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Cnns ivan watson. >> reporter: this is a close encounter with a chinese war plane filmed just off the wing of a reconnaissance plane flying over the south china sea. were getting a close-up look at a chinese fighter jet. the air crew here identifies it as a j-11, a two-seater armed with air to air missiles, and it has been shadowing this u.s. navy plane for about 15 minutes. it is pretty remarkable to see this chinese war plane operating at such close proximity. just several hundred feet away fr...

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About his whereabouts the night his wife and son were killed. murdaugh denying he manufactured an alibi. our team at the courthouse also tonight, ukraine marking one year of war with russia president zelenskyys defiant message as the fighting rages on. the u.s. announcing $2 billion in new aid for ukraine, and the new peace plan being offered by china the new winter storm slamming the west rare blizzard warnings in southern california were tracking it. our nbc news exclusive, mike pence on...

Japanese island of okinawa. along the way, picking up fuel from a flying gas station. >> reporter: were refueling in mid air right now. flying about 40 feet away from a kc-135 tanker plane. >> reporter: the plane is headed past the self-governing island of taiwan which china claims as its own. to the south china sea which china claims almost all for itself, ignoring competing claim from countries like vietnam and the philippines. some 30 miles from the chinese occupied parasail islands, a chis v...

>> fighter aircraft -- [ inaudible ] i have you off my left flank. >> reporter: the chinese pilot never responds, but eventually leaves when the u.s. plane turns south. >> its like oil spots as they build on one reef and then another. >> reporter: he shows the network of manmade islands china built on what had been coral reefs claimed by other countries. >> our number one focus is to ensure that we have continued access alongside all of our allies and partners to international air space in inter...

Back to 2001, a similar incident took place with one of our aircraft in international air space. a chinese fighter jet came up and started to try to push the plane off its course. it ended up colliding, at least, partially with the aircraft and the chinese pilot went down and died. our aircraft had to land and it took some negotiation to get all 24 of the people on board the plane back. that is the danger were faced with with china. thats even more reason why we need to be sitting down with the ...

>> as president biden toured kyiv with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy yesterday, he received a stark reminder of what life is like on the ground in this country. an air raid siren went off as they do nearly every day here in kyiv, leading to a rather tense movement for the two presidents. the new york times later reported quote, the alarm on monday morning was triggered by a russian mig fighter jet, taking off in belarus, which borders ukraine to the north. a missile from a mig fired fr...

>> i want to just put that map up so that people can see this, where belarus is. it is west of russia, north of ukraine. but it borders poland, lithuania and latvia, all former countries that were under soviet influence that now border russia. and as a result, belarus is that much more influential in vladimir putins hopes to sort of strengthen the space between western europe and nato and russia. >> absolutely. and this document calls for the integration at all levels, ali. it talks about instal...

Ukrainian officials are asking for fighter aircraft, with President Zelenskyy telling the UK to give the country “wings” to control the skies. But there are a lot of factors for Western countries to consider before doing so, experts say.

Larger and took a while for the pentagon to clear the image for release but finally seeing it today and this was a very slow-moving balloon so required kind of a plane that moves a little bit more slowly than your average fighter jet and one that can fly a lot higher than your average jet. the u2 can ply beyond 70,000 feet and this balloon as we know was flying at about 60,000 feet when it was discovered by the u.s. floating into, of course, u.s. airspace around january 28th. so a pretty remarka...