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contact my office, i ll give you a copy of the proposal. i ll give you president biden heckled during the state of the union and he seemed to enjoy it. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. president biden delivering his second state of the union address, the first before a newly divided congress. the president of the united states. the president called for unity telling republicans he wants to work together instead of fighting for the sake of fighting. still he was heckled more than once by some unruly house republicans. some republicans want medicare and social security sunset. i m not sayings it is the majority. let me give you anybody who doubts it, contact my office and i ll give you a copy, i ll give you a copy of the proposal. i m glad to see i tell you, i enjoy conversion. you know, it means if congress doesn t keep the programs the way they are, they will go away. i m not saying it is a majority of you, i m not even saying it
we ll be speaking to a disaster response expert live in the programme. the desperate search for survivors is continuing for a second night across a vast area of southern turkey and northern syria after two major earthquakes devastated the region on monday. at least six thousand people are known to have died, but with so many feared trapped under the rubble, the death toll will climb further. we ll be talking to an aid worker on the ground and will look at the scale of the devastation in just a moment. but first lets go through what happened. the first earthquake on sunday had a magnitude of 7.8, the epicentre was in turkey s gaziantep province. there have been almost 30 other shocks in the region, all powerful enough to magnify the damage. a second major earthquake struck 130km north of the first. rescue efforts continue across the region. this is the scene live. this is gaziantep, this is the live shot, it s just after ten in the evening locally. it s expected rescuers will
on top of this pile of rubble. rescuers are using their bare hands, and you can see them throwing down blocks and trying to search desperately for survivors. that s our correspondent anna foster who s in turkey and heading towards the epicentre of the quake. also on the programme: the headteacher of a leading private school epsom college is found dead alongside her husband and young daughter in the school grounds. tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers go out on strike in england on the same day for the first time we report on the impact on patients for the first time breaking for the first time the record for the most grammy breaking the record for the most grammy wins of all time. breaking the record for the most grammy wins of all time. .. coming up in sort on grammy wins of all time. .. coming up in sport on the grammy wins of all time. .. coming up in sport on the bbc grammy wins of all time. .. coming up in sport on the bbc news grammy wins of
and turkey issues an international appeal for help. we ll be taking a look at how world leaders are responding. welcome to the programme. we begin in turkey and northern syria, where two powerful earthquakes have killed more than 2,000 people. many more injured and still missing. we ll look at the damage done and the rescue operations. first, let s see where this happened. the first earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8 the epicentre in turkey s gaziantep province. there have been almost 30 other shocks in the region, all powerful enough to magnify the damage. a second major earthquake 130km north of the first one. these pictures show buildings collapsing in south east turkey. the country has declared a state of emergency. here s president erdogan. translation: we do not know how far the number of dead and injured - will rise as debris removal works continue in many buildings in the earthquake zone. our hope is that we will recover from this disaster with the least loss of life