in london as predicted harry styles is one of the night s big winners with four awards, including the much coveted album of the year. hello to you in the uk and around the world. let s bring you some breaking news here in the uk first and a committee of mps has been highly critical of the chairman of the bbc, richard sharp. it has, in effect, urged him to consider his position. the digital, culture, media and sport select committee accuses mr sharp of a significant error ofjudgement for getting involved in facilitating a loan to the then prime minister, borisjohnson, at the same time as applying for the chairmanship of the bbc a job ultimately in the gift of the prime minister. mr sharp has insisted he was appointed bbc chairman on merit. he said that while he hadn t told the committee about the loan offer, he had informed a senior government official. and we ll have more on this a little later. the world health organization says that almost 26 million people have bee
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
the un aid chief calls the scale of the disaster and the response to it unprecedented. what is so amazing is that people are still coming out of the rubble alive six days in. so it s shocking. it s also, in a perverse sense, quite heartening. this is the scene live in southern turkey as rescuers continue their painstaking search for survivors. we ll bring you all the latest developments from our correspondents who are there. in other news, us fighterjets shoot down an unidentified aircraft over alaska, after president biden gave the order to seek and destroy . hundreds of thousands of people hold protests across france over pension reform plans which include raising the retirement age to 62 from 64. 13 men and two women have been arrested following clashes with police, outside a hotel providing refuge for asylum seekers on merseyside in northwest england. # 0n the chaise longue, on the chaise longue # 0n the chaise longue all day long # 0n the chaise longue.# celebrating
of syria, which is rebel controlled. he found no sign of a relief effort, with local people, including children, left scouring through rubble for survivors. this is the town of haram in north west syria. there is a bit of activity here, but nothing like you see in terms of activity on the other side, on the turkish side of the border. the border is literally just across that hill. the people here have lost about 700 buildings. another 4,000 or so are unsafe. so they are living in tents. if i swing around here, you can perhaps see the internally displaced people s camp that has been set up over there. they re also telling us that, in terms of foreign aid, they have received next to nothing. some spanish doctors made it to some of their hospitals, but nothing else. the contrast here with what is going on in turkey is astonishing. over on that side of the border, there is a constant sound of sirens, of heavy machinery, of people working. there is none of that here. down there, t