and extreme poverty. hello and welcome to bbc news. us defence chiefs have identified what they say is a second chinese surveillance balloon, this time over latin america. the first balloon is floating across the us mid west. antony blinken, the us secretary of state, has cancelled a trip to beijing, and accused the chinese authorities of being irresponsible. china insists the balloon is a weather monitoring device which has blown off course amd has called for tensions between the washington and beijing to be handled in a cool headed and prudent manner. our north america correspondent
in the north of the united states. it prompted washington to cancel a high level visit to beijing, and accuse the chinese authorities of being irresponsible. china has apologised, but insisted it s simply a weather monitoring device which has been blown off course. our north america correspondent peter bowes has more on this. a surreal but increasingly serious international row. this speck in the sky could be spying on the us the chinese balloon that s been hovering over the country for several days. china insists it s a platform to conduct weather related research that s deviated from its route. beijing has apologised but the us state department says it stands by its assessment that the balloon is being used for surveillance, and defence officials now say there s a second balloon. we are seeing reports of a balloon