after fighter jets shoot down a fourth unidentified object over north america now beijing claims the us has been flying balloons over china. cyclone gabrielle batters new zealand with a state of emergency declared in some areas. darvel! come on, darvel, let s do it. and will we marvel at darvel once again? the part time footballers hoping for more giant killing in the scottish cup and coming up on the bbc news channel: it s party time in phoenix as the kansas city chiefs beat the philadelphia eagles to win their second superbowl in four years. hello, good afternoon. one week on from the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria, the death toll is now more than 35,000 and there are fears that number could rise considerably, and even double. seven days on, people are still being pulled alive from the rubble this morning a little girl was rescued in turkey after 178 hours. but the united nations says the rescue phase is now coming to a close . 0ur correspondent, caroline
conference in the uk. just your message to that conference? translation: message to that conference? translation: ., a ., translation: huge thanks to the prime minister, translation: huge thanks to the prime minister, to translation: huge thanks to the prime minister, to the translation: huge thanks to the | prime minister, to the government, to the businesses of the uk and all of the people for their support. part of such support, notjust recovery but transformation of ukraine and therefore anti corruption reform, which is very important, to work on judiciary reform, to work with our partners, to make ukraine attractive for investment after the war, that is what we need. ukraine will be different, transformed. the only thing that will not change is the strength of our people. that was volodymyr zelensky speaking to the bbc here on bbc news. we are looking at live pictures from london now. this is where he was from around the world leave us for the next few minutes. antony blink
investors see in the future of ukraine, in the future of its people. but make no mistake, all of these reforms and recovery efforts depend on ukraine having the capacity to deter and defend against future attacks by russia. that s why even as we invest in ukraine s medium and long term recovery we also have to build a ukrainian military that is strong enough to protect ukraine s sovereignty, territorial integrity and its independence. notjust to defend a ukraine s land but to defend all that ukrainians are building and will build on that land. it is also why the us has committed to build support for a just and lasting peace in ukraine. the core elements of which i outlined a couple of weeks ago in helsinki. those include a piece that upholds the united nations charter and fundamental proof principles, sovereignty, territorial integrity, independence,
then a boy. but, with him, it was even harder to extricate. ali, make your way out here because you are going to be needed out here. he was stuck under a concrete beam. the british team is one of numerous sent by foreign governments to help, and this, they insist, is still a rescue operation, notjust recovery. robin brant, bbc news. i m joined now by kathryne bomberger who is the director general of the international commission on missing persons. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. your assessment of what is taking place at the moment in turkey and syria, we are hearing so many stories of rescues, then of people saying it is time to give up, your assessment, please? saying it is time to give up, your assessment, please? certainly, it s not time to assessment, please? certainly, it s not time to give assessment, please? certainly, it s not time to give up.