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,
targets deep inside russia. now, it s nearly a year since the invasion and the us has given more than $2112 billion in security assistance and so far, there has been broad support, there has been a bipartisan support for president biden s position in helping ukraine but there are some cracks in that consensus. you have republicans who are now in control of the house who have said that they will not give a blank cheque to ukraine when it comes to helping them. at the moment, though, recent surveys do suggest around three in four americans believe that ukraine should still be supported by the us but, as we know, politics can change and if they can, so can policy. this is bbc news. a reminder of our headlines after a chinese balloon flies into us airspace, a second is reported, this time over latin america. the boss of tesla, elon musk, is cleared of fraud charges brought against him by the company s shareholders. the former brazilian president
is with us in our common european union. your destiny is our destiny. this is bbc news a reminder of our headlines: after a chinese balloon flies into us airspace, a second is reported this time over latin america. the boss of tesla, elon musk, is cleared of fraud charges brought against him by the company s shareholders. pope francis is in south sudan, the latest stop on what the vatican is calling a pilgrimage of peace. he was welcomed by large crowds. he wasjoined at the airport injuba by the leaders of the churches of england and scotland. together, they re seeking to promote reconciliation in a largely christian country that s been ravaged by tribal conflict since it became independent twelve years ago. 0ur religion editor aleem maqbool is travelling with the pope and has more from juba. in the centuries, there has been there s never been a foreign trip by an archbishop of canterbury with a pope. but that all changed today, and they were joined,
tweets by the founder of the carmaker that he was taking the company back into private ownership something which never happened. summing up, the lawyer for the shareholders said that the billionaire was not above the law while mr musk s attorney said his client was not a tweeting monster. james clayton has been following the case. i m curious as to what you guys think. elon musk seemed nervous after he d given evidence. how did i do? he asked the media outside. and, to be fair, he had a lot to lose, potentially billions. in terms of an individual tweets, this tweet had already been extremely costly. in august 2018, he tweeted out that he had funding secured to take tesla private. that would effectively mean buying out tesla shareholders, and many investors say they took mr musk at his word, buying up tesla stock. after that tweet, tesla s price rocketed. but soon it became clear that the deal was far from done. tesla never went private. it s still a public company to this day. and
in the us city last month. it said preston hemphill violated department policies on personal conduct, truthfulness and compliance with regulations. five policemen have already been fired and charged with second degree murder over the case. jobs growth surged in the us injanuary, defying fears that the economy is heading for a downturn. the us department of labour said employers added 517,000 jobs last month far more than expected. it s pushed the unemployment rate down to 3.4% the lowest rate since 1969. chilean president gabriel boric has cut short his summer holiday to travel to the scene of wildfires in the centre of the country. at least 11 people have died and around 15,000 hectares have been torched in the flames which were sparked during a heatwave. ajury in the united states has found elon musk not guilty of fraud over a tweet about tesla. mr musk was being sued by shareholders who claim they lost billions following tweets by the founder of the carmaker that he was