of syria, which is rebel controlled. he found no sign of a relief effort, with local people, including children, left scouring through rubble for survivors. this is the town of haram in north west syria. there is a bit of activity here, but nothing like you see in terms of activity on the other side, on the turkish side of the border. the border is literally just across that hill. the people here have lost about 700 buildings. another 4,000 or so are unsafe. so they are living in tents. if i swing around here, you can perhaps see the internally displaced people s camp that has been set up over there. they re also telling us that, in terms of foreign aid, they have received next to nothing. some spanish doctors made it to some of their hospitals, but nothing else. the contrast here with what is going on in turkey is astonishing. over on that side of the border, there is a constant sound of sirens, of heavy machinery, of people working. there is none of that here. down there, t
hello and welcome to bbc news. the world health organization says that almost 26 million people have been affected by the earthquakes that struck turkey and syria. the number confirmed dead has passed 25,000. on a visit to southern turkey, the un aid chief, martin griffiths, said there was an urgent need for medical assistance, as well as food and shelter for survivors. we ll hearfrom mr griffiths in a moment, but first, our correspondent quentin sommerville is in harem in the northwest idlib province of syria, which is rebel controlled. he found no sign of a relief effort, with local people, including children, left scouring through rubble for survivors. this is the town of haram in north west syria. there is a bit of activity here, but nothing like you see in terms of activity on the other side, on the turkish side of the border. the border is literally just across that hill. the people here have lost about 700 buildings. another 4,000 or so are unsafe. so they are living i
Our North America correspondent, nomia iqbal, told me more about the case. This aappened in october 2022 when david depape broke into the pelosis home in san francisco. He was looking for nancy pelosi, who at the time was the speaker of the house. Very powerful, high profile democrat, second in line to the presidency. But during the trial, we heard that it was Nancy Pelosis husband who he found. Ms pelosi was not there, and he had woken up to david depape who had a hammer and zip ties asking, where is nancy, where is nancy. His intention was to kidnap nancy pelosi, interrogate her and then post the video online. During the trial, david depape took to the stand in his own defence and he talked openly about how he promoted far right Conspiracy Theories, including how he believed that the election was stolen in 2020 byjoe biden, how he believed that the Us Government was being run by a cabal of paedophiles and so forth, so we got a full picture of who he was during trial. The prosecutors