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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...

with a two huge matches to get things under way an inspiring story of friendship and hope — kevin sinfield has raised millions of pounds for mnd. people living with the disease tell us they cant thank him enough. good morning to you. its a clear—cut tale of two halves this weekend with today largely cloudy and mild and tomorrow chillier but dry with plenty of sunshine. it looks like it was a chilli into next week as well but i will have more of that and the weekends weather details...

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 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 b...

us and eu officials are meeting today to discuss energy cooperation. the focus? according to the us, joint efforts to "blunt russias attempts to weaponize energy, "bolstering energy supplies for the coming winters." this comes as eu member states consider extending restrictions, or even outright banning, russian natural gas imports. the bloc has also imposed a $60—a—barrel cap on purchases of russian crude oil, something that the us has supported. joining me now is olga khakova, de...

the following images disturbing. it happened during the distribution of charity for ramadan. this is video footage from almasirah, a tv station linked to the houthi rebel group, which controls sanaa. the video was picked up by various news agencies and it purports to show the incident in the the city. its an apparent crush of people, many of whom look to be in distress. our correspondent simonjones joins us from the newsroom. what more can you tell us? ? what more can you tell us? hund...

>> good everybody, from msnbc world headquarters in new york, im lindsey reiser in for alex witt. breaking news developing drama playing out over the skies of the carolinas, just a short time ago we received this video. residents say is that alleged chinese spy ballooned flying over the skies, over asheville, north carolina. floating eastwards toward the atlantic ocean. more video in our news room just a short time ago shows that over clover, south carolina, thats a neighboring city of...

damage. it is heartbreaking. horror and heartbreak gripping much of mississippi after deadly tornadoes ripped through the state will speak to a disaster relief organization about whats being done on the ground to help plus vladimir putin planning to put nuclear weapons closer to ukraine and right next door to a close u. s ally in the region for live in moscow and kiev with the latest and march madness like weve never seen before massive upsets in both mens and womens matches. cnn sport...

against russia. ill discuss vladimir putin next moves as he rallies his people for a second year of this war and cozies up to china and a new report that ivanka and gerald kushner has been subpoenas. will former president trump try to prevent them from testifying. and nearly three weeks after the toxic train wreck in ohio, national safety officials are getting ready to release a preliminary report and transportation secretary pete buttigieg is heading to the area tomorrow as more res...

crime. legally this case appears to be the weakest of the cases trump may be facing, but the indictment has not been read or witnesses not heard and evidence not been examined. or cross examined. what we know is that trumps prosecutor opened his tenure in office by announcing all of the laws he would not enforce, those he would ignore, ignores the law gives others long distances to ignore the fact. >> when you ignore the law and the facts, you dont have a justice system, ours appears t...