officerjohn caldwell in omagh. we report on the huge relief effort in turkey and syria to try to help people who have lost everything in the catastrophic earthquakes. some of these guys have been flying around 2,000 hours since the earthquake struck. they say they were medically evacuating casualties for hours, but they say they will keep going as long as they can. hello and welcome to bbc news. tens of million of people in nigeria are heading to the polls to vote for a new president. are heading to the polls to vote there s tight security across the country. the election is being seen as one of the most unpredictable in recent years, with three leading candidates instead of two. the incumbent, muhammadu buhari, is stepping aside after serving the maximum two terms in office. with me now is our west africa correspondent, mayenijones. tell us a bit about the climate in which these elections are taking place? i which these elections are taking lace? . ., .,, which these electio
on sunday, maybe early monday. what on sunday, maybe early monday. what is the turnout on sunday, maybe early monday. what is the turnout likely on sunday, maybe early monday. what is the turnout likely to be? the - is the turnout likely to be? the electoral is the turnout likely to be? tie: electoral commission says is the turnout likely to be? ti2 electoral commission says this is the highest number of eligible voters they have ever had. because this is a tightly contested race and we have a third party candidate the third time, people are expecting to turn out to be pretty high. it will be interesting to see how the next hours turnout. the turnout does tend to be high. they are seeing lots of young people. ispoke to be high. they are seeing lots of young people. i spoke to a couple of young people. i spoke to a couple of young people. i spoke to a couple of young people saying they have turned out for the first time. for young people saying they have turned out for the first tim
belarusian leader will make a state visit to china next week. visit to china next week. what are we to make visit to china next week. what are we to make of visit to china next week. what are we to make of this? visit to china next week. what are we to make of this? well, - visit to china next week. what are we to make of this? well, we - visit to china next week. what are i we to make of this? well, we simply don t know at the moment because we just have sketchy details about this four day visit which begins next tuesday, but it is tempting to see a series of events when they come together to suggest a motive. we have seen, as you suggested there, over the last few days china has been pushing itself as a peacemaker in the war in ukraine. last week it sent its chief foreign affairs official to moscow, who met with president putin. just on friday, china came forward with this 12 point peace proposal, a series of principles which it believes should be followed in order to stop the
itself as a neutral party with the ability to come up with some solid conclusion or solid way to end this conflict. finance ministers from the 620 leading economies have been discussing relief for indebted countries at their meeting in india. the indian prime minister, narendra modi, has welcomed germany s chancellor, 0laf scholz, to delhi for a two day visit. he arrived with a german business delegation seeking to increase trade, especially in the areas of military hardware and green technology. ahead of the meeting, the uk chancellor, jeremy hunt, has said he had been trying to win the argument that russian aggression towards ukraine must not be allowed to succeed. he s been speaking to our correspondent leila nathoo about possible divisions among g20 nations as the host country, india, has taken a neutral stance on the war and china abstained from voting in this week s un resolution which condemned russia s invasion of ukraine.