this is bbc news. welcome if you're watching here in the uk or around the globe. i'm martine croxall, and these are the latest headlines. syria's voluntary group of rescuers known as the white helmets say they agree with the un aid chief's comments that the international community has failed people in the country's north—west, where thousands of people have died since monday's earthquakes. disappointment and abandonment is definitely a general feeling that is happening. our organisation has been calling for help, for manpower, for rescue equipment, and in the first couple of days we willjust ignored and left to deal with the situation on our own. turkish police issue more than a hundred arrest warrants as part of an investigation into poor building standards after this week's devastating earthquakes. defying the odds, this 10—year—old

girl is one of the latest in a number of survivors to have been pulled out alive from under the rubble of collapsed buildings in turkey, after 147 hours. this is the scene live in southern turkey, as emergency teams continue their pain—staking search for survivors as the number of people killed in both countries rises to more than 28,000. a us fighterjet has shot down a mystery object flying over canada's airspace, making it the third one to be taken out over north america in the last week. bbc chairman richard sharp is accused of making "significant errors ofjudgement" by mps for not declaring his involvement in helping britain's former prime minister, borisjohnson secure a loan.

hello. the head of un emergency relief operations, martin griffiths, says the international community has failed the people of north—west syria, where thousands of people have died in the earthquakes that struck syria and turkey. the number of those confirmed dead following devastating earthquakes six days ago has now risen to above 28,000. on his visit to areas devestated by the earthquakes, martin griffiths tweeted... at the turkey syria border today, we have so far failed the people of syria, they rightly feel abandoned looking for international help that has not arrived. my duty and our obligation is to correct this

failure as soon as i can, that is my focus now. i'm joined now by ibrahim zeidan, a freelance journalist in syria. thank you very much forjoining us here on bbc news. you have been to the crossing this morning, tell us what you found there.— the crossing this morning, tell us what you found there. yes, i've been to the crossing _ what you found there. yes, i've been to the crossing in _ what you found there. yes, i've been to the crossing in the _ what you found there. yes, i've been to the crossing in the last _ what you found there. yes, i've been to the crossing in the last few- what you found there. yes, i've been to the crossing in the last few days i to the crossing in the last few days observing what will come to naught syria from the un or the neighbouring countries. 0n the three days, only 22 vehicles from the un, and today a qatari team of 12 doctors, on the seventh day of the earthquake. all the un aid of the neighbouring country does not meet the scale of the disaster here. we

were waiting for more aid in the first two or three days, when there was some hope to find people alive. they failed the syrian people, they are late, and north syria is worse than what they did. we are not waiting for apologies. as a journalist, in the last seven days, visiting all the affected areas in north syria, we have been witnessing lives taken in front of my eyes. children from under the rubble, i heard their voice in the first two days. their parents and their relatives were appealing to everyone, calling on everyone, but the borders were closed for three days. after three days, our hope in finding survivors are less and less, and today we lost hope. today the

teams in many areas are just taking bodies from under the ground. mit? bodies from under the ground. why do ou believe bodies from under the ground. why do you believe there _ bodies from under the ground. why do you believe there has _ bodies from under the ground. why do you believe there has been _ bodies from under the ground. why do you believe there has been so - bodies from under the ground. why do you believe there has been so a - you believe there has been so a little help coming through? i believe it is political decisions. it is political interests. russia and the assad regime exploit them, and the assad regime exploit them, and try to take some political gains after the earthquake, tried to lift sanctions from the regime from the assad regime on our expense will stop waiting for seven days, almost a week to send aid to naught syria was based on a political decision. they have no other excuse. the crossing from turkey to syria were open before the earthquake, and the envoys of the un were entering every

day. they know that they can send aid, they know that they can send rescue teams from the first day, and as journalists here and activists, from the first hour of the earthquake we called on everyone, please send us aid, please send us rescue teams. we don't want food, we want someone to help us get our brothers and sisters who are dying hour by hour, but no one responded to us. apologising today will not fix anything, because today the numbers arrived, almost 4000 killed, and there are more than this number still under the destroyed buildings. until this moment, while i am talking, there are no rescue teams from the un or any other county stop i visited another crossing also, i visited all the affected areas, and i didn't see anyone other than the syrian civil defence, and some

civilians, trying to search for survivors. they are screaming, trying to hear any sound from under the raffle. this is what we have here in syria. the raffle. this is what we have here in syria-— the raffle. this is what we have here in s ria. ., ,, ,, , . here in syria. thank you very much for tellin: here in syria. thank you very much for telling us _ here in syria. thank you very much for telling us what _ here in syria. thank you very much for telling us what you _ here in syria. thank you very much for telling us what you have - here in syria. thank you very much for telling us what you have been l for telling us what you have been seeing. 0ubadah alwan is a spokesman for the syria civil defence, a volunteer group also known as the white helmets. you just heard them mentioned there. he told me that in syria they hadn't rescued anyone from the rubble since thursday and they needed more help from the un. 0ur volunteers on the ground are spread very thin. the catastrophe has definitely put us way over capacity. we are dealing with a population of 4 million people after this huge, catastrophic situation, and our organisation is approximately 3000 people on the ground. it is just way too much for one organisation to handle. we have heard from the un aid chief

that he believes the international community has badly let down the people in north—west syria. what is your view of what he said? i would imagine that you would agree with his assessment. yes, definitely. as martin said earlier, disappointment and abandonment is definitely a general feeling that is happening. we are seven days into the earthquake, our organisation has been calling for help, for manpower, for rescue equipment, and the first couple of days we were just ignored and left to deal with the situation on our own. 0ur machines were breaking down, volunteers were digging people out with their own hands. the catastrophe of this scale could definitely have been avoided if we had some help earlier on. why has this happened, then? we know, of course, that syria has been involved in civil war for the last 12 years. we know parts of syria are held by the government and others

by the rebels, that surely must make it difficult to get aid in at all? that is a very good question. to be honest, we are asking the same question as well. why has it not been able to be brought in? we believe there are policies in place to be able to respond to a catastrophe at this level, and we believe that politics should be put aside in order to properly respond to such a devastating circumstance. we have seen that even in the last few hours, people in turkey have been brought out alive. how hopeful are you that you will still continue to find survivors? we are continuing our search and response efforts, but the last person that we found alive was last thursday. it does not seem very hopeful. we have moved onto the next phase, which is recovery, helping people get back to life. we have approximately 11,000 families who lost their homes, and 30,000 people displaced at the moment out in the streets. people are still calling us,

reporting their lost family members, and asking us to check areas. we are still continuing to search for people, whether dead or alive, at this point. it's almost a week since the earthquake. but take a look at these pictures from this morning where a little girl was rescued, bringing hope amid the despair. here she is being pulled up through a hole in the floor of a building in the south—eastern turkish province of hatay. rescuers who we can see here — said the girl is called cudi — and that she had been buried for 147 hours. after getting her out of the hole, she was put on a stretcher and carried out. in turkey, about 80,000 people are in hospital, with more than one million in temporary shelters. 0ur correspondent tom bateman is near the city of antakya, in the hatay province, the southernmost province of turkey, and has just sent this report. 0n the road here outside the city of antakya, and antakya is devastated,

one of the worst affected areas. what's happening here is that people who have managed to escape the city are stopping here. this has become a staging post. you can see this way, there are some tents, not many. these are official turkish aid agency tents, and then there are supplies that have been turning up, but one of the big things that's happening here are the buses. you can see minibuses here, other buses behind them, and if you come down this way, we will walk this way... there are some turkish troops that have been directing people. but what we've just been finding as we've spoken to people is that they are desperate. these are people whose homes have either been completely destroyed or they can't live in, so they've been in antakya for nearly a week now, since the earthquake. people told us horrendous stories of the three days, no help arriving, being able to hear and be aware

of people still alive in buildings before any rescue work arrived. now, these people are managing to get out. you can see more buses here. but people are exhausted and shocked. we are just seeing quite a bit of frustration and tension. some are getting angry about... that they couldn't get on a bus. and another woman wanted to get to antalya and was told the minibus would come back for her, that she couldn't get on. she didn't believe them. so people are incredibly frustrated. there is some anger. they desperately need help. this is some of the support that's being provided by the state, but you can just feel how it's spread so thin. and this is before we've even got into antakya itself. these are the ones that are managing to get out. let's bring you some live pictures now from southern turkey.

you can see the search and rescue operation continues. those involved somewhat buoyed by the fact they have managed to pull out a little girl in another of the search and rescue operations this morning after 147 hours, but, of course, as tom was saying, people are feeling more and more desperate. in fact, yesterday, german rescuers and the austrian army had to pull some of their rescuers in hatay province after clashes with an unnamed group. they have managed to start that again, but the situation is such that people feel they have been abandoned, not enough is being done, and that of the situation in turkey, which is what they had a lot more help than north—west syria. they say there may be an underlying human failure as a result of poor

buildings being put up, questioning whether this natural disaster has been made worse by questioning methods in construction methods. there is much more online on the bbc news website and the bbc news app. a us fighterjet has shot down an unspecified object over northwest canada, the second such incident in north american skies in as many days. canadian officials said the object threatened civilian air traffic. debris from an object brought down off alaska on friday is being salvaged by us forces. tim allman reports. the f—22 fighter jet. one of the most high—tech, sophisticated pieces of military equipment in the world... ..which has certainly had plenty of target practice in the last few days. its latest victim, another mysterious visitor hailing from the north.

canada was tracking a high—altitude object. at the direction of the prime minister, aircraft assigned to norad successfully took down this high—altitude airborne object. the airborne object in question, described as small and cylindrical, was travelling over canada's far north—west. it was shot down over the yukon territory, at an altitude of more than 12,000 metres. it came only a day after another object was intercepted in the neighbouring us state of alaska. the latest development, fighter aircraft sent to investigate a radar anomaly detected in montana. no object was found, but officials say they will continue to monitor the situation. all this comes only a matter of days after the us shot down this balloon on the coast of south carolina. washington says china was using it to spy on america. beijing says it was simply

a weather balloon. but if the americans were right about that, what you see here is a provocation. you see china in an attempt to study american response to those kind of events. the study primarily not the military response, but the political response. the wreckage of that balloon is now being recovered from us waters, and he hope is the remains of the object brought down over canada and alaska will also be salvaged. perhaps then we will know who sent them and why. british mps have accused bbc chairman richard sharp of "significant errors ofjudgement" for failing to declare his involvement in arranging a loan worth up to £800,000 to the then prime minister borisjohnson. mr sharp was applying for the bbc role at the time. he maintains he did nothing wrong. 0ur media editor katie razzle reports.

this is the latest development in the story of four men and their involvement or otherwise in a loan of up to £800,000. borisjohnson, the then prime minister, was said to need the money. a businessman and johnson relative, sam blyth, wanted to help financially. his friend richard sharp agreed that to ensure the rules were followed, he would introduce mr blythe to the cabinet secretary, simon case. he also then told mrjohnson he was applied to be bbc chairman. on tuesday, richard sharp was called before mps who asked why he didn't declare this during the process soon after. wasn't it a monumental failure ofjudgment on your part to go ahead with this? i did not believe that insuring due process was followed was in itself a problem.

that is how you dress it up, but really you were helping out someone who wanted to lend money to the prime minister, when it was not yourjob to do that. no, i was ensuring that mr case was in a position before he would do anything to involve the prime minister. today the committee issued a report which said... they fell short of calling for him to resign, but said... in an interview after the story was broken in the sunday times, mr sharp told me he had done nothing wrong. i felt comfortable and i still feel there was no conflict because at that stage what i was seeking to do was ensure that the process was followed exactly by the book. mr sharp still maintains he acted in good faith and today said if the committee felt he should have declared the information to them before his appointment, he apologised. the process of hiring mr sharp is still being reviewed by the watchdog that oversees how public appointments are made.

0ur political correspondent, david wallace lockhart told me led the digital, culture, media and sport committee to see the full picture behind richard sharp's "errors ofjudgment". we've got that report now from a parliamentary committee of mps, the house of commons, digital culture, media and sport select committee. and they actually have a role in the appointment of the bbc chair too, when the government picks a candidate, they give them a grilling about their suitability, and one of the things they've picked up on is the fact they were unaware of all that background that katie's just told us about, meant that they feel they didn't have the full picture when they were questioning richard sharp. and that, of course, contributes to them finding here that he, in their words, showed significant errors ofjudgment. one member of that influential committee is the snp, the scottish national party's, john nicholson. he's been on the laura kuenssberg programme this morning talking about what he feels richard sharp now has to do in terms of how his position is.

let's have a look at what he had to say... his position is extremely difficult. he's lost the trust of the bbc staff. that's very clear. i've been deluged with messages from bbc staff saying they don't see how he can head up the bbc any more and he broke the rules. the rules are very clear. when you sign up for that job application, you're asked if there's anything about your relationships with anybody that could cause embarrassment. this has clearly caused embarrassment. we knew he was a big tory donor. we knew he'd given hundreds of thousands to the conservative party. but what he didn't tell us was that he'd facilitated an £800,000 loan for borisjohnson, the prime minister, who then gave him the job. it's all a bit banana republic. and we should say there john nicholson mentioning that richard sharp has donated to the conservative party in the past.

the bbc chairman is a position that is quite often someone with political links. it's not unusual in that respect. but of course the big question here is about him facilitating this meeting between the prime minister's distant relative and the uk's highest ranking civil servants so they could discuss a loan facility for the then prime minister. that's particularly where this committee seemed to think they didn't have the full picture. when it comes to the opposition labour party, what they are saying is that there's an internal bbc review going on. they want to see the results of that, but they say that mr. sharp's position feels increasingly difficult. the uk government is seeing that another process, looking the uk government is saying that another process, looking at the public appointments watchdog is looking into this. they say that should be allowed to run its course before any decisions are made. richard sharp saying that he was under the impression he'd declared everything he had to do so at the right time and apologising if he feels that anyone didn't have the full picture. but two more reports into this yet to report back. and obviously they could have a big bearing on what happens next. the biggest names from the world of music, from stormzy to lizzo and sam smith,

were at london's o2 arena for the annual brit awards on saturday. but the night belonged to harry styles, who picked up four awards including best album, artist and pop/r&b act. mark savage reports. # in this world, it's just us... # brit awards, sing it out! the name of harry styles' third album is harry's house. and last night, that's what the brits became. # in this world, it's just us...# the man that just does not stop, harry styles! the pop star won every category he was nominated in, including album of the year, and he even remembered to thank his mum. i want to thank my mum for signing me up for x factor without telling me. so i literally wouldn't be here without you. in the 13 years since then, he's picked up some majorfans, including the country star shania twain.

he's nice, you know, he's likable, he's kind, he's a gentleman. and i mean, obviously, he's super talented. so i think he just has all, everything that we want as a fan. but it wasn't all about harry styles. some of the night's other big winners included wet leg, who won best group and best new artist, and they also brought some morris dancing to the stage. # is your mother worried? # would you like us to send someone to worry your mother? # excuse me...# beyonce won best international artist and best international song. thank you so much for loving break my soul. the only intention for this song was to dance. and sam smith and kim petras gave a showstopping performance.

# 0h, we go, we go # he loves his kids and # 0h, we go, we go...# sam smith also caused quite a stir on the red carpet, where the fashion ranged from alien lumps to baby bumps. lizzo gave one of the night's most colourful performances. but while there were plenty of women on the brit awards stage, there were none nominated for best artist. pop star charli xcx was one of those who was overlooked. i've heard a lot of chat about, you know, the fact that there weren't enough females in the album cycle, and that's why no—one was nominated. but i was in the album cycle and i had a number one album, so... i don't think it's our fault. i think it might be theirs. i wouldn't be here without... harry styles responded

to the criticism, mentioning some of the women who missed out as he picked up the best artist trophy. i'm really, really grateful for this and i'm very aware of my privilege up here tonight. so this award is for rina, charli, florence, mabel and becky. thank you so much. let me hear you make some noise! and the whole show closed with a greatest hits medley from superstar dj david guetta, with a bit of help from sam ryder. mark savage, bbc news, at the brit awards. rio dejaneiro has been gearing up for its iconic carnival by performing a spiritual cleanse of the sambadrome, where the parades will take place. the cleanse intends to bring good energy to the event, which is due to take place from 17—25 february. the rain might have helped with the cleaning, but the revellers will be hoping it holds off next week. we will be bringing you lots of the

colourful pictures when it takes place. there is much more of our coverage of the earthquakes in the aftermath in turkey and syria on the bbc news website and the bbc news app. hello there. it certainly has been a quiet weekend of weather, but on the grey side, and some of that cloud is really quite stubborn to break up. this was ramsgate, kent, a little earlier on, and that's going to be the scene, i suspect, for much of the day. but there are signs that the cloud should start to thin and break, as you can see from moray earlier on. the reason why the cloud might break across scotland and out to the west is there are a few more isobars on the charts, a little bit more of a breeze to punch holes in the cloud. we are still under the influence of high pressure and, on the whole, we've got mild air, particularly across much of england and wales, so, despite that cloud around, it's relatively mild out there. as you can see, it will continue to linger through much of central and eastern england. favoured spots for sunshine, scotland, northern ireland,

northern england and parts of wales. here, there will be more of a breeze, top temperatures of ten or 11 celsius. as we close out sunday, where we've had the clear skies by day, we might keep those clear skies overnight, so favourite spots for lowest temperatures across eastern scotland, north—east north—east england. hopefully too much of a breeze for mist and fog to form, but we can't rule out one or two pockets here and there. but we are going to start monday morning with yet again that low, grey cloud, but with a stronger southerly wind as we go through the morning, hopefully that cloud should start to retreat back towards the lincolnshire and east yorkshire coastlines, so more sunshine coming through and, as a result, slightly warmer. we might see 12 or 13 celsius perhaps as a daytime maximum on monday. into tuesday, we will start to see the signs of change, but it's going to be a slow process. the high pressure really firmly ensconced across central europe. weather fronts trying to push in from the atlantic, but i suspect on tuesday it will be outbreaks of cloud and some showery rain into northern ireland and western fringes of scotland

for most of the day. elsewhere, dry, settled, sunny and still pleasantly mild, with highs once again of 13 celsius. there will be wetter weather, though, on wednesday. the first frontal system dies off as it moves into england and wales. the second frontal system tucking in behind might bring more outbreaks of rain. but however you look at it, from the middle part of the week, it looks likely that we will start to see some wetter weather. so, there will be outbreaks of rain, chiefly to the north and west, but some of that wet weather will push into the london area as well.

this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall and these are the headlines: syria's voluntary group of rescuers known as the white helmets say they agree with the un aid chief's comments that the international community has failed people in the country's north—west, where thousands of people have died since monday's earthquakes. turkish police issue more than 100 arrest warrants as part of an investigation into poor building standards after this week's devastating earthquakes. it comes as the number of people who have died since monday rises to more than 28,000 in turkey and syria. defying the odds — this 10—year—old girl is one of the latest in a number of survivors to have been pulled out alive from under the rubble of collapsed buildings in turkey

after 147 hours.