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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—anticipated trip to beijing over the incident. china says that balloon was a "civilian airship" which had d...

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 surreal but increasingly serious international row. this spec on this guy could be spying on the us. the ...

now, finally, that could be happening. we're notjust settling for doing the same old, same old. we want to push further. and rocket launches are now commonplace, sending up spacecraft for the benefit of life on earth. space is an integral part of society. our way of working only functions with satellites for telecom, for navigation, for earth observation, for weather forecasting, for many things. so we need these satellites for our daily life. the country that first sent a person into space is crashing back to earth because of its war in ukraine. if russia doesn't partner up with ano...

for tomorrow, still this band of cloud bringing a little bit of rain but not very much, across northern england, down into north wales, the north midlands. to the south of that a lot of low cloud cover is the mist, some fog, a little bit of sunshine. the best of the sunshine further north and west for northern ireland and for scotland with a few showers in the north—west. temperatures 6—8. here comes the lively bit of the weekend forecast. sunday this area of low pressure passing to the north of scotland and the frontal system which will bring some outbreaks rain. a breezy day ge...

china urges calm after the united states said it's tracking a suspected chinese surveillance balloon seen over sensitive sites in recent days. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the partner of a woman who's now been missing in lancashire for a week says he's focusing on staying as strong as he can for their two daughters. nicola bulley, who's a5, hasn't been seen since last friday morning, as she walked the family dog along a river bank in st michael's on wyre. her partner paul ansell says it's as though she's vanished into thin air. a major search has so far found no trace of h...