the un aid chief calls the scale of the disaster and the response to it unprecedented. what is so amazing is that people are still coming out of the rubble alive six days in. so it s shocking. it s also, in a perverse sense, quite heartening. this is the scene live in southern turkey as rescuers continue their painstaking search for survivors. we ll bring you all the latest developments from our correspondents who are there. in other news, us fighterjets shoot down an unidentified aircraft over alaska, after president biden gave the order to seek and destroy . hundreds of thousands of people hold protests across france over pension reform plans which include raising the retirement age to 62 from 64. 13 men and two women have been arrested following clashes with police, outside a hotel providing refuge for asylum seekers on merseyside in northwest england. # 0n the chaise longue, on the chaise longue # 0n the chaise longue all day long # 0n the chaise longue.# celebrating
is deteriorating by the hour as israeli bombing intensifies in the south of the territory. and the united nations has warned that an even more hellish scenario could be about to unfold for civilians there. israel is trying to destroy hamas, designated a terror organisation by the uk government. unconfirmed reports claim israeli troops may try to destroy the vast network of hamas tunnels underneath the gaza strip by flooding them with sea water. our middle east correspondent yolande knell reports from jerusalem. more casualties pouring into this hospital in khan younis this morning, even brought in by donkey cart. medics struggling to find space for the dozens of wounded. palestinians say more than 30 were killed in an israeli strike and shelling close to a un school which was crowded with displaced people. they launched mortars at us at night. we were scared and didn t sleep, cries this boy. all night we were reading the koran. on the move once again. israel has issued
the stakes. they have staged a series of protests but there is no impact at all so far on the government. the unions are saying the government is in tragedy and i m not listening and disregarding its overriding will of the people is intransigent. you see lots of effigies of macron as an emperor or a king from the prerevolutionary times. they are saying he is simply not listening to them but arguably, if he does not go through with this and waters down the reform to the point where it is not recognisable any more, which some fear is what is happening already, then he will come out as a non reformer and will have lost the support of everyone here as well. he can come out of this sort of relatively well if he sees it through but people are watching very carefully on this site to see whether he will give in and on the other side to see whether he waters down the reforms so the cost savings it is intended to bring about don t occur at all. it is intended to bring about don t occur at all