the uk today for the first time since the russian invasion of ukraine. the first stamps featuring king charles the third had been unveiled by the royal mail. and lebronjames has become the nba s all time leading scorer, passing the 39 year old record. hello and welcome. more than 9500 people are now known to have died following two devastating earthquakes which hit turkey and syria. the death toll is likely to rise significantly as rescue workers and civilians continue to search the rubble and survivors trapped beneath it succumb to their injuries and the bitterly cold weather. the earthquakes were the biggest in the region since 1939, and they have triggered dozens of after shocks along the east anatolian fault line. it is one of the world s most active areas for seismic activity. we can show you the scene live now at one attempted search and rescue operation. this scene, replicated throughout turkey and, indeed, northern syria. rescuers still hope to find survivors beneath
you for what you re doing and god you for what you re doing and god you all. presidentjoe biden with a pretty defiant speech stressing the united states and nato allies, support for ukraine will not waiver speaking of course in the run up to the first anniversary of russia s full scale invasion of ukraine. he has been in warsaw and a cheering crowd there that as he put it, president putin lust for power and land would fail. he painted the struggle as a generational one for freedom he said that autocrats had grown weaker over the last year and all of that, of course follows what president vladimir putin was saying in moscow this morning when he delivered a fiercely anti western and nationalistic address to russian parliamentarians. putin accused the west of provoking the war in ukraine of starting the war of escalating the conflict of trying to defeat russia it s self. the white house called his allegations absurd while ukrainian officials said that his speech was laden with c
time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett. earlier in the programme it was all about money, money, money, now it s allabout about money, money, money, now it s all about highs and lows. the wind is strongest in scotland. we got some sunshine here and some sharp showers. furthersouth, quite cloudy and damp across much of northern england and north wales. we ve had a bit of rain and drizzle. that s moving southwards. this is what s happened over the past few hours. this raining western scotland is petering out as it runs away from northern england and north wales and eventually we ll see sunshine coming through. not much rain arriving in the midlands and across southern england it may stay dry and there will be sunshine particularly in the south east. here, it should be quite warm, temperatures reaching 21 degrees, but quite chilly across northern scotland where we ve got the stronger winds. this weather front is responsible for the rain moving across england and wales