ah ah ah this is d w. news line from bird lane, russian and us forces have a direct encounter in asked face near ukraine. the us as a russian fighter jet hit one of its violence, drones causing it to crash into the black sea. moscow has a different version of events and describes the incident as a provocation. also, on the program, china reopens it's borders to tourist. for the 1st time since

a pandemic began 3 years ago. and it was applied to my house before and before or will always death toll from cycling friday reaches more than 200 recovery efforts in the southern african country are hampered by torrential rain and high winds. ah, i'm forgetting welcome to the program. russia's ambassador to the u. s. is called on washington to stop what he called hostile flights near his country's border. anatoly, anton offs. comments came after a collision between a u. s. spy drone and a russian fighter jet in international airspace near ukraine. washington says a russian plane hit its unmanned aircraft and forced to crush into the black sea.

it's the 1st encounter. it's 1st direct encounter between russia on the u. s. since russia's full scale invasion of ukraine last year. the u. s. m. q $93.00 per jerome, like the one in this file footage was forced to crash into the black sea because the dangerous russian interference. that's what the u. s. military is alleging the democrats, what we shall, again, we're, we're fighter aircraft jumping fuel in front of this, you avi, and then getting so close to the aircraft that it actually damaged the propeller on the m q 9. this type of behavior from these russian pilots that is uncommon and unfortunate and unsafe. the u. s. summoned brush as ambassador over the incident. moscow denies direct involvement. it's ambassador is calling the incident a provocation, but says russia wants to avoid

a situation lee that could cause unintended clashes, medical with media. i don't want any confrontation between the united states and the russian federation. wearing fever of pragmatic relations. for the sake. for the interest of the people over united states and russian federation, russia's defense ministry denies us just came in contact with the drone and claims sharp maneuvering caused a crash. but according to pentagon spokesperson de defense department has a video of the collision that it could eventually declassify and release to the public. law correspondent jennifer palka told me more about moscow's response yet, according to state media and russia and the russian ministry of defense, there is an official version which differ significantly from the u. s. version. it states that the russian military noticed

a drone in russian controlled air space that they couldn't identify. and they were unable to identify because the transponder on the drone was switched off. so in order to be able to identify it, they had to send up fighter jets to line up with a drone. after lining up the draw and went into a shop maneuver that led to uncontrolled flight, a loss of the altitude and then crashing into the seat. moscow states or emphasizes that at no point there was any weapons used against the drone, nor was there any physical contact with it as well. and what else are we hearing about those talks between the russian ambassador and the u. s. state department? the russian ambassador and turn off it was a call detox very constructive. he was pleased by them especially because both sides were able to discuss things, talk things through and have a constructive dialogue according to him. but also there was still the issue of no

consensus about what really transpired because as we know, there are 2 versions, the us version and the russian one. i guess what everyone's worried about now is that the likelihood of escalation yeah, the relationship between russia and the u. s. is at an all time low and especially, or probably the worse since the cold war. and russia actually stated that they consider the u. s. maneuver a pro vocation, but they also claim that they don't want any confrontation with washington. the russian ambassador and tone of actually went father and accused washington of using drones for intelligence and passing the information the again through the drones to key f. so p f can use it in the war against russia. but what is very unlikely is that the tensions will escalate over this single event is specially because both

parties will try their hardest not to let it happen. ok, thank you for that, jennifer. i corresponded over polco. will mike martin is war study senior fellow at kings college london? i asked him about those fears of escalation. yes, i think that is a fear, although there are 2 points that i would, michael not firstly. it's quite difficult for this war to escalate all for the relationship between russia and america to get any worse. and secondly, i think we can see now from the comments, particularly of the, the russian ambassador that both sides are very keen to, you know, they'll make quite a lot of noise about it. but they're very keen to draw a line on the instance and, and move on. so if we believe the u. s. version of events, why would russia do this? so the u. s. and other major countries, right from the beginning of the war,

have been trying surveillance, effectively, communications east, talking flights around you crying and russia. i think we can believe them when they say in the slide slide without transponders. so they would have sent up a fight to get to how to look at it. it's quite common for russia to shadow the values that they do it to the rural air force over the north sea in britain against prisons, air force as well. and, and i don't think that the russians would have wanted to go down the u. s. plane, but through intimidation, through closely following, it appears that some sort of miscalculation happened and the u. s. plane was forced to land. and this idea or with americans are said that the fuel was done, the russians dumped fuel on to the drone. why would they have done that? yeah, this is a, i guess, an example of what you might call extreme provocation or intimidation. other

examples are where the plane will fly out and we'll get to with drone and then try and flip it over on to its back. the reason i do that is because unmanned aircraft, obviously the pilot is on the ground probably somewhere in california. and if you're able to, the stabilize the plane pass by dumping fuel patch by tipping it over with the gyroscopes. there is an a pot on board. it is possible to knock the drones out of control. and so that, that pays to be what might have occurred, right? i don't like that would have been doing what they're gathering intelligence for you . right? so any one time, there's probably about $6.00 to $10.00 nato aircraft in such less space or in the space of other countries around you crime network together, they're all listening to the russian communications systems. that information will

get put together, analyze, and then intelligence products are fed to ukraine to enable them to target the russian forces effectively. your listeners will remember the beginning of the war russians last about 20 or 30 generals in a row. and that was because of activities like this, the fact they're not leasing general anymore means that the russians are starting to get their act together and get their communications more secure. right? so if i can paraphrase you grossly, this is essentially not something to worry about. this is the normal course of events which just went a little bit wrong on this occasion. feel free to paraphrase professionally, grossly and it's on. so that's exactly what it is. the nation between russia and the u. s. to try and keep that as space as the conflict as possible to avoid like this causing problems as have a very clear thanks for mike mike martin from kings college. i know there is a look at the most or is making headlines around the world. syrian president bashar

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