after day of this item leading news bulletins is excessive . the situation is obviously of great concern to the bbc, but, surely, as he cannot be named untilfurther investigations are undertaken, this should be given less prominence than other news about the economy, the effects of climate change, and the war in ukraine . and david robinson suggested, report the facts when they are available and stop adding to the frenzy around who it is . who it was, was revealed on wednesday s news at six as culture editor katie razzael described. katie razzell described. this will come as a huge shock to viewers. we ve had a statement within the last few minutes from vicki flint, who is the wife of huw edwards, who named him as the bbc presenter facing allegations and said about her husband that, he was suffering from serious mental health issues and is now receiving in patient hospital care . later that evening, other bbc news outlets aired new allegations about huw edwards, and the co
the australian tennis star nick kyrgios is due in court in canberra later, charged with an alleged assault of a former partner in 2021. and covid, vaccines, and those conspiracy theories we speak to the microsoft founder and philanthropist, bill gates. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news from the us where the defence department says it s confident a balloon spotted over montana is a surveillance platform from china. a short while ago, the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder put a statement on the us department of defence website confirming the high altitude surveillance balloon is being tracked. he added. he also said. i m joined now by peter bowes for more on this story. peter, great to get you on the show. in the first instance, what do we know about this? well, according to the pentagon, we know that the surveillance balloon, believed to be china s, has be
they won 1 0. but that record will be broken next thursday when they play their opening game against the republic of ireland here in sydney at the olympic stadium, when there will be more than 80,000 people watching them. logistically, this is an enormous task. it takes place over four weeks in ten different locations. yes, that s right. but this is parfor the course, really. the men s world cup, the last one but one last one was in qatar, which is tiny, but the one the two before that were russia. and the next men s world cup is going to be in over three countries in north america. countries in north america. so this is logistically difficult, so this is logistically difficult, but not anything that but not anything that fifa hasn t done before. fifa hasn t done before. what has happened for the first time is that the teams have a base camp. they ve never had that before. they ve never had that before. they ve always had to travel from game to game, city to city. but now they have a b
weighed into reports that fifa is set to allow saudi arabia s tourism authority to sponsor the 2023 women s world cup. new zealand sports minister grant robertson said fifa should consider the empowerment of women and girls when making commercial arrangements. fifa should consider the empowerment of women football australia and new zealand football have said they are shocked and disappointed by the reported deal. i m joined now by ben freeman, research fellow at the quincy institute for reponsible statecraft. thank you forjoining us. we haven t heard yet from fifa, half weak, but what are your thoughts on what s happened so far? . ~ thoughts on what s happened so far? ., ~ , ., thoughts on what s happened so far? ., ~ i. ., thoughts on what s happened so far? ., ~ ., ., far? thank you for having me. it s far? thank you for having me. it s curious far? thank you for having me. it s curious that far? thank you for having me. it s curious that fifa far? thank you for having me
inclusive, but how do you achieve that goal if you behave like this, trying to suppress criticism? it does point to one of the issues where virtually every human rights group would say that there was an opportunity here for reform, and changes to happen within qatar. now they say it is a lost opportunity because fifa hasn t taken that responsibility. you can see precisely why, when you hear the attitude of infantino. it is difficult to pick out what the worst line was. the freckles may be? it was very bizarre. line was. the freckles may be? it was very bizarre. when you have been at the build uo was very bizarre. when you have been at the build up to was very bizarre. when you have been at the build up to world was very bizarre. when you have been at the build up to world cup at the build up to world cup tournaments before, how does the atmosphere, the bus, inasmuch as there is a buzz, how does it compare to the build ups that you have been to the build ups that you have been