welcome back to the cnn newsroom, i m jim acosta in washington on this busy saturday afternoon, and we begin this hour with unsettling new development in the skies over canada. norad says it is monitoring a high altitude airborne object and military aircraft are currently operating in the area from alaska and canada. this follows yesterday s shoot down of another high altitude object, 10 miles off the northeastern coast of alaska near the canadian border. natasha bertrand joins us now. what can you tell us about the latest object? we have to keep underlining and highlighting the point this is not what we were talking about yelled off the coast of alaska. this is a new object that we re talking about. this is a new object that norad has apparently detected over northern canada, and justin trudeau tweeted that he ordered the take down of that unidentified object that he says had sviolated canadian airspac it was a u.s. f-22 that successfully fired at this object. again, we ar
we ll have the latest news and analysis from our correspondents in the region. also coming up on newsday. the united states says the chinese balloon it shot down at the weekend was definitely being used for spying. and we ll remember burt bacharach, one of pop s greatest songwriters, who has died aged 94. and rihanna gears up to perform on one of the world s biggest stages the super bowl half time show. representing for immigrants, representing for my country barbados, representing for black women everywhere. i think that s really important, that s key for people to see. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news, it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin this hour in turkey and those powerful earthquakes that have taken at least 20 thousand lives. rescuers in the region continue to work through the rubble, sometimes still finding people alive. i want to show you these pictures, which were taken only a few hours ago, you can see a turkish woman bei
around these rescue efforts, hoping against hope that their loved ones will still be pulled alive from this rubble. from doctors looking after the syrian baby born in the rubble. we hearfrom. in other news, nicaragua frees more than 200 opposition political prisoners and deports them to the united states. # ijust don t know what to do with myself. we remember burt bacharach, one of pop s greatest songwriters, who has died aged 94. hello and welcome to the programme. hundreds of thousands of people across turkey and syria are spending a fourth night in freezing conditions in makeshift camps, having been made homeless by earthquakes. officials say more than 20,000 are now known to have died and hopes are fading that many more will be found beneath the rubble. the first united nations aid convoy has made it into syria and the world bank has promised around $1.8 billion to help turkey. let s start with this report from our correspondent anna foster in kahramanmaras. an urgent
for many people, this is a virtual war happening on television, a long way away from them. but for people living here a few miles from the border of ukraine, it is very real. bagging a place at the king s coronation: a public ballot is due to open for free tickets to celebarate charles iii. # when the sun shine, we ll shine together. and rihanna gears up to perform on one of the world s biggest stages, the super bowl half time show. the number of people now known to have been killed in monday s earthquakes in turkey and syria has now passed 21,000. 20,000. rescue teams are still trying to find survivors more than 90 hours after the quakes. the un says more help is on its way, and has urged governments not to hinder aid supplies. 0ur correspondent anna foster sent this report from kahramanmaras. an urgent call for quiet. these rescuers need complete silence. they ve heard voices. even though this building isn t safe, they don t hesitate because despite the winter cold, there
now, this is a gas line on fire in the middle of all the wreckage. emergency responders say they were slammed with 911 calls for d gas leaks and building collapses. we have a all hands on deck right now. all neighborhoods not just this nei neighborhood. my 25 years here, this is probably the worst damage ooi v seen. just catastrophic. cnn s rosa flores on the ground in pasadena, texas. you have been seeing the damage there. tell us about it, please, rosa. reporter: there were so many intense moments. that s what the people here say. and we re on the path of that destruction. i want you to look over my shoulder because what you re seeing here is some of the downed power lines at this height of this storm. you can see that some of the power poles were snapped like toothpicks. at the height of this storm, about 100,000 customers were without power. if you look beyond these power lines, you ll see there s a mangled mess back there. that s actually a gym. the owner of that