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 minister, justin 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 aricraft 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 analyze the wreckage of the object. he thanked north american aerospace defense command for keeping the watch over north america. canadian defence minister anita anand gave this update on the object that was shot down. as minister of national defence
livelihoods, food, nutrition and health care. and so, to give people a sense those people who ve had to leave their homes that there is a stable future awaiting them, even in this awful time. the un humanitarian chief martin griffiths talking to our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet. and as you might expect there is more on this story on the bbc news website and on the bbc news app. there s video reports from our correspondents in the region. head to bbc.com/news or check out the bbc news app. 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 minister, justin trudeau, confirmed that he ordered the shooting down of an unidentified high altitude object which had been flying over northwestern canad
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50 nautical miles in montana, near the canadian border and classify the area as national defense airspace. just a short time ago, nor ride the north american aerospace defense command released this statement saying in part with the coordination of the faa nor at implemented a temporarily flight restriction in montana to ensure the safety of air traffic in the area during the operations do restrictions have been lifted a short time ago norad detected a radar anomaly and send aircrafts to investigate. those aircraft did not identify any objects to correlate to the radar hits, norad will continue to monitor the situation. we will bring you any more updates as it warrants. north carolina s new republican controlled court is taking unprecedented move that could undermine our democracy. last week the court granted a request from republican lawmakers to re-hear two cases