wednesday. this balloon is going down. this balloon has been taken down and falling from the sky. ashley: but officials want to know why it took seven days for the biden administration to handle this. china has been for some time and will be the primary strategic adversary of the united states. a message they are trying to send the world we can do whatever we want in the america can t stop us. they should not have this encouragement in the united states. we have a real problem. this bible and has become testing president biden strength and unfortunately the president failed that test. griff: brooke singman has more exclusive reporting and kicks things off for us on this monday morning. hey, brooke. with the gang of eight will be meeting as her list tomorrow for the briefing on the chinese spy balloon floating across the mainland last week. navy divers are working to recover debris after air force after air force f-22 fighter jet shut down the balloon on the coas
immune to the venom of hatred to achieve the peace and prosperity that have eluded them through years of bloody ethnic conflicts. more news at the top of the hour. now it s time for political thinking with nick robinson. his guest this week as mary bousted, one of the teaching union leaders. hello and welcome to political thinking. it was another week when children and parents had to wait anxiously for an early morning text or an email to tell them whether their classroom or their school would open that day. thanks not to covid 19, not to a big dump of snow, but to strike action by members of the national education union this week on political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone in the news, my guest is the joint general secretary of that union, the neu, mary bousted. she is notjust the general secretary of the largest education union in europe, she has been a leader of a trade union for longer than almost anybody else in the country. she w
we begin with the race to get more aid into southern turkey and northern syria, where the death toll from last week s earthquakes has now surpassed 41,000. millions are still left without shelter, in freezing conditions, with little food and poor sanitation. the challenge in northern syria is particularly difficult the political situation is unstable after years of war and control of the border is split between the syrian government and rebel groups. until today, aid has been routed through a single crossing point, at bab al hawa. 0ur correspondent laura bicker has been there and sent this report. every day in antakya, relatives huddle around piles of rubble that were once family homes, waiting for news. but rescue efforts have slowly become recovery missions, and now, as workers comb through bricks and dust, the hope is of finding a body to say a final farewell. 30 people are entombed in what is left of this building. layers of concrete are pulled apart to reveal the remai
are breaking the law. this is a violent attack. a very violent attack. this was about anarchy and about the attempt to be destabilized. brooke singman joins us live in the new york city newsroom, good morning, brooke. dumped by progressives as cops that he is still under lockdown this morning. from the attack, protesters throwing fireworks at the facility including one that exploded near police officers. some demonstrators wearing masks, suits, and shields at the construction site. the atlantis police of chief said multiple people arrested with the riots. listen. a group of individuals attending events not too far of the training center left that location and move towards the training center site armed with fireworks, rocks, molotov cocktails. with criminal attacking officers. we have been joined by georgia office of investigation as well as the fbi and we will make the appropriate charges as we speak. speak with those protesters torching a bulldozer with other equipmen
in northern syria, where it s thought 5 million people have been made homeless by the earthquake. also tonight. after four objects are shot down over north america the white house says it s not a case of close encounters. there is no, again, no indication of aliens or extra terrestrial or extra terrestrial activity with these recent takedowns. an independent report says uefa bears primary responsibility for the dangerous conditions at last year s champions league final between liverpool and real madrid. and, in the scottish cup giant killers darvel fc, who beat aberdeen last month, have failed to overcome falkirk tonight. and coming up on the bbc news channel. it s the merseyside derby as liverpool and everton battle for bragging rights with both teams chasing wins for differing reasons. good evening. seven days after the huge earthquake which devastated parts southern turkey and nothern syria, turkish rescue workers say some survivors are still being pulled from the rub