the boss of tesla, elon musk, is cleared of fraud charges brought against him by the company s shareholders. china has made another attempt to calm the diplomatic crisis caused by the detection of a chinese surveillance balloon over the united states. the top foreign policy official wang yi has discussed the dispute with the us secretary of state anthony blinken, who postponed a trip to beijing this weekend in response to the dispute. china insists the balloon is a weather obervation airship that went off course, but washington says it s being used for spying. our north america correspondent, peter bowes, reports. 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 t
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Residents of a UK town are left furious as the area has been turned into a mess of bird poo due to seagulls and pigeons. Ashford Borough Council (ABC) was preparing to bring in a hawk to scare off the birds but this has been dropped.
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Bird watchers have been enjoing some epic aerial entertainment on a trading estate in the west of england. tracey miller went to join them. the mesmerising spectacle of thousands of starlings. it s footage like this that s brought us to the unlikely location of trading estate near tewkesbury. doesn t it seem strange that they re going to be roosted in this industrial estate? well, if you see the state of the flora, they have of the floor, they have definitely been here before. it s not gum. that s a load of bird poo. but these birds will be travelling a long way. they will be coming from 15 20 miles in all directions, and they will be coming in to roost communally. and whilst they are doing that, they will be keeping warm and they will be sharing information about the feeding places they have been that day, and also, by murmurating above the roosting sites, they make sure they can avoid predators like peregrine falcons. it s never guaranteed they ll show up, but as dusk began to fall,