Belarusian helicopters have violated Polish airspace, says Warsaw; Minsk denies | Oneindia News
Belarusian helicopters violated Polish airspace, says Warsaw; NATO allies beef up security due to Wagner troops’ presence in Belarus; Typhoon Khanun wreaks havoc in Japan; China sees heaviest rainfall since 1883; Voyager-2 found outside Solar System after erroneous command cut ties with Earth.
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00:00 The Polish government has announced that two Belarusian helicopters violated Polish airspace
00:12 by crossing the border into Poland.
00:14 Minsk denies the claim, but eyewitness accounts have also confirmed that the aircraft crossed
00:19 the border.
00:20 Warsaw has condemned the incident and summoned the Belarusian charge d'affaires to explain
00:25 it.
00:26 On Monday morning, shortly after 9am local time, a photographer in north-east Poland
00:31 posted photographs on Facebook showing two Belarusian military helicopters.
00:35 Other local residents also reported seeing the aircraft.
00:39 Shortly afterwards, the operational command of Poland's armed forces issued a statement
00:43 saying that Polish airspace had not been violated and that the helicopters were conducting patrols
00:48 on the Belarusian side of the border.
00:50 However, in the evening, the defence ministry issued a contradictory statement revealing
00:55 that the Belarusian aircraft had, in fact, crossed the border into Poland.
01:03 NATO allies located along the alliance's eastern front are growing worried about the presence
01:07 of Russia-linked Wagner Group mercenaries in Belarus, where some have been deployed
01:12 since a short-lived mutiny in Russia in June.
01:14 Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, the members of NATO and the European Union, which border
01:19 Belarus had already been on alert since large numbers of migrants and refugees began arriving
01:25 at their borders from Belarus two years ago.
01:27 They have accused Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko, an ally of Russia, of opening
01:32 the migration route in an act of hybrid warfare aimed at creating instability in the West.
01:41 Severe flooding in Beijing was caused by the heaviest rainfall in 140 years.
01:45 According to local meteorologists, there is little respite for the region as Typhoon Khanun
01:50 lashes Punjab with wind and air.
01:52 Between Saturday and Wednesday morning, 744.8 mm of rain fell in the Chinese capital from
01:58 the remnants of Typhoon Doksuri.
02:00 According to the Beijing Meteorological Department, this is the heaviest rain received over consecutive
02:04 days since 1883.
02:06 Meanwhile, Typhoon Khanun packed winds of 220 km/hr.
02:11 It is the equivalent of a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane as it made its nearest pass to Japan's
02:16 northwestern Okinawa Islands early on Wednesday.
02:19 In the past 24 hours, many locations in Okinawa have received 175-220 mm of rainfall.
02:29 NASA's Deep Space Network has successfully detected a carrier signal from the Voyager
02:34 2 spacecraft.
02:35 The finding comes days after an inadvertent command led to a loss of communication with
02:40 the legendary spacecraft hurtling into interstellar space.
02:43 The erroneous command disrupted communication with the probe after its antenna was removed.
02:47 The DSN is an international array of massive radio antennas.
02:51 It is responsible for communicating with missions across the cosmos.
02:55 The carrier signal detection was compared to hearing the spacecraft's heartbeat.
02:59 Although it's weak at the moment, the heartbeat confirmed that Voyager 2 is still operational
03:04 and transmitting signals.
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