us fighterjets shoot down an unidentified object over alaska. the pentagon says president biden gave the order to seek and destroy . the object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. us northern command is beginning recovery operations now. and harry potter comes to the world of video games, but will the hogwarts legacy be tarnished by protests against the author s views on transgender issues? welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. fears are growing for the hundreds of thousands of people in turkey and syria in need after monday s devastating earthquakes. some are living in makeshift shelters and cars in freezing conditions, and there are warnings that aid is not reaching areas fast enough. more than 23,000 people are now known to have died. 0ur correspondent quentin sommerville has been to antakya, a city which has seen some of the worst devastation in all of the country. he s been wit
over alaska. the pentagon says president biden gave the order to seek and destroy . the object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and a reasonable rate to the safety of civilian float. recovery operations are beginning now. reasonable threat. and harry potter comes to the world of video games but will the hogworts legacy be tarnished by protests against the authors views on transgender issues? hello and welcome to bbc news. fears are growing for the hundreds of thousands of people in turkey and syria in need after monday s devastating earthquakes. some are living in makeshift shelters and cars in freezing conditions and there are warnings that aid is not reaching areas fast enough. more than 23,000 people are now known to have died. 0ur correspondent quentin somerville has been to antakya a city which has seen some of the worst devastation in all of the country. he s been with rescue teams who have been working round the clock but who now fear that time is run
0n the second and the third day after the earthquake, they are finding a lot of people. they are hardly finding anyone now, almost no one as friends of missing nicola bulley, issue a new appeal for information, her husband says, he ll never give up hope. and, the manchester city boss, pep guardiola, says he s confident, the club will be found innocent, of breaking financial rules. and coming up on the bbc news channel, we look ahead to the second weekend of the six nations. scotland face wales, hoping to make it two wins from two. good evening. us fighterjets have shot down an unidentified object over alaska. the pentagon says president biden, gave the order, after it was detected yesterday. it s unclear what the object was, but officials say it was the size of a small car. last week, a chinese balloon was shot down, off the coast of south carolina, with beijing saying it was a civilian device, for monitoring the weather. well in the last couple of hours the pentagon, gave th
has left two volunteer groups like the white cabinet helmets to search for survivors here rescuing two girls in a village. the syrian government is now claiming that it will allow aid but not if it goes to people it regards as terrorists. that is not only problem. terrorists. that is not only problem- terrorists. that is not only -roblem. ., ., problem. the whole un aid effort into problem. the whole un aid effort into idlib problem. the whole un aid effort into idlib provinces . effort into idlib provinces reliant effort into idlib provinces reliant on one border crossing, it is reliant on one border crossing, it is right reliant on one border crossing, it is right in reliant on one border crossing, it is right in the middle of the it is right in the middle of the zone it is right in the middle of the zone that has been badly damaged by the earthquake, and that crossing itself is badly damaged, that route is not viable damaged, that route is not viable for large scal
but that s not the only problem. the whole un aid effort into idlib province is reliant on one border crossing bab al hawa crossing that is right in the middle of the zone that s been badly damaged by the earthquake, and that crossing itself is badly damaged, that route is not viable for large scale aid efforts. and, frankly, syria and russia kind of like it that way. the whole strategy towards the north western part of the country has been to grind it into oblivion through bombing, starvation and aid blockages. so, in that sense, the earthquake and the aid cut off kind of serves their larger political purposes. so, where does that leave tens of thousands of civilians, most of them refugees living already desperate lives? many of those people are in tents and temporary buildings. that, for once, may have helped to save lives. but as long as idlib remains a rebel stronghold, getting help from the outside world will remain extremely difficult.