is too much on my shoulders, but i have to hold this weight because i'm responsible for the future fall country for the people who are behind the boss. guardians of truth starts february 18th on dw. ah ah, this is, these are the news live phone bill in the united states has down de suspected chinese surveillance balloon over its territorial waters. the balloon triggered a diplomatic storm, plus, kept the secretary of state from visiting china. efforts are now under way to

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u. s. s. space. secretary of state anthony blanket, who broke off plans to visit china early this week, called the incident a clear violation of usa sovereignty and to address a broad rate issue. let's get more on this with d. w. 's. washington. washington bureau correspondence to me from a stand a high semi. so what more do we know about the downing of this balloon ever healer information is just coming in to us. and i indeed have just been looking at some images that are coming are coming in here. in washington of the moment of impact when this balloon was shot down just off the east coast, off the carolinas. and it's interesting to note that there was much discussion over the past few days. okay. will the us take this moved her to shoot down this balloon? there was a lot of pressure on president biden to take some swift action as, as balloon chinese spy balloon. as though the pentagon has said in the state department of said was essentially drifting eastward across the us all through the

country. you were seeing really civilian photos from all across the us. and again, the question was asked to president biden, today will that us shoot down this balloon. and in speaking to reporters, earlier before he departed on a flight where he was headed for the weekend, he gave a thumbs up. so that seemed to be an indication that the u. s. would take us move now or he'll, i think what really was the factor here that, that caused the white house perhaps to take a decision was the fact that the u. s. federal aviation administration had to temporarily block flights within a 100 square miles of the atlantic ocean around the south carolina coast because this balloon had gotten in the way. and one thing we heard from the pentagon yesterday is at the moment that the pentagon had been monitoring the balloons movement from thursday and friday, they didn't deem it to be a, a military or physical risk. it appears that at the point that airports had to be closed down because of this, a path of the balloon that, that is when the white house and the pentagon likely decided to move forward with

the shooting this balloon down and has the closing all of this airport cause any disruption to passengers? well we're seeing it so far that there were some disruptions. again, those were 3 airports that were closed down the f. a hasn't released much more information about those airports, but of course some disruption was caused. and again, that is one of the reasons it appears that the white house, that the u. s. officials here decided to take action. but at the moment, it appears obviously with this balloon having been shot down that this object being in the way of civilian air traffic will no longer be an issue. what we can say is there might be disruptions going forward because recovery efforts are underway. remember that a secretary of state antony blank, and when he was asked about this incident while he was speaking to press yesterday, he said our primary objective is to get this balloon down and recover its contents

. and that is precisely what's happening. i'm seeing that recovery efforts are underway, the white house at this point, not saying any more about how those effort recovery efforts are taking place. what exactly they expect to recover. but a lot of lawmakers here in washington have pointed out that they believe this would be an important ability for the us to find out more about chinese intelligence efforts by recovering the contents of the school in short. so well, you know, it's still unclear what evidence the pentagon is going to gather from getting hold of the debris from this balloon. just bring us up to speed on to the issues that led up to this point, which is u. s. secretary of state anthony, blinking delight, delaying his visit to china. what will this now mean for us china relations? well, i can tell you if that has been a very difficult time for us china relations, and these are 2 countries that are at one of their lowest points in years in terms of their relationship. remember that just on thursday, the u. s. announce that it was expanding its military presence in the philippines.

so that was seen as a way for the u. s. to step it's an increase, rather it's footprint in the region to thwart any possible russia and china action, excuse me, on taiwan. also, they wanted to talk to china about its role in the ukraine war and trying to deter russia. there were several other issues that are on the table right now for the u. s. in china to discuss from taiwan to the south china sea and so on and so forth. there were so many thorny issues that it wasn't expected that the secretary of state entity blink and trip to china would be really that progressive that they would make that much of a breakthrough. but this has certainly soured the relationship even further. antony blinkin saying yesterday that he made very clear to his counterpart in china on the phone that this is seen as a serious breach and that they might make a trip in the future. but the conditions have to be right again, and we don't know what will be deemed as the conditions being right. again for secretary blinking to actually be able to make this trip. ok, so me some

a standard reporting for us in washington d. c. thank you so much to me. to ukraine, our fighting rage is on around the city of bach moot. ukraine's army has been dugan for months to push back russian forces. but despite tensions between both sides cave and moscow say they made the largest exchange of prisoners. since the start of the wall of a $100.00 ukrainians and over 60 russians captured in battle, returned to their lions. moscow says its soldiers were receiving medical and psychological care. ukrainian authorities also recovered the bodies of 2 british volunteers who were killed during a humanitarian evacuation. last month, i spoke to military analysts, frank led went and i asked him what led to the prisoner exchange railer. there are 2 possible angles to this. the 1st of it is the perennial work. excellent work of the international committee of the red cross who's one of his main jobs is to act.

in fact, as an end to me for things exactly like this. and i think it's, it's highly probable that they were involved to involved at some point. and certainly there will be in the future not been in the past. the 2nd is that you had to yourself that are offline talks between the parties in formal negotiations for this kind of thing. i see that this, these, these present exchanges have happened before they sometimes happen and are not publicized. i understand, but this is one of the larger ones. now there is also a fist fighting taking place around buck, mood and the president polanski has said that ukraine will continue to fight for bach mood for as long as he can. how long can the ukrainians hold out for? it's a very interesting question. if they decide to do so, the credit is can hold out for a considerable amount of time. the question is, what degree of resources are they willing to apply to that?

this is a city of very little intrinsic strategic value. it's value is that both sides have made such an investment in blood, in casualties that they are locked together on. it's a case military sunk cost. the americans of advice you can use to pull out so they can do that on their own terms. are controlled with role is very difficult, should the fighting get into the city itself, which i understand it hasn't yet that they could hold on for a long time. the problem is the game wouldn't be worth the losses. i suspect there'll be withdrawing in the next couple of weeks under control on their own terms before they get surrounded. was a military analyst, franklin was talking to us idea. well, let's take a brief look at some of the stories taking place around the world. georgias imprisoned, former president me health suckers really says he's being poisoned in jail. he's asked a court to let him leave georgia for treatment. his lawyer says he could die due to critical weight loss. suckers really is in prison, ford edge, the abusing his power during his time as president israelis in tel aviv and other

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and ye irena, a 5th but the day belonged to a lair. as dorman boosted dead title hopes is a recap of our top story. the united states a shot down the suspect, a tiny spy balloon that's been traveling across the u. s. over the last few days of parties temporarily closed the s face of the target carolina post line as the balloon approached the atlantic ocean. while stories is coming up next how about taking a few risks you could even take a chance on was rearing to me don't expect.