ah ah ah ah ah, this is deed of your news live from berlin after tracking it for days drifting high over the united states fighter jets shoot down a suspected chinese spy balloon. beijing warns there may be repercussions also on the program. pakistan's former president perez, who shara is dead, and after a long illness,

the former 4 star general tried to usher in liberal values to market the conservative country and survived several assassination attempts. and leaders in eastern africa called for a cease fire and the democratic republic of congo as the em $23.00 rebel group inches further into an area of rich with minerals. we hear from our correspondent in the region. ah, i'm nick spicer. welcome to the program. the united states has shot down the chinese balloon that's been flying high over the u. s. for the last several days, creating a diplomatic and political storm. pentagon says it was a platform for espionage. china now warns there may be repercussions over the downing of what it insists was nothing more than a civilian weather balloon blown off course after flow. seeing across the u. s. for

days the suspected chinese spy balloon has been shot down. off the coast of south carolina. several air pulse was shut and as space closed, before the balloon was brought down by military fight jets, landing 11 kilometers of the us, mainland. u. s. president joe biden said he altered the balloon to be down as soon as it could be done so safely. on wednesday when i was break down the blue order of the pentagon to shoot down one v as soon as possible, i decided without doing damage than the one on the ground. a successor took it down and i want to compliment our aviators who did it. and want more report on her so later china's ministry of foreign affairs condemned the shooting down of the balloon. let it maintain. leslie was a civilian airship, though,

di you don't. beijing previously said it regretted his entrees into us asked space or good afternoon. good u. s. secretary of state wide, antony blinker, duncan cancelled a trip to china. following is discovery. it's very, the balloon may be neutralized, but the fall out to thir, the soured already brought diplomatic relations between china and the united states . earlier i spoke with ian chong, an international relations and security expert at the national university of singapore and asked him, why would china use balloons to spy when they have spice our lives? that's a really good question. i think everyone is quite complex. i mean balloons. what they can do is provide a little bit more loiter time, but the resolution of what can be taken, we're talking about imagery can be done by satellite in terms of being able to collect signals. intelligence may be able to do some of that, but i love this can be done by satellite. so why beijing has chosen to use balloons

is a bit curious. i suppose it can collect air samples in a way that other platforms might not be able to. but the utility, the marginal utility of that is actually still somewhat questionable. well, tell me then, could there have been a reason to send the balloon beyond intelligence gathering, for instance, sending a message of some kind. right, so the speculation is rife right now, beijing, the only statement that beijing and put out has is that it's a weather balloon that's going to of course. but beyond that vision is not transparent enough for folks to really understand what's going on. now the, there is a lot of speculation about whether this is some effort to show a tough stance before the blinking visit. whether it was an effort by some elements within the p r c. to perhaps the real, the real be of is it. and also there are some also some speculation that perhaps it's like any other big bureaucracy, the left hand,

not knowing what the right hand is doing. there's a lot of guess what patient is not being very for coming in terms of explanations beyond what we already have been given. and can you tell me a little bit more about how these devices actually work? are they hard to detect? can they transmit data and real time anything? you know, it's just quite a new development. right? so these balloons, they can transmit data real time. they can presumably, can connect with satellites and transmit data that way. they can have a propulsion system from what we, we know from this particular device. and it seems that the solar panels that is deployed can collect electricity that allow some steering and that probably power some of the consensus on board probably powers the transmission on board as well. so that's generally how it works. i mean, really, how they operate depends on the kinds of sensors that on board now, these balloons,

one of the things is that you know, that they can be observed, but you know that they are quiet, they can travel long distances, they can watch a long time so that some of the benefits of using the balloon, but again, these do not over basically, satellites can do a lot of what the balloons can do anyway. good. that was in chung with the national university of singapore. thank you so much, sir. thank you. perez mas sharice, the former president of pakistan, has died bushera to come to a long illness in a hospital in dubai. he was $79.00, which art became president after a military coup in 1999. he dodged 3 assassination attempts before leaving office in 2008. he later attempted a political comeback, but was instead presented with criminal charges and had been in exile ever since. and for more on this, i'm joined now by d. w reporter being as javert. finish, what is sharice legacy?

both in pakistan and internationally. nick, i remember when my sheriff over to a democratically elected government in my school, our buckets and studies teacher gave us a lecture on how good he will be for the country. and that's true in the initial years of his leadership, he was a popular figure. but he was also really got controversial leader, especially after 911 when the u. s. in weighted afghanistan and reached a white against the taliban. and the guy that pakistan of its unwavering support and shed of became one of the most important allies of the us. but the effect of that was built into pakistan. and to route out militant, we're sure to, for the 1st time or doing military operations in boxes and the tribal areas bordering of gun is done a huge and aggressive and a very unpopular drone campaign was also launched by the u. s. and some of these actions resulted in a resistance movement, a dangerous insurgent movement known as

a dollar, a buck, if any taliban or t, t b. and that movement has since been killed, thousands of michelle of legacy that mean really complicated or mixed one, it would sound like help me understand how the role of the military has evolved since his time in pakistan because it's played a huge roars, you know, much better than i in the basically holding on to power have returned to page now. so military has, through our back is on for almost for decades. and, but this is the 1st time in pakistan's history that the military has become so hugely unpopular, especially since i am gone hunt buckets and former prime minister. he accused the ministry of a house to him, but that to a new confidence sport, bike and fighting with the u. s. since then, and he is a hugely popular figure right now in the country and a,

his criticism on the military, badly damaged minutes. his milk does repetition. now army says that they will not, they have learned from their mistakes. they have made mistakes in the past, and they will not interfering boxes and the politics. but political activists inbox is unfair that the military still plays a critical role in buckets on the internal affairs to w spanish. charlotte, thanks so much for inside ukraine's president bellotta mercer lensky says, the situation in the eastern province of done yet is critical. he says, had fought off a new russian assault on the city of back moot on saturday. the fiercest fighting of the war is concentrated on the eastern front. 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 and people say i'm up. they were under constant shedding. have

just been told that a drone is in the air along that by the russians are conducting recognizance flight . just follow up with who usually the shooting starts an hour later. it's dangerous, but we can only stay out for a bit. and then it's back to the bunker curriculum was to move, which was the sort of $31.00. the tour of the battlefield is cut short. by shelling the bumper quarter. the unit shelters under ground waiting for the artillery fire to subside. e or and the other men here are civilians, although they volunteered to fight on the front lines. but they say they don't have the right equipment to fight the russians on month, november over. well, normally we don't have enough weapons here, but they both of deliveries from the west would help us a lot when he tanks and mortars an artillery to defend ourselves. loveday lydia, look for a medical with regard to our model. nathan for now,

the unit relies on the labyrinth of trenches for protection and surveillance with the billing, with a what would move level, we can watch them from here with our e at the 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 pushed back russian forces in september even coordinates or just him. one of my goal is this. you have positions everywhere and we're always changing locations. oh, okay. the russians can locators an 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

a russian tang 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. eastern african leaders have called for an immediate cease fire and the democratic republic of congo. at a summit in burgundy, leaders of 7 east african nations called for a truce in eastern regions of congo. the rebel m. 23 group is fighting to take control of an area rich and minerals. troops sent there by the d. r. c, military as well as the east african community have failed to contain the conflict . and for more on this we can talk to deep abuse. felix marina in nairobi, a felix regional leaders calling for a ceasefire. is the m $23.00 rebel group listening.

i good afternoon, i don't think the m 23 rebel group is listening because they were not in that particular meeting were as if i was called. and i remember that towards the end of last year there was another sci fi that was called in november. and the m $23.00 ripple group said that it was not on the table so and this is fire could not affect them. and on this particular issue, they were also not on their table. so they might have seen the communication. they might have had what they hear originally does have seed bats on whether they'll implement this is very well no ad. this is fine or not. i doubt they're m $23.00 group will be at going that particular direction. felix. this conflict has been going on for a long time. what are some of the forces driving it? so 1st and foremost, the n 23 rebel group came up as

a result of ad this c and therefore my c and d p which ended its war in 2009 in on 20th that all of my stay in 2009 is where now this is fire was called for their former worrying group, and they actually wrote an agreement that some of those from our members who are wanting. i think i would be in invoice event, a cold or government, but the one not in void and the lead housing comb at that. but to do that, i did not leave up to the expectation of their warding group. so they ended up regrouping as m. 23, and they've been fighting for resources. they've been fighting for an identification. and especially there is one done and language speaking group that use in congo. and they are just calling for them to be identified for them to be involved in government for them to be invoked the military. and until that particular move takes place. some i least though said that the wall where it's

reached it self sustaining. and so we may not see an end in sight, any type of exploring in nairobi. thanks so much with tom. now, for a quick recap of our top story, this, our american fighter jets have shot down a suspected chinese surveillance balloon over american territorial waters. the balloon triggered a diplomatic storm that's kept the secretary of state from visiting china. efforts are now under way to collect the debris. that's your news roundup. i'm next by, sir. thanks for watching. leonardo da vinci's, mysterious masterpiece. it is perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece of the collection of the louvre. it is the virgin of the rocks. was there another symbolic meaning to.