very difficult test for us. we need help. we need international community to do something to help us, to support us. this is a disaster area. we need help from everyone to save our people. remember him. there are many people like him searching for loved ones and others. good morning, everyone. there s a desperate plea for help after a catastrophic earthquake killed more than 1500 people in turkey and syria. keep an eye on him there are many like him. we re going to speak to that rescuer, one of syria s white helmets as he searches for survivors. emergency crews are x scrambling in ohio trying to keep a toxic train wreck from exploding. and the u.s. shot down a chinese balloon. there is crisis and blowback that president biden is now facing. all as he s preparing to give the second state of the union address tomorrow night. also this southwest. fedex is on the go. close call there. another near disaster at a u.s. airport. what we re learning about that very close c
down. of course, the question tonight is, where is that exactly and when will it come down? by the way, how will it come down? the a spy balloon. the pentagon refusing to say whether they are considering shooting it down what looks like a chinese spy balloon floating high above some sensitive sites in this country. but officials telling cnn they haven t ruled it out either. meanwhile, this balloon, which is the size, by the way, of three school buses, is just meandering along thousands of feet up in the sky. it was spotted twice on wednesday over montana and twice over missouri today, including in colombia, missouri, this very often-afternoon where this exclusive footage was shot. it s flying about 60,000 feet up, 18,000 feet higher than a commercial airplane does. and now the pentagon says there is another chinese spy balloon that is currently somewhere over latin america. we will talk about what the heck is going on in the skies tonight. here to help us figure all this out,
balloon, the pentagon refusing to say whether they re considering shooting down what sure looks like a chinese fly balloon, officials telling cnn they haven t ruled it out either, meanwhile the balloon the size, by the way of three school buss is meandering along thousands of feet up in the sky. it was spotted twice on wednesday over montana and twice missouri today including in columbia missouri this very afternoon, where this exclusive footage was shot. now, the flying about 60,000 feet up 18,000 feet higher than a commercial airplane and the pentagon said there s another chinese spy balloon currently somewhere over latin america. we ll talk about what the heck is going on in the skies tonight here to help us figure this out. cnn tom foreman and animal coldnal layton, let me begin with you, tom at the magic wall, where has this balloon been and where is it going. if we trust what the military thinks about it where it s been was china, flying coming in over canada and drif
wildlife, no drinking water. dry rivers. people in khuzestan face a water crisis. i m siavash ardalan, and i report on the environment for bbc persian. seeing people suffering, i wanted to understand what caused these water shortages. is it climate change or are there other factors? what is happening in iran today is the outcome of decades of bad management, poor environmental governance and a lack of foresight, not climate change. the bbc cannot operate freely inside iran, so i ve pieced the story together using social media, and visited the united states to see how they manage their water. wow, this is amazing! look how much the water has gone down. as iran and the rest of the world tackle water scarcity, i ll be asking what can be done to improve the water supply for people in khuzestan? khuzestan has long been thought of as lush and green, with wetlands and diverse wildlife. its rivers used for leisure and agriculture. but over the last decades, that has changed. today,
now got what it wanted from talks at the summit in madrid. how much time have you spent scrolling on your phone so far today? the fact that so many of us spend so much time on our mobiles means some are swapping smartphones for so called dumb ones, which have fewer distractions. even the man who helped to invent the very first mobile believes his creation is now out of control. jayne mccubbin has been talking to him. this is what the very first mobile phone looked like. as you can see, it s huge. this is martin cooper, the man who helped to invent the very first mobile phone. do you know how many people have a mobile phone right now? and way back when, could you ever have imagined it would be that prolific? of course, jayne, we knew. but one thing we did not anticipate was this powerful computer in your phone because none of those things existed. good afternoon, sir. today, more than 6.5 billion people own a mobile, almost 84% of the world s population. but. let s stop and as