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
and turkey issues an international appeal for help. we ll be taking a look at how world leaders are responding. welcome to the programme. we begin in turkey and northern syria, where two powerful earthquakes have killed more than 2,000 people. many more injured and still missing. we ll look at the damage done and the rescue operations. first, let s see where this happened. the first earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8 the epicentre in turkey s gaziantep province. there have been almost 30 other shocks in the region, all powerful enough to magnify the damage. a second major earthquake 130km north of the first one. these pictures show buildings collapsing in south east turkey. the country has declared a state of emergency. here s president erdogan. translation: we do not know how far the number of dead and injured - will rise as debris removal works continue in many buildings in the earthquake zone. our hope is that we will recover from this disaster with the least loss of life
Now the union seems to have been reassured that everythings back on the table. The finer detail has to be worked out, but im very assured by the prime ministers intervention, and we certainly will as we have always said we will put our plans on the table, they can put their plans on the table, but im confident that we will come out with a fair pay settlement for our nursing staff. Neither side will say what numbers will be discussed or what might be offered for the next financial year. In the meantime, nhs leaders are relieved that escalated Strike Action has been called off. Its welcome news, first and foremost because it averts next weeks planned Strike Action which would have spelled major disruption for patient care. So, leaders across the nhs will be relieved this evening that talks will commence. The Scottish Government meanwhile has offered a 14 pay deal to Health Unions over two years. The rcn says it will recommend this to members. In wales, an offer around 7 this year is bein
now the union seems to have been reassured that everything s back on the table. the finer detail has to be worked out, but i m very assured by the prime minister s intervention, and we certainly will as we have always said we will put our plans on the table, they can put their plans on the table, but i m confident that we will come out with a fair pay settlement for our nursing staff. neither side will say what numbers will be discussed or what might be offered for the next financial year. in the meantime, nhs leaders are relieved that escalated strike action has been called off. it s welcome news, first and foremost because it averts next week s planned strike action which would have spelled major disruption for patient care. so, leaders across the nhs will be relieved this evening that talks will commence. the scottish government meanwhile has offered a 14% pay deal to health unions over two years. the rcn says it will recommend this to members. in wales, an offer aroun
and nearly 60 years after his death, the family of malcolm x say they re going to sue the cia and fbi. presidents putin and biden have given their competing views of the war in ukraine. president biden, who was in ukraine s capital kyiv on monday, has made a major speech in poland where he said the west s support for ukraine will not waiver. in his state of the nation address, vladimir putin defended his full scale invasion, blaming the west for provoking the war, and he announced he s suspending russian participation in the major nuclear arms control agreement with the us. here s our russia editor steve rosenberg. the world according to vladimir putin feels like a parallel universe. who started the war in ukraine? not russia, he says. translation: responsibility for fuelling the ukrainian - conflict, for its escalation, and for the growing number of victims lies fully with the west and, of course, with the regime in kyiv. i wish to repeat, they started the war, we are us