plus more firepower for ukraine, the u.s. about to approve longer range missiles to counter russians on the battlefield. and too cold for school, classes in big cities like boston and buffalo canceled with the coldest windchills since the 1980s about to take hold. it is friday, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. right now chinese spies could be watching you from above from a high altitude spy balloon. the pentagon says they have been tracking this balloon about the size of three buss for days. people on the ground in montana at any didn t know what to make of it at first. there is the moon. all right. and then there is that. what planet is that? that sighting raises two big questions, what is it doing here and what does the biden administration plan to to about it. we get more from oren liebermann at the pentagon. reporter: for several days now the u.s. has been tracking this surveillance balloon over northern u.s.,
andy murray will be on court in a couple of hours, and novakjokovic starts his bid for the championship later on tuesday. we speak to the woman who s run 150 consecutive marathons and just completed an epic run across australia. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. we begin in the uk where the government has decided to block a controversial scottish bill designed to make it easierfor people to change their legal gender. it is the first use of a section 35 order, which can block scottish laws. scotland s first minister nicola sturgeon called the move a full frontal attack on the scottish parliament and vowed to oppose it. here s our political editor chris mason. this is the ceremonial mace. it represents the scottish parliament s authority. we re seeing it here at the opening of its sixth session the year before last. and next, the crown of scotland, a symbol of royal authority. but power is shared in the
human trafficking and rape. andy murray will be on court shortly at the australian open in melbourne. novak djokovic starts his bid for the championship later on tuesday. the italian movie icon gina lollobrigida has died at the age of 95. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. again in south asia. we begin. rescuers in nepal have recovered two more bodies from the site of sunday s plane crash. they say they don t expect to find any survivors. 72 people from at least nine countries were on board yeti airlines flight 691. a british man, ryan calum crighton, is one of the latest victims to be named. the plane was on an internal flight from the capital kathmandu to the tourist town of pokhara when it crashed just before landing. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan sent this report from the scene. scattered across the riverbank, fragments of flight 691. windows still intact. seats mangled close by. like pieces of a broken toy, the remnants o
another plane suddenly in its past. gio benitez standing by. the major storm hitting the west at this hour. the last in a brutal pattern of extreme weather. los angeles with more rain this month than all of last year. the new system moving coast to coast now, reaching the east by thursday. ginger zee timing it all out. the war in ukraine. the death toll rising from a russian missile strike on an apartment building in dnipro. at least 40 people killed, a dozen missing. while the u.s. is now training ukrainian forces here on american soil. matt gutman on the ground. news on the chilling plane crash in nepal, killing at least 69 people. authorities recovering the black boxes from the crash site. italy s most wanted mafia boss behind bars tonight after 30 years in hiding. back in the u.s., a university of alabama basketball player charged with murder, allegedly firing into a car near campus, killing a woman in the passenger seat. his coach coming before the cameras toda