ah, w made for mines ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin, author tracking it for days drifting high over the us. by to jed, shoot down a suspected chinese fire balloon staging warns there may be repercussions also on the program. iran fate media says the country supreme leader has pardoned tens of thousands of people who are arrested an anti government protest. but rights groups are skeptical and pakistan's, former president and military ruler purveyors,

lashara has died off for a long illness. he tried to bring in liberal values to a conservative country and survived several assassination attempts. ah, i'm really mohammed welcome to the program. china has condemned the u. s. military decision to shoot down a suspected chinese surveillance balloon that flew over the u. s. united states shot down the balloon on saturday. crating, a diplomatic and political storm. tyler has won the us of repercussions and says the balloon was nothing more than a civilian weather balloon blown off course. meanwhile, there is a 2nd balloon, so flying over columbia. after floating across the us 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. us president joe biden said he ordered the balloon to be down as soon as it could be done so safely. on wednesday, when i was break down, the balloon or the pentagon was shooting down on one day as soon as possible. i decided without doing damage than the one on the ground. the successor took a dow and i want a complimentary visitors who did it. and want 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 a ship, though, die you don't? beijing previously set of regretted his entrees into us airspace. oh,

good afternoon. good us secretary of state wide, antony blinker. duncan cancelled a trip to china. following is discovery. it's very with the balloon may be neutralized, but the fall out to spare. the sour already brought diplomatic relations between china and the united states. earlier i spoke to in boy, he is a professor for aerospace engineering sciences at the university of colorado, belda. and he explained what led to the decision to shoot down the balloon. well, as you heard, the u. s. has made very strong statement that this is 5 alone and if the contents of the balloon have not been destroyed and bringing it down, it should be very clear. ready that turns out to be true or not the instruments. ready used by a weather balloon, as has been claimed by china, very different from those years for spying. so a weather balloon measures things like air temperature and pressure and wind speeds

. but spying and balls, you know, different kinds of sensors and cameras that are gathering information on the ground below. so there will be no question one way or the other. what was the purpose of the blue show and, and spying is not unusual between countries. is it so could you tell us a little bit more about how a surveillance balloon would work over us territory in this instance? yeah, so i spy balloon, you know, it has 2 useful attributes. so it is much closer to the ground than a spy satellite is. and so, you know, the closer you are to something more clearly you can see it. and then secondly, blue has what we call persistence. which means that, you know, because it's not flying very fast, it stays over the same, you know, reach enough ground for quite a long time. so that allows you. ready plenty of time to, to gather information. and so, you know, what's, what's unusual, i think what's surprising for a lot of people is that, of course,

balloons are really not very controllable. usually right? you usually are being blown by the wind, and that's where you're going to happen. some reports that this object may have had some propellers in it, and so that would perhaps give you a lot more control. and maybe that's what makes it useful in this case. do you have any idea how it may have ended up in the us if, if it is what kind of claims that to be a weather balloon? well, i think it's very unlikely that it's a weather balloon. you know, again, part of the reporting has been that the size of this object is something like 3 boxes put together. so free buses as much, much larger than a regular weather balloon. and so i think that i know the same time, you know, it's very unlikely that china would be missouri air properties, you know,

was the temperature and pressure of the air anywhere near america. i mean, they don't need that information for their own weather predictions. and so the, the chinese story to me just, just not up. ok, professor in boy, thank you very much indeed for your time and analysis. thank you. pakistan's, former president and military ver, verizon. the sheriff has died. he's to come to after a long illness and hospital in dubai. at age 79, the sheriff became president also a military coup in 1909. he avoided 3 assassination attempts before leaving office in 2008. he later attempted a political come back, but was faced with criminal charges and has since been living in exile. well, let's get more in this from a nun seem law. he is a senior lecturer and international relations at kings college london with a focus on south asia. it's good to have you with us here on the news now,

which are it was a controversial figure. what role did he play in shaping pakistan's place in the region? well, i mean, he was, in some sense, is the key actor on the front lines of the global war on terror with the american invasion. and in fact, he ordered a hundreds of thousands of pakistani troops into the tribal regions and was actually sort of one of them in sort of his, his, his military force where he was, the chief of army staff was quite involved in sort of incorporating pakistan into the, the global war on terror, which included a massive, a blow back in terms of a significant domestic insurgency in pakistan that lasted for about 10

years and is sort of stepping up again right now. so he's a very complicated figure because in some sense, is he did transform domestic society and domestic politics that i'm sure we'll, we'll get at. but he was actually sort of, i think, best known for sort of pakistan's complicated integration into the, into the war in afghanistan. and speaking of the feelings of domestic in pakistan, let's just take a listen of what people in a song that have to say what don't get sick. there was good in him, but his one act for which he will be remembered throughout history. i was that he broke the long do i let the rule of law as the most important thing for any country family and it is the responsibility of all citizens to uphold. it was all his head . he got away with envoy sheriff was a good ruler. his tenure was good, will the prices were low and that provided relief to people education. shara

boosted education and infrastructure, he brought development to the country and at the time g, d, p growth was good meghan's. but on the other hand, the country suffered losses in the face of terrorism. entering america's war, weakened our own country, mixed feelings there. some say that he boasted the economy, some would argue that he did a lot for women's rights. but do you think that most pakistan is remember him fondly or has his legacy salad, the image of this all powerful military in pakistan? it's complicated. one of the things that machine actually did was sort of come bring together and hire a group of a key sort of political opinion in pakistan, among especially urbanites in urban, the urban middle class oriented against corruption and towards development. and of course, a lot of those voters have been supporting him on con, so this is a very powerful sort of a force in puck,

same politics that was muted before my sheriff came on the scene. at the same time, there was a lot of controversy over his rule and in fact, he was pushed out of power in 2007 by a massive coalition of democratic parties and civil society or organizations after he acted against the independence of the, of the judiciary, so in part i think my sheriff, even though he was an on democratic actor, has actually forced pakistan, pucks nunn's relationship to the military in a completely new phase in which i think it's more likely than not that the military will net will not get involved in a straightforward matter, but rather try to influence on their own interests in their own policies. behind

the scenes, none, nothing like that king's college london. thank you very much indeed for your time. absolutely, thank you very much. now iran's supreme leader has reportedly pardoned tens of thousands of people detained in anti government protests. but human rights groups are skeptical of that to creep. ayatollah ali harmony made the announcement on the anniversary of the 1979 islam make revolution, but the pods and excludes people with international ties or any one facing spying charges. nearly 20000 people have been arrested and nationwide protests, which was marked by the death of gina martha armine, while in custody in september. when it's good, more of the story with ali for to learn the job, he is an iran expert and all author of the book iran in and emerging new world order from i'm a did a job to ra honey, it's good to have you with us on the w news. what do you make of the timing of this

announcement? well, the timing is still, you know, at a time when there is a relative calm of street protests in iran, but we see the combination of strikes. so the situation has not really called for good, and we have to take such announcement from the supreme leader, but also from the iranian judiciary with lots of, you know, with lots of grains of salt because there is no indication whatsoever that among those who are going to be part and going to be political prisoners. we know that there are a lot of political prisoners in iran, and we also know that in connection with a protest, there are probably $20000.00 jails. and so what i see here and what i could speculate about is something different. there are reports about reeducation of prisoners inside of iranian jails. and those are going to be free to

could be used to work for the regime basically as some kind of playing close. also, you know, being tasked with a future project. so i think though the whole background, the whole story is a different one. some may argue that this could possibly be seen as the 1st acknowledgement by the reading authorities around the scale of the crackdown. would that make any difference? no, it's, there is no such a thing. and i think a confirmation to what i said before, you know, the regime has been able to put a hold of, you know, relative holds to the regulatory process as a college. but there is a white lea, a combination of this process with renew street protests that you know when the cold winter is over in iran. and also when the huge economic price is gonna also

translate into a stream protest. they're gonna quickly become political. and the iranian states could, you know, using a could also use, for instance, malicious in the middle east to import them, so to speak, in order to call the protest. but this path is also quite difficult, given also u. s. pressure upon the iraqi government. and that, you know, no r u. s. currencies are given to iran via iraq. and those militias would be pay, it would need to be paid in the us daughters and not the iranian currency. so, you know, pardoning a lot of prisoners, maybe a whole different background to what we initially can think of. okay. and afraid that is all the time we have a thank you very much and do you feel a time and analysis yvonne x, but ali pacola no job. thank you. thank you. you're watching the w news

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