Balloon Sighting News Today

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we begin with the recovery efforts under way off the south carolina coastline following that dramatic takedown of a suspected chinese spy balloon yesterday. the u.s. military blasting the balloon out of the sky after it drifted over the atlantic near myrtle beach. president biden saying he ordered the military to take it down on wednesday. now, efforts are under way to recover the debris and analyze it to find out what it may have been doing as it drifted across the u.s. over the last ...

welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. in the last hour, the pentagon has confirmed that they are seeing reports of a balloon transiting over latin america. brigadier general patrick ryder says that the us department of defense now assesses that it is another chinese surveillance balloon. this comes after washington accused beijing of acting irresponsibly after a first such balloon was detected over the united states. secretary of state antony blinken postponed ...

the pentagon has confirmed that they are seeing reports of a balloon transiting over latin america. brigadier general patrick ryder says that the us department of defense now assesses that it is another chinese surveillance balloon. this comes after washington accused beijing of acting irresponsibly after a first such balloon was detected over the united states. secretary of state, antony blinken postponed a much—anticipated trip to beijing over the incident. china says that balloon ...

welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the pentagon has confirmed that they are seeing reports of a balloon transiting over latin america. brigadier—general patrick ryder says that the us department of defense now assesses that it is another chinese surveillance balloon. this comes after washington accused beijing of acting irresponsibly after a first such balloon was detected over the united states. secretary of state antony blinken postponed a much—anticip...

hello and welcome to bbc news. us defence chiefs have identified what they say is a second chinese surveillance balloon, this time over latin america. the first balloon is floating across the us mid—west. antony blinken, the us secretary of state, has cancelled a trip to beijing, and accused the chinese authorities of being irresponsible. china insists the balloon is a weather monitoring device which has blown off course. our north america correspondent, peter bowes, reports. a surre...

jacqui heinrich. griff: its great to be with you, im griff jenkins. the balloon sighting dashing an attempt by the biden administration to ease u.s.-china tensions, with antony blinken calling off his trip to beijing. and we have coverage in london alexandria hoff in washington and lets start off. >> earlier some say the chinese balloon should have been shot down when this first crossed over alaska. >> we could have shot it down over open water, over dense, sparse parts of alaska and s...

lets go the white house on the breaking news. lucas tomlinson, i understand you have new reporting the share. lucas: thats right, senior official confirms that the u.s. government is weighing options on how to shoot down this chinese spy balloon when it crosses the atlantic, safely off the coast of the united states. now earlier in syracuse president biden was asked to do on the balloon and he said all options are on the table and this is what he said exactly. >> the chinese balloon --...

>> gotcha. >> essentially that the intelligence community was tasked with taking a closer look at these kinds of things because they discover something early on, there was a balloon sighting early on in the administration, and that the prior administration had not detected those. of course, that has caused some heartburn among trump administration officials who say that they would have seen this if it had occurred, but this is what the white house is saying today. >> understood. certainly much m...

Ministry saying they reserve the right to shoot down person assets if they pop up in chinese air space. does the air space include any u.s. military planes that might try to land here on this self-ruled democracy of taiwan. china claims this island which has its own government as its sovereign territory even the rulers in beijing have never actually controlled it. >> and you are there in taiwan. and, you know, that island has had its issues with similar chinese incursions in the past. what happe...