freezing temperatures. the uk economy at a standstill new figures show even though we narrowly avoided falling into recession in 2022, there was no growth at all in the final three months of the year. elon musk s spacex carries out a key test on what s set to become the most powerful rocket system ever built. and a new video game set in the world of harry potter is released amid controversy surrounding the character s creatorjk rowling s views on transgender people. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. four days after two deadly earthquakes struck turkey, devastating a large swathe of the south east of the country as well as northern syria, some survivors are still being pulled out of the rubble. in turkey s hatay province, a ten day old boy was saved along with his mother. nearby, a seven year old girl was rescued and taken to hospital. this is the scene live from gazantiep in southern turkey. in freezing cold temperatures, and with hunger se
Adequate air defences. Our ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse has more on this. Kyiv has been heavily fortified, if you like, in terms of air defences, with the supply of western Patriot Missile systems, which have proven to be incredibly effective against russian air attacks. However, Russian Forces have adapted as well. So, what we see now are slightly less often, less frequent attacks, but they are at a much greater scale. As you say, last night, russia launched 22 missiles, 1a drones, and they are designed to overwhelm air defences. But when we are talking about eastern cities like zaporizhzhia, dnipro, odesa in the south, which was also attacked, they are less well defended, and missiles get through. And we have seen images of a burning building next to dnipro train station, and we are told across that region, at least nine people have been killed, three of them children. And i think president zelensky, he will continue to ask for much needed air Defence Systems, and those ask
To Irans Nuclear facilities. In a social media post, the agencys director general, Rafael Mariano grossi, continued to call for extreme restraint from everybody and said Nuclear Facilities should never be a target in military conflicts. Irans semi official tasnim news agency, which is close to the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps, posted a video with a caption saying, isfahan s nuclear site is completely safe. In the video, a man near the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Centre is seen showing his watch to the camera to indicate the time and date. We can then see several troops standing around what looks like an air defence battery. Reuters news agency is reporting that an unnamed iranian source has said there is no immediate plan for retaliation. As well as these explosions in iran, they were reported too in Southern Syria apparently from missiles targeting radar sites. And there were also blasts in iraq in both the Capital Baghdad and babil province to the south. Israel had promised to re
Sources, both israeli and american sources, confirming this was indeed an israeli strike. Now, all weak people have been on tenterhooks waiting for some kind of response. It was made very clear by israeli officials they did not think they could let it pass. That was after an unprecedented direct attack from iran on israeli territory last weekend. It was really the form of response that was in question and when it would happen. People wondering if the state of uncertainty would continue through the upcoming jewish passover holiday, for example. We have had some ministers coming out, particularly the National Security minister, who is known as a firebrand and on the far right, he had previously been calling for israel to go crazy in its response to restore its deterrent in the region. He said this response appears to be too limited. He is the only major official we are hearing from at the moment. Others are keeping extremely quiet about all of this. ,. ,. ,. , this. Has there been any at
KYIV, Ukraine: A Russian strike on President Volodymyr Zelensky´s home town in southern Ukraine on Wednesday killed nine people and wounded at least two dozen more, officials said.The.