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Potential second balloon incident. now, we dont know and they dont seem to know whether thats a different or a new balloon or a second one or a second citing -- sighting of the same one. >> montana and canada is very close. politicians have said china is the biggest threat that is we face and suddenly we find the chinese balloon floating above a u.s. military space. lets bring in our counter intelligence, bill, it is great to have you on here. one, maybe two balloons are not quite sure. what do ...

The world record . for sailing solo _ around the world, non—stop. this is newsday on the bbc. im karishma vaswani in singapore. our headlines: the us defense department says its confident a balloon spotted over montana is a chinese surveillance platform. the us also reaches a deal to increase its military presence in the philippines, as it seeks to counter chinese influence in the region. in the united states, house republicans have voted to remove a prominent progressive democrat from a power...

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And put this into the news cycle? some have said that this could have been a mistake. everything that flies is subject to weather. maybe we have enough atmospheric change that has put this thing in the wrong place at the wrong time. i kind of doubt that, but it is a possibility. on the other side, a more alarming side is this was put here at purpose, at this time in order to message. and that would be something wed have to look at. and then the final thing i would just throw out real quick, john...

Canadas Department of National Defence on Thursday (local time) said that it is working with the US to track a high-altitude suspected Chinese surveillance balloon, and it is monitoring a potential second incident.

Thats right, there has been several examples in the past few years, including, were told by the pentagon, the past administration, when the chinese sent similar balloons into the united states to carry out the surveillance. so what are they looking for? as you know, montana, sparsely populated, thats also one of the reasons that the u.s. keeps one of the parts of the nuclear try it in montana. there are fields of siloed, nuclear ballistic missiles in montana. the pentagon says that this balloon ...

And that whatever information could be gleaned by the chinese through using this balloon could also be gleaned by other spying methods, and in that respect it has seemed to have been dismissed, to some extent. nevertheless, it is still there, and still hovering somewhere over the united states. 50 somewhere over the united states. ., ~ ., ., states. so we do know that the us have been _ states. so we do know that the us have been tracking - states. so we do know that the us have been tracking th...

Did you do those deals?ticed russians and china are mored you might have noticed thataggrs russia and china are more aggressive thanere they ae during the trump years by a long shot. just one example right now, there is a high altitudeballoo chinese spy balloon reportedlybv flying over the northern united states. by the way, somebody hava e a pi th the way, somebody hava e a pi that they could shoot up ine ska the air and take that balloon out of the sky. if youre so convinced itsr as there. oka...

>> what to do about it? >> first be put the pentagon on notice we cant have military officers, its enough with the woke teachers and teaching coming out of it but now we have chinese influenced schools producing the next generation of military leaders and then weve got to put a spotlight on money across the board. >> defund. i got to get your reaction to this story the chinese spy balloon spotted over the western part of the united states senior defense official told pentagon reporters the unite...

The pentagon does note that this type of balloon doesnt really add much more benefit in terms of intelligence gathering capabilities than say spy satellites. so one major question now is why would the chinese send something across the border, excuse me, that is so highly visible that the military has been tracking for several days. >> so alex, what options does the u.s. have to deal with the balloon, if any? >> well, the big option of course is to shoot it down. and that is one option that they ...