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.
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. i guess people are looking for the bogeyman behind the curtain. there are over simplistic explanation. voice-over: live simplistic explanation. voice over: live from our voice 0ver: live from our studio voice 0ver: live from our studio in voice over: live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc 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
self steering capability, it deviated far from the planned course. the chinese side regrets the unintended entry into u.s. air space, the chinese side will continue communicating with the u.s. and properly handle this unexpected situation cause. the chinese are trying to emphasize that they did not have control over where this balloon actually ended up. that it strayed far from its coors and not on purpose. clearly trying to ease tensions but the u.s. is not necessarily buying that. and just a few minutes ago, during a press briefing the pentagon press secretary said, looking we know that this balloon was not just the weather and it is actually for intelligence gathering purposes. we are aware of the prc s installment however, fact is we know that it s a surveillance balloon i m not going to be able to be more specific. we do know that the balloon violated u.s. air space and international law, which is unacceptable and so we ve conveyed this directly to the
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weapons. in addition to that, of course, the u.s. is talking really around the clock with allies in the region and even around the world to see what they have, that they can contribute to this effort. weapons they may have that may be of russian origin, soviet origin, that the ukrainians would be familiar with, would be able to use readily. the u.s. effort goes on, but earlier today, the pentagon press secretary, one more time, spelled out what the limits are. we get them into ukrainian hands, places outside the country, and then ukrainians bring them into the country and they distribute them, they put them in usually some sort of temporary storage while they again distribute them to their troops and get them into the battlefield where and when they see fit. it is their property and we don t want to be in a position where we re dictating to them or trying to guide them in terms of how and when and how fast they get on to the field of battle. it is a challenge.