just in terms of this object, what we have been told is that it was spotted in the last 24 hours and then they took the call to shoot it down around about 1:30pm, just a few hours ago my time here, eastern time, and as you say, it was over frozen water, so they clearly waited until there was a safe area, hovering over the canadian alaskan border but mr kirby did say that it posed a threat to any civilian aircraft. it did not say it posed a threat necessarily to people on the ground. threat necessarily to people on the round. ., ., ., ground. nomia, we will leave it there for now, ground. nomia, we will leave it there for now, and ground. nomia, we will leave it there for now, and we - ground. nomia, we will leave it there for now, and we will - ground. nomia, we will leave it there for now, and we will be i there for now, and we will be returning to this story a little later on with a us military analyst. but let s turn to turkey and syria now. fears are growing for the hundreds o
earthquake and also president lula of brazil is visiting, but it was complete dominated once it was revered by the white house spokespersonjohn kirby revered by the white house spokesperson john kirby that around 1:30pm eastern time here in the us, this high altitude object was shot down. it was travelling at 40,000 feet, which was lower than the chinese spy balloon. that was floating across america last week, it was smaller in size, but we are being told that. they are not saying it was not a spy balloon, but they are not see either way at the moment. we got more details, but have a listen to the white house spokesmanjohn kirby. we re calling this an object because that s the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it, whether it s state owned, or corporate owned or privately owned. we just don t know. we don t know, as i said, state owned, we don t know if it s state owned. and we don t understand the full purpose. we don t have any. we don t have any information
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a high altitude object is shot down by us fighterjets over alaska. white house spokesmanjohn kirby says it posed a threat to the safety of civilian aircraft . the painstaking search for survivors continues in turkey and syria, after the quakes. we follow one rescuer and his team, among the tangled ruins of apartment blocks, looking for signs of life. armageddon. armageddon. we report from the quake zone inside syria, with one of the first internationaljournalists to get into aleppo.