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
how can you not feel any sympathy or any empathy towards them like that? i am not going to worry about people that their only worry in life is to be re-elected. so, no sympathy, but he said he does not believe that people should have gone in. by the way, he was not there, so that will be one of the things the defense he was not there on january 6th. he had been told not to come in because he had been arrested for something else, a judge told him to stay out of washington, d.c.. thank you very much. see you in an hour. appreciate the double duty today. cnn this morning continues right now. let s finish this job. i know we can because this is the united states of america. there is nothing, simply nothing we cannot do if we work together. there you go. good morning, everyone. top of the hour. glad you are with us on cnn this morning. he is running again, president biden making it official this morning. plus, the united states considering sending troops into sud
wordsmiths but many of us shy away from the art and the best harness the power of words, poetry. but not my guest today. john cooper clarke once called the punk poet, all his life is used words, rhythm and rhyme to bind human and truth in the chaos of everyday life. thanks to the internet one of his crimes has become a worldwide viral sensation. where does his word magic come from. poems. john cooper clarke, welcome to hardtalk. great to have you here. ijust read your memoir in one of the first sentences as this one, all my life all i ever wanted to be was a professional poet. i ve heard of kids who wanted to be train drivers, professional footballers but redefine a kid who always knew he wanted to be a poet. how come? a poet. how come? when i say alwa s, a poet. how come? when i say always. i a poet. how come? when i say always. i guess a poet. how come? when i say always, i guess from a poet. how come? when i say always, i guess from the - a poet. how come? when i
tonight, you wonder how many tru americans even know it s good friday. so after hundreds of years, s this has finally become a nonry christian country. but it s not a secular country. i m sure people call call it tht they are wrong. there are no secular countries .gion every country has a religionrs because every personon has has a religion. f it s even if it s atheist. everybody worships somethingthen born that way, we can t get away from it. so what does america s religio n now? well, as it happens, we haven video. thisnow? is from st. mark s lutheran church in fargo, norths dakota. it was taken is from april 2nd.r that was the first sunday after kill the mass killing in nashville te in which three adults and three children were murdered at a christia n school for being christians in the old america. tian. christian pastors would have preached about this. they would have acknowledged. the evil on display and they would have prayed for those who d been killed, a forled.m oo
from an absolutely huge earthquake and almost equally large aftershock that hit today. the initial quake was centered in south central turkey. that initial jolt hit between 4:00 and 4:30 in the morning so people were home in their beds that initial quake was 7.8 and it was followed hours later by an aftershock that was 7.5 now, having such a huge quake like that followed in such quick succession but almost equally large quake, anything significantly damaged but still standing after the first shock, it came down in the aftershock in turkey alone they re saying ther more than 5,000 buildings that collapsed across across the southern border into northern rdsyria, there are aga thousands of, buildings collapd there as well between turkey and syria, we are talking about a death toll alreadyou approachin 4,000 people killed with many, many, many more thousands of peoplend injured. tonight, of course, is the twin horror of trying to rescue people trapped in the rubble and under coll