this is the scene live in southern turkey as rescuers continue their pain staking search for survivors. we ll bring you all the latest developments from our correspondents who are there. us fighterjets shoot down an unidentified aircraft over alaska after president biden gave the order to seek and destroy. troops are trying to salvage the wreckage. in washington president lula of brazil is seeking joe biden s backing for a new global forum to fight climate change. residents in australia and new zealand are urged to take shelter as cyclone gabrielle hurtles towards the islands threatening to bring destructive winds and heavy rain. hello and welcome to bbc news. the number of people known to have died in monday s earthquakes in turkey and syria has risen to more than 2a,000. millions are thought to be homeless in the region, and rescuers are increasingly focusing on those requiring food and shelter. the united nations says almost 900,000 people are in urgent need of hot mea
and it s quite emotionally tough and sometimes you feel like you take on their struggles because they re not able to be at the bedside. this merciless disease has taken its toll on so many staff. malachi started as a nurse exactly a year ago. in the peak, he cared for four patients at once. he was meant to care forjust one. i mean, there were three deaths in the last 24 hours here, on this ward, yeah. and that s a lot. and then you turn around and there s still 12 other patients. it sjust not feasible, you can t carry on like this for a long time. with case numbers now falling, the nhs is turning its attention to its next mammoth task dealing with the backlog of operations that have been delayed by the pandemic. there s a whole group of patients who ve been waiting to be seen in clinic and then go on a waiting list. so the backlog will be, will be huge. the nhs is starting cautiously to look beyond the upheaval inflicted by covid. but this could be a brief moment of calm, a
hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. i m kasia madera. we begin in the us, where the house of representatives, the lower house of congress, has passed a major covid i9 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 s
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movements we can all do something lets see if that message is heard here at the World Economic forum with our new Media Exe