So theyre not paying bank fees and a lot in health, new vaccines. So were by far the biggest funder on malaria, coming up with new bed nets, new drugs. A vaccine, a way of killing mosquitoes. Yeah, but if you think about this in terms of ethics, are you driven in your philanthropy mostly by excitement, by the potential outcome, or does it come from some deep psychological motive, you know, guilt, a feeling that you should live a life thats purposeful, a feeling that, you know, you genuinelyjust dont know what to do with this cash . I not only want to put the money in, but i want to put my time in and assemble people so we can learn, you know, what Health Systems work, which ones dont. I, you know, find the work very fulfilling. I get to learn new things. Get to go to interesting places. Yeah. Theres no sacrifice involved. Its. Well, its quite a lot of financial sacrifice sure, but i dont have any use for that money. I mean, im not denying myself, you know, the worlds best cheeseburger,
the australian tennis star nick kyrgios is due in court in canberra later, charged with an alleged assault of a former partner in 2021. and covid, vaccines, and those conspiracy theories we speak to the microsoft founder and philanthropist, bill gates. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news from the us where the defence department says it s confident a balloon spotted over montana is a surveillance platform from china. a short while ago, the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder put a statement on the us department of defence website confirming the high altitude surveillance balloon is being tracked. he added. he also said. i m joined now by peter bowes for more on this story. peter, great to get you on the show. in the first instance, what do we know about this? well, according to the pentagon, we know that the surveillance balloon, believed to be china s, has be
the australian tennis star nick kyrgios is due in court in canberra later, charged with an alleged assault of a former partner in 2021. and covid, vaccines and those conspiracy theories we speak to the microsoft founder and philanthropist, bill gates. i guess people are looking for the bogeyman behind the curtain. there are over simplistic explanation. voice-over: live simplistic explanation. voice over: live from our voice 0ver: live from our studio voice 0ver: live from our studio in voice over: live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news from the us, where the defence department says it s confident a balloon spotted over montana is a surveillance platform from china. a short while ago, the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder put a statement on the us department of defence website confirming the high altitude surveillance balloon is b
killer has been arrested in france after 16 years on the run. he was hiding out as a pizza chef. and covid, vaccines and those conspiracy theories we speak to the microsoft founder, bill gates. i guess people are looking for the bogeyman behind the curtain their oversimplistic explanation. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. and we begin in the us where the department of defence says a chinese surveillance balloon is hovering over the northern us. officials at the pentagon say the balloon had flown over the state of montana, but haven t revealed its current location. the pentagon press secretary brigadeer general pat ryder posted a statement on the department of defence website saying the balloon is being tracked. he added: he also said: our north america correspondent peter boes joins me now. we heard from officials say it isn t a threat but what more do we know about the story? this is unusual we know about the story? this is unusual but we
a convicted italian mafia killer has been arrested in france after 16 years on the run. he was hiding out as a pizza chef. and covid, vaccines and those conspiracy theories. we speak to the microsoft founder, bill gates. i guess people are looking for the bogeyman behind the curtain their oversimplistic explanation. and we begin in the us, where the department of defense says a chinese surveillance balloon is hovering over the northern us. officials at the pentagon say the balloon had flown over the state of montana, but haven t revealed its current location. these are the first pictures we have received, which are believed to be of the baloon. the department of defense says the baloon was most certainly launched by china, but there s been no word yet from beijing. the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder posted a statement on the department of defense website, saying the balloon is being tracked. our north america correspondent, peter bowes, has been follow