u. s. says it will increase production of artillery shells by 500 percent over the next 2 years. germany's rine metal says it's hiring more people and may build a new production plant. camille grant says at this same time, countries should be looking at how to tap into other sources of ammunition components. germany as it, our technicians are metered, shunned with a lot of small companies producing a hunting ammunitions, full termination. of course, a lot portion of that is not seats to do strictly military ammunition, but they can certainly contribute to the supply chain earlier in the conflict. it was believed russia stockpiles were vast. but now the pentagon estimates moscow supply of modern ammunition will run out within months. ah, american football now and the biggest game of the year went down to the final seconds before the kansas city chiefs beat the philadelphia eagles in the super bowl. the match featured to talk quarterback throwing the football, including the eagles. jalen hurts, wh

u. s. says it will increase production of artillery shells by 500 percent over the next 2 years. germany's rine metal says it's hiring more people and may build a new production plant. camille grants says at this same time, country should be looking at how to tap into other sources of ammunition components . germany, as it our technician, or a meter stoned with a lot of small companies producing a hunting ammunitions, full termination. of course, a large portion of that is not feats to do strictly military ammunition, but they can certainly contribute to the supply chain. earlier in the conflict, it was believed russia stockpiles were vast. but now the pentagon estimates moscow supply of modern ammunition will run out within months. let's look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. u. s. defense officials say they've had contact with china about the suspected surveillance balloon that was shot down earlier this month. the u. s. is now down for such objects. the latest on

u. s. says it hasn't said balloon, then maybe it has not been uncharted territory here in many ways. do you think this episode could be a turning point for us? china relations? well, so far it's been a turning point for the worse. i don't think we've had the floor in the us china relationship, and this is despite the fact that president biden and chinese leaders, she jan ping met in november of last year in bali and in each on the margins of the g. 20 meeting and agreed to try to stabilize the relationship. and since then we have really not seen progress. there was a plan for secretary lincoln to go to china and that was postpone because of the balloon incident. but as i said, i think there is an opportunity now to get that back on track. but this is going to be difficult because of the political calendar. china has every year they have these, what they call their national people's congress and the chinese people's consultation of congress. they hold in early march, and i doubt the visit will ta

u. s. can't claim that nicaragua supposedly has political prisoners, which it did not have. and this is the same tactic that the u. s always does. it's called moving the goalpost right. the u. s. says that the, that nicaragua has political prisoner, so nicaragua, releases them on the u. s. redefines a whole, another group of people and says they are political prisoners. this is what happened after the 2018 cru attempt. people who were were convicted of violent crimes and drug dealing and other crimes who were involved in the qu, they were imprisoned. and then as part of negotiations, the nicaraguan government passed an amnesty process that allowed some of these violent plotters to be released. and in the u. s. government said that there was another other political prisoner. so this is yet another example. venezuelan government has also done this where the, these governments that are heavily sanctioned illegally by the u. s. they make it an example of a concession, which is potentially a move toward negotiations to try to lift sanctions. and we'll see if u. s. actually does, of course, i think president ortega understands that you can't ever really, truly negotiate with the u. s. we

u. s. has had frosty relations with cuba to say the least in the 21st century, the u. s. and a few of its allies anointed one why doe, as their chosen president for venezuela move some 80 percent of the world rejected . and now the u. s. has its site set on nicaragua, again, under the biden administration. so what do these 3 latin american countries have in common while they're all run by left us government, resist u. s. influence and exploitation by the west. so to talk more about nicaragua in the crosshairs, we'll bring in a man who's had 1st hand experience with its president. is dan co valid? he is an author and professor of international human rights at the university of pittsburgh school of law. his newest book is called nicaragua, a history of intervention and resistance. dan, thanks for joining us. first i'd like to address the us state department framing of nicaragua. if you go to their website to see their remarks on the country, they describe it as having descended into this sort of disturb, be a nightmare run by an authoritarian bonnie and clyde. in this case,

u. s. says that although it is flying over sensitive areas, this balloon does not pose any significant risk in terms of information gathering capabilities. and while that was discussion of whether or not to shoot it down, it was decided not to go ahead with this because of any danger folding. deborah might pose. now this incident is very surprising. one of the reasons is that now know that china and us commonly spy on each other using satellites. and over the past few years, china has actually expanded its satellite arsenal from about 250 to 500 satellites . and experts have been saying that there may not be much information that this slide loon can glean that is not already provided by china's vos satellite network . and the 2nd reason this is surprising is because of the timeliness or the untimeliness of this. this is happening just days ahead of this long anticipated visit by the u. s. secretary of state antony blinking a to begging and that was supposed to occur this sunday. all right, we re

u. s. officials have released the 1st images of agents recovering the remains of a chinese balloon shot down last week. the u. s. says the balloon was part of a major surveillance program targeting more than 40 countries. china insists it was a civilian aircraft. demonstrators have classed with police and peru as anti government protest center a 3rd month. the unrest was triggered by the detention of former president pedro castillo on rebellion charges. hotels are demanding castillo release, and the resignation of new president dina will lactate. on monday, south africa's president seal roma poster has declared a state of disaster over the worst energy crisis. in decades. power outages lasting up to 12 hours are damaging and already struggling economy. scuffles broke out in parliament as opposition lawmakers disrupted proceedings demanding from a post. his resignation, our lovers are gearing up for one of this year's biggest global cultural attractions. works by the 17th century dutch painter. them year are going to show to day in amsterdam. the collapse collection brings together his best known masterpieces, includi

u. s. says the tactics are all part of the wagner groups disregard for its own men's lives or sounds weak. i do want to say this about the long group and in particularly with respect to back move. i mean, again, they're treating their recruits largely context as basically as cannon fodder, throwing them into a literal meat grinder here in human ways without a 2nd thought and will ukrainian soldiers have been defending the shattered city for months. now. they say west and equipment like these bush mazda ahmed vehicles provided by australia is helping government. but that more is urgently needed nearly did though, the budget give us more military equipment, more weapons. and we will deal with the russian occupier, but we will destroy them. other than that, but a more hill, modern western tanks are set to arrive soon. ukrainian troops already learning how to operate these german made leopard twos here in poland. but for now, back move defenders will have to keep working with what they've got that r

u. s. says it is extremely concerned about the levels of violence this building reduced to rubble. a date by military operation by his dry. he forced this stone deadly. by this damien official fe, is dryly troops killed or den palestinian from injured more than 100 people in the best bang greet and the clashes that followed. these dragging manipulate fit, the operation was aimed at arresting, militant, accused of planning and getting out of decks. the flames the troops shot back after coming under fire. did it bought it that i suspected militants are now dead and that there were no israeli casualties? while did it unfold it by the stinging game out onto the street and confronted the troops. raja and not this honest man we were surprised at 9 30 am when we heard explosions and it was said there were special forces, a large number of israeli soldiers storm the whole airy hospital month of a good we stayed in the house of about when we didn't know what was going on just last month and i did read in the city of janine also ended pick 10 people killed these 2 dates at the deadliest best

u. s. government saying the presence of this balloon in u. s. air space is a clear violation of your sovereignty as well as international law, and it is unacceptable that this has occurred and after consultations with our inter agency partners as well as the u. s. congress, we have concluded that the conditions are not right at this moment. for secretary blinking to travel to china. so this is the position of the u. s. government. we should also point out that to the u. s. president spoke in the last hour or so, but he did not speak to reporters about this incident. he would only speak about the u. s. jobs report, and he ignored report as questions about this, leaving it to the state department to handle. this is not sitting particularly well with us law makers who are really looking for answers from u. s. government about why this was able to creep into u. s. air space. how this balloon, which the chinese government says is a weather balloon. and the pentagon is saying is anything, but in fact is a collection and intelligence collection devic

u. s. says is to target those who have aided russia in elicit finance and in arms trafficking. and notably this includes wealth management firms which have been instrumental in allowing individuals and entities to get around some of these stringent financial sanctions on russia. they're telling us we just mentioned, this is just the latest in a string of functions against russia. are they working well, the damage against the russian economy certainly isn't. as the u. s. and the west have expected, there was an expectation of the g. d. p declined to be about 15 percent. we have seen a recession in russia as a result, but it's only been about 2.2 percent. and you said there's been a string of sanctions on the country. we're talking about targets of over 2000 individuals and entities freezing hundreds of billions of dollars in russian reserves. and of course, ousting the country from the swift financial messaging system, which is just critical of financial infrastructure. but russia has been able to stay afloat through the energy crisis. the energy prices going up, and they have s

the white house says the u. s. military has shopped out an unidentified object over alaska, on orders from president joe biden. officials say it's around the size of a car and posed a threat to civilian.

u. s. says there is no evidence of extra terrestrial activity after it's shot down a series of mysteries, objects over north america. the objects have deepened, the diplomatic rift between china in the united states. washington accuses beijing a running a high altitude balloon program for intelligence gathering. the us shot down another object near the canadian border on sunday. the 4th this month. only the 1st has been officially linked to china, beijing denies it was used for spying and accuses the u. s. a flying high altitude balloons over china at least 10 times this here. on the w, washington correspondent mikaela group now has more on the latest from the white. well, certainly the white house has predicts that claimed by the chinese and says that it is not signing any belief that has no serv. aiden's program above chinese s space within chinese space. and we heard from don kirby who's the spokesman of the national security council and what the big difference is between that fast object tha

u. s. and her before was the civilian airship that flew over the u. s. completely by accident. it's described the u. s. a response as an over reaction as they are being hyped up. and it says that the u. s. expanding confrontation when it comes to this issue. and on monday, a ton is for news recently ended by saying that it is the u. s and not china that has the largest surveillance network in the world. new zealand prime minister says 25000 people will have received emergency assistance solved to psycho and gabriel bastard, the nor violent. some people have lost their homes and thousands are without power authorities. a warning the worst is yet to come. i can't stress enough bit. please have a plane to leave your home. if you see what levels rising around your or if you're worried about land stability around your property, don't wait to be told to leave. to be heard, not in a very difficult week. and for many, the recovery will be long together, open to strong by supporting each other. we will get through the sideline, stifling, safe, or close, and south central chile firefighters, from as far as 3000 kilometers away being deployed to combat countries. west forest fires a

u. s. says it will stand more powerful weapons to your crime. latest pack, the latest military aid package rather includes a rocket propelled precision bomb that nearly doubles keeps range against russian forces. now trying to overwhelm an eastern ukrainians from also on the program. a suspected surveillance balloon ignite the diplomatic storm between washington and by jing b. u. s secretary of state, post bonds, a trip to china after a high altitude issue is detected under the u. s. and the women's abundance league returns with ever pay your the legs a top goal score hoping to continue where she left on. that is to further solidify wolf spooks lead at the top type. ah, i'm anthony how to walk into the program. the united states has announced a new weapons package for you, cried with $2200000000.00. the package includes new longer range missiles which could double the distance, crank and strike and put all the brushes supply lines in easton, ukraine within reach more armored vehicles and a defen

a source says u. s officials are hopeful the entire payload will be recovered, including the technology bay, which will be pieced back together enough to understand its full operational potential. the balloon was first spotted over alaska then passed over sensitive military installations through montana. hannah the plains in the midwest until reaching the east coast, the pentagon said shooting the balloon down over land would risk lives on the ground, but critics accused the white house of not being prepared, especially considering the administration was aware of previous balloons. they should have been prepared. they should have been prepared either to intercept. to prevent to take it down or to try to, you know, capture the balloons. they could capture the equipment that's there. instead they were left as casual observers watching this traverse some of our most sensitive military science, a senior u. s official says a certain group inside the chinese army controlled the balloon. us senators are expect

u. s. government says that it's air force shot down a spy balloon that american media describes as part of a global chinese surveillance system. the u. 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

he says his life is in ruins. u. s. defense officials say they've had contact with china about the suspected surveillance balloon shot down earlier this month. the u. s. has now down for such objects the latest on sunday, near the u. s. canadian border. now north american air defense known as nora has never fired on an object over its aerospace until now defense officials say they know little about the objects. when asked, a top commander said he rules nothing out, including extra terrestrials so clearly lots to get in here and for that i am joined by my colleagues of your order. stacy, they've been says to see you, william, always a pleasure. what is motivating the, by the administration in ordering these repeated shootouts, right, well, he's getting political pressure and from both sides you have the republicans that were really hard on him when that 1st balloon came through that chinese balloon, that transfers the united states. and they said that he was a coward, that he was slow to react, that he made america look

u. s. i know, for example, that the nfl is really been trying to get traction in the u. k. for example. and even here in europe earlier this year, or last year, i should say it had its 1st game in munich. what can we expect from overseas audiences? you know, you're going to be able to watch it, no matter where you are. there are sporting channels and networks around the world that have a contract with a net bill where you can still see the game. you can obviously go online if you're in the u. k, you can watch on the b b c player. so they're still access to the game. they want to bring in more of an international appeal. i think it will help them because remember, now we have streaming. so you can always go online and see the wonderful performances . and of course, the next day, you're probably going to see a lot of people go online anyway. youtube and watch rianna perform over and over and over again. so yes, they are trying to bring in a global appeal. and what's really interesting is, if i had to compare the super bowl with another global event, it would be the people world cup. the only problem is that the world cup only happens every 4 years. we're to

u. s. the queued russia a violating the new start treaty by prohibiting inspection. the russian ambassador to the u. s. says, given the war in ukraine, it would be imprudent to allow the american military on to its soil. russia says it will honor the treaties, other terms, even so this is generated fear in the us that the new start treaty could collapse before it expires in 2026. meanwhile, the number of acknowledged nuclear states remained small. but nuclear no, how is spreading? that means treaties like the new start, may no longer be the most urgent topic on the non proliferation agenda. as for russia, the government maintains it would only use a nuclear weapon if attacked or facing a major threat. some analysts believe going forward, the country will rely more on what's called non strategic nuclear weapons, with short ranges, as it did during the 19 seventy's and eighty's crises between russia and the u. s. in the past have been averted through diplomacy. but with relations between the nato alliance and moscow on edge over the war in ukraine, much will be needed if that's to be achieved again. natasha n

montreal. police believe that the driver crashed the vehicle deliberately, but they say they don't know why. the u. s. as says that china has a global fleet of spy balloons, similar to the one that was shot down by the u. s. air force last week. the white house says that over the past few years, chinese spy balloons have been spotted flying over 5 continents. international investigators say that russian president vladimir putin played an active role in the shooting down of malaysian flight image. 17, back in 2014, prosecutors say that they have, quote, strong indications that putin offered missiles to pro russian rebels. but they say they do not have evidence that he ordered the attack. the plane was shot down by a russian anti aircraft missile over eastern ukraine. ukrainian president obama zalinski has arrived in paris for talks with french president emanuel mac, ron and german chancellor, olaf schultz zelinski touch down moments ago in the french capital. he is now on his way to the l. e. z a palace. this is the 2nd leg of his 1st trip to europe. since russia invaded ukraine almost one year ago. e

u. s. of quote indiscriminate use of force over its decision to shoot down a chinese balloon. the check the u. s. says it was being used for spying. china says it was an unmanned civilian airship, beijing se said the violation of u. s. aerospace was an unexpected, isolated instant allies of ukrainian president valadez zalinski say he's changing his defense minister reports say, aleck alexi resonate call will be replaced by the head of military intelligence. the expected re shuttle comes amid a major clamped down on corruption by the ukrainian government. meanwhile, residents of another ukrainian city are still coming to terms with an earlier russian attack. at least 46 people were killed in the city of detroit. on january 14, when a russian missile struck a block of flats, many residents were trapped under the rubble. some were successfully rescued. the remains one of the wars deadliest single attacks against civilians. dw mcsaunder went to denise broke, a met, one of the 1st responders on the scene after the building was hit, and a woman who escaped with only her life. now he needs to take a moment.

u. s is still working to recover debris from the three most recent objects. the white house says the objects had no communication signals and no maneuvering or propulsion capabilities. a senior u. s official says. there's little indication the objects were anything more than weather balloons or some kind of similar scientific craft. no one has reported whether balloons missing, but there are well over 1000 launched every day worldwide close to 200 here in the us alone. and they don't have to file a flight plan unless they're near an airport or information is requested, but they do notify before they are launched, and then they are on their own norad, which is responsible for air defenses, adjusted its radars after the chinese spy balloon incident, possibly explaining why more unknown objects are now being detected. now for the record, the white house addressed the objects possibly coming from another planet, they said. there's no indication of any aliens or extraterrestrial activity. rina thank you. ukraine is reportedly losing ground amid warnings that a new russian offensive is

says all options are on the table. chinese balloon is floating over the u. schina says it's a civilian aircraft used for weather research and that it had accidentally blown off course. but the u. s. says that's not true. calling this a spy balloon . the balloon has violated u. s airspace and international law, which is unacceptable to us official confirms the balloon traveled from china to alaska through northwest canada before arriving over montana on wednesday. the balloon has the ability to maneuver and has changed course it is believed to be at 60,000 ft. above the range of where commercial and most u. s war planes can fly. the balloon does not present a military the or physical threat to people on the ground at this time under military guidance, president biden ruled against shooting the balloon down for now, it is big enough. that again and reviewing our approach . we do recognize that any potential debris field would be significant. the u. s government also has detected similar balloon activity before as recently as in the prior administration, a white

u. s. military took down a 3 boss sized dog balloon that the u. s. says was a chinese surveillance of aircraft. the chinese have long denied that they were trying to spy on the united states or in particular on u. s. military installations and operations. but this certainly has raised concerns, not just in ottawa, but also here in the united states. there are growing concerns that the biden administration isn't being transparent enough about what it knows about of these aircraft. and whether it is telling the american public in particular enough about whether they are indeed safe from foreign surveillance or from other kinds of threats. this is of situation that could become more political. busy even though the bite administration says that it believes that this may be part of a grand chinese effort to spy on us operations. now it's the biggest nights in american school. the super bowl is underway in arizona. the philadelphia eagles jumped out to an alley lead against the kansas city chiefs, but the chiefs of responded with a touchdown of their own is now

u. s. for a couple of days now. it was 1st saying over the aleutian islands in the us, state of alaska, american and canadian officials say then flew through canada and back into the u. s . s phase where it was spotted again, this time over the city of billings, in montana. now commercial planes fly in altitude somewhere between 901-2000 measures. us 5 digits typically don't fly above 20000 meters. the u. s. military says the balloon is way above this height. so violence balloons usually operate above 24000 meters and can even go as high as 37000. welcome dave. it's is a senior analyst from the estrella and strategic policy institute. earlier i asked him how we know it's a chinese surveillance balloon. it's fairly obvious that the u. s. practice. so just because we're seeing social media images of at the moment doesn't mean the north american air defense command nora tracker, coming over the illusions, we have a good track of it. and also it would make very little sense for the chinese to fly a balloon carrying scientific or meteorol

u. s. says that china has a global fleet of spy balloons, similar to the one that was shot down by the u. s. air force last week. the white house says that over the past few years, chinese spy balloons have been spotted flying over 5 continents. arts of sports news. now news in american professional basketball, le bron james of the los angeles lakers, has become the all time leader in career points in the m. b 8. james scored his record breaking points against the oklahoma city thunder in los angeles. he now has a total of $38390.00 career points. as a lot of slammed us. most fans thought breaking the record was impossible in fitting fashion lebrans who passed a fellow l. a. laker kareem abdul jabbar who retired back in 1989 after the game. james, it said that he would struggle to beat the emotional high if such a historic moment or right the man in arena my shoe every single night from theodore roosevelt. and to night i actually felt like i was like sitting on top of arina tonight. when i shall

the pentagon says that the balloon, it shot down on saturday, over the carolina coast was part of a large surveillance program. china contends that it was just a weather balloon, but u. s. officials say you belong to an aerial observation network spanning 5 continents . these are the soggy remains of what is alleged to be a powerful chinese spy. craft u. s. defense teams here pulling the remnants from the sea off the south carolina coast for further inspection in the pentagon. doesn't believe this balloon was an isolated incident. us and nato officials have meet to discuss what comes next. china engaged in this irresponsible action, violation of our, our sovereignty and turtle integrity and international law. and as we noted as well, we're not alone in this. countries across 5 continents have also had surveillance balloons over fly, other territory, which is why we're sharing this information with others. we're also seeing increased chinese intelligence activities in europe or again, different platforms. hm. um they use a south lord, so they, they, they cyber analysis in order not to say it's also volumes. the discovery of the balloon and at subsequent shooting down ha

u. s. saying that they refused to lift those sanctions even in the face of such a devastating earthquake. this is typical united states. this is typical united states. we've never heard anything good from united states. you know, we us during people or not, not just only showing people or that all that countries that refuses to say yes to the united states are of, you know, i'm under the sanctions. i, i'm just a sanctions. and this is the typical united states, you know, they call it, they call themselves a humanity and you know, or humanity, countries. i don't know the words, but they are, they are not. the western countries are not, are not fair. they are not, is in dealing with this situation as they should do. this is number one to but show that we have our friends, russia, china, other iran, for example. and we believe that these countries are go to help us to, to help people, to have the government help people to survive this tragedy. now what kind of a message do you think that that sends t

u. s. which it says is a clear violation of its sovereignty. u. s. secretary of state counseling upon visit to beijing. china says it's a civilian balloon, and it's not been used to force corinthian president vladimir lansky has urged western allies to supply his military with long range missiles. he's hosting a summit of european union leaders in cuba, where they've also disgusted group membership application to the pool. the head of the roman catholic church has appealed to south sedans, leaders to end years of bloodshed, or francis is on a historic visit with the leaders of the anglican church and the church of scotland . 2 sites, 2 down the 1st visit of its kind since independence. for the 1st time since november p, steele, ethiopian prime minister abbey ahmed, has sat time with the to grind leaders. i be joined by government colleagues met the took ryans to discuss what actions had been carried out in implementing the peace agreement so far. and what the next steps were a p steel between abby's government of the to group people's liberation fr

where the state department says it's working with the israelis and the palestinians to help diffuse the situation. officials here at the u. s. state department say that they are very concerned and alarmed by what happened during that raid by israeli military forces in a building in occupied westbank town. nobliss on wednesday the u. s. is extending its condolences to those who were killed and to their families, primarily those of who were civilians not involved in any of the groups which the israeli say we're planning future attacks on site inside israel. now to the question of what the u. s. can do, given that it is trying to mitigate what it sees as a deteriorating situation between the palestinians and the israelis, the department spokesperson, that price said that it's not the position or the place for the u. s. government to issue threats to either party, even though there is concern about the status of relations between the 2 sides. and the concern for increased tensions in the wake of the rise of the new government of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu, who has made himself a party alongside a number of right wing

u. s. bomb, the pipeline system on orders from the bonded ministration. now the u. s. says it's not going to conduct an investigation into those new surface revelations. these blast did not occur on us soil. i would leave it to our partners on whose territory, on whose soil as it were on these plastic urge speak to the appropriate investigated mechanisms. and now the party line, as you've heard there, is that the nord stream explosion is a european matter and has nothing to do with america. by the way, the same state department spokesman there and, and price was already tweeting way back in march of 2021. so 2 years ago that quote, the nord stream to pipeline is a russian geopolitical project intended to divide europe and weaken european energy security. it's a bad deal for all involved. so net price sure had a lot to say about nord stream back then, but now that it's been blown up and it's no longer a concern to washington apparently. and by the way, since when did washington adopt the position that events happening outside of the u . s. that don't directly involve it park

i say cool, the u. s. government says regime change when one party or group assumes power by force that usually leads to a lot of bloodshed.

u. s. says the balloon was being used for spying. china says it was an unmanned civilian airship. aging said it's violation of usa space was an unexpected isolated incident. israeli security officials say their forces have killed several alleged palestinian gunman during the rate in the west bank city of jericho is where the officials say the right targeted suspects believe to be behind a failed shooting last month. tensions a high following a series of violent incidents over the past month of francis and several protestant church leaders have condemned the criminalization of homosexuality. the pontiff denounced such laws as a sin and called the marginalization of l. g. b t q. people's unjust. 3 christian leaders gave the unprecedented joint press conference while returning from a 3 day visit to south sedan. to ukraine, down where residence of denise paul still coming to terms with an earlier russian attack. at least 46 people were killed in the 8th grade in city of on january 14th, when a russi

u. s china says it's a civilian aircraft used for weather research and that it had accidentally blown off course. but the u. s. says that's not true. calling this a spy balloon. the balloon has violated u. s airspace and international law, which is unacceptable. rus official confirms the balloon traveled from china to alaska through northwest canada before arriving over montana on wednesday. the balloon has the ability to maneuver and has changed course it is believed to be at 60,000 ft. above the range of where commercial and most u. s war planes can fly. the balloon does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground at this time under military guidance, president biden ruled against shooting the balloon down for now, it is big enough. that again in reviewing our approach, we do recognize that any potential debris field would be significant. the u. s government also has detected similar balloon activity before as recently as in the prior administration, a white house official tells fox. still the incident will likely further strained u. s relations with china. secreta

u. s. says it will increase production of artillery shells by 500 percent over the next 2 years. germany's rine metal says it's hiring more people and may build a new production plant. camille grants says at the same time, country should be looking at how to tap into other sources of ammunition components . germany as it, our technicians are metered, shunned with a lot of small companies producing a hunting ammunition sports ammunition. of course, a lot portion of that is not feats to do strictly military ammunition, but they can certainly contribute to the supply chain. earlier in the conflict, it was believed russia stockpiles were vast. but now the pentagon estimates moscow supply of modern ammunition will run out within months. oh, who is this spy in the sky. washington has rejected claims by beijing that american high altitude balloons have flown over china 10 times since the beginning of last year. the white house says the claim is false and no more than an effort at damage control by beij

u. s. defense official say they've had contact with china about a suspected surveillance balloon shot on earlier this month. the u. s. has now down for such objects. the latest on sunday, the u. s. canadian border defense officials say they know little about those objects. israel has launch their strikes on garza in response to a rocket fired from the palestinian territory over the weekend. israeli military reported the struck an underground complex story. rocket materials allegedly belonging to militant islam is group hamas in a separate attack. one person was killed during israeli army rate in the west. back in the zealand, people have been told to brace for more flooding and heavy rain as cyclop gabrielle approaches. the storm is currently around 250 kilometers off the coast and is expected to make landfall over the next day. it's the 2nd major storm to hit new zealand in just 2 weeks to american football. and the biggest game of the year went down to the final seconds before the kansas city chiefs beat the philadelphia eagles. in this super bowl. the match fidgets 2 top quarterbacks