this is bbc news — welcome if you're watching here in the uk or around the globe. i'm ben brown and these are the latest headlines. this week's devastating earthquakes have killed more than 33,000 people but the un warns that number is likely to at least double as the days go on. 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 definitely a general feeling that is happening. 0ur organisation has been calling for help, manpower, for rescue equipment. in the first couple of days we were ignored and left to deal with the situation on

our own. the head of russia's wagner mercenary army claims his fighters have captured a village on the outskirts of bakhmut a city they've been assaulting for months. recovery teams in canada are trying to locate and analyse a mysterious object shot down on saturday over the northwest of the country. 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. we start in turkey and syria where the number of people killed in last monday's earthquake has risen to over 33,000. these are the live

pictures from the south of turkey where, as you can see, the rescue operation is continuing. let's just break those figures down for you, then. officials and medics said over 29,500 people had died in turkey and over 3,500 in syria. the united nations, who have been supporting rescue teams in both turkey and syria, have warned that the final number of fatalities could double. my colleague lyse doucet is on the ground in gaziantep, in turkey. 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 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.

lyse doucet there, our chief international correspondent reporting from turkey. 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 in hatay, 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. tom bateman reporting from southern turkey there. it's almost a week since the earthquake. let's ta ke let's take a look at these pictures today, where a little girl was rescued bringing some hope amidst the despair and devastation. 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. you can see she's lying on top of her dad. 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 need 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 four 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. tomorrow, one week on from the earthquake, there is a panorama special programme on the scale of the loss and devastation and the potential consequences across the region. that's �*aftershock: the turkey—syria earthquake�* on bbc one at 8pm on monday and on the iplayer.

now to ukraine, where the head of the wagner mercenary russian 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. wagner's commander posted a short video apparently showing the 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. 0ur ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse, has the latest.

increasingly yevgeny prigozhin claims it's only his... moscow said it was a joint operation so there are increasing competing claims but it's clear that bakhmut is continuing to be surrounded but that is also happening in other areas. but given how much russia is throwing at the front line in the east certainly, the benefits become more symbolic than strategic with each day. kyiv though is nervous about a major russian offensive in the coming weeks towards the one—year anniversary of the full scale invasion. it claims it seeing a higher rate of russian deaths per

day than at any other point in this all—out conflict, claims which are again very difficult to verify. but regardless, russia's attacks and ukraine's defence is proving to be very costly for both sides.- very costly for both sides. james waterhouse _ very costly for both sides. james waterhouse in _ very costly for both sides. james waterhouse in kyiv. _ the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, says recovery teams are on the ground, looking to find and analyse the object shot down over yukon territory on saturday. the north american aerospace defence command has been on high alert since the us military destroyed a suspected chinese spy balloon last weekend. debris from that object is being investigated by specialist teams in the us. patrick bury is a former army officer and nato analyst — he told me more about the context of those incidents. i think the context is important. the us signed an agreement with the philippines in the last ten

days or so for basing rights, to basically go back to the philippines over a period of years and establish military bases there. china would see that as an attempt to wring it in. secondly, over in ukraine, we have also got the russians starting their spring offensive — although they haven't announced it, that's what's going on. in that context, these things may make more sense in terms of the chinese balloon, and i have no idea who was behind the two cylindrical objects, exactly what's going on. they certainly seem a low height at 40,000 feet or so for surveillance, but it seems to be testing the response. there is an interesting thing here in terms of not only testing the political response but also what's the bandwidth and capability in terms of the us intelligence community for dealing with a number of different things going on at each time. potentially it could be about stretching them. it's been widely reported now that the us is sending or approving co—ordinates for ukrainian himars attacks, that would be expected anyway,

but that takes a fair bit of focus for the intelligence community to to be working on that. in that context of what's going on around the world, it may help explain why this is happening now. of course, there is a long history and continuing history of nations spying on each other from the skies, and usually things are monitored and watched closely but no action is taken. it is sort of seen as a quid pro quo. i think these ones for numerous reasons the international security situation is heating up are marking a break from the previous. just in terms of the balloon shot down by the americans, we know that was chinese. they say it was a weather balloon. would there be a sense of embarrassment, do you think, in china that that was detected? or if this was just a way of testing the americans — would they have thought it was almost inevitable it would be detected?

they would know... there is a game of cat and mouse going on here. we know that you know that we know. this kind of thing goes on a lot. unless it's a new technology. if it is a new technology that they don't expect it to be, something unknown to the americans, then it might be embarrassing. "oh, this has failed. we have to say it is a weather balloon." but my gut here would be that both sides know what has been going on and have been watching it for a while, and this one may be a more blatant provocation. if it is a weather balloon that has lost its ability to manoeuvre, why did it hover over the montana sites where there is a strategic air command, nuclear response silos? why did it hover over those for a while? it's really pieced together. that was patrick bury from the university of bath. now let's get the latest sports news for you.

manchester city could reduce arsenal's lead in the prmeier league arsenal's lead in the premier league to just three points later before the two meet on wednesday. arsenal's dropped points on saturday have given the champions a chance to tighten the title race against aston villa later. meanwhile, manchester united have gone above city into second for the time being with a 2—0 win at leeds. two goals in the final ten minutes from marcus rashford and alejandro garnacho gave them the win they couldn't get when the two drew just three days ago. india have won their women's t20 world cup match against rivals pakistan by seven wickets. pakistan made 149 for four in their 20 overs. captain bismah maroof top scoring with 68. and at one point were favourites to pull off what would have been something of a shock, butjemimah rodrigues and richa ghosh got them home with six balls to spare. bangladesh play sri lanka in the day's other game.

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of "significant errors ofjudgment" for not declaring his involvement in helping borisjohnson 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. mr sharp maintains he did nothing wrong. but a report from mps on the culture and media 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 blyth, to the man on the right, the uk's top civil servant simon case. mr blyth 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 oversaw his appointment. he was back with them on tuesday and outlined the advice he was originally given. to avoid a conflict, or an appearance of conflict, i shall have nothing further to do with it. in a report published today, the digital, culture, media and sport committee say richard sharp left them without the full facts to make a decision on his suitability. the mp said he showed significant errors ofjudgment in how he acted while trying to become bbc chairman. 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 what he did not tell us was that he had facilitated an £800,000 loan for borisjohnson, the prime minister, who then gave him the job. it is all a bit banana republic. the bbc is conducting it's own internal review.

labour fear 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 boris johnson and the conservative party and the bbc chairman that situation would have been very different. i think that does make his position untenable and, when the report is published, if those questions cannot be answered, then i think that the integrity of the bbc is far more important than the position of one individual. an independent review of mr sharp's appointment has yet to report back. the government says wait for that. the process is not complete. we have to wait for the commission on public appointments... why do we need another report? we've already got one, we all know what happened. we need to be fair to all parties in this, including richard sharp. so i think we must wait for the result of the commission on public appointments. the bbc chairman richard sharp has said that while he may have made introductions, he did not get involved in boris johnson's finances.

he has apologised to mps for not providing all the information that they felt they needed in order to scrutinise his appointment. richard sharp has said that by giving all the facts at the outset to the civil servant simon case, he regarded his behaviour as transparent. david wallace lockhart, bbc news. 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. 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. # 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 done, harry styles. what a night for him. you have been watching bbc news. hello. if you have spent your weekend under cloudy skies and you are hoping for something brighter, over the next couple of days i'm hopeful the cloud will break up to give a bit more in the way of sunshine. it will stay largely dry and feel mild for the time of year. for the rest of today, extensive cloud cover in most places. the best chance of breaks in the far south—west of england, wales and the north—east of scotland. but mild, with highs of ii or 12 degrees. through this evening, it may well be the cloud breaks up a little more across parts of the south west, wales, northern england and up into scotland.

most areas will stay quite cloudy. but if the cloud breaks for any length of time, you could get a touch of frost and most places will see temperatures stay above freezing. the week starts with high pressure to the east keeping things largely dry. this frontal system pushing in from the west will take a while to get here. for monday, a mainly fine day. a bit more of a breeze developing so the cloud will break up and we should see spells of sunshine. northern ireland and south—west scotland may stay cloudy and it's likely some coastal parts of east anglia will hold onto low cloud, mist and murk. there is confirmation of a slightly stronger breeze in some places, temperatures ten to 12 degrees, but if we get more in the way of sunshine, that won't feel bad at all. on tuesday we will see this weather frontal system starting to approach from the atlantic, but as the weather front begins to squeeze in, we will bring a renewed surge of mild air from the south.

particularly where you get shelter from the breeze, tuesday will be a very mild day. it could well start off with fog across east anglia and the south—east which could be slow to clear, but it should, and for england and wales we will see sunny spells. wales could get to 15 degrees. more cloud for england and scotland but here it should also be mild. on wednesday this weather front pushes eastwards with outbreaks of rain weakening all the while. behind that we will see further spells of rain at times but not all the time for the end of the week and it will stay mild. by friday temperatures in the south of 15 or 16 degrees.

this is bbc news. i'm ben brown and these are the headlines. this week's devastating earthquakes have killed more than 33,000 people, but the un warns that number is likely to at least double as the days go on. rescuers continue their desperate attempts to save people. this ten—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. 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.