the pentagon has confirmed that they are seeing reports of a balloon transiting over latin america. brigadier general patrick ryder says that the us department of defense now assesses that it is another chinese surveillance balloon. this comes after washington accused beijing of acting irresponsibly after a first such balloon was detected over the united states. secretary of state, antony blinken postponed a much anticipated trip to beijing over the incident. china says that balloon was a civilian airship which had deviated from its planned route. we ll have more on the second balloon sighting in a moment, but first this report from gordon correra. 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 br
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the pentagon has confirmed that they are seeing reports of a balloon transiting over latin america. brigadier general patrick ryder says that the us department of defense now assesses that it is another chinese surveillance balloon. this comes after washington accused beijing of acting irresponsibly after a first such balloon was detected over the united states. secretary of state antony blinken postponed a much anticipated trip to beijing over the incident. china says that balloon was a civilian airship which had deviated from its planned route. we ll have more on the second balloon sighting in a moment, but first, this report from gordon corera. 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, bu
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
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civilians continue to flee the ukrainian city of kherson as russia persists in claims kyiv is preparing to use a so called dirty bomb . air strikes in me and more, the military defends the attack in which 50 civilians were killed. and putting ties with the rapper calling his anti semitic postings on social media hateful and dangerous. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and midnight in london where rishi sunak is spending his first night as prime minister in downing street. earlier he was officially appointed by king charles. the 42 year old is the country s youngest leader in modern times and the first prime minister of colour. he spent much of the day appointing his government ministers and has already held phone calls with world leaders including president biden. our political editor chris mason looks back on an historic day. 11:50, this morning, downing street s security gates had swung open, the motorcade swept in, heralding another new arrival here. here he comes,