ah, this is al jazeera, these, your top stories, european commission president ursula vonda lyons says a new sanctions package, including price caps and russian oil would be ready for the 1st anniversary of russia's invasion. she made the comment soon after arriving in keith, i had a for summit over ukraine's pushed to join the e. u. the pentagon says it's tracking a suspect of chinese spy balloon spotted in u. s. s. based on wednesday. they are reports, military leaders even considered shooting it down, but decided against it because of the potential safety risk from falling debris. particle haine has more from washington dc. so what they're saying is that they are tracking this, that they've taken steps to make sure that no surveillance can in fact be done. but again, the official statement is there's a balloon, we're watching it. it does impose a danger to air, travel, or collecting of sensitive information in the pentagon. what they're telling reporters on background unnamed officials that they believe this is the chinese i what we do know is that they did close the air space for a

for ursula vonda lyon, there was time for king -- t with the king . onto a political visit.will forget -- forgive that if today's deal delivers everything she and the prime minister hope for. chris mason, bbc news. james: how well the deal work in practice? in particular, how would a sausage maker in britain get sausages onto the plains of hungry people in northern ireland? it is question i put to our correspondent. i saw earlier in the day the prime minister was tweing, accompanied by a picture of sausages. let's say there is aausage manufacturer in britain. and that sausage manufacturer wants to send its products to hungry people in northern ireland. how does this change things for them? emma: put sausage ban was one of those headlines when it came to all of the protocol drama we have seen over the last few years. that is because the eu has a ban on chilled meats coming into the eu market, and because the border was plain the irish sea where you could not get nice sausages from gb into the supermarkets in northern ireland's. what has changed in the deal is making it easier