welcome to bbc news. our top story today: the us defense secretary says he had a rare phone call with his russian counterpart in the aftermath of a collision between a russian fighterjet and a us drone. the race is now on to recover the wreckage of the drone which is thought to be twelve hundred metres deep in the black sea. russia has also said it will try to find the wreckage. meanwhile, america s top general said the whole incident was a result of russia s increasingly aggressive behaviour in the area. us defense secretary lloyd austin gave this update earlier. as i ve said repeatedly, it s important that great powers be models of transparency and communication. and the united states will continue to fly into operate where ever international law allows. and it is incumbent upon russia to operate its military aircraft in a safe and professional manner. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale has this report from kyiv. this is the kind of unmanned aircraft that crashed
and a texas showdown, a judge hearing arguments right now in the high-stakes lawsuit over abortion pills. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you so much for being here. i m kate bolduan. the u.s. state department does not call in the russian ambassador every day, but that is what s happened. this is after the pentagon says a russian fighter jets forced down a u.s. spy drone in international waters in the black sea. according to u.s. officials the russians first dumped fuel on the drone similar to the one you see here and then hit its propeller forcing the u.s. then to bring the drone down. the defense secretary slamming the incident as reckless. this hazardous episode is a part of a pattern of aggressive and risky and unsafe actions by russian pilots in international airspace. so make no mistake, the united states will continue to fly and to operate wherever international law allows. orrin lieberman joins us from the pentagon. you have new reporting als
what was going on, what the response was going to be. and, look, china s one of our biggest adversaries, so to see this, you know, when people look up in the sky and i was driving around earlier, people were pulled over on the side of the road, they were pulling out their camera phones. a lot of intrigue about this. you know, this is an interesting, you know, interesting time, but a lot of people have questions about this. and for me, i m incredibly concerned about where, you know, where this was headed and why it took so long to address. mike: a sense of relief as a south carolina congressman that this has been successfully shot down, apparently over the atlantic ocean? i think so, and i m super proud of the men and women at south carolina s shaw air force base for doing so. i think that shows our resolve and that we re able to take any task. it was really interesting to the watch this spy balloon go over my house and to see fighter planes really circling this balloon as i
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why would they do that? simply as a matter to try to affect hardware capabilities. look, the reaper can carry all manner of sensors underneath it. so they re looking to try to affect the ability of that surveillance package, let s assume it s a surveillance package and that was their initial move. again, that s craziness if you ask me. it makes no sense at all and to beth s comment, she s absolutely spot-on. the united states doesn t want it to get into russian hands and we have something that would have a kill switch if something goes sideways and everything was done to try to scuttle it before the russians can get to it. a military incident now a diplomatic incident and let s see where it goes next. thank you both. so there are also more developments this morning on international efforts to hold russia accountable. the international criminal court will be opening two war crimes