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 andjust, 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 really important isjust trying to give an idea of the scale of this, because you can only see so much here that the camera shows you and you can see everything that s going on behind me. you can see this destroyed building. you can see the rescue workers and you can see the diggers. but, beyond the camera s view, it goes all the way
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
Industry works, how airlines work, what is happening here? i am seeing a wake-up call here, phil, around the world, also especially here in the u.s. we get to that in a second. you can see the airbus a 350 burning there. what is poignant to me is the video from n hq where you see this airlines flight 516 come in to land on runway 34-left at hin aid a airport. this is telling here. you can see the immediate aftermath of the nose gear on fire of this plane as its it s decelerating down the runway. we don t see what is out of frame on the right, the moment of collision with that japanese coast guard dash 8, a twin turboprop airplane. six people were onboard, five are dead, the captain in critical condition. this happened around 5:47 p.m. local time about 3:47 a.m. here on the east coast as four
The UN Chief has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter for the first time in his tenure of six years as the Secretary-General. The last time Article 99 was invoked was in 1989 under Peru's Javier Pérez de Cuéllar for a military escalation in Lebanon. Guterres' decision has once again irked Israel, who have vowed 'full force' attacks until Hamas is erased. , World News, Times Now