The order to seek and destroy. Recovery teams are trying to salvage the wreckage. Youre watching bbc news. Now its time for powering ukraine. Russian missiles and drones rain down on ukraines civilian infrastructure, causing untold damage. Its been happening for months. This is ukraines energy war, a constant battle for heat and light, with an army of engineers racing to keep the country connected. For ukrainians, it has been a winter of darkness and uncertainty. How does a country respond when the stakes are so high . If the power system collapses, that would mean the suffering of tens of millions of people during wintertime. We cannot allow that, not on my watch. We follow the teams fighting this war. What the missiles destroy, they rebuild, in places where people are living on the edge. This power plant in Central Ukraine has been hit repeatedly. Its a huge place, but this is what well aimed russian missiles have done to the countrys infrastructure. Missile fragments litter the pla
now on bbc news, powering ukraine. russian missiles and drones rain down on ukraine s civilian infrastructure, causing untold damage. it s been happening for months. this is ukraine s energy war, a constant battle for heat and light, with an army of engineers racing to keep the country connected. for ukrainians, it has been a winter of darkness and uncertainty. how does a country respond when the stakes are so high? if the power system collapses, that would mean the suffering of tens of millions of people during wintertime. we cannot allow that, not on my watch. we follow the teams fighting this war. what the missiles destroy, they rebuild, in places where people are living on the edge. this power plant in central ukraine has been hit repeatedly. it s a huge place, but this is what well aimed russian missiles have done to the country s infrastructure. missile fragments litter the place. for security reasons, we have been asked not to identify the plant or its manager. so what
wednesday. this balloon is going down. this balloon has been taken down and falling from the sky. ashley: but officials want to know why it took seven days for the biden administration to handle this. china has been for some time and will be the primary strategic adversary of the united states. a message they are trying to send the world we can do whatever we want in the america can t stop us. they should not have this encouragement in the united states. we have a real problem. this bible and has become testing president biden strength and unfortunately the president failed that test. griff: brooke singman has more exclusive reporting and kicks things off for us on this monday morning. hey, brooke. with the gang of eight will be meeting as her list tomorrow for the briefing on the chinese spy balloon floating across the mainland last week. navy divers are working to recover debris after air force after air force f-22 fighter jet shut down the balloon on the coas
so now here s what we know. the balloon is about 200 feet high, the pay load, which you saw suspended beneath it to gather intelligence was about the size of a jetliner. that debris, which is expected to include glass solar panels was spread out over the size of 15 football fields. may have included battery material, explosives that would detonate that vehicle. the pieces now on their way, some of them, to the fbi lab at quantico for analysis. so there s a lot of discussion about how this thing was brought down and whether or not it maximized our ability to understand what it was and what was in it. as i mentioned, we re watching the white house. the press briefing is john going. we re waiting for fresh answers about what happened up there, new reaction. china says there might be a further response merited for the united states from our taking this out of the sky over the weekend. today fox news spoke with the gentleman who disclosed that this was up there in the sky without