this is bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm ben brown and these are the latest headlines. syria's voluntary group of rescuers known as the white helmets say the international community has failed people in the country's north—west, where thousands of people have died. disappointment and abandonment is a thing that's happening. our organisation has been calling for help, manpowerand organisation has been calling for help, manpower and rescue equipment and the first couple of days we were just ignored and left to deal with the situation our own. turkish police issue more than 100 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. a us fighterjet has shot down a mysterious object flying over canada's airspace, making it the third to be destoyed over north america in the last week. the head of the un's 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 people confirmed dead following devastating earthquakes meanwhile prosecutors investigating standards of building construction in turkey have issued more

than 100 arrest warrants in the aftermath of the distaster. my colleague lyse doucet is on the ground in gaziantep. she told me the focus is now shifting to accountability of the builders and architects. well, what you see behind us here in gaziantep, about an hour and a half drive from the epicentre of where that earthquake struck about nearly one week ago, is being played out in towns and cities across a whole swathe of southern turkey and indeed across the border in northern syria. and that is the diggers, they don't

have diggers across the border, but diggers here and excavators are getting rid of these mounds of rubble. it is a sign that the rescue effort, those painstaking, almost heroic efforts to try to pull people alive from the rubble and still nearly a week on, they're still finding people. but the effort, the focus is now shifting to recovery, to relief and also to a reckoning. as you mentioned, those more than 100 arrest warrants for the builders who are being blamed for this staggering death toll. yeah, so there are recriminations now about builders, architects and so on, also about the government and the slowness of the the disaster response, particularly from the military? everywhere we went, there has been anger mixed with grief. and those very raw emotions have boiled over whenever we've asked someone about, well, this was an earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in turkey's history, but is there anything else you blame? and people do talk about a lack of a plan. they talk about the fact that the building code was not... ..was not respected.

and there's been these jarring scenes where we sometimes go to one neighbourhood and one side of the street is still standing and the other side completely collapsed, underlining that the buildings were built with different materials and different construction. and even behind me, you see some of the buildings collapsed, but even those still standing are still too dangerous to inhabit. they have these long, deep cracks, which means they will some day fall to the ground. 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. and we have just received these pictures of a father and daughter being rescued — again it's in hatay. if you look closely, you can see she's lying on top of her dad — that's the pink of her coat. that is the picture in turkey. let's look at what's going on in syria. 0ubadah alwan is a spokesman for the syria civil defence, a volunteer group also known as the white helmets. 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 3,000 people on the ground. it is just way too much for one organisation to handle. 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 hasn't aid 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. let's bring you up—to—date with the death toll, which i'm afraid is rising inexorably. it was standing at 28,000 for both turkey and syria. we are now hearing from the disaster

management authority in turkey that the death toll there alone just in turkey is now 29,605. so the overall death toll has clearly risen considerablyjust in turkey, now almost 30,000. and again it is feared that death toll will rise. we will bring you more on those death figures as more statistics come into us. now let's look at the picture in ukraine at the moment. the head of the notorious wagner mercenary army says his fighters have captured a village on the northern outskirts of bakhmut — a city in the donbas. it's been at the centre of months of bitterfighting between russian and ukrainian forces.

yevgeny prigozhin posted a short video apparently showing wagner men at the entrance sign to the village of krasna hora. one month ago, he claimed his men had taken the nearby town of soledar. ukrainian army haven't confirmed wagner's advance but our verification team says the video is new, wasn't shared before this morning, and that the weather conditions match those observed locally. earlier, our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse told me more about these claims from the wagner group and and the significance of them if they had taken this village near bakhmut. well, this is usually the bit, ben, where i try and sort of tell you something definitive off the back of this footage, but this isn't one of those occasions. both sides typically pose in front of city and village signs, whether. . . regardless almost of whether they control that particular location. we do know, as you say, that this video was posted recently and it was posted around krasna hora. but i think it's what

yevgeny prigozhin says, which is the most interesting in this case. he claims that it is his fighters alone for a 30—mile radius around the city of bakhmut, where there's been weeks of heavy fighting. he claims it's his men alone that are fighting with ukrainian forces. a couple of months ago he claimed, well, a month ago he claimed to have taken the town of soledar, but moscow almost gave him a slap, slapping down, saying it was a joint exercise orjoint operation with the regular russian army. so i think we're seeing these kind of competing claims once more coming from the russian side. in terms of the military or strategic value in the capture of this village, it is minimal. it reflects a further enveloping of bakhmut because russian forces are continuing to throw everything at it, and there is now only one route really in and out of bakhmut on the ukrainian—controlled side.

so the fighting is ferocious as ever. kyiv, the defence minister is expecting a huge major russian offensive over the coming weeks as we approach the one—year anniversary of the invasion. so i think there's a nervousness there, but i think for now, certainly on the ukrainian side, they're claiming to continue to repel russian advances. james, ukraine saying that russian soldiers are dying in greater numbers this month than at any time since the first week of the invasion. they are claiming an average of more than 800 are killed each day. you know, again, hard to verify those sort of figures, but clearly, i mean, the death toll on both sides is pretty staggering. it really is, and you can sometimes lose sight of it. sometimes lose sight of it when we talk about military tos and fros and you look at the political situation, but we are talking about a front line that spans hundreds of miles.

and there are cities like bakhmut, kharkiv remains under threat, ukraine's second largest city. these are places day in, day out, which experienced russian attacks either from the sky with missile strikes or from troop movement on the ground. and it is the russians, i think we can say with relative certainty, that are suffering the greater losses simply because of their tactics. it's almost a war of attrition where they certainly, in fact, we've seen and heard reports of russian mercenary fighters coming in waves. and this is what russian forces have. they have mass, they have size. and while ukraine is, yes, it is conceding territory in a marginal sense, ukraine is suffering losses too, in trying to hold the line. so this is sadly the status quo. and i think russia for the coming months is going to continue with this strategy. that is james waterhouse, our correspondent in kyiv. 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 do they think it could mean? what you see here, it 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. more now on our main story this hour. the un's emergency relief operations, martin griffiths, has said that the international community has failed the people of north—west syria, where thousands have died in the recent earthquakes. i'm joined now by kieren barnes from mercy corps, an organisation that is working to deliver aid to those affected in syria. thank you for being with us. what is your view of the position on the ground and how difficult is it at the moment to get aid and relief to those who need it? to the moment to get aid and relief to those who need it?— the moment to get aid and relief to those who need it? to be honest it's been an extremely _ those who need it? to be honest it's been an extremely difficult - those who need it? to be honest it's been an extremely difficult time - those who need it? to be honest it's been an extremely difficult time all. been an extremely difficult time all week. we have 45 team members who live in north—west syria who work with mercy corps who were also

affected by the earthquake. at the beginning of the week the biggest challenge was making contact with them. the communication lines were down, problems with electricity etc. sadly some of them did lose their family members. in the last week it's been focusing more on the response, and sadly for our team to have been traumatised, they have been out there responding in the communities, trying to pick up the pace of the work that is ongoing due to the syria crisis but then on top of that responding to what happened last week which was devastating. it's extremely difficult for them right now finding the supplies and resources to respond. what right now finding the supplies and resources to respond. what would you like to see in — resources to respond. what would you like to see in terms _ resources to respond. what would you like to see in terms of _ resources to respond. what would you like to see in terms of extra _ resources to respond. what would you like to see in terms of extra help - like to see in terms of extra help from the outside world? i like to see in terms of extra help from the outside world?- like to see in terms of extra help from the outside world? i think the critical thing _ from the outside world? i think the critical thing right _ from the outside world? i think the critical thing right now _ from the outside world? i think the critical thing right now is _ from the outside world? i think the critical thing right now is it - from the outside world? i think the critical thing right now is it is - critical thing right now is it is the ngos on the ground. there is a lot of discussion about where the best place to respond is or through which routes, but the main thing is

there are ngo workers on the ground. we need the financial resources from the international community to procure the goods, to hire more staff, to scale up to this event. unfortunately after a week, we are not seeing enough of that or not at the level it should be. we certainly need the border crossings to be opened and operational for supplies to come in through turkey in particular, but more than that right now we need the financial resources and that's the thing that is lacking. unfortunately we are not seeing it. lacking. unfortunately we are not seeinu it. �* , ., seeing it. and kieren barnes from mercy corps. _ seeing it. and kieren barnes from mercy corps. let _ seeing it. and kieren barnes from mercy corps, let me _ seeing it. and kieren barnes from mercy corps, let me just - seeing it. and kieren barnes from mercy corps, let me just also - seeing it. and kieren barnes from mercy corps, let me just also ask| mercy corps, let me just also ask you, the situation in syria is so horrific, isn't it? because this is a disaster on top of the disaster in terms of an earthquake on top of civil war, untold suffering in that country. and on top of all of that, we have terrible weather conditions and it's extremely cold there, isn't

it? ~ , and it's extremely cold there, isn't it? ~ y ., a, , it? absolutely. unfortunately the earthuuake it? absolutely. unfortunately the earthquake hit — it? absolutely. unfortunately the earthquake hit in _ it? absolutely. unfortunately the earthquake hit in a _ it? absolutely. unfortunately the earthquake hit in a really bad - it? absolutely. unfortunately the i earthquake hit in a really bad week from a weather perspective. temperatures went below zero and people were sleeping in cars, there were issues accessing fuel to keep people warm. people were burning rubbish, sleeping in cars overnight. people were afraid to sleep indoors because they are still experiencing aftershocks, but as you said this is aftershocks, but as you said this is a crisis on top of the crisis. there is 2.8 million people already displaced in syria before monday, now there are numerous buildings, thousands of buildings which are damaged and collapsed which means more families will be without places to stay which means we need to scale that up. as mercy corps we provide water supplies some of those have been damaged. we have to find new ways to provide water for those who have nowhere to sleep.— have nowhere to sleep. well, really deserate have nowhere to sleep. well, really desperate situation. _ have nowhere to sleep. well, really desperate situation. good - have nowhere to sleep. well, really desperate situation. good luck - desperate situation. good luck kieren barnes you and your teams for

all the work you are doing there. that is kieren barnes from mercy corps which is working to get aid to those people who desperately needed in thank you. mps have accused the bbc chairman richard sharp of "significant errors ofjudgment" for not declaring his involvement in helping borisjohnson to secure a loan, worth up to £800,000 when he was prime minister. mr sharp was in the process of applying for the bbc role when he introduced a friend who wanted to help mrjohnson financially to the head of the civil service, simon case. he maintains he did nothing wrong. but a report from mps on the the digital, culture, media and sport committee says his actions undermined confidence in the public appointments process. here's our political correspondent david wallace—lockhart.

richard sharp was made bbc chairman, a government appointment, in 2021. it has since emerged that while he was applying for the role, he introduced the man on the left, businessman sam blifil, to the man on the right, the uk's top civil servant, simon case. he wanted to provide the then prime minister borisjohnson with a loan facility. mr sharp did not declare all the details to this committee of mps who saw his appointment. of mps who oversaw his appointment. he outlined the advice he was originally given. to avoid the appearance of a conflict, i should not have anything further to do with it. in a report published today, the digital, culture and media committee say that they left richard sharp without the full facts to make a judgment, and he showed significant errors ofjudgment. 0ne committee member was scathing about mr sharp's conduct. this has clearly caused embarrassment. we knew he was a big tory donor, we knew he had given hundreds of thousands to the conservative party, but he did not tell us that he had

facilitated an £800,000 loan for borisjohnson, the prime minister, who then gave him thejob. it is all a bit banana republic. the bbc is conducting its own internal review. labour feel this controversy is tarnishing the broadcaster. this committee is now saying, had they known the full details, and had that been disclosed to them about the relationship between borisjohnson and the conservative party and the bbc chairman, that that situation would have been very different. i think that makes his position increasingly untenable. and when the report is published, if those questions cannot be answered, then i think the integrity of the bbc is far more important than the position of one individual. an independent review of mr sharp's appointment is yet to report back. the government says wait for that. the process is not complete, we have to wait for the report. why do we have to wait for that,

we already know what happened? we need to be fair to all parties in this, including richard sharp. we must wait for the conclusion. the bbc chairman richard sharpe has said he did not get involved in borisjohnson's said he did not get involved in boris johnson's finances. said he did not get involved in borisjohnson's finances. he has apologised to mps for not providing all the information they felt they neededin all the information they felt they needed in order to scrutinise his appointment. richard sharp has said that by giving all the facts at the outset to simon case, he regarded his behaviour as transparent. the biggest names from the world of music, from stormzy to 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. 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. he's nice, you know, he's likeable, 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. # 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. 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... 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. well, for more on this, i'm joined by arts journalist vincent dowd. the rise and rise of harry styles. yes, some people say it's overnight, itjust yes, some people say it's overnight, it just shows yes, some people say it's overnight, itjust shows how quickly yes, some people say it's overnight, it just shows how quickly the years go it just shows how quickly the years 9° by it just shows how quickly the years go by but it's actually 12 years since he started to become a star on the x factor on itv here in the uk. clearly as part of one of the five members of one direction. he has been the big star of the group and has overtaken everybody. usually successful when it comes to

streaming but he appeals across the board, to state the obvious. 60—year—old ladies like him, six—year—old kids like him. got a big gay following, big on radio, big everywhere. i can't think of anybody who has quite ticked all of those boxes for a long time, and of course now he is as big in the state as he is here and he's gone well beyond just being a music act for the moment at least.— just being a music act for the moment at least. �* , ., moment at least. the brits are quite commercially — moment at least. the brits are quite commercially minded. _ moment at least. the brits are quite commercially minded. he _ moment at least. the brits are quite commercially minded. he got - moment at least. the brits are quite commercially minded. he got four i commercially minded. he got four awards altogether, he was the big winner of the night. was this because he is a pop phenomenon or is it artistically and musically deserved, would you say? you can't draw an absolute _ deserved, would you say? you can't draw an absolute line _ deserved, would you say? you can't draw an absolute line between - deserved, would you say? you can't| draw an absolute line between those things. don't forget he got three big awards at the grammys a few days ago so it's not a stitch up in the uk. he's a genuinely talented guy in his 20s, not even 30 yet. at the

brits have become concerned about their audience figures, so you may have noticed this weekend it was on a saturday. it used to be mid week. doing that has given it a bigger audience. they have picked up some of the weekend audience, so having harry styles do well and appear multiple times throughout the show, it was convenient. but you can't be totally cynical. that won't work unless a guy has talent, which he does. b. unless a guy has talent, which he does. �* ., ., ., does. a good team around him. he thanked all — does. a good team around him. he thanked all of _ does. a good team around him. he thanked all of his _ does. a good team around him. he thanked all of his team _ does. a good team around him. he thanked all of his team last - does. a good team around him. he thanked all of his team last night i thanked all of his team last night including his mum, of course. he writes a lot of the songs with other people, is that the secret of his success, the team around him? he has a fantastically — success, the team around him? he has a fantastically good _ success, the team around him? he has a fantastically good management - success, the team around him? he has a fantastically good management team j a fantastically good management team around him, especially one of the big figures in hollywood, jeffrey a zar, and they are the people who have been trying to push him into a movie career. but he does write. he's a handsome 29—year—old guy who

has glamour and touches of humour as well, so you can't knock him entirely and say it's only the team around him because other people with big teams around them, it hasn't quite worked. unless you have talent, it won't work. find quite worked. unless you have talent, it won't work.- quite worked. unless you have talent, it won't work. and he's only 29 as ou talent, it won't work. and he's only 29 as you say- _ talent, it won't work. and he's only 29 as you say- he _ talent, it won't work. and he's only 29 as you say. he has _ talent, it won't work. and he's only 29 as you say. he has a _ talent, it won't work. and he's only 29 as you say. he has a huge - talent, it won't work. and he's only | 29 as you say. he has a huge future ahead of him if he can feed —— keep his feet on the ground. bud ahead of him if he can feed -- keep his feet on the ground.— his feet on the ground. and as you know he has _ his feet on the ground. and as you know he has been _ his feet on the ground. and as you know he has been making - his feet on the ground. and as you know he has been making a - his feet on the ground. and as you i know he has been making a transition into being a film star. he had a little role in dunkirk, and then he was given two movies to carry. neither of them was he a massive success. my policeman was a much smaller british film. they were difficult roles that would have taxed more experienced young actor, so i would say if he can get a big film role that works for him next time, he will become the frank sinatra of his generation and he

will be around in 20 years' time. and a great british success story on the global stage. hat and a great british success story on the global stage.— the global stage. not knock it. there aren't _ the global stage. not knock it. there aren't many _ the global stage. not knock it. there aren't many of - the global stage. not knock it. there aren't many of them. i the global stage. not knock it. - there aren't many of them. people always draw comparisons with the details, but in the us when he goes on a chat show he's a massive job. thank you. let's get a look at the weather forecast for you, today coming from ben rich. for the majority, sunday has turned into another largely cloudy day. it is dry for most of us, just a spot of rain across the western and northern isles. some sunshine across parts of south—west england, wales, some breaks in the cloud elsewhere, temperatures reaching 11 degrees so it is mild. that evening we will tend to see the cloud breaking a little more i think, but some places will stay cloudy and murky, particularly across central and eastern parts of england. if you get any breaks in the cloud, they could

be a touch of frost for some tomorrow morning. tomorrow there is a better chance of seeing some sunshine although the eastern coast of england likely to stay grey and murky through the day. top temperatures north to south between eight and 12 degrees. tuesday should bring spells of sunshine, particularly in the south. rain moving on from the west on wednesday, but it stays mild.

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