thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m fredericka witfield. we begin with the search for answers after the u.s. shot down what is described as an unidentified high altitude object. u.s. fighter jets taking it down after the coast of alaska friday. pentagon officials say they acted swiftly after the object about the size of a small car crossed into frozen territorial waters. it s the second time in less than a week that u.s. fighter jets have shot an object out of the sky following that chinese spy balloon taken down off the coast of south carolina last saturday. katie bow little lis is with us. what are we learning about this second object? reporter: this object is still quite a bit of a mystery. what we know is that on thursday the military observed this unknown object in us air space just off the coast of alaska. they sent up military aircraft to get a look at this thing. pilots weren t able to tell a whole lot. they could see it was flying at about 40,000 fe
millions face hunger in 31 degree temperatures. it s in! and the marvel of darvel how the sixth tier side felled a scottish premiership giant. and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel: ten years after she won her last grand slam title, victoria azarenka reaches the semi finals of the australian open, where the wimbledon champion awaits. after the organisers go bust. another borough. good evening. a bbc investigation into abuse and neglect at three children s homes and schools in doncaster has found that more than 100 reports of concern were made before they were closed. leaked documents show that children were said to have been badly mistreated, yet the regulator, 0fsted, continued to rate the homes as good, and there d been a0 separate alerts over three years. 0fsted s chief inspector says she s deeply sorry, and the hesley group, which ran the homes, has also apologised. some of the details in this report from noel titheridge you may find distressing. it has
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Queen elizabeth ii. Those are the headlines on bbc news. You are watching bbc news. Now on bbc news, amol rajan interviews ian hislop. Even by recent standards, 2022 has been a tumultuous year in news. Russia launched a War In Europe. Her late majesty Queen Elizabeth ii died just months after her Platinum Jubilee. And britain went through three Prime Ministers and even more chancellors. One man whos tried to make sense of it is ian hislop, whether on tv or as editor of private eyes fortnightly magazine and latest annual. I visited his office for a conversation not just about recent news, but also why its been a turn off for some and why we need proper journalism more than ever. Ian, thank you so much for talking to me and to bbc news. Lets start, if youre happy to, with a few kind of reflections on this year, because in recent years the news agenda has often felt pretty crazy. Yeah. And overwhelming, but this year, even more than most, weve had War In Europe, the death of her late maje
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