congress finally receives a classified briefing on the matter today. the senate being updated at this hour after the house was briefed earlier today. sandra: all of this as senior u.s. military and national security officials warn and have confirmed that spy balloon shot down off south carolina s coast on saturday was part of a major surveillance program run by china s military. so, what else are lawmakers learning in these briefings? we ll ask tennessee senator marsha blackburn and california democratic congressman ro khanna coming up. john: begin with lawmakers sparring over the politization of the federal government and whether the justice department has been weaponized against republicans. hello, i m john roberts in washington. let me be the first to say it, sandra, happy friday eve. sandra: and we made it to thursday. good to be with you, john. i m sandra smith in new york. america reports. republican-led committee says many questions need to be answered by the f
arrived in birmingham for the conservative party conference, as she admits that there has been disruption in the uk economy following the mini budget. the ukrainian military says it has regained control of the strategic eastern town of lyman in the donetsk region from russian troops just a day after moscow annexed the area. now on bbc news, it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m gavin ramjaun. who can catch arsenal at the top? mikel arteta s side are too good for tottenham in the north london derby. keeping the pressure on rangers hit four past hearts, but rivals celtic end the day top. it s pole for leclerc in singapore and a spanner in the works for verstappen as he chases a second f1 title. welcome to the programme. arsenal s superb start to the season goes on, after a dominant performance in the north london derby to beat rivals tottenham 3 1 this lunchtime. spurs weren t helped by a red card as they missed the chance to leapfrog their riva
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hello and welcome to your monday one show, live on bbc one and iplayer with lauren laverne. and alexjones. and what a way to kick off the week we have a sofa full of stars. we re joined by hollywood actor jada pinkett smith who is giving herfirst uk tv interview about her explosive new memoir. sir tom jones and will.i.am are on the search for the next singing sensation in the latest series of the voice they ll be revealing which new celeb will have their hand on the buzzer this year. and comedian and tv presenter rhod gilbert will be telling us why he s lending his voice to raising money and awareness of cancer after his own devastating diagnosis. and professorjames logan follows a specialist team as they deal with an urgent threat to the nation s bees. very scary, that, isn t it? and as ever, if you have a question for any of our guests tonight please do get in touch. all the details are on screen now. first tonight we all know that council budgets are being squeezed
i questioned about the cost of fuel. this accelerated cost of fuel has cost these airlines to move money away from improvements and use it to just get the fuel to put in the planes to get them in the air. john: you know, i had a flight from san diego to washington, it was supposed to be a direct flight. because of the fuel problem in san diego, we had to fly to los angeles to gas up the plane before we came across country. i want to ask you about the chinese spycraft and the spy flight across the united states. had you a classified briefing on it. obviously you can t answer every question but what questions did you go into the briefing with and were they answered? we did not get sufficient answers in the briefing. i got the feeling they knew this was out is there, they followed it for several days, they wouldn t have said anything if it had not been for a citizen