the australian tennis star nick kyrgios is due in court in canberra later, charged with an alleged assault of a former partner in 2021. and covid, vaccines, and those conspiracy theories we speak to the microsoft founder and philanthropist, bill gates. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news from the us where the defence department says it s confident a balloon spotted over montana is a surveillance platform from china. a short while ago, the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder put a statement on the us department of defence website confirming the high altitude surveillance balloon is being tracked. he added. he also said. i m joined now by peter bowes for more on this story. peter, great to get you on the show. in the first instance, what do we know about this? well, according to the pentagon, we know that the surveillance balloon, believed to be china s, has be
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josé diaz-balart. right now hundreds of thousands across the american south are waking up to no power after a deadly ice storm pummelled the region. we ll take you live to arkansas. in memphis, police are facing new questions on the discrepancies in an initial police report compared to the video detailing the deadly beating of tyre nichols. on capitol hill, in just a couple of hours, the house will vote on whether to remove congresswoman ilhan omar from the house foreign affairs committee for what republicans have called anti-semitic remarks. we ll ask congresswoman pramila jayapal about that and more . a brand new congressional dads caucus has just launched and seeks to advocate for working families. it s congressman jimmy gomez who brought the idea to life will join us to discuss. and is an early spring around the corner? punxsutawney phil makes his groundhog day predictions. and we begin this hour with the extreme winter ice storm impacting the southern u.s., the
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