good saturday morning, everyone. and welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. and i m boris sanchez. all eyes on the sky this morning as a chinese spy balloon continues drifting over the united states. where it is expected to go and why the white house has not ruled out shooting it down. and a brutal blast of dangerously cold air sweeping across the northeast. in some places it will feel like 50 to 60 degrees below zero. where we re seeing the cold air and when things will start to warm up. plus new developments in the tyre nichols case, why another officer is out of a job and why some first responders are now losing their licenses. plus important new testimony in the alex murdaugh trial, twists in the case and what it could mean for murdaugh s defense, coming up on cnn this morning . hi, everyone. if you are not keeping track, it is saturday. not time to go to work for most of you. february 4. thanks for waking up with us. i m amara walker in atlanta. an
to get her british citizenship back. we begin in moscow, where china s top diplomat, wang yi, has met president putin, and reaffirmed their close relationship. the trip to russia by wang yi comes just days before the first anniversary of moscow s invasion of ukraine. here s the meeting between the two. during their talks, mr putin said relations between his country and china were reaching new milestones . he also called on the chinese president xi jinping to visit. earlier, wang yi also met his russian counterpart sergei lavrov, where he said the relationship between the two countries could not be influenced by other nations. let s hear some of what wang yi had to say: translation: i look forward to reaching new agreements. our consultations on strategic security are highly effective between our two countries. they play an important role in strengthening trust and cooperation in a shifting international situation. much is being made of the seating arrangements for president
uprising whether we speak about popular uprising in both cases, people should uprising in both cases, people should feel encouraged enough and people should feel encouraged enough and people should feel the regime is weakened and they should be, for such a weakened and they should be, for such a thing which cannot be predicted and so, every much depends on what s predicted and so, every much depends on what s happening on the battlefield. and suffering serious military battlefield. and suffering serious military disputes, the ukrainian army, military disputes, the ukrainian army, of military disputes, the ukrainian army, of course, this really weakens the positions of putin. so, maybe it will happen the positions of putin. so, maybe it will happen within a half a year or one year~ will happen within a half a year or one year. we have one very serious limitation one year. we have one very serious limitation from the point of view of time limits limitation from the poi
itself is not terribly important other than as a symbol of the growing cold war between the united states and china. there are a number of different trade conflicts, military disputes or i should say defense concerns over the status of taiwan. all of those are coming to a head. and this sort of crystallizes it. so if the secretary of state does get back on track, he recently just suspended a planned meeting to go to china, if they can get take back on track, the conversations can continue. war mongering talk, you know, in some ways it is what you would expect from politicians, but certainly want don t want to start world war iii. so i think that we ll hear from the white house is that they won t talk about shooting down this balloon, but they are going to talk about tough sanctions where necessary, they will reintroduce questions of human rights abuses. they won t back down from the
we believe 873 protesters have been killed in the crackdown since the coup, though the military disputes that and the protests have continued. these pictures are from the biggest city, yangon. we can hear chants of we want democracy and let s end the military dictatorship . dr sasa represents the parliament which was ousted in the coup. this is his assessment of the situation in mandalay. these military forces are bringing more these military forces are bringing more forces from different parts of myanmar, more forces from different parts of myanmar, particularly from. so, there s myanmar, particularly from. so, there s a myanmar, particularly from. so, there s a lot myanmar, particularly from. so, there s a lot of military troops occupying mandalay, and they brought heavy weapons against the people in mandalay heavy weapons against the people in mandalay. so, this military troops,