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. live from our 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 being tracked. he added. he also said. i m joined now by peter bowes for more on this story. peter, great to get you on the show. in the first instance, what do we know about this? well, according to the pentagon, we know that the surveillance balloon, believed to be china s, has be
welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and in manila where there s been a big strategic development in the pacific rivalry between the us and china, with america sealing a deal to greatly increase its military presence in the philippines. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and in manila the agreement was signed off by the us defence secretary lloyd austin, after talks in the capital of the philippines. it represents a change in approach by president marcos. previous adminstrations tended to weaken their ties to washington. the deal gives the us access to four more military bases in the philippines, which will make a total of nine. neither country has said exactly where the new locations would be although it has been acknowledged that washington has requested access to bases on the northern land mass of luzon, the closest part of the philippines to taiwan, and on the island of palawan, facing
hilda heine is the former president of the low lying and vulnerable marshall islands. in a letter to the cop president seen by the reuters news agency she said reporters of the uae s reported ambitions were deeply disappointing and undermined the integrity of the cop presidency. in dubai, world leaders are dealing with warnings that we are nowhere near where we need to be to curb global warming. in the opening speech, the un secretary general said the earth s vital signs are failing . and king charles urged global leaders to rise to this unmissable opportunity with a sense of emergency. but when it comes to cutting down on fossilfuels, cdp formerly known as the carbon disclosure project argues that there isn t one major oil or gas company that has plans in place to phase them out. sherry madera is the ceo of cdp. i asked her if carbon capture will play a big role in the the future. i think carbon capture is one of the areas that we need to think of together col
so his expected preventing goals is the second best in the premier league. so, yes, he s doing well. but yes, also, he knows that in the champions league, he makes some mistakes. but all over, in the first five months, he is doing particularly well. european football s governing body, uefa, have condemned what they ve described as unacceptable violence which occured around the aston villa legia warsaw europa conference game. the win for villa was marred by crowd trouble before kick off in birmingham. flares and missiles were thrown by legia fans, as they clashed near villa park, leaving four police officers injued. more than a0 people are now in custody, according to west midlands police. away fans were banned from entering the ground over safety fears, triggered, seemingly, over restrictions on the numbers being allowed tickets for the game, reduced to just over a thousand. uefa say they re gathering reports before deciding next steps. to the women s game, where it s a big