welcome to world news america, in the uk, on pbs, and around the globe. we begin here in washington, where the us defense secretary had a rare phone call with his russian counterpart in the aftermath of a collision between a russian warplane and an american surveillance drone. russia s security council says it will try and retrieve the wreckage of the us drone that crashed into the black sea on tuesday. moscow has told washington to keep well away from its air space, as the two sides blamed each other for the incident, which took place in international air space near territory russia claims to have annexed from ukraine. the us says russian fighterjets intercepted the drone, causing it to crash, but moscow denies this. a senior official in washington says the us is also assessing whether it can retrieve the drone, which is in very deep waters. the us defense secretary said today the episode was part of a pattern of aggressive, risky and unsafe actions by russian pilots in in
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