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violated u. s. airspace and international law, which is unacceptable. ah, hello there. i'm julie mcdonald. this is al jersey relying from london also coming up a symbolic summit in key with e u membership and the supplier weapons high on the agenda. and the on the mission for peace po francis embarks on the historic visit of sad sudan joined by the days of the anglican church. and the church of scott ah, they're warm welcome to the program. the united states has taken immediate diplomatic action over the presence of a chinese surveillance balloon above us soil. a state department official described the balloon as a clear violation of us sovereignty. will secretary of state antony blank and cold

off his planned weekend visits of china. just hours before he was due to leave and it's been described as a postponement, but no new date has yet been shared, chilled, and took an official set on thursday. the balloon had been seen over the state of montana where there are about a 150 intercontinental ballistic missile silos. the u. s. described the craft as a surveillance satellite, china, the or called at a civilian whether research satellite and insisted that had been blown off course and straight into u. s. territory with you. i said it noted the chinese explanation, but said conditions were not right for blinking to visit at this moment. first of all, we are aware of the p r c's statement on. however, the fact is, we know that it's a surveillance balloon, and i'm not gonna be able to be more specific than that. we do know that the balloon has violated us airspace and international law, which is unacceptable. and so we've conveyed this directly to the p r c at multiple

levels. and in terms of specific locations, i'm not going to be able to go into specific locations. again, other than to say it's moving eastward at this time. that's cool. states how, why has corresponding kimberly, how can i there? kimberly, of china saying it's just to research berlin, but the u. s. isn't buying that explanation. it is no question that it's not buying that explanation. given the fact that the location where it was 1st detected, i is somewhat sort of suspect, given the fact that as you point out, it was a spot it almost direct in proximity to a nuclear site. where there are i, c, b m's are inter continental ballistic missiles housed in the united states, one of 3 sites. i and the fact that there was, as the pentagon states intelligence collection being done by this so called weather balloon, in the words of the chinese government. so the u. s. government immediately took

action, disabling any ability for their to be intelligence collection i and is also taking action in terms of the diplomatic path. by canceling this planned visit by the us secretary of state. there is a lot to be discussed between these 2 nations. but right now the feeling being those meetings can't be held, given the fact that this is an issue of national security for the united states. the feeling is that international law has been violated. and also the, this is an issue of sovereignty, which the chinese government has in the eyes of the pentagon violated. and many americans, i guess, raskin, why doesn't you as to shoot it down? what, why is it not an auction? well, the pentagon explained that, and this incredibly has happened before. ah, we know that there are at least 2 instances where this has occurred in the past. ah,

there has been a balloon intelligence balloon that has floated over. hawaii has also floated over guam, and in both cases they were allowed to kind of walked away. and so the plan is, according to the pentagon for this to occur again. so we understand this is going to be in us air space for at least 2 more days. the question that was raised in the pentagon is, will it waft into the sea and then the u. s. might shoot it down, or the pentagon would neither confirm nor deny, but the what is being said is that it will not be shot down over the continental united states. that sort of the $48.00 contiguous united states. a bit are all clumped together. i've given the fact that the falling debris could injure any of the americans that are on the ground. and so that is the big fear that any of this debris could cause harm or damage to what's below. and that is why it's not being

immediately disabled, but whether or not it might woods, it drifts into the ocean. that is still not clear, and the pentagon will not confirm. kimberly, how could they live with the very latest on situation from the white house? kimberly, thank you. well, hillary man, leverett, he's the head of police wisc consultancy at strategic, and she says, if china sent the balloon, it's a largely symbolic gesture. it doesn't seem like it probably would give them that much intelligence. i mean, any more than google earth would would give them this is this type of device, this balloon has been used since the civil war use during war one wrote or 2. it's not anything really that sophisticated. and i don't think that on the us side, the pentagon is really that worried about the intelligence capabilities of it. what they're concerned about is that china would do something like this. that would be such a slap in the face to the by an administration as it is sending secretary of state link in there. and whether that's intentional or not. of course,

we can't read their minds. but very important to know that you as secretary of defense, has just been in the philippines where the philippines is now a branch in the united states, access to foreign military sites. and that is all to continue this confrontation with china. and so trying to maybe trying to message the by an administration that if the united states is going to do something provocative in the military sphere, like sending our secretary of defense to the philippines right next door to china. on the eve of the blinking visit, china can do the same thing by sending something over the united states. ah, you officials have been meeting in tea for a highly symbolic summit. you claims president voted me as the lensky urged his western allies to supply his country with long range weapons. he also discussed with the blocks chiefs ukraine's u membership. natasha bought no reports, not from the ukrainian capital. ah,

harry siren sounded in keith at the start of the you ukraine. summit a meeting as much about symbolism as talks you leaders side by side with ukraine's president in keith, a show of the block support for ukraine and a message to moscow that despite its attempts, keeps looking west. ukraine wants to join the you. it's candidacy was accepted last year and it won't succession negotiations to be fast tracked. but a you lead to say that fulfilling the many conditions required may take years if there are no rigid timelines. but their goal that you have to reach reforms, for example, to improve a situation in the canada country to then reach the accession negotiations and the session accept itself. your determination to forge ahead is impressive. nasir 4 talks also focused on military support. the ukraine low de ms. lensky once

again urging western leaders to send to keith bull weapons. yes, your order placed with us for oil. if weapons deliveries or accelerated, namely long range weapons, we will not only not withdraw from bucket mac, we will begin to d. occupied storm grass, what, which has been occupied since 2014 wanted to the russell rural b u says it will continue center military and humanitarian aid ukraine and we'll train 30000 ukranian soldiers. it also pledged money for the mining and reconstruction in the country, as well as a new round of sanctions against russia. the 10th packages on its way. we have the aim to have it in place by the 24th of february. it has a volume of round about 10000000000 euros. its massive how of package. again, it was the 1st time that an e. u. summit had been held in a country in wartime,

although there were differences during this summit over the speed of keith's e. u. membership process, you leaders agreed that ukraine is fighting this war against russia not only for itself. with the whole of europe. natasha butler al jazeera keith. united states is to send more than $2000000000.00 worth of military assistance to ukraine. it will include long range position rockets for the very 1st time on the white house. the 9th military aid package was just over $3000000000.00 to help you crate. and it's neighbors or some of engine waves reaction now for moscow. but in the last few minutes, we've heard from the kremlin saying that the world must not forget the comments made by president tutoring in, in the remembrance of studying abroad just 24 hours ago where the russian has said that they do not welcome. the thanks to ukraine president put in

diluted to what happened 80 years ago. and thing that net once again, is german tank headed to word the russian border with crosses on them. and russia is going to make use of its full capability. and it is going to respond to it. he did fall short of thing, they're going to be headed toward its voters with european countries. but it did say that this is going to be something that history also has a lesson for all of the people who are helping ukraine, obviously pointing towards the 2nd world war. and this is something that we've heard from the russian government since the beginning of the war of painting it with the picture of how nazi germany was the war against russia. russia has insisted that it is war, went to war with your brain because of the presence of what it calls not see. and that is why it continues to be there to make sure that it's borders are protected from what it's called. it's good. this is something that russia is going to be

continuing on as we did in the stages of the 1st anniversary of the war. we do opinion has agreed on price caps for russian oil products, the cap on products that trade at a premium such as diesel has been set the $100.00 per barrel discounted products will be limited to 45 dollars. the price limits which come into effect from sunday seek to end russia's ability to fund its war in ukraine. at the head of the roman catholic church has appealed to south sedans, leaders to and years of bloodshed in the world's youngest country, called francis, whose on a historic visit with the leaders of the anglican church. and the church of scotland arched president salvage here, and his bitter rivalry at masha to turn their backs on violence and corruption. the visit by the church. the justice proposed back in 2019, says sudan, which is the majority. christian nation gained independence from sudan in 2011

within 400000 have died in the civil war that started 2 years later. i room a tasa has more now from south sedans, capital dubai, people here 1000. i know that the pope being here will not perform miracles. they won't all of a sudden be lost in peace. they hope that his presence will put pressure on political leaders in the country to sit down, talk together and work towards peace. a peace agreement was signed in 2018, but part of that 3 months have so not to implement. for example, the re, unified, national army has not yet been deploy too while the top part of the country. so thousands of people who are still living in id p, cabs camps were displaced. people are still tuesday to go home because of insecurity in some parts of the country. it's going to be a jam packed program for the pope in the other religious leaders. they'll be meeting a different politicians, the vice president of the country, diplomat civil society. i mean is a meeting in the town hall where the pope and his leaders wouldn't speak to. people

have been displaced by years of conflict. the some disappointment been because some of those people hope that the pope and the of the lee bills will be able to go to the camps with these people live and see how the lives see how they talk about these light enough food and the cabs. they don't have clean running water that they dis, but that's not going to happen. and then later on they'll be a mass on saturday and sunday, and then the pope leads for most people here in south to down. they hope that the visit this high profile visit over pressure on political leaders insulted on to force them to lay down big guns. sit and talk and try mucus. country foliage still to come this half hour. a political fallout from a share price. wipe out india's government distances itself from struggling a donnie corporation and free flights and shopping vouchers. the multi $1000000.00 giveaway designed to breathe new life comb. ah

hello. the weather is set fair across good parts of west, near lovely big area of high pressure keeping it pleasantly warm, light winds, and some decent spells of sunshine cobbling. coming through. we have got some wet weather, just tumbling in across southern north west though, and that's will turn to snow as it dives down to will to se, over the next couple of days. so fairly wintry look. this is the temperature chart for a sass day. she could see it going through the next couple of days. we'll see these blue started to just make their way a little further westwards. so things turning a little cooler and where better, milder air just comes in from the north, west dix down into the code where that's where we got to see the snow. so down across the hungarian plane, down towards a kia pushing through a good part of a romania down towards the southeast corner to make our way through the 2nd half of the weekend. some more wet and windy weather there for the east side of the made

some heavy downpours, lively winds, as well. temperatures in athens, struggling to get 7 degrees celsius by sunday, farther west. as you can see larger dry. i'm not too bad with those light winds. some lie the winds to continuing just around the coastal fringes of a northern africa chances, some wet weather into algeria maybe in libya, also affecting southern pass of to nicea. ah tough times the man tough question. what exactly are you asking for you? what route? rigorous, the way we challenge conventional wisdom racism is some deeply entrenched in the country that is identified with americans. so when you challenge racism, it looks as if you're challenging on merit and demand the true, there's no serious discussion about this because it goes to the very root of who we are with me. mark them on hill. what out there

lou? ah ah, a quick reminder of our top stories currently here on l. j 0. the pentagon has rejected claims. a chinese balloon that's moving across the central united states is civil. busy and not being used for surveillance, u. s. secretary of state entity, lincoln hospice boned, a rare trip to beijing over what the state department described as a clear violation of u. s. sovereignty. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski has urged western allies to supply his military with long range missiles. he's hosting a summit of european union dues, for they've also discuss ukraine's membership application to the book. the head of

the roman catholic church has appealed to said sedans, leaders to end bloodshed corp francis on historic visit with elitists of the anglican church and the church of scotland. 2 sides. he died 1st of this time since the palestinian man shot in the occupied west bank on friday has died of his woods. abdulla co ali was stopped short at war. a checkpoint, south of nablus, the palestinian red crescent said he was injured. lie is rarely gone far, is really immediate said he tried to grab a soldier's gun. is really forces have killed 36 palestinians in the occupied westbank since the beginning of 2023. 8 of them are children. more than $800.00 attacks by israeli settlers on palestinians in the octopi westbank last year, re script say, a growing sense of impunity is feeling an increase in violence with attackers, knowing no action will be taken against them. as bernard smith reports from the occupied westbank, many victims se there's no point even filing 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 at re palestinians who been injured when settlers attacked a village in the occupied west bank. and i'm at all fashion eligible. so 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 an ambulance. there were an average of 17 settler attacks a week on palestinians in 2020 to a 170 percent increase in 5 years. according to the un was that with israel's new governing coalition, including foreign ministers, elected by settlers. many palestinians fear the violence will get worse. the u. s. government says it opposes settlement expansion and the legalization of outposts. but these railey government is promising to do just that. those new grey 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 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. aren't bucket annoying feasible or so. the norman shot him off there, emboldened because his railey law enforcement gives them impunity and the power to carry on 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 house on douglas says was used when israel was found it home with them. pub grammar, who don't? buffy out at hayley philosophy. they want to implement a plan to transfer palestinians from areas close to settlements. a scene similar to

that in 1948 when zionist gangs committed massacres and, and still fear to drive palestinians out of their homes. today we have another attention, you gangs, new names, price tag, hill, top youth, you name it is company 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, al jazeera ramallah, the opium prime minister, are the med, has held his 1st meeting with the tick ryan leader since the november p. still, having joined it by government colleagues meant that he grinds to discuss what actions have been carried out and implementing the piece agreements so far. and what the next steps were a p steel between abby's government and the to great people's liberation front, halted the 2 year conflict in northern ethiopia. that conflict killed thousands of people and displaced millions more. it is, government is denying legs to the donnie group as the stock exchange impulses

restrictions on the trading of all shares in all companies owned by ty, couldn't gotta a donnie and with a $100000000000.00 was wiped off the value of his conglomerate. after allegations of fraud of name, it's all reports now from new delhi adonis financial crisis is threatening to become a political one. friday session of parliament was adjourned within 10 minutes, as opposition parties continued to raise the issue. the governing b. j. b is distancing itself from the attorney. controversy for the government has nothing to do with it. there's no connection. the opposition is accusing the b g p a favoring a, donny for lucrative infrastructure contracts. they said the companies founder gotham. dani is close. friends with prime minister marines are more the as you know, the government is resisting. they don't want these issues to be discussed. they didn't want china to be discussed in the last session. they don't want unemployment in price to be discussed. any issue that the government thinks will embarrass them

. they don't want to discuss. economists say political pressure may force the government to get involved if the opposite reason the issue seriously in the on the streets. then i think is a since mr. what the if they don't do that, then mr. moody could escape, and they would look out a strategy of how billy then qualities, how to gag on the affair for some time. and this is not, there's nothing opposition. parties are demanding a judicial inquiry and a debate in parliament. opposition party say the concerned about the impact on public money. a government run insurance company has invested billions of dollars in a donnie companies. and in just largest public bank has given the group to wind a half $1000000000.00 known, the government says the exposure is too low to cost concerned. the national stock exchange has limited trading activity for summer. donnie companies in the us the dow is removing one of bonnie group members from some of its indices opposition.

party said they will continue to demand answers and planning a nationwide protest. next week. path new metal al jazeera, new delhi focus downs, prime minister ship ashery as cold the unity and condemned the rise of violence. sharif, we're speaking at a meeting reviewing security measures to stays after an attack that killed a 101 people inside a police compact investigator say, the suicide bomber managed to get in because he was wearing a police uniform. he detonated his explosives inside a mosque where officers were pray you see on dreams owed 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 won't rest until terrorism is under control

forever. and some surprising news for the u. s. economy, there's been a search in new jobs despite the looming risk of a recession. the u. s. labor department says employers hired more than half a 1000000 people last month, causing unemployment to fall to it's the lowest rate since 1969. that's despite the federal reserve raising interest rates in an effort to curve inflation, present job wagons by them. welcome to new saying, it shows the strength of the u. s. economy. we have created more jobs in 2 years than any presidential term, any time. and 2 years, that's the strongest 2 years of job growth in history, by a long shot. as my dad used to say, jobs about a lot more in the paycheck. despite dignity and 12000000 more americans get up every morning knowing they can provide for the families with the dignity and sense of self worth that had nursing. how did your castro as more now from washington dc?

this is more than double what wall street had been expecting. $517000.00 new jobs created just last month alone. and as well as this falling unemployment rate. now it's at 3.4 per cent, which is indeed a 50 year low for the united states. and this comes also as sort of a conundrum, because we've seen the headlines from last month of some, $10000.00 layoffs going the other direction with especially the tech sectors of companies like meta amazon, microsoft, all announcing massive layoffs. so how does that all make sense? well, economists have said that perhaps it's because these are laid off. tack sector workers are so quickly finding new jobs that they're not unemployed for long, or they're choosing not to look for new jobs as of now. and that theory seems to have been supported by these new numbers out to day, given that we're now looking at close to, to job openings for each person searching for

a job currently in the united states. hong kong is fully reopening. it's boarded with mainland china from monday. it's dropping visits, cortes and pre travel, coven, 19 test. it will also allow unvaccinated travelers to enter. for 3 years, the city had maintained some of the strictest rules for visitors. hong kong is also giving away half a 1000000 plane tickets. as part of the campaign to boost to risen. the government wants to reinvigorate the city's economy. after 3 years of coven, 19 and political turmoil, but as richard kimber reports from hong kong might be a longer road to recovery. the hello from hong kong award city like no other expense. the womans welcome to you. 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 author to most us few years. i want to

anti government st. protest 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 recorded its biggest population drop in 2022, hong kong economies shrink 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 the 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 of 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 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 have done the doors with government government support, but we've been losing money left by agenda 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, an influential spanish born fashion, design or pack, or bon no one as the own fault to rebuff sixty's fashion because of his radical designs has died at the age of 88 robin. his real name was francisco. rab anita quare, vol, was brought up in france after his family fled the spanish civil war and founded his paris fashion house in 1966. he was renowned for his space age metallic designs, while also launching a highly successful range of perfumes. after a 3 decade career, the famous, the eccentric reuben stepped back from his business in 1999. you can of course, follow the stories right at our website. you can go straight to al jazeera dot com, blue. a quick reminder now of our top store.