united states, and flying basically west to east. it attempted to surveilled very sensitive military sites. in some cases it loitered. or return to them. as it progressed east. so there is no doubt in our minds at all that this was a surveillance balloon and be it was attempting to engage in active surveillance. as for the meeting with the china diplomat, blinken said as a direct conversation about the spy balloon. there is one thing blinken did not get from china, an apology. i will tell you know, there is no apology. i told them that was unacceptable. oh, but the rest of the bite administration seem to love his unacceptable message. believe me the message was clearly sent to china this is unacceptable. secretary blinken was able to deliver that message in munich. what secretary blinken said to the chinese it was very clear what the chinese did was totally unacceptable. i am sure china is shaking in their boots. appreciate the audible laughter from you, charlie dur
the best goalkeeper. elsewhere, lionel messi unsurprisingly picked up the award for the best player in men s football. he led argentina to the world cup win in qatar. it was a clean sweep for the argentinians in the men s side, who were nominated for awards. the manager picked up the best coaches, and martinez was voted the best goalkeeper. earlier this evening, sarina wiegman had a word with her and said that the award that she and the team were nominated for was an acknowledgement of the success they have had. they ll be hoping that picking up trophies is a good omen. well, one of the biggest cheers of the night was for polish amputee player marcin oleksy, who won the puskas award for the best goal of the year. here s his effort for his club warta poznan a perfectly executed bicycle kick that flew past the opposition goalkeeper. he beat off competition from the likes of richarlison to win the award. swansea and rotherham shared the points in the championship after a 1 1 d
and this was the glorious sight over stonehenge. maybe the image of the night. and if there are clear skies tonight, there could be an action replay. our scotland correspondent, alexandra mackenzie joins us from oban on the west coast. time for a look at the weather. here s louise lear. it is happening again. i was pessimistic if you were watching the six o clock news about how much of the northern lights we would be able to see. this was the western isles around an hour ago and it isn tjust scotland. where we have breaks in the cloud we have beautiful dancing light displays. this was actually in wiltshire about an hour ago. the reason why i was pessimistic is because we have more cloud today and there is certainly more cloud around. might not be quite as widespread but take a chance on it, just take a peek because if the cloud breaks up you might get to see it. the reason why we have more cloud is this high pressure, still sitting with us and this nagging north easterly wind
one balloon circumstnavigated t glove, drifting pass hawaii and florida at an altitude about 65,000 feet. this is what jake sullivan told kasie hunt about that discovery. because the intelligence community made this a priority at the direction of president biden, we enhanced our surveillance of our territorial air space. we enhanced our capacity to be able to detect things that the trump administration was unable to detect. and we were also able to go back and look at the historical patterns. and that led us to come to understand that during the trump administration, as you said, there were multiple instances where the surveillance balloons traversed american air space and american territory. okay. let me bring in our guests now. cnn analyst, john miller. errol lewis and scott jennings and shawn. i want to understand. help us understand how the intel community can enhance their detection process and look into the past to see how many balloons floated over years ago. yea
creatures grew so big or how they came to die out, but their size and their success for millions of years puts our own existence into sharp perspective. rebecca morelle, bbc news. now it s the weather with darren bett. we had more rain today but at least it is a little bit warmer. temperatures in northern ireland reached 16 degrees today and it s actually a bit warmer than normal for the time of year across many western parts of europe. in south west france temperatures were topping 30 degrees. of course it will not last and as we change month we will change the weather. it will turn cooler across many western parts of europe but it should also be turning drier at the same time. looking at the rain we had over the past few hours, this is continuing to push across scotland. heavy rain developing across england and wales. a bit further north now. that rain will tend to slide away into the north sea but we will keep some patchy rain going across northern england. 0therwise turni