us fighterjets shoot down an unidentified object over alaska. the pentagon says president biden gave the order to seek and destroy . the object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. us northern command is beginning recovery operations now. and harry potter comes to the world of video games, but will the hogwarts legacy be tarnished by protests against the author s views on transgender issues? welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. fears are growing for the hundreds of thousands of people in turkey and syria in need after monday s devastating earthquakes. some are living in makeshift shelters and cars in freezing conditions, and there are warnings that aid is not reaching areas fast enough. more than 23,000 people are now known to have died. 0ur correspondent quentin sommerville has been to antakya, a city which has seen some of the worst devastation in all of the country. he s been wit
lots of guys in suits looking at me, eyeballing me. you know what that means. an entire a-block on harry potter. mike said do it or he would walk. who knew pompeo was a harry pothead? i heard him over there talking about his hogwarts. next month there is a new game coming out called hogwarts legacy. for all you nondorks, dweebs, nerds, and men who have never touched a woman who wasn t a relative, the game is set in the world of harry potter, and it seems like fun, but according to the outrage we are always outraged. if you buy this game, you are a bigoted monster. see, for the past year, trans activists have been pushing a boycott of the game over its association with j.k. rowling. she has nothing to do with making the game at all. women don t know computers. [laughter] of course she will profit from the licensing rights which have certain pro-trans groups boiling mad paper they ve been that way for years. she was absent from the harry potter films 2010 version special, a
two weeks since nicola bulley disappeared whilst walking her dog in lancashire. now the police are extending their search downstream. and 10,000 tickets to a concert to mark the king s coronation in may are on offer via a ballot. the uk saw no economic growth in the final three months of last year according to the latest official statistics released this morning. it means the country narrowly avoided what s defined as a recession two consecutive quarters when the economy shrinks. the government says it shows the uk was more resilient than expected, after the bank of england had warned of a long period of stagnation. but the economy did shrink by 0.5% in december, and business leaders warn that firms are still struggling. the chancellor, jeremy hunt, says there is reason for optimism. well, the fact that we have avoided a recession, in fact we were the fastest growing major country last year, shows there is underlying resilience in the uk economy. but we are not out of the w
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