hello and welcome to the programme broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin with the news that the search for the oceangate submersible in the north atlantic is over. the us coast guard has confirmed that the vessel suffered a catastrophic loss of pressure and there are no survivors. the five people on board were on a mission to view the wreck of the titanic. rescue experts say that the tail cone of the vessel has been spotted on the sea bed, not far from the wreck. much of the rescue effort was coordinated in boston, where we can join our correspondent carl nasman. carl, thank you so much forjoining us on the show. we are starting to hear some other developments coming out of the navy. what have they had to say? we are, these are developments that might help us piece together the timing of when this catastrophe might have taken place. this is being reported by our partners in cbs news and they say the us navy detected, quote, an acoustic anomaly con
hello and welcome to the programme broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin with the news that the search for the oceangate submersible in the north atlantic is over. the us coast guard has confirmed that the vessel suffered a catastrophic loss of pressure and there are no sui’vivoi’s. the five people on board were on a mission to view the wreck of the titanic. rescue experts say that the tail cone of the vessel has been spotted on the sea bed, not far from the wreck. much of the rescue effort was coordinated in boston, where we can join our correspondent carl nasman. carl, correspondent carl nasman. thank you so much foi joining carl, thank you so much for joining us on the show. we are starting to hear some other developments coming out of the navy. whatever they had to say? we are, monica, we are learning some information that may give us some clues into the timing of this catastrophe involving the titan vessel. this is according to cbs news,
hello and welcome. this is verified live, free hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. we will have the latest on the bad search that is going on for the submarine in a moment or two, that i want to go straight to breaking news of the last little while from the united states. news aboutjoe biden s son, hunter, and that news coming into is that hunter biden has agreed to plead guilty on two federal tax charges and enter a third pre trial diverging agreement on one a firearms charge. that is apparently in a deal with the justice department, according to court documents that have been published. the details emerging all of the time. there is bound to be a lot of political reaction, the president s son has been in the focus around various investigations for such a long while. but this, the latest detail that there are going to be tax charges, two guilty pleas on those federal tax charges. in deferred pre trial diverging agreement, that is what it is desc
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
within 48 hours of a request. in northwest syria, that didn t happen. what matters in terms of responding to an earthquake is time and what the sort of, the immediacy of the response. and the un just stood there, like, completely paralysed. in this film, we ask, what took the united nations so long? to deliver humanitarian aid across an international border, we need either the consent of the government or in the case that we have in syria, a binding security council resolution. on monday 6th february 00.47am, an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 strikes near gaziantep in south east turkey. across the border in syria, strong tremors are felt. hundreds of buildings collapse. as the hours pass, the scale of the disaster becomes apparent. rescue teams are overwhelmed. in turkey, a major aid effort gets under way. rescue teams from around the world rush to help. in syria, the earthquake hit several cities controlled by the assad government. it also strikes north west syria, the last poc