vote to go on strike. in afghanistan, the taliban say the search for survivors has been called off, just a day after a devastating earthquake which is thought to have killed more than a thousand people. the earthquake struck early on wednesday about 44 kilometres from the city of khost. heavy rain and the destruction of road and communication network have hampered relief efforts in paktika province the worst hit area. our kabul correspondent secunder kirmani is there, and sent this report. homes reduced to rubble, lives reduced to memories. these were my son s shoes, says agha jan. his three young children were killed in the earthquake as they slept, as well as his two wives. when the roof fell down, what did you do? translation: i ran toward my family, but everything was under the rubble, even my shovel, so i couldn t do anything. i shouted to my cousins, but when we took my family out, they were already dead. it s a three hour drive to the nearest big city from the wor
did this kind of damage to whole apartment blocks. remains of the missiles are still scattered in the rubble here. at the fed we understand the hardship that high inflation is causing. you know what is worse than high inflation and low unemployment some it is high inflation and a recession with millions of people out of work. it is thursday, june 23rd, 4:00 a.m. here in atlanta and also in washington where the white house committee is investigating the u.s. capitol riot which will begin its fifth hearing in just a few hours. today s focus the former president s pressure campaign on federal officials. three former trump justice department officials awill testify. the next round of hearings will be delayed until july so they can sort lthrough new evidence. and they are looking at a filmmaker s footage to document the final weeks of the trump presidency. it will be released this summer by discovery plus can which is owned by the same country as cnn. okay. my father is
flattened. this isjust the but whole villages have been flattened. this is just the start of the crisis. the british government says it stands ready to contribute to international aid efforts. also tonight. the cost of living crisis prices of everyday essentials are rising at their fastest rate for a0 years. the civilians bearing the brunt of russia s assault in the east of ukraine we re with volunteers in a desperate attempt to evacuate the area. cheering and applause the unveiling of a national monument to the windrush generation who came to britain from the caribbean and helped rebuild britain after the war. and coming up on the bbc news channel: a first grass court win of the season for cameron norrie as the british number one beat brandon nakashima at eastbourne. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. at least 1000 people are dead and many more injured after a powerful earthquake hit afghanistan overnight that s according to taliban officials. the country
well, i m afraid to say tonight the situation is looking even more dire here in paktika, we are seeing hundreds of hundreds of families who have been left homeless. in other news, russian forces continue their advance on ukrainian held towns in the donbas. we join a group of volunteers rushing to evacuate civilians from the area. and after a three year hiatus, the iconic music festival glastonbury open its gates and welcomes back the fans. we start in afghanistan, where a powerful earthquake has killed over 900 people and left hundreds injured. it s the deadliest earthquake to strike the country in 20 years. it hit overnight in the south east of the country. and we know the tremors were felt in pakistan and india as well. most of the confirmed deaths are in paktika province. this is the head of the provincial health body there. buildings collapsing, yeah. you know, in afghanistan, there is no concrete buildings. most people injured and dead are under the building. 0ur dead bo
and rina shah, a political strategist and former republican aide. a powerful earthquake has killed at least 1,000 people and injured 1,500 in eastern afghanistan. it is the deadliest earthquake in the country in two decades and a major challenge for the taliban, the islamist movement which regained power last year after the western backed government collapsed. the quake hit near the pakitsan border, with tremors felt as far away as india. the extent of the damage is still emerging but there have been pictures of houses reduced to rubble and people digging for survirors. 0ur correspondent secunder kermani is there. there is a rumbling and my building began to shake, he tells us. the ceiling fell down. i was trapped but i could see the sky. my shoulder was dislocated fourth in my head was hurt, but i got out. i m sure seven or nine people from my family in the same room as me, they were dead. at the hospital, patients are treated for their wounds. there is a fight to save liv