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today, the business headlines will be dominated again by the huge profits made by one of the world's top oil companies. this time it's the turn of bp — its latest results are out in an hour and a half and it is expected to reveal it's made substantial sums in the last quarter. last week, shell announced it made record annual profits of nearly $40 billion in 2022, double the previous year's total and the highest in its 115—year history. energy firms have seen record earnings since oil and gas prices jumped following the invasion of ukraine. dr carole nakhle is chief executive of c...

we'll be speaking to a disaster response expert live in the programme. the desperate search for survivors is continuing for a second night across a vast area of southern turkey and northern syria after two major earthquakes devastated the region on monday. at least six thousand people are known to have died, but with so many feared trapped under the rubble, the death toll will climb further. we'll be talking to an aid worker on the ground and will look at the scale of the devastation in just a moment. but first lets go through what happened. the first earthquake on sunday had a magni...

city year. in other news — president biden will give his state of the union address tonight to a divided congress and flanked by a republican speaker of the house. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in the devastated region of southern turkey and northern syria, where the search for survivors from monday's huge earthquake has entered a second night. the death toll continues to escalate rapidly. more than 7 thousand people are known to have lost their lives and officials are warning that number could rise significantly in the days to come. thousands are thought to be trapp...

live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. republicans have criticised president biden over the amount of time it took to shoot down a chinese observation balloon that flew across the united states. china has said shooting down the balloon was an obvious over—reaction. the diplomatic fall—out is continuing, as warships try to recover the debris. secretary of state antony blinken was due to be in beijing this week, but he postponed the trip after the balloon was discovered. barbara plett usher reports from beijing. for days, this solitary object floated ser...

voice—over: live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's news day. hello and welcome to the programme. republicans have criticised president biden over the amount of time it took to shoot down a chinese observation balloon that flew across the united states. china has said shooting down the balloon was an obvious over—reaction. the diplomatic fall—out is continuing, as warships try to recover the debris. secretary of state antony blinken was due to be in beijing this week, but he postponed the trip after the balloon was discovered. barbara plett usher reports from ...