next to the river wyre, nine days ago. and who ll claim the major prizes at this year s grammy awards? all you need to know about music s biggest night. it s 7am in the morning in singapore, and 1am in kyiv where reports say the country s defence minister oleksii reznikov will be dismissed and replaced with the head of military intelligence. it is suspected reznikov, a loyal ally of president zelensky, will be moved to a different ministerial position with ministry ofjustice named as a possible direction. in recent weeks, ukraine s defence ministry has been embroiled in a corruption scandal over an army food contract, with one of deputy ministers fired and named a suspect, and another resigning voluntarily. reznikov became defence minister several months before the invasion. during the war, he fostered relationships with western defence officials and helped oversee the receipt of billions of dollars of military assistance. with us now isjonathan marcus, a defence analyst an
following new details about that chinese spy balloon traveling across the country. new video into the cnn newsroom showing the balloon now hovering over asheville, and charlotte, north carolina in the last hour. and it could make it out to sea at any moment. the balloon was first spotted over montana on wednesday. china claims it s a civilian research vessel that blew offcourse, but the u.s. isn t buying that, calling the balloon s flight over u.s. soil an irresponsible act. secretary of state antony blinken postponing a planned trip to beijing in response. cnn s oren liebermann is at pentagon for us. oren, officials say the balloon doesn t currently seem to present a threat, but why is the pentagon also preceding with caution on it? reporter: so the pentagon has said for now that it will not be shooting this down, because of the risks from two different perspectives, first there s the risk to what s below, blow something up at 60,000 feet and that could be scattered over q
spy balloon monitoring us military sites. this was how america woke up to the news on sunday morning. late yesterday, an air force f 22 fighterjet fired a single air to air missile into the balloon, bringing it down. president biden was criticised by republicans for not acting sooner, but he chose his own time. i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. they decided. without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided the best time to do that was over water, within a 12 mile limit. china s foreign ministry accused the us of overreacting. the statement said. the incident has blown up a chance to ease tensions between the world s two great powers, with the us secretary of state antony blinken postponing a planned trip to beijing. here in beijing, the foreign
to the news on sunday morning. late yesterday, an air force f 22 fighter jet fired a single air to air missile into the balloon, bringing it down. president biden was criticised by republicans for not acting sooner, but he chose his own time. i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. they decided. without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided the best time to do that was over water, within a 12 mile limit. china s foreign ministry accused the us of overreacting. the statement said. and that it would. the incident has blown up a chance to ease tensions between the world s two great powers, with the us secretary of state antony blinken postponing a planned trip to beijing. here in beijing, the foreign ministry in china had been expecting to welcome
spy balloon monitoring us military sites. this was how america woke up to the news on sunday morning. late yesterday, an air force f 22 fighterjet fired a single air to air missile into the balloon, bringing it down. president biden was criticised by republicans for not acting sooner, but he chose his own time. i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. they decided. without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided the best time to do that was over water, within a 12 mile limit. china s foreign ministry accused the us of overreacting. the statement said. the incident has blown up a chance to ease tensions between the world s two great powers, with the us secretary of state antony blinken postponing a planned trip to beijing. here in beijing, the foreign ministry in china had been