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ah, come to the news our, our top story u. s. military is down to a chinese balloon off the south carolina coast, which it says was a surveillance croft. the pentagon says the balloon was being used to surveil strategic sites across the united states. president joe biden authorized a fighter aircraft to take down the balloon as soon as possible as long it was without any risk to civilian life. on friday, the balloon was spotted above montana near a compound housing nuclear missile silos. it was shot down of the coast of south carolina. shortly after the government ordered a halt to flight in the area. china meanwhile, has maintained craft was a civilian weather balloon that was simply blown off course. ah warn't very well. i was grouped on the blue or the pentagon to shoot down on one z as soon as possible . they decided without doing damage than the one on the ground. they decided that

the bus that was out of a water or wouldn't throw bottom of it is accessible to the dow and i want to complement orders and want more report on a little later. because i what they say by the, i know, i don't use them a recommendation from you was one and that's why the whole written down on wednesday i was like a recommendation with me like wait till the 3rd was pushed to do it now. patrick and corresponded patty call haine, joins us now from washington. and we had that statement from defense archery. lloyd austin essentially confirming what we had in those remarks from joe biden, that he had approved this balloon to be down on wednesday. but on the vice military experts, the pick pentagon, they decided to hold off until there was no anji risk to civilian life. exactly, and i've just been on call for pentagon reporters background briefing. so we can't

tell you who was briefing, but we can go ahead and use the information. so i have a whole lot of new additional details. apparently an f 22 fighter jet out of langley air force base that's in virginia. took one shot with one missile, they say it was over territorial waters of the us, just off south carolina. and the balloon came down. they said it came down in an area of just about 37 feet, which is actually shallower than they expected that they have force ships for u. s. navy ships along the coast guard ships in the area. they are sort of containing the debris field and they said they're going to have a salvage ship. come in over the next few days. so interesting that, that isn't in place right now. they say what they're going to do when the salvage ship is in places, they'll use u. s. navy divers and unmanned underwater vehicles. they'll go down, they'll basically tie up the all the debris field and then bring it to the surface

and start investigating what they claim as a chinese surveillance ariel balloon. interestingly, they said, well, they believe they were of the block, the chinese from getting any using any of their surveillance to capture any information. while it was over u. s. territory. they said they've been studied it and they have a greater understanding of its capabilities. it's technology, what it's meant to accomplish. again, they're not offered any proof to this, but this is what they say they've been able to do. and again, let's remember china says that this was just sort of a weather balloon gone awry. but they're going to be able to, they believe in the next couple of days, go through the debris field, add, bring up all of that technology and really backward backwards engineer to try and figure out exactly how it works and what it, in fact does. interestingly, they said this is not the 1st time that they've observed a chinese high altitude balloon that they considered a surveillance vehicle. they said it happened 3 times in the previous administration. that would have been under us president donald trump and one other

time under president joe biden. they said this is the only time it is hung over the u. s. so, so long let's not forget, it, traverse the entire united states from montana where they believe it was over a where there are quite a few number of intercontinental ballistic ballistic missile silos. obviously, nuclear capable, intercontinental ballistic missiles. and they said that it's actually happening happening not just the united states, but all over the world. they said they currently assess that there's one in sioux transfer transfer seen over central and south america. and they said they've seen this and 5 continents, asia, south asia and europe. and so just a couple of more looking at more of my notes. the f 22 fighter jet was flying at 58000 feet. we believe it fired just one missile, taking down, taking down the balloon. and they gave us a timeline, a little bit better timeline. cuz with this all sort of came into the news on

wednesday of this week. they said at january 28th and entered alaskan air space, january 30th. it went through canada, january 31st and went through northern idaho. never pointers on the call or pushing the pentagon to really explain why they didn't take it down in montana. it's a very part, very sparsely populated state and they went into a little bit more details about what their science said. so we believe this balloons are about 18000 meters. and they said because of its size to this 2 to 3 school buses. and that absolute height, they thought the debris field would be at least 7 miles long. and obviously you can try to guest with wind patterns and that sort of thing. but they said they couldn't guarantee that there would be no harm to either people or property in montana, even though there's a lot of wide open spaces there. and so they said that the president said could give me options, and they highly recommended that he shoot it down over water. and they said that is what they did just after just around $245.00. i believe they said this afternoon

and, and, and so, yeah, they basically, the bottom line is there were a lot of aircraft involved. they said canadian of aircraft were involved, or canadian personnel were involved as well as part of nor at but this over the next couple of days, what they're going to do is what they're doing now is they're corral in the area where this debris field is with different navy ships and then they're going to go in and try and recover exactly what they, what this is, whether it is in fact a weather balloon or weather is in fact surveillance balloon. but a lot of new, interesting information from the pentagon on this call that is actually still ongoing. all right, thank you very much. article heine in washington. i know clink is a former us deputy assistant secretary for of defense for east asia and is now a senior advisor at the national bureau of asian research. it joins me now from washington. now china has accused washington of

exaggerating what has taken place and they've particularly pointed to some us politicians and media for using this as a pretext to, to smear the country. what do you make of the way this has been covered and observed there in the us? well, thank you very much for having me today. i think this has been covered fairly transparently and objectively. we have a chinese government loon that has violated juris territorial sovereignty in u. s. air space. there's really no other way to describe it or characterize it as an infringement of u. s. air space i would add as well that it also violated canadian airspace. so whether or not the chinese intended to be discovered by us is another matter. but again, at the end of the day, it's a violation of international law,

violation of international law because it was obviously flying over into american as space of american motors and not just that the new sensitive locations in montana and the fort was finally down of the carolina coast, but what about intent is that not an important consideration in china says it was a civilian weather balloon that was just blown off course. so 1st of all, i believe the chinese statements are just solicitous. i do not believe that it was just a weather balloon blown off. course it would be quite a coincidence if we have this balloon going into u. s. air space. while apparently there's another one crossing latin america simultaneously infringing upon other countries or space. it will be interesting to see how much of the sensor payload will be recoverable. and then we will be able to

see exactly what type of sensors and technology were on board. yet at the end of the day, whether it was a weather balloon or not, and i don't think it was quite frankly, the chinese should have informed us as well as canada prior to entering entering rear space. if in fact, it was about 9 weather balloon, centuries day, anti blane can, is postponing a plan trip to china. now, how important is it for the lines of communication to remain open? so there isn't some sort of unintended escalation from this that sort of gathers its own momentum. well, the lines of communication definitely need to be open and utilized. i believe that the chinese baset of the united states has been called in and in the marsh. here in

washington, i would presume that the use ambassador to the people's republic also to deliver them to marsh in beijing. i would add that during president biden, and general secretary, she's meeting in bali during the g 20 as well as secretary austin's meeting with his chinese counterpart general way in cambodia. the topic of military to military relations was raised and the u. s. has encouraged trying to return soon, stable and normalized teen of the to military is having discussion, particular crisis management issues. and i have been rebuffed by the chinese consistently overly this incident. well again, underscore at the to military's do need to have channels available to be able to communicate in times of crisis. because this balloon incident just shows how tense

the relationship is and how right it is for a crisis to occur. and just a quick want to me from china's perspective, they see america is a threat and sovereignty the support that they have lent taiwan and a military trails and exercises that held in those waters. what can washington do? it's part to try and carefully manage this relationship to prevent any further deterioration that could lead to instability. well, 1st of all, the united states is not infringed upon chinese waters or airspace. china, u. s. military activities in conjunction with its partners and allies worldwide, are, have been conducted for with international law. and they didn't forget that wasn't guessing that they did, they did i space. but just that is an approximate teacher, chinese territory. and some of its diplomatic position that they see as, as a threat, perception much of what the united states and its allies, i've been doing, have been a reaction to china's aggressive behavior towards many,

if not most of its neighbors. particularly with respect to india for instance, but yes, also south korean japan and the very large exponential you might even say increase of chinese military pressure against taiwan. i will thank you very much for sharing your perspective with us. do appreciate it. hina clink for me, a step, the assistant secretary of defense, the east asian now senior advisors, the national bureau of asian research, joining a staff from washington. thank you. anthony, is our life from london on still to bring you on the program? ah, 13 palestinians are injured in an israeli raid on a refugee camp near jericho that has been locked down for days. and ive gabriel's on to boston, massachusetts. we're an arctic blast of cold air is rolling through the northeast

of america, causing record low temperatures. that story, coming up and celebrations at the club. welcome to saudi side that have lined up dates with the south. american champions will have all this action with jenna. ah, put frances has met people affected by the conflict in south sir dawn. the head of a catholic church is on a 6 day trip to africa, which will end on sunday. more than 4000000 south sudanese have been forced to flee their homes because of a civil war that's been going on since 2013. avante spoke to displaced people in the capitol about his hopes for peace would with you bear the burden of a painful past. yet you never stop dreaming of a better future. in our meeting today, we would like to give wings to your hope. earlier i spoke to the right reverend

doctor in green shields. he is the head of the church in scotland and is visiting south to dawn alongside the pope. he said they were bringing a message of peace to the country. justified the 3 of us being there together was quite amazing at that. and that sales i think was a credible statement of unity. you can speak to people about piece of you don't live in yourself. so i think that in itself was was very powerful real. but at optimism around that maybe this is the time when things will begin to start to turn and change. and certainly all the services today with the political leaders were present and the big service for unity and for peace. later on in the day there was quite a straight talking from everybody to the political leadership. the pope was quite firm in what he was saying,

expecting that at not much had happened in the 40 years 5 years since they had tried to get things rolling and i real same. so unless you have a country that's a piece, you know, good to have other countries providing inward investment and you're going to find people continue like vulnerable because of the continued violence and you know, going to better at the prosperity of the people are there lodges, there is howern latasha is following, the pope says it very closely. she brings us more from a capital juba. jacob now remembers, coming to seek refuge in this camp for the internally displaced people in juba. it's next to the united nations base, so he feel safe here. he was a schoolboy back in 2013. soon after war broke out. he's not 25 years old with children of his own. he hasn't been able to go back home because of violence in pots of thought. sit on her to us as i do, please. yeah, like in a lot of things,

especially food, mr. it was out for 5 months or the disease room start last yesterday today is rob and there's also bad news about it that the put is going to last only for 6 months. then after 6 months, there will be no food. according to the united nations, there are more than 2000000 internally displaced people in south sedan. and another 2300000 have played the country as refugees. famine was briefly declared in some regions in 2017, more than 2 thirds of the population. now news, humanitarian aid because of conflict and natural disasters. with 2018 p. steel stopped the worst of the fighting, but parts of the agreement, including the deployment of a re, unified, national army have not been implemented. and that's why some people say they don't feel safe. returning home be the head of the catholic church. pope francis,

a law with leaders of the anglican and scottish presbyterian churches have voiced concerns about the government slow progress in implementing the 2018 piece deal. they have been delays and holding elections and reports of violence. in some areas . civil society groups say a lack of political will and personal differences between politicians insulted on is the problem. so i'm kinda able to say, and math is enough to all possible problems and we kind of use our personal differences to subject country to suffer in the way we're suffering. now this country we're kind of to leave what we can do for this country from violence to be . so the leaders need to forget their personal problems. the church has a lot of influence insulted on which is a predominantly christian country. many here hope this historic visit puts pressure on politicians to do better and work towards peace and reconciliation, harder matessa altenor julia peter b r. a. jack is a south disney's peace activist who is detained in south it on and forced to leave

the country in 20. 20 is now a fellow at the harvard kennedy school and joined us from maryland. what do you make of the pope's visit, and is it likely to make any difference to not just the churches, but also the way in which politically just choose to behave now? well, thank you. first of all, for inviting me to the show i to answer your point. i have great hope for, for the visit of the pope and the other 2 religious leaders, the archbishop of canterbury, and a moderator of the church of scotland. this visit is very historic and as we should not see it from the lens of the leaders alone, we should see. what does this mean for the people of south? what does it mean for the faith of christian faith in 1000, to done and what it mean for the catholic church? i do believe this is historic visit and it will have him when the menace impact i among our people and in our country. that's a really good point because obviously these, there are high level meetings taking place. very strong remarks in the pope. he

said that the churches should deal more to raise their voices and speak out against injustice against the abuse of power and corruption, the country. but yeah, i suppose when we see that violence and in fighting that also affects people on the ground. so for them, this is a, this is a very significant moment, perhaps a time to try and galvanize some 10 years after independence. absolutely. and if you would see the crowd that gathered earlier today at the john graham was mausoleum. and since yesterday, when between the 3 leaders arrived in java, they did the a welcoming form. the population has just been absolutely amazing. ah, the, the id number, or the sheer number of people gathered at john graham was liam is something that has not happened since away independent. and i think this is really where the impacts they impact is should not be about the leader. what would be that is due

for the leaders, but what it will do for the people about the pope and the religious leaders by coming to his house were done at a time when the war leaders have nearly forgotten the suffering of the people of his house who done that, they have empowered our people and they have powered the church leaders. and i think together the people in detroit leaders, united, particularly the youth and the women. this will be the renewal that the holy father has been talking about since he embark on this trip. but what i mean, what happens now, it brings a positivity and a sense of renewal. but i always speaking to head of the church in scotland, who is accompanying the pope on this trip. he said that this could be a time of change, but very difficult to see what will happen. the sad thing is that over a decade of independent, some say it's been wasted because it hasn't brought peace. it hasn't brought economic development. you have politically, does that of backing militias and in even arming them and that the crimes and

abuses are continuing. so what, you know, what more needs to happen to, to bring this to an end where the primary problem of socio down is not just been the crisis of governance and the failure of the leadership in the country. but also the lack of legitimacy itself. since we got away independence, we never had an election and the current leadership we have in the country is the leadership that is brought there by the peace agreement. and at independence out the election was supposed to be held by 2015. but then the what happens, and since then, electrons have been post born 5 times. and that is the only way really, that the people can change the government and the people can bring home to the country. now the elections have been postponed once more to next year. and recently the government of south redone was officially requested. the united nation provide electron assistance. i think this is the moment where really the people whose house were done would have the chance to change the course of the country. and we cannot

do that through violence. and this is the tool that has been used by the other leaders over the last 10 years. we really need democratic elections and give the people of this house. we've done a chance to choose leaders that can take the country with the next level. all right, well thank you very much peter b r. i jack for joining us from maryland. thank you very much. or east african region leaders meeting in burundi of renew that calls for an immediate cease fire by all sides in the conflict in the east and democrats. republic of congo am 23 rebels who, congo says a back 5 or wanda of seized laundry area. large areas of north cuba province since october and, and this is threatening the provincial capital goma mark web has more now from blanco, which is a refugee camp just outside of coma. thousands of people have arrived in this camp in the last few days. many of them have fled from villages. the n 23 is advancing toward the has taken others have been on the run for 6 weeks or more having already

been displaced once they keep moving each time and 23 gets close to them. anthony is widely understood to be backed by neighboring rwanda. rwanda denies it. meanwhile, congos army is widely reported to have been fighting along signed on groups. congos army denies that 2 conditions here. a bad people have made shelters from whatever they can, whatever they could carry or things they found. here, rocks sticks and grab some people who say that they're hungry, that there isn't food to eat and they're still waiting to get humanitarian assistance. protests have been taking place against israel's coalition government for a 5th success. if saturday march crowds gathered in tel aviv and west jerusalem. although the protesters smaller than in previous week, a combination of prime minister benjamin netanyahu is the most right wing in israel's history. as widespread anger against its proposals to weaken the powers of the supreme court, which critics say are anti democratic. emron con was at a price,

hast in west jerusalem. while the government got a very simple strategy, when it comes to dealing with the protesters, it acts you simply ignores them. it still has a way for then majority within the parliament to push through it's agenda and they seem to be doing exactly that. but it is difficult to ignore this kind of number. let me just show you around. this is a small, a protest than we've seen in recent weeks, but they all outside of the president's health. our prime minister benjamin netanyahu is a residence, is actually just a few minutes walk away from him. now these scenes all taking place across israel, something like 20 towns are actually protesting. and they include tel aviv and heifer as well now at its height of the protest me. but a few weeks ago was getting about a 130000 people out on to the streets. now though last week's vega was around $30000.00 in a few hours, we'll note from the official police forces what the figure will be for this,

but it is far smaller than i've seen in recent weeks. and that's actually good news for the government in terms of the kind of prussia that the protest movement can put on them. they're more, it dwindles, the more people simply get used to the idea that they are coming out, and perhaps other people should be protesting on their behalf rather than coming out and huge number. that's a problem for the protest. me what, what they're trying to do is put pressure on the government in game. hey, it really is to force another election. but even the protest, his head know that they are currently in a minority that the doroty of israelis still support prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and other developments, 13 palestinians have been wounded after his railey raid on a refugee camp near jericho and the occupied west bank. this is the latest incident in an escalation of tensions in which $36.00 palestinians and 6 israel as have been killed since the start of a year. bernard smith, reports from ramallah more than

a week is rarely fought, as have kept jericho locked down and its residents at bay as they search for suspects in a drive by shooting. on saturday morning, the israeli military thought located who they were looking for, an rated a refugee camp on jericho's outskirts. a house was hit with an anti tank missile, and those inside surrendered. according to the military, were offered murmur, houses were targeted as if the residents were criminals, while they were asleep in their houses, civilians who had nothing to do with the incident on mama, no one has been allowed to move freely out of this town of 37000 people in the occupied west bank after shots were fired near an illegal israeli settlement in the area. no one was injured in that incident. it's unusual for so many people to be locked down for this long, but then these are exceptional times in the occupied west bank. so far. 36 palestinians have been killed this year in confrontations with these railey

military and their a far i. ministers in the israeli cabinet, committed to expanding settlements and making life much tougher for palestinians than it already. it's bernard smith, al jazeera ramallah or another. so as a following can 22 people are now confirmed dead and wildfire that is sweeping across chile 5. i to say there are now more than $250.00 different active flies covering almost 500 square kilometers. government is extended in an emergency order to cover 3 regions in southern chile buys have been sparked by an unusually hot summer heat wave. it delta a 100000000, multiple sources of chorus via that added to the weather high temperatures and a lot of wind, of course, great destruction. i think vicki taishan and building the field element here. thing is our life from london. mostella had ukraine and russia exchange almost 200 prisoners of war with the bodies of 2 british volunteers. also being sent back to ukraine. we look at why not everyone is happy match lankin

government marking independence day with the big parade. and a 6 nations rugby union rely on the opening day at quicken. m. as on the wayne sport with jenna. ah, it's a changed pattern marriage, the weather over europe, all the wintry stuff takes place in the middle and down the southeast. you see the cloud streaming down that's rudy colder and in contrast, precious built for the west which means although it's winter sun, it's doing some work and lifting temperatures, sofa from spain and portugal to know warnings of low temperature. it's slowly fitting. bit better. the soft, real shock, particularly baseline bulgaria, is the high temperature of minus 4. athens is dropping down to 5 and that's without thinking about the wind as well. in contrast to wind the south,

westlake making things, roads would be mild in the whole of ireland and scotland. some parts of england are enjoying the sunshine as well. but that is where it's stormy. strong winds running down through the adria taken towards the central, mad, reddening will hit the north african coast. it's fine. the west coast, the worst is to the east, throughout turkey, a good deal of snow falling. and if you sciences that and cyprus and levant, wind and rain, and there's the shock added to athens and probably star bowl because of the wind. it's even worse. i think the turkey during monday, but for the rest of eastern parts of europe, the sun has returned. it's still cold, is no longer windy or snowy below. what is happening in the western met under the storm system growing? ah, but bitcoin block chain and crypto currencies, disruptive technology join with me and introducing

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ah, welcome back. main stories now. us fighter jets have down the chinese balloon off the south carolina coast, which the pentagon described as a surveillance at croft. it says the balloon was being used as the veil strategic site across the u. s. boat francis has been meeting people affected by the conflict in south to dawn. had of the roman catholic church was joined by the heads of the church of england and the church of scotland on the trip to call for an end to the decade long civil war. that displaced 4000000 people. and protests had been held for a 5th consecutive week in tel aviv and west jerusalem against the israeli governments . proposals to reform the judicial system. changes would make it easier for parliament to overturn supreme court rulings. how then is china likely to react to

the downing of its balloon? in our tongue is a senior fellow at the ty, hey, institute think tack in beijing. you joins us live from china's capital. what is the view there among chinese leaders? well, there has not been a reaction, official reaction to the shooting down of the of the balloon. but if it was in fact a threat to navigation, i'm sure that they have no problem. obviously it was beyond the control of china at that juncture, since it had drifted through canadian and american space. so i don't expect anything dramatic. the chinese government said yes, it was a weather balloon, a scientific balloon. and now at this juncture, i think that ends it, except it'll be interesting to see what's on the u. s. government says about the capabilities of this was in fact, just a scientific blue or a spy blue. it's kind of funny from the chinese side. social media is full. you

know, the idea that you're trying to do a stealthy, reckon recognizance of us air space with something the size of 3 buses that can be seen by the naked eye. eyes struck, everybody is a little bit strange. so why, why do it then? it, yeah, i suppose there are other ways in billings or just, i'm just saying there are other ways of gathering information and surveillance through satellite technology. so, why send something into american s base, which is now cause a my furious political reaction because many people see this as a, as a threat to sovereignty and incursion or marry a m, i, as you know, there is chew narratives. one the u. s. that this is a spy or could be a spy ship. the u. s. of the chinese government's narrative is that this is a weather and scientific balloon. the kind that is launched around the world in

many places off site. in some instances they do go astray. so at this juncture, that hopefully the u. s. government will reveal whether this is a one or the other if it was just an errant. sorry, give me any finish. no. if it's just an errand to a scientific balloon that, that will be revealed. at that juncture though, it looks like lincoln was looking for an excuse not to come to the conference in beijing. partly because he was never issued an official invitation. and he was on the list, the balloon was discovered on the 2nd interesting that he was supposed to land on the 4th. but there had not been an official invitation extended. so at that juncture, there might have been some panic in the administration and a desire to find some sort of ruse or reason not to go a china has given him a very good reason. that's the problem. and you could say the americans have no

choice. now, but to respond because of the pressure that facing from republicans, whatever this balloon was, it had no business in american as space. they say, particularly of a sensitive locations and nuclear sites. well, mariam, if, if you take a listen to what the national weather bureau says when they went through and just they said that the airship that the balloon is huge. balloon was in fact, following the air streams of the area and that it has in fact, drifted it is not loitering over a montana, it was shot off the eastern seaboard. so at this juncture, this idea that this is somehow a spy ship that was deliberately sent by china seems a little bit far fetched. and as i said, i think it's better to reserve judgment until we actually have a credible review of what this capabilities of this particular huge balloon were.

thank you very much. i know tongan, see a fellow at the time she think tank in beijing. thank you. now award winning iranian filmmaker, jaffa pena. he has been released from a terran prison after starting a hunger strike to demand freedom pending a re trial. but now he was detained in july to serve a 6 year prison sentence. originally issued in 2010 and made a crackdown on descent. he'd been charged over inciting opposition, protests and propaganda against the system. a made months of political time, all that followed the 2009 election outside the prison. after his release banner, he spoke about other political prisoners and his fellow hunger strike. a fight had may saw me. images of may saw me looking, emaciated of appeared on social media, causing outrage in iran. you have to redo this image, fatherhood ma, semi as they have described. it reminds one of those that live through al shrubs in particular because he is a studious type. your how much he looks like gandhi,

or like the images we have seen from algebra. you have to look behind you or not look. so there are so many of these children in there. good for so many university positions or student was that it was it's been 4 months since protest is 1st took to the streets falling the death of 20 terrell, massa, dominion police custody since then hundreds of people have been killed. so where did the protest stand now? i'll revise is greater of the iran project to the international crisis group. he joined us from washington, d. c. and ali you wrote a very intelligent, nuanced piece, which i really urge people to read where you also share personal details about your family, your time living in iran. tell me about your observations over the past couple of months. very passionate, courageous protests led by women and girls. have they at the streets now?

quieter of a lost momentum. to be with you, mary. i'm a look. i think the process of definitely entered a new phase i think. and we're moving more towards the kind of civil disobedience with occasional flare ups. but the reality is that although these were really impressive process in terms of dirt, geographic, a spread in the country, and also the fact that the transcendent ethnic, political, and social boundaries throughout the country, they really did not amount to a revolution on the streets. the numbers were relatively small, we don't see any serious defections from a regime officials. but they really constituted a revolution in the mindset of the, of the majority of the iranian people who seem to have reached a point that the, you're no longer seeking a modus vivendi with the sonic republic. but they're seeking fundamental political changes. and we see about fundamental political changes. you speak about the

way in which this government has betrayed the ideals of the revolution. one that was about equality, egalitarianism and economic prosperity. obviously, a great deal has happened in the decade since, how have they failed the people and why do they struggle to, to accept any sort of responsibility or to understand their grievances while the system has failed across the board. politically, it's no longer really a republic because they have closed down the political space to extend that elections and ryan have because i'm completely meaningless. they're never free and fair, but at least they were competitive no longer economically. the country which has the biggest natural gas reserves in the world is now struggling to heat up. houses is struggling to be able to continue exporting gas to iraq in turkey. and of course,

is miss the opportunity to export gas to, to, to europe. given the situation with russia, it has failed socially. it has failed culturally across the board. it has really failed and because it has increasingly turned into an authoritarian and even bordering on totalitarian political system, it does not feel that it's accountable and responsible towards its own population. and it has really, this concept of something's got to give is something that i think the leadership in the stomach republic is unfamiliar with. not only they didn't deliver prosperity to their own people, not only they didn't allow participation and political life, but they continuously harassed the population and especially half of the population, which are iranian women by enforcing a deeply on popular mandatory dr law. so there is obviously,

there has been brutality on part of the government. there is a continued will to fight or the numbers out on the streets represent a minority. it doesn't mean that there isn't widespread opposition within the country and you speak about this being a mathematical dilemma for the movement and less, more people were to take part in demonstrations. i mean, even if they did it, it very difficult to see how would lead to any sort of regime change. but you very clearly identify for sort of broad categories of people in, in 4 different groups that kind of night nicely encapsulates the tensions within society. but also between the, the public and the politicians. right. you have on the one hand, the revolutionaries to where people came to the streets, very bravely faced of the regime. you also have the constituents of the regime which have really focused on minority but are still there. and then the majority of

the iranian people, the middle class, which is increasingly middle age, that decided to stay away. primarily because there is a real cost associated with a confronting the regime on the streets. but there is also no viable alternative to the regime inside or outside of the country. and that's where the 4th group comes in. the diet poorer which has shed a bright light on the resumes, brutality, but has really failed to come together and try to create a positive vision for the future of the country. and that's, i think, one of the reasons that this movement at this point did not succeed, but eventually it's clear that disarming for public exactly like the soviet union will fall victim to its own failures and internal contradictions. the question is, if it's it is to transition into a democracy, there needs to be more of a democratic infrastructure inside the country and more of a, a united front outside of the country to provide that rich to the jeffersonian

democracy director the out iran project. and international crisis group joining us live there from washington. allie, via, thank you. thank you. ah . almost half a 1000000 people in the odessa region of ukraine, or without power. after a fire and overloaded sub station, visuals warned that repairs could take weeks. government said it would appeal to turkey to help restore power to the blacks, the black sea port, the high voltage substation in the pow infrastructure around a desk have been damaged by repeated russian missile strikes. or russia, ukraine have carried out to a prisoner exchange brokerage by the united arab emirates. ukrainian government says a 116 of its soldiers have been allowed to return home. while 63 russian service men have been released. according to moscow, among the russians freed those who work in so called sensitive category. same was

rav, isn't the ukrainian capital. with more, what we're hearing is 116 prisoners of war have been released by the russians, and are back on ukrainian soil. the president's office and the coordination, the humanitarian coordination office that works on these prisoner swamps. calling this cause for celebration, but they do say, despite the fact that including today, $37.00 swaps prisoners swaps have taken place since the beginning of this conflict . there remain thousands of russia of ukrainian soldiers in russian custody, and there remain hundreds of civilians as well who are yet to be returned back to ukrainian territory so far in terms of the civilians. only about a 100 have come home in these prisoners swaps. and in terms of soldiers about just

a little over 1640 prisoners soldiers have returned home to ukraine. winter in negotiations with russia, but what the ukrainians are saying despite the fact that this is a cause for celebration, there is still a long way to go to bring all of the other ukranian citizens in russian custody home. now at arctic blast as parts of the united states and canada with fierce winds, pushing temperatures down into the negative double digit authorities in new york and new england issue warnings on friday. and it fears hypothermia and frost fight winchell reached minus 75 degrees celsius. at the summit of mount washington cable is on though is in boston the people of boston are used to cold weather this time of year. that's nothing new. the differences, these are temperatures that have dropped down to record lows. hasn't been this cold in boston since 1957. how cold is it exactly. at one point it was

negative 23 degrees celsius. and with a wind chill factor, it dropped down to negative $33.00 degrees. not only here in boston, but it's in the entire north east of the united states, particularly the new england area were about 14000000 people live all with sub 0 temperatures for the last 24 to 48 hours or so. they were imploring people to stay inside and only to go outside if absolutely necessary. because the conditions were such that in these temperatures, any skin that is exposed to the elements could start to see some frost bite in under 10 minutes. now the temperatures are starting to slowly come up just a little bit here, so you might be able to see behind me now some people are out. ice skating here, playing ice hockey on this frozen pond behind me. but clearly this was one of

the coldest. basically one of the coldest fronts of air to come in to the ne, here, in decades and in one point, mount washington in new hampshire. that was unbelievably called, it got down to negative 78 degrees celsius. it was the cold, this recorded temperature anywhere in the united states ever shall anchors mock the anniversary of its independence from britain with a parade that cost $550000.00. government has been criticized for spending public funds on the event as a country face has its worst economic crisis in memory. when al fernandez reports from colombo, this was how many she lengthens could participate in the 75th independence day celebrations. then money paid for from the sidelines,

watching as the military bands and marching squads left the parade area approach roads and the venue were locked down, hours ahead to ensure the celebrations were not disrupted by protest is people here are angry at their government for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to put on this event at a time when the nation is struggling to beef essential supplies, present, running vicar missing insists. the celebration is important. addressing the nation, he said, the corrupt political gangster is em, which cheats people into being eternally poor and dependent must be defeated. he said this was the system change. the younger generation has been demanding for a long time. yes and our muggy rather now, but my government has entered a new reformist path in order to do this. even though the decisions made towards this didn't seem painful. these have to be taken in order to get out of this crisis

permanent equity in order to do it many like wasn't the model again? don't believe vicar missing his promises. the student leader has been released on bail after being detained for 167 days in what many see as political persecution for his role in the 2022 anti government protests than at i will be at the park at the colleen like the freedom struggle to liberate the country from the imperialist 75 years ago. we now have to struggle to free the country from the robbers or the thieving gangs that corrupted the society for more than 70 years. music, somebody with oh, hundreds of university students, an activist, joined to the gate to protest against the government crackdown on descent and spending days. despite a peaceful citizen, being violently broken up by police on friday night. who said the protesters were violating a court order banning the protest. claim lawyers disputed many here say the

government should not be spending this much money to put on military parade. while millions of shoe lankton are struggling to feed themselves, there was organizing protest like this. they would continue their campaign until the country is truly free on corruption, a 0 for number. ah, jemison out the sports, including the latest from the club. walcott. yes, that's right. so mary, i'm home team. what are casablanca? have the knox out of the competition. the african champions were beaten in a penalty shootouts by allies of saudi arabia and the richardson was that the match for us in the moroccan capital were bats. ah, this was a game at, know, without casablanca found at once, it to miss one of footballs. best supposed to teams playing on home soil in the

club world cup the moroccan and african champions hoping to replicate the success of the national team at last year's world cup and cancel the best even if you are a fan or a big fan of, we does cause a blanket, we had a good moment with the team. as you know, we did the best team in africa and on about defense, we were going to win win the champions with defense without been going to anything. so we're, i hope we'll do a great job today with 60 fennel's and support this behind them. what does the 1st hurdle in this tournament? was a knockout game against agent champions, al hillel, of saudi arabia, noise levels, when even a fire in repents, when without gullible in the nets midway through the 1st half,

only for the effort to be ruled out of side. a breakthrough from within it really early in the 2nd half. you move with the go from team on the way for 1st ever when in this competition, but in the final seconds of normal telling me that all unravels with how, how i want a penalty for some boys without thompson was sent. so and how else? mohamed, how to convert the whole kit to take the time into extra towing and increasingly, but simple game. so bill school cannot read, coded a penalty shoot him, would decided to win a single mis point without proved to be decisive and final and immense with south american champion swimming go. will be nettles when we know when we're done, but we'll keep working on it because we don't want to come up with on to the last week. we keep going. keep going on, go to go on now with which in that case we're looking at 2 home,

but we want to find out why we really felt that we could, we gave this game to help us. we played against a very, very good team and retired in the 2nd half the read called the penalty. and the last minute it's to the top of my players. this is our house photo parents of the club. well, come on each occasion. they've reached the semifinals last summer, they were beaten by chelsea and in 2019. when the toner was held in capital, they lost to 4 mango. they now have a chance to avenge that loss against the brazilians. in tangier, on tuesday and richardson al jazeera robots, the match between the tournament debutante seattle founders and lastly, also looked like it was heading for extra time. but the addiction side, nick sits on 88 minutes mohammed after shot, taking

a heavy deflection to win it for lackley in town. did they now face rail madrid in the semi's. on wednesday, the premier league tied to races taken another twist with leaders or snow beaten by struggling everton. the only goal of the game came in the 2nd half james. talk of escort it as everton made it a winning song under the manager. sean dice is their 1st victory in 11 games in competitions. as for austell, it's, i need a 2nd defeat in the make all season. second place ma'am, just to see if you could cut arsenals, lead to 2 points. if they beat totland on sunday. next up for allison, is that the biggest rivals liverpool, their miserable season continues. they were beaten, 3 nailed by wolves, fast. the 2nd time in 3 league matches that live upon of lost by that school life yoga caught sight off tent in the table. marcus ra should made it 6 goals in his last 7 lea games, as he helped at manchester, united feet,

crystal palace. and i said, have customary sent off when they would speed up poly school to make it to one. but in i said, held onto the wind, me 8 points off the salt. i'm in. crystal scholars have beaten england. 2923. and the thrilling is 6 nations championship match. underneath coach steve both wake england were leading 23. 19 going into the closing stages. of the game, however, the scots had other ideas, really a loss to england just once in the last 5 meetings for the calcutta. how it cut to cut the tracy. these 2 size competes for against each other. do hannah van de merv as late joy sailed back to back when to scotland, clicking on for the 1st time. oh sure j. o and heartwarming my minutes on the i sat, the n h house, old style skills competition at one of the biggest styles of the night. is alex so that you can 4 year old son, gay shadow has skating skills and then joined his washington capitals. dad and

another legend is sidney cosby and they said a virginia to school his 1st go in front of a packed crowd and a great celebration. there is not a feature star. i think that is only a sport for now it's back to mariam called great style as wow, that's the news, al, but i'll be back with more the days news in just a couple of minutes. i'll see you shortly. ah ah. and a 2002 was the 5th shot us

to year on global record stretching back more than a century. government report says 2022 was a bad year for whether 2023 isn't shaping up to be much better already year in california series of severe storms as battered the coast line and the interior of the state. pausing a number of deaths and up to a $1000000000.00 in damages. climate scientists say the warming is caused by industrial age, heat trapping, gas emissions, which have been rising steeply since the 1960. they say rapid reduction and emissions are needed across the globe to slow or reverse the greenhouse effect. african stories from african perspectives and the marine by the just a business when the short documentaries from african peel. i'm going to do that from south africa, ethiopia, and nigeria. we've been to go over some stuff in this class who she saw this as

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