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balloon it shot down at the weekend was definitely being used for spying. and we'll remember burt bacharach, one of pop�*s greatest songwriters, who has died aged 94. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news, it's newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin this hour in turkey and those powerful earthquakes that have taken at least 20 thousand lives. rescuers in the region continue to work through the rubble, sometimes still finding people alive. these pictures are only a few hours old — you can see a turkish woman bei...

we'll have the latest news and analysis from our correspondents in the region. also coming up on newsday... the united states says the chinese balloon it shot down at the weekend was definitely being used for spying. and we'll remember burt bacharach, one of pop�*s greatest songwriters, who has died aged 94. and rihanna gears up to perform on one of the world's biggest stages — the super bowl half—time show. representing for immigrants, representing for my country barbados, representing for black women everywhere. i think that's really important, that's key for people to see. l...

Off the us east coast, having already travelled over large parts of the country. the biden administration believes beijing is behind a huge aerial spy programme, using a fleet of balloons to gather intelligence from more than forty countries. at a hearing in washington today, senators pressed defense officials for more information on just what the balloon was doing. william cohen is the former us. secretary of defence. earlier i asked him how concerning the current situation is for us—china relations. it's pretty brazen from my perspective that given the tensions that exist between the unite...

What happens now? as you point out, this is a very tense situation. if you were giving advice to the administration at this point, what would you say? i would say collect all the information we can about what this device was, was it collecting intelligence, communications etc for that i would continue to try to meet with the chinese. china is not going away, we're not going away, we're both nuclear armed countries. what we have to do is make sure that someone doesn't make a mistake or miscalculation that sets us on a path of conflict. when you have too many powers like the us, when you have in...

Hopefully, we're able to intercept what they are trying to collect. but that's clearly what their objective was in this particular case. in the interest of fairness, beijing insists the device was a civilian airship. and it was monitoring the weather and it says the us have overreacted with all of this. i'm sure a lot of our viewers are wondering, this isn't the first time this is happened. why did it take so long to detect this and what kind of information is us able to glean from this? apparently, it wasn't the first what the intelligence is is now being released to say it happened on at lea...