will come along and assist the officers and you may well have licensed such officers attending and then the local officers. i should imagine leave will probably be cancelled if awesome officers in that area given how important it is to locate the suspect. cancelled for some officers. given that the suspect may had a crossbow, that highlights the safety concerns for offices and areas of the public members of the public so i would urge anyone who has information to call 999 and share that information. it is important to reiterate the facts, and i m glad you have done it, that even though we are seeing pictures of armed police in this area around gordon hill, it does not mean it is connected to the manhunt or that they have in any way, shape or that they have in any way, shape orform progressed in their search for. or form progressed in their search for. or form progressed in their search for. ,, . ., , for. i m speculating here, but they may for. i m speculating here
hello and welcome to bbc news. washington has accused beijing of acting irresponsibly after a chinese surveillance balloon was detected over the united states. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has postponed a much anticipated trip to beijing over the incident. china says the balloon is a civilian airship which had deviated from its planned route. however, us defence officials argue the balloon, seen above sensitive areas in recent days was a high altitude surveillance device. our security correspondent gordon corera reports. i.have no idea what this thing is. a strange object in the sky, filmed by a member of the public in rural montana. and for those of you who think this mightjust be the moon, it is not the moon, the moon is off to my right i can see it. it s not the moon, nor a ufo, but, us officials claim, a chinese spy balloon. it seemed so brazen and just so insane to me, it wasjust, like, this thing is so visible. and it s now sparked a major diplom
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 chinese balloon that has been hovering over the country for several days. china insists it is a platform to conduct weather related research that has deviated from its root. beijing has apologised but the us state department says it stands by its assessment that the balloon is being used for surveillance. and defence officials now say there is a second balloon. we have seen reports of a balloon tran
the contaminated blood scandal of the 19705 and 80s is hearing its final evidence. 30,000 people are thought to have been infected with hiv or hepatitis c. it s this life that i was living perfectly happily and then it went, everything went. it was cataclysmic. energy companies are asked by the regulator to suspend the forced installation of prepayment meters in households that are behind with their bills. the us believes this is a chinese surveillance balloon it s been spotted over several american states. beijing has appealed for calm following the sightings. and, trying to make football greener. how teams and fans will get together this weekend, to try to reduce the carbon footprint of the game. and coming up on the bbc news channel: can britain s davis cup team overcome the altitude in bogota, and special balls, to beat colombia this weekend? good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at 0ne. the partner of a woman who s now been missing in lancashire for a week, says
between the us and china, with claims and denials of spying. some of the thousands of victims of the nhs infected blood scandal this afternoon, the long running inquiry into the disaster heard its final evidence. and a man armed with a crossbow who entered the grounds of windsor castle in 2021 has pleaded guilty to a charge of treason. coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel: we will look ahead to the start of the six nations championship. the first match is here in cardiff between wales and ireland. good evening. lancashire police say they believe that nicola bulley, who went missing while walking her dog last week, most likely fell into the river wyre. a major search for her continues, but no trace of her has been found. the partner of ms bulley has said he will never lose hope but he can not get his head around how she has vanished. danny savage reports. exactly a week on from when nicola bulley vanished, her friends staged a roadside appeal this