with a two huge matches to get things under way an inspiring story of friendship and hope kevin sinfield has raised millions of pounds for mnd. people living with the disease tell us they can t thank him enough. good morning to you. it s a clear cut tale of two halves this weekend with today largely cloudy and mild and tomorrow chillier but dry with plenty of sunshine. it looks like it was a chilli into next week as well but i will have more of that and the weekend s weather details right later on. it s saturday the fourth of february. our main story us defence chiefs say they have identified a second suspected chinese surveillance balloon, this time above south america. the first balloon was seen yesterday above the state of montana, in the north of the united states. it prompted washington to cancel a high level visit to beijing and accuse the chinese authorities of being irresponsible. china has apologised but insisted it s simply a weather monitoring device which has
headlines claim that migration is out of control and sub is england is facing with the call and invasion. prominence to prompt the guard of rounding up the rhetoric and according to the times, that rhetoric is alarming senior tories. in the mirror also splashes on suella braverman calling her inflammatory, irresponsible and incompetent. now, large text raises incompetent. now, large text raises in the telegraph, excuse me and jeremy hunt have agreed to fill the governments of the billion for school black and that is also believed in the express which quotes a treasury source saying the item statement in just over a fortnight s time will be painful. as you can hear, i ve got a bit of a funny throat. let s go straight to the daily mirror and inflammatory, irresponsible and incompetent but still in thejob, irresponsible and incompetent but still in the job, the irresponsible and incompetent but still in thejob, the mirror not mincing its words. it still in the job, the mirror no
all of our services, it sjust going to make all of our services, it sjust going to make things more miserable as the days get to make things more miserable as the days get shorter. the government doesn t have much wiggle room, does it? it the government doesn t have much wiggle room, does it? wiggle room, does it? it doesn t because borrowing wiggle room, does it? it doesn t because borrowing costs - wiggle room, does it? it doesn t because borrowing costs are - wiggle room, does it? it doesn t l because borrowing costs are going wiggle room, does it? it doesn t - because borrowing costs are going up with an interest rates going up and it s also got an arms pressures on public services, the nhs is an incredible backlog partially due to covid i9 but you can t really cut from there, you can cut from defence fence about causing a big incident we have a war going on in europe and the government has made in the manifesto there rishi sunak pointedly said when he became prime
i don t think sunday will be the end of it, from what i can see. if we can negotiate a deal this week, it can be, but otherwise we ll have to look at what campaigns we are going to put on going forward, and we think that other unions are going tojoin us in this dispute on the railway, and more broadly in society. it wasn t the employers that called the strike action. we wanted rmt. .. we wanted to do reform earlier. they have been discussing it with us, but they have not came forward with meaningful reform. in other news, ukraine is on the verge of losing control of the key city of severodonetsk. its troops have been pushed back to just one factory there. allegations of corruption and sexual abuse at the united nations whistle blowers call for an independent panel to investigate. an inquiry finds that the belfast health trust failed to intervene quickly enough on misdiagnoses by a consultant neurologist, resulting in northern ireland s largest ever patient recall. and princ