live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. republicans have criticised president biden over the amount of time it took to shoot down a chinese observation balloon that flew across the united states. china has said shooting down the balloon was an obvious over reaction. the diplomatic fall out is continuing, as warships try to recover the debris. secretary of state antony blinken was due to be in beijing this week, but he postponed the trip after the balloon was discovered. barbara plett usher reports from beijing. for days, this solitary object floated serenely through us airspace, putting a diplomatic crisis onto television screens in real time. was it a harmless weather balloon, as the chinese claimed, or a spy in the sky? moments after it arrived over the atlantic, the us brought an explosive end to the drama. that trail of white vapour you see on the left of the screen is an american fighterjet heading for the balloon. the second vapour trail is fr
play, so it s amazing and thank you. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. there s been international condemnation of the self styled referendums being held in parts of ukraine onjoining russia. the g7, the group of seven wealthiest nations, have called the votes a sham, as reports emerged of russian forces intimidating people into voting. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson, in the south and cover around fifteen percent of ukraine s territory. voting is expected to run until tuesday, and the results seem almost certain to go in moscow s favour. these pictures, filmed in russian occupied donetsk, show representatives taking polling cards to people in their own homes. our correspondent hugo bachega explains how kyiv views the voting. ukraine has dismissed this so called referendum as a farce and says it has no legitimacy and western coun
Crowd afterwards which was amazing. 0zzy then spent the rest of the festival as a bit of a celebrity. every five seconds, someone new was coming up and saying, hi, it s 0zzy, it s the guy from the killers, he s the drummer. and everyone was so lovely, just like really down to earth people, you know, being lovely. so are you then just known as 0zzy from near bath? pretty much. for two days i was known as 0zzy from near bath. a dream come true for this teenager who is off to college to study music soon, but playing to an audience the size of reading festival will be a hard one to beat. well done,. here s ben rich. let s head into a popular holiday destination for brits. the storm centre is probably going
0zzy 0sborne was the perfect ringmaster. birmingham forever! but vying with him to be one of the stars of the commonwealth games was the unlikely figure of a giant mechanical bull. introduced at the opening ceremony, it was a great symbol of the city, with its eyes ablaze and nostrils smoking. he was, though, destined for an ignominious end, bound for the scrapheap, until the public intervened and launched a campaign to save him. his saviours were then awarded naming rights, and, as 0zzy, he was rebranded and reborn. the man himself was speechless, almost. i can t believe it. i m absolutely blown away. thank you for all your votes. i don t know what to say any more. i m just thrilled to bits. god bless you all, and birmingham forever! he s been rebuilt piece by enormous piece, made fireproof and will once