following new details about that chinese spy balloon traveling across the country. new video into the cnn newsroom showing the balloon now hovering over asheville, and charlotte, north carolina in the last hour. and it could make it out to sea at any moment. the balloon was first spotted over montana on wednesday. china claims it s a civilian research vessel that blew offcourse, but the u.s. isn t buying that, calling the balloon s flight over u.s. soil an irresponsible act. secretary of state antony blinken postponing a planned trip to beijing in response. cnn s oren liebermann is at pentagon for us. oren, officials say the balloon doesn t currently seem to present a threat, but why is the pentagon also preceding with caution on it? reporter: so the pentagon has said for now that it will not be shooting this down, because of the risks from two different perspectives, first there s the risk to what s below, blow something up at 60,000 feet and that could be scattered over q
so much fear, pain and tears. and also coming up on tonight s programme. the police officer still critically ill after a gun attack in omagh three men have been arrested. harvey weinstein is given another 16 year prison sentence for rape and sexual assault. and. commentator: radford again. oh, what a goal what a goal! farewell tojohn motson the fans companion to more than 2,000 matches on the bbc. and coming up on the bbc news channel. can manchester united come from behind to beat barcelona as they battle to keep their europa league dream alive? good evening from kyiv, a place i d never been to before this time last year. 0n the eve of russia s invasion, i stood in this very spot and i presented this bulletin, as restaurants and pubs all over this city did brisk business. millions of people were just getting on with their lives. i d arrived that afternoon on what turned out to be the last direct flight from london to kyiv, and there hasn t been another one since. i
calls quote extraordinary measures to avoid defaulting on our debt. which looks a lot more likely now that the most conservative wing of the republican party seems to have a tightening vice around speaker kevin mccarthy. if they can keep the government open, the republican party is gearing up for a series of investigations into president biden. what they just announced a couple of moments ago, in a second. one of the investigations, the president himself, all about hand-delivered to them, wrapped in a shiny bow, the white house is facing hard questions about why it was not more transparent about the discovery of classified documents, and not one, but two locations. especially as the president himself was criticizing the former president for mishandling his own classified documents. white house lawyers say the number of documents found is small and nbc news has just confirmed what one of them was marked with. what we know about that document in a moment. and what exactly is th
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