ijust i just feel for everybody who is like me and my children, in the unknown, whether their family is or not. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us or around the world. we have some breaking news for you. the white house has set in the last few minutes that the us military has shot down an object off northeast alaska that was around 40,000 feet high and could have posed a reasonable threat to civilian aircraft. we are going to bring you more on that news live from washington in a moment. back to that earthquake in turkey. and syria. fears are growing for the hundreds of thousands of people in turkey and syria in need after monday s devastating earthquakes, living in makeshift shelters and cars in freezing conditions. there are warnings that aid is not reaching areas fast enough. more than 23,000 people are now known to have died. living in makeshift shelters and cars in freezing conditions. syrian state media says the government has approved inter
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reporter: thanks for taking my question. what made this threatening enough to shoot down? what is different about this object than the last object that was over alaska because it was chosen not to shoot the last one down over alaska? so, you know, the important thing to understand here, anytime we detect anything, we re going to first of all observe it, and then make a decision and take appropriate action. so you have to look at each individual case on its own merits. in this particular case, given the factual that it was operating at an altitude that posed a reasonable threat to air traffic, the determination was made and the president gave the order to take it down. reporter: was there a specific threat or specific air civilian traffic that could have happened? as you know, civilian air traffic operate at a variety of ranges up to 40 to 45,000 feet. there was a reasonable concern that this could present a threat to or potential hazard to civilian air traffic.
0 president lula has to make. reporter: i wanted to follow up on a question i asked in september. in light of the chinese spy balloon incident does this administration consider chinese land purchases near u.s. military bases a national security threat? we are always concerned about potential foreign collection near or around our military sites, and you re right, last week is a good example of that. we take that seriously, whether that s terrestrial related or whether it s from the air. and i think i ll just leave it at that. reporter: would you work with congress to put in place legislation to prevent that we are always willing to work with congress to address our national security interests and threats as best we can. reporter: real quick, is there a time line for recovery of this object? you would have to talk to the pentagon. i don t know, guys, this just happened within the last hour and a half, and they re still assessing where this thing landed and the degree to whi
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