the australian tennis star nick kyrgios is due in court in canberra later, charged with an alleged assault of a former partner in 2021. and covid, vaccines and those conspiracy theories we speak to the microsoft founder and philanthropist, bill gates. i guess people are looking for the bogeyman behind the curtain. there are over simplistic explanation. voice-over: live simplistic explanation. voice over: live from our voice 0ver: live from our studio voice 0ver: live from our studio in voice over: live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news from the us, where the defence department says it s confident a balloon spotted over montana is a surveillance platform from china. a short while ago, the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder put a statement on the us department of defence website confirming the high altitude surveillance balloon is b
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congratulations to you. vladimir putin at speaking this morning. some breaking news on the new manager at manchester united. 0ur sports correspondent andy swissjoins us from old trafford. yes, confirmation that erik ten hag, who is currently the manager of eye acts in amsterdam will be the next manchester of manager of manchester of manager of manchester united. they have now confirmed he will be their next manager, they have released a statement saying in our conversations leading up to this appointment, we were deeply impressed in his drive and determination. erik ten hag said it was a great honour to be appointed and i m hugely excited by the challenge ahead. he has achieved