welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, it happened again, u.s. fighter jets called to shoot down something flying over america. though the death toll in turkey and syria is rising, people are still pulled from the rubble. and more questions around elon musk and spas ex-and what s needed on the battlefield. we are once again waiting to learn more, anything, really, about an unidentified object shot down by a u.s. fighter jet. the order came from u.s. president joe biden and canadian president justin trudeau on saturday. it violated canadian airspace crossing over in the far northwest area of the country. the pentagon said it was first spotted over alaska on friday. this is the third time in a week the u.s. has shot down something. here s canada s defense minister. it appears to be a small cylindrical object and smaller than the one that was downed off the coast of nort
some time to build up their defensive positions there, but i think that will be an important area to watch if there is to be a break throthrough by the othe side. how have ukraine s air defenses been coping with that? it seems like they re coping pretty well, kim. certainly when it comes to the drones t ukrainians seem to have figured out at least at this point how to deal with those iranian made drones. say i they took down at least 20 of them over late friday into saturday morning and that was part of an intense barrage of missiles that we saw in the early friday hours. of course, there is an attempt by the russians to strike the civilian energy infrastructure of ukraine in the midst of the winter months. it seems like they re
same border where president kim jong un are trying to meet, and the north korean guards didn t want him to escape in south tkorea, opened fire o him. he dropped to the, ground. and then the south koreans had to wait till the cover of darkness to try to pull his body onto north korean onto south korean territory. he survived. he kaip he escaped. he is now living in south korea. you can see this is stilt a very n sensitive area, an area where tensions run very, very deep. and it is also described as it s called the demilitarized zone, but it is only demilitarized in that the areas around it are incredibly militarized. so on the south korean side where i am right now you have about 30,000 american troops. you also,0 have the entire sout korean army. both of them standing there to make sure that north korea doesn t once again roll across the border and invade this country as it did in 1950 at the
that you get an understanding of the layout. not intuitive. there aren t that many places in the world t that are like this, where you have south korea or an independent state, then an international buffer zone in the middle controlleder by the u.n. and then a heavily fortified enemy statevi right on the othe side. also the border area there dsht dmzre has a straight line throu it. there are hills and mountains. sought border is not a straight line. there are parts where theyai cue around. and it is not intuitive just looking at it where one country starts ander the other begins. so i think he is getting an orientation briefing without audio but just having done similar thingsav myself and loo at thegs pictures. i think he she getting a milita orientation briefing. richard engel, the video we may lose shortly, but you ve been at these observation points before. describe to us what you do see and reallyt for the most part what you don t see because i
this e we also just saw this with iran, right? where the president was willing to gift leadership of iran a pass in saying it could have just been a rogue general. so while yes, the president may have an assurance from kim jong un that his safety is assured, there are potentially rogue elements on the other side. and there sen no guarantee that everyone on that north korean side doesn t wish president trump or presidentth kim jong u ill will. and that s aon huge risk. and i think we should acknowledge that. let s getkn back to richard engel. are you seeing anything? and reflecting what hans said there about security and where they may or may not be shake hands. yes there is always a risk that one of the soldiers on the north koreanth side or in theora soldier on the south korean side could decide to start world war 3. but i think that is a fairly small risk because there is an enormous deterrence factor.