from under the rubble in turkey, more than 120 hours after the first earthquake struck. three people have been arrested, following clashes with police outside a hotel providing refuge for asylum seekers on merseyside in the uk. 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. hello and welcome to the programme. rescuers in turkey and syria are increasingly focusing efforts on the survivors of monday s earthquakes who are enduring the aftermath in the cold of winter. more than 2a,000 people are now known to have died. these are the epicentres close to the turkish cities of kahramanmaras and gaziantep. as we know, of course, the chances of finding people alive diminish as every hour goes by and thoughts now to the hundreds of thousands of people who need to survive and rebuild, given what has happened there. we know the united nations will play a c
what comes out of it and will bring you that when we do. as for the international community so far, it seems, they haven t found any conclusive proof. here sjohn kirby, from the us national security council, briefing reporters at the white house. we ve seen the reports that russia was responsible for the explosion at the dam, which i would remind, russian forces took over illegally last year and have been occupying since then. we are doing the best we can to assess those reports and are working with ukrainians to gather more information. but we cannot say conclusively what happened at this point. nothing conclusive gets out of the us. i want to go back to the us officials telling the us bbc partner network cbs news that the ukraine counteroffensive is in its opening phases but the main thrust has not yet begun. with me now is a defence
altitude spying balloons, with unidentified flying objects being shot down by fighter jets. shot down by fighterjets. and with washington and beijing trading accusations and criticism. over the past few days, american fighterjets have shot down three more unidentified objects. the us downed an object off northern alaska which officials said lacked any system of propulsion. on february 11th a us fighterjet shot down a high altitude airborne object over canada s yukon territory, described by officials as cylindrical and smaller than the first balloon. and on february 12th usjets shot down a high altitude object near lake huron. here sjohn kirby again on those objects. we also know that a range of entities operate objects at these altitudes for purposes that are not nefarious at all, including scientific research. that said, because we have not yet been able to
news website and the bbc news app. the us military says it has shot down an unidentified object flying at high altitude over alaska. the craft appeared nearly a week after a chinese surveillance balloon was brought down as it travelled through american airspace. here sjohn kirby spokesman for the white house national security council. we are calling this an object because that is the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it. whether it is state owned or corporate owned or privately owned, we just don t know. we ve also heard from our north america correspondent nomia iqbal, she gave us this update. the details so far on this are vague but the white house spokesman, john kirby, said that this unidentified object was flying at an altitude that was lower than the chinese spy balloon and therefore it posed a risk to commercial aircraft, which is what they were worried about. it was spotted about 24 hours ago but they shot it down at around about 1.30 eastern time on