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may be slowing down. hello, and welcome to bbc news. the giant chinese balloon that had been floating over the united states has been shot down by an american fighterjet off the coast of south carolina. the balloon, which the us says was being used to spy on military sites, appeared to plummet straight into the sea. china continues to insist it was a stray civilian weather observation airship. david willis is our correspondent in washington. officials here are saying that this chinese balloon was brought down about six miles off the coast of south carolina by a single missile fired b...

ironically, putin's denial of ukraine's identity has strengthened what he set out to destroy. my guest is olesya khromeychuk. writer, historian and sister of a fallen ukrainian soldier. even now, do ukraine's allies understand what the stakes really are in this war? olesya khromeychuk, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for inviting me, stephen. it's a great pleasure to have you in this studio in london. and you live in london. you're the director of the ukrainian institute here in london. you're an historian of ukraine and eastern europe. and yet, i am sure that a lot of your mi...

now her people are here for her. i'm in westminster where people have less than one full day left to pay their respects to the queen. i'll be speaking to the tens of thousands of people who already have. in other news, millions of people in south—western japan have been forced to leave their homes as a region braces itself for the biggest typhoon in decades. ukraine says more than 59 bodies have now been recovered from a mass burial site in the recently liberated city. welcome, if you are watching in the uk or around welcome, if you are watching in the uk oraround the welcome, if y...

will be — injust a few hours' time, this will be blasting off. the first step — will be blasting off. the first step in — will be blasting off. the first step in our return to the moon for 50 — step in our return to the moon for 50 years. legacy of covid — the new zealand museum collection, recording the country's response to the pandemic. music and europe's biggest carnival returns to the streets of london, after a three—year break, due to the pandemic. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. welcome to bbc news. we begin in pakistan, where mor...

hello. more than a thousand people have now died in pakistan, where floods have been described by the country's foreign minister as a catastrophe. bilawal butto zardari told the bbc the disaster was on a scale he has never seen before. pakistan's government has issued a fresh appeal for more international aid. heavy rains have caused flooding sincejune, overwhelming rivers. around one—sixth of the population are said to have been affected — with millions left homeless. officials in the southern province of sindh are warning that more floods and landslides are likely there, as wat...