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
of a new king of the zulu nation in the first such event in 50 years. and museums in glasgow agree to return looted artefacts back to india which were taken from temples and shrines during british rule in the 19th century. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. a couple of big developments from ukraine to bring you. the home of russia s black sea fleet in crimea sevastopol has once again come under drone attack. the russian installed regional head said a ukrainian drone had been shot down over a naval headquarters and fell onto the roof of the building. he said no damage had been done. several other drone attacks were reported overnight in crimea, including one at an airbase. meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin says un officials will be granted permission to visit and inspect the zaporizhzhia nuclear complex. the kremlin made the announcement after a call between mr putin and french president emmanuel macron late on friday. it came as
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