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the united states before being downed off the coast of south carolina. we have fox team coverage with alexandria hoff and lucas tomlinson at the lawn of the white house. and we begin with you, lucas with the white house response. it s not clear where the object was first detected by u.s. forces and later shot down. the pentagon and norad are refusing to say. president biden was asked about the latest operation and only gave a one-word answer. do you have anything to say about the object shot down over alaska? success. right now, the u.s. air force special operatings, helicopters like this, along with rescue planes and chinook helicopters on skis are combing over the rugged coast of alaska where the object was blasted out of the sky by an f-22 raptor from the he elmendorf base. we re calling this an object, that s the best description, we don t know who owns it whether it s state owned for corporate owned or privately owned. we don t know that. it was flying ....
apparently using a standard formula. biting cold in afghanistan official figures say dozens have died as temperatures drop to 30 below freezing. and australia s toadzilla a record breaking cane toad that s six times bigger than the average is found in queensland. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. ukraine s president, volodymr zelensky, has made a direct appeal to germany to provide tanks at crucial talks involving western allies in germany. the us and european nations have already promised more equipment to fight russia s invasion, but kyiv wants them to go further. both sides of the conflict are expected to launch full scale offensives in the spring. ukraine wants nato countries to supply it with germany s highly regarded leopard 2 tanks. but european countries are not supposed to export them without berlin s permission. and germany is reluctant to allow that unless the us also sends its own tanks. the uk has already promised to send 1 ....
both with one another, and also with our many allies and partners. and could one of britain s richest men become the new owner of manchester united football team? live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. we begin in china where an unwelcome milestone has been reached. the country s population fell for the first time since the 1960s, and the national birth rate also fell to the lowest it s been since data collection began, in 1949. the announcement on tuesday comes alongside one of china s worst economic performances in almost half a century the labour force is shrinking, as the country s retired population keeps growing. this also means india is expected to overtake china as the world s most populous nation later this year. let s take a look at some of the numbers. china s population last year was over 1.4 billion people, according to official data that s a decrease of 850,000 people from 2021. as for ....
price manipulation. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start with some breaking news from the philippines, where the journalist and nobel peace prize winner maria ressa and her news site rappler have been acquitted by a court in the capital manila, of tax evasion charges. ms ressa, who was awarded the nobel prize alongside a russian journalist in 2021, is head of rappler, which earned a reputation for its in depth reporting and tough scrutiny of the former president rodrigo duterte. she was convicted in 2020 for libel, and does face several other charges, which she says are politically motivated. she spoke a short time ago. today, facts win. truth wins. justice wins. a brazen abuse of power. voice waivers and meant to stop journalists from doing theirjobs, but these cases are where capital markets, where rule of law, where press freedom meet, right? so, this acquittal inaudible is notjust for us, for rappler, it is for every filipino who ....
over accusations of share price manipulation. hello and welcome to the programme. the philippinejournalist and nobel peace prize winner maria ressa has been acquitted of tax evasion charges by a manila court. her news site, rappler, was also cleared of tax evasion. ms ressa, who was awarded the nobel prize alongside a russian journalist in 2021, is head of rappler, which earned a reputation for its in depth reporting and tough scrutiny of the former president rodrigo duterte. she was convicted in 2020 for libel and does face several other charges, which she says are politically motivated. she spoke a short time ago. today, facts win, truth wins, justice wins. a brazen abuse of power. voice waivers and meant to stop journalists from doing theirjobs, but.give me a second, these cases are where capital markets, where rule of law, where press freedom meet, right? so, this acquittal inaudible is notjust for us, for rappler, it is for every filipino who has ever been unjust ....