said, we were waiting still on a official response from beijing. here we had her seen some common trees on state media from chinese experts, essentially saying that this is a hot air that it's unlikely that china is, is closing a surveillance balloon, especially at this time. certainly, there are 2 reasons why this is surprising. the 1st, as the a guest alluded to that china has a vast network of satellites which very well do the job of any intelligence gathering that this balloon might be able to do from 2019 to 2021. trying to actually expanded its satellite arsenal from about 252400 in 99 and experts have said that it is unlikely that this surveillance balloon is going to be able to really clean any information that the satellites don't already know about. secondly, what is very surprising is the time, let us all the untimeliness of this surveillance balloon being found just in

a few days. or you are secretary of state antony blank and will be arriving to engaging for very high level talks that the most important meeting we've had with us for official since the beginning of the pandemic. and this comes amid china having more of a conciliatory tone towards us. these talks are supposed to be a resetting of very tense time. so no doubt the discussion of this balloon is going to already add to this complicated list of disagreements that these 2 powers have already. okay, make sure you let us know when we hear an official statement from beijing. thank you very much. katrina, you there still in the u. s. and republicans in the house of representatives have voted to remove em. muslim congresswoman from the time is foreign relations committee. democrats, a ill hand or ma was targeted because of her identity. victoria guided me as the details and emotional debate. congresswoman ellen omar, a refugee from somalia. and one of the 1st muslim women in the us house of representatives voted off the foreign affairs committee. there is this idea that

you are a suspect if you are an immigrant, or if you are from certain parts of the world or a certain skin tone or a muslim, it is no accident. that members of the republican party accused the 1st black president, brock obama, of being a secret muslim republicans pointed to these tweets from years ago when she seemed to equate atrocities carried out by the u. s. military to those committed by groups, washington deems terrorists. she later said she did not mean to compare them, but republicans now in the majority, moved in a party line vote to kick her off the committee. democrats accused how speaker kevin mccarthy, of payback. after democrats stripped 2 republicans of their committee assignments in the last congress, a charge he denied were not removing her from other committees. we just do not believe when it comes to foreign affairs, especially the responsibility of that position around the world with the comments

that you make. she shouldn't serve them, the republicans who lost their assignments a much different story representative poor go saw tweeted out an animated video that appeared to show him killing congresswoman alexandria, casio cortez, who said this move was intended to target women of color. i had a member of the republican caucus threatening my life and you all. and the republican caucus, the warning him with one of the most prestigious committee assignments in this congress. don't tell me. is it about consistency? democrats say they will appoint omar to a different but still powerful committee and omar warned republicans that their move will backfire. i yield back victoria gate and be al jazeera ah ukrainian president of army zalinski is urging the european union to impose more sanctions on moscow. as late as mason cave,

you're paying commission president is lavonne de lion says the sanctions package including price camps on russian oil will be ready for the 1st anniversary of rushes invasion salons. he says the block is moving too slowly to speedily. you've replaced gazelle, dana's when she does that, just the common to ask for the european union is to reduce russia's ability to bypass sanctions. the sooner this is achieved, the closer we will get to the defeat of russia's aggression. we have noticed that the pace of sanctions has slowed down a bit while the terrace state has speeded, adapting to sanctions. it is worth to catch up and fix it if we believe we can do it. but the today, russia is paying a heavy price as our sanctions, are you eroding its economy? throwing it back by a generation. the price cap on crude oil already costs russia around $160000000.00 euros a day. and we will keep on turning up the pressure further. we will introduce with

our g 7 partners and additional price cap on russian petroleum products. and by the 24th of february, exactly one year since the invasion started, we aim to have the 10th package of sanctions in place. there were more than 800 attacks by israeli settlers own that palestinians may occupy the west bank last wide group, say a growing sense of impunity is fueling and increase in violence. and has been in smith's report from ramallah many victim say there's no point in even filing police report. the ambulance crew were lucky to escape without serious injury when settlers threw rocks at their vehicle last week. they were called out to re palestinians who been injured when settlers attacked the village and the occupied west bank and a mentor partition community. i didn't think we would make it out of there alive. and we were driving between cars that were on fire and i would never have expected that they would attack in ambulances. there were an average of 17 settler attacks

a week on palestinians in 2022, a 170 percent increase in 5 years. according to the un poses with israel's new governing coalition, including foreign ministers, elected by settlers. many palestinians fe. the violence will get worse, the us government says it opposes settlement expansion and the legalize ation of outposts. but these really government is promising to do just that. those new grey and white apartments over there are illegal settlements right here in the heart of the west bank. and last year just 3 percent of police cases involving settle of violence resulted in a conviction. farrah salamis from an israeli group that monitors settler attacks. he says they now have no fear and come right into the villages. at bucket anointed isabel, a 3rd enormous shouting behalf their emboldened because his railey law enforcement gives them impunity and the power to carry on escalate when there is no

accountability the attacks increase and so does the violence to day because they are in a position of power when the government, they feel more immune settlement started appearing, not long after israel occupied the west bank in the 1967 arab israeli war, there are now around 2 $190.00 of them all illegal and international law. the settlements in blue on this map, a gradually expanding and will eventually joined together a tactic, palestinian official hassan di glass says was used when israel was found it home with them. pub grandma, who don't. buffy out at hayley philosophy. they want to implement a plan to transfer palestinians from areas close to settlements, a st. similar to that, and 1948 when zionist gangs committed massacres and, and still fear to drive palestinians out of their homes. today we have another attempt, yanks, new names, price tag hill, top youth, you name, it is called the magazine. no settlers have been charged in connection with the attack on the ambulance on saturday. israel police say they'll investigate the incident,

but have yet to make any arrests. bernard smith out his era ramallah still hey, john al jazeera, a high level meeting in pakistan. after foliage expose is security lapses at a police compound heats by suicide attack. and $100.00 days after iraq's prime minister took off, as we ask if his government is delivering on its promises ah, in depth analysis of the days headlines from around the world to try right. extremely, there is real and need to be tackled as soon as possible. frank assessments, your guy has failed. it's time to back a new old jolen. that is why you get to get out of the minute over by those dialect and do something to benefit. the informed opinions, booze, with north dorky disappointment inside story on al

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ah, ah. hello, you're watching al jazeera, i'm emily angle, and he is a reminder about top stories this. our republicans, matthew s, house of representatives have voted to remove a muslim congresswoman from its powerful foreign relations committee. democrats say ill. hon or emma was targeted because of her identity. ukrainian president, bologna zalinski is urging the you to impose more sanctions on russia. you're paying commission president just to live underline says the sanctions package will be ready for the 1st anniversary of the invasion. and the pentagon says it's tracking a suspected chinese spy balloon in u. s. a space official say the suspected spy crowd was flying over the sensitive side. candidate government has also protected the balloon

to india. now, where the stock exchange has placed restrictions on, the trading of shares of companies owned by tycoon, got him a darning, more than $100000000000.00 has been wiped off the value of his conglomerate. after allegations of fraud by us short sell them for more on this story. let's bring him paddling middle. he joins us live now from new delhi. hello there have me in the fall, continues after that u. s. report was released last week. yes, we're continue to see strong reactions to the crisis. the adonis group is battling again today. shares off of dani companies. plummeted, creating for some of those companies had to be bought. now, stock markets and stock exchanges are stepping in to protect investors. in india, the national stock exchange has play some about companies on what is called additional servants mechanism. what this basically means is that trading activity

has been restricted and also serves as a wanting to invest that look here, the talk that has seen a lot of volatility in recent times. and this is also happening internationally. the down in the us is removing a donnie from some of its indices, the sustainability indices on the doubt. this companies that have strong financial, but also meet certain high standards of environmental and social impact and corporate governance. now the dow has traced its decision to that damning report by u. s. investment from hindenberg research, which has a queue via the group of quote, pulling off the largest cone in corporate history. now the dani group has denied allegations which include stock, market, manipulation, and accounting fraud, and continues to threaten legal action against the company. now all of this thing out of bound gladish wants to renegotiate. it's packed with the company. a donnie

supplies electro fisher, that's a, it is too expensive, particularly they say that call that comes from a mind in east and india that is operated by the company is priced too high. so you're seeing financial losses and also sort of of a loss of fears. internationally for the new group, certainly plenty of moving parts of the story. poverty would have been the political repercussions. there are growing calls for regulate us to step in and take stock off the situation. because on one hand, you have all this money that investors are losing, but it's also important to remember that a bonding companies operate key infrastructure businesses. you know, when a company is building for supplying electricity. you know, it's sort of building nations and when it invest in renewable energy and technology thought of building the future. and that is also where some of the critic criticism has come in. opposition. parties alleged that

a donnie has gotten lucrative contracts because of gotten mcdonny. spots is friendship with prime minister and the rains are movie opposition. bodies continue to demand judicial inquiry into allegations and also want a debate in parliament. have any thanks so much for the updates penny metal live for us in new delhi authorities in the pakistani city of pleasurable are reviewing security measures. days after an attack inside a police compound investigative, say the suicide bomber managed to get him because he was wearing a police uniform. he detonated his explosives inside a mall square offices, had gathered for pres, $101.00 people were killed. let's get an update from the bank who joins us live now from patient will i side? what will, can you tell us about this ongoing security meeting that's happening right now. but security is type in for a shower. we have a high level meeting taking space. we have the heads of the military intelligence,

the provincial governments, including the prime minister, another 5 minutes that has made a brief statement where he said, the financial package, money will be given to those from uses offices that died. and also that those that have been injured, but this group is coming to a set up back in 2014, following the boxes on he bought a tech on a military school around a 140 children were killed after that in the cafeteria. this group was set up a tackle this issued after 2014, didn't see a drastic drop in the number of attacks. but last year the previous government focused on, on the run con, decided to talk to the bond that the investigation is ongoing. and cctv 14 have been reduced by custodian investigators have released cctv video purportedly showing the moment a suicide bomber managed to infiltrate what is supposed to be a secure area. dressed in a police uniform and riding a motor bike,

he was simply waved through without any checks. the question of security lapses that i admit that yes, there was a security lapse just because the st. palmer was dressed in a police uniform. the entire command of the police lanes gates is not under one party because inside their 7 defense, smaller units or organizations and each one has their own command structure. and therefore, the confusion, the chaos caused this detectable get undetected entry into the police and, and detected the suicide bomber continued to target. this cctv 40 shows him leaving his motorbike by the roadside. his then called back by a police officer. he pushes his bike away, pretending had broken down. this is the last checkpoint, this i'd bama would have gone through before making his way to the mosque

investigator say, the police vest to his wearing was filled with 10 to 12 kilograms of explosives. they also say he appears the attacker didn't know where the mosque was and had to ask for directions. for the footage, released by police shows the man walking towards the mosque where he would go on to inflict the single largest loss of life. the police here have ever suffered and as they come to terms with their loss, questions about what else can be done to protect security personnel still remain. there's no modern technology to protect police facilities, having facial recognition, or fingerprints, or biometric and cri, etc, etc. on the level of technology, which is internationally accepted as a standard feature of the sources that are required probably in those are either not available are we are not having those funerals are still taking place. police chiefs are trying to keep the morale high among the 130000

strong force in the province. but this concern that could be more attacks now 30 except the fact that they will be more attacks now the book signing study, but ended this. the fire with the accidental at the end of last year. and when you speak to offices here, they say expect more tech to describe this as a war and ongoing war. but today's meeting is taking place, a high level meeting and we expect some sort of action about how this government is going to pack those the issue of militancy and the box on is already bought. or i make sure i keep us updated as to how that i'm phones as that bag in that picture. well, thank you. it's been $100.00 days since iraq's prime minister mohammed shia. alas, the dining took office. it was elected in october after more than a year of political paralysis. but critic say he's already struggling to deliver on his promises as muffled up del why had reports from back to and she is in

paris as iraq supply minister of science. and he can amik agreement with france redeems to increase corporation in energy and public transportation more. how much a? yeah. so danny has described it as a valuable partnership that will reform and develop his country. you know, one level of lockhart. it's the 1st long term strategic agreement to be sealed by an iraqi government. at the elisa palace, partnership with france opens the door to europe. it includes investment and oil and gas clean energy and a trend line project on but back home and get a soaring as the local currency depreciates again, if the u. s. dollar, it is reportedly result of money laundering by iraqi banks and the smuggling of dollars across the borders. 2 countries, including iran, many lim, institutional corruption rates. it was our car that the prime minister hasn't delivered on his promises. now we are hungry because it is failure. he can't even

confront parliament with it. if he's unable to solve matter, he should step down in a bid to contain public anger. so danny has said the central bank governor, when he took office in october, the prime minister promised to fight corruption. and his administration has been praised for exposing the embezzlement of billions of dollars, but it's also been accused of nepotism pull at the said. so i mean, how much this government is basically, sir in political interest, rather than serving the people of sac many officials and replace them with his allies, including unqualified and corrupt officials. that means a prime minister is manipulated by certain political parties and the people reject this in mid january of the months of silence supporters of prominent leader to the summit gather the better dad to denounce the state corruption and call for economic reforms. so danny is also trying to balance iraqi

foreign policy lay taking a less confrontational approach towards washington to strengthen his position and gain international support. so danny is hoping to keep up on the momentum of cooperation with western powers. but that could be challenging if his iran backed allies continue to reject america's presence in iraq. and he talks to revive the nuclear deal. remain. deadlock moved up. do i have the boat that it from me. emily angland is now a staging. now full inside story. ah hello west is best for sunshine across western europe over the next couple of days

we will see more of the way of sunny skies coming back through here. notice is bank of club falling in from the northwest. so we do have some bands of cloud and rain digs in to what will be significantly cooler as you go on through the next couple of days. not too bad. at the moment you can see temperatures just about about freezing for the most part. there's that malware tools, western parts 1112 celsius that london and for paris getting up to 16 there in between. as we go on through the next couple of days we'll, temperature is due for back just a little bit by the cooler air to significantly cool, where we'll come into eastern part to see how those blues to start to encroach from the east and where that murderer meets the colder air bands, a cloud of rain turning to snow. so we'll see significant snow fall across poland through check the public down towards hungry. eventually pushing across into ukraine. bright disguise, further west, little bit of whether they're at island, northern ireland, pushing across, gotten the modem, england before the satisfied and try. we got some wet weather. meanwhile,

some winter weather for some into greece and more so into the clear northern parts of africa are generally dry, but we will see some wet weather maybe get to know them areas about syria. ah, the karone of virus has been indiscriminate in selecting its victims. it's devastating effects of plague, every corner of the globe, transcending class creed and color. but in britain, a disproportionately high percentage of the fallen have been black or brown skins. the big picture traces the economic disparities and institutional racism that is seen united kingdom fail, it citizens britain's true colors. part one on al jazeera, public anger is growing in the u. k. hundreds of thousands of people have hot hesitated in waves.