into monday morning. the death toll inevitably keeps rising and is now into many, many thousands. and it s quite hard even saying that. but one of the people who s been bringing us so much of the hope and the tragedy and the drama and the temperature and the bad weather is our colleague anna foster, middle east correspondent, who sjoining us on newscast now. anna, hello there. thank you for making time for us in what s been a very, very busy, tricky time for you. just give us a sense of where you are right now andjust, i mean, what it really feels like to be there. do you know what s really hard? and one of the things that i ve found difficult but really important isjust trying to give an idea of the scale of this, because you can only see so much here that the camera shows you and you can see everything that s going on behind me. you can see this destroyed building. you can see the rescue workers and you can see the diggers. but, beyond the camera s view, it goes all the way
hello. it s adam in the studio. and chris in the studio. and we ll be joined by various guests throughout this episode of newscast, which has got a bit of a sad start because we re going to focus on the devastation caused by the massive series of earthquakes in southern turkey and northern syria, which happened on sunday night into monday morning. the death toll inevitably keeps rising and is now into many, many thousands. and it s quite hard even saying that. but one of the people who s been bringing us so much of the hope and the tragedy and the drama and the temperature and the bad weather is our colleague anna foster, middle east correspondent, who sjoining us on newscast now. anna, hello there. thank you for making time for us in what s been a very, very busy, tricky time for you. just give us a sense of where you are right now and just, i mean, what it really feels like to be there. do you know what s really hard? and one of the things that i ve found difficult but real
i do worry that the pause in the protocol bill going through parliament. this is the kind of nuclear option of saying we will sort of unilaterally overrule the process. we are giving ourselves the powers to override it. we had a big government reorganisation this week as part of the reshuffle. there were not that many personnel changed, but where they sit changed, and they ve got all these new government departments. what do you think about that? is that an effective tool and is that a good way of reorganising things? i think generally one shouldn t be shuffling departments all the time. but you can build up a situation where, over years, because you re not shuffling it, it eventually gets out of sync with your priorities, and then you ve just got to grasp the nettle. and i think that s what happened in this case, really. beis was too big and all the other departments were too small and you just had to reorder it a bit. and it seems sensible to me to have a dedicated energy
a situation where, over years, because you re not shuffling it, it eventually gets out of sync with your priorities and then you ve just got to grasp the nettle. and i think that s what happened in this case, really. the beis was too big and all the other departments were too small and you just had to reorder it a bit. and it seems sensible to me to have a dedicated energy department at the moment, for example. so, i mean, it s a sort of technical reshuffle rather than a political reshuffle. there s a wonderful quote in one of the papers from an anonymous liz truss was back this week, although for some of us she never really went away because she was dabbling here and there this whole time. what did you think of her essay and her big, long interview? so, i mean, it s a really interesting essay, obviously, and we learnt a lot or rather had confirmed quite a few things that we all suspected. such as? there was a. how shall we put it? there was some friction between the official treasury