for seven and a half days. more than 7000 people are now known to have died and that number is expected to rise and not focuses on getting aid to the thousands who have survived. also in the programme, the new family of the victim was legally stabbed says that her death is of the massive hole in their lives. officials have been explaining more about the series of objects that have been shot down from their airspace. three were shut down this past week and we have just been hearing from the white house sink have not been able to identify with these objects are. but they maintain that this balloon which was shot on the 4th of february was a suspected spy the 4th of february was a suspected spy balloon from china. his national security spokesperson speaking in the last few moments stability were able to determine that china does have a boon for this intelligence collection that is connected to the people s liberation army. it was operating during the previous administration but
good evening and welcome to bbc news. the us national government has officially shutdown, year to the day after donald trump took office as president. senators failed to agree a stopgap budget and there was bitter dispute between republicans and democrats over immigration and security. this report from washington. with the midnight deadline looming they came up well short of the 60 votes needed. without a funding agreement in place, the government of the largest economy in the world was now only minutes away from shutdown. you ll actually chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not passed. the way things turned today and the way you turned from a bipartisan deal, it is almost as if you were rooting for a shutdown, and how you were rooting for a shutdown, and now we will have one, and the blame should crash entirely on president trump s shoulders. the white house ina trump s shoulders. t