u. s. aerospace and want him to do so now because they also believe that the u. s. could gain some information on chinese intelligence by taking this balloon down. so again, the pressure to do something is rising, but no decision has been made on that yet. the w correspondence and we sum us kinda in washington. thank you. leaders of a european union have stopped short of granting ukraine a fast track to membership and the block at a summit with the you leaders and keep ukraine's president bullet. amir zalinski repeated his appeal to speed things up. he's an ukraine deserved to begin negotiations on joining the block. this very year. european officials bound to provide enduring support to ukraine, but that there were no shortcuts to eat membership. this history making summits offered up a flurry of announcements amidst the wintry conditions in keith. it was also a chance for the ease top officials to demonstrate the growing ties between ukraine and the european union. the future of ukraine is within the european union, lucrative people. you have made a clear choice for fre

u. s could have many fear that russia's suspension only increases the risk of a new killer confrontation van with you, but in a fiery address outside poland, royal castle in warsaw. u. s. president joe biden chose not to rise to the bait artist, but instead he presented a very different view of the conflict. so that i, i speak once more to the people of russia. did i say this is of your do not seek to control or destroy russia? the west was not plotting to attack russia, as food said to day. and millions of russian citizens only want to live in peace with their neighbors are not the enemy. just a day off to his historic visit to cave biden drove home the message that western support for ukraine will last as long as it takes one year to this war, who no longer doubts the strength of our coalition. but he still doubts our conviction. but there should be no doubt our support if re gray will not waver. naida will not be divided and we will not tire given eyes as the one year anniversary of the invasion approaches. the conflict shows no sign of ending or noon and the 2 sides appear as far apa

u. s could claim by recovering the balloon pilot. i mean, certainly the, just the payload itself is going to be something. and i think the chinese us, and this is a rather large package about the size of 3 buses. that indicates to me that it was something pretty sophisticated and i'm not sure if i were the chinese, i certainly would not want it. ability being examined. i u. s. intelligent. now the 1st question i had when i heard that the balloon was saying of the us, why would a balloon be deployed as a surveillance tool in the age of high volume and very high resolution satellites? yeah, i mean show on the, on the ladder point regarding resolution. i mean, there's, you know, it's not entirely clear that this was a imaging satellite. it could've been for signals intelligence, you know, united states fly signal intelligence aircraft near chinese or a space not over it. but even though that satellites is still the nice white speak, you can get kind of better intelligence on, on. things like, you know, get me radars and stuff like that.

u. s. could have done differently to keep this treaty alive, or is this a reduced reason for the u. s. to change its nuclear posture? well, clear. we've been, we've been engaged with the russians to try to get this treaty reinvigorated to get inspections under way to meet in the treaty established process. to discuss issues that may arise under the treaty. and the russians have simply refused, and their excuse has nothing to do with the treaty itself. with the deputy foreign minister said some weeks ago was because the united states is so hostile to russia, in connection with ukraine. russia is going to participate in the new start tree. what does that say about their attitude, even at the depths of the cold war? the united states and the soviet union continued to have discussions on arms control agreements when potent saying now is given what's happened in ukraine to my special military operation. if this continues to go downhill, the new start treaty and maybe others, you know, other actions by me, you're going to be going to be coming. now. you stayed in moscow after the invasion of

u. s. could have many fear that rushes suspension only increases the risk of a new killer confrontation than with you. but in a fiery address outside poland, royal castle in warsaw. u. s. president joe biden chose not to rise to the bait archives, but instead he presented a very different view of the conflict. so that i thought i speak once more to the people of russia. united facing the nations of europe do not seek to control or destroy russia. the west was not plotting to attack russia, as prudent said to day, and millions of russian citizens. all we want to live in peace with their neighbors are not the enemy. just a day off to his historic visit to cave biden drove home the message that western support for ukraine will last, as long as it takes one year to this war. full no longer doubts the strength of our coalition, but he still doubts our conviction. but there should be no doubt our support, if re grain will not waver. nato will not be divided and we will not tire given eyes as the one ye

u. s. could have a strategic advantage in case facilities break out in the taiwan strait. what we're seeing right now really is the rejuvenation of u. s. philippines ties during the administration of former president, rodrigo detective, the visiting force. his agreement was almost terminated, which meant that joined us, philippines, military exercises were all, also almost halted. but 2 months from now, we are expecting to see the largest iteration of valley that joined us. philippine military exercises are over 160001000 troops from the philippines and the u. s. will be participating. moline, what sort of reaction or regional reaction do expect to this announcement? we know that annoyed austin's trip has already pumped into dramatic reaction from north korea. well i think for sure that we will hear from, from china because especially if it's confirmed that these locations for these new basis that the u. s. will have access to will be in the north part of the philippines, closer taiwan. but we don't know that yet. that's not clear yet, so let's not get ahead of that. but th

u. s. could happen in the coming years. thorsten isn't yeah, but it doesn't help us to speculate when it will happen. i think nobody can say with certainty or the deputy or defense minister of the us colon. carl recently said that the u. s. military superiority in critical domains was still would still prevent the china from moving in the coming years. most, most likely. but i think we really, really need to get our language straight to. it's not a reunification. eh, taiwan was never part of the people's republic of china. it would be a takeover of taiwan. it would be the ultimate victory of the communist party in the civil war that it fought to where they came, te and it would kind of achieve that, that goal the same time. the question is, what to do about this? i think the real challenge is to prevent this new cold war between the u. s. or it's alice and, and china and russia from turning into a hot war over taiwan and to what we need is effective deterrence. that means sir, not only military c

u. s. could even determine their purpose . meanwhile, nato's chief is also weighed in, suggesting, debating, and even moscow could have something to do with it all. what we saw over the united states is part of a pattern where china and also russia are increasing surveillance activities on nato allies. as discuss this developments with talk, so host steve mansberg, now thank you for joining us on the program, steve. so now the washington has admitted the 3 us those it shut down. we're not actually from china. how does that make all the speculation for the media and officials like getting started, but look, well, you know, there are, there has not been a lot revealed. a lot of people find it hard to believe that we don't really know what these, what these balloons or objects are or were as it were, because because they're, they've been shut out of the air. it's concerning the american public, i think have a lot of questions and i think what they'd like to see is, and i think even the media has bee

u. s. could gain some information on chinese intelligence by taking this balloon down. so again, the pressure to do something is rising, but no decision has been made on that yet. the w correspondence and we so let's kind of washington. thank you. mary gallagher is a china expert and professor and democracy, democratization and human rights at the university of michigan. and she told me about the diplomatic price china might have to pay for this balloon incident. well, i think it's an interesting decision. i mean, there's some set back i guess, to getting us china relations on a bigger track. but i think for the, by the administration, the risks of going really increased with this crisis over the balloon. and they probably thought we're in a relative position of strength, right. now these are the china and so it's really china's now the ball is in china's court to get the relationship on track again. what would have been the risks for the biden administration and going well, i think there's a domestic political risk in the sense of going a he, it could have been alleged

u. s. could damage its own economy by reducing investment in china's technologies. think it's very clear why the u. s. has made this decision, i mean, we even saw it from the house financial committee last week where they said that china is not the partner they use the was not a partner, and they say that china is an adversary. they see chinese, an enemy. and the way, you know, we just have to look in the history of the united states and how they have grown economies in the past. the usual way of doing it is the largest economy in the united states. unfortunately, still it is, they try and break it by breaks and the, the ability for them to trade economically and also to try with their other partners. you will see a massive decline in the u. s. g d, p in the u. s. economy as a whole, and it may be left with this box. you get the big multinational corporate that don't pay any tax which will hit the bottom line on the united states service b i r s that will not be able to collect as much money as it's collecting right now, which will just completely and utterly cause t

u. s. could be pushing for a direct conflict with china that goes far beyond just what they've led up to at this point. well i think that this is quite clear that you data stakes and that does not want to provoke a. ready nuclear war we tried a lot. ready mold and provoking a new creal. busy we russia, that's why the united states is keeping on using proxies or other means to achieve the objective without realizing that this is really and a why was chase. because for example, and, and for example, using the proxies over ukraine, a does not guarantee success lighted us the at this using a balloon, which is called the call to heighten this kind of blackening rhetoric of china. and sometimes the borders on the physical. because as i said, know why she confess you such a large object, you're weighing 20200 feet tall. we and i'm at the size of several buses as a surveillance, a systems which are not totally level compared with satellites. so obviously i think that more and more all the m m and a more

u. s, it could still go on for a while, but i don't, i don't think that the can go as far as to when it comes to the level of interest rate. so i think march is a done deal as well. and then we'll probably see another one on to re 5 before summer really starts. maybe smaller sizes, no longer 50 basis points, but 25 basis points because now the tricky thing will be increasingly gets yes. they only have one job to do, and that is to bring down inflation. but the higher they go with their interest rates, the more hom they do to the read economy. and that is not what the read has in mind . so, balancing, getting inflation down and not hurting the economy is getting increasingly complicated. so we will see an end to rate hikes before the summer. and we are already at the point where the, your, as an economy is, you know, virtually stagnating. is there a danger that we could go into her session as a result of rights hikes? i tired from on her policy. higher interest rates are probably the most under estimated negative in pay for the eurozone economy. this year. we already had $250.00 basis po

u. s. which could again make european made electric vehicles less attractive to bias. but even with the biggest ever climate bill, the u. s. lived behind china's green spending last year, the energy research group, bloomberg any f says almost half of all global energy transition investments were $546000000000.00. while in china, they use as chinese subsidies have been twice as high as those in the block relative to g d, p. the u, as a single entity came 2nd at a $180000000000.00. while the u. s. spent a $141000000000.00 from brussels. i'm joined now by milan elk about milan as a research fellow and head of the climate policy program at the center for european policy studies in brussels. thank you for joining the program. is the right to be threatened by the u. s. is inflation reduction act? well, yes and no. on the one hand, be inflation reduction acts of a very general subsidies and the subsidies are combined with some other measures related to the components that need to be used in the production of goods. and these are really a challenge to european industry. but on

u. s. companies could sell a lot of things to china as long as china comes to what the u. s. one to should not develop high tech and continue to buy a lot us technology. so there was 2 of them, not that easy to escalate into a war in the highlands. faith's esl for now. i'm trying to has just labeled the us, the largest more mon got this comes as relations between pages on the washington humping strains. where do you see the relationship heading well? not just between china and also the us, but perhaps a relationship between the u. s. and do the world because the world, because not just about the stations and all of these refugees and casual t caused by the war launched by the us. the u. s. actually sick to seem to deter others development through some form of a monopoly actions in financing technology, including to police, defies things. and i think the logical issues to us is so notorious in, in type attacks, eavesdropping discriminate surveillance of folk is rife with an allies. so i also tried to physically attack other countries and the streets, public opinion. so who is

u. s. certainly could credibly warn china war in any other country around the world. but i think the geopolitical realities are shifting and how, what a credible this warning is, i think remains to be seen as we see. not only china, but other countries around the world, increasingly able to act with a greater degree of autonomy free from usaa coersion. perhaps we could call it the sister of north korean leader kim johnson. as urge the united states to stop what she calls or acts threatening, young young security comments come just ours. up to north korea said it tested another intercontinental ballistic missile. japan's defense miniature says the missile landed in it's exclusive economic zone. robert bryan has more from so on pyongyang latest launch. they have in recent tasks been developing this technique whereby they deploy, set up a missile and fire it a lot, jip fairly quickly. by doing that, you give your adversaries less chance to detect that you're launching a miss out to try to disrupt the missile launch or try to intercept is that they have been working on th

u. s. saves china could be planning to on russia. in it's boring, you praying a prospect that if true would carry consequences warns you are a secretary of state antony blinking. what could those consequences be and why does china continue to support brochure? plus how a nation country is teaching you premium soldiers, new battle field skills. ah. my british manager, welcome to did up the news asia. glad you could join us. john, i'll stop diplomat. one year was headed to moscow on monday, a day after receiving a warning from b u. s. against arming russia. 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

u. s. could possibly send the secretary of state sooner rather than later to try and sure of that relationship. but really that's going to be the big key next thing. and i suppose that was the purpose of a sexual santian. lincoln's visit to beijing. this, the idea was to try and, well, if not improve the relationship at least try to make sure that tensions don't escalate. so this comes at a very unfortunate time. and as he said that the location is important too, because it was spotted over these very sensitive sites that how's nuclear weapons in montana on top of that, you've already got us in nato. quite nervous about they've been talking about chinese expanding its military capabilities to, to destabilize western states. and then i think there were these, these comments after the, the discovery was made by cia chief bill burns, who said that beijing is the biggest geopolitical challenge facing the u. s in the world. i mean obviously we that so many so much happening in, in the, in the, globall

u. s. certainly could credibly warn china warn any other country around the world. but i think the geopolitical realities are shifting and how credible this warning is, i think remains to be seen as we see. not only china, but other countries around the world, increasingly able to act with a greater degree of autonomy free from usaa coercion. perhaps we could call it that meeting between blinking and wang, came on the sidelines of a security conference in munich with a bite and administration level. it's my serious condemnation, yet, of russia's invasion of ukraine. in the case of russia's actions in ukraine. we have examined the evidence, we know the legal standards, and there is no doubt. these are crimes against humanity. not to get a james base that's more from the unique security conference. well, clients have been an issue in ukraine since the very stores of the war. and one place that war crimes are alleged to have taken places in china. we've, we're early in the war. there was an attack on people who were gathering to q for bred. my colleague natasha butler

u. s. certainly could credibly warn china war in any other country around the world. i'll but i think the geopolitical realities are shifting and how, what a credible this warning is, i think remains to be seen as we see. not only china, but other countries around the world, increasingly able to act with a greater degree of autonomy free from usaa coersion. perhaps we could call it that meeting happened on the sidelines of a security conference in munich, where china senior diplomat also announced beijing. we propose a peace plan for ukraine on the anniversary of the war. western leaders have responded cautiously, which is surely wish our hotel she that she may be some forces that do not want peace talks to succeed. do not want the war to stop any time soon. law, what they care about is not the life and the death of the ukrainian people, nor the increasing damage to europe. they probably have bigger strategic goals than ukraine. this war can't go on any longer. our diplomatic editor james base has been speaking to leaders of the munich security conference for the wate

u. s. i could also algeria and turkey. i please your pi. nothing will is, it doesn't no see the jetty turkey was the only one to answer the call. said a little chaotic. wonder. ah oh, i will get it in less than a threat. i had several meetings with turkish officials, even when the wagner mercenaries got involved. and we had to strike a legal agreement with turkey hadn't come yet for an intervention, wasn't something we ever wanted, but we had no choice with that. it. we chose the turks because like us and they need to defend their economic interests, which are worth tens of billions and many other lot banker luke, don't forget that president syringes government was formed under the sky rata. cory let it get it. the police, as the provisional government, it, it didn't have the power to enter into international agreements that they did, but they did anyway. so he's off in the old one, and the turks took advantage of that agreement to resettle syrians in libya. love celia. this syrian ization was completely irresponsible. don't goose it to the

u. s. military base. you could give a med, geez, i to the u. s. government to make a military base and just defaulted, or chunk of some people from their country. so they call it, returned back on the island. no, but we are fighting. that's why i'm real fighting for the right. so i, we do not consider that the right to self determination actually applies to the trickle students. i don't the question of self determination. the legal advice we have received is actually the trickle. since we're not at all, not a people for me, it's time to move on and see what we can do for the child said community to return back home, knowledge support from the united nation. i commission, african united nish. i don't care about chug or send people i look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such order is a conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. the point obviously is too great trust, rather than fe

u. s. broke could meeting was being held in jordan between israel and the palestinian authority along with egypt and jordanian officials. he concluded with their commitment to deescalate intentions by preserving the status quo alex on last compound and both sides stopping one sided measures for several months, including israel's building of new illegal settlements in the occupied west bank. but just hours later is ready, prime minister benjamin netanyahu denied the freezing of any settlement construction. during sunday's cabinet me thing is ray lead has promised to fast track a bill that will allow the courts to impose the death penalty for offenses, including attacks on his radio to me. one of many exploited measures being brought in by israel's far right government. that is showing no sign of working towards a 2 state solution with the palestinians, or sarah carrots is now life for us in ramallah. sarah, i want to start with what happened in who are last night because looking at the pictures from there this morning, it looks like a city this just been destroyed. tell us exactly what happ