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of syria, which is rebel controlled. he found no sign of a relief effort, with local people, including children, left scouring through rubble for survivors. this is the town of haram in north west syria. there is a bit of activity here, but nothing like you see in terms of activity on the other side, on the turkish side of the border. the border is literally just across that hill. the people here have lost about 700 buildings. another 4,000 or so are unsafe. so they are living in tents. if i swing around here, you can perhaps see the internally displaced people s camp that has been set up over there. they re also telling us that, in terms of foreign aid, they have received next to nothing. some spanish doctors made it to some of their hospitals, but nothing else. the contrast here with what is going on in turkey is astonishing. over on that side of the border, there is a constant sound of sirens, of heavy machinery, of people working. there is none of that here. down there, t
safe passage for drugs. empty food shelves in the uk. why are some supermarkets having to limit sales of fruit and veg? live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. we have a tale of two presidents for you this hour from the us and russia. we ll get to the american president joe biden in a moment but first russian leader vladimir putin. he s announced he s suspending russian participation in the last major nuclear arms control agreement with the us. in his two hour state of the nation address, mr putin accused the west of starting the war in ukraine and seeking to destroy russia in a global confrontation. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. the world according to vladimir putin feels like a parallel universe. who started the war in ukraine? not russia, he says. translation: responsibility - for fuelling the ukrainian conflict, for its escalation, and for the growing number of victims lies fully with the west and, of
war that s proved to be a big winner at the baftas. some breaking news for you at this hour: north korea has been accused of firing ballistic missiles into the sea of japan just a day after the us and south korea held a drill in response to a similar launch. north korea said that test was designed to show it was able to fire nuclear capable missiles at short notice in response to threats. chad o carroll works for the korea risk group and joins me now. thank you forjoining us on the programme. just to get your thoughts on how significant this action is from today and yesterday. this action is from today and yesterday- this action is from today and esterda . ., . ., , yesterday. nothing particularly si . nificant yesterday. nothing particularly significant if yesterday. nothing particularly significant if you yesterday. nothing particularly significant if you zoom - yesterday. nothing particularly significant if you zoom out - yesterday. nothing particularly significant i