left the city altogether and them and cuts and political uncertainty many rely on the help find it difficult to get the support they tough times the man tough question is. what exactly are you asking for you? what the troops on the ground, the rigorous debate we challenge conventional wisdom racism is so deeply entrenched in the country that inside of the fi with america. so when you challenge racism, it looks as if you're challenging americans and demand the truth. there is no serious discussion about this because it goes to the very root of who we are up front with me, mark lamond hill on al jazeera. ah, china says that regrets what it calls up, civilian air balloons, string into american air space.

ah no unrolled matheson, this is i'll just leave alive from doha also coming up. ah, hope francis arrives and says sit on the message a reconciliation on his 1st visit to the world's youngest nation. a symbolic summit in keep the european union pledges support for ukraine, but makes no concrete promises on joining the block. and even ambulances for injured palestinians are not spared. and the growing wave of settlers attacks in the occupied west bank, those new gray and white apartments over there are a legal settlements right here in the heart of the west bank. and last year, just 3 percent of police cases involving secular violence resulted in a conviction. ah,

we're going to begin with breaking news out of beijing. were the chinese foreign minister. he says it regrets what could called a civilian balloon, straying into u. s. air space. beijing says it's a civilian object, meant for scientific research. the pentagon had early called it a spy, a balloon hm was tracking the balloon flying over the state of montana. kimberly hawk is joining us live now from the white house. this has had the u. s. in my mind, a great tension over the last couple of days and what is going to happen. i want more to be know. oh, well, according to the pentagon, what we know is that the u. s. government has been tracking this very carefully. what we understand is that this is a high altitude surveillance balloon. i was 1st spotted over the us state of montana. this is a close to the canadian border. it was spotted by people on the ground

who were wondering what was in the sky that his, how the u. s. government 1st learned about this incredibly and it was then that the u. s. government started tracking it. now there are going to have to be some answers as to why it was bystanders that 1st spot of this and not the military or the u. s. government. having said all of that, the u. s. government now washing it very closely, assuring the public that this is not in any way in commercial air space. in other words, meaning that it's not going to come in contact with any passenger chat sore, and you sort of commercial air traffic, it's much higher. now, what is it doing? it's intelligence gathering. and the concern is, is that it is flying over some very sensitive areas, particularly what we know to be 3 nuclear missile silo fields. now,

according to the pentagon, as soon as the u. s. government was aware that this was taking place in terms of the intelligence gathering that the sensitive data was protected. so that the foreign state actor, in this case a china, was not able to collect any of the sensitive data. the timing of this, of course is inconvenience per perhaps more so for the u. s. because of the secretary of state onto the blinking is expected to be heading to beijing in a few days for talk with talks of, for, with president. she, even if this is just a weather balloon, this puts a lot of the leverage. if you like on china's side, doesn't it? it has unsettled the u. s. over the last couple of days. lee, tensions between the u. s. and china have been escalating for some time. not just during the tenure of the u. s. president joe biden, but they've been ratcheting up under the presidency of donald trump. there were

sanctions that were put in place, or rather tariffs that were put in place, very strict trade tariffs. ah, and as well, there have been a very intense words that have been put in place, and we should point out when it comes to those trade tariffs. ah, those were not dropped to on the part of joe biden. and so there have been a very tense exchanges that have taken place. what we've heard joe biden talking about his strong relationship with the chinese government. we also know that there has been back door espionage to the u. s. is accused the chinese government of being responsible for, for decades. and so this is sort of an ongoing concern of the united states that this is just when the case of this balloon. well, it is kind of a low tack version of intelligence gathering. most of the means of intelligence

gathering tends to be more in the form of satellites, as well as other forms of high tech intelligence gathering. still, this is one of the concerns of the united states government is that there is this ongoing collection is taking place on the part of china. and that's why there continues to be this hyper vigilance on the part of the united states government to continue to not only monitor this but to try and divert it. kimberly, thank you very much. indeed. that's kimberly hawker bringing this up to date from whitehouse. let's go to katrina you. she's joining us on the, on skype from beijing. so this is a statement that's been made by the chinese government earlier on a few hours ago. they were being pretty cautious and they were saying no, let's just wait and see what a unfolds. and now the vice essay issued this statement, what is the, what is it that is going on there at the moment? what are they saying?

as well, as you mentioned during the afternoon briefing at the foreign ministry, at that point, they did not confirm or deny that this was a chinese ship, but this was surveillance aircraft. but now we do have a statement from beijing saying that it is indeed a chinese vessel, but they are saying that it is not military that it is not surveillance, but in fact, it's what they've called a civilian airship, which is designed for civilian a research purposes essentially to collect whether information. now they said that this aircraft has limited self steering capacity and due to a strong westerly wind, it blew unintentionally over u. s. territory, and this was definitely not planned or not the intention. and this just occurred a, according to china, due to this force mayer and this was not, and, and i planned or any sort of strategic move on beijing's part, at least that's what they're saying. they said it deviated far from course,

and aging is sending out a remorseful message saying that they regret that this has happened. it seems to be highly embarrassing for china. this is the case and that they're working with the us side to manage the situation. and i think they're scrambling, they're hoping that this doesn't get out of hand. and that's important as we were talking to, kimberly just a moment ago about the fact that you as a secretary said under the blanket as heading to beijing. and there was a point during the last couple of days when this started to emerge. it was, people started to think those meetings were not going to be easy at all. but if china is responding as you're suggesting, then perhaps this is an effort to try and get things back on track ahead of that meeting. that's right. i think this is coming also at a time where we've seen from china, less of a strident, aggressive tone and had to cut when it comes to communicating with the u. s. and more of a conciliatory tone. this has certainly been the case for the last few weeks,

especially leading up to this meeting. the you aside itself has said that the whole point of lincoln's visit to china, the highest ranking official to visit china. since the beginning of the pandemic was to set guard rails to avoid any major points of dispute spiraling out of control. and then escalating into some could uncontrollable conflict or becoming something that can't be controlled by either government. and so china has been quite coy. it hasn't confirmed this meeting officially, but it has said that they're working with the us side. and certainly for china, they are wanting to reach out and work not only with the us, but also other u. s. allies. we've had china's diplomats working with for example estrella, having meetings there at china at the moment has just reopened from covered its economy is slowing. it's really keen to know welcome foreign investment and put on a more friendly face. but at the same time, we've got this meetings coming and antony blinking. and should he come to china and

have these meetings? there is a long list of disputes or anything, everything ranging from a potential clashes over the south, china's div, the status of ty, one tech controls from the u. s. impose on china and chinese companies already. we have a very tense list of talking points and no doubt this aircraft be it surveillance ship or a weather balloon. essentially, this is only going to add and complicate those matters when the 2 sides sit down. if they do sit down and continue those meetings on sunday, the tours your own versioning. thank you. the european union supplies to support ukraine, every step of the way in its pursuit for membership. he were officials are in key for a highly symbolic summit. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski is pushing the block for speedy membership as his battles and battles and nearly year long russian invasion. you granted the candidate status to ukraine last year, but the past to full membership could take years. when hash butler is alive,

force and keep this is a hugely symbolic visit by e. u officials. i think i can hear the air raid sirens going off behind you. yes sir. another array to learn. it's going all foot behind me. you can hear it as you just said, and we had one a little bit earlier at the beginning of this a you ukraine, a summit and sony. it is a reminder for you leaders who are here in this city of what ukrainians are having to go through on and near daily basis. now hoping to hear from some of those you leaders and sony, the ukranian president and a bit to find out what happened in those discussions. i found to be locked in talks for several hours now, but ukrainian presents of law to may. zalinski dipped out to tweet a short time ago saying that it is ukraine's goal to try and speed up negotiations on keith's future. membership of the european union. ukraine wants to

be a member of the you. it's hardest candidacy approve. that happens last year. it wants negotiations, false. tract bought. it is unlikely that that will happen because a, you need to say, look, there are plenty of criteria and conditions that have to be fulfilled in order for any country to become a member site. and it could take years. it could take more than a decade that those are the words of the french of president minute mcgraw, a few weeks ago. nevertheless, that be plenty of other things that have been a disgusting as meeting as far as we know, more sanctions against russia supposed to be rolled out by the european union in the next few weeks. a you lead is also a pledge for a $1000000000.00 to help reconstruction in the country because of course, as the war goes on, there's plenty of damage. yeah, many buildings brands infrastructure does need to be rebuilt. it is a huge challenge and is going to cost

a lot of money. indeed. natasha. thank you very much. indeed. natasha bottle in cave. the head of the roman catholic church, pope francis has arrived in south sudan for a historic visit. the pope has been an outspoken advocate for peace and reconciliation in the world's youngest nation is being joined by the leaders of the anglican church and the church of scotland and what they're calling the pilgrimage of peace. a large part of the south sudanese population is in fact christian. since its independence, the country has been ravaged by civil war and famines that have left millions of people displaced and in poverty will hon metastases. joining us on the phone line from cuba, what kind of reaction is he getting for this? which is a very significant moment it is easy to get the chance on the job . people have line to walk and then just why state house, where he will meet the president and the high profile politician. but trouble has been brewing in some parts of the country, like central toria for

a few days now. one community attacks another community. so capital and several people were killed in italy, a ship that community didn't attach fast and more people were killed in another part of the country. the report that by to belong to a general gathering is. 8 clear what the game is of the day, but people know that the pope being a was perform miracles. they know that there may be peace in the done, but they hope that will lead a will put on them to work together. he would be as rich as he was going to calibrate it is yeah, that piece is the way for what we're finding 2018 but is not keeping the implemented. for example, the unified national army as much be deployed to various parts of the country that up all the town. and that's why thousands of people are living in this place can across the country to get. 4 because they get the insecurity in some parts of the

country. election romance have taken place by now they have not been caused by these reports of killing the least the day before the pope arrived. i've met with people very, very wise. how are we? we mentioned before that he's being joined by the leaders of the anglican church and the church of scotland, both from the u. k. this is a joint what's been called pilgrimage of peace people in south sudan after having gone through so many years of fighting must be really hoping that they can bring pressure on the, on the political leaders and sit down in order to try to bring some sort of end to the fighting exactly as this visit is because usually a lot of people here are questions and they're hoping that is high call. well, dollars and i believe is to give to people in the church that just wanted to have was to try and go into the conflict division within the country. sometimes it

works sometimes if not, and it's a jam packed program for the next few days is if he does not meet the people inside to be the can to meet people to play by take over the yes it is for this appointment day that some of the people played by you the concert hoping that the pope and the other leaders will go to the ibp can to meet them to see the living. 8 absolutely, they don't have to how they are struggling, but that's not going to happen. pope will didn't give a mass on fact today. and then on sunday, i mean the, the main people. yeah. the things they went to see is how much christian religion to the going to put on the pavement on the vice president and the politicians have to put the guns down to talk about trying to come to for us up to date from june. but that's how to matessa still had an ard ozetta,

ready for business and tourism. hong kong says it'll reopen it's border with mainland china and offers free flights to visitors and find out why the indian stock exchange has limited share trading. and one of the country's biggest conglomerates, ah, hello, we're still got some more snow in the forecast for japan over the next couple of days, but thinks it gradually, church started ease to make a way into and next week i pressure dominates in the weather. prosecute parts of china, so settle and dry here. southern parts will still see some showers longest spells if re as that snow, they're into that western side of honju. accardo marcy drive a little on the cool side and things quieting down them as we go on into sunday some more the way a pleasant sunshine coming back in tokyo at about 11 celsius getting up to around 6

there and so 8 degrees. therefore pacing, but for some parts of china, it does remain a little unsettled and settle the course across sir. se, asia, the usual raft of showers coming through some big downpours. there are 2 central and southern parts of the philippines, some lively showers to just make in the way and across a good part of indonesia. now we have seen some lively showers, longest bells of rain to affecting shore lanka recently. please to say are old tropical system that's now pulling out to the waste him a few showers in the forecast, forceful anchor as we go through saturday. in the also seeing some wet weather at that stays, it will clear here as we go through sunday much of india looking dry. but there's some snow and rain for northern pakistan. ah. debating the issues of the day if ty largest polluters of the world or in india jump into the street,

they made their money on coal. they made their money on field. convincing those folks, no, we need to go. green is very, very difficult, giving all of 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 st. on al jazeera ah ah, watching or does it a reminder, what top stories this are china's expressed regret for what it called out civilian blues trying into us aerospace, it says it's a civilian object, meant for scientific research. the pentagon had earlier called it us,

i balloon and said it was being tracked as it was flying over the state of montana you officials are in keep for a highly symbolic summit. president vladimir zalinski is pushing the block for speedy membership as ukraine battles and nearly a year long war with russia. european commission president ursula vall, delaying the says that on no rigid timelines for keith to join the block out of the roman catholic church. pope francis has arrived in south sudan and for a historic visit is being joined there by the leaders of the anglican church on the church of scotland. while there calling a pilgrimage of peace. there were more than $800.00 attacks by israeli settlers on palestinians in the occupied west bank last year. writes groups say, a growing sense of impunity is fueling and increase and violence and is bounded. smith reports from ramallah many victim said there's no point even finding police reports. the ambulance crew were lucky to escape without serious injury when settlers threw rocks at their vehicle last week. they were called out to the

palestinians who been injured when settlers attacked the village in the occupied west bank. and i'm a talk minister. i didn't think we would make it out of there alive. and i mean, 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 tax 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 say the violence will get worse. the us government says it opposes settlement expansion and the legalize asian of outposts . but these rarely 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 pocket and shot him there in bolden, because israeli law enforcement gives them impunity and the power to carry on an escalade 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 $290.00 of them all illegal on the international law. the settlements in blue on this map, a gradually expanding and will eventually joined together a tactic, palestinian official, half under glass says was used when israel was found it home with them to go to buffy out of haiti, philosophy. they want to implement and plan to transfer palestinians from areas close to settlements. seen similar to that, some $948.00 when sinus gangs committed massacres and instill fear to drive palestinians out of their homes. today we have another attack. you gangs new names,

price tag, hill top uses you name it. jazz, you know settlers have been charged in connection with the attack on the ambulance on saturday. israeli police say they'll investigate the incident, but have yet to make any arrests. bernard smith out his era ramallah, pakistan's prime minister, sharon has called for unity and condemned the rise of violence and a meeting meant to review security measures. it was called days after an attack that killed a $101.00 people inside a police compound. investigate to say the suicide bomber managed to get in because he was wearing a police uniform. he detonated his explosives inside a moss court. officers had gathered for prayers. lucky under invalid hit the capital in provinces. political leaders and religious figures must all take ownership of this drive. we must shun our differences and fight together using all our resources to eradicate terrorism from this country. as we did in the past,

we must be unified as proven from history even when we get destroyed, we can rebuild. it was just, i have no doubt that despite our great loss, we will overcome this threat. and what rest until terrorism is under control forever without a indian government is denying links to the a danny group. as the stock exchange imposes restrictions on the trading of shares of all companies owned by typhoon. gotten a donnie more than a $100000000000.00 has been wiped off the value of this conglomerate after allegations of fraud by a u. s. short seller, a donnie in turn, has denied accusations that his relationship with indian prime minister not enter madi has helped him to become ages. richest man opposition. parties are calling for full discussion in parliament. america leave as inaccurately. the government has nothing to do with the attorney matters. there's absolutely no connection republicans in the us house of representatives of voted to remove a muslim congresswoman from the chambers. foreign relations committee, democrat sale on all mom was targeted because of what identity victoria gayton be,

has 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 house 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 threatened my life, and you all. and the republican caucus, the warden 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 hong kong philly reopening. his border with mainland china for monday is dropping visitor quarters

and preach travel covered 19 tests. it's also going to allow unvaccinated travelers to enter for 3 years. hong kong had maintained some of the strictest rules for visitors. it's not a last campaign to look back tourists and is offering half a 1000000 free flights. sit high by a full opening of the border means firstly, there will be no limit on the number of people at old border crossings. you know, need to make prior reservations and you can travel freely as you want. healing he's on it in 2023 on kong will be more prosperous and exciting with a more vibrant market and a more joyful society. dennis tanika, who has pleaded guilty to his holding his former girlfriend in the starting capital of cambra, lars, for years to fail to have the charge dismissed on mental health crimes. but he avoided a criminal conviction. the incident happened in december 2021. the magistrate called it a single act of stupidity. now in saturday we kinda blank are going to be taking on

all hell out of saudi arabia and club world cup. the african champions will be holding home support can lift the team to their 1st when in the competition at a richardson's been talking to fans in casablanca. without casablanca fans are renowned, some of the most passionate and organized in world football. this same as for the so called cfo's choreograph displays of support involving huge banners and flags instead of people's that they've been unforgiving over the last 3 weeks, has been nothing, trust executive. and i haven't seen anything like in russell. i can tell you that i've been to matches and 1011 different countries in the world. and i've never been said that mr. like downloaded an app on my phone. and so i tried to measure the decibel level and it was around 90 decibels pretty consist match, which is pretty bad for your air drum with long history

can be traced on the rules of casablanca, his own tune, but only once before, as the theme played at the clip world comp no good mood and why dogs are the champions of africa. we are not afraid of any one playing in morocco, is the big advantage from? not just why dod funds, but the whole country would be behind the team. without origin story is one that informs the feelings. this team inspires us and the french occupation accessed the sports facilities was limited. so in the mid 19 thirty's, americans formed that own club. without a less, it began like a waterfall like thing, but quickly expanded to include football, the side went on to become a symbol of the nationalist movement. whenever they play it, mohammed has supported the team all his life for him. with that will always be a club. it's about much more than just winning trophies when it's ready and we did go ahead and say, hey, why dad is a source of hope,

a source of luck to me. it gives me a vision of a beautiful world and it's how i breathed how i forget the problems of life. after a week of work, i get to go on an adventure with my love. it's a love that can only be understood by those who have grown up with this club, football and resistance. so without founding principles, that spirit has produced a club that is ready to take on the world. and the richardson algy sera, casablanca. ah, this is all, these are the top stories china has expressed regret for what had called a civilian balloon. straying into us aerospace, it says it's a civilian object meant for scientific research. the pentagon had earlier called it a spy, a balloon and was tracking the balloon flying over the state of montana company holcomb has more from the white house in washington dc. what we unders.