ah, was there another symbolic meaning to this beautiful painting that perhaps we just don't understand? a search for answers to february 10th on d, w ah, ah, this is the w news live from berlin. this by in the sky, a suspected surveillance balloon ignite the diplomatic storm between washington and bay jane. the u. s. secretary of state postpones a rare trip to china after a high altitude. ash it is they protected over the u. s. a. jane claims it's

a weather balloon that blew, of course. also coming up. do crazy. president zelinski renews his post for you membership at the summit and keep saying his country deserves to begin session talks this year. ah, i'm glad office welcome to the program. and we begin with a diplomatic spat over a so called chinese spy balloon that's been tracked. flying across the united states, u. s. secretary of state antony blinkin. s postponed a plan visit to china. following the discovery, the balloon was 1st detected over the state of montana which houses some 150 intercontinental ballistic missile silos. pentagon officials have described the i ship as an intelligence gathering balloon. china claims the balloon is for civilian

purposes and that it regrets it had sailed into u. s. s. base. for more on this developing story, let's now go to washington dc where our correspondent assume it's almost gonna is standing by assuming a secretary of state blinkin post falls, a planned trip because of a balloon. china says is full mitchell logical research. what is going on? going on in this guys over the u. s. right now. we have gearhart a balloon that is become a diplomatic confrontation, secretary stab lincoln's trip, as you said to china has been postponed at the last minute. we don't have official confirmation from the state department yet, but several media here in the u. s. have linked this information to us administration officials. this trip was actually never officially planned by either side, but at the moment we are hearing that it has been postponed indefinitely. so we don't have a new date for this trip either. it rises to the level of

a diplomatic crisis as it's being called here, because blinking would have been the highest ranking member of the biden administration to visit china. the 1st secretary of state to visit china and years, and there are questions being asked about why this is happening now. was this meant to be a provocation ahead of this visit? was it a mistake? especially because the u. s. and china relationship, it is very tense at the moment, just on thursday. the u. s. announce that it is stepping up its military presence in the philippines. it is believed that that is seen to be the u. s. trying to deter china from taking action in taiwan. there were other issues that would have been discussed like hong kong human rights violations in nash and john, also the south china sea, and of course, the war in ukraine and what china could do with its role in deterring russia. so there was always going to be a lot of difficult issues to discuss on this visit. not a lot of common ground. rather, it appears that this spy balloon incident derailed of is entirely. no,

i understand the pentagon just held a briefing. what do we know about this balloon and where it's going? yes, so i listened into this briefing with a brigadier general pat writer. he was speaking with a meeting. he made a few points care had he said a while. he was asked about china statement that this is a civilian aircraft, a weather balloon, as it were, he said, we know it's a surveillance balloon and we can't be specific on why. because that's classify. he said, we know it violated international law and that's not acceptable. he also said it's moving eastward over the u. s. around 60000 feet, or an 18000 meters up. so it is out of the range of civilian aircraft. it's not considered to be posing a physical or military risk, and the u. s. is tracking it, he asked if it was drifting or being steered and he would not say, but he did say that this balloon can be steered, that it's maneuverable. so that was an interesting piece of information. and one more piece of information that i thought as stood out was that the pentagon said this is not the 1st time that such a balloon has entered u. s. territory,

an air space. they wouldn't release more information on when this at what had happened previously. but certainly something to watch out for this. i was very interested. why the other just shoot it down? while all auctions are on the table still, but the balloon hasn't been shot down at this moment because the decision was made that it was too dangerous because of possible debris falling, that with this balloon. so high up falling debris could hurt people. it's was floating over a more populated area. that doesn't mean that it might not be taken down when it shifts to a less populated area. they're all our calls. i should say care hud from congress, more hawkish. members of congress on china, certainly for this balloon to be shot down. so they are concerned about the prospect of this balloon. still the air space, but again, no decision has been made yet on taking down this balloon. very interesting story that w correspondence. zoom you so most grammar in washington for us. thank you soon to

ukraine now where president blood of his zalinski has renewed his appeal for his country to join the european union after a summit with senior european officials in keys and after talks with commission president of a fund alonzo lensky said he would hasten to bring the goal of the membership closer, adding that ukraine deserve to begin. accession talks this year. i'm european council president shaw. michelle was also at the talks and keith, here's what he had to say. the future of your pre with you agree with choice for freedom, for democracy, and full of flow and re you with all so me to clear the fusion, your future our coming to repair in the union, your destiny, our 50. and it's why today there is also love this,

is it people very off to the station by your side, mr. president? give me this again, a movie mold after the meeting. president volume, is it asking stress that ukraine's integration into the you was just a matter of time to dikes. summit has clearly showed that our integration is irreversible and has full support a lot the european sand this year. we kids fold their own, accelerate their respective integration processes, the w. d. w correspondence. marty has bullying a john me earlier from keith and told he told me about the next steps for ukraine's bid to join the you. yeah, this is the 1st summit since the beginning of the war, the sums they used to happen regularly before the war. that means there are leadership of the european union meeting with the leadership of ukraine. but this was, of course, a much bigger event. there was yesterday, a talk between the ukrainian government and

a number of commissars and the leadership of the e. u. consultations, and then the summit to data. that's a clear sign of course, of support for ukraine. and the main topic was a readiness of ukraine to start the basically the talks about an a session is already obtained candidate status in june. and then it gets handed a number of questions, a bit questionnaire with several 1000 questions that they will have to answer. and then the e will make an assessment a so called report. and based on that assessment, it will be decided whether it's time to start the talks or whether that something else needs to be done before talks can really start. and this report is due in autumn and this was kind of a mid way a feedback, but not not an official step in the process. now ukraine is pushing for fast track

membership of the european union in the european union, rather. 3 and we've heard the official side, but we ask people on the streets of keith for they hoped to gain from joining the ear. isn't the promotion joined the you in the near future or so it will help spread the message much faster and convey to people all over the world that we need help and there's no way without it yet to my shoe. furthermore, hatton is a lie. think that the victory will go to ukraine, regardless of whether we will join the you in the near future or not. if we are invited to join the e give, it's possible that there will be even more understanding and more help. and this will make it possible to win more easily and at a lower cost of human life, cement shirts, and i have for him a hot man. thanks for that evening. dany does just as much as we need them. grammar ukraine is capable of getting out of this mess by itself, because there are so many smart and talented people in our country. they're

probably more than in any other country in the world or love which are rather karina's. so a positive attitude towards potential e. u. membership, but they are not really overwhelmed by the idea but, but he has a, did the you officials make any robust 8 commitments to ukraine. yeah, we heard just that the was overshadowing many things and in a way it also influences what the e u. a has decided for example, if ukraine will already get some kind of access to the european market that it would usually not get at this status. but overall they have said that the, the, all the steps need to be followed and there's no timeline the ukrainians. i would have wanted the e, you to say, well 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, but that's not that has not happened. the process will be the same. as for every other member, however, they gave it very positive feedback. and they said within this,

this short period of for memberships of candidate status, ukraine has already achieved a lot. and that was also what we're hearing are from, from the backside that are out of the 3 members that have got kind of the status together. moldova, ukraine, and georgia. ukraine is by far the one that takes the biggest steps. and he has often ally and had already announced that there will be a new round of sanctions against russia later this months. did she give any more details? she said that these sanctions, they would target the technology sector because what a has been found out is that russia is still able to produce weapons and that they often use components. they're not really military technology, but they can be also consumer based or dual use goods. and that they would target

this kind of technology much more and they did would also, or they would also try to book this. so convention of these sanctions that we've also seen throughout all of this period, but she has not given more details. and frankly speaking, she's not in a position to the sanctions you crank, gave its input, recreate, for example, once her nuclear sector included the russian nuclear sector, included in the sanction something that seems to be a bit difficult at, at the moment on the european level. but in the end, it's not our founder line, and zelinski will decide on their, on their sanctions. but it will be the e u members and they will then give all the details are correspondence. yes, believe they're reporting from keith. thank you much. yes. and his quick roundup of some more headlines. italian media say 8 migraines have been found dead and 42. others were rescued from a boat of the mediterranean olives of lump dusso. they were among some 200 others who arrived on different goats to the island overnight. but frances has arrived in

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