washington is what he told us about anthony blinking postponing his plan trip to china. secretary of state blank and will not be going on this plan trip to china because the state departments, as it was determined that the conditions were not right, that a trip to china would not be constructive in this environment after this incident and would have narrowed the agenda that secretary of state antony blinking could have addressed the lines of communication. do remain open to china according to the state department and a trip for emily blink and could take place again once the conditions are right again, but this is being taken very seriously in the us. the pentagon is saying that this is a spy balloon that violated us sovereignty and airspace, and that, that is not acceptable as for the balloon, it remains in us airspace. and there was growing pressure on president biden to do something that would include the shooting down of the balloon. the decision was made against shooting down the balloon previously because it was floating over a heavily populated area of montana. but that doesn't mean that

with you today, during his visit israel and the occupied west bank last month, us secretary of state blank and discuss the importance of a 2 state solution with top israeli and palestinian officials. of course this is nothing new. we hear this rhetoric from us administrations all the time. many analysts have said that the bible ministration doesn't really want to engage in this conflict any longer. what would the us have to do in order to actually move the needle on this front? well, the us obviously does want to gauge with this conflict. so secretary lincoln's visit was one along with it in the same week of national security advisor, a director bill burns. so i would start by taking strong issue with the idea by ministration given up on conflict or for some reason doesn't want to do that anymore. the 2nd point to answer your question more directly with us would have to do, i think, is to continue to work with both sides with all sides actually including outside air partners, to diffuse tensions, rather than aggravate actions that any side will take, including incendiary rhetoric, or attem

regrets the balloon accidentally sailed into you as airspace a moments ago, you as secretary of state antony blank and spoke about his decision to not go ahead with a visit to china yesterday, the department of defense announced that we had detected and were 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 channels about this issue, members of my team consulted with our partners in other agencies and in congress. we also engaged our close allies and partners to inform them of the presence of the surveillance balloon and our aerospace we concluded that conditions were not conducive for a constructive visit at this time and did away respond. and so mason was kind of following the story and washington here is what she told me about antony blank and po

anthony had walked into the program, us secretary of state antony blank and has warned that china may soon provide lethal assistance in the form of weapons and ammunition to russia's war in ukraine badging his last out of what it calls false claims by the united states. lincoln issued the warning on a u. s. talk so. blitz after meeting with his counterpart when ye at the munich security conference. and again, while on a visit to nato, a member turkey. we are concerned that china is considering us of supporting russia's war effort in ukraine with lethal assistance. something that we're watching very, very close. so i also said, and as president biden said, going back many months when the aggression 1st took place and he spoke to president, she should thing he told him at that point that there would be real consequences in our own relationship. we're trying to provide legal assistance to russia in this aggression against ukraine or in a systematic way, 8 and the evasion of sanctioning. joining me now is director of is a, is china institute at the university of london state saying, welco

balloon overt latin america a day after another such object was spotted over montana secretary of state antony blank and has pope postponed a visit to beijing over the incident, china says it's an off horse, whether that's your news roundup next doctrine film with a look at how civil war has torn apart libya from omni spicer for me, and the entire news team here in berlin likes to watch leonardo da vinci's mysterious masterpiece. this perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece to the collection of the louvre. it is the virgin of the rocks. was there another symbolic meaning to this beautiful painting that.

ah, this is al jazeera, these, your top story, secretary of state antony blank, and says that the u. s. oppose is anything that puts an israeli palestinian to states the nation further as a breach. he's concluded his trip to the region after holding talks for the palestinian president magnate, abbas a debt told from a suicide bombing at a mosque in the north western pakistani city of the shower has risen to a 100 attack. happen inside what was thought to be a highly secure police. compound. wednesday monks 2 years since military coup in myanmar human rights organizations a nearly 3000 people been killed off military since it took power. agenda is planning to hold elections in august of this year. last week they announced a new election no which race far the questions about fantasy. the process attorney chang has moved their mandate for emergency room has actually run out today. we think they're going to try to extend those emergency pals. but under the 2008 constitutions that they wrote, they shouldn't really be allowed to. that said, they do have no control over the complete control

you are a secretary of state anthony blank and spoke earlier about this decision not to go any planned visit to china. yesterday the department of defense 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 channels about this issue. members of my team consulted with our partners and other agencies and in congress. we also engaged our close allies in partners to inform them of the presence of the surveillance balloon and art aerospace. we concluded that conditions were not conducive for constructive visit. at this time. the more on this up, mary gallagher, a china expert and professor in democracy. democratization and human rights at the university of michigan told us what the diplomatic impact of lin

remember that a secretary of state antony blank, and when he was asked about this incident while he was speaking to press yesterday, he said our primary objective is to get this balloon down and recover its contents . and that is precisely what's happening. i'm seeing that recovery efforts are underway, the white house at this point, not saying any more about how those effort recovery efforts are taking place. what exactly they expect to recover. but a lot of lawmakers here in washington have pointed out that they believe this would be an important ability for the us to find out more about chinese intelligence efforts by recovering the contents of the school in short. so well, you know, it's still unclear what evidence the pentagon is going to gather from getting hold of the debris from this balloon. just bring us up to speed on to the issues that led up to this point, which is u. s. secretary of state anthony, blinking delight, delaying his visit to china. what will this now mean for us china relations? well, i can tell you if that has been a very difficult time for us china relations,

s. secretary of state antony blank and visited some of the areas affected by earthquakes in turkey, the state department has announced an additional $100000000.00 and $8.00 for turkey . we are working very close collaboration with our turkish colleagues both to understand all of the needs and to find ways to do it wrong. this could not be done without the extraordinary working collaboration of so many parts for u. s. government that starting with the united states military, which is always some, jumped in a remarkable way. moscow says it's forces are making gains in the harkey region. it says russian troops have taken control of a village near the city of harkey. those of the headlines, the news continues here on al jazeera after upfront. thanks for watching then to 3000000 nigeria of registered to vote in the 2023 general reelections 10 to 30000000 more than the entire vote and population in the rest of west africa. the vote to say they care about the economy. insecurity, unemployment, and is it will bring you comprehensive coverage of this election. the candidates and the issues 2022

are current top stories on al jazeera who are secretary of state antony blank, and has postponed a rare trip to beijing over what the state department described as a clear violation of sovereign territory. the pentagon has rejected claims, a chinese berlin that's moving across the central united states as civilian and not being used for surveillance. officials say the balloon had been seen over the state of montana on thursday, where there are about a 150 intercontinental ballistic missile silos. us describe the craft as a surveillance satellite. first of all, we are aware of the p r. she's statement. i'm however, the fact is, we know that it's a surveillance balloon, and i'm not gonna be able to be more specific than that. we do know that the balloon has violated us airspace and international law, which is unacceptable. and so we've conveyed this directly to the p r c at multiple levels. and in terms of specific locations, i'm not going to be able to go into specific locations. again, other than to say it's moving eastward at this time. why has corresponding kimberly how kit has more?

another balloon was seen floating above the us state of montana. us secretary of state antony blank and has postponed.

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s. secretary of state and the blank in house loan about the at craig is us does own in south in tacky. he sold and talks on how washington can best help with that reconstruction operation. more than 46000 people have been killed in the air, quakes that hit tag in syria 2 weeks ago. i least 11 people are known to have been killed in a storm was had newsy lands north island, several 1000 others oven displeased from their homes. cycle and gabriel inflicted widespread damage on towns and cities. when it struck a week ago, ah, sigh 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 to the ceiling to 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 farmer's property which is now covered in mud palm. it is a clear for crop it is it's got wet through, the flood is no longer able to be explored so we can act as strip the full scale of the damage is still emerging. many areas remain hard to access after raging flood water

s. secretary of state antony blank and has postponed, a planned, visited china following the discovery. the balloon was 1st detected over the state of montana which houses so $150.00 intercontinental ballistic missile silos. pentagon officials have described the airship as an intelligent gathering balloon. china claims the balloon is for civilian purposes and says it regrets the balloon accidentally sailed into u. s. air space. and for more on this, let's go to washington worthy w correspondence to me. so misconduct standing by and following all of this of course very closely. so me a tell us more about at antony blanket decision to postpone his plan trip to china for this. right, so the state department has now confirmed that the secretary of state will not be going on this plan trip to china because of this incident, he was actually supposed to leave on friday night for what was being called an important trip. and those plans were scrapped and the state department official said friday that there were consultations with other agencies with congress. and they came to the conclusion tha

early next week he was secretary of state anthony blank, and his praise copper efforts and providing relief. he met the country, foreign minister mohammed, and deputy prime minister bahamas, been at the ram on our dining washington cutters, an important partner. and when it comes to diplomatic efforts to solve challenges from lebanon to libya, to israel natal saying territories and other parts of the region. and i would just note to day, among so many other things, cutters, incredible generosity. when it comes to trying to help those suffering terribly in turkey and more than syria from the devastating earthquake. it's an excellent example of how cut are constantly steps up when it comes to meeting some of the most urgent challenges we face. the us military has shot down a 2nd unauthorized high altitude object found in this space on friday military officials. so the object was down to the alaska and recovery efforts are underway. high does jo, castro reports public details about what u. s. officials described as the object discovered over north eastern alaska remains sparse. the pent

bits farewell to an icon with the last delivery of its 747 jumbo, jeez ah, us secretary of state antony blank and has warned israel and palestine that the u. s. opposed as anything that puts the 2 state solution further out of ridge. but he stopped short of making any concrete pledges. lincoln has now concluded his trip to the region after holding talks with palestinian president mac mood, abbas he says, some members of his team will stay on to help defuse current tensions amid the worst violence seen in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem. and years. bernard smith reports from ramallah in his meeting with the palestinian president, the u. s. secretary of state sticks with the line that washington remains committed to a palestinian state alongside israel. but antony blinkin knows its a diminishing prospect. we have been clear and consistent. neither side should take any, you know, our actions that right now potentially would, would add fuel to a fire and over them a medium to long term ah, would make out the prospects of achieving to state even more distant than, than they currently are

you as secretary of state anthony blank, and he said to make a re, a visit to china. and a few days, responding to the incident, beijing warned against speculation are going to go through china as a responsible country and has always strictly abided by international laws. and china has no intention to violate the territory and ass space of any sovereign countries. as for the balloon, were looking into and verifying the situation and hoped that both sites can handle this together calmly and carefully. meanwhile, canada says it is also tracking the balloon and monitoring what he calls a potential 2nd incident. and have some more news headlines for you. as trillion tennis player nick curious has pleaded guilty to assaulting his ex girlfriend. but he won't face a criminal conviction off recording. cambro dismissed the charges, he admitted pushing over his ex girlfriend. you are an argument in 2021, for the judge said it wasn't for mediated and that the risk of re offending was low . yeah, these are for 7 fishing nets, plastic bags, tramps, floats, and other debris have be

and among those also in attendance will be us secretary of state anthony blank and the case james cleverly and china is expected to send in foreign minister can gang our t correspondent room june sharma has been looking at what's expected from the upcoming high profile catherine the russian foreign minister will arrive in new delhi for a 3 day, was it to within the g 24 minutes to meet. now love rob's with india is extremely significant in the backdrop of growing bilateral dies between the 2 countries. as western sanctions against russia have meant that by default, corporation between the 2 countries has accelerated, our relationship with russia, i think, has been extraordinarily steady. it has been studied through all the tub, luncheon and global politics. so as i said, again, you know, the opposition, perhaps it's their job to criticize, it would be nice if they do it with a little bit more information and i could issue in the us, russian, all import search to a record in january in moscow ruins of talk oil supplier to new delhi, but it's not just energy. other sectors as well. for examp

will you a secretary of state antony blank? n is warning that china may soon provide russia with lethal assistance in the form of weapons and ammunition for its war in ukraine. for its part, beijing has lashed out of what it calls false claims by the u. s. lincoln's warning came after meeting with his chinese counterpart wang, he at the munich security conference. and again, while on a visit to nita member turkey, we are concerned that china is considering us of supporting russia's war effort in ukraine with lethal assistance. something that we're watching a very, very close, as i also said, and as president biden said, going back many months when the aggression 1st took place. and he spoke to president a, she's in thing. and he told him at that point that um, there would be real consequences in our own relationship were china to provide legal assistance to russia in this aggression against ukraine or in a systematic way. 8 and the evasion of sanctions. i spoke a short time ago with z w, brussels correspondent, rosie beer chart

the incident prompted secretary state anthony blank into postponed a plan trip to china. protests have been taking place across iraq after a young video blogger was killed by her father. they demanding tough laws to protect women. 22 year old too, but i had left her family home after accusing a brother of sexual assault. her father admitted to strangling on tuesday. iran supreme. nita, i tele allie home, and i is pardon tens of thousands of prisoners, according to state tv, called and include some people who are arrested during recent antique government protest activists say 20000 people have been detained since september. widespread demonstrations followed the death in police custody of 22. her old math, i'm meaning rights group say more than $500.00 people have been killed in the crackdown witness now continues, but will bring you more on all of those stories in the news out that's coming up at 2100. empty. and just about half an hour from now ah, who's a back and i would be a little boy. you know that i had a mad like a bad but yeah, if i can, i will. i mean, normally look, you know

he is america, a secretary of state anthony blank, and he's visiting kazakhstan today as part of a c 5 plus one group that has exxon kits. don dykus don took my test on and was back his don. apparently he's a discussing regional security right along russia's board. read more about that at r t dot com. i mean time with ah, ah ah ah, ah, ah ah, the 2nd will i think 2 millions of people during the conflict the balance of power was held by the leaders of 3 nations.

yes, secretary of state anthony blank and is set to make a re, a visit to china and a few days. responding to the incident, beijing warrant against speculation to china is a responsible country and has always strictly abided by international laws and can, has no intention to violate the territory and aspects of any sovereign countries. as for the balloon, were looking into and verifying the situation. and help that both sides can handle this together, calmly and carefully. meanwhile, canada says it is also tracking the balloon and monitoring what it calls a potential 2nd incident. for more information about the balloon i spoke with in chung international relations and security expert at the end you west national university and singapore. so we don't have many details from the address department . what we do know that is that it's flying in the stratosphere, which is above commercial traffic. and the size is supposed to be something around 3 buses. but i mean, those details are scant. we don't even know what kind of surveillance it does. these sorts of balloons can do anything from imagery

communications. follow the statement. senior chinese, my one, he held a phone call with us secretary of state asking blanking on friday evening. and one asked us to deal with the incident and com and re screen matter. however, instead us come for a fighter jet with complete to shoot down the balloon over us territory was on saturday. now the thing has launched serious protests against what he called an over reaction by the us, the chinese, for a new the she had expressed strong dissatisfaction and protest over the use of, by force by us. while chinese defense ministry set it reserves the right to use necessary means to resolve such a similar situations. how do you think this incident will affect be already tense relations between china and the united states? well, it's hard to say it's moment judging from babies. statements trying to not taking the issue lightly, but what actions it may take and how they could effect bilateral relations remains to be seen. chinese president, she can king and he's us counterpart beach confirms is doing their meeting in indonesia last year to agreed that the 2 sides ships sold

you a secretary of state antony blank and visited some of the affected areas in turkey . on sunday, he promised that washington would provide long term help to the country. there's been extensive damage to turkey is cultural heritage. people in the ancient city of on takyo are vowing to rebuild. many religious buildings were destroyed as natasha, her name reports. it's the 2nd sunday since the earthquake. the antonia protestant church is resuming services. but the pastor now balances the top. what used to be the wrought iron gate pon about with bible in hand. we walk 5 minutes a log deserted street to find the greek orthodox church. we stop a rare passer by to ask where it's gone. and the b b i'll news are mosque believe to be built in the 7th century, was one of the oldest in the country. now in ruins. on takia, known as antioch in ancient times was one of the biggest jewels of the roman empire in modern her kiya. it's a city, celebrated for its diversity. were there because of this, there is brotherhood here, not discrimination. we all live together. here are churches h

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so secretary of state, lincoln antony blank and he already had a list of really thorny issues to address on this trip from the south china sea to the warn ukraine to wanting china to take a bigger role in deterring russia. and of course taiwan as well. things were already very tense and the fact that a secretary of state blanket had to cancel that trip is one that just indicates how serious things are, are he would have been the highest ranking member of the biden administration to visit china. so this is something that is being seen as a lost opportunity. the lines of communication i should say, between the us and china are still open. that's what the state department said, and they will plan a trip for the secretary of state when the conditions are deemed right. but there's no indication anthony, when that might, might be delivered to me from a scandal in washington dc. thanks so much. a brief look now at some of the other stories making news around the world and george's imprison the former president me here. second billy says he's being poisoned in jail. he's asked the court to let h

s. secretary of state, antonia blank into turkey since he took office 2 years ago. he arrived here on sunday nearly 2 weeks after devastating earthquakes shook southern trickier and northern syria. blink and says, washington is ready to help on cobra 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. finland, sweden have already taken concrete steps to fulfill the commitments they made under the trilateral memorandum of agreement that they signed with tricky on the margins of the nato summit. 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 cap ability is another issue for the nato allies to discuss. especially after anchored a purchase was a massage systems in 2019. if one of the problem is that you get this on doing that again, we discuss the latest situation regarding our f

already we know in light of the downing of the spy balloon, that the secretary of state antony blank and canceled his plan trip to china to send a message that this was a violation of u. s. sovereignty. now the u. s. president going a step further saying, once again, we want to compete with china. we do not want there to be any confrontation, but the u. s. will not tolerate any further sort of infringement on u. s. a sovereignty such as the chinese spy balloon incident air. once again, the future and so that was the other clear message sent by joe biden. all right, well thank you very much. kimberly hawk, it will bring you more on the us quite last week and that is asked has affected an area almost the size of percent. millions of people have been displaced, thousands anality in camps completely dependent on aid. i said, beg, visits, had one camp and the southern tucker city of a demon. oh, me, a moment of happiness and play amid the destruction they've written with these children now live in the captain of the yeoman in southeastern tortilla, and not being helped by volunteers. we c

it said several states causing blank counts and school closures more than $55000000.00 people around the extreme with a warnings. at least 4 people have died and 49 is still missing. after a coal mine collapse in northern china land slides struck the open pit mine on wednesday evening, varying people and equipment below around 900 rescue workers are at the size. finally, a heartwarming story from is quite ravaged to keep it after more than 2 weeks. another story of survival. on a boy in the city of d, a. beckett, 2 people were united with their pits. the cats were pulled from an apartment building that's being demolished. the return of beloved members of the family. 2 people have lost everything else. the news continues on al jazeera, after inside story. ah, ah, now harsh winter pissy blowing out even of the black sea is really in southern russia. you might get a little bit light ish, snow still in the final piece of turkey, but overnight temperatures. having written a bit up, trying to drop a leopard at about 3 degrees, which means someplace you'll see a ground for us. and certainly

surveillance balloon, then it will decide at what point perhaps later and 2023 when the secretary of state antony blank and can return to beijing, for those talks that i had been agreed upon by, she's been paying and joe biden at last year's conference in southeast asia was showing that a stair live from washington dc. well, thank you. ah, you officials have met in key for a highly symbolic summit. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski urged his western allies to supply his country with long range weapons. he also discussed with the blocks chief ukraine's e. u membership dash butler reports. now from the ukranian capital harry siren sounded in keys at the start of the you ukraine. summit a meeting as much about symbolism as talks you leaders side by side with ukraine's president in keith, a show of the block support for ukraine and a message to moscow that despite it, attempts, keeps looking west ukraine monster joined the you. it's candidacy was accepted last year and it won't succession negotiations to be fast tracked. but a you lead to say that fulfilling the many conditions required may take years

you a secretary of state antony blank and visited some of the affected areas in turkey . on sunday, he promised that washington would provide long term help to the country. we are working in very close collaboration with our colleagues both to understand all of the needs and to find ways to uh, deliver on this could not be done without the extraordinary working collaboration of so many parts for u. s. government that starting with the united states military, which is always jumped in in a remarkable way. nearly 4000000 syrians have fled to turkey, a since the civil war broke out in their home country 12 years ago. now the devastating earthquakes, inter kia, have killed thousands of them and displaced many more. brazil, sardar is at a camp and garcia to province, which is housing. many of these victims these tents city in his law here is no harm to hum brozowski or your families. if to some them is a mother of 4 who has to find a way to provide for her children. her mother who lived in his law, he as well died in the earthquakes. ah, did i go to her? had i could i have the

or you are secretary of state antony blank and will be arriving to engaging for very high level talks that the most important meeting we've had with us for official since the beginning of the pandemic. and this comes amid china having more of a conciliatory tone towards us. these talks are supposed to be a resetting of very tense time. so no doubt the discussion of this balloon is going to already add to this complicated list of disagreements that these 2 powers have already. okay, make sure you let us know when we hear an official statement from beijing. thank you very much. katrina, you there still in the u. s. and republicans in the house of representatives have voted to remove em. muslim congresswoman from the time is foreign relations committee. democrats, a ill hand or ma was targeted because of her identity. victoria guided me as the details and emotional debate. congresswoman ellen omar, a refugee from somalia. and one of the 1st muslim women in the us house of representatives voted off the foreign affairs committee. there is this idea that you are a suspect if you are an immi

but that may be about to change us secretary of state antony blank and says china may start providing lethal support, arms and ammunition to russia. and as the conflict drags on, china seems to have it sites on reshaping the global order. rushes, frontline and ukraine has advanced, retreated an inch forward since its invasion a year ago. but one thing has stayed constant. european hopes that russia's biggest ally could push it to end. the destruction would all be crude, he should get. that is important for us. i said, china does not choose russian side and withhold that we expect china to fully use its influence on russia to bring russia to respect international law. it was on the sooner shabby. i said to president she, that it's important for china to exert its influence on russia. china has often called for peace negotiations, da da, da honda. we have both talked about the current ukraine crisis and the 2 sides both hoped that this crisis can be ended as soon as possible. the situation can be eased and it really must not be escalated. but beijing looks reluctant to clip russian wing

when the secretary of state antony blank and can return to beijing for those talks that had been agreed upon by, she's been paying and joe biden at last year's conference in southeast asia. so for you officials of met in key for jaime symbolic summit, ukraine's president vladimir zalinski has urged the block to speed up its membership. but the e u was coding for more reforms. latasha bought a reports from keith. ah beret siren sounded in keys at the start of the you ukraine. summit a meeting as much about symbolism as talks you leader side by side with ukraine's president in keith. a show of the block support via crane and a message to moscow that despite its attempts, keith's looking west ukraine wants to join the you. it's candidacy was accepted last year and it won't succession negotiations to be fast tracked. but a you lead to say that fulfilling the many conditions required may take years if there are no rigid timelines. but their goal that you have to reach reforms, for example, to improve a situation in the canada country to then reach at the accession negotiations and the sessio

will secretary of state antony blank and cold off his planned weekend visits of china. just hours before he was due to leave and it's been described as a postponement, but no new date has yet been shared, chilled, and took an official set on thursday. the balloon had been seen over the state of montana where there are about a 150 intercontinental ballistic missile silos. the u. s. described the craft as a surveillance satellite, china, the or called at a civilian whether research satellite and insisted that had been blown off course and straight into u. s. territory with you. i said it noted the chinese explanation, but said conditions were not right for blinking to visit at this moment. first of all, we are aware of the p r c's statement on. however, the fact is, we know that it's a surveillance balloon, and i'm not gonna be able to be more specific than that. we do know that the balloon has violated us airspace and international law, which is unacceptable. and so we've conveyed this directly to the p r c at multiple levels. and in terms of specific locations, i'm not

s. secretary of state antony blank and visit to beijing next week. tensions have been rising on the status of taiwan and the theft of intellectual property. a pentagon official says, this isn't the 1st time china has launched a spy balloon. but this one has remained in american air space longer natasha name al jazeera and katrina you is in badging and has more on the impact to this balloon might have on bh lincoln's visit. chinese foreign ministry spokesperson was asked repeatedly as to what impact this might have on the visit. and she simply said again and again, they have no information, but it does look like it's going to be a very rocky start. the whole point of this visit, the highest ranking official to visit china since the beginning of the pandemic was to stabilize a, an already very tense relationship on the agenda was a major disagreements ranging from the status of taiwan clashes and potential close calls on the south china sea, as well as tech controls and poors by the u. s. on china. so this move is certainly only going to add to those tense discussions. and it comes under a t

s. secretary of state antony blank and was an explanation to the reporters in the ben franklin room as well as to the public watching those press conference world wide. why he is not traveling to bay jane this coming weekend at the request of the u. s. president joe biden, it's a because the biden administration has taken the position that the deployment of what it considers to be a chinese surveillance on aircraft is a violation of usaa air space, a violation of u. s. sovereignty. and thus it would be inappropriate for the usaa to send its top diplomat to beijing at that time. what tub lincoln told of those watching was that he had a conversation with his chinese counterpart, won ye on friday morning, explaining why he was a postponing the trip. and definitely officials have briefed reporters throughout the day. not just here at the stake department, but also at the white house, indicating that this is a situation where the usaa does not believe that the agenda that had been anticipated for discussion could be adequately addressed. that things would become very narrowly focused becaus

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ah, no us at state secretary antony blank and has counselled his upcoming trip to china . announcement comes after what the chinese say is a weather balloon was 1st spotted floating near the aleutian islands and then again seen hovering a nuclear sites in the u. s. the american state department is referred to. the incident is a violation of its sovereignty. we have noted the people's republic of china statement of regret, but the presence of this balloon in our air space is a clear violation of our sovereignty, as well as international law and isn't acceptable that this has occurred. the u. s . insists the aircraft is a surveillance balloon, despite china saying it's a weather device went straight off. course banking added that it regrets the unintended entry of its actual often so american as space. the airship is from china. it is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological purposes, affected by the western winds and with limited self steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course. the chinese side regrets the unintended entry of th

this is the 1st official visit by the secretary of state anthony blank and took it since he resumed office 2 years ago. the main mission of the visit is to show united states solidarity and support to its long standing nature. l i took here after a devastating earthquake hits to kiss southern provinces and syria on february 6th until the lincoln placed a $100000000.00 of an extra military assistance. and he said his country will continue to work with international community to help the people to fear and syria and his comfort firmly along with them. at this visit is not only important because of its military assistance side, but also to mastic side. as i'm sort of lincoln will be meeting with the circuit counterparts again on monday and to top will be delivering a joint press conference and he's also expected to meet with turkish president, legit type on. many topics will be on the table, including the natal membership application by sweden and finland will nearly $4000000.00 syrians of fled to turkey has since the civil war broke out in our country 12 years ago. now these devastating eart

the incident prompted secretary of state anthony blanking to postpone his visit to china. while the balloon was 1st spotted in fairbanks, alaska, on monday then on wednesday, was senior missoula, montana. a state that's home to an air force base where nuclear tip missiles a kept the chinese balloon, then floated over kansas city, missouri on friday by saturday morning. it was sighted of the skies of memphis, tennessee. it was finally shot down by us fight, a jazz off the coast of south carolina later on saturday. columbia's military now says that it seen a similar object over its territory. let's get more now from our pentagon correspondent party calhane in washington, and there was lots of criticism patty of president biden, for the way in which he handled this is actor. is that dying down our no, it is not dying down. it is probably just going to continue as we believe the entire u. s. senate is going to get a classified briefing on this as, as well as the gang of 8. those are the top intelligence members in the u. s. house of representatives, and the u. s. senate and the

little thanks for after your m. moscow bureau to, if you re rosetta and you are a secretary of state and to be blank and has finished his visit to israel and the palestinian territories. after talks in jerusalem on monday, he met with palestinian president mahmoud abbas in rama on tuesday, spiking violence between israelis and palestinians. mister blane can explain to sir condolences what he call the innocent palestinians evince who lost their lives over the last year. and he urged mister bass to de escalate tensions. and then we promised a know a new initiative. see, reiterated washington support for a 2 state solution. during a short press briefing in ramallah, the secretary of state went on to say this is. busy also important to continue to strive not only for reducing violence, but ensuring that ultimately the israeli house needs a life, enjoy the same rights, same opportunities. but what we're, what we're seeing now is a shrinking to rise in a whole, not expanding one. and that to we believe needs to change just from face to journalist assembly soccer gave us this assessment of mountain the bla

state solution? what and to the blank and dependent palestinian state living side by side with israel. do you think you live to see that? oh yes. oh yes. how, how, how will that the, the sport that the trajectory of things are absolutely on our side when israel was established primarily it's beginning with this country. and there was not even the cognition of our existence in the band for declaration. 67 words. it says, respecting the religious and civil minorities and rights of the my notice we were 3rd by balfour and the british authorities at the time, minorities with only 7 and religious rights. we have no national rights. why do you think things are going your a huge number, the dying for their cause and their diagnosis? okay. no, no, no, that's not ok that dying because there is a military occupation that the shooting them and killing them. and you and i need to discuss how we started out there every once you talk on killing of it, but not the only one that begun, we will not recognize as a nation. look up us, you are talking to the policy and ambassador to the u. k. that came af