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says a 2nd balloon has been sponsored over last america. ah, i'm on the inside. this is down to their life and also coming up. ukraine pushes closer to joining the e. u, but more forms are needed before any membership proposal is accepted. i'm good inter lanka, the cash strapped government's decision to spend thousands on independence, day braid and an arctic last hits the united states with records sub 0 temperatures from think many schools to crisis. ah, united states has taken immediate diplomatic action over the presence of a chinese surveillance balloon above us soil says the balloon is a clear violation of its sovereignty, but the u. s. secretary of state postponing

a planned a visit to beijing. china says it's a civilian balloon and not being used for spying. and now there reports that a 2nd balloon has been spotted over latin america. whitehouse corresponding company hawker reports. the sing is up in the sky. china surveillance balloon is triggering a diplomatic rao that has prompted us secretary of state antelope blinkin to postpone his weekend trip to beijing is an irresponsible act. and that the p r c. decision to take the section on the if my plan visit is detrimental to the subset of discussions that we were prepared to have. the u. s. is accusing china, a violating international law. the balloon is still hovering over the skies of the united states. it was 1st tracked over the aleutian islands near alaska and travelled through western canada and into the u. s. state of montana where it was spotted near

a military installation home to some of america's nuclear missiles. i have no idea the thing that seemed so brazen and just so insane to me that that any one would even attempt to just push a balloon over the sky. the chinese foreign ministry acknowledged ownership of the balloon and expressed regret for the incident, but said it was merely collecting weather data, not intelligently. the pentagon has its doubts. still, it says the balloon is not a threat to any one on the ground or plains since it's flying well above commercial air traffic. but there are questions about why the pentagon is allowing the chinese surveillance balloon to linger, looking at the potential for debris and the impact on civilians on the ground or property damage right now, as i mentioned we, we assessed that it is not pose

a risk to people on the ground as it currently is traversing the continental united states. that hasn't satisfied biden's critics and congress who believe the us needs to take further action to punish china. can't reward the ccp for this kind of fly in violation of our sovereignty by pretending everything is businesses normal in a griffin grin, session, which she's been paying as if it was happening. would have been a terrible look for us diplomacy. mississippi will continue to push the envelope until we push back. this isn't the 1st time the china has lives just by balloon over the united states. the pentagon says that in recent years, surveillance balloons have been spotted over guam and hawaii. but in the case of this current balloon, the pentagon won't say whether or not it eventually will be shot down only that it's expected to drift over the united states for the next couple of days. kimberly helped get al jazeera, the white house of pentagon correspondent,

patsy co. haine has more. on the 2nd believe nuts been spotted was able to get in touch with the pentagon official who told me and this is a very carefully worded statements. i'm going to go ahead and read it. we are seen reports of a balloon over latin america. we now assess that it is a chinese surveillance balloon. so of course i asked the question, you're seeing reports, what kind of reports are these media reports? are these reports from governments in latin america because they wouldn't say exactly where in latin america or does the u. s. have some sort of capability, some sort of radar capability over latin america. they, we so we really don't know where they're getting this information. that's pretty much all the variables to confirm to al jazeera right now. the chinese said this was a, basically a climate balloon media logical balloon that was blown off course. if it's more than one balloon, that's going to be a much harder story to sell. because obviously a, were they doing multiple experiments?

so again, they are confirming that they do believe that there is a 2nd chinese surveillance balloon over latin america somewhere. but again, will not confirm what these reports are. katrina, you has more on the reaction from beijing. initially, china's foreign ministry expressed regret or the incident, but now it seems to be taking more of a defensive dog. we had a statement released on saturday morning by the board ministry saying that this was a for may yet accident occurred due to circumstances beyond their control. and accusing us politician at advantage of the situation to attack credit china. we also heard that one chinese has spoken to lincoln and he said, according to this readout, that urge the com to keep communicate communication channels open to avoid this judgement and then reiterated that china was saying that the ground groundless accusation, that this is not a spy balloon,

you're trying to abide by each national law and had no intention of violating us sovereignty. now we've also seen some very state media reports similarly hitting back at the us and respond saying that this incident was being used hype, said the threat about china. now the analysts have said that this really demonstrates distress between the 2 countries of those going to disrupt the level of trust between china and other countries, including canada, which is also some in china. over this incident happens at a very bad time or china. it's coming out of 3, it is a self imposed corporate isolation. it's also trying to reach out to other countries in an effort to, to boost its own. economies are certainly going to hum those efforts. but we know, ultimately this is a major blow to the us china relationship, which has been already fraught over the last few years. talk you visuals of met in key for a highly symbolic summit, ukraine's present velocity. lensky is the block to speed up its membership with

ease. calling some more reforms. natasha butler reports from keith ah beret siren sounded in keys 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, keith's 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. there are no which it timelines. but their goal that you have to reach reforms, for example, to improve a situation in the canada country to then reach at the accession negotiations and the session nixa itself. you're that emanation to forge ahead is impressive.

nasir 4 talks also focused on military support. the ukraine follow to ms. lewinsky once again urging western leaders to send keep more weapons. yes, you would please return us for oil. if weapons deliveries or accelerated, namely long range weapons, we will not only not withdraw from buck much. we will begin to de occupied storm ras, one which has been occupied since 2014, one of the rascal, rural b. u says it will continue center military and humanitarian aid ukraine and we'll train 30000 ukranian soldiers. it also pledged money, $40.00 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 package again. it was the 1st

time that any you saw made had been held in a country in wartime. although there were differences during this summer over the speed of keys you membership process. you leaders agree that ukraine is fighting this war against russia not only for itself with the whole of europe. natasha butler al jazeera keith. people in her lank has kept ola taken to the streets to protest the cost of parade. marking independence day. $550000.00 worth of public funds is being used for the militia parade and colombo countries. in the midst of its worst economic crisis with food, fuel and medicine shortages, now fernandez has moved from columbus given inflexion, given the increasing cause, given the way the rupees devalued. a general, ordinary shalon guns are finding it difficult to make ends meet and at a time like that, when you have

a celebration that people have heard is costing are so many thousands of dollars. they are not happy. i mean, essentially there is a military period. it is the 75th anniversary of sherlock has independence. yes. a major milestone for a country or that got independence after years and years have been colonized and that happened in 1948. so obviously the government, the present run of vicar missing her is very keen to ensure that it celebrated or with the sort of desired a pomp and pageantry a. but what people say is, this is not a time for that to now, the president himself a few months ago, did the go on record about austerity measures, about the need to tighten up the collective belt of the country to ensure that costs are brought down. he warned that, you know, there's a difficult road ahead to work towards fiscal reforms or they're really struggling to get hold of an i am if be loud package. but at the same time, and in the same breath, you find the president saying that we must celebrate independence because people

will otherwise think that the country is unable to even do that. the head of the roman catholic church has appealed to south to john's latest and years of bloodshed in the wells youngest country by frances is on a historic visit. bear with the leaders of the anglican church and the church of scotland. harmon tossed a report from the capital, juba in a 1st since the birth of this nation, the head of the catholic church, pope francis's insults had on. together with the archbishop of canterbury, justin welby, leader, the anglican communion, and ian greenfield. the moderator of the scottish church, the religious leaders on what they call a pilgrimage for peace in a country way, fighting continues to kill and displace large numbers of civilians. i am. you are cool to renew the life of society as pure sources of prosperity and peace. so greatly needed for the sons and daughters of south to dawn. they need fathers,

not overlords. they need steady steps towards development. not constant collapses. solid sedans lead us health care promised to resume talks with ob, greeks who did not find the 2018 piece deal in one of the early fargo boone throne to restore it visit while we're gone through an hour do collaboration of $22.00 and $3.00 as the year old piece area con solution. i am a visually are non soon the live 3 of the suspension of their own. these dogs will do one hour groups a day before this visit. several people were killed in central, equatorial state in violence between kettle, herders and a local militia. south said on as a predominately christian nation in the past,

the church is played a huge role in resolving differences between different ethnic groups and political parties. some people here hope this high profile visit encourage is they politicians to work towards peace. now, boy, to leave the church has been urging south sydney's politicians not to return to war in 2019 pop francis. now to kiss the feet of foul to don's previously warring leaders during a meeting at the vatican. some we as a buck, which is a worry about so much in the process that the letter dated venice or sosa. and then on that note, the chair to demand is to, to focus on are seeing that to people leave that to be sought to don, broke away from saddam to become independent in 2011. after decades a conflict, but long lasting piece remains elusive. people frustrated by how long it's taking to implement the piece agreement, have huge expectations. with so many crises happening elsewhere, they helped as high profile visit, reminds the world of the needs of thought,

said on how to matessa algebra juba flares on al jazeera, such a new job numbers house b, u. s. b unemployment rate is now at its lowest since $969.00. this is corruption, index is released. we look at why many countries in latin america bearing worse again. ah hello, it's still looking a little disturbed across the good part of the middle east, particularly cross northern parts of the region, bands of rain, sleet and snow, still tumbling in from the east side of the mediterranean, across, delivered syria, lebanon, jordan, seeing outbreaks of rain quite a brisk wind pushing its way across into northern parts, over iraq and easing further east, which as we go on through sunday,

we'll see some snow. they're coming into afghanistan at that state. more wet weather, more windy weather, stormy weather, streams and across the eastern med cyprus. seeing some lively storms for a brisk wind pushing through. and that's the case too. as we go into our syria, notice a fair bit of snow. they're across a good part of to kia. so the south didn't re dry wins easing off here in carter though hard around 2122, over the next couple of days. so that stormy weather across the east side of the matter will of course affect the far north of egypt. some storms to just around dutch nicea little circulation at hilary, of low pressure with the dust inside the recent sandstorms and across a good parts of algeria. and also into libya over the next day or so. so i will continue just around the gulf of guinea, right away across good part of southern africa, more storms coming through here. but it does look less wet to we say for south africa. ah

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a reminder of our top stories this out for you as secretary of state has postponed a planned visit to beijing as the presence of a chinese surveillance flu floating high over the country. china says the balloon is not being used for surveillance. pentagon says a 2nd balloon has been spotted over latin america. ukrainian president followed him . his zalinski has hosted a summit of european union leaders and keep whether disgust ukraine's membership application to block the landscape. also urged western allies to supply his military with long range missiles. people, inter like as capital a protesting the cost of a parade marking independence day. $550000.00 where the public funds has been used for military parade in colombo. the countries in the midst of its worst economic crisis, palestinians living in the border areas of the gaza strip say they are increasingly

vulnerable to israeli attacks. you mail side has been to meet several families as homes have been damaged in israeli strikes. marry him and sweden, 9 members of her family, used to live here before israel miss sales turned their home to rubble. during fighting with these lab jihad group in august 2022, they lost every thing. but one side of the because we're on the border all the shells, missiles intercepted by the i and don't fall on ours. so when the israeli strikes began, we quickly rushed out to our home, along with our neighbors. the next day we sent my son back to fetch some belongings for the children, but he found our home completely destroyed. and it was the 1st time in 2014, as we des home was partially damaged in an israeli air strike and repaired by the un relief and worked agency, her palestine refugees these days,

mary and her children and grandchildren live together in a rented apartment, which is all they can afford. most buildings here have been rebuilt since they have been damaged in previous conflicts. and those living in this neighborhood here for their lives. because they're forced to flee their home every time violet escalates . entire neighborhoods on causes, northern and eastern borders are constantly under attack. sally say they're hit by shelves from israeli tanks and bullets from machine guns. sometimes farmers land is bull dozed. as shepherds take cover from gun flyer. not far from what used to be millions home. you have bade and his family have returned to theirs. it was rebuilt recently after being destroyed 1st, 2nd time in israel's 2021 war on godsa. yet his son helene was injured. he says they never feel say,

what has been the 1st of november the go. i didn't know. once we hear that any tension is taking place even before the 1st bullet is fired. we peck and leave our home because he is ready to find the tanks without prior notice. in any direction they fire randomly at us. on a ra helps with the reconstruction of houses for past unions living in border areas, putting it under additional financial strain. there is an enormous burden on owner was to meet this need. after the conflict in may 21. we appeal to the international community for funding. we have either rebuilt or repaired over $7000.00 houses, hearing garza to make sure that people have the bare minimum acceptable level of shelter or housing. because of the constant wars in rounds of escalation,

most palestinians in garza did not feel safe. but those who live near the borders are the most vulnerable because they have do were else to go. julius, see it al jazeera gas f, palestinian man shot in the occupied westbank on friday. his died of his wounds. of de la la way was shot at who are a checkpoint south of nobliss palestinian reading. president says he was injured by israeli gunfire. already forces have killed 36 palestinians in the occupied westbank since the beginning of 2023. each of them children. the tesla found a la mosque has been found not guilty of fraud in a case that argued, a tweet of his missiles, investors must faced a class action lawsuit put forward on behalf test to shareholders who were seeking damages of up to $12000000000.00 in august. of 2018. most recent, i'm considering taking tesla private at $420.00 funding secured. this call is

teslas stock price to serge in the following days before dropping when the deal didn't materialize. another police officer has been fired for his role in the killing of the unarmed african american man, tyree nichols, the memphis police department, his name preston hemphill as the 6th officer to be relieved of his duties 29 year old nichols died off the big biesen by police during a traffic stop in the city 3 weeks ago. it was buried on wednesday has been a surprising surge of new jobs in the united states, despite leaving risk for recession. the labor department says employees made more than half 1000000 new hires last month, which means the unemployment rate is now at its lowest since 1900. 69 us, despite the federal reserve repeatedly raising interest rates in an effort to call inflation or us president joe bought and says, job growth is proof of

a strengthening economy. we have created more jobs in 2 years in any presidential term anytime in 2 years. that's the strongest 3 years of job growth in history, by a long shot. as my dad used to say, jobs about a lot more paycheck, despite dignity and 12000000 more americans get up every morning. knowing they can provide for the families with a dignity incentive sell forth that had mercy hardy j caster reports from washington d. c. 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 percent, 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 announce saying 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. that mark has been named the wells least corrupt country. and a new and dex published by the end ga transparency lashelle. the other end of the spectrum, their port less somalia as most corrupt in latin america region, long played with graft nations, stagnated, or even slid further backwards. john holman, has more transparency,

international corruption perceptions index came out this week and it's outlook for latin. america is bleak. no countries significantly improved at school since 2017. the organization says an overall failure by leaders, work against corruption and strength and public institutions has left the door open for criminal networks to bully and co up to politicians. drug with cuba was marla. they will sunk to new lows in guatemala case of the briefly showing the way forward with the, you know, it's nations but 20 crops in commission that was dissolved in 2019 haiti's in trouble to with no electric government officials. and it's kept to largely overrun by gangs but the absolute bottom of the pile, according to transparency international, is venezuela. i asked the organizations direct to their mercedes to freighters. why? what get even is in contrast to the rest of the countries?

there is no space in which venezuelans can go to ask for justice or their rights. they call a patient of the institutions is startled by the group in power and the systems for justice under their job. on the contrary, they are a guarantors of impunity. the most extreme case perhaps, but it's common to hear in latin america that corruption is a cancer near impossible to root out in latin america. expectations are so low that people in some countries actually have a saying robert petto, i say, regarding politicians. and it means, well, he stills, but at least he does something. but if that changed, if electorates started expect thing even demanding that their politicians did things for them without ceilings, might things improve in this region? perhaps uruguay also in the region, shows that they could. it's rich ink of light for latin america. it has the same transparency score in the indexes, canada, when you're away,

is one of our top for performance in several years. and it is not a coincidence that the countries and strong democracy in some more a united society and institutions work well. what does that mean? it means that checks and balances operate well in means that they have a judiciary dallas a strong and in the band. and there's a reward for that. you're why has the highest per capita income and lowest rate of inequality in latin america? not alone seems we're fighting for if of a government's here are interested. john homan, al jazeera mexico city sites of emergency have been declared across several regions in chile, as while far as rip through large parts of the country. these 13 people have died in the places, so for hundreds of homes have been damaged and firefighters struggling to contain the furnace with high winds and a heat wave. making the problem worse. evacuation what is there in place in various parts of the solvent?

by, by a region at the opposite end of the spectrum and all tech blast has hit the north eastern part of the united states, pushing temperatures below previously held records. gabriel, alice alter, has more historic low temperatures. this is our dig blast of cold air rolls through the northeast of the united states, particularly here in the new england region home to more than 14000000 people. here in the city of boston, the temperatures have been dangerously cold. all day. it's projected to reach around negative 20 degrees celsius overnight, in which case it would break a record for cold temperatures that was last said, a 142 years ago. but what is complicating matters is very strong winds as well. sometimes up to 80 kilometers per hour. there is pushing temperatures, even lower,

and officials throughout the region. we're warning people to only go outside if it was absolutely necessary. but take a look at this. this is mount washington and observatory at the top of a mountain in the neighboring state of new hampshire. it got down to negative 40 degrees celsius, but the winds were coming in at 209 kilometers per hour. bringing the wind shield temperatures down to negative 78 degrees celsius. the lowest wind chill temperatures ever recorded anywhere in the united states. of course it is winter here and people are used to cold temperatures, but not like this. this is not normal. this is one for the record books in some parts of the northeast of the united states where i'm at right now. it's colder here than it is in alaska, scandinavia, or even siberia. ah