this is bbc news. i m lucy grey. our top stories: at least 28,000 people have died in the earthquakes in turkey and syria. un aid chief, martin griffiths, says there s an urgent need for medical assistance. medicalfacilities here medical facilities here are absolutely overwhelmed, as you know, so there is a huge need for urgent medical care, mobile clinics, field hospitals. canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau confirms a us fighterjet, acting on his orders, shot down another high altitude object, this time flying over northern canada. hundreds of thousands demonstrate across france again over planned pension reforms. and at the brit awards
in a perverse sense, quite heartening. heartening in what way? well, the response. the response. the fact that the people with great expertise who got here very quickly, committed, working day and night to do what s needed. that s remarkable, and i hope that when we launch our appeals for both turkiye and syria in the next day or so that we will get the generous donor response as well. what do they need the most now? what they need the most now is to come to a conclusion as to when they call off the rescue efforts, which is a really difficult question because of who s left behind. and then, i think, as tedros of the who has said, really worried about medical next particularly in north west syria, where we have cholera already. but medical facilities here are obviously overwhelmed, as you know, so there s a huge need for urgent medical care, mobile clinics, field hospitals. i think the united kingdom is sending in a field hospital, for example.
but medical facilities here are obviously overwhelmed, as you know, so there s a huge need for urgent medical care, mobile clinics, field hospitals. i think the united kingdom is sending in a field hospital, for example. and then the period of humanitarian aid, the next three months, for which we re appealing, which will cover shelter, livelihoods, food, nutrition and healthcare. and so, to give people a sense, those people who ve had to leave their homes, that there is a stable future awaiting them, even in this awful time. do you think there is a stable future awaiting them? you know how hard it is to raise money in a world where there s one disaster after another. well, i think it s going to be very difficult. it s going to be very difficult because there s a lot of needs on both sides, and i think, as president erdogan has said, it s going to take a year to rebuild some of the houses. that s optimistic. that, ithink, optimistic.
this is bbc news. i m lucy grey. our top stories: at least 28,000 people have died in the earthquakes in turkey and syria. un aid chief, martin griffiths, says there s an urgent need for medical assistance. medicalfacilities here medical facilities here are absolutely overwhelmed, as you know, so there is a huge need for urgent medical care, mobile clinics, field hospitals. canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau confirms a us fighterjet, acting on his orders, shot down another high altitude object, this time flying over northern canada. hundreds of thousands demonstrate across france again over planned pension reforms.
working day and night to do what s needed, that s remarkable, and i hope that when we launch our appeals for both turkiye and syria in the next day or so that we will get the generous donor response as well. what do they need the most now? what they need the most now is to come to a conclusion as to when they call off the rescue efforts which is a really difficult question because of who s left behind. and then, i think, as tedros of the who has said, really worried about medical next particularly in north west syria, where we have cholera already. but medical facilities here are obviously overwhelmed, as you know, so there s a huge need for urgent medical care, mobile clinics, field hospitals i think the united kingdom is sending in a field hospital, for example. and then, the period of humanitarian aid, the next three months, for which we are appealing, which will cover shelter,