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For international aid to be sent to rebel—held areas, it follows days of appeals by aid agencies. sports ministers from thirty—five countries meet online to discuss whether athletes from russia and belarus should participate in next years olympic games. hello and welcome. the united states says it has shot down a "high altitude object" flying over the state of alaska. the white house said it was much smaller than the recently downed chinese balloon, but was still the size of a small car and ...

And at the recommendation of the pentagon, president biden ordered the military to down the object. >> the biden administration has defended allowing last weeks chinese spy balloon to make its way across the u.s. before shooting it down off the coast of south carolina. >> that raises the question would they do this again? >> todays response indicates maybe not. >> i can tell you that the president doesnt regret the way that we handled the first balloon. that time -- first of all, apples and oran...

To provide capabilities like fighter aircraft to ukraine, thats certainly their decision to make. and one would assume that if youre going to introduce a system into a military that they have no experience with that theres going to have to be some training that goes along with that. were doing it right now. fort sill, oklahoma, weve got ukrainian soldiers learning how to use a patriot battery, and outside of ukraine, were helping train them on combined arms maneuver, so its not unusual to do tha...

Meaning we cant do business with them, they cant do business with us, we cant send anything to them, they cant send anything to us, i suspect that list will grow, we will get that out of the administration. the president is meeting with the president of brazil, we thought he would get questions on this, but it appears he did not get -- didnt take any questions on this. well watch it closely. i find that -- to believe, this did not come up. we have congressman carlos jimenez on the house armed se...

Terms of looking at an object, assessing whether or not this had the potential to be manned. at that altitude, something that small, very, very unlikely that it was manned. and so, again, no indication that it was manned, presented a potential reasonable threat to civilian air traffic and we took it down. >> what speed was it traveling at, by the way? >> i dont have that information. >> on the chinese blalloon, if e could go back, is it still in the pentagons view plausible or likely that it was...

Domestic situation played. >> china and other adversaries carry out surveillance. how does this fit into the bigger picture? >> the chinese have a full service intelligence and security apparatus. i think its not likely that the chinese senior tier of leadership to include president xi knew all about this and knew about the balloon. it does show the extent to which china will extend itself to collect information, whether its thievery of intellectual property, buying property in the united states...

Just�*s concerns about not speculating. this was smaller and a much lower altitude that is interesting and very noticeable as well. but the biden administration came under a great deal of political criticism, particularly from republicans, for not dealing with that last balloon quickly and i think it is no surprise that when they found an opportunity to take a shot at whatever it was over alaskan waters, they did so, presumably one consideration being that this was to avoid the potential circu...

Handled this object? >> its obviously surprising, jake. who would think wed have another unidentified object, if you will, flying throughout our airspace. i think its good that the administration reacted quickly and shot it down. but im curious to find out more about it. i think as your tf noted, dod has moved to the site, im sure securing it to begin the debris collection and it will make a matter of days to get it back to a facility so we can learn more. whats curious about this and i know eve...

High-altitude surveillance balloon taken down off the coast of south carolina on february 4. separately, u.s. northern command continues their recovery operations in support of the recent takedown of the chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon. recovery teams have mapped the debris field and are in the process of searching for and identifying debris on the ocean floor. debris thats been recovered so far is being loaded onto vessels, taken ashore, cataloged and moved onwards to labs for subseq...

Shattered the previous amount by over $100,000. by definition, greg, is he neutered. >> greg: thank god. >> judge jeanine: they could sell samples. >> jessica: samples of what? >> greg: his stuff. come on, jessica. dont play -- >> jessica: see you for super bowl sunday. thats it for us. have a great weekend. ♪ >> john: good evening and welcome to washington. im john roberts in for bret baier. breaking tonight the military has shut down another aerial object. the craft spotted over alaska was d...