may be slowing down. hello, and welcome to bbc news. the giant chinese balloon that had been floating over the united states has been shot down by an american fighterjet off the coast of south carolina. the balloon, which the us says was being used to spy on military sites, appeared to plummet straight into the sea. china continues to insist it was a stray civilian weather observation airship. david willis is our correspondent in washington. officials here are saying that this chinese balloon was brought down about six miles off the coast of south carolina by a single missile fired by a us fighterjet. now, president biden had apparently given permission for such a strike on wednesday, that is a day before the actual presence of this balloon was made public. military officials decided to hold back for fear that it could spray debris down onto the mainland and hurt people on the mainland and hurt people on the ground below. then, today, as it was crossing the coast of south car
say they re looking for a key witness. officers want to speak to a woman who was wearing a yellow coat and pushing a pram near the river wyre. now on bbc news, the travel show. advice to the courts has been given that warrants for the forced installation of prepaid metres in the uk could be waved through. more than 1000 once a day were approved by magistrates last year as the cost of living crisis put many customers into arrears. earlier this week the regulator, offer jam, asked firms to suspend the compulsory installation of the devices after a couple of times investigation showed british gas subcontractors breaking into homes of vulnerable people. 0fgem. this was into homes of vulnerable people. 0fgem. this was the footage that trust energy companies firmly under the spotlight. an undercover reporter from the times showed that collectors working for british gas breaking into the home of a single father with young children, to fit a prepayment metre. energy suppliers c
say they re looking for a key witness . officers want to speak to a woman who was wearing a yellow coat and pushing a pram near the river wyre. now on bbc news, our world: jessica and austin: when murder goes viral. injune 2020, three friends found a suitcase washed up on a beach, accidentally defining the story of a murdered couple. wait, open it. laughter open it. as the videos went viral, people started speculating the clicks and shares complicating the investigation. it might even be linked - to a network of serial killers in the dark web. this is where they found the two suitcases. they re notjust entertainment. and theories on social media impacted what would end up being a two year trial and changed the lives of two families. it s not suitcases that washed up. it was my son and it wasjessica. they were human beings. when your loved one s death has gone viral, how do you remember their life before the headlines? happy mother s day, mom. give me a call. i love you. my
connection to slavery. hello and welcome to bbc news. the giant chinese balloon that had been floating over the united states has been shot down by an american fighterjet off the coast of south carolina. the balloon, which the us says was being used to spy on military sites, appeared to plummet straight into the sea. china continues to insist it was a stray civilian weather observation airship. our correspondent david willis has more from washington. officials here are saying that this chinese balloon was brought down about six miles off the coast of south carolina by a single missile fired by a us fighterjet. now, president biden had apparently given permission for such a strike on wednesday, that is a day before the actual presence of this balloon was made public. military officials decided to hold back for fear that it could spray debris down onto the mainland and hurt people on the ground below. then, today, as it was crossing the coast of south carolina, they closed loca
so they re not paying bank fees and a lot in health, new vaccines. so we re by far the biggest funder on malaria, coming up with new bed nets, new drugs. ..a vaccine, a way of killing mosquitoes. yeah, but if you think about this in terms of ethics, are you driven in your philanthropy mostly by excitement, by the potential outcome, or does it come from some deep psychological motive, you know, guilt, a feeling that you should live a life that s purposeful, a feeling that, you know, you genuinelyjust don t know what to do with this cash? i not only want to put the money in, but i want to put my time in and assemble people so we can learn, you know, what health systems work, which ones don t. i, you know, find the work very fulfilling. i get to learn new things. get to go to interesting places. yeah. there s no sacrifice involved. it s. well, it s quite a lot of financial sacrifice! sure, but i don t have any use for that money. i mean, i m not denying myself, you know, the wor