the growing frustration for residents. and a first look at china s spy balloon. take a look at this picture, as we learn that some of the surveillance aircraf is now at the fbi lab at quantico. announcer: this is the from the nation s capital. norah: good evening and thank you for joining us on a busy night here in the nation s capital. president biden set to address the nation tonight and what will likely be the largest television audience of the year for him. he is going to be touting his accomplishments, and we have just learned that he will directly address republicans, urging them to work with them. the other major news tonight, the quick thinking flight attendants preventing a midair disaster after a fire started right after take off. what caused the fire? we will have more on that in just a minute. but we do want to begin overseas as time is running out for victims buried in turkey and syria after that massive earthquake with a death toll at nearly 8,000. offic
than one hundred breaches of its financial rules. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. rescue operations are under way across much of southern turkey and northern syria, following two huge earthquakes that have killed at least 3500 people. 3,800 people. rescuers are racing to save those trapped beneath the rubble and people have spent the day digging with their bare hands. the first earthquake struck in the early hours of monday morning while people were asleep. the epicentre was near the turkish city of gaziantep, which is near the border with syria, and measured a magnitude of 7.8. the second earthquake measured 7.5 magnitude and hit 130 kilometres to the north of the first. millions of people across turkey, syria, lebanon, cyprus and israel felt the earthquake. the united nations has called for an international response to the earthquakes. world leaders have pledged to send aid. but freezing temperatures
translator: we are alive but nobody comes. we heard them. they are calling out asking for help. how can we rescue them? a oh, my gosh. the anguish. search and rescue teams race to save lives across turkey and syria. the death toll topping 5,000. countless people still trapped in the rubble and fighting to stay alive. also this morning we are live on capitol hill where president biden is going to make his case for a re-election, an announcement that s expected tonight. a recent poll shows most americans don t think he has achieved much. can president biden cut through the noise? we re going to speak to the white house communications director to get her view in a few moments. also, the faa will be in the hot seat on capitol hill after a series of travel meldowns after near collisions. we begin with the search and rescue operation in turkey and syria. more than 5,000 people are confirmed dead after yesterday s catastrophic earthquake. there are thousands upon thousands o
Financial and social disaster. A region already destabilised by war, where another humanitarian crisis is unfolding. The worst Case Scenario is that people who werent killed by the earthquake are killed by the failure to get aid to them after the earthquake. Across turkey and syria, families were woken by a massive earthquake. This ten storey Apartment Block collapsed, the rubble trapping residents. My colleague, selin gerit, went to meet a woman who lived on the third floor. Dilek s father and brother also died. The earthquake s epicentre was close to the turkish syrian border. It was followed by a series of powerful aftershocks. 13 year old rola was at home injindires, North West Syria, when it happened. This happened at a depth of around 15 to 20 kilometres. What this means is its shallow enough that those first waves are really powerful, and if they reach the surface quickly, they still have a lot of energy and they can cause a huge amount of damage. In iskenderun, Southern Turkey,
here imminent explosion sending families fleeing in ohio. a train carrying dangerous chemicals derailing, forcing evacuations. several of the cars carrying vinyl chloride. and tonight, the careful operation under way at this hour at the site. trying to avert a potential explosion. tonight, news on that chinese spy balloon shot down by the u.s. by an f-22. the teams moving quickly to recover key pieces. the debris field more than 15 football fields wide. and what we re already learning tonight about the balloon, how it maneuvered. and the trained u.s. navy teams now using unmanned, underwater vehicles to detect whether there could be any explosives. martha raddatz right here with me tonight on what she s learned. here in washington, president biden on the eve of his state of the union address, after that very promising jobs report, and after some key victories, including that bipartisan infrastructure law. the white house knows many americans still are not feeling this. wh