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hello, thank you forjoining us. the presidential candidates in turkey are gearing up for their last day of campaigning ahead of sundays crucial election. president recep tayyip erdogan will hold a rally in istanbul, where he built his popular support as mayor more than 20 years ago. in the evening, he is expected to pray at the hagia sophia, which he controversially converted into a mosque to please religious conservatives. his secular challenger, kemal kilicdaroglu, will also be touri...

get in touch with me on twitter @annitabbc #bbcyour questions the prime ministers expected to announce a cabinet reshuffle later this morning, as he replaces conservative party chairman nadhim zahawi. a third earthquake hit central turkey early this morning, as the rescue operation continues across the region to try to find survivors of the two massive quakes which struck yesterday. in the last few minutes, weve learned that now more than 5,000 people are known to have died in turkey a...

and turkey issues an international appeal for help. well be taking a look at how world leaders are responding. welcome to the programme. we begin in turkey and northern syria, where two powerful earthquakes have killed more than 2,000 people. many more injured and still missing. well look at the damage done and the rescue operations. first, lets see where this happened. the first earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8 — the epicentre in turkeys gaziantep province. there have been almost 3...

in ukraine — fierce fighting continues as russian forces advance on the eastern city of bakhmut. the deputy mayor says the region is "almost destroyed." and the stars behind the irish comedy the banshees 0f inisherin" speak to usahead of the oscars on sunday. to feel it as colloquial and then see it go out into the world and be received by people from all sorts of, you know, the corners of the globe that we share is pretty surprising and cool. hello and welcome to viewers in the uk a...

lets start with big news here in the uk. scotlands longest serving first minister, nicola sturgeon, has resigned. shes been the leader of the scottish national party — which wants independence from britain — for more than eight years. she steered the country through brexit, covid, ukraine, five conservativce prime ministers and enjoyed huge ongoing public support. have a listen to some of what she had to say. in my head and in my heart i know the time is now. lets take a look back ...

with incidents in the weeks leading up to her death. and one month since the devastating earthquakes killed more than 50,000 people in turkey and syria — conditions are still desperate. we begin with the war in ukraine. the countrys president, volodymyr zelensky, says military commanders support digging in further, and continuing to defend the eastern city of bakhmut. it follows reports ukrainian troops may have been preparing to withdraw from the city, which russia has been trying t...

in other news, us fighterjets shoot down an unidentified aircraft over alaska after president biden gave the order to "seek and destroy". troops are trying to salvage the wreckage. three people have been arrested following clashes with police, outside a hotel providing refuge for asylum seekers on merseyside in north—west england. hello and welcome to the programme. we are going to start, of course, in turkey and syria, with the latest on the earthquakes there. the united nations aid...

are still coming out of the rubble alive six days in. so its shocking, its also, in a perverse sense, quite heartening. in other news, us fighterjets shoot down an unidentified aircraft over alaska after president biden gave the order to "seek and destroy". troops are trying to salvage the wreckage. welcome to the programme. we begin with the latest developments in the aftermath of the earthquake in turkey and syria. the united nations aid chief has described the earthquake in turkey a...

good morning, everyone. it is saturday, february 11th, were live in the cnn newsroom, and you dont have to adjust your tv, were actually in the same set in the same place. >> no split screen. >> right. >> great to be with you as well. up first this hour, president biden ordering an prague to shoot down an unidentified object over alaska, an operation that he is describing as a success, and right now, there are way more questions though about what that thing was that got shot down and a...

growth at all in the final three months of the year. we are not out of the woods. inflation is still much too high. that is causing pain forfamilies up and down the country, which is why we need to stick to our plan to halve inflation. the economy now is just flatlining along the bottom. we are the only major g7 economy that is still smaller than it was before the pandemic and zero growth is not a success. two weeks since nicola bulley disappeared whilst walking her dog in lancashire, ...