welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a remarkable news day with us. we begin with a brazen spy drama. straight to the pentagon, the briefing on a chinese balloon over montana. conducting press briefings in our temporary press briefing room while other primary location undergoes technical renovations and upgrades. we greatly appreciate your patience and flexibility as we work to install some long, overdue upgrades to the pentagon press briefing room. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call in options will not be available so for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and we ll aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward we ll look at ways to improve our briefi
floating above the continental united states, and we don t know what data it s collecting. you can see it right there on your screen and it s visable to people on the ground in montana. at least it has been since wednesday. today beijing confirmed it is theirs, claiming it is a, quote, unquote, civilian research air ship that went off course, but minutes ago, the pentagon flatly rejected that claim, calling it a surveillance balloon. secretary of state antony blinken s upcoming trip to china has now been postponed. the pro vocative move is inflaming a u.s.-china relationship already on the brink with tensions over everything from taiwan to tiktok. cnn s natasha bertrand is here to break it all down for us. natasha, there is so much to talk about here. so let s start at the beginning. what do we know about this balloon? yeah. so here, just to get a sense for the scale of this thing, this is the balloon, and what we know about it is that it is the size of about three busses.
remains will be joining her. he s in the general vault underneath the chapel now. so it is going to it s a multi-part commemoration and each part is going to be equally dramatic and i think the crowds in london and windsor are going to be extraordinary. right. when george vi, when he had the lying in state in westminster hall, in 1952, there was something like 305,000 filed by the catafalque an i think we re going to see way more than that. sally, thank you. sally smith, isa suarez and bianca, i m grateful. we see there the vigil continues with members of the various scottish regiments and military now taking their place as well at the catafalque. alison and victor, i think what you we ve said a million times and it s worth repeating we ve never seen anything like this before. we ve prepared for it. we ve known about it. but the size and scale of this is going to be so enormous. it will it will be other magnitude we ve not seen before, especially when the world le
federal judge unsealed a search warrant yesterday. that at the request of the justice department and the trump s approval. , questions remain about that search is the affidavit for the warrant was not made public yet. more questions about why trump had the highly classified material in his house in the first place. experts say is against the law and has prompted the espionage investigation. we have team fox news coverage charles watson is live and mar-a-lago were supporters of the former president have been gathering. as you can see behind him. reversal go to lucas tomlinson in washington with the very latest on this investigation. good afternoon erica. many people want to see the affidavit to learn why the search warrant was authorized in the first place. new york times reports one oil for former president trump signed a written statement for the justice department claiming all the documents of classified markings had been returned from mar-a-lago in a meeting in early j
You guessed it, its eurovision time again coming up in the sport on bbc news, Europa League and potential Champions League prizes both on offer for Manchester United ahead of their second leg against celta vigo at old trafford. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. If a leaked copy of labours manifesto is anything to go by, the party is about to propose some of the most sweeping changes to its policies in a generation. The draft proposals seen by the bbc range from renationalising the railways and parts of the energy sector, an emphasis on workers rights to scrapping tuition fees in england. This afternoon, party chiefs signed off on an amended version of the document. Jeremy corbyn, who said the final, fully costed manifesto will be published in a few days, described it as transformative. The conservatives called it the road to ruin. Heres our Political Editor laura kuennsberg. They wondered what exactly was going on, and you might too. This was meant to be the grand unveil