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An American surveillance drone has been brought down over the Black Sea – after it was hit by a Russian aircraft. 

Fox News may have served as a very public platform for the baseless claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, but behind the scenes things were very different. 

Earlier we spoke to the Chinese American journalist Kaiser Quo and we began by asking him what we should read into what the Chinese Foreign Minister has been saying?

China’s foreign minister has warned of potential conflict with the United States – declaring that a policy of “all out containment and suppression” was a “zero sum game”. In his first press conference since taking on the job, Qin Gang said China’s close ties with Russia were a model for global foreign relations. It follows…

The head of America’s FBI has said he believes that the Coronavirus pandemic most likely originated in a Chinese lab. Christopher Wray said agency assessments had long suggested that “a potential lab incident” in Wuhan was behind the outbreak. 

The repercussions of a massive toxic chemical spill in a small town in Ohio – after a freight train carrying carcinogenic waste veered off the tracks and caught fire three weeks ago – continue to reverberate across the US.

Their town was shrouded in clouds of black fumes after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed – but when residents of East Palestine in Ohio tried to meet representatives of the train company last night demanding answers, the company didn’t show up.

We speak to Dr Oriana Skylar Mastro, currently a Professor at Stanford University, but previously a senior China Strategist for the US Air Force.

A diplomatic spat is deepening between China and the US as they accuse one another of sending up spy balloons into each other’s airspace.  

The former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, was once a close ally of Donald Trump.

We spoke to Gregory Falco, an aerospace security expert at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore who also advises the US Homeland Security Department.

A fortnight ago the world barely knew anything about high altitude spy balloons.

US fighter jets have shot down an unidentified object in the skies over Alaska, although authorities say they don’t believe it was a spy balloon. The object, which was the size of a car, and reportedly described by one official as silver coloured and cylindrical, was first spotted on Thursday, flying at around the same…

The United States has insisted  that the high altitude Chinese balloon which it shot down last night over the Atlantic was being used for surveillance. President Biden described the mission as a success while the US Navy and Coast guards are now searching the area for debris. China has lodged a formal protest,   accusing…

We were joined by Lord Ricketts – a senior British diplomat who served as the UK’s national security adviser.