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this is bbc news — welcome if you're watching here in the uk or around the globe. our top stories... one month after the devastating earthquakes that killed more than 50,000 people in turkey and syria — many are still living without proper shelter. you can't deal with devastation on a scale like this in days or even weeks. the impact of this will be felt by people here in southern turkey for years. migrants crossing the english channel to the uk in small boats would be banned from ever returning under government plans announced in london — but refugee charities say the proposals are unfair and unworkable. in ukraine — fierce fighting continues as russian forces advance on the eastern city of bakhmut. the deputy mayor says the region is "almost destroyed."
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former met police officer, wayne couzens, serving life for murdering sarah everard, has now been sentenced to 19 months in prison for indecent exposure. police in wales, searching for five people missing after a night out, say three are dead and two seriously injured, after a car crash. after a century personally preserved at the bottom of the antarctic 0cean, lloyd's of london locate the insurance policy for shackleton�*s ship the endurance. it's a month now since the earthquakes which killed more than 50,000 people across turkey and syria. many of those who survived are homeless, living in tents and even train carriages.
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0ur corrrespondent, anna foster, who's been covering the tragedy from the beginning. she reports now from antakya in southern turkey. these trains haven't left the station for a month. they're homes instead now, to earthquake survivors. yilmaz and five of his family live in this carriage. they sleep on the seats, the few possessions they have around them. translation: they wanted to provide tents to us, but i refused. _ afad — the turkish disaster management agency — says around 2 million people have left the quake zone altogether. 1.5 million more are still here, and struggling. there's anger too, that so many buildings were allowed to have design features that struggled to withstand an earthquake. more than 160,000 either collapsed or were badly damaged. and it wasn'tjust the old ones.
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this is a well—to—do area. it's close to the park and there are lots of modern buildings. all of them should have stayed up. but look, this one is so new that you can still see the stickers in the glass on the top floor. nobody had even moved in there yet, and yet it has still toppled to the ground. the scale of the task ahead is enormous. there isn't enough mechanical equipment in the country to clear the rubble quickly. so places like iskenderun�*s collapsed hospital wing stay as they are. personal medical notes litter the ruins. there are smashed pieces of equipment and medicines lying on the floor. it's a moment frozen in time. people across southern turkey simply don't know how long they'll be living like this for. some, like muzeyyen, want to stay as close to home as they can.
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she's sleeping in a tent right outside her damaged house. translation: my valuable articles are in there. - thieves are roaming around. the police are barely keeping them away. lots of thieves. how can i leave here? sprawling tented camps are the new towns. big promises have been made for a programme of permanent rebuilding. but it won't happen quickly. anna foster, bbc news, antakya. our middle east correspondent anna foster is in antakya for us. watching anna foster is in antakya for us. some of the scen| devastation, watching some of the scenes of devastation, these scenes of almost desperation for so many people, one month after the event, it seems incredible that things are still this way for so many? it incredible that things are still this way for so many? it really is.
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i want to show _ this way for so many? it really is. i want to show you _ this way for so many? it really is. i want to show you why _ this way for so many? it really is. i want to show you why that - i want to show you why that rebuilding is going to take so long because you can see down this one street in an —— you can see down this one street the devastation but everywhere you look, damaged buildings, buildings ripped off, homes have fallen into the street, one stroke one city, across a whole swathe of southern turkey, so think how long all of this will take not just to clear but rebuild and then think of the people who lived in these apartments come in these buildings, who now are having to really go to great lengths to find some save shelter and not know how long that is going to be their life and how long they can stay there and how long they can survive in such a temporary situation.— temporary situation. difficult to work out where _ temporary situation. difficult to work out where you _ temporary situation. difficult to work out where you start - temporary situation. difficult to work out where you start with l temporary situation. difficult to | work out where you start with all temporary situation. difficult to - work out where you start with all of this. it work out where you start with all of this. , , . . , work out where you start with all of this. , ,, this. it is, because even the basics are 'ust this. it is, because even the basics are just so — this. it is, because even the basics are just so hard _ this. it is, because even the basics are just so hard to _ this. it is, because even the basics are just so hard to come _ this. it is, because even the basics are just so hard to come across - this. it is, because even the basics are just so hard to come across at|
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are just so hard to come across at the moment and there are aid agencies of course working in the region, notjust afad, the turkish charity, but international ngos, you see their tents, a lot of people are living in tents and they are giving food and water, but simple things, like where'd you get money out? there was a van this morning and huge queue of people for what was essentially a mobile cashpoint to take out money, not that many of the shop is open at the moment because people have fled and people have been killed and so many of the shops are closed. electricity, many of these cities at night are completely dark, there is no electricity, no clean running water in many of them, as well, and no schools for the children to go to either, the basics of life, everything you would think of life, everything you would think of from day—to—day has all gone and thatis of from day—to—day has all gone and that is why you have people even after four weeks really feeling their way forward and trying to work out what they do next. puma their way forward and trying to work out what they do next. anna foster,
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thanks forjoining _ out what they do next. anna foster, thanks forjoining us. _ i'm joined now from by magnus corfixen, oxfam's humanitarian lead from antakya. give us an idea of what the immediate needs of the people in turkey who have been affected by these earthquakes.— turkey who have been affected by these earthquakes. thank you. as you heard in the — these earthquakes. thank you. as you heard in the report, _ these earthquakes. thank you. as you heard in the report, families _ these earthquakes. thank you. as you heard in the report, families who - heard in the report, families who live in antakya and elsewhere, like in the province of hatay, they have lost everything, in a matter of seconds. so what we see is that families and individuals are in need of the most basic items and that is everything from shelter, as we heard, having access to proper tents as a place to stay, and also access to food which is becoming a bit of a concern and then access to clean water as you also her, so we are talking about the most basic
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necessities which are in need right now and we think there will be the need over the foreseeable future because the level of destruction is so vast and the needs are so massive. so vast and the needs are so massive-— so vast and the needs are so massive. . ., ., , , ., , massive. the humanitarian missions we are hearing _ massive. the humanitarian missions we are hearing about _ massive. the humanitarian missions we are hearing about in _ massive. the humanitarian missions we are hearing about in turkey - massive. the humanitarian missions we are hearing about in turkey and l we are hearing about in turkey and syria, how are they progressing? is there a different level of progress in those respective countries? i would say, there's definitely progress, and in the beginning there was a lot of focus the search and rescue and now it is more focusing on the relief effort, making sure that some of the most basic needs are addressed and that is where the humanitarian access is coming together, and everything from volunteers across turkey and civil society organisations and the ngos who are trying to coordinate the relief efforts, both here in turkey and then also of course in syria.
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what do you think of the government in terms of how it has managed to work with aid agencies on these issues? ., ., ., ., , work with aid agencies on these issues? ., ., , ., ., , issues? coordination is ongoing but it is also a very _ issues? coordination is ongoing but it is also a very complex _ issues? coordination is ongoing but it is also a very complex situation i it is also a very complex situation where the scale of the disaster is so vast so everyone is trying to pull together in order to improve coordination and that is what everyone involved is trying to do now. this is happening on an ongoing basis but i think many of us because of the severity of the needs and the crisis, it is a struggle, but everyone is working flat out trying to address the needs.— everyone is working flat out trying to address the needs. magnus from oxfam, thanks for _ to address the needs. magnus from oxfam, thanks forjoining _ to address the needs. magnus from oxfam, thanks forjoining us. - the government is set to annouce plans to ban migrants who cross the english channel in small boats, from ever returning to the uk. it's part of a set of new laws which will be introduced
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in parliament tomorrow. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says the proposals are unworkable, while refugees groups, say thousands of people, will be left in limbo. here's our political correspondent, david wallace—lockhart. stopping channel crossings in small boats is one of the government's key priorities. they are set to publish plans meaning anyone travelling to the uk this way will be detained and then deported to their home country or a third country like rwanda and banned from ever returning. measures are set to be included in legislation tomorrow. this week, we will be bringing forward additional legislation which is based on the principle that if people travel here via illegal routes, they shouldn't be allowed to stay, which i think is common sense and right and the correct approach and that this government is really tackling one of the key things that comes up on the doorstep and is coming up from my constituents and around the country. small boat crossing figures were first recorded in 2018, when 299 people made the journey. by 2020, the figure was over 8000.
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last year, it reached more than 45,000. at one point, officials were believed to be preparing for 80,000 arrivals. last year, albanians represented the single biggest nationality seeking asylum, with around 15,000 applications. this was followed by iran, iraq and afghanistan. the labour leader is sceptical changes will be compatible with international law and doesn't think it will bring down the numbers. think it will bring in april of last year, we had legislation and the government said and i quote, "it would break the business model. "it would end illegal migration." so that was precisely 12 months ago with the legislation they were proposing to pass and did pass then. what has happened since? the numbers have gone up. so i don't think going on with this sort of legislation is the way forward. why not put the money and the resources into
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the national crime agency and break the gangs are running it? the government is determined to stress the message they want to be tough when it comes to borders but are their plans workable? the proposals that the government is putting forward saying if you arrive in a smaller boat, you will automatically be considered illegal and we will detain you and deport you. but where are they going to be detained? the government doesn't have a lot of detention space. and to where are they going to be deported? because the government has very few safe country agreements to return asylum seekers too. plenty of conservative mps will be keen to pour over the details of this legislation but this area can be a legal minefield, with obstacles that can ultimately derail any pledges. remember, the government's plans to send asylum seekers to rwanda are still tied up in the courts. ministers believe they can deal with small boats while staying part of the european convention on human rights. some of the government's own backbenchers could take some convincing. david wallace lockhart, bbc news, westminster. russia is continuing it's all out
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assault to capture the eastern ukrainian city of bakhmut, suffering the loss of many thousands of men, despite the pentagon saying victory is of little strategic importance. the kremlin wants control, in what has become one of the longest and bloodiest battles, of the war so far. from kyiv, here's our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. after more than six months of fighting, much of bakhmut now lies in ruins, yet the fighting remains hard. street by street, house by house. for those few civilians who remain in the city and in villages nearby, conditions are terrible, with little access to water, heat or power. translation: iwant peace, silence, calmness, and just to be _ at home in our own land. the ukrainian army still holds the centre of bakhmut.
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they can get in and out from the west, but... this ukrainian soldier says the situation is tense, tanks are shelling the road and bridges are broken. defending this city is coming at a high price in ukrainian lives. translation: i would like to pay . special tribute to the bravery, l strength and invincibility of the warriors fighting in donbas. it is one of the toughest battles — painful and challenging. russian forces continue to bombard the city and their troops continue to make small advances from the north and south, but at great cost. british military officials say some russian soldiers are even being forced to attack with little more than their spades. and while russia's defence ministry shows images of paratroopers supposedly making an assault, russian mercenaries at the heart of the fighting complain they are not getting enough ammunition.
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translation: what if they want | to set us up, calling us scoundrels, and that's why they don't give us ammunition? they don't give us weapons and they don't let us recruit more people from amongst prisoners? if wagner retreats from bakhmut now, the whole front will collapse. there is not much left to win or lose in this city but ukrainian forces are defending these streets hard and many russian soldiers are dying trying to take them. james landale, bbc news, kyiv. our diplomatic correspondent james landale is in kyiv. give us a sense of why bakhmut is so crucial in this battle. that give us a sense of why bakhmut is so crucial in this battle.— crucial in this battle. that is what is so puzzling _ crucial in this battle. that is what is so puzzling about _ crucial in this battle. that is what is so puzzling about this, - crucial in this battle. that is what is so puzzling about this, if- crucial in this battle. that is what is so puzzling about this, if you i is so puzzling about this, if you talk to analysts and western officials, they say there's not much strategic importance for the city, it is not a massive transport hub or garrison town, but it is incredibly hard fought by both sides. from the russian perspective, the kremlin is clearly in need of a victory and some sort of good news and success, they have not had one for some time,
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they have not had one for some time, they are throwing a lot at it. at they are throwing a lot at it. at the same time, if they can seize this town they could use this potentially as a stepping stone for making further territorial gains in the donbas and eastern ukraine. and for ukraine, they are fighting it so hard, they are defending every inch, simply so they can weaken the russian army and they are frankly using this battle to kill russian soldiers so that it diminishes the military capability of the russian fighting force and later in this year either in a further offensive or when it tries to defend against some sort of ukrainian counteroffensive, and that means the calculation ukrainian commanders are making is how long do they stick at it to weaken the russian army, and at the same time are not paying too high a price themselves? because yes, lots of russians are dying in bakhmut but so are many ukrainians. james, thanks forjoining us.
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officials in south—west pakistan say a suicide bomber has killed at least nine policemen. the explosion struck a police truck in the southwestern city of sibbi in balochistan province. hospital medics say at least 13 others have been injured in the blast. there's been a series of recent attacks across pakistan targeting police officers. it's not clear who's behind the latest incident wayne couzens, the former metropolitan police officer who murdered sarah everard, has been sentenced to 19 months in prison for indecent exposure. couzens is already serving a full life sentence for ms everard's death, after abducting and raping her in south london two years ago. the court heard that in the weeks leading up to that attack, he committed at least three counts of indecent exposure, including two at a drive—through mcdonalds in kent. our special correspondent, lucy manning, was in court for the sentencing, and told us more about the case.
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this is aboutjustice for the victims who were justified by the indecent exposure but it is about so much more than that, it is about the failures of the police to properly investigate him before sarah everard's murder and quite possibly to stop at him and that was the theme running through the court hearing today. it was shocking to sit in court and see for the first time at the cctv from mcdonald's just four days before he murdered sarah everard when he exposed himself, very clearly on the cctv you can see his number plate, af 12 x x w, that was reported to the police three days before the murder of sarah and also details of his credit card but nothing was done. one of his victims, one of the brave mcdonald's workers, she was in court and she was in tears when she gave
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her victim impact statement and she was very clear, notjust about her victim impact statement and she was very clear, not just about the impact on her but about what it meant for sarah's murder and i would like to read you what she said. she said, after the indecent exposure i have no one contact me or ask that statement and it was only after the murder of sarah that became involved, and if he had been held accountable when we reported the crime, we could have saved sarah. thejudge in sentencing crime, we could have saved sarah. the judge in sentencing was equally damning. mi the judge in sentencing was equally damninu. �* ., the judge in sentencing was equally damninu. �* . , the judge in sentencing was equally damninu. �* . ., damning. all have spoken of their sense of freedom _ damning. all have spoken of their sense of freedom and _ damning. all have spoken of their sense of freedom and security - damning. all have spoken of their i sense of freedom and security taken from them, — sense of freedom and security taken from them, or feeling vulnerable and fearful for— from them, or feeling vulnerable and fearful for themselves and others going _ fearful for themselves and others going about their ordinary lives. one woman after discovering who had done this_ one woman after discovering who had done this and what he had gone on to do, done this and what he had gone on to do. speaks _ done this and what he had gone on to do, speaks of a wholly understandable sense of survivor's guilt _ understandable sense of survivor's guilt the — understandable sense of survivor's guilt. the fact that no police came to find _ guilt. the fact that no police came to find him — guilt. the fact that no police came to find him or his black car, to question— to find him or his black car, to question him about these incidents,
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can only— question him about these incidents, can only have served to confirm and strengthen — can only have served to confirm and strengthen in the defendant 's mind a dangerous belief his invincibility. in his power, sexually. _ invincibility. in his power, sexually, to dominate and abuse women _ sexually, to dominate and abuse women without being stopped. it women without being stopped. [it wasn't women without being stopped. it wasn'tjust in the days before sarah's murder that he was committing indecent exposures, it was the weeks before and also there was the weeks before and also there was another incident that he has not pleaded guilty to but that was in the years before, and one of the women who reported it to kent police, this involves kent and the met police, one of the women in her witness statement said she felt kent police had not taken it seriously enough and there is certainly from these women and from women in general feeling these women and from women in generalfeeling that these women and from women in general feeling that indecent exposure was not and still isn't taken seriously and certainly wayne couzens victims here felt that if their cases had been taken seriously thanit their cases had been taken seriously than it would have stopped him murdering and raping and kidnapping sarah. wayne couzens got 19 months axedin sarah. wayne couzens got 19 months axed in prison but it makes no
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difference because he is already serving a life sentence —— 19 months axed. but what it does is raise enormous questions over what was not done to stop him. thousands of people have been left without shelter after a massive fire broke out in a crowded rohingya refugee camp in southeastern bangladesh. the blaze engulfed about 2,000 shelters at cox's bazar. it is estimated around 12,000 refugees, most of whom escaped violence in neighbouring myanmar, are now homeless. hundreds are now returning to the area to see what they can salvage from the ruins. the cause of the fire, which broke out on sunday, is not yet known and no casualties have been reported. police looking for five people, who'd been missing following a night out in cardiff on saturday, have found three of them dead following a car crash. two others are in hospital with serious injuries. our wales correspondent,
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hywel griffith, has more details. struggling to comprehend the loss of young lives. flowers have been arriving near where a car was discovered in the early hours of the morning. crashed in the woods, beside a busy dual carriageway. the five people inside hadn't been seen for nearly 48 hours. darcy ross, eve smith and sophie russon had met for a night out in newport on friday. they were joined by rafael and shane. the group were not seen after 2am on saturday. over the weekend, their families appealed for sightings but it wasn't until sunday that the search began, eventually focusing in on this area. ijust heard all of the helicopters last night. jo lives nearby and was shocked to wake up to the news this morning. what they've been through, you can't bear thinking about it, can you? they could have been, i don't know,
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i wouldn't like to surmise what's happened but it's heartbreaking, it could have been anyone's kids, it could have been mine. i can't think what the families are going through. the group's night out started here at a social club in newport, where the three young women came together, joined by the two men it's known they then travelled over 70 miles around south wales before the crash. what the police need to establish now is exactly when that happened and whether help could have reached them sooner. our wales reporter lucy vladev is in cardiff. what more do we know around the circumstances surrounding this? i have been here for most of the day and you can see behind me that earlier, friends and family, who have laid flowers at the lamp post behind me, they got a chance to move those closer to where the car had been found across the road. what we
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know at the moment is that three people have died and two others are in a critical condition in hospital and we know one of those is 22 —— 20—year—old sophie russon and we understand one of those who has died is eve smith according to family social media posts although we have had no official confirmation yet. the police presence now has been mostly cleared but there are people coming to the scene, feeling that shot, they are wanting privacy but they are still wanting to come together —— feeling that shock. they are trying to understand, i suppose, what has happened. meanwhile, there are questions for police as to why it took so long for them to find the vehicle. this is a very busy a road
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and it did take the police until midnight, sunday into monday morning, to find the vehicle behind me, which has now been removed along with the bodies of three people. those investigations will now continue in the coming days. lucy, thanks forjoining _ continue in the coming days. lucy, thanks forjoining us. _ let's show you some live pictures from hatay in turkey, which was one of the worst affected areas. there are still buildings as you can see which are barely standing straight. so much devastation. it is a month since the catastrophic earthquakes caused such widespread destruction in syria. tens of thousands of people, more than 50,000, in fact, thousands of people, more than 50,000, infact, were thousands of people, more than 50,000, in fact, were killed by the earthquakes and many are living in very seriously bad conditions in both turkey and northern syria. we
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will have more on that coming up on bbc news. ben has got the business and a couple of minutes. —— in a couple of minutes. hello again. very cold week in—store and potentially disruptive snow in places although question as to whether the heavy snow will fall so go to the latest warnings on the website. we are confident forward today and tomorrow, snow and ice likely to affect most of the north and also parts of northern ireland. the cold air is working its way south through the day today and you can see the deep blue there, strong winds over the north, so the snow showers will cause some drifting over the hills of scotland where we will have significant accumulations but also some sunshine around. further south a week where the front spreading slowly and there will be
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some patchy rain here and there maybe a bit of wintriness over the high ground of wales but it will be mostly of rain. top temperatures 7—8 in the south but low single digits further north and barely above freezing where we have frequent snow showers. ice will be an issue in the northern half of the country tonight with snow showers falling around coastal areas and it looks like the rain in the south could turn a bit more wintry and maybe some wet snow and sleet over the higher ground of southern england and south wales. as we head through tomorrow the brighter skies will push their way southwards so it is a brighter day, sunny spells, further wintry showers around the coast but a cold day to come, factor in the wind and we are looking at these kind of values, feeling more like “4 in aberdeen and that will lead into a very cold night on tuesday, sub zero everyone, frost and ice, and maybe as low as mine or double digits in parts of scotland where we have snow. wednesday, big question, because we have a battleground between mild atlantic air and the cold arctic air
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and with the mild atlantic air we have these weather fronts trying to work their way in but as they do they bring outbreaks of rain and they bring outbreaks of rain and they will bump into the cold air so we are likely to see some spells of potentially disruptive snow in the south on wednesday. do not take this literally but it could be a bit further north or a bit further south but there is a question and a potential for some disruptive snow in the south on wednesday. further north, bright on wednesday with plenty of sunshine, further wintry showers around coastal areas and then a question with the snow, you could be disruptive as it works its way north over the country so stay tuned —— it could be disruptive.
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the world's second largest economy sets its sights on a slowdown. china lowers its growth targets as it emerges from its extended covid lockdowns. and moving mountains — toblerone is forced to change its iconic packaging after failing the swissness test. welcome to world business report, i'm ben thompson. we start in china. the world's second largest economy has set out its economic forecast for the year.
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