the bbc chairman richard chuck is accused of making significant errors ofjudgment by mps for not declaring his involvement in helping boris johnson secure a loan. richard sharp. dozens of people in new zealand left without power as part of the country endure the start of a severe storm with warnings of more disruption to come. and at the brit awards in london, as predicted, harry styles is one of the big winners with four awards including the much coveted album of the year. hello and welcome to bbc news. turkish officials have issued more than in connection with the poor construction of buildings that collapsed in monday s earthquakes. the number of people confirmed to have died in turkey and syria has risen to more than 28 thousand. the world health organization says that almost 26 million people have been affected by the earthquakes that struck turkey and syria. let s bring you some live pictures now from kahramanmaras, turkey. a city of about 100,000 people located betw
over 3,500 in syria from that 7.8 magnitude tremor. 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. 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 10
or not you have followed the code, the second is one that requires earthquake focused urban renewal, they have to have done a test, the third one is. essentially it means that all those people that receive damage to their houses can receive compensation for the insurance and be able to build the houses again but unfortunately i cannot bring back those who lost lives. indeed, we cannot back those who lost lives. indeed, we cannot. professor, back those who lost lives. indeed, we cannot. professor, we - back those who lost lives. indeed, l we cannot. professor, we appreciate your insight, thank you very much for talking to us. you your insight, thank you very much for talking to us. your insight, thank you very much for talking to us. randa ghazy is the middle east regional media manager for save the children and told us
discussion. it is. we got that re ort discussion. it is. we got that report from discussion. it is. we got that report from a discussion. it is. we got that report from a parliamentaryl report from a parliamentary committee of mps, the house of commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee, they actually have a role in the appointment of the bbc chair too. in the government picks a candidate, they give them a grilling about their suitability and one of the things they picked up on is the fact they were unaware of all that background that katie has just told us about meant they didn t feel they had the full picture when they were questioning richard sharp, and he in their words showed significant errors of that committee is the snp s john errors of that committee is the snp sjohn nicholson who have been on the laura kuenssberg programme this morning talking about what he feels richard sharp now has to do in terms of how his position is. his osition terms of how his posi