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Moments after it arrived over the atlantic, the us brought an explosive end to the drama. that trail of white vapour you see on the left of the screen is an american fighterjet heading for the balloon. the second vapour trail is from a heat—seeking missile fired from the jet, easily finding its target. whoa! did you hear that? shortly after impact, the sound of the explosion was heard by people watching on the ground. then, what was left of the balloon came down in the sea off the coast of sou...

Spy balloon monitoring us military sites... this was how america woke up to the news on sunday morning. late yesterday, an air force f—22 fighterjet fired a single air—to—air missile into the balloon, bringing it down. president biden was criticised by republicans for not acting sooner, but he chose his own time. i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. they decided... without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided the best time to do that was o...

62nd minute. but first, richard is here with the headlines. hello, richard. >> thank, you mehdi. senate majority leader chuck streamers as -- obviously briefing on february 15th on the suspected surveillance balloon from china. this comes after u.s. forces shot down with the pentagon called a high altitude surveillance balloon at the direction of president biden. and chilly extended an emergency declaration to another region this weekend as firefighters try to control dozens of deadly wildfires....

Also in the air. it is important for us to be able to understand what the chinese are up to. i am absolutely certain that there is a chinese general that is in deep trouble back in china because he gave us five days plus accounting of this balloon to either understand what they were doing and how they are going about doing it, what theyre looking for. and there is much more to be said that -- that is what the oversight is that will commence this next week and the new armed services committee in ...

>> yeah, jonathan. its a weird provocation. im not sure what gains were really intended or, you know, maybe in some weird way, it was to send a message or to test u.s. reaction to these sorts of things. tensions are rising with china across the board. i think theres bipartisan consensus about china, that theyre the next big challenger to the united states. youre hearing even in the navy some of the statements made in the navy and the air force, that they are really preparing for a potential war ...

Diversification into canada before it eventually ended up off the coast of south carolina, shocking folks who live in the myrtle beach area. >> expected to come to your backyard and so, of course, when it does, you kind of follow it and watch whats going on and its been something thats drawn the attention of all the people in the community. >> yeah, and so this balloon passed over at least five sensitive u.s. military sites including malmstrom air force base in montana, home to one of three of t...

Operations underway. crews searching for survivors who may be trapped under piles of rubble. here you see this is the moment that a child you see in the arms there of that rescue worker, a child was pulled from debris this was in northwest syria, a region which of course already heavily impacted after years of a bloody civil war. >> in each city, in each village, across northwest sudan there are people under rubble. the number of trapped people under the rubble, its countless up to now. we dont ...

Important for us to be able to understand what the chinese are up to. i am absolutely certain that there is a chinese general that is in deep trouble back in china because he gave us five days plus accounting of this balloon to either understand what they were doing and how they are going about doing it, what theyre looking for. and there is much more to be said that -- that is what the oversight is that will commence this next week and the new armed services committee in the house of representa...

Do we really have the political environment now to actually do something about it? lets not forget 1 in 4 americans use tiktok. tiktok is effectively a surveillance tool. >> yeah. >> why are we talking about a balloon and not talking about all these things on our phones? >> right. >> some of us have not put tiktok on. >> i havent. maybe your kids have. right? >> they have. >> this is the problem is that we need to be serious about this competition and figuring out what the policy alternatives ar...

The country’s foreign ministry said the second balloon ended up flying over Colombia and Costa Rica by “mistake” and was used for flight tests.