travelling towards the epicentre near the syrian border. we will be hearing from her shortly. also on the programme. the former metropolitan police officer david carrick will be sentenced tomorrow after pleading guilty to multiple sex offences against women. we hear from one of his victims. nurses and ambulance workers in england go on strike on the same day for the first time in this dispute. we assess the impact. and trouble for manchester city as the premier league charges the club with more than 100 breaches of its financial rules. and coming up on the bbc news channel: marsching on without jesse, as leeds united sack their manager after less than a year in charge. good evening. more than 3500 people have been killed after two major earthquakes hit southern turkey and northern syria today, flattening thousands of buildings and leaving tens of thousands injured. a massive rescue operation is under way to try to find any survivors people have spent the day digging with
millions of households are urged to turn off their lights and appliances to tackle an energy crisis. and in central africa, we ve a special report on the race to stop the plunder of rich peatlands releasing damaging carbon dioxide. welcome to bbc news. we begin in russia. one of president vladimir putin s closest advisers, the foreign minister sergei lavrov, has told the bbc that russia has not invaded ukraine and he s repeated the official line from the kremlin that there is no war, but it s a special military operation . mr lavrov has been at the heart of power in russia for over 20 years and represented the country on the international stage for nearly two decades. earlier, he spoke to our russia editor steve rosenberg. hello, thank you. hello. it was the first time sergei lavrov had agreed to meet since moscow launched its offensive in ukraine. russia s government has created a parallel reality. invasion? what invasion? translation: we didn t invade ukraine. - we declare
of rich peatlands releasing damaging carbon dioxide. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. one of president putin s closest advisers, the foreign minister sergei lavrov, has told the bbc that russia has not invaded ukraine. he s repeated the kremlin line that there is no war but instead a special military operation . this comes as russia s invasion of ukraine is almost four months old. mr lavrov, who s been at the heart of power in russia for over 20 years, spoke to our russia editor steve rosenberg. hello, thank you. how are you? it was the first time sergei lavrov had agreed to meet since moscow launched its offensive in ukraine. russia s government has created a parallel reality. invasion? what invasion? translation: we didn t invade ukraine. - we declared a special military operation because we had absolutely no other way of explaining to the west that dragging ukraine into nato was a criminal act. russia s special operation has resulted in tho
and in central africa, we ve a special report on the race to stop the plunder of rich peatlands releasing damaging carbon dioxide. hello. one of president putin s closest advisers, the foreign minister sergei lavrov, has told the bbc that russia has not invaded ukraine. he s repeated the kremlin line that there is no war, but instead a special military operation . this comes as russia s invasion of ukraine is almost four months old. mr lavrov, who s been at the heart of power in russia for over 20 years, spoke to our russia editor steve rosenberg. hello, thank you. how are you? it was the first time sergei lavrov had agreed to meet since moscow launched its offensive in ukraine. russia s government has created a parallel reality. invasion? what invasion? translation: we didn t invade ukraine. - we declared a special military operation because we had absolutely no other way of explaining to the west that dragging ukraine into nato was a criminal act. russia s special operati