looking back at the that was and what it can tell us about where we are heading next. up first, from the world at war, to female change-makers. and the promise and peril of artificial intelligence. how the biggest stories this year will shape our world next year. it feels like it has been one of those perfect storm years where everything is just piled on, one after another. also, this hour, freedom calling. we re-visit my unprecedented interview with iranian american implement, inside the infamous prison. i know what it feels like to be left behind. and i wouldn t wish it upon my worst enemy. then the citizen soldiers of ukraine s drone school. taking the fight right to the russians. and, swapping presidential palaces for planet earth. why the great outdoors is yo-yo ma s most rewarding setting ever. the time that i spend in nature is what brings me back to something much bigger than myself. welcome to the program, everyone. i m christiane amanpour in london. mu
young. and uh and so it s a it s not exceptional that that young people are doing important things in our military. that s that s really not the issue. the issue is and by the way he had a top secret clearance. the issue is, uh, you know how, uh, you responsibly execute, carry out your duties and how you protect the information. as the pentagon tries to contain this, a secret document not previously reported on shows the chinese military is preparing a supersonic spy drone unit. we have cnn s alex marquardt here with us on on this story. what do we learning about this drone? it s pretty incredible. it is pretty remarkable. it does show significant advancement in china s drone capabilities. and as you noted, this is an assessment that comes from the national geospatial intelligence agency. it was a document was obtained by the washington post, which we ourselves have not seen. verified but what it does indicate is that they have made significant leaps to this drone , which is
city and north towns from 4:00 a.m. today through 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. the city of buffalo is impasseible in most areas while mains may have a lane open for emergency traffic or two, most secondary and side streets haven t been touched yet. this will go down in history as the most devastating storm in buffalo s long-storied history of having battled many battles, many major storms. julie: adam is in the fox weather center. the snow particularly in western new york. it is unbearable. you see a lot of cold stretched across the entire country as we still see feels-like temperatures in new york city at 12 degrees. six degrees in columbus, still back across the northern plains in the negatives. some spots as low as negative 30 again this morning and then the deep cold settled well down south across the country where most folks even across texas are waking up for temperatures below freezing. 23 degrees in atlanta and it stretches as far down across much of the state of florida
That the wc eight is mainly gonna be used for reconnaissance purposes, but experts believe that eventually could be armed. the q nine, uh has laser guided missiles. it has hellfire missiles. so these are the main differences. it s kind of apples and oranges for right now, but the big thing that really sticks out is the speed. at which the wc eight flies our viewers. brianna might remember this incident when a u. s drone the mq nine. i was attacked by this russian jet over the black sea just last month, dumping this fuel and damaging the u. s drone . um, and eventually the drone went down into the black sea. these jets were flying over international waters. so this this is something obviously that has been known to the u. s intelligence community for quite some time. this assessment was from last year, but this is giving us the general public a much deeper insight into what china is working on what they need. soon we may be capable of
We have more from the london bureau. another threat from north korea. attack helicopters and fighter jets were sent up, 100 shots were fired, yes, five suspected north koreans drone entering south korean airspace. one made it close to seoul. four went to the west coast of the peninsula. it doesn t appear any were shot down. they caused a lot of disruption. the main international airport not far from the dnc was shut for a period. the drones were for reconnaissance purposes. south korea sent up its own surveillance flights. it was back in 2017 the last time. drones have been downed in the past. they have 300 ahead of its arsenal. two more missiles were launched. 92 tests in the past year. a record for north korea.