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
hello, i m geeta guru murthy. you re watching the context on bbc news. the subcommittee on the weaponisation of federal government holds its first hearing. the new republican lead group takes aim at the fbi and the department ofjustice. it s super bowl week in america, but parents are hoping their kids will choose a less physical version of the sport flag football. and a changing of the guard in the tech world? microsoft s chatgpt has captured the headlines, so despite a slightly rocky start for google s bard, will it catch up? tonight with the context, jim murphy, former labour cabinet minister, and jennifer carroll, who served as a republican lieutenant governor of florida.
she is with us tonight. thanks for joining us. just tell us what happened in a bit more detail today. yeah, thank you for having me here. i want to echo what the ranking member said on this committee today, which is, there is room in congress for political oversight, i was a part of that on the generator six committee, where you follow the facts and commit findings to the american people, and then you have always thought today and this week in congress, which was a group of mega politicians that are now on these committees leading questions that don t bring us any facts, they bring us a lot of conspiracy theories that aren t really rooted in anything that is factual or that the american people want to be hearing maggart republicans. today in the committee on weaponisation, we saw basically fox news line up, and i say that because
out. when we are looking at 2024, thicket is more to look at who is making this political, who is using congress and the american taxpayer dollars to push their political agenda and he was focusing on what the american people want, which is solving issues that are important to them when they re at their kitchen table. them when they re at their kitchen table. ., ~ ,, , them when they re at their kitchen table. ., ~ ,, , . let me bring injennifer carroll, a republican lieutenant governor of florida and jim republican lieutenant governor of florida andjim murphy, former labour minister. is this just a political stunt? labour minister. is this ust a political gunfifi labour minister. is this ust a political stunt? labour minister. is this ust a olitical stunt? ., ., , , political stunt? there are two sides to every coin. political stunt? there are two sides to every coin, and political stunt? there are two sides to every coin, and no political stunt? there are two sides to eve
welcome back to the programme. many republicans saw the january 6 committee as a partisan attack on donald trump and the republican party and swore they would create their own committees to investigatejoe biden and the department ofjustice if they won control of the house at the midterms. they did and today saw the first hearing of the house select subcommittee on the weaponisation of the federal government. the republicans on the committee are focused on their claim that the fbi and department ofjustice used their powers to bring down donald trump, and failed to properly investigate joe biden s son, hunter biden. here s a flavour of what we saw today. throughout my testimony, i am not talking about the men and women in government who conduct themselves with integrity and patriotism. but at the outset, it is important to recognise corrupt individuals within federal agencies that i am