this is bbc news. welcome if you're watching here in the uk or around the globe. i'm ben brown. our top stories. 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 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. both the un and 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. the head of russia's wagner mercenary army claims his fighters have captured a village on the outskirts of bakhmut, a city in eastern ukraine they've been assaulting for months. investigations continue after a us fighterjet shot down a object flying over canada's airspace — making it the third to be destoyed over north america in the last week. 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. she told me the focus is now shifting to accountability of the builders and architects. white fact this is in terms of some of the building is collapsed so easily the earthquake. 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 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.

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. 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 these pictures show 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. 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. the un aid chief says the people of north—west syria are right to feel they've been abandoned in the aftermath of the earthquake. visiting the country earlier, martin griffiths said this must be corrected as fast as possible. mannar al—kharboutly from the town of al—atarib in idlib province in north west syria spoke to the bbc about the desperate situation there. here, the local people, the civilians here in the north of syria are trying to help to help each other, to provide the people with food and to provide them with camp grounds. but it's too too few. too little. too little aid. we cannot cover all that damage by ourselves. the border crossings, they were closed for days

after the earthquake. no aid was delivered. we need medical aid. 0ur hospitals cannot cover all that damage and all that injured people. they are still in streets, sitting in the streets with their children, shaking out of cold. they are literally shaking out of cold. some people like stayed in their cousin's house. my cousin lost his house, with seven children and their mother died. he could just rescue two of his children, but seven of them, they couldn't survive. there are so many promises that there are there are some aid coming. they tell us that there will be aid coming out of the crossing line with the regime. but it's too late. it's too late for that. it has been like a week, a week,

a whole week and people in the streets, and people died, and people injured. the civil defence, and the rescue teams, and even the civil ones, they are trying. the civilians, they are trying. there is a lack of equipment. it is not impossible to remove the rubble, 0k? but it takes us too long to remove it. the people die, and we cannot reach them in the proper time. other countries in the outside standing and looking and watching us dying without doing anything. why? why are we like useless people here in syria? why are they ignoring our pain and ignoring? we post too many photos, too many calling, and too many videos saying that we are in pain, we are losing our children. we are losing ourfamilies. wejust need... send us rescue teams. send us, like, drilling machines. send us, like, equipment. why does no one help us? now, at this moment, they send us,

like, too few, like, aid? i don't know what to call it, ok? it's like food. it's like they... they sent us diapers, diapers for children, while we need to extract those children from the rubble and to save them from dying. just to say, for viewers in the uk tomorrow, we will have a special bbc panorama programme on the scale of the loss and the devastation and the potential consequences across the region in turkey and syria. that is...

now to ukraine where the head of the 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. the ukrainian army hasn'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. there are moments in this conflict where it is hard to say anything definitive and this is one of them. we have a video posted by yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of the notorious wagner group in a village called krasna hora. it's tiny, and this is something

that both sides do, they pose somewhere, regardless of whether they control it or not. but interestingly, he claims it is only his mercenary fighters that are engaging with ukraine's military for a 30—mile radius. whereas a month ago, after soledar fell to russian forces, wagner claimed it had taken it, moscow then said, "no, it was a joint operation." so there are increasing competing claims there. but it is clear that bakhmut, this eastern city we talk a lot about, 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's seeing a higher rate of russian deaths per day than at any point other point

in this all out conflict claims, 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 are proving to be very costly for both sides. 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. he said the latest object "violated canadian airspace". it is the third object to be shot down over north america in the last week. the north american aerospace defence command has been on high alert since the us military destroyed a suspected chinese spy balloon last weekend. in the past hour, the canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau has been giving an update to journalists. yesterday, norbert confirmed that an unidentified yesterday, norard confirmed that an unidentified

yesterday, norad confirmed that an unidentified object entered unlawfully, canadian airspace. it represented a reasonable threat to civilian aircraft so i gave the order to take it down. canadian and american fighterjets were scrambled and an american f—22 successfully shut down the object. recovery teams are on the ground looking to find and analyse the object. the safety of canadians is our number one priority and that is why i made the decision to shoot down the object that was a threat to civil aviation and a potential threat to canadians. there is still much to know about it that's why the analysis of this object will be very important. but you can note this is something that norad and canada and united states taken extremely seriously, and we will continue to keep people informed as we know more.

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. for the us intelligence community too 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 in the way 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, which i 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 is the senior lecturer of security at the university of bath. a teenage girl who was found with fatal stab wounds in a park in north west england on saturday has been named as 16—year—old brianna ghey. a murder investigation has been launched by cheshire police after the girl, from warrington, was found by members of the public as she lay wounded. police are appealing for witnesses who may have seen brianna in the hours before her death. mps have accused the bbc chairman richard sharp of "significant errors ofjudgment" for not declaring his involvement in helping borisjohnson secure a loan, worth up to eight hundred thousand pounds, 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 its 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 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 a man has been charged with violent

disorder after clashes broke out on friday near a hotel in merseyside that houses asylum seekers. 14 others, including 12 men and 2 women were arrested during the unrest. merseyside police say the 19—year—old will appear at wirral adult remand court on monday. the royal college of nursing says it's preparing to escalate its strike action in its dispute with the government over pay. the union has told nhs leaders that nurses working in emergency departments, intensive care and cancer wards will take part in its next strike. the rcn says it will still make sure the most urgent clinical situations are covered. in new zealand, thousands of people have been left without power as parts of the country endure the start of storm gabrielle. gabrielle buffeted australia's norfolk island overnight and forecasters have now issued "red" heavy wind and rain warnings for auckland and northland

with winds of up to i30kph expected. the storm — which has been downgraded from a cyclone — comes weeks after torrential rain inundated the city of auckland, which remains under a state of emergency. 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 is designed to bring good energy to the event, which is due to take place for about a week from the 17th of february. around 80,000 tourists from abroad are expected to travel to rio for the carnival. the rain might have helped with the cleaning, but the revellers will be hoping it holds off next week. lets hope it does. you have been

watching bbc news, thank you very much indeed for watching. hello. in many parts of the uk cloud was hard to shift and sunday sunshine was in short supply. but there were some brighter spots to point out. northeast scotland saw some sunshine, at least for a time. it brightened up across a good part of wales and into the far south west of england, cornwall and parts of devon. indeed, look at this picture from a weather watcher in north devon and westward ho earlier on today, blue skies overhead. now, as we head through the night, we are going to see some clear spells here and there, and where the skies do stay clear for any length of time, well, it could get a little bit chilly, potentially cold enough for a touch of frost. but for the majority, temperatures will stay above freezing, particularly where you do keep fairly large amounts of cloud overhead. but we do start the new week on a mainly dry note, thanks to this area of high pressure

centred right over the heart of continental europe. this frontal system pushing in from the west, taking its time to get here. so in the meantime, we are looking at mainly fine conditions, a lot of cloud though through east wales, the midlands and parts of eastern england and some of that cloud i think will linger along some of these eastern coasts, could stay quite murky for some actually here through the day. but elsewhere, with a bit more of a breeze, we should break up more of the cloud and reveal a little more in the way of sunshine. and if you do get some sunshine tomorrow, it won't feel too bad at all with temperatures between eight and 12 degrees. now, as we head on into tuesday, this little frontal system here will start to introduce some cloud and some splashes of rain, particularly across northern ireland and scotland. but this southerly breeze bringing a renewed surge of mild air. and when you get some shelter from that breeze, it is likely to feel very mild indeed. southern parts of england, perhaps parts of wales, starting the day with some fog, which will tend to clear. england and wales seeing sunny spells, northern ireland and scotland more cloud and some bits and pieces of rain. but it's mild everywhere

and parts of north wales, with some shelter from the southerly breeze, could get all the way up to 15 degrees celsius. now, a change does come as we head through the middle of the week. this frontal system pushes its way eastwards, eventually bringing some outbreaks of rain, becoming increasingly light and patchy. and then, as we move towards the end of the week, we will see some further rain at times, but not all the time, and it will remain very mild. in the south, we could see highs of 15 or 16 degrees.

this is bbc news, 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 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. 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. investigations continue after a us fighterjet shot down a object flying over canada's airspace — making it the third to be destoyed

over north america in the last week.