japan, with more. what did you learn on this surveillance flight? reporter: don, we flew past taiwan and into the south china sea. these are both regions that china claims basically for itself. and washington argues this is international airway and waterways and that s why the navy operates in these areas. and as we approached the pair sell islands, which china occupies, chinese officials over the radio warned this plane away and moments later a chinese fighter jet, a j-11, a two-seater armed with air-to-air missiles flew along the western, the left side of the wing here for more than a quarter hour. so close you could see the pilots moving around in the cockpit. and repeated warnings for the u.s. plane to leave. the plane made an eventual turn and went to other parts of the south china sea. we overheard the philippines
contested regions on the planet. the south china sea. from militarized artificial islands to fighter jets and war planes, china s heavy presence in the disputed region is putting the u.s. and its allies on notice. cnn got access aboard a u.s. navy surveillance flight and saw some tense moments. this is ivan watson. reporter: this is is a close encounter with a chinese war plane filmed off the wing of a u.s. navy reconnaissance plane flying over the south china sea. we re getting a closeup view of a chinese war plane, a j-11. it s armed with air-to-air missiles and it s been shadowing this u.s. navy plane now for about 15 minutes. it is pretty remarkable to see this chinese war plane operating at such close proximity, several
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at 9:00am on sunday with laura kuenssberg on bbc one. she ll also bejoined by both liz truss and rishi sunak ahead of the conservative leadership result. let us get some of the day s other stories now. an estimated 70,000 people have been taking part in anti government demonstrations in the czech capital prague amid soaring energy prices. protesters, from both the political left and right, demanded the resignation of the centre right coalition, accusing it of paying more attention to ukraine than its own citizens. organisers say prague should be militarily neutral in the conflict. china has warned it ll take counter measures unless the united states revokes a $1.1 billion arms deal with taiwan. it comes amid rising tensions between washington and beijing over the self governing island. the deal includes anti ship missiles, air to air missiles, and support for taiwan s surveillance radar programme. chileans go to the polls on sunday
said that russia was trying to inflict poverty and political chaos in place it cannot strike with missiles. our correspondent, jessica parker, in brussels, explains the anxiety being felt in the eu. well, look, every day that there is less gas flowing into europe, the greater the squeeze on supply that threatens to hit people s pockets, the economy as well, notjust here but in the uk as well. now, the russian pipeline operator has said it is an oil leak that has led to this prolonged closure. they do not believe that here, and they weren t taken by surprise by last night s announcement. eu countries have spent summer trying to build up their gas reserves but i think the last 2a hours, there really has been an added sense of urgency, governments looking at ways to try and protect people, protect businesses from the worst effects of this energy crisis. energy ministers are meeting here in brussels next week to look at ideas around market reform, gas price caps, but not everybody is of on