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your secretary of state has told his chinese counterpart that the violation the american air space by a chinese spy balloon must never happen again. anthony, blinking met wang ye and munich a few weeks out to us fighter jet, shut the balloon down. beijing says it was a weather balloon that blew, of course there was no apology. ah, but what i can also tell you is this was an opportunity to speak very clearly. and very directly about the fact that china sent a surveillance balloon over our territory, violating our sovereignty, violating international law. and i told him quite simply that that was unacceptable . and can never happen again. were of course, not the only ones on the receiving end of the surveillance balloons. more than 40 countries. i've had these balloons fly over them. oh, in recent years, and that that's been exposed to the world. my county has more now from washington, dc. just a couple of weeks after postponing his visit to china,

the us secretary of state held a meeting with china's top diplomat wang ye. and it was made very clear that blunt words were exchanged between the 2 under discussion of course, that the balloon incident to which the us shot down, claiming it was a spy balloon, a balloon which china said was there for the collection of weather data. after the meeting, the us secretary of state issued a tweet in which he said, just met with a p. r. c's, top diplomat wang ye. i condemned the incursion of the p. r. c. surveillance balloon and stressed it must never happen again. i warn china against providing material support to russia. i also emphasize the importance of keeping open lines of communication. the great fear that has been expressed by the bite and ministration is that mistakes could occur. should there be no clear lines of communication between the 2 countries,

but another issue added in there. clearly the balloon was not the only method discussed at the secretary of state making very clear that china has been warned against providing any material aid to russia in its operations in ukraine. it said that there will be consequences. what these consequences are, have not been made clear, but this is another issue that could the devil relations between the us and china in the weeks and months to come. let's bring an andy mocking is a senior research fellow with the sense of china and globalization. he joins us live now from beijing and a good job with a similar company relations between the us and china. had already been pretty tens before this incident. but this balloon thing as made matters worse. how important? just trying to view its relationship with washington. well, i think china's foreign policy is always been a to engage with every country around the world on the basis of mutual respect and

a respect for sovereignty. or that being said, the us, of course, as the largest country economically nominal terms and very influential in many other factors as well. a plays a very important role in chinese foreign policy. and china's blast the u. s saying this was just a weather balloon, but let's be real here and the, if china had shot down the u. s. balloon of its territory, beijing would not be so accommodating a revelation of its own sovereignty. would it? i think this is a complex issue and this brings to mind aah and apocryphal saying from the british foreign office that i brief you leak and they break the official secrets act in that you know, we don't really know the details. a weather balloon collecting weather information certainly can have a military use or so i think it's very unclear here. and i think it's also

important to point out that certainly up louis complaining about this violation of sovereignty does sound a little bit hypocritical. and we go back decades with the u. s. engaging in this kind of legit conduct are all around the world. so i think we really do. she should take this out with a bit of a grain of salt, and i want to briefly mention yeah, go ahead. yes, i just jump in here because of the push for time. i mean, despite the tensions between both sides, anthony blinking has worn china at this must not happen again. you think this warning is being seen perhaps as a softening. slight softening of the u. s. his position, i mean in reality, both sides need each other though don't they? absolutely, and both sides not only need each other for the bilateral relationship, but of course the impact is, has on the rest of the world. and i think we need to point out here, there are the facts on the ground. there also is

a narrative battle taking place here. and once upon a time, the u. s. certainly could credibly warn china warren, any other country around the world are, but i think the geopolitical realities are shifting and how credible this warning is. i think remains to be seen as we see. not only china, but other countries around the world, increasingly able to act with a greater degree of autonomy free from usaa coercion. perhaps we could call it, let me get a final thought from you. and the, i mean, the 1st anniversary of the war and ukraine is just a few days away now. anthony, blinking warned the chinese foreign minister of consequences if beijing provider russia, with what he called lethal support. what is china's view of russia's invasion of a sovereign country ukraine because president, she is soon to deliver a speech on how the war can be ended, his called it his piece speech. sure why i think china again has been

a very consistent and faithfully followed its principles for interaction with the rest of the world in that respect for sovereignty, a peaceful resolution of problems, ideally, or actually as a 1st choice through multi lateral institutions is the way to solve these problems and i think this is the position china is pursuing at the same time. of course, china's economy is growing, its political influence is growing around the world. i think it also recognizes that it has a growing responsibility to play a constructive role in problems around the world. and im good to get your thoughts and your analysis. thank you very much indeed for talking to us and if well as the saying that meeting came on the sidelines of a security conference in munich, where the biden administration leveled its most serious condemnation, yet of russia's invasion of ukraine. in the case of russia's

actions in ukraine, we have examined the evidence. we know the legal standards, and there is no doubt. these are crimes against humanity. diplomatic editor james base that the munich security conference war clients have been an issue in ukraine since the very start of the war. and one place that war crimes are alleged to have taken places in china were early in the war. there was an attack on people who were gathering to q for bred. my colleague natasha butler, has been to the scene. so the aftermath of a russian attack in the northern ukrainian city of can the heave last year on the ground bodies of civilians. they've been cuing outside

a shop for bread when they were hit by shells and rockets. 15 people were killed, dozens injured. so you are standing around here and i was always due. natasha narrowly escaped death that day by taking cover by this wool. she was in the queue with her son and mother in law. she plays me recording, she made on her phone. if you said this will or lose lose, i believe, got we heard explosions near us. it was very close. and then we saw lots of people running everywhere. at the time, at the attack turned the he was a city under siege. russian forces were surrounding it and shelled it almost daily . they destroyed power and water supplies. evidence of what happened is still visible nearly everywhere. this is where people were lining up for bread that day. it is right in the middle of

a residential area and we're prosecuted list that he says the what happened on that day is a war crime, an indiscriminate attack on civilians or on the property of coverage for law enforcement agencies. consider this a war crying because the main victims were civilians. also a pre trial investigation found no evidence of ukrainian military hardware that could be a legitimate target weapons were used indiscriminately with it. all. all this sir. mark theo marks are the places of work. it's hid the building may be marina slow boat yoke works with the rights organization called truth hounds. that's helping prosecutors to build a case. it's collated, evidence amused, open source material, satellite imagery, and social media to reconstruct what happened. her team says it's traced the killings to a russian unit that was positioned on the outskirts of the city. have we identified? also, the condo is sir kate. all that could have been who might be

liable and responsible for this very kind of attack. whether o leg creek in or another officer was responsible for the attack on the bridge, you might never be proved. some investigators say he's back in russia. it's clear that building legal cases and prosecuting alleged war crimes is a challenge. but for some ukrainians, pursuing justice is at least one way of honoring the was many victims. natasha butler al jazeera tiffany. heave ukraine. and you can join us for our special coverage of the ukraine war at $1130.00 g empty. on sunday, february the 19th. we'll explore how the was affecting the global energy, mach, the sister of north korean leader kim jong, who has urged the united states to stop what she calls, or acts threatening young young security. the comments come just hours after north korea said it had tested on intercontinental ballistic missile. japan's defense

ministry says the missile landed in it's exclusive economic zone diseases. rob mcbride has moved from so appealing young later they have in recent test, been developing this technique whereby they deploy, set up a missile and fire it. lordship fairly quickly. by doing that, you give your adversaries less chance to detect your launching and miss out to try to disrupt the missile launch or try to intercepted so they have been working on this technique. this is described by the north koreans. it's been a while long 15. this is one of the icbm continental ballistic missiles. they have been developing. it fell short of the northern japanese island of her, after flying around 900 kilometer east. most interesting though is the last the trajectory of this miss. alec flew up nearly 6000 kilometers to an altitude of nearly 6000 kilometer before falling down to earth. again, that's very similar to

a trajectory for another icbm lloyd's last november. and they reckon that if you translate that into distance, traveled over the usf is that would put the continental united states within rain. so this is a significant launch. the north korean say that they have carried this out. now, as part of that testing program, they resume their icbm testing from last year, but it also does send a message. they are angry about exercises that will be held between south korean and us forces. this spring, a rockets has struck a building in the center of damascus. local report say it was fired by is ready forces. the building that was here. it is said to be near a large security complex and close to iranian installations. several people have been injured, tennessee has expelled a european trade union official from the country, taking part and a protest against president case aid's policies. thousands demonstrated across tennessee or on friday that he was the president of stifling basic freedoms and

blame him for a worsening economy. said shut down parliament more than a year ago. he was accused what he called traitors for price increases and food shortages. protests had been held against israel's coalition government for a 7 successive week. tens of thousands gathered in tel aviv to demonstrate against prime minister benjamin netanyahu proposals to change the judicial system. he wants to limit the powers of the supreme court. saw says come here now does air including more on the scottish national party search, a new leader? what happens now? the dream of possible independence. and we look at an ambitious plan to relocate a dozen cheaters from south africa to a new home many thousands of miles away monasteries. ah.

hello, the weather's looking little quater across north america over the next couple of days. it won't be quite as warm along the eastern seaboard, but still was temperatures above the average high pressure is pushing our wet weather as stormy weather added, where we have seen some severe storms winds coming round to move a normally direction over the next house is that just knocked sized temperatures down, but average in new york should be about 5 degrees celsius. so still doing all right, 9 celsius here. 14 celsius in dc. again, above the average for that something like a 10 degree drop on the sort of temperature we were just looking at a day or 2 back. still shows us in when she weather into ontario into quebec. i which was western parts of canada, one or 2 showers just around the south west for time tended to ease of much of the earth will be dry. just noticed some wet weather just coming in across the appalachians as we go 13, monday. still on the warm side ahead of that new york. getting into the low teens at that stage will drive study across the car bay looking good here. chance at the

out shap, tickly around the eastern islands for ty, hastily wins, will push heavier showers, cross the western side of the caribbean system heavy down poles possible. it's nicaragua, and costa rica cha, some showers to i, which will southern parts of mexico once again. ah, on counting the call staff, the devastating earthquakes into kit and syria, how all the nation's economies, k, thank you and very much needed aid to syria, but it's a little too late. and what is the financial state of new crime? almost one year off to roches invasion, counting the calls on al jazeera o, a ward winning documentary from around the world, one out 0. ah

ah, welcome back, a comment about top stories here at this hour. the u. s. secretary of state is how talks with china, us talk diplomat just weeks, often alleged chinese spy balloon and to the american in spikes, anthony blink until one ye that american sovereignty should never be violated again . united states has made its most serious condemnation of russia. yes. accusing moscow of crimes against humanity and ukraine. us vice president comedy harris made the comments at the munich security conference on the north korean leader kim jong sista. as there's the us to stop what she calls, who acts threatening film, young security comments come just alice up. the moultrie said it tested another intercontinental ballistic massage. ah,

and turkey and syria, still recovering off to be devastating. earthquakes that left at least 46000 people dead. but even as rescue operations wind down emergency cruise. so funding survivors, a coupled with a child, were rescued in the hot i, in turkey on saturday. 13 days after the quakes, the victims were trapped under the rubble for 296 hours. the child, though, later died in hospital. we have a team of correspondence covering this disaster across southeast and turkey on northwest syria. first, let's hear though from us it beg and carmen rush on despise people trying to recover their belongings. they survived the earthquakes, but now the eager to save us little no to day. we will have to rebuild the lives and everything matters. what the more we called you to take out your belongings,

the municipality worker. so so, so yeah, the brother, his phone was under the rubble. how you going to reach them? it took a lifetime to accumulate what people had it was taken away in a matter of minutes. what, what will we be upset about our belongings? i wish all of this was gone, so i didn't have to care about it from one of the shops they salvage what they can normally we'd not looters were not looted their own goods. they say after class on this off, we will try to survive. all we have is lost. they let them let live it is every offer. what the state or people will give us in aid will only last a week and then we'll be hungry. we have children, we must survive, and what we built in the last 30 years is gone. we had 3 houses, and now we're in a tent, tub of government mirage. the search continues, even at this stage, some clinging to hope as every one full silent risk is used,

the equipment to search for any sign of life. the earthquakes took away lives and homes. but some things can't be taken. we lost everything. i took some pages of the koran out, when the memories left nothing else left. it's all gone behind me. this was my shops. all the families had gone. a page of the koran lives in the box in front of a tent. the mutual rivalry of this world divest you until you visit the graves, the verses say to many, his city is now a graveyard. i said vague, i just need a government about us 7 to one of homes and buildings destroyed as we've been hearing many communities in turkey have been left virtually empty. stephanie decker has more from the southeastern town of elvis, done elvis done. the exact epicenter of that 2nd earthquake. the city resembles

a ghost town. we've been driving around at streets. we haven't seen a single building. left standing either collapsed, partially collapsed, destroyed, nothing remains livable here. a lot of its residents have left. there are not many tents here. and many residents also complained that help didn't come fast enough elbow. stan is nestled between snow covered mountains. it takes a long time to drive here. when you see nothing but mountains, it's also freezing below 20 centigrade at night. we've also seen the turkish john dot m r a with a cadaver dog. the rescue operation ended a long time ago here. now, it is only about recovering bodies. some of the buildings have already been marked zoning on it saying things like empty saying damage noted. it seems that the work to rebuild this area has already begun, but at the moment, the devastation and we've been to many cities across the south east remains beyond

comprehension. stephanie decker, al jazeera albus, done in southeastern, took care a baby pool from the rubble and syria has been taken in by her uncle's family baby frog lost her parents and siblings. when the quake devastate to the town of gender . as fenton missouri has the baby after being welcomed into her new home, her parents and siblings died when the quake struck her uncle cleo wanted to take her in right away. but took several days before she was allowed to join his household. now she's back with family sitting long cycles own newborn daughter i up of law for in the will that that'll offer was born under the rubble. she was at the hospital and we received her today. she is in good condition. the reason behind the delay receiving her is that we were asked for some legal procedures by the officials in the area. and they checked that we were her relatives. i was

found under the ruins of her family's home and she was apparently born under the rebel her umbilical cord still connecting her to her dead mother. despite the loss of all her immediate family offers, discovery made her a symbol of hope as rescuer, search for survivors gender. it is one of the towns that was worst hit by the earthquake as un convoy of more than a $140.00 trucks full of 8 arrived in northwest syria. officials made a point of visiting their shop by the construction. i've never seen anything like it all my life. she's neat, particular shelter for the fresh water. they have medical mice, really, survivors of the quake wait for the help they need. they'll have to rely on each other. more than ever. than monahan, al jazeera, the surprised resignation of scotlands 1st minister nicholas sturgeon had thrown her s and p party into turmoil. that success will have

a lot of work to do if he had to keep the s and p dream of an independent scotland alive on to zeros where we challenge reports from edinburgh. for years, nicholas sturgeon seemed as solid as off his seat. the ancient volcano that towers over edinburgh. but political and geological errors both end office seat stopped erupt in 340000000 years ago. sturgeon's power disappeared with her resignation announcement last wednesday. good morning, everyone. so the scottish national party is now looking for a new leader and a new path. they are now in a state of flux. and the key question for them is what do you do about independence? what's the independent strategy? andy mckeever is a political analyst who watches scottish politics closely. it comes back to the decision that the yuki supreme court made the backend of last year. where they said the scottish parliament did not have the power to hold a referendum by itself. nicholas surgeon,

the answer to that question was what she called the defect to referendum. in other words, she boutique a national election like the general election that we expect next year. and she would turn that into a vote on independence box. many in the s n p, so this is too risky, and it looks like the tactic is now dead in the water. a special party conference where sturgeon would have argued for it has been called off for now. appetite for an imminent rerun of the 2014 referendum is falling. and recent polls suggest pro independence has become a minority view. once again, nicholas sturgeon's exit may further erode support. i hope it does. why? because i want independent. you understand. so what are your hopes for who's next and what i can do, i don't know how come is going to show her last mistake will put back cause for independence because there's never been more than 50 percent. the don't those many

of them will, will. i think vote to stay in the union because we've lost the european union probably don't want to lose longest union in the world. whoever's next will have to reinvigorate the independence cause and friend off opposition, party sensing, and opportunity. the race for a new s and p leader and scottish 1st minister doesn't yet have a clear front runner candidates have until friday to wednesday. and then it's a 6 week contest with the members having until the end of march to make their choice. a choice that will occur in a new political age for scotland, rory challenz al jazeera edinburgh, our 12 cheaters from south africa have arrived in india as part of a plan to reintroduce the big cat soft they were extinct in the country decades ago . the cheaters are joining 8 from the media that arrived last year. so africa has promised to send dozens of cheaters to india over the next 10 years as yet it

cheaters became extinct on the indian subcontinent during the 1940s that they were bought. cushy. keith, i'm very happy to inform you that all legit either completely healthy you and very active it is to have been to these and going on national park to day and they're very alert, active and perfectly normal. now for the 1st time, scientists from hong kong have been allowed to take part in china space program. beijing is looking for new talent to realize it's ambitious plans. jessica washington report from hancock 3 to one ignition aah! china's space program has reached new heights in recent years, among the biggest achievements, the construction of the tea and gold or sky palace space station. the completion of its 1st crew hand over in orbit and the tongue. oh, becoming the 1st spacecraft to land on the far side of the moon investment in what precedent she didn't ping calls china's space dream has resulted in rapid advances

are very proud of it. a throbbing chinese because all, when you look at the history of the, the space program or actor mostly dominated by america, the technology competitions between china and the states, us become more active in the sense. and there are many areas. and space is another thing. now waging is recruiting for the 1st time. scientists from hong kong are eligible. they'll conduct experiments and work alongside korea. astronauts on the space station after china's face agency launched a high profile talent drive in october. the hong kong government told al jazeera it is recommended 40 candidates to chinese authorities for further screening. the selection process still has some way to go, but anticipation is already building, being an educator or the nobody love to see that the mean a government is actually paying a good attention of our students. that shows that our education system is

structured through very well. i hope that the are we can make a do trace. walking in m o from whiting is also excited about the opportunities. as a teenager, he took part in a space camp for students. he got to see astronauts training and visited some of china's space exploration facilities. now the scientist is hoping his research in wind turbines can be put to use in the national space program is just amazing that what we can achieve and what we have yet to explore in space. currently, i'm thinking where the i can use some of my law and expertise. i can see what i can contribute to cities. space e z m is where many young people get their 1st glimpse the rest of the galaxy for young people. they may seriously consider the interest in the way of thought of the direction of their science research and it's hoped some of the young people will have a future.