this is bbc news. the headlines — the number of dead from the earthquakes in turkey and syria

is now more than 30,000. but remarkably, survivors are still being pulled from the rubble. 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 northwest, 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 they've been assaulting for months. politicians in the us say the military has shot down an undentified object above lake huron — the third such shoot down in as many days. officials haven't disclosed details about the object. the police have arrested two teenagers on suspicion of murder, after the fatal stabbing of 16—year—old brianna ghey in warrington park. the bbc chairman richard sharp is accused of making "significant errors ofjudgment" by mps for not

declaring his involvement in helping britain's former prime minister, borisjohnson secure a loan. and on this super bowl, the barbadien singer rihanna makes her long—waited return, with her first live performance in five years during the half—time show. you are watching bbc news. now it's time for the latest sports news. good evening, i'm tulsen tollett with your sports news, and we start with rugby union. the steve borthwick england era has its first win. the bonus point 31—14 victory over italy at twickenham takes his side third in the six nations table and represented a significant improvement on their opening game of the tournament as jane dougall reports.

his first match in charge and in defeat — his first match in charge and in defeat last_ his first match in charge and in defeat last week. _ his first match in charge and in defeat last week.— his first match in charge and in defeat last week. could the coach ut that defeat last week. could the coach put that behind _ defeat last week. could the coach put that behind him _ defeat last week. could the coach put that behind him on _ defeat last week. could the coach put that behind him on his - defeat last week. could the coach | put that behind him on his return's england still smarting from that loss to scotland, faced an italian team who have termed up to the six nations. quickly, italy's defence was badly lacking. jack willis rewarded after an emotional return to the starting line. while italy had the player, england acted swiftly and all he just had his first for his country. england on break but in the second half the italy that gave france such a scare began to emerge. at times they looked dangerous, but they have never been england. italy went over again but england were just too strong. five tries and that opening loss forgotten.

a week that began with manchester city being charged by the premier league for breaching its financial rules, ended with the club just three points from its summit. they beat aston villa 3—1 to move closer to leaders arsenal who they play on wednesday. dan 0gunshakin reports. the stadium was united in defiance. the stadium was united in defiance. the target of its eye are obvious. he promised her side wouldn't be distracted by our field he promised her side wouldn't be distracted by ourfield events. manchester city was true to their word. the city fans roared in approval. the champions haven't been at the brilliant best this season, but here they were purring. there was nothing the world cup winner could do, for the simplest of finishes. this was undoubtedly city

staff. already out of sight. the second half on the front foot, and when ali scored they threaten to make a game from it. a few scares aside, this was defiant cities day and they head to a potential title defining clash. four days after drawing with leeds united at old trafford, manchester united won a fiery encounter at elland road 2—0. the goals came late on, marcus rashford's great form continues, his header in the 80th minute was his 8th goal in nine league games and his 21st of the season in all competitions. substitute allejandro garnacho added a second for united five minutes later. they're five points off the top of the table. earlier today, the premier league's bottom club

southampton sacked their manager nathan jones after just three months in charge. their defeat at home to ten—man wolves on saturday was a fourth in a row at st mary's and a 8th in his 9 league games. it leaves the team four points from safety. jones also courted controversy with some of his comments to the media with many of the southampton fans turning against him in recent weeks. rangers are through to the quarterfinals of the scottish cup, but not without incident. they beat patrick thistle 3—2 at ibrox, but the big moment of the game happened when it was 1—1 with 20 minutes left. rangers forward malik tillman had gone off injured and instead of waiting for the ball to be kicked back to them. he had other ideas, swooping in to score, causing chaos between the two teams. rangers boss michael beale then instructed his side to allow the championship opponents to score and make it 2—2. the holders would score the winner four minutes from time to advance to the last eight,

while afterwards patrick sacked manager ian mccall and his support staff. manchester united are back at the top of the women's super league after beating spurs 2—1, despite ella toone being sent off. they took the lead at the tottenham hotspur stadium in the second half, through a good turn and shot from leah galton. ten minutes later, bethany england was given too much space and drew spurs level, but less than a minute later, molly bartrip scored an own goal to put united ahead again. toone was handed a straight red card for hitting out at eveliina summanen with 10 minutes to go — but united say they'll appeal, as the spurs player was holding herface and replays show toone pushed her on the shoulder. sky brown has become great britain's first skateboarding world champion at the age ofjust 14. brown won gold in the park event in the uae, finishing ahead ofjapan�*s kokona hiraki and olympic champion sakura yosozumi.

brown became great britain's youngest olympic medal winner of all time when she won bronze at the tokyo 2020 games. her team gb team—mate lola tambling, also 14, finished in sixth place. for more on superbowl 57 between kansas city chiefs and the philadelphia eagles in arizona head to the bbc sport website. but that's all the sport for now.

hello and welcome to newswatch, with me, samira ahmed. coming up — what can viewers expect

now thatjournalists will be able to report on what happens in family courts? and do we need to be told what the phrase "cabinet reshuffle" actually means? first, the number of people killed in monday's earthquakes in turkey and syria has been rising all week with compelling and distressing images of the destruction caused shown on television. one of the first on the scene was the bbc�*s middle east correspondent anna foster, who reported on monday's news at ten using just her mobile phone from the town of 0smaniye, 80 miles from the epicentre. wherever you look in this city, you can see where shopfronts have collapsed, there is broken glass and, of course, there is darkness, complete darkness everywhere — apart from the light of the mobile phone that you can see me by — and this is the scene that has been replicated across southern turkey. lighting there came courtesy of a taxi driver named berkan,

via his mobile phone, and anna foster later tweeted these pictures of the two of them at work. broadcasting in those conditions is a considerable challenge and viewers expressed their admiration, including jules 0, who posted this. but in the days following, there were criticisms of some of the bbc�*s coverage, particularly a report on wednesday's evening news bulletins which — despite a warning of harrowing images to come from the presenter beforehand — upsetjanet georghiou. how disgraceful this was to see this as they were dead people pulled from the rubble. cameras should have pulled back out of respect.

janet cra btree agreed. we discussed last week a review into the bbc�*s economics coverage, one of whose findings was that many viewers find the output "incomprehensible", and some of the terminology used "mystifying". simpler language and more explanation appear to be the answer, and notjust in the area of economics — but some members of the audience think that can be taken too far. take these lines seen on the bbc news website on tuesday: clive couzens read that, and this was his reaction.

i'm wondering what the bbc thinks of its audience, whether they think we have any intelligence at all. in recent days, reporters on the website — on the news website, have felt it necessary to explain that the cabinet is "rishi sunak�*s group of most senior ministers" and that inflation is "the rate at which prices are rising". given that inflation has been in the news daily for several months now, is it really necessary? where will this end? will they soon be telling us that apples are a crispy, green fruit, for example? please, give us some credit for some modicum of intelligence. one of the moves in that government reshuffle was the appointment of lee anderson to the post of deputy chairman of the conservative party. here are two political correspondents, nick eardley and ben wright, talking about mr anderson on thursday. anyone who works around here

would tell you that lee anderson is no stranger to controversy. he has said several controversial things, from criticising the users of food banks — as you heard there — to remarks about the england football team taking the knee. references like those to "controversy" and the description of mr anderson as "controversial" caught the attention of tina stowell, a conservative peer who chairs the communications committee in the house of lords and used to work at the bbc. she tweeted. but russ jones thought that was. . ..

controversial or not, in an interview on wednesday on bbc radio nottinghamshire, lee anderson tried to turn the tables on presenter verity cowley. there is a worry by some that you might be a bit dishonest. no, not really. i mean, have you ever told a lie, verity? but we're not here to talk about me, we're here to talk about you. no, no, no, no — i asked the question, have you ever told a lie? the mp asked the presenter ten times if she'd ever told a lie and ended by asking for the whole ten—minute interview to be played in full as he said he didn't trust the bbc to cut it down fairly, or else not to be played at all. radio nottingham did run the whole interview, which also appeared on the bbc website, to the approval of andy brockman. ..

0vernight on sunday, the bbc news channel reported on the grammys, the music industry's annual awards ceremony in los angeles. here's a headline they ran in one of their half—hour bulletins in the small hours of monday morning. and beyonce's big night — she gets ever closer to winning the most grammy awards of all time. that picture, of course, was not of the singer beyonce but the actress viola davis, another award winner that night. this isn't the first time the bbc has mixed up two famous people of colour, and mary anderson commented. bbc news posted this statement.

now, the uk has always been much slower than the united states in opening up its legal processes tojournalists and camera crews. things are changing, though, with limited filming in crown courts permitted since 2020, as it is in the supreme court and the court of appeal. and last week saw the start of a pilot scheme, whereby some reporting will be allowed of what happens in family courts — a part of the justice system which involves at least 500,000 people a year. one of the journalists who's going to be taking advantage of the new scheme is the bbc�*s sanchia berg, who's been reporting extensively on the family courts over her career, and shejoins me now. thank you so much for coming on newswatch, sanchia. why is it so important forjournalists to report from family courts?

well, judges say that now we no longer have the death penalty in england and wales, the family courts retain the most drastic powers of any court because they can take action to separate a child forever from its birth family, from its parents through adoption. they can also make a serious impact on family lives by taking children away, putting them into care, and they also make these critical decisions in what are called private law cases, where parents are separating, they cannot agree on where the children should go and the court will decide where they go. so, as you said, they involve hundreds of thousands of people every year but, until now, reporters haven't been allowed in, so there has been very little scrutiny. occasionally, very exceptionally, we've been able to report cases. but this pilot in three court centres — leeds, cardiff and carlisle — should allow us to follow cases in an entirely different way. and of course, the other big thing about these family courts and care cases, particularly, is there have been a number of really high—profile awful child deaths that have hit the headlines — i'm thinking about star hobson, for example,

and arthur labinjo—hughes, and child protection is something that we should be able, through this pilot, to see much more closely. and a couple of the authorities involved in those cases, some of the highest profile child deaths, are actually in this pilot. so, will there be stories you haven't really been able to report before that you might now have access to? yes, and what it means is that we can actually follow these cases step by step, we can report what happens in court, we have access to the evidence gathered by social workers — the reasons why they say the children should be taken into care. we can talk to families, we can describe what happens in court. all of these are new and they are just in these three pilot centres. will audio or cameras be allowed in at all to record anything? no, not at all, not at all. this is still, in some ways, a very closed environment, so we are the only people

in addition to the families, the local authorities, the children's guardian from the court advisory service cafcass who will be in the court. if participants know that reporters are there, might it somehow distort the legal process? well you would think that's a possibility, and unfortunately, we haven't done a controlled experiment with this and spent time in these courts beforehand to judge whether it's different but certainly, when it comes to disturbing the normal process of the court, it doesn't seem like our presence has had that kind of impact. we know that there won't be any audio orfilming in these family courts but more generally, is the legal system opening up to broadcasters? certainly. there is now the broadcasting of sentencing in criminal cases, which is quite significant, and there are certain other steps that the courts have been taking to try to make it easier for the press to do their work. i think certainly within

the judiciary, there is a sense that openjustice is a really important principle — thatjustice has to be seen to be done as well as being done. but, as i'm sure you've discussed on this programme, the other side of the coin is that a lot of media organisations lack the staff, lack the resources to send in court reporters, no matter how much the judiciary might like to see them in there. sanchia berg, thank you so much. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear on bbc news on tv, radio, online and social media, e—mail us. or you can find us on twitter. you can call us. and do have a look at previous interviews on our website. that's all from us. we'll be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye.

hello, there. some places got to see some sunday sunshine but many other places did not. if you spent your weekend in one of the places that kept cloud overhead, the start of the week does promise something a little brighter. there's a better chance of seeing sunshine, largely dry and it will be mild. high pressure to the east, keeping it mainly dry. this frontal system starting to push in from the west, but it will take a while to get here. for monday, a lot of dry weather, quite a lot of cloud round, particularly in england and wales, and through the day that will linger close to eastern coasts, staying quite murky here as well. other areas will tend to see some spells of sunshine, fairly brisk southerly breeze, particularly around western parts, and temperatures between nine and 12 degrees, so it will feel mild, particularly if you get yourself into some sunshine. we will see lengthy clear spells overnight through monday night and into tuesday before more cloud

starts to roll its way in towards northern ireland and some other western fringes. the odd spot of rain and some milder conditions with that, further east we do see clear spells for any length of time, we could start tuesday with a touch of frost. as we go into tuesday, our main weather front edges a little closer. ahead of it this weather feature will bring cloud, some splashes of rain, but a southerly breeze bringing a renewed surge of mild air. mildest conditions will be where you get shelter from that breeze. early fog in the south will clear. england and wales seeing sunny spells, northern ireland and scotland can expect more cloud and some spots of rain at times with some shelter from the southerly breeze. parts of north wales could see the highest temperatures at around 15 degrees, but it will be mild for all of us. moving out of tuesday and into wednesday, this frontal system finally makes its move. some outbreaks of rain with that, pushing southwards and eastwards. the rain may not get into the far east of england

until quite late in the day, in fact, by that stage, the rain will be very light and patchy. behind that we will see showers, wintry over the highest ground in scotland, but broadly speaking it will stay mild. mild is certainly the way in which we end the week. we will see some rain at times, things look a little more unsettled. on thursday, a lot of cloud, mist and murk across the southern half of the uk with some splashes of rain. further north, for northern ireland and scotland, we will see some spells of sunshine and again it is mild, temperatures of 9—13 degrees, above where we should be for this time of year. friday, this deep area of low pressure pushes close to the north west of scotland. frontal systems bringing outbreaks of rain and between this warm front and this cold front a wedge of mild air. this frontal system pushing southwards and eastwards bringing some outbreaks of rain. strengthening winds to gale force in northern scotland. it is likely to stay dry for many parts of england and wales,

particularly towards the south and east, and in that mild air could well see temperatures up to 16 degrees. that weather front will sweep its way through leaving something slightly cooler for the weekend. high pressure always close by, keeping things mainly dry, down towards the south of the uk, and we could really do with some rain in some southern parts, have not had much recently. there will be some wet weather further north and west but potentially not an awful lot. broadly speaking, the weather is going to stay relatively mild for the time of year. double digit temperatures for most of us.

welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines... the number of people killed by the earthquakes in turkey and syria has passed 33,000 but survivors are still being pulled from the rubble, nearly a week after the disaster. we report from inside syria, where the united nations, says many people feel forgotten. these were people's homes. they were newly built. but look at it now. 80% of this village is gone, and they have had hardly any help. reports from america suggest another object has been shot out of the sky, the second within 2a hours following the decision to shoot down a chinese observation balloon last weekend.

and the biggest event in america's sporting calendar, the super bowl, is about to kick