the virgin of the rocks. was there another symbolic meaning to this beautiful painting that perhaps we just don't understand? the search for answers starts january 10th on d, w. ah, this is the w news life from berlin, a spy balloon over the us sends authority scrambling. it's owner remains unclear, but the pentagon suspects china candidates defense ministry says it's also detected a high altitude surveillance pillar air raid sirens sound across ukraine,

including the country's capital keith, ahead of a summit of the ear when ukrainian leaders, president soleski, is pushing hard for you membership tools like this here ah, i've been for sale and woke up. china says it's looking into reports of a spy balloon over the united states, adding that it has no intention of violating the territory and air space of any sovereign country. the u. s. is tracking the suspected chinese surveillance balloon that's been spotted high over the state of montana. defense officials say it's flown over sensitive military sites, but they've chosen not to shoot it down to avoid potential harm to people on the ground. canada says it is also tracking the balloon and monitoring what it says is a potential 2nd incident. china has warned against speculation and corporate calm as it looks into the situation. it's awkward timing for beijing with he where

secretary of state entity lincoln set to visit next week. across my meetings was an air raid sirens have been sounding across ukraine, including in the capital cave. as a joint, a you ukraine summit is about to get underway. ukrainian president flora. mr. lensky is pushing hard for his country to join the european union, saying his country deserves to start talks this year. but as russia's war in ukraine approaches, it's 1st anniversary you membership, the ukraine is unlikely to be achieved quickly. there is the feel of a family get together as members of the you commission gathered in keith for a historic joint meeting with the ukranian government. he, you, commission president, ought to live on the lion said they were there to show you up stands as firmly as ever with ukraine in its war with russia. our presence in chief today gives a very clear signal. the whole of the european union is in this with

ukraine for the long haul. and we will stand up for ukraine as we stand up for the fundamental rights and the respect of the international law. but amidst all the smiles in solidarity sits another issue, i guess, for you, uh huh. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski once she craned to become a fully fledged member of the e. u. family and quickly you prepared your application for the european union membership brilliantly. i know it by experience you became a candidate country while fighting an invasion. you continue to make impressive progress to meet the 7 steps of the commission's opinion. part of that progress is renewed crackdown on corruption, including this rate at the home of one of your cranes most prominent billionaires. just a day before the e. u. teams arrival in cave that timely demonstration of the landscape

determination to prove to doubt as in europe. that he and his government can be trusted, not only as a future e u member state, but also with billions in aid as him when the country starts to rebuild visible door level or by that regarding the reconstruction. if there were a lot of discussions on various levels in europe, research regarding the rebuilding of our country after the war concret. now it is time, i think, for more concrete details, luasa both the fast reconstruction given and for fast financing of his process for our important process in the here. and now the e. u has promised to continue its support for ukraine by hitting russia with a fresh wave of sanctions. or when it comes to e e. e e e membership, it looks like president the landscape would just have to wait until she

a car spent about sunday in keith mass, phyllis im with some more details about what a budget from yesterday's talks between e were facials in a ukrainian county redmond. so we had a high level talks yesterday between more than a dozen e commissioners and the ukranian counterparts. this is an ongoing process. we don't know too much detail about what was discussed there, but the main priority of this trip would have been sending a strong signal of solidarity, a strong message of support to the ukrainian people. by coming here to war torn, he crane and not holding the summit. somewhere else or even remotely. there were some announcement yesterday by the you commission president, was it on the line that it she continue to? she said there would be you would continue there supports to ukraine so far since the beginning of the war, more than 50000000000 euros happened promised to ukraine. and you will also, as, as we heard em integrates ukraine into key you programs that will help tighten

you and you train close together such as easy access for businesses to the funding and your business programs as well as a free integration to the free roaming market. and customs to the extensions for one more years, these are among the announcements that were made among the messages that were that were sent yesterday. and i thought we expect from today's summit, but that is going to be relatively short. some of the top leaders of the you and president events you're going to meet for just a couple of hours so we don't expect any. and he ground breaking announcements today. again, show solidarity. show support. show that they stand together. ah, but we do know a little bit about the talking point. some, mainly this will be about you integration, you accession, how to help ukraine further on their track as, as becoming

a new member of the commissions identified 7 areas where they want to ukraine's to work on. there will probably not be an announcement today. we expect this for later, this spring on how the you integration exception process will continue. now the talking point will be russian aggression room expect of some news on the 10th sanctions package at some point in the near future. and am the global food securities also on the agenda? so how to aid ukraine, help them get their get, get grain gets, get, get the food out of you can't help the training the economy, but also the developing countries around the world that need, that are in need of a different grade. but tell me, max is ukraine any closer to joining b, e? right, so we are a lot of praise from for, from, was left on the line. and we know from, from, from, from you sources that they are actually quite happy with how things are going here . that ukraine is actually moving quite fast on the, on their track too, as to becoming a members of the process going quite smooth. but also we also heard that this,

this meeting, or the summit today will be about managing expectations the ukrainians want to join as quickly as possible and just a couple of years. but there is a long, arduous process that they have to that, that they have to go through lots of areas of the entire system. he will have to be checked on the judiciary, for example. and there will, there will be need for, for a reform process. this could take years, might even take dickens. so there this, this meeting, this in fact, not mean of his going any faster. they're still a long way ahead. okay, the way continues. my sandra, thanks for joining us. i'm kate. returning to our top story now the us tracking that suspect the chinese surveillance balloon that's been spotted over the state of montana. we cannot now good life to ian chung, international relations and security expert at the and us national university in singapore. and we've heard from a senior us defense official who told reporters that this is clearly

a surveillance balloon. ah, can you tell us a bit more about what this balloon actually looks like? what's in it? how high it is, or how big it is? any more details so we don't have many details from the defense department. what we do know that is that fly in the stratosphere, which is above commercial traffic. the size is supposed to be something around 3 buses, but i mean those details are scant. we don't even know what kind of surveillance does the sort of balloon can do anything from imagery to sensory stuff, to electronic intelligence, to collecting samples. but there's no detail so we don't know what exactly this particular balloon does. although these are the range of possibilities that a balloon like it might be able to do. but there is said to be equipment in that balloon which could be dangerous to people if a were to be shot down. right, that has to do a debrief. so if the balloon were shot down, the,

basically the thing would be an explosion, and there'll be a debrief field that would spread across the wide air is not possible to control where the debris falls in any precise manner. it could fall in people, it could fall, property causing injury damage possibly, even though. okay, this, the senior official also told reporters that node is no doubt that this is chinese . what, what information do you have there? so that's what the us defense department has put out. there's no reason to believe that fabricating anything, but no, that's no way to independent independently. corroborate this at this point in time, the canadian ministry of defense. so they've been tracking it, but that's basically all we have at this point in time. the trainees interesting, we haven't denied it. they've called for calm and awful speculation. but if they were adamant there wasn't them. they could have also just denied it flat out, but they have not done that. what do you think this all means for chinese? you west relations so suddenly puts it complications on the upcoming ob lincoln

visit to our to china? are this, if the visit goes on, it will certainly be in our area of discussion. we've seen the house republicans call for the book a visit to be put off. so this sort of the timing of this particular a balloon being i'll look a put a cost of us is very curious. it comes at a time when the chinese to want to talk to the u. s. o, why they've decided to do this. if it is indeed them, it becomes very, very odd, right? there's no clear, there's no clear cut explanation. and ian, just tell me this isn't the 1st time that this has happened. is it right? so never reports that you know it's happened before, but certainly this is the 1st time that the u. s. government has made a public how many times a bore in what form on all that has not been made public previously in chung and sample. thank you very much for the analysis. a censorship in russia has been on the rise since moscow began its full scale invasion of ukraine. but some artists

are determined to not let the government silence their opposition to the war. a recent exhibitionism petersburg has gone ahead despite the dangers. why'd i child dots of peace and the words love against hate, or displayed on meet alone cardboard posters? these are the wax of 77 year old st. petersburg artists, elaina arsic, over 2 dozen of these posters, created from 2014, to the present day are on display here at the local headquarters of the russian political party. yep. local. the exhibition opened on the last day of january the very next day. it was rated by police and the wax confiscated organizers had anticipated such a reaction that decided not to feature or supervise most critical work, fearing it could fall under new laws, restricting freedom of expression in russia. another who knew who fear of what with

mowgli? unfortunately, we were not able to exhibit all the works here publicly because we need to comply with the new laws. and we wouldn't want to put elaina or suppose her and the party at risk. but if you don't believe the yoga, some of her work, you are very striking reading absolutely accurately from what they contain words that one would have to pay a fine for the building more room the board did for the voice. it's elena, our supervisor has studied and taught art all her life with custom. she created her 1st political poster in 2002 marcia this after the seizure of moscow theatre by chechen rebels he go. yes. since then, she's taken part in countless protests, often being detained. after russia invaded ukraine, or supervisor joined anti war rallies. she says she was not afraid then and she isn't now despite the new repressive laws,

both the hughes it though was the one could be worse and what is happening when you sit or nothing is scary. you never know what scary. this is my country, my homeland. why can't i say or do something peacefully without weapons. daily news . we have her. several dozen people came to the opening of the exhibition in saint petersburg visit. his also wrote letters to russian political prisoners with events like this, inspire hope in a bright future. because there are many people who think the same and it's necessary for us to be close to one another. to know, appreciate and love each other. i believe police seized a total of 19 paintings by alaina asi pulver. later, the artist told reporters that she also got a visit from the police that night,

but she says she will keep protesting. she is known in the city as the conscience of saint peter's bag. and a reminder of our top story. the us says it's tracking a suspected chinese surveillance balloon that's been sponsored over the state of montana. defense officials say it's florida over sensitive military sites, but they've chosen not to shoot it down to avoid potentially harming people on the ground. after short break big oil in business with chris cobra, i'm been fissile and thanks for your company. every journey is full of surprises. we've gone all out to give you some tim with.