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Weekend: US military shoot down new unidentified object

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US military shoot down new unidentified object

12/02/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, US military shoot down new unidentified object

The US and Canada militaries have shot down a new mysterious object over Canada.

The US military has shot down a new unidentified object over Canada's north-western territory of Yukon.

Also in the programme: British MPs accuse BBC Chairman, Richard Sharp of "significant errors of judgement" for not declaring his involvement in helping Boris Johnson secure a sizeable loan, when he was Prime Minister. 

The death toll from the earthquake which hit Turkey and Syria earlier this week has now surpassed 28,000 with hopes of finding more survivors fading.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other stories are  Colleen Graffy, Associate Professor of Law, Caruso School of Law, Pepperdine University in California.  She's also a former United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Ramy Inocencio, the CBS News Foreign Correspondent in London.

(Picture: The U.S. Marine Corps version of Lockheed Martin"s F35 Joint Strike Fighter, F-35B test aircraft BF-2 flies with external weapons for the first time over the Atlantic test range at Patuxent River Naval Air Systems Command in Maryland in a February 22, 2012 file photo. Credit: REUTERS/Lockheed Martin/Handout UNITED STATES)

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