continuing tonight to watch the development in turkey, and in syria. the death toll there is just astonishingly high. from an absolutely huge earthquake, and in almost equally large aftershock. that hit today. the initial quake was centered in south central turkey. that an issue jolted between four and 4:30 in the morning, so before, home and their beds. that initial quake was a 7.8 magnitude. which is just enormous. and was follow, hours later. by an aftershock that was 7.5. and having such a huge quite like that followed by such a quick succession by almost an equally large quake means anything that was significantly damaged, but still standing after the foreshock. it came down in the aftershock. in turkey alone, they re saying there are more than 5000 buildings that have collapsed across 14 different turkish cities. across the southern border of turkey, into northern syria, there are, again, thousands of buildings collapse there. as well, between turkey and syria, we are
magnitude, which is just enormous, and it wasst followed hours later by an after shock that was 7.5. now, having such a huge quake like thatno followed in such quk secession by such an almost equally large quake which means anything significant damagely after the first shock, it came down in the after shock. in turkey alone they re saying there are more than 5,000 buildingsha collapsed across 14 different turkish cities. across the southern border of turkey into northern syria, thousands of n buildings collapsed there again as well. between turkey and syria, we are talking about a death toll alreadyt approaching 4,000 peoe killed with many, many more thousands people, injured. tonight, of course, is the horror of trying to rescue people trapped in the rubble and under collapsed buildings while also fully expecting that more damaged buildingse will contin to collapse while rescue efforts are under c way. both the survivors and rescuers are in grave peril now, and it is cold to
russia had paid for his political rise and for his political party. they had worked to install him in power. they totally controlled him. he was their guy. that was how russia controlled ukraine. they controlled the ukrainian president. they installed him in power and told him what to do and he did it. and russia, of course, didn t want ukraine to have better economic ties to the west. they didn t want ukraine to have any ties to the west. they wanted ukraine to only be tied to russia. and so when ukraine had the opportunity to sign on to this pro-european trade deal, russia didn t want him to do it and russia s guy in ukraine, this very corrupt, very compromised pro-russian president said he wouldn t sign that trade deal with europe. he said instead he would sign a knew one with russia. people in ukraine did not want that. they wanted to stop looking east. they wanted to look west instead. so in response they started protesting. in november of 2013. and a few months into it,
workersjoin protests growing discontent in iran, all workers join protests against the regime. savings you live in britain, as the uk begins recycling fishing nets dumped at sea. hello, welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. there has been widespread international condemnation of what president putin referred to as a massive strike against ten ukrainian cities including the capital, kyiv. they have all come under sustained missile attacks on the biggest bombardment by russian forces since the early weeks of the conflict. many homes were reported to be among the sites targeted, along with healthcare facilities and schools. the major areas affected by the capital, kyiv, along with dnipro, zaporizhzhia, kharkiv, and liver. president putin said the strikes were retaliation for saturday s attack on the bridge, as the one upland link between russia and occupied crimea. our correspondent reports from the centre of kyiv where the strikes began early in the mor
good evening. thanks so much for joining. us we are learning the names of some of the top republicans who have testified in multiple investigations involving the former president both in the federal case involving the misuse of classified documents and also the investigation in georgia into the former presidents attempt to overturn the election results there. cnn sarah murray joins us now with the details. so sarah, let s start with the fulton county georgia investigation. who has testified? well, anderson, we have learned that there are two prominent witnesses who have testified before the grand jury, and one of them is former georgia senator kelly lafleur. the other one is former white house lawyer pat cipollone. both of these are big gets for the district attorney in georgia. it gives you an indication of how wide-ranging the investigation is. whether with testimony to the federal grand jury investigating the mar-a-lago documents? we are learning this evening my co