this is bbc news. i m ben brown and these are the headlines. turkish police issue more than 100 arrest warrants as part of an investigation into poor building standards after this week s devastating earthquakes which have killed more than 33,000 people in both countries. defying the odds this ten year old girl is one of the latest in a number of survivors to have been pulled out alive from under the rubble of collapsed buildings in turkey after 147 hours. the head of russia s wagner mercenary army claims his fighters have captured a village on the outskirts of bakhmut a city they ve been assaulting for months. a us fighterjet has shot down a mysterious object flying over canada s airspace, making it the third to be destoyed over north america in the last week. bbc chairman richard sharp is accused of making significant errors ofjudgement by mps for not declaring his involvement in helping britain s former prime minister, borisjohnson, secure a loan. you re watching bbc
over 3,500 in syria from that 7.8 magnitude tremor. the united nations, who have been supporting rescue teams in both turkey and syria have warned that the final number of fatalities could double. my colleague lyse doucet is on the ground in gaziantep. well, what you see behind us here in gaziantep, about an hour and a half drive from the epicentre of where that earthquake struck about nearly one week ago, is being played out in towns and cities across a whole swathe of southern turkey and indeed across the border in northern syria. and that is the diggers, they don t have diggers across the border, but diggers here and excavators are getting rid of these mounds of rubble. it is a sign that the rescue effort those painstaking, almost heroic efforts to try to pull people alive from the rubble, and still nearly a week on, they re still finding people. but the effort, the focus is now shifting to recovery, to relief and also to a reckoning. as you mentioned, those more than 10
you have a recipe for disaster for disaster. mike: the delays and cancellations are already piling up. all signs pointing to a rough weekend. for travelers the frustration is palpable. senior correspondent casey stegall is following all of those from dallas-fort worth international airport. good morning, casey. good morning mike and dana. the folks at aaa tell us this fourth of july holiday us expected to be the second busiest since the year 2000. 20 plus years with over 48 million americans total traveling over the next couple of days where the majority by car, by air is about three and half million which is higher versus last year. only time will tell whether those holidays passengers will further bog down the airports and airlines already this morning i can tell you that more than 700 delays in more than 230 cancellations are being reported by flight aware within the united states. so cute with those long lines, weights, and frustrations. dana: like to get stressed s
in good medical condition, we are told. this is the hospital where they are being brought to to be checked and to be met by their families who have been brought there to wait for them. this is the medical centre where they are going to be treated. security forces are making every effort to bring other hostages home, we are told by our middle east correspondent who is in jerusalem. as of the 3rd ofjune a total of 120 hostages remained unaccounted for after being kidnapped last october. according to israel 251 israelis and foreigners were taken during those attacks. as were taken during those attacks. as we know israel has been going to enormous lengths to try to find out the whereabouts of these hostages. we can show you some of the pictures that we have got of some of the hostages. this is noa argamani, 25 year old, being reunited with her father in that short video clip we have received. families are absolutely desperate for information for a long, long time as to what has h
fukushima nuclear disaster we ll visit a site transformed and meet those still clinging to the past. the house of representatives, the lower house of congress, has passed a major covid 19 stimulus package worth $1.9 trillion. the plan was approved in the senate on saturday, despite every republican voting against. and the same thing has happened in the house every republican voted against, along with one democrat. the measure will be signed into law by president biden on friday. here s house speaker nancy pelosi announcing the result. on this vote, the yeas are 220. the nays are 211. the motion is adopted. applause the bill s aim is primarily to address the impact of covid on the us economy. but there are broader ambitions to tackle longer term causes of poverty. here are some of the details. the so called american rescue package gives one off payments worth $1,a00 to most americans. it allocates $350 billion to state and local governments, and $130 billion to schools. it