their middle names is honor of alex s late mother, maria. congratulations to the entire family. we are thrilled for you, and to have another dolphins and heat fan in the world. shot out to alex. in the lead with jake tapper starts right now. anger and defiance and denial. the biden damage control strategy in the wake of that special counsel report. the lead starts right now. kamala harris is leading the charge to defend president biden. there is a report that makes serious allegations about biden s diminished faculties and faulty memory. he went before cameras yesterday to disprove the point and ended up calling the president of egypt the president of mexico. what is the plan to show that biden is on the ball? plus, paging nikki haley. it is not as a former president trump, three years younger than biden is avoiding criticism. he called the president of hungary the president of turkey. he confused nikki haley with nancy pelosi. does the governor have the point about the
alliance, and it s good for sweden and turkey and all of nato and the baltic region. but the big topic of discussion at this high stakes summit is the war in ukraine. ukraine wants a path to nato membership, but the u.s. and other countries are reluctant to do so while the war is still raging. looking at this is josh letterman, and also joining us, jim townsend, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for nato. and a former deputy assistant second of defense. how did this happen? well, josé, according to the countries that are involved in this, nato and the u.s., and of course, turkey, they were able to move past long-standing concerns that turkey had about arms exports and terrorism within sweden and finland, the country that joined nato back in april. but behind the scenes there was a lot of wrangling by the turkish government trying to extract concessions on key issues, including trying to get the u.s. to sell f-16s to turkey, and we started to hear from presiden
a coordinated international rescue effort is now under way. also on the programme. hospital bosses urge ministers to re open pay talks with staff, as unions prepare for their biggest round of strikes. the head of a top english public school is found dead, along with her husband and daughter, in a property on school grounds. we look at how the spiralling demand for digital data storage, is delaying the construction, of new homes. breaking the record for the most grammy wins of all time. and a musical renaissance for beyonce, winning a record breaking 32nd grammy award. and coming up on the bbc news channel. manchester city has been accused of more than 100 charges of breaching financial rules by the premier league following a long running investigation. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at 0ne. more than 1,700 people have been killed in a powerful earthquake that s hit southern turkey and syria. it happened in the early hours of this morning, and had a magnitude of 7.
following the death of 16 year old brianna jie in warrington. and a big revealfrom rihanna during last night s super bowl half time show confirming that she s expecting her second child. more on all the super bowl action from sport at half past. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. it s now a week since devastating earthquakes hit parts of turkey and syria, causing massive damage and destruction. almost 36,000 people are now known to have died, as rescue workers continue to search through collapsed buildings. the head of the un s relief mission says the death toll could more than double, with the rescue phase in syria now coming to a close . and he s warned that people in parts of rebel held north west syria are being failed by a lack of support and aid. these pictures are coming to us live from gaziantep in southern turkey, not far from the epicentre of the first quake that hit a week ago. 0ur correspondent, laura bicker is in the turkish ci
tonight, bringing us the context are stefanie brown james, co founder of collective pac, the group campaigning for equal representation in american politics, and former ukjustice secretary and chief secretary to the treasury david gauke. welcome to the programme. for several days now western leaders have been providing political cover for the german chancellor, while privately venting frustration at his reluctance to send the leopard tanks to ukraine. according to german newspapers his refusal to approve the deliveries on friday, at a meeting of nato defence ministers, led to sharp words between him and the us secretary of defence lloyd austin. olaf schulz s office deny that, saying neither the tone nor content of the reports were true. but certainly there was frustration, and you could hear it when the bbc spoke, earliertoday, to the polish prime minister, who has decided to go it alone. let me put it this way, poland and the free world cannot afford not to send leopard ta