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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...

Instrument package. from what we can see there are solar panels on it, which is very common. and that is the only really identifiable thing we can see on the vehicle. lets get some of the days other news. the memphis police department says its fired another officer, as part of its ongoing investigation into the death of tyre nichols, a 29—year—old black man who was beaten by officers in the us city last month. it said preston hemphill violated department policies on personal conduct, truthfu...

In diameter stretched out, but is made out of thin film poly. and this is what were seeing the pictures of this balloon from china. so it looks like it isnt being floated on a traditional weather balloon, but on a research or high altitude military balloon. so what would this balloon consist of, john? well, the balloon itself is just a polyethylene film. you know, if you have yourfood wrap film and you have something about ten times thinner, and that is holding your big ball of helium that is ho...

As you can see from that image in my background, the mirror is not one single mirror. its 18 segments, all hexagonal and we can fold the edge elements around the side of the telescope and the instrument package so that it fits. so thats a very new approach to d doing this. >> just fascinating. this was first imagined, i was reading, as a successor to hubble in 89. this took thousands of scientists, technicians, engineers, 14 countries, i think i saw, to build this. what does this launch represen...

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