the canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau is visiting kyiv as ukraine braces for a major counter offensive against russian forces. he paid his respects at a memorial to ukrainian soldiers killed while fighting pro russian forces since 2014. mr trudeau also spoke to soldiers during a visit to an exhibition of destroyed russian army vehicles. concrete information about ukraine s long expected offensive has been hard to come by, as kyiv attempts to take back sections of territory from russian forces. in the latest overnight attack, debris from a downed russian drone set fire to a residential block in the ukrainian city of 0desa, killing three people. the emergency services said 27 people, including three children, were also wounded, but that the fire was rapidly put out and 12 people were rescued from the building. these are the latest pictures we ve received of ukrainian soldiers in the region of bakhmut. so, is this ukraine s long awaited counter offensive?
will go ahead as planned. but paris hasn t been completely denied the sight of king charles. the local waxworks unveiled its version of a kilted king today. nicholas witchell, bbc news, paris. the us president has spoken of north american unity and improved economic ties in a landmark address to the canadian parliament in ottawa. mr biden said the two countries prosperity was deeply connected to their shared security. he and the canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau pledged to stand together against authoritarian regimes. president biden also addressed rumours about the chinese government supplying arms to russia. i don t take china lightly, i don t take russia lightly, but i think we vastly exaggerate. i have been hearing now for the three months about china is going to provide
head to bbc.com/news or check out the bbc news app. in the past hour, the us military says it sent fighter aircraft to investigate a radar anomaly detected in the middle of the state of montana. in a statement, it said the planes did not find anything matching the radar signal but would continue to monitor the situation. airspace over the state was temporarily closed. earlier, the canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau confirmed that he ordered the shooting down of an unidentified high altitude object which had been flying over northwestern canada. he said us and canadian aircraft were scrambled and that an american fighter aircraft shot the object down. mr trudeau broke the news in a tweet adding that canadian forces will now recover and analyse the wreckage of the object. he thanked north american aerospace defense command for keeping the watch over north america. earlier, i spoke to idrees ali, pentagon correspondent for news agency reuters, who says this latest unidentified object i
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to a post tropical cyclone, but as prime ministerjustin trudeau admits, infrastructure will need to be rebuilt to withstand ever more frequent extreme weather as we see these maybe once in a century storms start to hit every few years. leana hosea, bbc news. america s spy agency, the cia, has many secrets to keep, but to mark its 75th anniversary it has unusually opened up a little about its past, inviting a select few to visit its normally undercover museum. 0ur security correspondent gordon corera was the only international broadcaster to be let in. here s what he saw. one of the most secret organisations in the world offers a rare glimpse inside its operations. to mark its 75th anniversary, the cia opened the doors to its in house museum. closed to the public, we were among a select few given access. inside this most unusual of museums are exhibits and artifacts marking