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Waiting for operations, those coming in as urgent cases, that we see a resolution to the industrial action. chanting: what do we want? fair pay! when do we want it? now! _ unions hope the new payoff in wales this week will put pressure on the government in england to give ground, but for now, thats looking unlikely. vincent mcaviney, bbc news. the giant chinese balloon that had been floating over the united states has been shot down by an american fighterjet off the coast of south carolina. the ...

Alaska. good morning, congresswoman. thank you for joining the show. you have a unique perspective here. the u.s. military detected this particular balloon in the skies over your home state several days ago. i would just like to ask, what is your reaction to how president biden ultimately handled the situation? frankly, what is your reaction to some of the criticism coming from your republican colleagues up in d.c.? >> thank, you katie. you know, this is not something new for a person from alask...

We talked about this all, week show the questions left and right. it is until yesterday afternoon. heres what to say up to the balloon was shot down. >> i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday, as soon as possible. they decided, without doing damage to anyone on -- that the best time to do that was over water. so -- they successfully took it down. i want to compliment our aviators who did. eight we will have more report on this a little later. >> as you can imagine, this is not doin...

I dont think it will win the many points out of their country. >> there are so many questions but the use of this balloon, tracey. some experts suggest the china satellites in the sky than collect intelligence far better than any type of balloon. what is your take on this? what a use is a balloon like this? and is it your thought or expertise on if china was able to remotely control it until the very end? >> so, given my background, i do not believe that this balloon was taking pictures. i think...

>> listen, if we were to fly anything over china, theyre going to shoot it down. theyre going to shoot it down and theyre going to take pictures of it and theyre going to go bonkers about it. i dont know what statement theyre making. you cant fly anything over china now anyways. if we were to fly a balloon -- if the goodyear blimp flew over china, theyd shoot it down. its what they do over there. its silly talk. bottom line is, thats what we should expect anyway. >> vice chair of the senate inte...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Chinese Foreign Ministry expressed protest after the United States Military shot down a Chinese balloon off the coast of South

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Try and see what type of technical equipment had in terms of technical collection capabilities, as far as signals intelligence, imagery. and so i think we are learning a lot more, but it is clear that the chinese rhetoric, in terms of its push back against the shoot back, was very typical unexpected. and now the big question is how we are going to deal with the situation going forward, because i dont think that the united states certainly doesnt want to have the situation escalate, there are a l...

Government mouthpiece. if the u.s. doesnt differentiate between u.s. and civilian and military aircraft, this piece mentions what is a fact. the u.s. has many surveillance aircraft that fly around chinese airspace, both drones but also spy planes. ive been on one of them. china claims the u.s. uses civilian aircraft for similar surveillance purposes. it is telegraphing there at least the possibility if youre able to shoot down what we term a civilian aircraft claiming its surveillance, we reserv...