ah ah ah ah, this is dw, near his line from berlin, the u. s. president breaks a silence on the recent u. f. i was shot down by the military. joe biden says the 3 most recent objects down over north america do not appear to resemble a suspected chinese bible loot down early this month. also coming up after

devastating earthquakes and ancient city in ruins. we report from the turkish city of an talk here known in earlier times as antioch. the recent quakes have wiped down historical science, stating back thousands of years. and the bare is back, hollywood glamour rubs up against politics as berlin's famous film festival. the burly, now that opens it includes the world premier of superpower, sean penn's documentary about ukraine's war time. president. ah, i'm really welcome to the program u. s. presidential biden. as finally spoken about the chinese balloon saga and 3 other unknown aerial objects shot down by u. s. fighter jets. in recent days,

it all started when a gigantic white balloon suspected to be a chinese surveillance device. was shot down in early february, putting north american security forces on high alert since then 3 other much smaller objects were spotted over canada. and the u. s. states of alaska and michigan and shot down as well by miss now broken his silence about the unknown aerial objects. we don't yet know exactly what these 3 objects were, but nothing, nothing right now suggest they were related to china's fire balloon program. or there were surveillance vehicles from other any other country. who tells us committees current assessment? is that these 3 objects we're most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or researchers the to sions studied whether or conducting another scientific research and less bringing the w correspondent, miss ala cruz, that she's been following all of this from washington mikaela, according to biden origin, and purpose of these 3 latter objects is still unknown. how can that be?

because the debrief seems to be strewn across areas that are difficult to access. and it also looks like because these potential balloon like objects, we're so much smaller than the initial balloon that was confirmed to actually be a balloon is quite clearly visible. and there are so much as smaller, so it seems to be a bit trickier. so we saw the president, i think them the newest thing about this is that he intends to speak to china as president she and talk about the whole thing that is really him extending an arm to china for talks. but in terms of balloon or not part of respite program or not, where she learned little knew from the us present with the us, of course, claiming that that initial balloon was part of china's spy program. and china, still some se, protesting way too much. how will these kinds of objects be dealt with in the

future while they're working on new protocols here in the united states and the president put none other than his chief policy adviser on the case have an inter agency talk. so this is certainly cause quite a stay here domestically in terms of security in the united states because of this race. so many questions that people from the ground could actually see this big chinese balloon that much has been established. but the real outcome here is that relations are still between china and the u. s. are still struggling to see a floor put in them with the u. s. having, of course, a policy to responsibly manage the competition with china and china. visibly angered over those allegations of spying, there's a lot to talk about. and the big question now is how beijing will respond to this. what can safely be seen as an offer for talks with the chinese president he w. washington correspondent,

mikaela cruz. now many thanks. more than 42000 people are now confirmed to have been killed in earthquakes and turkey and syria. the city of antioch young turkeys had ty, province, was one of the hardest hid areas known as antioch. and ancient times. the city was a key staging point on the silk road until recently it was a multi cultural, multi religious place home to turks curds, armenians, arabs and jews. but the quakes cause colossal damage to this one's vibrant city are corresponding, julia han went to an talk here for us. and here is what she witnessed. ah, this is what's left of untouched. la. once known for its rich heritage. the city now lies and ruins. unrecognizable unreal in the old city, several st. so still inaccessible,

blocked by buildings flattened by the quakes, and cause tripped under the degree. this was the old town of antique. yes. once popular with tourists, but look at it now. at least harmful fit is gone. centuries of history ravaged in a few minutes. cherished landmarks has been destroyed here, churches and turkeys synagogue. and the hobby b niger mosque. the dome smashed into wood, used to be the prayer, hol, built in the 7th century. it is considered to be the oldest in turkey, shall have fun, so used to live next door. he was trapped under the rubble of his house for more than a day after the quake struck. he tells me so for her to come jumper, come on the year after we got out, we saw what had happened and takia to mastered here for more than a 1000 years. and when we saw that a hack lab,

some of we understood how powerful the earthquake was and how deadly shall up his last, many of his relatives, neighbors and friends. play, come on this picola. there is nothing left in and takia or the mud following date is coming in. yeah, but i wish before the 8, logan theater and the heavy machinery. yeah. so we could have saved all those licenses. we received food aid, or serve them bread, mckinley or people were still under the rubble. and still, the scale of the destruction makes it hard to say how many a dead and buried rescue teams have been searching day and night. the signs of life from the beginning of the at quick the narrow stays was coca totally blocked and it was not easy to find people actually. second days taught these unfortunate steel does a lot of a lot of people,

david shelton get us for help. we try to this to all of them, but it was impossible. tens of thousands have since flint, the city for those who stayed. the search for survivors has turned into a search for remind us doesn't behind a lot of them are chosen beer garden or everybody here had dreams on everybody here had a future libby shares and now what's left of a dead city of all model. nothing else on the high up i assures level florida is on a high up and we could never imagine this year hire little the good we're alive. but we are now wandering around in the ghost town by our legit and each and legacy throughout the wreckage that was untouched. yeah, pain is plentiful and no one he knows how long it will take for this city to recover. authorities in ukraine say they have shot down. most

of the 6 suspected russian surveillance balloons detected in the skies over keith. the kremlin hasn't commented on the reports, but russian forces have launched a new round of missile attacks across ukraine. grain as repelled some of the attacks. what authorities a multiple targets have been hit, including the country's largest oil refinery. now was the latest assaults across ukraine. russia's spring offensive appears to have begun given the problems with jets and ammunition supplies. we asked e or shelf cla, deputy head of the office of the president of ukraine, whether ukraine is ready. the, the, we are, if you move in, ready, and i think this reverse which crosses learning. now, it unfortunately will take place because they're destined to make this, but it will definitely destined to fail. and it will probably might have been

a huge reverse, but very important that we should be prepared to come to atlanta. we had a very good and positive dynamics for all this sort of puzzles. oh, last year remember after liberated and also you granted was argued and the, and the and the using you bring our hockey very was pods and significant bod, also include the city or your soul. so we need to get disposal name was a do dynamics when he gets our services liberated he's but he's still needs a regular needs are and us image of the mostly britain, all the territory that was inc. orange off quad deputy head of the office of the president of ukraine speaking to the w earlier today. and you can watch the whole interview on our youtube channel. that's you tube dot com slash dw this. now here in berlin, the annual international film festival, known as the berlin allah opens for it's 73rd edition, as well as the usual red carpet glitz and glamour. there's

a string of movies and events in solidarity with ukraine and the protests in iran. sean penn's documentary super power about ukrainian president lensky will have its world premiere, the festival will also feature films, highlighting the current human rights protests in iran. hollywood star christian steward heads the international jury as 19 films from around the world compete for the covenant golden beer that will be awarded a week from saturday. and the w solita barrow is covering the brilliant either for us i asked her for an update on the 1st day of the festival, which is usually a pretty star studded affair. fats, right, nicole, i'm here in front of the bell in i la palace and tonight is being very busy. on the red carpet we had the stars of the opening. a film on the carpets are giving photographs. oh peter dean, cleared, sporting a fabulous, filled beard was here, and half the way mazar tommy were here. they both are in the opening fan,

which is not in competition. arm and her as, as you know, the berlin outlet is one of the most political festivals of all the major festivals . we don't just have stars or we have politics here as well. and that was very obvious during the opening ceremony, which took place here to night. now a half the german government was there, you know, not just culture minister claudia court, but also, or the economy minister, the agricultural minister. we also had the ukrainian ambassador because of course ukraine is going to figure very much in this festival. now sean penn spoke briefly about the making of his documentary superpower about president zalinski and, and talked about the fact that he was literally about to interview zalinski. when almost exactly a year ago, today, the massage started flying and then he introduced zalinski and he made a very moving a live video address and got a started catch to wait, had a standing ovation that lasted about a minute. and there wasn't a dry eye in the house. and he did make some quite moving comments about how

important cinema is in breaking down barriers and changing her opinions earned or making people want to change. the world also talked about berlin being, having been a divided city and made parallels with what's going on in his country and ukraine taking center stage there. but what about the competition? because there are some prizes being given out at the berlin ali as a rear. absolutely. in 10 days time now be the golden and the silver bears there in 19 films in competition. as you said, a 5 of them are by german filmmakers. 6 all by a women filmmakers. and that's more than ever before. most of their fictional features, one documentary, 2, are animated features and deciding who's going to win. those prizes is an international jury headed by twilight star or kristin stewart. we've also got them in the jury to form a golden bet winners and we've got car. let's see,

man who won last year for iris. we've also got the remaining director of the year 2021 winner. good luck, the banging or loony porn. and we also have an iranian actress who is now living in exile. because since 2009, he's been living in france because she was banned from going to back to iran because of appearing in a hollywood film and not wearing a he job. we will see lots of solidarity with the human rights struggle in iran. won't we? there will be, there are lots of iranian films are showing m, including a german made documentary called 7 winters into iran. now this is about a woman who was executed for defending herself against a rapist and her family. and now live in berlin and they made that film in collaborate collaboration with the filmmaker i just must imagine. also there'll be 9 ukrainian films as well. and there's going to be also an industry panels talking about how people can help you crane you. filmmakers in the future,

and we will look forward to your daily updates from all of that right there from the red carpet in front of the burly man and palace. thank you so months. a leader barrow as all for me for now. let's dig around for business with stephen beardsley . he'll be taking a closer look at conscious quitting. i'm the cough really from all of us here in the berlin news room. thank you so much for a company with us. i was just rescuing deducted from a farm this one this body job. i found it like this and i couldn't just leave it there. should meet.