tensions with china. nbc news was first to report the suspected chinese surveillance balloon hovering over the northern united states around montana for the past few days. china is now responding claiming it is a civilian airship used for weather research that was blown off course. but how credible is that claim? minutes ago we learned secretary of state antony blinken is postponing his trip to china for what was supposed to be a highly anticipated meeting with china s leader next week. the pentagon is set to hold a briefing in the next hour. we know the department of defense is tracking the balloon closely, even at one point discussing shooting it down. we even have air traffic audio from wednesday about a, quote, special mission. we just got alerted from salt lake tmu we re on a ground stop right now until further notice for a special mission going on over the livingston area. we don t know exactly when we can have our next departure. it is landing with a thud on capito
those business records include entries in business ledgers kept by the trump organisation, cheques and cheques stubs from a donald] trump account, and invoices from his former lawyer, michael cohen, who testified that he paid daniels on behalf of trump to suppress her claim of an affair from 2006. 0ur north america correspondent nada tawfik is in new york with the latest. the jury went home without reaching a verdict on the first day, deliberating for nearly five hours. the judge started off the morning by instructing them, telling them to not let any bias against donald trump get in the way and to decide this case on the facts. and he instructed them that they need to find two parts to find donald trump guilty. first, that he personally or in concert with others falsified business records. and secondly, that he did that to conceal and with intent to conceal another crime. they said that other crime could include a violation of new york or federal election law, or even tax vi
government says it s investigating claims by a hackers that they have stolen the details of 560 million of its global customers. it could be a fresh crisis for the company s owner live nation whichjust last week was hit by a us government lawsuit accusing it of having a monopoly over the live music business and seeking to have it broken up. the bbc s monica miller is looking at this for us in singapore. this news just breaking, this newsjust breaking, what is the latest? we this newsjust breaking, what is the latest? is the latest? we know the u-rou is the latest? we know the grow) that is the latest? we know the group that emerged - is the latest? we know the group that emerged is - is the latest? we know the i group that emerged is named shiny hunters and online later they have stolen data including they have stolen data including the names, addresses, phone numbers and partial credit card details of customers and in the post it said the data was available for $500,0
aren t? no. i think it is a kind of, you know, they have an extraordinary level of options. profit margins are so huge and i think they re publicly traded and they saw a cloud cover them to have layoffs, the likes we haven t seen since 2002. so they did that to preserve and boost margins and get more leverage for the stock price and earnings reports. i don t think it jives in any way with the 517,000 jobs we saw created in this report. i mean, you could have a self-fulfilling recession where everybody on their therapist chair is saying, oh, my god, the economy is awful. it doesn t gibe with the numbers we re getting out of the bureau of labor statistics. cloud cover. all right, thank you. this morning, an official warning to ticketing giant ticketmaster. don t let it happen again. tickets for beyonce s first tour since 2018 go on sale next week. of course you remember the chaos of taylor swift s ticket sales in november. ticketmaster blames cyberattacks and bots, fans are worried