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The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is seeking international support for the people of Turkey who were affected by the massive earthquakes.

We also talk about the issues around changing pensions and the retirement age which have sparked weeks of protest in France.

Will Bain talks through these issues with Isin Elicin, a freelance journalist based in Istanbul in Turkey and Ralph Silva from the Silva Research Network in Toronto.

(Picture: UN Secretary- General Antonio Guterres. Credit: Getty Images.)

With nearly $12 billion of new Russia sanctions announced by the EU, we discuss the economic impacts those already announced are having, and how they are causing young tech workers to leave the country.

It's hoped the latest sanctions will weaken Moscow’s “war machine” through trade bans and technology export controls.

(Picture: Oil refinery plant of petroleum on the background of of the Russian flag. Credit: Anton Petrus)

In the biggest order of new passenger aircraft in history, Air India has ordered 470 new planes. Airbus will provide 250 of them and the other 220 will come from US rival Boeing.

It's been hailed by French president Emmanuel Macron as a historic opportunity for further Franco-Indian cooperation.

We discuss the deal and what it means for the wider air industry.

The US have burst a high-altitude balloon programme designed for intelligence gathering, which they say came from China. The two nations are also at loggerheads over new rules the US introduced that prevent the export of chips to China. We take a look at what this all means for the future of trade relations between the countries.

One of 2023's biggest and most lucrative sporting events takes place at the weekend. It's the 57th Super Bowl, and the first which will allow mass betting in the US market. Away from the field, we take a look at the winners and losers.

(Picture: The State Farm Stadium in Arizona. Credit: Getty Images.)

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif was hoping to finalise a deal with the International Monetary Fund to prevent an economic meltdown.

A team from the IMF have been in Pakistan since the beginning of this month, but details of the discussions are still yet to be published.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in Paris after a day of ceremonial diplomacy here in the UK - his first to western Europe since his country was attacked by Russia almost a year ago. In London he met King Charles as well as seeing Ukrainian soldiers being trained on British tanks and spoke to both houses of parliament.

(Picture: President Zelensky Makes Surprise Visit To The UK. Picture Credit: Getty Images)

In just a few hours, there's one of those setpiece moments in the US political calendar - President Joe Biden will come to Capitol Hill to deliver his State of the Union address to Congress. It's an especially important speech this year, because it's expected he is poised to announce his bid for re-election in 2024 - so he has to make his pitch to the American people and a lot of that is going to focus on an economy that is showing seeing rising interest rates and high inflation.

(Picture: President Biden Meets With His Competition Council To Receive Update On American Economy. Picture Credit: Getty Images)

It is still too early to gauge the full impact of the two massive earthquakes that shook Turkey in the early hours of Monday morning. What is known so far is that the damage stretched widely beyond the epicentre in the city of Gaziantep - with buildings collapsing and mass casualties across the border in northern Syria. At least 3,800 people are confirmed to have died.

(Photo: Severely cracked and lifted concrete footpath. Picture Credit: Getty Images)

CEO of electric-vehicle maker Tesla Elon Musk, has defeated a shareholder legal case alleging that tweets claiming he had the “funding secured” to take Tesla private cost investors billions of dollars in losses.

Despite all the gloom about a pending recession in the US, the US jobs market surged January, adding more than half a million new jobs.

And we talk gaming as 33-thousand people from 110 countries link up this weekend to develop video games from start to finish in just 48 hours.

Alison Van Diggelen, presenter of Fresh Dialogues who's in Silicon Valley, and Frank Tsai of Shanghai and Control Risks in Shanghai are with us throughout the programme.

(Picture: Elon Musk. Credit: Getty Images.)