welcome to the programme. the updates from turkey and syria are relentlessly grim. the deathtoll has now passed 20,000 but only a fraction of the devastated areas have been searched, with hope fading for those still trapped. though there are still miracles. these pictures have recently come in from diyarbakir and they show a little boy, six year old basir yildiz, being rescued. crews had been digging for him for 80 hours. but even for the lucky ones like basir, there are challenges ahead. the world health organization has talked about a new disaster, with thousands unable to find shelter, food and water. help is arriving the first aid has crossed into syria, through the one border crossing point that is open. and in the last hour, the director general of the who, dr tedros ghebreyesus, has said he is on his way to syria. for the latest, our chief international correspondent lyse doucet is in southern turkey. it s hard here in southern turkey really hard here, but it s
the government says it is a reasonable offer. the chief minister of the indian state of uttar pradesh appeals for calm after a former politician convicted of kidnapping is shot dead live on tv along with his brother. now on bbc news it s talking business. hello and welcome to talking business, with me, tadhg enright. let s have a look at what s on the show. can revenge spending save the world economy? after more than three years, lockdown is finally over for more than a billion people in china. they ve had time to stash trillions of dollars worth of savings. are they about to spend it travelling the world? and what s that going to mean for the rest of us? i ll be getting the lowdown on revenge spending with this top team steve odlan of the us conference board, tian lu from the economist intelligence unit in china, and gary barrowman, the man who literally wrote the book about the chinese tourist. and now people have got places to go, are they going to bejewel themselves
i ll be getting the lowdown on revenge spending with this top team steve odlan of the us conference board, tian lu from the economist intelligence unit in china, and gary barrowman, the man who literally wrote the book about the chinese tourist. and now people have got places to go, are they going to bejewel themselves to go there? wherever you rejoining me from around the world, i ll be finding out from the boss of pandora, the biggest jewellery brand in the world. wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. china was the first country to lock people down due to covid, and now it s one of the last to ease restrictions. following anti lockdown protests late last year, president she finally ended his zero covid policy, opening up cities and travel once more. that reopening was underlined in the last few weeks by president xi welcoming european leaders, including france s president emanuel macron, to the country, and
into monday morning. the death toll inevitably keeps rising and is now into many, many thousands. and it s quite hard even saying that. but one of the people who s been bringing us so much of the hope and the tragedy and the drama and the temperature and the bad weather is our colleague anna foster, middle east correspondent, who sjoining us on newscast now. anna, hello there. thank you for making time for us in what s been a very, very busy, tricky time for you. just give us a sense of where you are right now andjust, i mean, what it really feels like to be there. do you know what s really hard? and one of the things that i ve found difficult but really important isjust trying to give an idea of the scale of this, because you can only see so much here that the camera shows you and you can see everything that s going on behind me. you can see this destroyed building. you can see the rescue workers and you can see the diggers. but, beyond the camera s view, it goes all the way