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hello and welcome to bbc news. washington has accused beijing of acting irresponsibly after a chinese surveillance balloon was detected over the united states. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has postponed a much—anticipated trip to beijing over the incident. china says the balloon is a "civilian airship" — which had deviated from its planned route. however, us defence officials argue the balloon, seen above sensitive areas in recent days — was a "high—altitude surve...

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...

hello and welcome. china has tried to calm tensions after two chinese spy balloons were spotted over the united states and latin america. the chinese foreign ministry has spoken to the us secretary of state, antony blinken, after he cancelled his trip to china this weekend. beijing says the matter must be dealt with in a "cool—headed and prudent" manner. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher reports from beijing. americans are looking up to spot the spy balloon in the s...

the family of nicola bulley, who went missing in lancashire eight days ago, urge people to keep an open mind about whats happened to her. police in england believe she fell into a river. health leaders in the uk are warning that there will be a struggle to clear backlogs and improve emergency care — unless industrial action by thousands of staff is brought to an end. hello and welcome. china has tried to calm tensions after two chinese spy balloons were spotted over the united states...

live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. its newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in the us — where one of the most highly anticipated defamation trials began — and ended just as quickly. with the jury already selected — media giant fox news settled with dominion voting systems, for $787 million. the issue at heart of the case was whether fox news was liable for airing the false claims that dominion�*s ballot—counting machines were used to manipul...

new york city residents and face charges of conspiring to act as agents for china and obstruction ofjustice as us department ofjustice officials said in a conference this afternoon. the defendants�* actions under the direction of the chinese government are flagrant violations of american sovereignty and thanks to our investigation and arest today, with the fbi, the defendants will be held accountable and the mp5 is on notice that we will not tolerate similar threats to our national s...

bombing. 22 people died in the 2017 attacked the inquiry finds mi5 didnt miss a significant chance to take action that might�*ve prevented it. as the number of dead from greases train wreck rises to 57 public anger mounts over decades of underinvestment and lack of safety standards. we began in india where the 620 meeting has taken place and where the us and russian foreign ministers met in public for the first time since the invasion of ukraine. their exchange has been tense. its no...

question about whether this... like i am saying we dont know. you are getting to remedies, and i understand that. we are only a couple of days into this. we need to let the department ofjustice do theirjob, investigate this, see what they learn. again, that said, the department has already said that they are taking a look at distribution and looking at if there are changes they need to make, administratively, at the pentagon, since it appears that they have the locus of most of the doc...

at home safely. lung disease costs the nhs billions. ministers say more funding for research and new targets to cut pollution and smoking should make a difference. but doctors think more still needs to be done to improve and save thousands of lives. jim reed, bbc news. lets return to todays scathing review of londons metropolitan police — which found it to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic. the reports author — baronness casey — said many londoners had lost f...

nicola sturgeon told me when i spoke to her moments ago. she said it is a necessity the country should go to the polls. liz truss was the fourth prime minister nicola sturgeon had to deal with, but in truth she didn�*t deal with her at all. liz truss said she would ignore nicola sturgeon and in the end, that is what she said. the two of them in the 45 days had no formal discussions at all, no telephone call whatsoever, they exchanged a few words informally after the death of the quee...