welcome to bbc news, i'm rich preston. our top stories: three days after the earthquakes in turkey and syria, more than 12,000 people are dead, thousands more are still thought to be trapped. president erdogan has acknowledged mistakes were made in the initial response, as the extent of the devastation becomes ever clearer. the rescuers say that they will come back tomorrow and the next day. they will return to sites like this for as long as it takes to return loved ones to their relatives.

president zelensky, on his first visit to the uk since the russian invasion, thanks politicians for their support but urges the uk to give fighterjets to ukraine. the writing on the helmet reads: we have freedom, give us wings to protect it. drama at disney, 7,000 jobs to go. the entertainment giant cuts costs, as streaming customers fall for the first time. and, praise continues to pour in for nba superstar lebronjames, after he becomes the competition's all—time leading points scorer.

welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we begin in turkey and syria, where more than 12,000 people are now known to have died in the earthquakes which hit the region early on monday morning. in turkey, there's growing anger at the speed of the rescue effort, with many complaining they've had no help trying to pull people from the rubble. while in syria, state—controlled media is reporting that some 300,000 people have been forced to leave their homes. more from syria shortly, but first let's hear from our middle east correspondent anna foster, who was among the first journalists to reach the epicentre in turkey. and reports now from kahramanmaras. the devastating power of the earth, seen from the air. swathes of this city lie in ruins, buildings, homes, lives have been destroyed. in many cities, the search now is not for survivors, it is only for the dead. when the rubble shows a sign, the digging stops.

behind this blanket, an arm reveals a body. slowly, carefully, it is uncovered. and then, the moment of realisation. screams. a father lost. screams. the goodbye is painful and public. and here in maras, ambulances are now hearses. they have spent the whole day here searching for bodies, and the light is starting

to fade now, but the rescuers say they will come back tomorrow and the next day. they will return to sites like this for as long as it takes to return loved ones to their relatives. they are rare, but there are still moments of hope. a little girl, healthy and alive, after three days buried. the rescuers celebrate. she says her siblings are down there as well. today, president erdogan came to visit those who have lost everything. but there is growing anger that

help is coming too slowly and that is not enough of it. he says it is impossible to prepare for disasters on this scale. translation: we have some problems with places - like airports in the beginning. we had problems on the roads, but it is better today and it will be even better tomorrow. bodies now fill this sports hall. more are arriving all the time. among them, yunus�*s fiancee. they were just weeks away from getting married. translation: i was planning to dress her in a wedding - dress, but now i will dress her in a funeral shroud. i am like the walking dead, i am the living dead. i lost my feelings. each of these bundles marks a future cut short, a family separated. every hour, the death toll rises, and even now, it is impossible to know how many lives this quake has claimed.

well the situation in northern syria was desperate even before earthquake struck. the region is home to millions of refugees displaced by move than a decade of civil war. some emergency aid has been flown in from iran and the gulf states but the syrian government has also asked the european union for help. the group of volunteers known as the white helmets are leading the rescue efforts. 0ur international editor jeremy bowen reports. something to celebrate at last in a place without much good news. a family of six was rescued alive from the rubble in idlib, the last part of syria still controlled by rebels. the rescuers, a group called the white helmets that the uk helps to fund, are experts. they've been digging out survivors of the assad regime's air strikes for much

of syria's long war. the geological faults that brought down these buildings cut right across the front lines and zones of influence that have devastated syria since 2011. this is aleppo, syria's biggest city, back in regime hands since the rebels here were defeated in 2016. now syria has a huge natural disaster on the back of the man—made catastrophe that broke the country. in aleppo hospital, every bed has its own tragedy. only three members of this man's family survived when their home collapsed. 13 of them were killed. they were, he says my father, my mother, my brother, his wife, and their four children. and the wife and two kids of the brother who was rescued with me also died. faced with such disaster,

the un, which already helps care for millions of syrians, appealed for some national solidarity. we are hoping that everybody puts the interest of the people first. we keep the politics aside, all authorities move away from the issue, from the politics, and put the interest of the people first. in damascus, the capital, citizens are rallying around giving blood. so far, grassroots relief efforts seem to be the best hope. but it's not clear whether aid collected and delivered in damascus will make it across the front line into rebel—held idlib province. back in aleppo, russian troops, whose intervention salvaged the rule of the assad family, are helping the syrian red crescent alongside algerian rescue workers. the damascus regime says its allies, also including iran, are flying in aid. allies and who controls what won't matter much to families who are homeless or nervous about sleeping in damaged buildings.

an earthquake tests any nation's resilience. war has taught a generation of syrians that they have to fend for themselves. in idlib province, the white helmets rescued another child, a boy. people do their best. broader aid efforts, let alone rebuilding, will need a miracle to overcome the blight, hatred, and distrust of a generation of war. jeremy bowen, bbc news. let's talk about how rescuers go about searching for survivors in collapsed buildings. sinead imbaro is a canine search specialist and trainer with florida task force six. she worked on trying to find survivors at the surfside tower collapse in florida in 2021. shejoins us now from miami, along with this very good boy, her search dog magnus ares.

delighted to have you both on the programme, sorry it such sad circumstances. at first of all, tell us about magnus? magnus is a canine search dog, he searches for live human victims. he also is a trailing dog so he's not only sent specific but his air sending as well so he goes both disciplines which is a very special. disciplines which is a very secial. ~ . ., ., special. we will come in a moment _ special. we will come in a moment to _ special. we will come in a moment to how _ special. we will come in a moment to how you - special. we will come in a moment to how you get l special. we will come in a - moment to how you get around training a dog like magnus but you've got lots of experience on the ground in situations like we are seeing in turkey and as i've mentioned the surfside building collapse. took us through what it is like when you first land on the ground and how practically go around organising your search operation. around organising your search operation-— operation. since it was in our hometown — operation. since it was in our hometown miami, _ operation. since it was in our hometown miami, it - operation. since it was in our hometown miami, it was - hometown miami, it was pretty... i shouldn't say easy but it was pretty well

organised as far as our teams knowing what to do. as far as the situation in turkey it is going to be a little bit different because of the weather conditions and the environment. so as soon as the dogs land or as soon as the search teams land, they will be informed of the operations and areas that they need to search and will be given the guideline on what to do.— on what to do. what is it magnus _ on what to do. what is it magnus is _ on what to do. what is it magnus is specifically i magnus is specifically searching for? what smells is he trying to sniff out? he searching for? what smells is he trying to sniff out?- he trying to sniff out? he is sniffin: he trying to sniff out? he is sniffing out _ he trying to sniff out? he is sniffing out human - he trying to sniff out? he is sniffing out human live - he trying to sniff out? he is i sniffing out human live odour but he's also sniffing out the breath, that what makes it different than searching out human remains. 0nce different than searching out human remains. once he locates that human odour, he will stay at that and indicate with a bark and that will signal us to

come and investigate that area and we use our cameras and equipment to further look down into that area to see if there's any forms of life. magnus is your dog but you train other dogs as well for law enforcement and other rescue services stop how do you train a dog like magnus to do he does? it train a dog like magnus to do he does? , , ., , train a dog like magnus to do he does?— he does? it 'ust starts out with the — he does? itjust starts out with the basics _ he does? itjust starts out with the basics of- he does? itjust starts out| with the basics of teaching he does? itjust starts out - with the basics of teaching him to bark and then making it a fun day for them to locate the human, so we teach them to bark and the human will go and hide in a barrel, the dog will seek out the human in the barrel and then from there we will cover then from there we will cover the barrel up so he can't see the barrel up so he can't see the person and then he will have to seek the person out from then on. we've transitioned that barrel from the ground up into the rubble pile and then we will extinct

that barrel and began hiding out of them is, our quote unquote victims in the pile where the dog can seek out that human odour. indie where the dog can seek out that human odour.— human odour. we have seen the ictures human odour. we have seen the pictures coming _ human odour. we have seen the pictures coming out _ human odour. we have seen the pictures coming out of— human odour. we have seen the pictures coming out of turkey i pictures coming out of turkey and syria, it is a highly precarious situation for people to be working again, you are obviously concerned about the safety of your dog, what are you looking out for? what situations are you willing to send him in and won't send him an? ., �* , send him in and won't send him an? . �* , ., ~ send him in and won't send him an? . �* , ., . ., an? that's tough. we have engineers _ an? that's tough. we have engineers here _ an? that's tough. we have engineers here that - an? that's tough. we have engineers here that will. an? that's tough. we have | engineers here that will tell us what areas are safe for both of us to venture in. if we, as the handler can't venture any further, we will send our dog to the point where it is deemed safe, and that is where obedience controls come in, that we can call them back, but we look for huge voids, look for sharp object, like rebar,

glass, etc, and we want to try our best to care for these guys when they are up on the pile which is very hard, we can't have any equipment on them just due to the fact that they may get caught up on it so they are going on naked whereas we are covered in gloves and boots and helmets and we have masks on, for air—quality whereas they have absolutely nothing. for air-quality whereas they have absolutely nothing. sinead and magnus. — have absolutely nothing. sinead and magnus, we _ have absolutely nothing. sinead and magnus, we are _ have absolutely nothing. sinead and magnus, we are very - and magnus, we are very gratefulfor and magnus, we are very grateful for your and magnus, we are very gratefulfor your time, thank you, we appreciate it. by russia last year. he's been asking them to send more military help. in the past few hours, he's been in paris, where he met president macron and the german chancelor 0laf scholz. he urged them to deliver the equipment ukraine needed "as soon as possible". earlier, president zelenskyy was in the uk where he addressed both houses of parliament at westminster. he again appealed for more military help, including fighterjets.

london has stood with us since they won. from the first seconds of minutes of the full—scale wall, great britain, you extended your helping hand around the world, have not yet come to understand how to react. the world needs your leadership, britain, just as it needs ukrainian bravery. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: king of the court, lebronjames becomes the nba's all—time leading points scorer.

there's mr mandela, mr nelson mandela, a free man, taking his first steps into a new south africa. iran's spiritual leader, ayatollah khomeini, has said he's passed a death sentence on salman rushdie, the british author of a book which many muslims say is blasphemous. the people of haiti havej flocked to church to give thanks for the ousting i of their former president ba by doc duvalier. because of his considerable value as a stallion, shergar was kept in a special secure box in the stud farm's central block. shergar was driven away in a horse box the thieves had brought with them. there stepped down from the plane a figure in mourning, elizabeth ii, queen of this realm and of all her other realms and territories, head of the commonwealth, defender of the faith.

this is bbc news, the latest headlines: the earthquakes in turkey and syria have killed more than 12,000 people — it's feared thousands more are still trapped. president zelenskyy of ukraine addresses the uk parliament and appeals forfighterjets to use against the russians. the entertainment giant disney has announced it'll be laying off 7,000 employees, in ceo bob iger�*s first major decision since he was asked back to lead the company late last year. the layoffs follow similar moves by other us tech giants which have laid off thousands of workers as the economy sours and companies dial back a hiring spurt that began during the height of the pandemic. for more on this, our correspondent david willis

joins us now from washington, dc. this from washington, dc. has everything to do with the this has everything to do with the so—called streaming wars. disney's disney+ subscription services face competition from rivals such as netflix, amazon and so on, and as a result of which it's had to spend a lot of money on content in order to subscribe —— attract subscribers and that has weighed heavily on the bottom line. indeed since disney plus was launched back in 2019, country's streaming services have lost around about $10 billion, so it takes a lot of visits to the magic kingdom to make up that sort of shortfall, and as a result, even though the theme parks are doing extremely well, the company has announced the plan to try and save $5.5 billion in part by cutting these 7000 jobs. understand most of these job

losses will be in the division that makes films and tv series. disney will cut back on content and concentrate instead on the franchises that have proved so lucrative in the past. such as star wars, the marble superheroes and pixar animation. this does come after disney's old boss is returning to the company. that's right, we're talking about bob eiger. he led disney for 15 years and one of the things he did in the ceo position was champion the development of streaming services at disney. the same services at disney. the same services that are under pressure right now. he resigned as ceo in 2020 and then the company's share price fell dramatically and that led to the ousting of his hand—picked

successor, a man called bob chapek, and the return last november, and his men could put on contract to run the company now the next two years but he is under pressure, not only from shareholders but from the billionaire investor, and activist investor by the name of nelson peltz was been highly critical of the way disney has been run in recent years. he was looking to gain a seat on the board. all this puts pressure on bob eiger to act so just two months back as ceo, he is cutting the 7000 jobs on top of the more than 30,000 jobs that were cut by disney a couple of years ago, most of them in its theme park division.— them in its theme park division. ~ , ., ~ division. david willis, thank ou. let's get some of the day's other news. a bus has crashed into a daycare centre near the canadian city of montreal, killing two

children and injuring six others. the driver has been arrested and charged with homicide and dangerous driving. canada's prime minister, justin trudeau, said he was �*devastated' and couldn't imagine what the families were going through. newly released documents have revealed a memphis police officer took photos of tyre nichols, while he sat bashed, bleeding and in need of medical help. mr nichols died three days after after he was beaten by police officers last month. 0fficer demetrius haley is one of the five former policemen who've been charged with second degree murder over mr nichols' death. 0fficer haley took two photos, sharing them with at least five people. us officials say there have been at least four previous spy balloons that had drifted over american sites that were of interest to china. they say three happened under donald trump's administration and a fourth early on injoe biden's. no details were given of the flights paths they took. the latest was shot down by us fighterjets on saturday. the government of brazil has

launched an operation the praises continue to pour in for the nba superstar lebron james after the 38 year—old became the competition's all—time scoring leader. he eclipsed kareem abdul—jabbarfor the nba points record by reaching 38,388 career points, just one more than karim abdul—jabbar�*s total. abdul—jabbar initially broke the scoring record in april 1984, eight months before lebronjames was even born. let's go to los angeles where that record was broken and speak to sabreena merchant, staff writer for the athletic and sabrina, good to talk to you. how big a moment is this the lebronjames? how big a moment is this the lebron james?— lebron james? thank you for havin: lebron james? thank you for having me- — lebron james? thank you for having me- i— lebron james? thank you for having me. i would _ lebron james? thank you for having me. i would say- lebron james? thank you for having me. i would say this l lebron james? thank you for | having me. i would say this is probably among the top five moments of lebronjames's moments of lebron james's career moments of lebronjames's career but probably not on the level of him winning the championship for the cleveland caribbean cavaliers or the other titles for miami and los angeles. he is always fancied himself as a team player and obviously means a great deal to him to have this accolade, being the all—time leading scorer...

being the all-time leading scorer- - -— being the all-time leading scorer. . . ., ~' scorer... oh, dear, ithink we may have _ scorer... oh, dear, ithink we may have lost _ scorer... oh, dear, ithink we may have lost the _ scorer... oh, dear, ithink we| may have lost the connection. we will come back to that if we can. a $20 million lot is set to hit a new york auction house, featuring a babe ruth rookie card among other prized items. more than a century old, the 1916 card is expected to bring in $3 million — it's from babe ruth's rookie season with the red sox before the slugger was traded to the new york yankees. a total of 1,400 lots are included in the auction and feature baseball bats, jerseys from various sports, championship rings, as well as more trading cards. let's go back to los angeles. what is it that makes lebron james such a megastar? i don't

know if you're able to hear us there. i don't you can, unfortunately will have to move on from that unfortunately. art and virtual reality technology combine in a free exhibition of immersive storytelling at london's south bank centre. 0ur correspondent luxmy gopal donned her vr goggles and went along to discover more. giving art a different dimension. at this exhibition at bfi south bank, you can enjoy the artwork, short films through virtual reality goggles. what's easiest to grab the front of the headset and adjust it to your eyes. bringing technology and art together to bring you closer to the story. the virtual reality is really an immersive medium, you kind of get lost inside of it. so it creates this empathy that no other medium, i think, can create. so telling a story about that is about someone else,

you immediately kind of put yourself in their shoes. bamboo kenneth's work is about the challenge of non—binary parents trying to adopt a child. the exhibition's artists are all non—binary or women to counter the idea that tech is a man's world. there is the stereotype that new and emerging technologies are predominately male. it is not true, there are amazing female and non—binary creators working on very powerful and exciting stories and here at the bfi, we want to surface that. when i first began training in this medium, i went to a lab and there were 20 participants and i was the only woman. and it was entirely white. things needed to change and i think this is going to be a real game—changer and it really shines a light there are women in this space and making such

amazing pieces of work. with the vr headset on, you're placed within the art. that's it from us for now, goodbye. hello there. there was a hard frost across england and wales but plenty of sunshine on wednesday here but we had gale—force gusts of winds and rain further north. this is how we closed out the afternoon. in highland. and that weather front responsible for this continues to sink its way steadily south and east. no significant rain by the time it pushes south—east as it comes into this area of high pressure, a band of cloud, light drizzle from east anglia down to cornwall, slowly clearing towards the channel. behind it, some sunshine coming through, a brisk north—westerly wind will continue to feed in showers particularly the north—west of the great glen and winds still gusting 40—50mph at times so a noticeable

strong westerly wind. temperatures around 7—9 degrees, one or two places if we are lucky just seeing 10 celsius as a high, 50 fahrenheit. as you close out thursday into the early hours of friday, we start to see a contrast, more cloud pushing into the far north, some showery outbreaks of rain here but milder, temperatures holding up above freezing. with clearer skies, temperatures falling just below freezing once again across england and wales so we can't rule out frost and fog again or friday. but high pressure dominates for england and wales, still a bit more of a breeze up into the far north—west and this westerly feed of air will continue to be a story so it will be a slightly milder feel generally across the country, we're likely to see temperatures into double digits. the weather front toppling across the high will bring outbreaks of showery rain into scotland, more cloud, high cloud across northern england and wales as well, highs generally of 9—13 degrees. as we move into the weekend, that milder air will continue

to be the story. the high pressure reallyjust sitting across europe and clinging onto central and southern england, with weather fronts toppling across that high. so that means we always run the risk of more cloud and outbreaks of rain, with a stronger wind across the far north and west. there'll be quite a lot of cloud generally on saturday, largely fine and dry for england and wales, and a little bit milder. 9—13 degrees, the high. similar story as well as we go to sunday, watch out for that early morning mist and fog once again.

this is bbc news. the headlines: rescue workers are still searching for survivors in southern turkey and northern syria following monday's earthquakes. more than 12,000 people have been killed and it's feared thousands more are still trapped. the turkish president, recep tayyip erdogan, has defended his government's response to the quakes. president zelensky of ukraine has addressed the uk parliament in a brief trip to england. he appealed for fighterjets to use against the russians. mr zelensky has moved on to france where he held talks with president macron, and the german chancellor, 0laf scholz. the walt disney company has announced that it's cutting 7,000 jobs in a restructuring plan. the entertainment group said the cuts were aimed at helping its struggling streaming division, disney+.