powerful quake that sent tremors across the entire region. the magnitude 7.8 quake struck before day break in southern turkey nearly the border with syria. the quake and aftershocks collapsing buildings. now a desperate search and rescue efforts under way to find people trapped in piles of rubble. cnn s scott mclean joins us from london. scott, this is one of the strongest quakes to hit turkey in a century, what do we know? reporter: that s right, this part of the turkey, christine, used to earthquakes but nothing like this. this happened in the middle of the night, so people were jolted out of bed with this terrifying shaking. they re finding themselves running out of their houses and apartment buildings into very cold weather. turkey is experiencing an unusual cold snap in that part of the country. andmalatya, they re working to get people of the rubble. with the cold weather, time of the essence, because people were not survive in this kind of cold. we re getting message
recognized figures like the activist joshua wong, as well as the leerl scholar, the former professor benny tai. and claudia lo. they were pleaded not guilty, among the 16 who have pleaded not guilty have you have a former journalist named gwyneth ho. hong kong had previously held a similar exercise back in 2018 without incident. but when this 2020 vote took place, the liaison office which is china s top office in hong kong said it was an attempt to paralyze the government and they said they were trying to contravene the law. now critics say the national security law is being used to crush dissent. and to crush opposition here in the territory. i want to share the statement recently put up by the china researcher, maya wong. she writes hong kong s biggest
seesitin once he has restored order as he sees it in china, he may make some adjustments to remove some of the grievances that motivated a lot of the protesters to go on the streets. but that will have to come until after he has basically repressed the protests. after he has basically repressed the rotests. . ~ after he has basically repressed the rotests. ., ,, , ., , after he has basically repressed the rotests. . ~ , ., , . after he has basically repressed the rotests. ., ,, , ., , . ., protests. thank you very much for “oininr protests. thank you very much for joining us- let s get more on this now with wanyuan song, who s the china researcher at bbc reality check. welcome. what are people saying on social media? social media? currently people have not really said social media? currently people have not really said much social media? currently people have not really said much on social media? currently people have not really said much on social - not really said much on