as of now you a secretary of state antony blinking has postponed a planned visit. the china following the discovery of an alleged chinese spy balloon flying of the united states. the balloon was 1st to take it over the state of montana which houses some 150 intercontinental ballistic missiles strike. pentagon officials have described the airship as an intelligence gathering balloon . john claims the balloon is for civilian purposes and says it regrets the balloon accidentally sailing into u. s. s. place in antony blink and spoke earlier about his decision not to go on his plan visit to china yesterday. the department incense announced that we had detected and we're tracking a high altitude surveillance balloon that remains over the continental united states. we continue to track and monitor the balloon closely. we're confident this is a chinese surveillance balloon. once we detected the balloon, the u. s. government acted immediately to protect against the collection of sensitive information. we communicated with the p r. c. government directly through multiple chan

you are a secretary of state antony blinking, and one ye met on the sidelines of the munich security conference in germany. in later interviews, blinker revealed that the u. s. had information that china was planning to provide legal support to russia in its war in ukraine, and that such support would carry consequences for b ging, i think we also had an opportunity to talk about the russian aggression against ukraine. we're here in munich and many of the country sure, focused as we are on that aggression. and one of the things that i shared with him was a growing concern on our part. the china is considering providing legal support to russia and its aggression against ukraine. and i made clear as president biden has almost from day one with president she that, that would have serious consequences in our own relationship. and beijing has responded by using the us of spreading false information and caution date on finger pointing on china, russia relations. but let's get more context on this from alyssia who's gosh, she's a policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations. a

s. secretary of state antony blinking, that china army, russia would have serious consequences. but what would be a likely reaction from europe? well, it would be a red line in china relations that is, according to the european union's foreign affairs chief. you're set barrell, who has been in this building speaking to press urging of course, encouraging china not to take this step. not he was quite clear. he said that this was not something he had anticipated from china. so far he had heard from his, from china's talk diplomat, one v, that china is not planning to send weapons to russia, but he made it clear that that would be a red line. i also spoke to estonia as foreign minister who said he was very concerned about such dimensionality of a supply of weapons from china to russia. and he said, china surely wouldn't want to have blood own eights hands. now when it comes to a reaction, what does that red line translate into? will that is where it gets tricky, because we've seen how difficult it's been for the european union to pursue sanctions against russia due to those long bu

and here's what she told me about you, a secretary of state antony blinking, postponing a plan trip because of the balloon that china clamps is for mature electrical research. again, that's exactly what media is reporting at this point. they're linking this to, to senior u. s. administration officials who say that the secretary of state hass pope postponed rather this trip. we don't have confirmation yet from the state department. we haven't heard anything from the white house either. a president biden was at a press conference earlier today asked a question about this. he didn't answer the question, we should say that this trip was never officially confirmed by either side. it was planned, but still this is a pretty big deal. it would have been the highest ranking member of the biden administration to visit china. the 1st secretary of state in years, and it would have come at a time that is already very tense between us and china and, and a time where it seem we're dialogue as needed. these are 2 countries that right now are at odds over the south china sea, a hong kong, a tie. one certain

of course, you claim us secretary of state antony, blinking and echoed the sentiment and accused beijing of planning to support hooton's war. we have information that gives us concerned that they are considering providing legal support to russia and in the war against ukraine. and it was important for me to share very clearly with, with lonnie that this would be a serious problem. china maintains it is pushing for peace and dialogue as the war approaches. it's 2nd year or join him. if more is the w political correspondent, matthew more. matthew could assume we just heard you are secretary of state anthony, blinking in the report that how do we interpret what he had to say had that meeting go? well, i mean, this was a meeting happened on the sidelines of immune security conference and it's the 1st time that they've had a chance to talk since this bible in saga in recent weeks. and it's fair to say it was a fraud encounter. and i don't think they found much common ground, anthony, they had a chance to really address some of the various tensions that go up in recent weeks, months. and the u

state. next stop for antony blink. and his ankara whale give more details on washington's plans to help of a big winner at this. he is a british academy film awards. was a german anti war movie. old quiet on the western front. with 14 nominations. the movie won 7 trophies, including thus the best picture and the best director, the british woods awards rather a thing as a curtain rise for the oscars. now just 3 weeks away, and all quiet on the western front as 9 nominations there. and the batter goes to all choir ah, the historic moment at the british film awards, a german war drama breaks the buff to record for the most a war to one by a film in a foreign language. taking home a total of 7. based on a german novel about the horrors of world war one, it tells the story of a young german soldier who soon learned that the romanticized version of war and that was described to him is nothing like the battlefields he encounters picking up his best direct, apprise at burger pay, tribute to those currently fighting in ukraine.

ah, welcome to the broker, we start in southern tor kia where you as secretary of state antony blink and is touring some of the worst it areas nearly 2 weeks on from to earthquakes. that devastated the region. more than 46000 people have died. the real estate department has announced that it will provide an additional, a $100000000.00 and aid lincoln's visiting an area that's been badly affected. the turkish government says at least $84000.00 buildings. and more than 332000 houses of either be destroyed or to damage to be used. the visit comes just as the turkish emergency services agency has called for an end to the search and rescue efforts. for those who survive, the situation is extremely difficult. the un estimates more than 5000000 people in syria are alone. have you made homeless by the quakes? there are no official numbers yet for took care. be effected area has a population of about 14000000 people. we're working in very close collaboration with our colleagues both to understand all of the needs and to find ways to arch lavonne. this could not be done without the extraordina

the day after another such object were spotted over montana. secretary of state antony blinking has postponed a visit to beijing over the incident. china says it's an off force. weatherbug. united states has announced a new weapons package for ukraine worth $2200000000.00. it includes new, longer range missiles. it comes as ukrainian forces are struggling to defend their eastern stronghold of bachman. we'll have to end it there up next after a short break sports life in a blind man's bid to climb after this 2nd highest p. a mike located in berlin. i'll be back at the top of the hour with another news bulletin from all of us here. thanks so much for watching the season. ah. she's got to use it. i'll say what grade you.

u s. secretary of state antony, blinking as reported, he canceled his trip to bay j over vincent and ukraine's president brought him his lensky has repeated his appeal for his country to join the european union at a summit with senior you officials. and keith often talks with commission president lafond alonza leslie said ukraine deserve to begin its session talks this year. and that's it from me and the news team you're up to date. so d, w 's asia is gabrielle 1st come out to the highlights you every week in your in box subscribe. now. hello guys. this is the 77 percent. the platform for africa. you to repeat issues and share ideas with, you know, are these channels we are not of great to have dealt with because population is growing. and young people clearly have the solution. the future belongs to the 77 percent every weekend on d w. ah ah, this is due to other news asia coming off today calls for accountability 3 months on from south korea's national tragedy. more than a 150 people died in crowds, brush in seal last year. but perceived foot dragging from the parties has hit griev

s. secretary of state antony blinking has announced that further $100000000.00 a night after the devastating earthquake in turkey and syria. after 2 talks with his turkish counterpart, lincoln is expected to make president richard type or one in the capital and kara on the north korea has tested a test, fired 2 more ballistic missiles. shortly after the us, japan and south korea held joint a forced rules. the drills themselves came after an earlier north korean missile test. young says us conduct would determine if the pacific is turned into a foreign visitor to an art fair in miami, knocked over one of us. jeff koons famous dog balloon sculptures, which then smashed into paces on the floor. the artwork was valued at $42000.00. the glass shards were swept up by staff, but somehow may still be worth thousands to collect us. and the big winner at this year's british academy film awards was a german, any war movie or quiet on the western front. with 14 nominations, the movie $17.00 trophies, including those for best picture and best director. the british woods, the same as a curtain razor for t

s. secretary of state antony blinking has flown over the earthquake disaster sto, zone in southern turkey is holding talks on how washington can best help with reconstruction. more than 46000 people have been killed in the earthquakes that had turkey and syria 2 weeks ago. and at least 7 people are known to have been killed in a storm which had new zealand north island. several 1000 others had been displaced from their homes. cyclone gabrielle inflicted widespread damage on towns and cities . when it struck a week ago, sy clone, gabrielle was one of the worst storms in new zealand history. it smashed into the country with immense force. now comes the mess of clean up through and go to one of the main fruit growing regions. hawkes bay is among the areas hit hardest flood wood has reached the roof of this farm as property which is now covered in mud palm. it is a cave for crocket. as its got wet through, the flood is no longer able to be exploited. so we connector stripper. the full scale of the damage is still emerging. many areas remain hard to access after raging flood waters wiped out r

well meantime us secretary of state antony blinking has finished his visit to israel and the palestinian territories. after talks in jerusalem on monday, he met with palestinian president mac wood, a boss in ramallah on tuesday, and made a spike in violence between israelis and palestinians. mister blane can express his condolences for what he called the innocent palestinians. civilians who lost their lives over the last year, and he urged mister abbas to de escalate tension. and though he proposed no new initiatives, mister lincoln reiterated washington support for a 2 state solution. during a short press briefing in ramallah, the secretary of state went on to say that it's also important to continue to strive not only for reducing violence, but ensuring that ultimately the israeli house needs a life enjoy the same right, the same opportunities. what we're, what we're seeing now, how citizens is a shrinking to rise in a whole not expanding one. and that to we believe needs to change. theresa based journalist sammy so call gave us this assessment of lincoln to visit well at z a secretary

it's also let the secretary of state antony blinking, calling off his visit to china. what next in the bilateral relationship, i'd be asking an expert and seeing the full for his take on that and why the us china competition in the region. ah. my british manager, welcome to d w. news asia. glad you could join us. 2 days after the united states shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon bay ging has accused washington of damaging efforts to stabilize us. china ties, vice foreign minister ship fung also accused the us of cold, indiscriminate use of force. so to down the program, we're looking to answer 2 questions arising out of all this. firstly, what next for bilateral ties between the 2 powers? and 2nd, how is china reacting to increased us and western engagement in asia? an area beijing considers its own backyard. we'll get to those questions in a minute, but before that, this is what the reaction in china has been to the shooting down of the balloon to you may graduate. i think this is a bit of an embarrassing moment for the americans a meal because the u. s air forc

you a secretary of state antony blinking has wrapped up his visit to israel and the palestinian territories. after talks in jerusalem on monday, he met with palestinian president mac mood of boss in ramallah on tuesday. that came and meet a spike in violence between israelis and palestinians. lincoln expressed his condolences for the court innocent palestinian civilians who lost their lives over the last year, and he urged abbas to de escalate tensions. he also reiterated washington support for a 2 state solution, albeit without proposing any new initiatives. during his short press briefing in ramallah, blinking went on to say this, it's also important to continue describe not only reducing violence but ensuring that ultimately the israelis and how seems likely enjoy the same right. the same opportunities what we're, what we're seeing now, palestinians is a shrinking rise and not expanding one. and that to we believe needs to change and new blinking will earlier we asked sammy, so call who was a journalist based in jerusalem about his take on blink. and visit in israel and the palestinian t

s. secretary of state antony blinking, canceled his visit to beijing. he was supposed to be there right now, and he signs that the chinese government is eager to reschedule that meeting. yet very interestingly, i just went blank and canceled the visit. the foreign ministry he in beijing has issued a statement saying that there was, quote, unquote never an officially planned visit. that is really very odd to say. and it shows you how complicated things and especially by the rhetoric on the one hand, yes, the chinese have an incentive that are coming communication channels with the u. s . stay open and also that this visit will indeed happen. or mostly also because they don't want to prevent the plant in or an export controls by the u. s. they want intact trade relations with the u. s. et cetera. and they want to de escalate things. but on the other hand, the rhetoric here from beijing is, you know, very strong, it's very confrontational, i would say. and it doesn't really, you know, facilitate things when you want to have constructive talks for a future

balloon of its territorial waters. bloom triggered a diplomatic storm that kept the secretary of state antony blinking from visiting china. if it's on now on the way to collect the debris, and that is a nice round up for now. i'm next on the channel sports. life follows the progress of a spaniard preparing to scout african 2nd highest peak. that's despite having boss is something that you for that's coming up after a short break. remember, you can always get news 247 on our website that we found a d, w dot com and on social media on twitter. instagram a handle is at the w news. i'm anthony howdy and so then for me and the team here, thanks for your company. and what if you're watching have a good day. ah yes, that is still muted. total austin, you month right? year the end of a superpower, the collapse of the soviet union.

s. secretary of state antony blinking to to visit next week cuz you got one person. so what do these balloons do? i asked in chung who is international relations and security expert at the n u. s. national university of singapore does how much detail on this particular person use, high altitude balloons in general, have a range of functions they can do anything from imaging, to collecting samples from, of the air to you know, trying to collect signals intelligence. but in this particular case, that's not much enough information for us to know what this particular person does . and this is the 1st time that something like this has happened. so according to the u. s. statements that, that it seems to 60 some suggestion that similar kinds of activity have happened before. busy was just that this the 1st time they have made it public, but whether that is really the case, the so much secrecy surrounding this whole situation, we don't really know for certain. so how does that, how do you expect this to play out from here? do you expect the u. s. to react to in some way or

and secretary of state antony blinking in his press conference on friday said this was the number one mission to know what exactly the contents of that balloon are, are and, and to carry out an analysis on what exactly is in this balloon in that payload, as i mentioned the pentagon i should add, had been saying for a few days that they didn't believe that there's balloon had as much capability counter intelligence capability as for example, a satellite. so it wasn't seen as, as great a threat as a more high tech surveillance device. but again, there is a lot of value according to the pentagon of recovering the contents of this balloon and analyzing it. and now looking at the diplomatic relations between the united states in china with the sleeve. thanks. well, this is a huge diplomatic confrontation, and that's what it's being called here. certainly note the fact that secretary of state aren't any blinking at to cancel this trip. this was a trip the state department released in a statement yesterday that was rigorously planned. there was a lot of importance placed on this trip because

most of them reported to be government on a visit to israel, us secretary of state antony, blinking called on both sides to calm tensions and set a 2 state solution was the only way to end but conflict. my guess this week is the head of the palestinian mission to the u. k. or some sub lot. does he believe that's possible? we see no approach to achieve that, but does the palestinian leadership have the authority among its own people to negotiate with israel and unite the different factions? why the never ending allegations of brutality and corruption it's rags? isn't it time for a new leader who cannot the trust of his people and the outside world for sums up law? welcome to public zone. thank you. where is all this violence leading? all this violence is absolutely leading to one fact that until a new palestinian generation is born free of occupation in colonization. and the part time no matter how more is really brutal, it will be more brutality, more pressure, no matter international complicity. nothing will change until that is achieved. what can stop it this violent killing? now this cu

on sunday, you a secretary of state antony blinking, visited some of the areas affected by earthquakes in turkey. he promised that washington would provide long term help to the country. the state department has announced an additional $100000000.00 and $8.00 for turkey. we are working in very close collaboration with our turkish colleagues. goes to understand all of the needs and to find ways to deliver on this could not be done without the extraordinary working collaboration of so many parts of the u. s. government that starting with the united states military, which we've always jumped in in a remarkable way. 2 weeks after a train accident in the us state of ohio, st. toxic gas into the air residents, they're say they still don't know if they're safe. the train was carrying hazardous chemicals when it came off the tracks. in the small town of east palestine. authorities set off a controlled explosion to prevent a bigger disaster. one might how safe we'd have to uh, proper tennessee. if you need help, we do. we need if we be president the idaho we need fema housey. people were gettin

cover. lou. lou, you're watching out, is there a mind if i top stories vis our the secretary of state antony blink and says the u . s. oppose is anything that puts in his riley palestinian to state solution further out of reach. he's concluded his trip to the region off to holding talks with palestinian president mahmoud abbas dust all from a suicide bombing and a mosque in the north western pock sony city of shala has risen to a 100 attack. happen inside what was thought to be highly secure. police compound on wednesday marks 2 years and some medicare in myanmar purchase is being held outside the embassy of man. mom, i'm call you looking at live pictures that human rights organizations say, nearly 3000 people have been killed by the military since it took over power. the family of tyra nichols who was killed at the hands of u. s. police have gathered at the historic mason temple in memphis on the eve of his funeral, have been joined by community and religious leaders, all calling for police reform. 5 police officers have been fired and charged with 2nd degree murder. the encounter with tyree nich

s. secretary of state antony blinking postponed a planned visit to china. the balloon was 1st detected over the state of montana which houses some 150 intercontinental ballistic missile silos. pentagon officials have clearly identified the airship as intelligence gathering balloon china claims the balloon is for civilian purposes, a weather balloon essentially, and says it regrets it accidentally sailed into you as airspace. and the u. s. military is of course closely monitoring the situation here is pentagon spokesman general patrick ryder. this is a surveillance balloon. hover, you know, operating at about 60000 feet. and clearly, you know, we did a very close assessment in terms of what it's doing. and as i mentioned, military commanders have assessed that there is no physical or military threat to people on the ground floor. let's bring in bonnie glazer a. she's the director of gauge up program at the german marshall fund of the united states and she joins us from washington. d. c. welcome to the dates. good. see you . it is the decision to postpone this

stance towards russia would create the conditions for the pact to fully function. secretary of state antony blink and criticize the russia move, calling it deeply, unfortunate and irresponsible. russia also states, it still intends to follow the timeline on weapons reductions set out in the agreement. but the checks on stockpiles would not be allowed when you start is the last remaining nuclear limitation pads between moscow and washington. the deal was signed in 2010 and is set to expire in 3 years. the treaty, curb strategic arsenals, capping nuclear assets at fixed quantities. it also includes on site inspections, to verify compliance or junk of ali. political analyst and seni, editor for issue insights, says it's clear why moscow decided to suspend his participation in the treaty. it's not a surprise that the government of the russian federation would suspend and it was important that he used the word suspend. he didn't use the word abrogate, remove the ring, renounce it makes sense, you know, from, from his perspective. but the russian federation is not just to war, but with ukraine. it's at

we start in southern turkey, or where you are, secretary of state antony blinking, is storing some of the worst hit areas nearly 2 weeks on from the quakes that devastated the region. more than 46000 people have died. he's visiting an area that's been badly affected. the turkish government says at least 84000 buildings and more than 332000 houses have either been destroyed or to damage to be used. now the visit comes just as the turkish emergency services agency has called for an end to the search and rescue efforts. for those who survived these, jason is extremely difficult. the un estimates more than 5000000 people in syria alone have been made homeless by the quakes. there are no official numbers for to kia, but the affected area has a population of about 14000000. we are working in very close collaboration with our colleagues both to understand all of the needs and to find ways to us lavonne this could not be done without the extraordinary working collaboration of so many part for us government that starting with the united states military, which is always on jumped in in a remark

s. secretary of state antony blinking. that he feared china might be about to start sending weapons to russia. the massy cheese, dont do it because everything comes like the, the letting further weapons for destruction of civilian targets, assuming an infrastructure killing civilian people who keith's children. a sam escalating traditional warning claim. there were those who expected the west will not, not to be united to when it came to russia's attack on ukraine and we were united. so there is a lesson in that. so i would, i would think that drawing from his lesson and them like there would be enough arguments for china not to assist her russia in it's i called genocidal war in ukraine. the u foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, told me if china supplies russia with weapons, it will cross a red line. but he said it a weekend meeting in munich, his chinese counterpart had assured him it wouldn't happen. he told me that they're not going to do it. they don't plan to do it, but will remain vigilant. e ministers are also we

s. secretary of state antony blinking postponed a planned visit to china. the balloon was 1st detected over the state of montana which houses some 150 intercontinental ballistic missile silos. pentagon officials have clearly identified the airship as an intelligence gathering balloon china claims the balloon is for civilian purposes, a weather balloon essentially and says it regrets it accidentally sailed into u. s. aerospace and the u. s. military is of course closely monitoring the situation here is pentagon spokesman general patrick ryder. this is a surveillance balloon. i hover, you know, operating at about 60000 feet. and clearly, you know, we did a very close assessment in terms of what it's doing. and as i mentioned, military commanders have assessed that there is no physical or military threat to people on the ground floor. let's bring in bonnie glazer a. she's the director of gauge a program at the german marshall fund in the united states, and she joins us from washington. d. c. welcome to the dates. could see you. it is the decision to postpone th

this is the 1st official visit by us secretary of state antony blinking to took here since he took office 2 years ago. he arrived here on sunday nearly 2 weeks after devastating earthquakes shook southern true care and northern syria. blink him says, washington is ready to help on credit for as long as it takes stressing the fact rebuilding in this region will require a lot of time and effort. nato's expansion is also on the agenda. on sweden have already taken concrete steps to fulfill the commitments they made under the trilateral memorandum of agreement that they signed with turkey on the margin of the nato summit in madrid. we welcome and appreciate those steps. i think they're quite significant. the u. s. center kit don't agree on ever issue. while giving a green light for finland to join nato on current beliefs suite a need to do more to kids. their defense capability is another issue for the nato allies to discuss, especially after on car a purchase. what a massage systems in 2019 f, one out to probably be a good is on doing that. we're going we discussed the latest situation regar

s. secretary of state antony blink and postponed his trip to china. what's at stake for washington and beijing and white on to the point we ask us china rivalry. what's behind the growing tensions with welcome to this week's to the point in time, how you know? yes, it's good to have you with us. let's now meet today's guests melina hanker professor of international relations at the hattie school. jensen, a freelance journalist based here in berlin, working for several chinese and german media outlets and tossed and bennett, director of the global public policy institute, g, p, p i t. all 3 of you welcome. thank you for being with us. and of course we have to start talking about this very visual, very iconic balloon. we've seen it everywhere. it has been marked in china. certainly has tried to play it down and to certainly act as if this was not really that big a deal. so i'd like to start with you 10. how big a deal is it really? i think term is how chill really sees. so this black box of her chinese leaders serving a one way to look at this really to

s. secretary of state antony blinking a to begging and that was supposed to occur this sunday. all right, we really appreciate the update. we'll leave it there. katrina, you live for us in by g. let's take a closer look now at where that balloon has been spotted. it was 1st officially cited over the aleutian islands in the u. s. state of alaska. american and canadian officials say it then flew through canada and back into the u. s. s base where it was again, spotted over the city of feelings in montana. malcolm davis is a senior analyst with the strolling strategic policy institute. earlier i asked him how we know it's a chinese surveillance balloon. it's fairly obvious that the u. s. tractors, just because we're seeing social media images of at the moment doesn't mean that the north american air defense command, nora didn't track it. coming over the aleutians, we have a good track of it and also would make very little sense or the chinese to fly a balloon carrying scientific will meet your logical instrumentation over us icbm fields. so i think all the evidence suggests that t

this is the w news, and these are our top stores. us secretary of state antony blinking has abruptly canceled a diplomatic visit to buy ging barbara china is balloon that the pentagon says is spying on america. china says it regrets that.

your section of state antony blinking has condemned china for sending what the pentagon calls a surveillance balloon over american soil paging as urgent. calm as the giant balloon float over the united states. at least 13 palestinians had been injured in a raid on the act up to about refugee camp in the occupied westbank. israeli forces arrested several people in connection with the shooting as an illegal israeli settlements. an arctic blast has hit parts of the united states and canada with fierce winds, pushing temperatures down into negative double digits. authorities in new york and new england issued warnings on friday as the wind chill reach, minus 75 degrees celsius. at the summit of mount washington schools have closed in some areas for fear of hypothermia and frost bite covers under reports from boston . it's the coldest morning in this city since 1957. and let me tell you, boston is used to cold winters. that's nothing new to them, but this is certainly not normal. given that this we haven't seen these kind of temperatures here for so long right now in boston, it's negative 23 degr

s. secretary of state antony blinking, has abruptly cancelled a diplomatic visit to beijing. china is balloon that the pentagon says is spying on america. china says it regrets that a high altitude balloon strike.

being used to spy in response and cancel the plan visit by beijing ink to beijing by sector state antony blinking . china maintains that it's a civilian weather balloon that was blown off course. the pentagon says a 2nd balloon has not been spotted overland. america will get to our guests in a moment's 1st. this update for my white house correspondent. kimberly hawkins. the sing is up in the sky. china surveillance balloon is triggering a diplomatic rao that has prompted us secretary of state antelope blinkin to postpone his weekend trip to beijing, is an irresponsible act. and that the p r c. decision to take the section on the if my plan visit is detrimental to the subset of discussions that we were prepared to have. the u. s. is accusing china, a violating international law. the balloon is still hovering over the skies of the united states. it was 1st tracked over the aleutian islands near alaska and travelled through western canada and into the u. s. state of montana where it was spotted near a military installation home to some of america's nuclear missiles. i have no idea the thing that see

it's also that the secretary of state antony, blinking, calling off his visit to china. what mixed in the bilateral relationship i'd be asking an expert.

s. secretary of state antony blinking. that he feared china might be about to start sending weapons to russia. massey cheese, dont do it because everything comes like the, the letting further weapons for destruction of civilian targets as having an infrastructure killing civilian people. keith's children is sam escalating traditional warning claim. there were those who expected, the west will not, not to be united when it came to russia's attack on your crime or we were united. so there is a lesson in that. so i would, i would think that drawing from his lesson of them there, there would be enough arguments for china not to assist her russia in it's i call genocidal war in ukraine. the u foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, told me if china supplies russia with weapons, it will cross a red line. but he said it a weekend meeting in munich, his chinese counterpart had assured him it wouldn't happen. he told me that they're not going to do it. they don't plan to lose it, but will remain vigilant. you ministers are also well

he also thought his announce they'll provide an additional $100000000.00 in aid secretary of state antony blink, and visited some of the quake affected areas. on sunday, we are working in very close collaboration with our colleagues both to understand all of the needs and to find ways to live on this could not be done without the extraordinary working collaboration of so many parts of the u. s. government that starting with the united states military, which is always counted in the remarkable way. moscow says its forces are making gains in eastern ukraine. it says troops have taken control of a village near the city of hark. eve, russian forces have been advancing in the area since key reclaimed control of the city in september. french troops are leaving burkina faso marking the end of their military presence in the country. and january, france was given a one month deadline to withdraw from the west african nation as relations deteriorated. french forces had been stationed that to help with the fight against al qaeda linked groups. at least 36 people had been killed in flooding and landslides

s. secretary of state antony blinking. the 10th encounter ended in a stern warning from washington against providing legal aid for russia's invasion of ukraine. paintings, no limits. partnership with moscow has damaged its reputation largely in the west. but chinese officials said they're working to mediate the conflict and promote peace. the united states and its allies aren't convinced, but analysts say other countries might be, it understands that it's reputation will be deeply damaged in the united states in canada, erasure, western european countries and in places like japan, australia. but the bulk of the developing world, for example, has a relatively ambivalent attitude towards russia's invasion of ukraine. in jakarta, chinese foreign minister chin gung, met his indonesian counterpart, but no, ma, sooty, the, to discuss strengthening trade and maintaining regional stability. what jim, jim new coat, wal competitiveness of great powers should not appear in the asia pacific region. and in tokyo, chinese and japanese s

to discuss the situation in ukraine with the year, a secretary of state antony blinking. rosalind jordan is in washington dc life rosalyn rosalyn. oh, i can see quite a lot of ground has been covered in these talks 40 by the leaders have to say well, essentially the of main focus of the meeting was of course, on the war in ukraine. and what we heard from young sultan burg, these nato secretary general, was an appeal for all countries that care about democracy and freedom and self determination to continue their support for the government in ukraine to ensure that ukraine does not to lose control of its territory. to russia, this is a perhaps in response to some concerns that there might be some growing fatigue in terms of supporting ukraine in its war against russia. for the secretary of part of the secretary of state's part, i should say of there. yeah. question of, of the u. k. suggesting that it's going to make of military training available to ukrainian pilots was met with the response of the u. s. is doing all that it thinks is necessary for ukraine to defend itself from bratia. but

gary hart from both of bloomberg and from reuters news agency as well that the secretary of state antony blinking might have postponed his trip. now there has been no confirmation yet from neither the state department nor the white house. and we do have to wait from that confirmation, but these reports are coming in that this trip has been postponed. it is important to know it was always a planned visit. it had never officially been confirmed by either side. so could be that we don't get a confirmation either way, right away. but, you know, it was always going to be a very difficult and tricky visit with so many areas of contention between the us and china. as you know, gearhart know they were at odds over in the south china sea, hong kong human rights violations in the ocean. jang region, taiwan, of course. and then there is a warn ukraine where the u. s. wants to see china take a bigger role. so it appears that with all of that on the table, this incident might have been seen as 2 significant for antony blanket to go ahead with this trip. again, these are initial reports and we have to wait to