experience outstanding shopping and dining offers. enjoy our services or be our guest at frankfurt airport city managed by fraud. ah ah . ah . this is these are the needs live from bernard. us fighter jets have shot down a suspected chinese surveillance balloon over its territorial waters. the balloon target a diplomatic stall. that's the secretary of state. on visiting china effort, i now underway to collect the debris. russia and china have carried out

a prisoner exchange after intense negotiations. as you parties are brief to repatriate nearly 200 prisoners of war. and then sports a day to remember what dolphins the vast in 6 months off to being diagnosed with cancer. he scores his 1st club gold in a big win. ah, i'm really mohammed, welcome to the program. the united states has shot down the suspect, the chinese spy balloon that's been traveling across the u. s. over the last few days. authorities temporarily closed the air space over the carolina coastline as the balloon approached the atlantic ocean, where a fighter jet finally brought its journey to an end. beijing claims the balloon was a civilian research airship that straight into us as space secretary of state as me

blink and who broke off plans to visit china earlier this week called the incident . a clear violation of us sovereignty is or here is that you as president joe biden, speaking to reporters about the dawning of the suspect, the chinese spy, berlin. one day when i was briefed on the balloon order of a brethren to shoot it down on one z as soon as possible, they decided without doing damage to any one on, on the ground. and decided that the best time to do that when we got over water on saturday, we didn't our within 12 mile moment. the successor took it down and i want to complement our aviators who did it. and want more to report on a little later asked lauren this with d. w. so me some ask on the in washington d. c. so what more do we know about how all this balloon was brought down semi

or he'll a new information has been coming to us. the pentagon has released a statement about the operation and they confirmed that these were fighter jets from the us northern command that took down the balloon over the coast of north and south carolina in u. s. territory. that is important because it dismisses any questions about jurisdiction here. the statement also said clearly this was a balloon being used by china to surveil sites in the us. so that as a response to china's explanation of this being a weather balloon. and i found it interesting as well. that the statement said the president biden gave his green light for the defense department to move ahead and take down this balloon on wednesday when he was briefed about what was happening. it was then the military leadership itself, that dean that taken the balloon down over land was too great of a risk because of the size, an altitude, as they wrote here, of this balloon, the threat of debris injuring people. so they decided to wait until this balloon was over open waters. and as soon as it was, again off the coast of the carolinas,

they then took action and they said in a statement, or we will quote, always put the safety and security of the american people 1st. and you know, you saw that sound bite from president biden just there are. he was landing in maryland on route to camp david for the weekend. interesting that he emphasized again that he gave his green light on wednesday, the military decided to wait until the moment was right. the reason he's really been driving that home, it appears, is because he's been under a lot of pressure, particularly from republicans for not having acted sooner, perhaps even before the balloon entered u. s. territory. his answer is that he gave a green light. the military decided the time was right now. and how important is it for the pentagon to, to gather evidence? very important. so indeed, the pentagon said in a statement that they believe that this balloon and particularly the payload, so that is the heavy part of the balloon under or under the balloon. rather, that's conducting the surveillance that it is of significant intelligence value.

it's being reported here that the navy and the coast guard are now working together to gather the debris of this balloon in the waters. we don't have any further details on, on how they're collecting it. but again, it's considered to be very important. and secretary of state antony blinking in his press conference on friday said this was the number one mission to know what exactly the contents of that balloon are, are and, and to carry out an analysis on what exactly is in this balloon in that payload, as i mentioned the pentagon i should add, had been saying for a few days that they didn't believe that there's balloon had as much capability counter intelligence capability as for example, a satellite. so it wasn't seen as, as great a threat as a more high tech surveillance device. but again, there is a lot of value according to the pentagon of recovering the contents of this balloon and analyzing it. and now looking at the diplomatic relations between the united states in china with the sleeve. thanks. well, this is

a huge diplomatic confrontation, and that's what it's being called here. certainly note the fact that secretary of state aren't any blinking at to cancel this trip. this was a trip the state department released in a statement yesterday that was rigorously planned. there was a lot of importance placed on this trip because things are essentially so bad between the us and china. on thursday, the u. s. announcing that it is increasing its military presence in the philippines to increase its footprint in the region to thwart what might be a possible chinese action on taiwan in the future. there were several other issues on the table from a hong kong to human rights violations inch and jang, the south china sea, russia's war and ukraine as well. and how china might be able to play a role there. so there was a lot to discuss and the fact that antony blanket had to cancel his trip, that the us had to take down this balloon as a sign of just how difficult things are between the us and china right now, just to advert healer at the set the state department rather did say that the lines of communication remain open. that dialogue will continue with china and that

a triple go ahead by the secretary of state when the conditions are right. but we don't know what that means when the conditions will be deemed right or good enough for the secretary of state to make that trip. okay, that is, he done, please send me some us condo in washington dc for us. thank you. well, let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. georgia is in prison, former president, me conflict gosh, 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 sluggishly is in prison for allegedly abusing his power during his time as president israelis in tel aviv and other cities have again taken to the streets in their thousands there, protesting against the prime minister benjamin netanyahu and this time to give lawmakers the right to overrule the supreme court critics of miss. now jose, he is trying to weaken the judiciary ahead of

a corruption trial against him in ukraine, fighting wages on around the city of buffalo and ukraine's army has been dug in 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 year of a $100.00 ukrainians and over 60 russians captured in battle, returned to their lines. moscow says that soldiers were receiving medical and psychological care authorities from ukraine, also recovered the bodies of 2 british volunteers who were killed during a humanitarian evacuation. last month i spoke to military analyst frank lead wage and asked him what led to this prisoner exchange rail. 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 interview for things exactly like this, i think it's, it's highly probable that they were involved to involve some point and certainly there will be in the future not in the past. the 2nd is, as you had to yourself, that are offline talks between the parties or info negotiations for this kind of thing. as you said this, these, these present changes have happened before they sometimes happen and not publicized, i understand. but this is one of the larger ones at now. there is also fear pointing, taking place to run back moot. and the president zalinski 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 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 bloating casualties that they do, they're locked together on it. so it's a case military sunk costs, the americans of advice ukraine's to pull out. so they can do that on their own. terms. are controlled with roll is very difficult, but 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 gain wouldn't be worth the losses. i suspect they'll be withdrawing in the next couple of weeks under control on their own terms before they get surrounded. i was a military analyst flank. frank led with speaking to a sally. moving on now. wildfires raging through parts of chile have killed at least 16 people. authorities are struggling to contain the dozens of blazes sparked by a summer heat wave. the fires have affected more than $100.00 homes and destroyed thousands of hector's of land. the government has declared

a state of disaster and several central southern regions. the area is home to farms and forest land, fire fighters, and aircrafts are trying to battle the flames. heading towards the heart of a blaze. trying to contain deadly wildfires. it's dangerous and almost non stop work. the water we've been working since noon yesterday, was it combined with weather conditions or like high temperatures and a lot of wind. they caused great destruction. i supposed to be taishan. and unfortunately, structures relevant to clear a scorching heat which is making their job harder. along with the fact that chile is suffering from 13 years of drought. the flames have been gulped hundreds of homes and huge areas of farmland and forest in the worst affected areas. very little terrible. our home is the product of years of hard work by my brother before the fire to reach and destroy everything. no,

we haven't seen anything like this since 2017. my neighbor's house is on fire. the neighbors are savaging their belongings. little by little hep a's coming, but it doesn't seem to be enough in thought that it wasn't. julius president, gabriel burridge promises more. help is on the way a inst real. i have instructed those in charge of national defense. what are the armed forces and police? i mean, it is to deploy through our territory to provide security that will at the present to get him because the state is present fighting the fires, providing security, taken care of the victims and doing everything that is necessary of the victim or e that all of the senate said you with the current heat, we have showing no signs of cooling off soon. fire fighters will need all the have the can get to put out the blazes and that is in sports. he is now when has been an emotional day in the bundle,

legal for thought been strike at sebastian island. he scored his 1st goal for the club since being diagnosed with cancer and july, he helped fill a big win over title, rivals, fibers and portland, on the tails of buy a new neck. dorman strike a sebastian a layer was making his 1st league start at home. since treatment for testicular cancer, dormant marked world cancer day by redesigning their center circle urging men to check for lumps. fryeburg killian cecilia, did his teammates no favors by being sent off after to 17 minutes. dot undefended nichol shot back and stood over at the back at times the season in front of go though he poses a threat and gave you said the lead from the titus of angles. but fryeburg later exposed his defensive frailties. lucas hurley equalizing after the ball had rebounded off slaughter beck. you had plenty to think about at the break. luckily

for him carrying at a amy scott his 2nd at the league season and 2nd into games. early in the 2nd half . it was quite a celebration to dot means next goal had fans in raptures and making it free won. this was his 1st goal having been diagnosed in july, shortly after signing for the club. his joy was there for all to see his boots told their own story. julian bland added an impressive force and ye arena a 5th but the day belonged to allah. as dorman boosted dead title hopes i, as a recap of our top story, this, our, the united states has shot down the suspected chinese by balloon that's been traveling across the united states. over the last few days,

authorities temporarily closed the air space over the carolina coastline and the balloon approached the atlantic ocean. ukraine and russia have exchanged prisoners of war of 100 ukrainians, and over 60 russians, captured in battle, returned to the 9th. the printing authorities also recovered the bodies of 2 british volunteers who were killed during a humanitarian evacuation last month. the says diabetes live from vernon, to stick around shift is coming up with up to date. don't miss our highlights. the d w program online. d w dot com highlights i tried several on time i went.