earthquake where rescue teams are still racing against the clock, hoping against hope to find people live. the partner of former newcastle united footballer christian atsu tells us she s anxiously waiting for news as it s confirmed he s still missing in hatay. i feel for everyone who is like me and my children, not knowing. and could the party be over for visitors to amsterdam? we ll explain why the city is clamping down on its reputation forsex, drink, and drugs. fears are growing for the hundreds of thousands of people in turkey and syria in need, after monday s devastating earthquakes. living in makeshift shelters and cars in freezing conditions, there are warnings that aid is not reaching areas fast enough. more than 22,000 people are now known to have died. syrian state media says the government has approved international aid delivery to rebel held areas in cooperation with the help of the un, syrian red crescent, and international red cross. let s go live to gaziantep
hello. it s adam in the studio. and chris in the studio. and we ll be joined by various guests throughout this episode of newscast, which has got a bit of a sad start because we re going to focus on the devastation caused by the massive series of earthquakes in southern turkey and northern syria, which happened on sunday night 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 and just, 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 real
i m wondering what the bbc thinks of its audience, whether they think we have any intelligence at all. in recent days, reporters on the website, on the news website, have felt it necessary to explain that the cabinet is rishi sunak s group of senior ministers and that inflation is the rate at which prices are rising . given that inflation has been in the news daily for several months now, is it really necessary? where will this end? will they soon be telling us that apples are a crispy green fruit, for example? please, give us some credit for some modicum of intelligence. one of the moves in that government reshuffle was the appointment of lee anderson to the post of deputy chairman of the conservative party. here are two political correspondents, nick eardley and ben wright, talking about mr anderson on thursday. anyone who works on here would tell you that he is no stranger to controversy. he has said several controversial things, from criticising the uses of food banks,
hello and welcome. the united states says it has shot down a high altitude object flying over the state of alaska. the white house said it was much smaller than the recently downed chinese balloon, but was still the size of a small car and could have posed a threat to commercial planes. let s get more now from our correspondent nomia iqbal. she is in washington. nomia. yes, this ress she is in washington. nomia. yes, this press conference she is in washington. nomia. yes, this press conference was - she is in washington. nomia. 133 this press conference was held a short while ago. at the top of the agenda we were expecting to hear about the latest on the ukraine war, also america s assistance for turkey following that devastating earthquake and also president lula of brazil is visiting, but it was complete dominated once it was revered by the white house spokespersonjohn kirby revered by the white house spokesperson john kirby that around 1:30pm eastern time here in the u
an impending humanitarian emergency. at least 15 people have been shot dead in a bar in the south african township of soweto. voters injapan are choosing members of the country s upper house of parliament in elections overshadowed by the assassination of former prime minister, shinzo abe. and in the tennis defending champion novak djokovic faces nick kyrgios in the men s final at wimbledon later today. hello and welcome to bbc news. the battle to become britain s next prime minister is intensifying. nine candidates have now announced they will stand in the contest to replace borisjohnson as leader of the conservative party. the ukjunior trade minister penny mordaunt is the latest to come forward. she follows the former health secretaries, sajid javid and jeremy hunt with both pledging to cut taxes. the foreign secretary, liz truss, is expected to declare in the coming days. our political correspondent, jonathan blake reports. the two newest entrants to the race are the