and a peace mission to south sudan the pope makes an unprecedented visit, alongside the leaders of the church of england and church of scotland. hello, and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. the giant chinese balloon that had been floating over the united states has been shot down by an american fighterjet off the coast of south carolina. the balloon, which the us says was being used to spy on military sites, appeared to plummet straight into the sea. china continues to insist it was a stray civilian weather observation airship. a short time ago, this is what president biden said. i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible, they decided without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided that the best time to do that was as it got overwater within a 12 mile limit. they successfully took it down, and i want to complement our aviators who did it, and we ll have more to report on a little later. our north america correspondent david wi
minister retains full confidence in the minister. democratic presidents are past and present head out on the campaign trail on the eve of the us mid term elections. mi; trail on the eve of the us mid-term elections. ~ , . , ., ., elections. my name is kendall and i like watching elections. my name is kendall and i like watching telly. there s a rise in the number of children needing help with speech, particularly among those who started school after the first covid lockdown. and a global medicalfirst blood grown in a laboratory has been given to people in a clinical trial. and coming up on the bbc news channel. southampton sack manager ralph hasenhuttel following yesterday s premier league defeat against newcastle which left the club in the relegation zone. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the head of the united nations has warned the cop27 climate conference in egypt that nations must co operate in the effort to reduce global emissions or perish. an
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. a court of appeals decides donald trump wil not be given presidential immunity for his role in the january 6th capitol riots, and must face a civil lawsuit. welcome back. at the cop climate summit in dubai today, the brazilian president, lula da silva, addressed the elephant in the room. we have a collective problem, he said, a lack of ambition, our current targets, he added, don t go anywhere near far enough. the evidence suggests he is right. today, the world meteorological organisation told us, with a month to go in 2023, the average global temperature is on track to be 1.4 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels. that is 2.5 fahrenheit. you might recall that the agreement in 2015, in paris, was to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees celsius and to pursue efforts to keep warming within the much safer limit of 1.5. few believe that that can now be achieved. and so, a lot of the fo
balloon that was floating around, and i hadn t been paid at paying attention to it before. sure enough, i looked up before. sure enough, i looked up and we found it. we also saw jet circling. i go back inside and i have my two and a half year old twins, but i m watching and that s that i m watching and that s that i m watching and that s that i m watching and playing with. i go back outside because i wanted to see if anything changed, and that s when i saw thejets looking like they were starting to go straight at the balloon, so he started filming it for my husband mainly who was inside and couldn t come out to watch it with me at the same time. and that s when you see what i m assuming was a missile go ahead at the balloon, and you see the balloon start to fall apart. you see the balloon start to fallapart. it you see the balloon start to fall apart. it was really, really wild to see that today, i did not expect it. i really wild to see that today, i did not expect it. i did not