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and turkey issues an international appeal for help. we'll be taking a look at how world leaders are responding. welcome to the programme. we begin in turkey and northern syria, where two powerful earthquakes have killed more than 2,000 people. many more injured and still missing. we'll look at the damage done and the rescue operations. first, let's see where this happened. the first earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8 — the epicentre in turkey's gaziantep province. there have been almost 30 other shocks in the region, all powerful enough to magnify the damage. a second major earthqua...

as the premier league charges the club with more than 100 breaches of its financial rules. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. rescue operations are under way across much of southern turkey and northern syria, following a huge earthquake that has killed at least 3,500 people. rescuers are racing to save those trapped beneath the rubble and people have spent the day digging with their bare hands. the first earthquake struck in the early hours of monday morning, while people were asleep. the epicentre was near the turki...

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we start in france, where hundreds of thousands of workers are out on strike for a second time. they're protesting against president emmanuel macron�*s plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. eight big unions are taking part in the strike, which has disrupted schools, public transport and oil refineries. let's take a look. the first marches had started in the morning across the country, like this one, in rennes in north—western france. thousand of people also took to the street in toulouse, marseille and nice in the south of the country. and this was the scene in paris. ...

we begin in the us where a congressional committee has released the tax returns, covering a six—year period, for the former president donald trump. some 2,700 pages of documentation, which mr trump had battled for years to keep secret, stretch from 2015 through 2020, covering mr trump's candidacy and time in the white house. the fight went all the way to the us supreme court this year, and last month the justices refused to block the release of the tax returns to the committee, thereby paving the way for their release. i'm joined now by our washington correspondent gary 0'donoghue....