live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. republicans have criticised president biden over the amount of time it took to shoot down a chinese observation balloon that flew across the united states. china has said shooting down the balloon was an obvious over reaction. the diplomatic fall out is continuing, as warships try to recover the debris. secretary of state antony blinken was due to be in beijing this week, but he postponed the trip after the balloon was discovered. barbara plett usher reports from beijing. for days, this solitary object floated serenely through us airspace, putting a diplomatic crisis onto television screens in real time. was it a harmless weather balloon, as the chinese claimed, or a spy in the sky? moments after it arrived over the atlantic, the us brought an explosive end to the drama. that trail of white vapour you see on the left of the screen is an american fighterjet heading for the balloon. the second vapour trail is fr
test [ singing non-english ] the people that come here, are the island hopping or is this the destination? island hopping happens a lot in the summer. someone that has arranged a vacation in greece will probably want to visit at least two or three islands. how many in this group? there are about 15 or maybe more. and the rest. there is a lot of history in the greek islands. zeus himself was said to live there and his son frolicked and presumably drank and danced all night. these days you have to go to mika nose for that. he runs a bar in athens but comes out here frequently to get away from it all. he would dig boarding about. it has this heir of mysticism that doesn t exist in the other island. a big laugh on the rocks. i will have a sip. it puts it into perspective when you start with a drink. it is a perfect day for the beach. i like the wind. it is one of the cool things. the breeze. it is our main pastime, talking about the wind. the wind is coming
it is an expensive thing to do. a lot of people when they lost their jobs, theirjob would be quite the same as it was, and there is an opportunity to really think about jobs for tomorrow. opportunity to really think about jobs for tomorrow. overall, covid disru tion jobs for tomorrow. overall, covid disruption resulted jobs for tomorrow. overall, covid disruption resulted in jobs for tomorrow. overall, covid disruption resulted in a jobs for tomorrow. overall, covid disruption resulted in a decrease | jobs for tomorrow. overall, covid l disruption resulted in a decrease of less than 10% of carbon emissions, and it isn t yet known how much of thatis and it isn t yet known how much of that is due to an increase in working from home. but scientists are continuing to work to establish what role it could play going forward. emma calder, bbc news. coming up in the next hour with joanna gosling, she will be talking to our
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