nearly two weeks on from turkey s devastating earthquake, officials have said most rescue efforts to find survivors will end today. search operations have been winding down for days as the chances of finding people fade. more than 16,000 people are known to have been killed by the quake and the aftershocks. meanwhile, the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has arrived in turkey, at the incirlik air base. he ll hold talks with his turkish counterpart, before meeting some of the people affected by the quake, including white helmet rescue workers from rebel held parts of syria. our correspondent caroline davies has the latest from adana. tomorrow morning, it will be two weeks since the earthquake hit turkey and syria, and according to the turkish emergency and disaster body, the vast majority of rescue operations will be winding down from the end of today. we know they have already across one province there were 200 buildings being searched, in another province, the epicentr
nearly two weeks on from turkey s devastating earthquake, officials have said most rescue efforts to find survivors will end today. search operations have been winding down for days as the chances of finding people fade. more than 16,000 people are known to have been killed by the quake and the aftershocks. meanwhile the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has arrived in turkey, at the incirlik air base. he ll hold talks with his turkish counterpart, before meeting some of the people affected by the quake, including white helmet rescue workers from rebel held parts of syria. with clean up efforts getting under way in turkey, anger is building in some of the worst affected areas. as bulldozers clear debris in the devastated southeastern city of antakya, many people are still waiting for their loved ones to be found under the rubble. translation: my cousin has still not been found under the rubble. - the search has to continue so that at least his body is found. we have been
to the big match. hello and welcome. presidentjoe biden is set for talks for european leaders in poland on tuesday, just hours after he left ukraine, following a secretly planned visit. mr biden s arrival in kyiv came just days before the first anniversary of russia s invasion and ahead of a major speech by the russian president to his parliment. vincent mcaviney reports. american presidents normally arrived to military band but in kyiv yesterdayjoe biden s historic visit was to the sound of an air raid siren. after months of planning, biden travelled in secret by a train for ten hours to an active war zone to mark the one year anniversary of russia s illegal invasion on friday. with unprecedented security in the capital, the americans had warned the kremlin thatjoe biden was coming. a point was being made. ukraine was still under attack but its most powerful ally was there to show its leader and people his support. the symbolism of the visit might be strong, but a few hundre
and coming up a full lunar eclipse, giving people the chance to see what s known as a super blood moon. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. finland and sweden have abandoned their military non alignment and announced their intention tojoin nato in response to russia s invasion of ukraine. the alliance s secretary general jens stoltenberg has described the move as historic while president putin, talking of finland, described the plan as a mistake . nato, the north atlantic treaty organization, is a military alliance which was formed in 1949 by 12 countries including the us, the uk, canada and france. after the soviet union s collapse in 1991, many former eastern bloc countriesjoined nato. finland which has a border of more than 1,300 kilometre russia and sweden want to join now. nato foreign ministers, who have been meeting in berlin, said they wanted a rapid accession because of the ukrainian crisis. our europe correspondent, nick
Americas strongest mideast ally is at war. Israel is striking back at Hamas Terrorists in response to a coordinated series of Terror Attacks resulting in the murder of more than 800 men, Women And Children. The u. S. Now confirming at least Nine Americans are among the dead. Good morning to you, im dana perino and bill is off today. Good morning, aishah. Aishah a very tough day as the world wakes up to this horrific attack. This is americas newsroom and here is where things stand at this hour. The combined death toll in israel and in gaza has now surpassed more than 1200 people. There are thousands more wounded and more than 100 israelis kidnapped behind enemy lines. Dana despite israels Retaliation Hamas is still attacking. They have now fired more than 3500 rockets into israel. Aishah the Wall Street Journal is reporting that iran was directly involved in all of this. The paper says tehran worked with hamas for weeks to plan the attacks. This directly after the u. S. Opened up 6 bill