that from the very beginning they thought this missing persons investigation, they treated nicola as high risk because she had specific vulnerability. they later clarified all that by telling us what those vulnerabilities wear. they said that nicola had alcohol issues and that she had struggled with the menopause, and that they had resurfaced in recent months. that provoked a lot of reaction. you heard that tweet from the home secretary. what followed was a lot of criticism, which perhaps the force was not expecting, from a number of groups who felt deeply uncomfortable that this kind of information was being released to the public, details of nicola s private life, three weeks into the investigation, and the questioned whether it was relevant, whether they had to do that at all. so the force was under a lot of scrutiny. lancashire police did inform nicola s family they were about to do this. they said that nicola would not have wanted that kind of information to be released.
in maras, and we ll have the latest on the aid efforts in neighbouring syria. also on the programme cheering and applause. at westminster, president zelensky of ukraine addresses both houses of parliament and appeals for more military support to fight the russians. the writing on the helmet reads, we have freedom, give us wings to protect it . applause 12 days after nicola bulley disappeared while walking her dog near the river wyre, lancashire police say they are still fully open minded. coming up on the bbc news channel, lebronjames adds a newjewel to his crown. he becomes the nba s all time leading scorer, passing kareem abdul jabbar s 39year old record. the spin good evening. president erdogan of turkey has been to visit one of the areas worst affected, by the earthquake which struck on monday, and he s been defending his government s response to the disaster. more than 11,000 people are now confirmed dead, across southern turkey and northern syria, as rescue workers
jets to ukraine. we start with the devastating earthquakes which have rocked southern turkey and northern syria and are now known to have killed more than 11,700 people. turkey s president erdogan has been defending his government s response to the disaster on a visit to some of the worst affected areas. we ll have more on that shortly. but first, with the search operations ongoing in the rubble of collapsed buildings, dramatic pictures continue to emerge of rescues in both countries. cheering. this was the moment that rescuers hauled a boy onto a stretcher moments after he was rescued from the rubble two days after the earthquake. there were also cheers ofjubilation at being able to save his life. there have been other glimmers of hope in an otherwise grim landscape of devastation and death. our correspondent, anna foster, has been in the village of karamanmaras. i was watching them take bodies out of here last night and again this morning. it is pulling aside all of this