Page 49 - 7 8 News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

on a new defence agreement. the aukus pact aims to counter china's perceived threat in the indo—pacific. it's expected to agree the supply of nuclear powered submarines to australia. you're watching bbc news. now its time for fault line: the un and the quake in syria. screaming the earthquake strikes. un aid arrives in turkey immediately, but takes several days to reach north—west syria. bbc news arabic investigates. un teams are supposed to deploy within 48 hours of a request. in north—west syria, that didn't happen. what matters in terms of responding to an earthquake is time...

been. i told president zelenskyy when we spoke in kyiv yesterday, i can proudly say that our support for ukraine remains unwavering. >> meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin is dialing up his rhetoric against the west, suspending participation in the last nuclear arms treaty with the u.s., even using the word war as he sends a clear message about what russia has long called a special military operation. >> translator: i would like to repeat, they started the war and we used the force in order to stop it. >> complicating questions about the future of this conflict, china's top d...

moscow where putin spent this morning trying to justify his war in ukraine to the russian people. you know, keir, for his part, president biden seemed to speak directly to the russian people, saying putin chose this war. the west was never planning to attack russia, but my understanding is russian tv didn't air biden's speech. so what did the russian people hear from their president? >> reporter: for president putin, it was an uncompromising and at times, hard to comprehend speech, chris. he used the word, war, a number of times and folks who pay close attention will know that's usua...

i guess the implications of that incredible as well. will ripley, thank you so much. from taipei tonight. thanks to all of you for join us. see you back here at 9:00. "ac 360" starts now. good evening. we begin with the most immediate humanitarian crisis in the world right now. it has been three days since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the region bordering turkey and syria. the number of dead continues to rise from hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands. right now, at least 21,000 people are known to have been killed. another 78,000 injured. because there is far less access...

>> good evening leah, begin with the most immediate humanitarian crisis in the world right. now it is been three days since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the region bordering turkey and syria. the number of that continues to rise from hundreds, to thousands, to tens of thousands. right now at least 21,000 people known to have been killed in other 78,000 insured. because, there is far less access to northern syria, the concern is the casualties there could be far worse. we are watching this play out right now from a distance, and from a distance it looks one way. but a close, is w...