jets to ukraine. we start with the devastating earthquakes which have rocked southern turkey and northern syria and are now known to have killed more than 11,700 people. turkey s president erdogan has been defending his government s response to the disaster on a visit to some of the worst affected areas. we ll have more on that shortly. but first, with the search operations ongoing in the rubble of collapsed buildings, dramatic pictures continue to emerge of rescues in both countries. cheering. this was the moment that rescuers hauled a boy onto a stretcher moments after he was rescued from the rubble two days after the earthquake. there were also cheers ofjubilation at being able to save his life. there have been other glimmers of hope in an otherwise grim landscape of devastation and death. our correspondent, anna foster, has been in the village of karamanmaras. i was watching them take bodies out of here last night and again this morning. it is pulling aside all of this
Britons on a beach in tunisia in 2015 hears that the shooting could have been stopped sooner. And a young woman abducted as a baby 18 years ago has now been reunited with both her biological parents. Its five oclock. Our main story is the political crisis in Northern Ireland, where the Power Sharing Executive has collapsed following sinn feins refusal today to nominate a new Deputy First Minister to replace Martin Mcguinness. The First Minister and dup leader, Arlene Foster, has accused sinn fein of risking Northern Irelands stability for political Self Interest by forcing an election. The Northern Ireland secretary is expected to make a statement within the hour. The crisis was provoked by the mishandling of an Energy Scheme which could cost the taxpayer half a billion pounds. Sinn fein have accused Arlene Foster of failing to take responsibility for it. My colleague Annita Mcveigh is in stormont for us. Thank you very much. Good evening from stormont, where in the last few moments, t
government to enable and help that happen for the people, this would be it s because as days go on, this crisis, unbelievably, is going to get worse. these at these moments where we still see children brought from the bible and everyone gets a chill down their spine at that moment ofjoy, but there is going to be a lot of sorrow found under that rubble. we have to make sure those people who have survived get the services they need, frankly, in the past years, those people in those areas have not been getting them and that this war. james, it is a grim note on which to leave it to come up at those moments of hope, they are so rare. itjames, spokesperson for unicef committee un s children fun, thank you very much for your time. much foryourtime. un s children s fund. now, as we ve been reporting, ukraine s president zelensky is in the uk, where he s stepped up his demands for military help. as he was speaking, his forces were engaged in fighting in the eastern ukrainian city of bakh