described as a key witness. she d been seen pushing a pram near the river where nicola went missing. now on bbc news click. this week. as we re working towards the metaverse, we re at interpol to see how they re planning to keep it safe. we look at new software that s helping doctors perform delicate brain surgery. lara s throwing her weight around again. watch it! i ve got super strength. yes, that s definitely more powerful. and get ready to feel old. i never thought in my 205 i d be romanticising technology from when i was 13. over the last 20 or so years, we ve seen how difficult the internet and the web has been to police. it s bigger than any one country, and you can base your business in any one of them, depending on whose laws you want to adhere to. and it s opened up more ways for us to cause each other harm. disinformation, bullying, fraud. you name it, and you can do it online. so when it comes to the next generation of the internet, often referred to as the meta
we ll have much more on the suspected spy balloon in a moment, but first this breaking news just coming in. the man who led pakistan at the start of america s declared war on terror and the conflict in neighboring afghanistan has died. he died after a prolonged illness according to a statement from pakistan s military. he was in dubai where he lived for several years in self-imposed exile. musharraf was 79 years old. you re now about to see and hear i think we re going to you re now about to see and hear the dramatic moment a u.s. sidewinder missile took out the suspected chinese spy balloon that caused such havoc last week. here it is. it happened saturday off the coast of south carolina near myrtle beach. the balloon was so high up at nearly 12 miles or 20 kilometers that it took a few seconds for the shock wave to reach the ground. china issued a stern protest afterward accusing the u.s. of overreacting. beijing insists it was a civilian research balloon that blew of
by russian fighter pilots forcing down an american drone. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. get set to roll again, sandra. sandra: a breaking news two hours, john, and following through on that. the latest move by an american rival, and just like the spy balloon, critics are calling on the president to act. response can t we do nothing. our adversaries are going to be on the march as long as we let them. direct test of the biden administration to try to see what the limits are and it s a message of their displeasure, and a test to see if we ll respond to it. john: how will the white house respond to the criticism? sandra: start us off, jacqui, a lot could come up a few moments from new. no kidding, sandra. after the spy balloon, the biden administration responded by sanctionings some of the chinese entities involve in the airship of this. and russia hawks are saying the biden administration has to strongly respond to a fighter jet taki
detectives searching for nicola bulley, who disappeared during a dog walk in lancashire more than a week ago, say they want to speak to a woman who was seen pushing a pram. the forced installation of pre payment metres the bbc learns that magistrates in england and wales were given advice suggesting permission could be waved through. a peace mission to south sudan the pope makes an unprecedented visit, alongside the leaders of the church of england and church of scotland. you are watching bbc news. now, jim reed examines the underlying causes of the nhs crisis, with the help of medical experts and analysts, and looks at ways to make it better in how to heal the nhs. we ve been almost 12 hours in an ambulance. there were people sitting on the floor, people on trolleys everywhere. it was just horrendous. record waist in a&e, trolleys stacked up along busy corridors, ambulance crews forced to queue outside for hours with their patients. it does get tricky when you see a time
health leaders in england, wales and northern ireland are warning that there will be a struggle to clear backlogs and improve emergency care unless industrial action by thousands of staff is brought to an end. the government has urged unions to consider the impact of industrial action on treatment backlogs. you re watching bbc news. now, it s time for the media show. a warning, this programme contains flashing images. hello, and welcome to this week s edition of the media show. now in a minute, we re going to talk about spotify. it s the world s most popular music streaming platform. it spent close to a billion dollars on podcasting, too, but there are all sorts of different developments coming out of spotify at the moment. and its ceo has said that perhaps they got carried away with new investments. we ll try and unpack what s going on and work out what that means for making money off music streaming and off podcast, too. first of all, though, we re going to talk about the