hello. i m vishala sri pathma. japanese media say the prime minister, fumio kishida, has been evacuated after an explosion was heard while he was giving a speech. tv footage appeared to show officers clearing the area and removing a man from the scene. one report said a pipe like object had been thrown near mr kishida. details are still coming in about the incident in the city of wakayama. there was no immediate official confirmation of the blast, with local police declining to comment. japanese officials say mr kishida, who is 65, is safe and unharmed. he has beenjapanese leader since october 2021. japan has bolstered security after the assassination of former prime minister shinzo abe, who was shot and killed while speaking at a campaign event injuly 2022. we have footage of what happened at the event from an the japanese broadcaster. this is the report from the city, and you see officials taking them away from wakayama. let s speak to our correspondent, yetunde yusuf. what
may wish to send spy balloons. we will shoot it down as soon as it s safe for us to do so and we won t hesitate, and we will in fact also retaliate against your country and other ways in which we will determine for ourselves. you will not enter our airspace. there will be punishment. this is. and that s the sort of messaging i hope the biden administration will engage in. and viscera string. we mentioned biden there. we could listen again now for him. just to recap. breaking news over the last few minutes. phone but wasn t big enough just to see with your eyes? a chinese spy balloon has been shut down by the us, they waited for it to get over the sea, they didn t want to wait while it was overland but it cleared south carolina, got over us waters, they took it down with a jet and a missile and they are now recovering that balloon from the sea. once we had confirmation that that had all happened, president biden gave a short interview to reporters, let s take a listen. i i
passes a tough new law. i have just bought this book, recently published, it is a gay love story but if you look inside, you can see parts of it have actually been re deducted. we speak to the actor brendan fraser, who s being widely tipped for an oscar nomination for his role in the whale, which critics are calling one of the most powerful performances of the year. iam going i am going to need to be the voice for those who live the way he does, to depict him with respect. and surfing into the record books it looks like a french woman has set a new record in california. hello and welcome to the programme. the suspect in a shooting in los angeles, which killed 10 people and left another 10 wounded, has been found dead by police. he shot himself inside a white van that officers had surrounded. he s been identified as a 72 year old man of asian descent. saturday s mass shooting took place at a dance venue in monterey park, during lunar new year celebrations. at a news confere
hacked stucco though i was looking through these images, and i took a break. looking through these images, and i took a break. i looking through these images, and i took a break. i was looking through these images, and i took a break. i was overwhelmed. | took a break. i was overwhelmed. and in the uk, there once again fresh calls for borisjohnson to resign as new photos emerge of gatherings going on inside downing street during lockdown. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. let s start with some breaking news for you at this hour. a gunman has shot dead at least 14 students and a teacher at a primary school in the us state of texas. the governor greta abbott says the attacker was 18 years old greg abbott, who said there was believed to be killed by officers. the shooting was in the city of you all the. the assailant was thought to have a handgun and possibly a rifle. the president will be briefed regularly. we are getting reports that
on the transfer of $6 billion of iranian funds, money that iran earned from selling oil to south korea. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet reports. the first steps to freedom. finally, leaving iran. two hours later, touching down in doha, imagine the emotion inside this plane, and opening the door on a new life, five former prisoners. relief and joy palpable as they embraced american and qatari officials. the success of months of indirect talks here between arch enemies, iran and america. these are three of the freed prisoners. two others did not want their identity revealed. 67 year old, morad tahbaz, arrested five years ago, in a crackdown on environmental activists. emad shargi, 58 year old, a businessman arrested in 2020, also on charges of spying. and 51 year old siamak namazi, who spent the longest in the notorious evin prison. and oil executive. he issued this statement today. we spoke to one of his relatives who also spent time in evin prison. it is a j