global outreach doctors, it s called. and on the second this month, he was killed. tonight, we also have stunning information about a systematic program run by the russian government to take ukrainian children and re-educate and indoctrinate them in russia in. some of the kids are believed to have been given weapons training, and others have been sent to live with foster families or even put up for adoption in russia. there s a new report documenting a network of camps, 43 of them in all, across the and occupied korea, where thousands of ukrainian children had so far been taken against international law. so there s a lot to do tonight. we can with the story behind the missile attack on the aid workers and we warn you, some of the video you ll see is hard to watch. cnn s matthew chanced of the reporting. what more can you tell us about this attack? reporter: an absolutely terrible attack, of course, and colleagues of pete reed are saying that they believe he was the victim of a target
it was not an accident or a weather balloon blown off course. it was deliberate espionage from the chinese communist party. harris: i appreciate you getting an early look at that to share so much with the faulkner focus. let s unpack that. the size. you are talking about, why is that so significant? it looked huge from the ground. we were told it was the size of three passenger buses. you have no concerns about just what was in the sky and how big it was. why? well, because it had it would have had sensitive surveillance equipment and ability to transmit that information back to china. and so that means that they were actually surveilling and actually obtaining information that we wouldn t necessarily want them to have. this is not like a satellite. this is a 60,000 foot lower altitude vehicle with the
chinese balloons which apparently are part of a larger program that has been ongoing for years. as you mentioned this briefing comes just ten days, a whole ten days after the spy flight was first entering into our airspace over the mainland and part of this massive chinese espionage program run by the army based in china and designed to gather intelligence on military capabilities. these aircraft can be different sizes, different capabilities. they have been spotted in at least five continents and regions. there are questions on the hill whether this could explain some of those unidentified flying objects that congress has already held a hearing on. this provides some at least a partial explanation for some of these unexplained ariel vehicles, ufos that have been sighted but not identified. we re asking a lot more
of a larger chinese surveillance balloon program. general ryder says it was not until recently under the biden administration that they were able to look back and realize that the four previous times, three during the trump administration, all near sensitive installations were in fact the chinese surveillance balloons. not all of them were the same size or had the same payload. fox news has confirmed that this fleet of surveillance balloons are part of a large covert program run by the chinese military or pla, and the balloons are launched from an island province, a global program that covers five continents. when you look at the scope of the program and the fact we know the balloons have been spotted in what we now can subsequently assess to be chinese balloons operating over at least five continents and regions like latin america, south america, southeast asia, east asia, and europe. when asked why norad did not
sensitive installations were in fact these chinese surveillance balloons. not all of them were the same size or had the same payload. fox news has confirmed that this fleet of surveillance balloons are part of a large covert program run by the chinese military or pla, and the balloons are launched from heinen island province off mainland china. it is a global program that covers five continents. you look at the scope of this program and the fact we know these balloons have been spotted in what we now can subsequently assess to be chinese balloons offering over at least five continents and regions like latin america, south america, southeast asia, east asia, and europe. when asked again by norad did not shoot the balloon down as it crossed over alaska, one u.s. official told me, sometimes you like to watch a thief to learn more about the thief s capabilities and patterns before making an arrest. secretary of state blinken said