john roberts in washington and so begins another week, sandra. sandra: sets us up for an exciting afternoon. i m sandra smith in new york. the former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe said he had no knowledge of the sky establishment in 2019. were you aware of the cuba spy center? there wasn t one, maria, this kind of surveillance platform was present and allowed is just absurd. john: the china spy base is only about 100 miles from american shores and according to reports, it lets china eavesdrop on everything from phone calls and emails to communications within the u.s. military. sandra: florida congressman mike waltz how the u.s. should stop china from expanding the global footprint. gillian turner, what s the latest? gillian: secretary of state tony blinken wrapped a presser in which he appeared to confirm china has been operating a spy base inside cuba or trying to and it is part of this broader effort by the communist party to ramp up espionage
novak djokovic confirms he will not play in next week s us tennis open. he lacks a covid vaccine. and back from brink the large blue butterfly has its best summer in 100 and 50 years. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. a federaljudge has ordered the usjustice department to release a redacted version of the underlying evidence that prompted an fbi search at donald trump s mar a lago home earlier this month. the judge who approved the search warrant said the redacted version of the affidavit should be unsealed because of massive public interest. prosecutors now have until noon on friday to make the document public. our north america correspondent, anthony zurcher gave us the latest from outside the court in florida. judge bruce rynhart who works in the federal courthouse just behind me has given the us justice department until noon on friday to release a redacted version of the affidavit the justice
happy, excited kids and make them chant something so demeaning? those questions sent me on a journey to an industry that s exploiting kids across africa. i was shocked by what i heard along the way, but in the end ifound my answers. done i a writer and journalist, and although i now based in london i lived in china for several years, studying chinese and working in beijing. i loved it there but i didn t always feel welcome. as a black woman in a country with a chinese mac tiny black population, i experienced countless incidences of racism; sometimes indirectly but often write in my face. i soon realised i wasn t the only one. see, i wasn t new to racism before china, it s a global problem, but i had never been anywhere that made it quite so difficult to speak out. i felt black people in china needed a space to unpack these experiences, so i decided to take a risk. i created that liberty china, an online space and website to start that conversation. hello and welcome to anot