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a chinese spy balloon flying over sensitive sites, most recently in montana. ah, hello, i'm emily anglin. this is al jazeera live 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 ill hand or my ease removed from powerful house committee by the new republican majority. more sanctions and more military aid you leaders to meet ukraine's president for 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 conglomerates. ah,

we begin in the united states where the pentagon says it's tracking as suspected chinese spy balloon spotted over its air space. there are reports, military leaders decided against shooting it down over the state of montana because of the risk of falling to brain official say the balloon was flying over sensitive sites. china is calling for com until the facts become clear. and the good. yeah, china is a responsible country and we act in accordance with international law. we have no intention to violate other countries sovereignty and our aerospace we are gathering and verifying the facts we hope relevant parties would handle the matter in our coot headed way. let's bring in katrina, you who joins us live now from badging. hello there could train at so it doesn't appear to be a denial from the chinese government. hey, that's right. neither

a denial nor confirmation of from beijing on this issue of this alleged spy balloon being seen above the united states as, as you just heard there they vast val. com and approaching the situation from both the u. s. and china. and they said that higher than any speculation is not going to be useful going forward. and in finding a solution, the u. s. on the other hand though it seems to be fairly certain that this is a chinese slide, luna was seen closing over the u. s. states of montana, a floating and high altitude, they say that it does not pose any threat to commercial airlines, which is good because it's very large. the size is about 3 balloons. now through buses. sorry. now the u. s. says that although it is flying over sensitive areas, this balloon does not pose any significant risk in terms of information gathering capabilities. and while that was discussion of whether or not to shoot it down, it was decided not to go ahead with this because of any danger folding. deborah might pose. now this incident is very surprising. one of the reasons is that now

know that china and us commonly spy on each other using satellites. and over the past few years, china has actually expanded its satellite arsenal from about 250 to 500 satellites . and experts have been saying that there may not be much information that this slide loon can glean that is not already provided by china's vos satellite network . and the 2nd reason this is surprising is because of the timeliness or the untimeliness of this. this is happening just days ahead of this long anticipated visit by the u. s. secretary of state antony blinking a to begging and that was supposed to occur this sunday. all right, we really appreciate the update. we'll leave it there. katrina, you live for us in by g. let's take a closer look now at where that balloon has been spotted. it was 1st officially cited over the aleutian islands in the u. s. state of alaska. american and canadian officials say it then flew through canada and back into the u. s. s base where it

was again, spotted over the city of feelings in montana. malcolm davis is a senior analyst with the strolling strategic policy institute. earlier i asked him how we know it's a chinese surveillance balloon. it's fairly obvious that the u. s. tractors, just because we're seeing social media images of at the moment doesn't mean that the north american air defense command, nora didn't track it. coming over the aleutians, we have a good track of it and also would make very little sense or the chinese to fly a balloon carrying scientific will meet your logical instrumentation over us icbm fields. so i think all the evidence suggests that this is a chinese surveillance system. so why would beijing use a balloon when they have a network of satellites and more advanced technology? but certainly, in terms of gathering 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, are required locations to do intelligence gathering. and that makes it ideal for signals, intelligence or electronic and tell her to 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 sucks, suck up electronic transmissions. dan 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 satellite. ah, he craning president below me, zalinski is urging the european union to impose more sanctions on moscow. as late as meeting keith european commission president as will of underline says,

the sanctions package including price camps on russian oil will be waiting for the 1st anniversary of russia's invasion. zelinski says the block is moving slowly. really, you've replaced is of dennis. lindsey does that just the common to ask for the european union is to reduce russia's ability to bypass the 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 east. we believe we can do it by those sun 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 come 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 in the us. republicans in the house of representatives have voted to remove emerson congresswoman from the chambers. foreign relations committee, democrats say ill, hun arma, was targeted because of her identity. victoria gate and b has the details and emotional debate. congresswoman ellen omar, a refugee from somalia, 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, where 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 house speaker kevin mccarthy, of payback after democrats strip 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 paul 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 a more 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 indian stock exchange has and placed restrictions on. the trading of shares of companies owned by tycoon. got a donnie within $100000000000.00, has been wiped off the value of his conglomerate after allegations of fraud by a u. s. short seller. for more in the story. let's bring in putney motel, who joins us live from new delhi. hello. they've had me the fallout continues after that u. s. report was released last week. yes, we're saying strong reactions again on that crisis that

a new group is battling. shad failed once again and trading for some of those companies had to be pause. now stock exchange is off stepping in to protect investors. the national stock exchange in india has put some about in companies on additional servants mechanism, which basically means that trading activity has been restricted while those companies, it also serves as a wanting to investors that this is a company that has seen a lot of volatility recently this is also happening internationally as the dow in the u. s. is removing a bonnie from some of its indices, the sustainability indices, lift companies that are financially strong, but also meet certain high standards of corporate governance. so this is also turning out to be slightly embarrassing for the group, a loss of face. why all of this is happening. bhangra ish wants to re negotiate. it's contract with a donnie, the company supplies electricity,

but officials in bunger, they say it is overpriced, particularly the cost of gold that comes from a donnie operated coal mine in east in india. plenty of moving parts to be story. poverty would have been the political repercussions now in sporting to know that a dani group has denied the allegations opposed by the hindenberg group that was released last week in the report, accusing the company off a fraud and stock market manipulation, but opposition parties are demanding a debate in parliament, they also want a judicial inquiry because on one hand, there is all the money that investors have lost, but also because of the nature of a donnie businesses. you know, when a companies building your fort sentence, operating going mines and supplying electricity, it's critical infrastructure and sort of part of nation building, if you would. and when it's investing in renewable energy and technology,

then it's part of future building and opposition parties continue to allege that go to madonna. his company have gotten lucrative contracts because of. 1 got them with on his personal friendship with prime minister marines movie. and so the continue to demand that their b conversation and regulate a step in, right. we appreciate you breaking it down for us. have me metal live, e, l e. thank pope francis will arrive later on friday for a 3 day visit to south sudan, the 1st by the head of the roman catholic church, the 1st link of his african trip. so him address tens of thousands of faithful in the democratic republic of congo. malcolm web reports from the congo lays capital so trans who spoke to about 60000 young people in a stadium in kinshasa is the 1st time the pope has come to democratic republic of

congo. mean 40 years. you said the foreign plundering of congos minerals is fueling conflict, and must stop talking to deploy. when i deployed the war continues in d. c. in east of the country. you see what happens in ukraine and all the international community mobilizes. what happens in d? c is much worse enough. the roman catholic church is one of the most powerful institutions in congo. millions of people depend on it for health care and education. people are trying to get into the stadium to see the pope contests as many, 3 greater the setting drink some food flags. and i know everybody here is happy with the pipes. these activists say pope frances has failed to stop sexual violence by clergy. benjamin cocoa says he was repeatedly raped by a belgian priest for years when he was a boy in the remote village. he says,

years later, the catholic church in belgium paid him $25000.00 compensation. but the priest went on to work in an orphanage. the money never closed because the abuse i seen working, they pro me still the program from the media the working. so there is no adjusted yet. the campaign is say, the catholic church continues to protect sexual abuses and to bury complaints of the use, including the recent case of a 13 year old girl in congo, who says she was raped by a priest. and he doesn't add these contributing to the continuum, a strong reason to believe that with abuse story comes out in africa. there'll be worse than it was in the west, us in western europe until the poll takes measures to hold his vicious grease accountable. we're never going to know that story. 4 years ago, pope france is introduced rules to stop sexual abuse and cover ups. the campaign is

se then not followed in the developing world. and most of those abused hearing congo still suffer in silence. malcolm web al jazeera, kinshasa, democratic republic of congo. still ahead on al jazeera, a high level meeting in pakistan. after 40 inch exposes security lapses and a police compound hit by a suicide attack. and imprisoned for 16 years long time. guantanamo bay, prisoner magic khan is released and re settled. ah hello is looking fine, a dry across sir much of western year. we have got large declares guys across france. down into spain and portugal,

some pleasant walk there with high pressure in charge. but around our high we are putting in some way whether that'll bring some cloud and rain into our northern parts of the british. charles, diving down into the low countries into germany receives the warranty. whether here recently and this, that malware just sticks its way down. turning to right, turning to snow, pushing across poland, easing into ukraine as we go on 3 friday brightest guys coming back in behind is what i mean by miles and 512 celsius in london. not too bad paris at around 11 decrees and may be quite pleasant. there cost much of france down towards the iberian peninsula. not so pleasant. on the other side of the med more wet wendy. and when she, whether rolling through here, particularly across such care and that because more widespread as we go on through s saturday snow, there significant snow fall across the us, particularly southern parts of jeremy, diving down across austria, east over towards you quite as we go on through west sashay by saturday, notice what the weather coming into a good part of bus scotland will marius of england to be south of that estate fi

and try without wants. continuing to spain and portugal, ah, depleting the issues of the day, the 5 largest polluters that the world are in india, jump into the street. they made their money on coal. they made their money on the field, convincing those folks. no, we need to go. green is very, very difficult, giving all a voice we chose to do because we wanted to escape warren violence. when you humanize this narrative, you allow people to really understand the reality and break down misconceptions. the street on al jazeera ah

ah. hello you watching al jazeera, i'm emily ang, when he is a reminder about top stories this hour. the pentagon says it's tracking a suspected chinese spy balloon in u. s. air space official save a suspected spy, crafters flying over sensitive sides. candidates government has also detected the balloon republicans in the u. s. house of representatives have voted to remove a muslim congresswoman from its powerful foreign relations committee. democrats say ill, hon. alma was targeted because of her identity and ukrainian president for letting me zalinski is urging the you to impose more sanctions on russia. you're paying commission president. i sort of underlying it says, a sanctions package will be ready for the 1st anniversary of the invasion. pakistani prime minister ship as sharif,

has called for unity and condemned the rise of terror attacks in a meeting meant to review security measures. the meeting was cold days after an attack that killed 101 paypal inside a police compound investigated say the suicide bomber managed to get him because he was wearing a police uniform. he then detonated his explosives inside a mosque where offices had gathered for prayers. let's get an update from our side bag, who joins us live now from his shower. i said, what more can you tell us about the security meeting? well, it's been attended by the prime minister. the head of the province is had the head of the college of military or other high ranking officials. not this coming to a 2nd post 2014 bucks on the bought a tech on a ministry school have the shower, which resulted in iran, 140 children, kills. now it's the department called the the other party to put the differences

aside. it comes together to tackle this issue. he says that they won't rest until they take on this direct. now they have been security that says the police have really cctv cctv for things. but they also said that they're still working on the investigation. going to the footage, but also using jo location are going to phone calls. but so far, the ccv for that have released shows the suicide bomber easy penetrating through the pretty slides into this what was supposed to be a secure compact. but the stony 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 just in

a police uniform. the entire command of the police lanes gate is not under one party, because inside there's 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 detected the suicide bomber continued to target. this c t tv, which shows him leaving his motorbike by the roadside. he's been called back by a police officer. he pushes his bike away, pretending it had broken down. this is the last check punch the suicide bomber would have gone through before making his way to the mosque. investigator said the police vest to his wearing was filled with 10 to 12 kilograms of explosives. they also say appears the attack i didn't know where the mosque was and had to ask for directions. for the footage,

released by police shows demand 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 cities, 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 resources 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 attacked. yes.

okay, it appears that we have lost a sad bag, so we'll move on to amex story. a prisoner who spent 16 years in guantanamo bay has been released and transferred to belize. pakistani mcgee to con, was arrested by us forces in 2003 con, played a guilty to terrorism related charges. 34 detainees remain in the guantanamo bay detention facility in cuba. rosalind jordan has moved from washington dc. module. cons case was different from that of those who had been held at guantanamo bay, cuba since early 2002. for one, he was considered a so called high value detainee because of his alleged role in a plot to attack the united states. after the september 11th attacks con agreed in 2012 to plead guilty to those charges and to provide evidence to the u. s. government about the activities of the 5 men now on trial in guantanamo bang for

their alleged plotting to attack the united states on september 11th, 2001 con, did complete his prison sentence as required. but he spent a year or so in limbo while the u. s. government tried to find a new place for him to live. hon had been a permanent resident of the us, but after his conviction, there was no chance that he would be allowed to resettle in the united states. con is now going to be living the rest of his life. he believes in the country of believes in central america, in a statement through his lawyers con said that he is sorry for what he had done, and that he hoped to make a new start in a new country with his family. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has attended the opening of chad's embassy needs, hello vive. it's a major step in normalizing relations between the 2 nations. trad severed ties with israel in 1972 in solidarity with palestinians. netanyahu has been trying to build

ties with muslim majority countries since his 1st term as prime minister, pamela, israel, and sudan have agreed to normalize ties. israel's foreign minister, eli cohen has just returned from khartoum, where he met sedans, army chief abdel for to albert hon cohen says an agreement, so will be signed once the african nation transitions to a civilian government. sedan hosted the arab league meetings where members vowed not to recognize the state of israel in that 1967. after the 3rd arab israeli wall to australia. now, where tennis danny curiosity pleaded guilty to assaulting his former girlfriend in the capital of cambra, curious, his lawyers fell to had the charge dismissed on mental health grounds. but he avoided a criminal conviction. the incident happened in december 2021. the magistrate

called it a single act of stupidity. there were clear straits and clear skies in the columbian capital. on thursday, as bogus had declared a caffrey day to encourage cleaner transportation. commuters since day travelled by boss spike scooter or on their own to fate. there are more than 2000000 privately owned vehicles in the city of 7000000 bar guitars environmental offers says airborne particles go down by almost 60 percent on car free days. thailand's government has again told people living in bangkok to work from home because of unhealthy pollution levels. they equality exceeded the safety threshold on thursday vulnerable. people are being advised to stay indoors aware of face math . the government is putting in place measures to monitor emissions from cars and

factory. hong kong is giving away half a 1000000 playing tickets as part of a campaign to boost tourism. the government wants to reinvigorate the city's economy. after 3 years of code, 19 and political turmoil, but as richard kimble reports from hong kong, it might be a long road to recovery. the load from hong kong award city like no other expense the warmest welcome to u. b. as far as an invitation to the world from hong kong leader john lee. these fronting a multi $1000000.00 campaign to put the city back on the map as a tourism and finance up after to most us few years. yeah. months of empty government street protests in 2019 that to a correct down on descent and the introduction of a controversial national security law. the government then imposed some of the will

strictest coded 19 rules during the pandemic. the result of public exodus local businesses have taken a beating and the city recording its biggest population drop in 2022. hong kong economies drank 3 and a half percent last year. that's the 3rd contraction in the last 4 years. and that's adding to local concerns that city is lagging behind. rival, asian financial centers, such as singapore, the government says it's time for a turnaround. it's handing out hundreds of thousands of free flights and more than a 1000000 spending vouchers and scrapping all remaining cove in 1900 border restrictions with the chinese mainland. i don't see, you can see the streets are getting a bit busier, but i think there are still a lot of hidden warriors business confidence still seems volatile and it's hard for people to feel they have enough money to save you. we have to wait and see, but we'll just try to stay positive and just see how things go. one sec to that can't wait much longer is the tourism industry. local travel agents have been

organizing networking events to get back on track. hong kong received 56000000 visitors in 2019. in 2021 arrivals slumped 290000. we've done the tours with government government support, but we've been losing money left by santa and we hope to stop the bleeding this year on kong is one of the world's most beautiful cities. hong kong is stand up, kid, come back. kid will always come back. generally is kick starting that come back campaign with a trip to the middle east. on saturday, he's leading a business delegation to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. he says it's time to share the great stories of hong kong and make sure that will knows. the city is finally opened as a business again. richard kimber, al jazeera in hong kong. ah,

no, you know what? she just era. these are the headlines to south, the pentagon says it's tracking is this.