a blue ah this is the double the news live from bill then us by the jets of shop down, i suspected chinese surveillance balloon of its territorial waters. balloon triggered a diplomatic storm that kept the secretary of state from visiting china while by ging wants. there may be repercussions also on the program. ukrainian president

believe me is to lensky wants that russia is growing more and more troops and be friends. the next region, making it tougher for defenders to hold the line. and in sports a day to remember for dormant sebastian and 6 months after being diagnosed with cancer, he scores his 1st goal in a big win. ah, i'm anthony. how'd walk into the program? the united states has shut down the chinese balloon. that's been flying over the us of the last several days, creating a diplomatic and political storm. the pentagon says it was a platform for espionage china now, once they may be repercussions or the downing of what it insists, wasn't much more than a weather balloon that had gone. of course, after floating across the us for days,

the suspected chinese spy balloon has been shot down of the coast of south carolina . several airports were shut and as space closed before the balloon was brought down by military fight. jets landing 11 kilometers of the us mainland us president joe biden said he all did the balloon to be down as soon as it could be done so safely. on wednesday, when i was break down, the blown order of a paragon to shoot it down. one day, as soon as possible, they decided without doing damage to any one on the ground. a successor took it down and i want to compliment our aviators or did it. and one more to report on a little later, china's ministry of foreign affairs condemned the shooting down of the balloon. let it maintain as he was a civilian airship, though,

di you don't. beijing previously said it regretted his entrees into us as space or good afternoon. good us secretary of state wide, antony blinker. duncan cancelled a trip to china following his discovery. um, it's very the balloon may be neutralized, but the fall out to thir, the soured, already fraught diplomatic relations between china and the united states. now they do believe so me some a scandal has more on how the u. s. military brought the balloon down. so any, we've learned that according to a senior military official, it was an ast $22.00 fighter jet that took the balloon down with one missile. and at the time the balloon was travelling at an altitude of around 60000 feet, that's around 18000 meters in the sky. and it was taken down just off the coast of north and south carolina in u. s. territory. that is important because it means it was in us jurisdiction,

and the us government actually ordered all flights to be grounded at the 3 airports near by. while this mission was taking place, air traffic has now resumed, and president biden actually gave the green light for the defense department to go ahead and bring down this balloon on wednesday. so it was military leadership that deemed that the risk of taking down this balloon over land was too great because it was so high up and the threat of debris injuring people was great. so they decided to wait until the balloon was over. open water is the reason that's interesting, anthony, is because president biden has been under massive pressure here a particularly by republicans who have accused them of a dereliction of duty for letting this balloon enter. u. s. air space at all. and they are still criticizing him by the way, even after the shooting down of this balloon, saying that he's been weak in the face of china. but again, the president saying, as we heard him, that sound by he said on wednesday, the military can shoot it down when they deem it is safe. and that moment was on saturday. the speak to the,

the pressure that mounted on board me. how important is this balloon? did we think for pentagon as evidence compared to how important it became for the white house as a political theatre? now also, according to the pentagon, they say it's very important. a defense official actually said on saturday. the balloon is of significant intelligence value, and in particular, they are interested in what's called the payload. that is the part just under the balloon that's conducting what the pentagon says is surveillance reports here of indicated that the coast guard and the navy are working as quickly as possible to recover that a payload. you might remember that early in the week, the pentagon had originally said that a spy balloon has only limited capabilities. it doesn't have the counter intelligence capabilities of a more high tech device. but still, this is a balloon that traverse montana all the way to the carolinas. and the pentagon said they want to know whatever information was picked up along the way. so again, for the pentagon, this is of significant value. so after days of intrigue,

how has this incident affected diplomatic relations in between the us and china? yeah, this has been a huge dis diplomatic confrontation for sure. so this trip was highly anticipated. it was seen as an opportunity to finally engage in dialogue again at a time where the u. s. and china are seeing extremely strained relations. so secretary of state, blanca and antony, blinking, he already had a list of really thorny issues to address on this trip from the south china sea. to the warn you cranes are wanting china to take a bigger role in deterring russia. and of course taiwan as well, things were already very tense and the fact that a secretary of state blanket had to cancel that trip is one that just indicates how serious things are. he would have been the highest ranking member of the biden administration to visit china. so this is something that is being seen as a lost opportunity. the lines of communication i should say, between the us and china are still open. that's what the state department said. and

they will plan a trip for the secretary of state when the conditions are deemed right. but there's no indication anthony, when that might, might be delivered to me. so my scanned it in washington, d. c. thanks so much. all right, a brief look. now some of the other stories from around the world, israel is in television and other cities have again taken to the streets in that thousands, they're protesting against prime minister benjamin netanyahu is planned to give law make is the right to overrule the supreme court. critics of netanyahu say he's trying to weaken the judiciary ahead of a corruption trial against sheila says the death toll from wildfire has now reached 22. the government has extended the area covered by emergency orders, allowing for the deployment of troops to battle the flames. more than $250.00 fires, burning amid scorching summer temperatures that have hinted fire fighters if it's

you, grant and russia say they have made the largest exchange of prisoners since the start of the year over a 100 ukrainians and more than 60 russians captured in battle returned to their lines. moscow says its soldiers were receiving medical and psychological care. ukrainian authorities also recovered the bodies of 2 british volunteers were killed during a humanitarian evacuation. last month, on the battlefield, ukraine's president vladimir lensky says the situation in the eastern province at the nets is critical. you credit is ford off. i fresh russian assault on the embattled city of mac boot on saturday. the fist fighting of the war is concentrated on the eastern front, possible on the front line in ukraine's east. less than a kilometer away from russia's border. ukraine's territorial defense unit is trying to hold the line when i me, but they are not. they were under constant sharing,

have just been told that a drone is in the air along with the russians are conducting recognizance flight as well up with it. usually the shooting starts an hour later. it's dangerous commercial or we can only stay out for a bit. and then it's back to the bunker curriculum for summer, which was the sort of thing like he was little sure of the battlefield isn't cut short if by shelling the bumper you or you the unit shelters under ground waiting for the artillery fire to subside e or and the other men here are civilians, although they volunteer to fight on the front lines in the yard. but they say they don't have the right equipment to fight the russians and louise, what's your own mouth november over? oh no, we don't have enough weapons here. you both a, both of deliveries from the westwood help us a lot in bourbon from when he tanks mortars and artillery to defend ourselves. will now be lydia, look up for a month ago. could see quite you're more on that for now. the unit relies on the

labyrinth of trenches for protection and surveillance with the billing, with a what would move in the we can watch them from here with our year to store. ah, if we see something, we foreign them fire power using what could be a museum artifact, a soviet era machine gun the command center is in the basement of an administrative building. this is where the unit pushback russian forces in september, even coordinates or just him will not go with his did you have positions everywhere and we're always changing locations. oh, okay. the russians can locate us in the attack. it's already happened even here to the principal. the command station is decorated with weapons and uniforms,

left behind by the enemy. next door is the russian tank that has been seized and repaired. ah, the ukrainian troops want to use it on the battlefield as they brace for what they believe is an imminent spring offensive for processes urged churches in south sudan to raise their voices against injustice on a pace mission. south sudan is the world's youngest nation founded in 2011, but it short history has been marred by poverty, climate change, and conflict about 60 percent of the countries. nearly 11000000 people are christians. o hi. states visit for the thousands of people who turned up to see the pontiff. there's a lot to writing on his piece mission. we need now

i need to look a would you mind people of the sofa and now we're started all over the warranty. and you, me is coming and with his message is the message of hope. and a message was not due to bring us to give us more than 400000 size sudanese people have lost their lives and millions more have been up rooted from their homes due to fighting flooding and other crises. the pope addressed the nation in the capital of juba in the hopes of jumpstarting a peace process. at the earliest, when brothers and sisters, we too were called to intercede for people to raise our voices against injustice and the abuses of power level that oppress and use violence to suit their own ends in amid the cloud of conflicts kiss judge. and if we want to be pastors who

intercede that at the end, we cannot remain neutral the before the pain caused by acts of injustice and violence. attempts for peace made by the pontiff in 2019 did little to set her conflict here. but his embarrassing visit has instilled hope in those desperate for an end to the persistent violence. ah sport. now it's been an emotional day in the bonus league for dogman strike a sebastian alea. he's got his 1st goal for the club since being diagnosed with cancer in july. he helped seal a big when of a total rivals fryeburg that put stolen on the tiles of bind. munich. 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? dockman defend a nickel shot back. a struggle with 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, and plenty to think about at the break. luckily for him, carina ye me, scott. his 2nd, the league season and 2nd into games. early in the 2nd half. it was quite a celebration to domains next goal had fans in raptures and making it 3 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 blunt added an impressive force and ye irena, a 5th but the day belonged to allah. as dorman boosted dead title hopes. and that's your news for this, our up next, a reporter episode, looking at the growing number of people that live in poverty in germany, that's coming up after a short break. i'm anthony howard in berlin. i'll be back with more headlines at the top of the out. remember the web sanity w dot com for more news for twitter, an inch that handle the ladies at the deb leaves stay with our interest the global economy, our portfolio d w business beyond. here's a closer look at the.