for seven and a half days. more than 7000 people are now known to have died and that number is expected to rise and not focuses on getting aid to the thousands who have survived. also in the programme, the new family of the victim was legally stabbed says that her death is of the massive hole in their lives. officials have been explaining more about the series of objects that have been shot down from their airspace. three were shut down this past week and we have just been hearing from the white house sink have not been able to identify with these objects are. but they maintain that this balloon which was shot on the 4th of february was a suspected spy the 4th of february was a suspected spy balloon from china. his national security spokesperson speaking in the last few moments stability were able to determine that china does have a boon for this intelligence collection that is connected to the people s liberation army. it was operating during the previous administration but
in northern syria, where it s thought 5 million people have been made homeless by the earthquake. also tonight. after four objects are shot down over north america the white house says it s not a case of close encounters. there is no, again, no indication of aliens or extra terrestrial or extra terrestrial activity with these recent takedowns. an independent report says uefa bears primary responsibility for the dangerous conditions at last year s champions league final between liverpool and real madrid. and, in the scottish cup giant killers darvel fc, who beat aberdeen last month, have failed to overcome falkirk tonight. and coming up on the bbc news channel. it s the merseyside derby as liverpool and everton battle for bragging rights with both teams chasing wins for differing reasons. good evening. seven days after the huge earthquake which devastated parts southern turkey and nothern syria, turkish rescue workers say some survivors are still being pulled from the rub
and syria are dwindling. tonight with the context, tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent and amanda renteria, hillary clinton s former national political director. we begin tonight in the skies over north america, where no less than three unidentified flying objects have been shot down in the last three days. the us says it has not yet been able to identify the objects but wreckage recovery operations are continuing. but after a military commander said he could not rule out that the objects were extra terrestrials over the weekend today the white house sort today the white house sought to address the question on everyone s minds. there is no, again, no indication of aliens or extra terrestrial activity with these recent take downs. again, there is no indication of aliens or aliens or terrestrial activity with these recent take downs. we wanted to make sure that the american people knew that, all of you knew that, and it was important for us to say that from
down in canada and the us states of alaska and michigan between last friday and sunday. they were much smaller, with one being described as having an octagonal shape with strings hanging off it. no, says the white house, it s not what you re thinking. i know there have been questions and concerns about this. but there is no again no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent take downs. i loved et, the movie, but i m just going to leave it there. laughter from the white house press call, but why was it necessary to shoot the objects out of the sky? even though we had no indications that any of these three objects were surveilling, we couldn t rule that out. you want to err on the side of safety in terms of protecting our national security interest. officials say since the chinese balloon was brought down, they ve been monitoring us airspace more closely and that may explain