here has dominated the news agenda since early october. tragic and polarising, it s one of the biggest stories of 2023 and one that i have followed here and reported on throughout, speaking to people in israel and in gaza about how they re living through it. the year has seen many important and profound stories, from the war in ukraine to donald trump s legal affairs in the us and for india, a successful moon landing. i m going to bring you just some of those moments. we begin in turkey and syria and the devastating earthquake that struck early on the sixth of february. these images show the moment the first quake hit. with a magnitude of 7.8, it destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed thousands of people. a second powerful tremor hours later increased the death toll even further. i was one of the first journalists to reach the epicentre, travelling through the devastation towards the city of kahramanmaras and broadcasting from my phone. this was one of my first live repor
on overhead just at the moment. yevgeny prigozhin seemed determined to march his men to the top of the hill. then, he marched them down again. political persecution like something straight out of a fascist or communist nation. this is southern israel and that is gaza, and the war here has dominated the news agenda since early october. tragic and polarising, it s one of the biggest stories of 2023 and one that i have followed here and reported on throughout, speaking to people in israel and in gaza about how they re living through it. the year has seen many important and profound stories, from the war in ukraine to donald trump s legal affairs in the us and for india, a successful moon landing. i m going to bring you just some of those moments. we begin in turkey and syria and the devastating earthquake that struck early on the sixth of february. these images show the moment the first quake hit. with a magnitude of 7.8, it destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed thousands o
and in gaza about how they re living through it. the year has seen many important and profound stories, from the war in ukraine to donald trump s legal affairs in the us and for india, a successful moon landing. i m going to bring you just some of those moments. we begin in turkey and syria and the devastating earthquake that struck early on the sixth of february. these images show the moment the first quake hit. with a magnitude of 7.8, it destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed thousands of people. a second powerful tremor hours later increased the death toll even further. i was one of the firstjournalists to reach the epicentre, travelling through the devastation towards the city of kahramanmaras and broadcasting from my phone. this was one of my first live reports. what we re talking about here in maras, right at the epicentre of the quake, is notjust single individual collapsed buildings, we re talking about whole city blocks. when i arrived here, we drove down a stre
there s a huge barrage going on overhead just at the moment. yevgeny prigozhin seemed determined to march his men to the top of the hill. then, he marched them down again. political persecution like something straight out of a fascist or communist nation. this is southern israel and that is gaza, and the war here has dominated the news agenda since early october. tragic and polarising, it s one of the biggest stories of 2023 and one that i have followed here and reported on throughout, speaking to people in israel and in gaza about how they re living through it. the year has seen many important and profound stories, from the war in ukraine to donald trump s legal affairs in the us and for india, a successful moon landing. i m going to bring you just some of those moments. we begin in turkey and syria and the devastating earthquake that struck early on the sixth of february. these images show the moment the first quake hit. with a magnitude of 7.8, it destroyed hundreds of bui
life from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s six in the morning here in singapore and 6pm in washington, where president biden is in isolation after testing positive for covid. the confirmation came hours ago first in a statement from the white house, then in a tweet by by the president then in a tweet by the president and finally in this video message, released on social media. so, that s president biden suffering from covid, and these are the last moving pictures of him before he tested positive. they were filmed as he flew back to the white house on wednesday evening, by way of comparison to how he looked a few hours ago. dr ashistha is the white house covid 19 response coordinator. he says the president is only experiencing mild symptoms, and he s started a course of pfizer s antiviral pill called paxlovid which reduces the severity of covid 19. because the pres