welcome to the programme. the updates from turkey and syria are relentlessly grim. the deathtoll has now passed 20,000 but only a fraction of the devastated areas have been searched, with hope fading for those still trapped. though there are still miracles. these pictures have recently come in from diyarbakir and they show a little boy, six year old basir yildiz, being rescued. crews had been digging for him for 80 hours. but even for the lucky ones like basir, there are challenges ahead. the world health organization has talked about a new disaster, with thousands unable to find shelter, food and water. help is arriving the first aid has crossed into syria, through the one border crossing point that is open. and in the last hour, the director general of the who, dr tedros ghebreyesus, has said he is on his way to syria. for the latest, our chief international correspondent lyse doucet is in southern turkey. it s hard here in southern turkey really hard here, but it s
is this a clever distraction strategy by the prime minister rishi sunak to take their minds off strikes in the economic and the uk byjust going hard on culture wars? i think people are puzzled as to who this individual even is. he was a backbench mp and he delights in provoking responses newbie sitting at home delighted this evening that he started. but there are many people who claimed that this is a clever ruse by the prime minister and i think when the conservatives lose the next general election, before the proof point of the extent to which conservative party has been corroded from being a reasonable moderate centrist patriotic party to just a party that seeks to pick fights with anyone that he disagrees with and so, yes, he is there to
antibodies. also choosing not to kill off millions of vulnerable people as the u.s. is doing is a critical flaw. so that s interesting take, she is the first person argue the covid will also be with us we should always be locked down m man. in the meantime twitter reported they had a tough time and with blocking is the protest. the chinese accounts tweeting out links to, escort services and other adult sites. it s a distraction strategy that seems only work with some journalists. [laughter] [applause] nick, this is amazing in the sense that what taylor lorenz is saying is that cobras can be run forever is that she basically concluding thing must be locked down forever? i think she ever her house. nick: the d.c. public schools insist that today the kids had to have a negative
distraction strategy and i don t want to frankly enable that. ambassador volker is presumably going to be talking about what the president and his personal attorney specifically did. what are your committee s staffers specifically hoping to hear from ambassador volker today or hoping to get out of it? i m going to be going there right after this interview so i ll have firsthand i m sorry, you said you are going to be going in the room and listening in. i am. right after this interview. what do you hope to hear from ambassador volker? i think ambassador volker, to his credit, is coming before us despite secretary pompeo s attempt to block their testimony, because he wants to clear his name. he feels that he s been unfairly sullied in this mess and he wants to clear it up and present some facts of his own. so i m eager to hear his story and to hear what he s got that would add more evidence to an already sordid unfolding case.