welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines: at least 20,000 people are now known to have been killed in the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria. still, relatives hope their loved ones might still be alive. yesterday i tried. myself but you can't. you see the concrete like this, it pushes. we have no power to lift it. amid the misery there are miraculous rescues — a woman is freed after 87 hours under the rubble, but hope is fading

for many others. we have seen the weight of hope. loved ones crowding around the rescue efforts hoping against hope that their loved ones will still be pulled alive from this rubble. we'll have the latest news and analysis from our correspondents in the region. also coming up on newsday: the united states says the chinese balloon it shot down at the weekend was definitely being used for spying. # ijust don't know what # i just don't know what to # ijust don't know what to do with myself. we remember burt bacharach, one of pop�*s greatest songwriters, who has died aged 94. and rihanna gears up to perform on one of the world's biggest stages — the super bowl halftime show. you are representing for immigrants and representing for my country, representing for black women everywhere. i think thatis

black women everywhere. i think that is really important. that is key for people to see. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. hundreds of thousands of people across turkey and syria are spending a fourth night in freezing conditions in makeshift camps, having been made homeless by earthquakes. officials say more than 20,000 are now known to have died and hopes are fading that many more will be found beneath the rubble. the first united nations aid convoy has made it into syria — and the world bank has promised the equivalent of almost £1.5 billion to help turkey. let's start with this report from our correspondent in kahraman—maras, anna foster. an urgent call for quiet.

these rescuers need complete silence. they've heard voices. even though this building isn't safe, they don't hesitate because despite the winter cold, there are still survivors, and to get to them, they need to be inside. in another collapsed building not far away, a british—german team are helping local people to search. they risk their lives for moments like this. allahu akbar! a mother and child pulled from the ruins, freezing, exhausted, but alive. the team have been working on a work site for the last few hours. and i'm very glad to say they have just been able to pull someone out of the rubble pile and pass them over to paramedics locally. it is places like this that really show you why the death toll keeps rising.

this was an entire neighbourhood, and it's completely destroyed. it was hundreds of apartments, thousands of people, and the majority of them are still buried under these vast mounds of smoking rubble. good news is becoming increasingly rare here in maras. each day, the number of bodies goes up. it's impossible to know how many more might be found. keenan travelled here from doncaster as soon as he heard the news of the quake. his brother is in there, somewhere. i tried yesterday to dig myself, but you can't. you see the concrete�*s like this? i have no power to lift this. i'm sorry... the wait is agony. i can't stop crying. the last two days i am here, i keep seeing dead bodies, many dead bodies.

and they are just putting each other on top. it's not nice, not nice. as darkness falls once again, the rescue work continues. but the chance of finding more survivors is now small. fourfreezing nights have taken a heavy toll. that was anna foster reporting for us on the picture in turkey. that's the picture in turkey — i want to take you to syria now, where, aid for victims is a far more complicated process than in turkey — because of the effect of 12 years of civil war. much of the earthquake zone in northern syria is controlled by groups who are fighting the government. there's only one border crossing that's currently open for un aid convoys to use — it's called baab—al—hawa, and six lorries did go through it but specialist machinery for lifting rubble is still desperately needed in syria. 0ur correspondent quentin somerville hasjust been on the turkish side of the syrian border and this is what he saw.

at this corner of ataturk and yamal street, hope ends. from what was once an eight—storey building, the last four bodies have been retrieved. everyone else has been accounted for. all that's left is rubble. 0n the other side of the road, though, it's a different story. they shout. a desperate hope still remains. "the children are four and six years old. it's been four days," she says. her nieces are trapped inside. "my god, my god, please return them to us," she says. they dig deep inside the building, but no survivors emerge. a few streets away, there's better news. a syrian boy, a one—year—old, is pulled out alive after 80 hours buried under the rubble. his eight—year—old sister was also

saved, along with their older brother and their mother. turks and syrians have lived together here in anta kya for years. most of the 3 million syrian refugees in turkey are in the earthquake zone and working hand—in—hand in its aftermath. this earthquake is a catastrophe for two countries, for turkey and for syria. syrian and turkish lives and faiths overlap here. this is the border region. syria's only 15 km from here. but when it comes to the national and international response to this disaster, well, syria and turkey have never been further apart. it's taken long enough for help to make it here to southern turkey, but over the horizon in syria, desperate people still wait. quentin sommerville, bbc news. turkey's president erdogan visited the badly affected town of 0smaniye — about a0 kilometres from the syria border. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet

arrived there earlier today and sent us this update. throughout the day in places like this we have seen the weight of hope stop loved ones coming and crowding around the rescue effort hoping against hope that their loved ones will still be pulled alive from the rubble and we saw at this very spot a few hours ago there was a man pulled out to the cheers of god is great and yetjust down the street something else was pulled out but it was not someone alive, it was another dead whati and the cry that went up from the crowds was one of agony. two young sisters realising that all hope was gone. but you also feel cases like this the huge weight of loss. the mobile morgues, the cemeteries, the stacks of what

look like boxes that they are empty coffins. coffins made of pine, of mdf, fashion from old wardrobes, whatever materials are at hand, trying to keep up with the rising death toll. we will hear more on that topic later on when we speak with the humanitarian response in disaster management expert so stay tuned for that. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. us media sources say the former vice president, mike pence, has been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating donald trump. it is not immediately clear what information the special counsel, jack smith, is seeking. he was appointed in november to oversee the investigation into mr trump's alleged mishandled classified documents after he left the presidency. ukraine's president zelensky has appealed to eu leaders to give ukraine fighterjets and arms for the war against

russia. on his first visit to brussels since the start of the invasion, he received several standing ovations as he told the european parliament that his country is fighting notjust to defend itself — but also for europe's way of life. a state of disaster has been declared in south africa, to try to deal with an energy crisis. the president, cyril ramaphosa, made the announcement during his state of the nation address. he insisted south africa would emerge with a more efficient energy network. the church of england has voted to offer blessings to couples in same—sex marriages or civil partnerships. but it said that church teaching — that matrimony is only between one man and one woman — would not change.

the united states says a chinese balloon it shot down last week was unmistakably used for spying. beijing insists the device was a civilian airship that monitored the weather. but a state department official said the latest evidence showed it was carrying advanced surveillance equipment, and was linked to china's military. the balloon was destroyed off the us east coast, having already travelled over large parts of the country. the biden administration believes beijing is behind a huge aerial spy programme, using a fleet of balloons to gather intelligence from more than a0 countries. william cohen is the former us secretary of defence. earlier i asked him how concerning the current situation is for us—china relations. it's pretty brazen from my perspective that given the tensions that exist between the united states and china, the chinese military, with or without the

approval of president xi would undertake this mission. we have to also understand that china is going to try to collect information by land, air, sea and space. that's the reality of the world in which we live. we try to do similar things. as do other countries. information is power. the chinese are trying to collect as much as they can on us. hopefully, we're able to intercept what they are trying to collect. but that's clearly what their objective was in this particular case. in the interest of fairness, beijing insists the device was a civilian airship. and it was monitoring the weather and it says the us have overreacted with all of this. i'm sure a lot of our viewers are wondering, this isn't the first time this is happened. why did it take so long to detect this and what kind of information is us able to glean from this? apparently, it wasn't the first what the intelligence

is now being released to say it happened on at least two or three prior occasions during the previous administration. the question for me would be, what did you know then, what did you communicate to the president of the united states or through the intelligence command structure to say that we're only finding out now that the chinese have put balloons up on some of our territory in the past? in this particular case i think that they were right to say, let's wait and see what intelligence we can collect on this particular instrument. whether you call it an airship or a spy craft, what were they trying to collect? i have guesses on this, i'm not part of the intelligence community. but i suspect they were hovering over our icbm sites to collect as much information about communications taking place at that site, drawing information about the calibre of the people serving there, what the communications capability is between

our various agencies. that's all part of the intelligence collections game. i think the chinese were expanding that beyond what they should have been doing. most people in this country don't want to see overhead balloons collecting information on them. i think they made a big mistake on this. what happens now? as you point out, this is a very tense situation. if you were giving advice to the administration at this point, what would you say? i would say collect all the information we can about what this device was, was it collecting intelligence, communications et cetera and then i would continue to try to meet with the chinese. china is not going away, we're not going away, we're both nuclear armed countries. what we have to do is make sure that someone doesn't make

a mistake or miscalculation that sets us on a path of conflict. when you have too many powers like the us, when you have in existing power, the us and a rising power china, the history of the world has shown that in the majority of those cases they end up going to war. we need to make sure that we're able to sit down with the chinese and say, we have to redraw some of the rules here to make sure you don't make a mistake and we don't make a mistake and go off and create a war. no—one will win, the planet may not survive. that was the former us secretary of defence speaking to me a little earlier. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: tributes to burt bacharach. the composer behind some of the biggest musical hits of the 20th century. 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. 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 newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. 0ur headlines — at least 20,000 people are now known to have been killed in the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria. still, relatives hope their loved ones might still be alive. the united states says the chinese balloon it shot down at the weekend was definitely being used for spying. more on our top story now. dr akhilesh surjan, a humanitarian response and disaster management expert from charles darwin university, told me what's likely to happen after the search—and—rescue phase. we've been speaking about a lot of things have to happen from now on, and for the very long—term for the scale of disaster which has happened at the moment, and we do not need to reinvent the wheel. this is a good thing. recovery time lines are very difficult to

define. however, as communities begin to rebuild their lives after disaster, several phases unfold, and the current phase, which is the search and rescue, likely it is going to go on for let's say the next couple of days, but also parallel, an immediate and short—term emergency relief phase should start, which essentially secures the basic needs for survival of the people, including food, water, clothing and medical care, as well as some kind of temporary shelter in community halls, indoor stadiums, school halls and other places, which can be converted into places where people can be saved from the harsh weather. it’s people can be saved from the harsh weather.— harsh weather. it's a massive undertaking. _ harsh weather. it's a massive undertaking, isn't _ harsh weather. it's a massive undertaking, isn't it, - harsh weather. it's a massive undertaking, isn't it, and - undertaking, isn't it, and there has already been reports of how difficult it is to get aid into some areas, what kind of assistance do you think people need right now most, and how should those who want to help go about trying to do

that? ~ , ., , ., , that? well, is i read updates from this _ that? well, is i read updates from this morning, - that? well, is i read updates from this morning, there - that? well, is i read updates from this morning, there are about over 100,000 emergency responders who are already on the ground, and they are experiencing a shortage of trucks and fuels etc, and what we understand is the technology has certainly progressed in this area quite a lot, so use of drones or unmanned aerial vehicles can assist in not only assessing the real—time scenario on the ground, but it can also be deployed in a meaningful manner to distribute essential items, such as water, food, medicines, clothing, etc, for the needy population. at the same time, more heavy equipments are required to be deployed, and there is enormous help pouring in to support those efforts, but time is something which is required a bit more, when people move towards the more temporary

shelters. idr towards the more temporary shelters. , ,, ., shelters. dr akhilesh sur'an from charles �* shelters. dr akhilesh sur'an from charles dow i shelters. dr akhilesh sur'an from charles dow and i shelters. dr akhilesh surjan - from charles dow and university speaking to me a little earlier. to north korea now, which has held a huge night—time military parade, to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of its military. its leader, kimjong un, was unusually accompanied by his ten—year—old daughter, kim ju ae, fuelling speculation that she has been chosen has his successor. 0ur correspondent in seouljean mackenzie has more details. the usual pagea ntry. only for this parade, it was not weapons that were centre stage. it was its young observer. kimjong un's daughter, thought to be his second child, ten—year—old ju—ae. this is herfifth public appearance, all in three months. leading to speculation that she has been chosen as her father's successor.

down below, the thousands of foot soldiers blistered through the streets of pyongyang. "protect kim jong un until death", they shout. they have been practising these formations for weeks in the biting cold. then came the weapons. 11 of north korea's newest intercontinental ballistic missiles, a weapon that puts the us mainland in reach. with this many, there is the potential, experts believe, for pyongyang to overwhelm us defences. proof north korea is becoming more dangerous. but these pictures conceal far more than they reveal. there are millions of people cut off from the world, after three years

of border closures. many thought to be in urgent need of food. but, for the kim family, shoring up its legacy comes first. jean mackenzie, bbc news, in seoul. a giant of the music industry, who composed some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century, burt bacharach, has died, at the age of 94. he composed hits for frank sinatra, aretha franklin to tom jones. he won three 0scars, two golden globes, six grammys, mark savage looks back at his life. # for ever and ever, you will stay in my heart and i love you.#. burt bacharach songs were classy. musically complex and stylish. his muses were some of the world's greatest singers. # what's new, pussycat? # whoa.

with the lyricist hal david, he created hits like the look of love, raindrops keep fallin' on my head and magic moments. neverfinished a song in one day, because he would like to go home to long island and i would want to go back to my apartment and work on what we were working on, and maybe finish it the next day or the day after that. so, you don't get awards for writing five songs a day. # what's it all about, alfie? and as a producer and arranger, he was a perfectionist. it took cilla black 31 takes to get this one right. # what's it all about, when you sort it out,alfie?#

did she speak to you afterwards? yes. and even if she didn't, it would have been 0k. all that mattered was that record came out the way i wanted it to come out. burt bacharach had his greatest successes in the 1960s, when his sophisticated pop was a counterpoint to the chaos of rock and roll. #just like me, they long to be close to you. during the 1970s, artists like the carpenters continued his run of hits. and even punk bands like the stranglers acknowledged his greatness. # walk on by, walk on by. # what do you get when you fall in love? but the ultimate interpreter of burt bacharach's songs was dionne warwick. their chemistry was magical. in his later years, bacharach

worked with elvis costello, adele and even the rapper, dr dre. proof of the lasting power of his timeless airborne melodies. the legendary composer burt bacharach, who has died at the age of 94. rihanna fans are eagerly anticipating her performance at the super bowl half—time show — one of the most prestigious gigs in music. the singer will perform during the break when the philadelphia eagles take on the kansas city chiefs on sunday. rihanna said that it was important for her son to see her on one of the world's biggest stages. hello. that's a big part of why this is important for me to do the show. representation. representing four immigrants, representing for my country, barbados, representing four black women everywhere. ijust, i think that's really important, that's key for people to see the possibilities, and i'm honoured

to be here, i am honoured to be doing this this year. that to be here, i am honoured to be doing this this year.— doing this this year. that is auoin to doing this this year. that is going to be _ doing this this year. that is going to be some - doing this this year. that is going to be some show, i doing this this year. that is i going to be some show, isn't it? that brings us to the end of a new state. thanks for joining us. to stay with bbc news. glenn hello, looks like the weekend is not doing bad at all, friday looks a bit cloudy come across northern and western parts of the country, best of the sunshine in the south—east of the uk, and in fact this is where the skies have been clearing. you can see all the cloud piling into north—western areas, milder conditions over the south—westerly winds and bits and pieces of rain through the early hours. but where the clear skies have developed across southern parts of england, the temperatures will be lowest first thing on friday

and rules bots could be as low as minus five degrees, more like plus five i think in the lowlands of scotland. you can see how this milder air is pushing into scotland, northern ireland, northern parts of england and also into wales. but with that also comes a lot of cloud and at times it will be thick enough here in the west to produce a little bit of drizzle, but i think in western scotland it will be rain. 0n the other hand, in eastern scotland with some sunny spells in aberdeen, it could be around 13 degrees. but after a cold start to the start —— to the day in the south, it will be about nine or so, i think, in london, and after a bright start of the clouds will thicken, as well. let's have a look at the weekend, then. high pressure in charge of the weather, so you would think all settled, sunny weather, well, not necessarily first up there's a lot of cloud stuck in this area of high pressure, and it will be slow to move across central parts of the uk, so i think saturday, at least at times, will be cloudy, a few glimmers of sunshine certainly on the cards. and temperatures

quite uniform, typically between 11 and 13 celsius, and the high pressure still with us on sunday, when you are in the centre of the hike of the winds are very, very late. around the edges of the high pressure, the winds tend to be stronger, so for northern ireland and western scotland i think more of a brisk wind, whereas lighter winds, and feeling just that little bit milder than in the sunny spells across east anglia. in the high pressure, and this is into next week, monday, tuesday, the high pressure still very much dominating the weather, not just around the uk, but across much of europe. so sunny i think until about tuesday, wednesday. very little change on the weather front. beyond that, some rain possibly on the way, but dry until then. bye—bye.

this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. 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.