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
search teams desperately digging through the earthquake rubble and praying for miracles. plus former vice president subpoenaed, what could mike pence tell the special counsel about trump and january 6. and the fight over america s social safety net, both sides ignoring the cold hard truth, not touching it is not an option. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is early start. and we begin with the earthquake disaster in turkey and syria where they are clinging to hope that survivors can still be found alive but that hope fading with each passing hour. but there are miraculous stories. overnight two teenage sisters were pulled from the rubble. and the staggers death toll now approaching 22,000, the number of injured in these two countries near 80,000. and salma abdelaziz is live in istanbul. and the story of the sisters is a heartwarming story amid all the tragedy. and now a secondary tragedy, many are forced in to the freezing cold. what i
Here in the uk nearly one and a half million signatures. The Petition Calling for the uk government to abandon Donald Trumps proposed state visit to britain is growing but theresa may is having none of it. I have issued that invitation, the invitation to President Trump to the United Kingdom and that protest stands. The protests are beginning in london tonight. The Foreign Secretary says uk Passport Holders and dual nationals will not be affected by the ban. Hello and welcome to 100 days. Im Katty Kay In Washington and Christian Frasers in london. Week two of the Trump Administration and already there are legal challenges to one of the president s key election pledges the introduction of a temporary ban on refugees and visa holders from seven majority muslim countries, including iraq and syria. Today european governments have been seeking further clarity on who is banned, and who is not. But mr trump makes no apology for the way the ban was implemented, as nick bryant reports from new
Screen as we we will keep them coming on the screen as we progress. In whats starting to feel like a routine as we have done for the last week at this time lets go live to the State Department in washington. We are going to talk about something that a group of colleagues have put together, it is a draft dissent memo. We will come back to that phrase. It is an opposition to president Donald Trumps Executive Order on refugees. This is a draft online. It points out among other things that despite the Executive Orders focus on them, a vanishingly small number of Terror Attacks on us soil have been committed by foreign nationals who recently entered the United States on an immigrant or Non Immigrant visa. Barbara plett, State Department. Explained the format this memo is taking. This is something called a Descent Cable and it is part of a well established channel for disagreement within the State Department called the dissent channel. If an employee or a Foreign Office Service Officer disag
Screen as we we will keep them coming on the screen as we progress. In whats starting to feel like a routine as we have done for the last week at this time lets go live to the State Department in washington. We are going to talk about something that a group of colleagues have put together, it is a draft dissent memo. We will come back to that phrase. It is an opposition to president Donald Trumps Executive Order on refugees. This is a draft online. It points out among other things that despite the Executive Orders focus on them, a vanishingly small number of Terror Attacks on us soil have been committed by foreign nationals who recently entered the United States on an immigrant or Non Immigrant visa. Barbara plett, State Department. Explained the format this memo is taking. This is something called a Descent Cable and it is part of a well established channel for disagreement within the State Department called the dissent channel. If an employee or a Foreign Office Service Officer disag