alert and new warning from beijing, and major escalation of rhetoric out of china. suggesting if house speaker pelosi flies to taiwan with a fighter jet escort, the chinese military could shoot her plane down. happy friday, i m john roberts in washington. hi, sandra. sandra: developing story. that is brand-new, i m sandra smith in new york. that stark warning just came from beijing, it happened moments ago. china state media saying a fighter jet escort for pelosi would constitute a invasion, but still no word whether pelosi will be visiting taiwan. yesterday chinese president xi warned president biden not to play with fire, meanwhile russia publicly standing with china on this matter. john: fox team coverage to kick off the hour. the rising red threat. begin with jacqui heinrich, live on the north lawn. jacqui, new information about how the chinese might respond to pelosi s visit? sure do, john, concerning suggestion from state media that the chinese could shoot down
alert and new warning from beijing, and major escalation of rhetoric out of china. suggesting if house speaker pelosi flies to taiwan with a fighter jet escort, the chinese military could shoot her plane down. happy friday, i m john roberts in washington. hi, sandra. sandra: developing story. that is brand-new, i m sandra smith in new york. that stark warning just came from beijing, it happened moments ago. china state media saying a fighter jet escort for pelosi would constitute a invasion, but still no word whether pelosi will be visiting taiwan. yesterday chinese president xi warned president biden not to play with fire, meanwhile russia publicly standing with china on this matter. john: fox team coverage to kick off the hour. the rising red threat. begin with jacqui heinrich, live on the north lawn.
its only coronavirus testing lab was destroyed in the air strikes. in the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken says the white house is focused on delivering aid to gaza and a shift toward, quote, long-term peace. let s go now to a brazen act of authoritarianism in the skies. a civilian flight forced to land forced midair to turn around so that a journalist could be arrested. european leaders as well as some u.s. lawmakers are calling what happened in belarus state-sponsored hijacking. the ryan air flight left athens greece early sunday, it was traveling to lithuania, it s only about a three-hour flight but just as the airliner was about to exit belarus s air space it was divert to missing. they had a fighter jet escort the plane carrying 123 people to
thank you very much. we turn now to a brazen act of authoritarianism in the skies. a civilian flight forced mid-air to turn around so a journalist can be arrested. european leaders as well as some u.s. lawmakers are calling what happened in belarus, quote, state-sponsored hijacking. the flight left athens, greece, sunday, traveling to lithuania. it s just about a three-hour flight. but just as the airliner was about to exit belarus air space, it was diverted to minsk, the capital. air traffic control in belarus essentially called in a bomb threat to the flight crew, then they had a fighter jet escort the plane carrying 123 people to minsk, despite it being closer to its destination. the target of all of this was row manhattan protosevic, a
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