we re not looking for a new cold war. and i make no apologies, and we will compete. and we ll responsibly manage that competition so that it doesn t veer into conflict. paul: let s bring in seth jones, senior vice president of the center for strategic and international studies and author of the book, three dangerous men: russia, china, iran and the rise of irregular warfare. seth, welcome. good to the see you again. so what lessons do you draw froa balloon episode, and should americans be reassured by the way it was handled? paul, i brought two major lessons from the balloon incident. one ises the only it is the only one of the few visible examples we ve seen of a much broader effort by china which views the united states as its major competitor to collect information including within the u.s. homeland. there has been extensive activity, and there continues to this day to collect information through the confucius institutes as part of the thousand talents program, as part
city year. in other news president biden will give his state of the union address tonight to a divided congress and flanked by a republican speaker of the house. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in the devastated region of southern turkey and northern syria, where the search for survivors from monday s huge earthquake has entered a second night. the death toll continues to escalate rapidly. more than 7 thousand people are known to have lost their lives and officials are warning that number could rise significantly in the days to come. thousands are thought to be trapped under collapsed buildings and the rescue efforts are being hampered by power supply disruptions, damaged roads and freezing temperatures. there s particular concern for those in syria, a country where the infrastructure has already devastated by years of conflict. our middle east correspondent anna foster has spent the past two days travelling alone towards the epicentre of the earthquake in sout
thinking of a crew. thanks for joining us. i ll be back at 9:00 for a special edition of outfront. ac 360 starts now. good evening. we begin tonight with the search for survivors in turkey and northern syria after one of the strongest earthquakes on record struck the area at the worst time imaginable, early in the morning with most people at home . those are just two buildings, two of more than 5,600 that have collapsed in the quake, the aftershocks and the aftermath on the turkish side. already in turkey and syria, nearly 4,000 people are known to have died, according to turkish officials and syrian state media. the number has been climbing with each new update. nearly 19,000 more are said to be injured. a major international aid effort is gearing up, but the priority right now is search and rescue. take a look. this is video from cnn from a town close toward where the quake was centered. for the last several hours now, we ve been watching crews there trying to make
survivors, across struck the area at the worst time imaginable, early in the morning, [speaking non-english] those are just two buildings, two of more than quake to the shocks and the turkish after side. nearly 4000 people are known to have died according to turkish officials and state media. the numbers climb with each new update, nearly 19,000 marchers are said to be injured and. our national aid is this is cnn report from we ve been watching crews there trying to make their way to a 14 year old child trapped in the wreckage of a two story building. they go as quickly as they can but it is delicate and dangerous work and other teams try stopped at one point to work out how to proceed. it is unclear what the team s condition is. we do know however that this is hardly the only such scene across the area. there are many. cnn s jomana joins us. what is the latest, jomana? anderson, utter, utter devastation across what is this massive earthquake zone that stretches a