for protests and legal reform. the boss of tesla, elon musk, is cleared of fraud charges brought against him by the company s shareholders. and it s one of mother nature s greatest displays a spectacular murmuration of starlings. china has made another attempt to calm the diplomatic crisis caused by the detection of a chinese surveillance balloon over the united states. the top foreign policy official wang yi has discussed the dispute with the us secretary of state anthony blinken, who postponed a trip to beijing this weekend in response to the dispute. china insists the balloon is a weather obervation airship that went off course, but washington says it s being used for spying. our north america correspondent, peter bowes, reports. a surreal but increasingly serious international row. this speck in the sky could be spying on the us the chinese balloon that s been hovering over the country for several days. china insists it s a platform to conduct weather related research
highly classified and damaging pentagon memos. 21 year old massachusetts air national guardsman jack to shira was identified after a cascade of shocking news reporting reports in the washington post, new york times and belling cat show that tachira allegedly led a small online chat group on the encrypted platform discord often used by gamers. members of that group that tachira reportedly dubbed thug shaker central. seems to mostly be teenage boys who share a love of guns and military gear, and they described to shira as the quote undisputed leader of that chat group. the post also reviewed a video posted by teixeira, who members of the chat group call o g that seemed to show him yelling anti semitic and racial slurs and showing off his gun. those who know to share a say he was just trying to impress his friends and keep them in the loop on classified intelligence , which he then allegedly swiped from highly sensitive briefing emails and apparently leaked to his small group ov
tonight jacqui line rake traveling with the president in ireland with white house capitol hill reaction as well david spunt be at the justice department. we begin with diswrerch griffin at the pentagon with our story. cyber reporters beat the fbi to the front door of the alleged leaker forcing the surveillance team to accelerator its plans for rearsz outside of the alleged leaker s family home in massachusetts late this afternoon alleged leaker identified as jack of the massachusetts air national guard. according to the air force promoted last july. worked as transport systems journey man. cybersecurity expert. that s how he gained access to some of the nation s biggest secrets. we do have stringent guidelines in place for safeguarding classified and sensitive information. this was a deliberate criminal act. the washington post tracked down a member of the online chat group that teixeira led for the past few years. any claims that he is a russian operative or pro-russ
defamation lawsuit against fox news brought by dominion voting systems. today judge eric davis asked the pool of prospects a number of questions, things like whether they watched fox news, for instance, or whether they have ever volunteered as poll watchers now once selected, the final group of jurors will be tasked with deciding whether or not fox news acted with actual malice in the aftermath of the 2020 election when fox news aired false statements about election interference thanks to the result of a pre-trial hearing, the falsity of those claims, those claims about election fraud, those conspiracies about hugo chavez and the machines flipping results of the election are a given. judge has already ruled on that. they are presumed false. such spur yious claims will notb debated before the jury. we have now in our possession the newly uncovered recordings, the source of all that upheaval which shook yesterday s hearing with the judge we told you about that when we came on t
march, but its value will be sliced significantly. i will find out what that means for places like this pasty maker in bolton. in sport, one of britain s best reaction to the retirement of wales captain and record goal scorer gareth bale. good morning. a wet and windy day ahead. some heavy rain in all areas today, accompanied by gusty winds. it is going to feel very mild. details later in the programme. good morning. it s tuesday, the 10th of january. our main story. a search is under way for two british men who have gone missing while working as volunteers in ukraine. christopher parry, who s 28, and 48 year old andrew bagshaw, were last seen on friday, in the eastern donetsk region, where fighting with russia has been intense. the foreign office says it is supporting the families of both men. vincent mcaviney reports. this is christopher parry on friday, racing through bakhmut to save a civilian, oksana, who s in desperate need of rescue. filmed on friday, the 28 year old