from under the rubble in turkey, more than 120 hours after the first earthquake struck. three people have been arrested, following clashes with police outside a hotel providing refuge for asylum seekers on merseyside in the uk. in other news, us fighterjets shoot down an unidentified aircraft over alaska after president biden gave the order to seek and destroy. troops are trying to salvage the wreckage. hello and welcome to the programme. rescuers in turkey and syria are increasingly focusing efforts on the survivors of monday s earthquakes who are enduring the aftermath in the cold of winter. more than 2a,000 people are now known to have died. these are the epicentres close to the turkish cities of kahramanmaras and gaziantep. as we know, of course, the chances of finding people alive diminish as every hour goes by and thoughts now to the hundreds of thousands of people who need to survive and rebuild, given what has happened there. we know the united nations will play a c
government s in panic. the country will pay a lasting price for putting is through this ideological experiment and will pay a lasting price through economic instability and rising mortgage rates for some time to come. and in other news. the head of the metropolitan police says hundreds of his officers should have been sacked for gross misconduct. civilians rescued in the ukrainian capital after an attack by russian kamikaze drones. scotland s first minister nicola sturgeon has set out her economic argument for leaving the uk, including plans move to a scottish currency when the time is right . the new chancellor, jeremy hunt, has scrapped almost all of the key measures in last month s controversial mini budget, in the latest in a series of government u turns. in an emergency statement, he abandoned indefinitely the planned 1p cut in the basic rate of income tax, that had been due to come in next year. help with energy bills will now only last until next april instead of for
Which was causing problems, the government changed its guidance for buildings with that school buildings, with that concrete in it and essentially a number of schools found themselves needing to close either entirely or partially. Because this is a list the government said basically would keep staff and parents updated. So, we hear today that there are now 174 schools affected by this study, that is up by 27 from two weeks ago. In essence what the government has been doing is going through schools, it sent out a questionnaire last year, questionnaire about this concrete has now come back and in essence the government is going through working out exactly who has got a problem and who hasnt. The other thing we learned from the list today, 85 of schools who have got this raac problem are now fully open and offering face to face teaching for their pupils. That is 148 schools. There is still one school that is closed, in essence, but is offering Online Learning to its pupils. There were 19
Canadian Security Agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the Government Of India and the killing of a canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh nijjar. Canada is a rule of law country. The protection of our citizens and defence of our sovereignty are fundamental. Ourtop defence of our sovereignty are fundamental. Our Top Priorities have therefore been firstly that our Law Enforcement and Security Agencies ensure the continued safety of all canadians, and secondly that all steps be taken to hold perpetrators of this murder to account. Canada has declared its deep concerns to the top intelligence and Security Officials of the Indian Government. Last week at the 620 id brought them personally and directly to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in no uncertain terms. Live now to ottawa. Steven chase is a senior parliamentary reporter for the Globe And Mail newspaper, and you broke the story. Talk us through it happen. We not word talk us through it h