The pope says he will take part in the mass celebrating palm sunday youre watching bbc news. Now its time for traces left behind a migrantjourney. Every year, thousands of migrants try to make their way to europe. As they leave their homelands behind them, the possessions they take with them give us a sense of who they are. Remnants of a painful past or glimpses or a more hopeful future. Some dedicated people on the italian island of lampedusa have saved some of those items. Where are these people . Where are they . Im here to see if i can tracejust one person through one of these lost objects and shed new life on this dangerous journey taken by so many. My name is thomas naadi and im a bbc correspondent. Im based in ghana, my country, but my journey starts here in london but do so. This has long been an arrival spot for refugees seeking better opportunities in europe. Im here to meet one of the founders of a collective set up for objects lost by those travelling on this route. Im hopi
and we re also going to save billions of dollars on going after criminals who commit fraud. a lot of people are saying to me they don t like the idea i m prepared to forgive up to $20,000 if you got a pell grant or $10,000 for anybody who has a student loan during the recession. well, guess what, we pay the so called ppp program, we paid significant i think it s $900 billion. don t hold me to that number, but it s well over 9 for anybody who had a tough time with their business during the pandemic so they could pay employees. but guess what, you may remember, i was running for office at the time, you all may remember it that i had a big fight with the former president. and maybe future president. bless me father. anyway, all kidding aside, and here s the deal, what happened was the folks are really going after me for trying to, and by the way, 90% of all debt forgiveness for student loans will go to, under my plan, 90% will go to families making under $75,000 a year. okay.
good morning, everyone. we start with really serious news this morning. there is devastation happening. the staggering death toll keeps rising in turkey and syria after a catastrophic earthquake. 1300 people are now reported dead and a powerful after shock. it just hit just moments ago. we ll go live to istanbul for the latest on this frantic search. and new fallout from the downing of a chinese spy balloon. president biden is preparing to deliver his second state of the union address. a train loaded with hazardous materials derailing in ohio. thousands of people ordered to evacuate. now a battle is under way to keep that toxic wreckage from exploding. we re going to begin with this. devastating earthquake in turkey and syria. it struck before dawn and collapsed buildings while people were asleep in their beds. just moments ago, just got word of a powerful 7.5 magnitude after shock. there you can see people digging through the rubble. more than 1300 people now reported
debris of that shot down balloon off of the south carolina coast. and now, residents are forced to evacuate from that train derailment that is a massive inferno. that is what we are watching this hour. i m kristen fisher in for kate bolduan, and we are beginning with the story overseas. a power 7.8 magnitude earthquake has killed more than 2,300 people in turkey and syria, and the death toll is expected to rise significantly possibly into the tense of of thousands. and this is rescue crews frantically searching to survivors, but the efforts are hampered by big aftershocks. we begin with jomana karadsheh in istanbul, turkey, and bring us up to date with the frantic search for survivors. it is an absolutely devastating situation, kristen, and across the border as well, and we have seen the death toll continue to steadily rise over the past few hours where more than 2,300 people confirmed kill and more than 1,500 of them here in turkey and hundreds killed in syria, both in r
i m here to see if i can trace just one person through one of these lost objects and shed new life on this dangerous journey taken by so many. my name is thomas naadi and i m a bbc correspondent. i m based in ghana, my country, but my journey starts here in lampedusa. this has long been an arrival spot for refugees seeking better opportunities in europe. i m here to meet one of the founders of a collective set up for objects lost by those travelling on this route. i m hoping to use one of these objects as a lens for looking closer into the migrant s story. indicative of so many, traced through a single object lost with along the way. giacomo shows me some of the objects closest to his heart. giacomo found most of these down and lampedusa, where for years, the authorities received. it s a slightly strange feeling to be standing here on this island in the footprints of so many. looking at all those objects, i could just imagine the pain, the sacrifice and the strength needed to