lost their homes. hundreds of thousands have left but some stayed, and new construction plans have angered locals. and new construction plans have angered locals. our world has been following the women who chose to stay, to rebuild their lives and their community.

ayfer has lived in antakya, in hatay province, her whole life. it's been two months since the earthquake.

85% of antakya's infrastructure was destroyed when the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck. it forced a million people to leave the region, but ayfer has decided to stay with her husband and two sons.

in the first months after the earthquakes, ayferjoined volunteer organisations to hand out aid. she also organised community gatherings to bring villagers together.

as survivors struggled to build new lives, their children's education became a casualty of the quake. for months, there were no lessons at all. most children now go to makeshift schools.

in september, damaged buildings in the village start to be torn down. ayfer�*s son's school was among them. the school was one of 300,000 damaged buildings across the earthquake region that needed to be demolished. so far, this has created 210 million tonnes of rubble. samandag is a town 20km west of the city of antakya. it's one of the region's key agricultural areas. singing.

singing continues. it's also one of 18 locations where authorities have dumped the rubble from the earthquake. it created dust which, according to some experts, contains deadly toxins like asbestos.

injune, the ministry of environment, urbanisation and climate change said it was effectively managing dust and asbestos and focusing on keeping both people and the environment safe. one—third of the people here relied on agriculture to make a living. most of that revenue has now gone.

sings. three months after the earthquakes came a bitter election campaign. many had blamed president erdogan for the state's slow response, but he held on to power. who's to blame and what to do about it are likely to feature heavily in this year's local elections.

some of the rebuild is taking place on the outskirts of antakya in the village of dikmece. sings along to radio. meryem lives here with her husband and two children in a container in their garden.

some construction is happening, but it's limited and controversial. new laws after the earthquake allowed authorities to take over local land for rebuilding, including meryem's olive lands.

toki, the housing development administration of turkey, and the ministry of environment say it's a legal way to speed up the urgent rebuilding process in areas hit by the earthquakes.

when diggers arrived in dikmece, local people clashed with the police brought in to keep order.

the people of dikmece have now filed lawsuits. they claim the land was taken from them unfairly. the court stopped the construction work but let it restart two weeks later. there's still no final decision. it's been ten months since the earthquakes. an estimated 165,000 families are still living in container villages across the region, including meryem's childhood friend ipek.

almost a year since the earthquake, more homes are being built in meryem's village.

more women in the region have

started to join the protests.

hello, thanks forjoining me. time for our weather outlook for the next seven to ten days, and the thinking remains the same as far as the outlook�*s concerned. it'll be mild over the coming days, very blustery with some rain at times, potentially very heavy in the north—west of scotland. let's take a look at the satellite picture, and you can see this big arc of cloud, these weather systems riding around an area of high pressure which is towards the south. the high pressure basically deflects the weather systems to the north and the low pressures, which have been slamming into scandinavia over the last two days. look at these isobars — severe gales blowing into norway, lots of snow.

it's also very blustery across the uk and it'll remain so over the following days. if you take a look at this pressure gradient from these isobars, you can see there's quite a number of them and that's an indication of those stronger winds. now, in terms of the weather, i think some sunshine for northern ireland, northern england, scotland, too. showers here, blustery ones. to the south, we have a weather front here and i think thicker cloud with some outbreaks of rain at times but the thermometer will indicate temperatures of around 13—111, whereas we're closer to, say, 7—10 across scotland. now, saturday night into sunday, that weather front sort of sinks relatively far south, just hugging the south coast. cooler air briefly reaches scotland, so maybe even a touch of frost in the highlands early on sunday morning but very quickly, the south—westerlies through the morning develop once again. another weather front — this is the next one —

sweeping into northwestern parts of the uk and, actually, this weather front here will be responsible for some very heavy rain in western and northwestern scotland sunday night and into monday. but this is sunday so, often cloudy, some outbreaks of rain. cooler in the north, 7 degrees, but in the south of the country, it's closer to around 12 or 1a celsius. now onto monday's weather forecast now. this weather front very potent. a lot of moisture, very heavy rain — in fact, the met office is indicating the possibility of 50mm quite widely across scotland here, perhaps 100—150—plus millimetres of rain across this part of the world. and again, another blustery one wherever you are across the uk, but i think across the bulk of northern ireland, england and wales, rather than heavy rain, it'll be just thick layers of cloud with dribs and drabs of rain carried on that fairly strong wind. and into tuesday, it's more of the same, so weather fronts grazing northern parts of the uk, this one perhaps sinking a little bit further south. milder air across england and wales. but one crucial thing

does start to happen tuesday into wednesday. notice the white here. those are wintry showers. notice the wind direction — it's starting to come in, rather than from the southwest, from the northnorthwest, so from a colder source. but that does mean that temperatures will start to ease over the next few days. in fact, we're down to 3 degrees in lerwick, 6 in stornoway by tuesday, and that is an indication of colder air spreading across the uk. it's very uncertain at the moment — we're not sure how cold it is going to get — but sometime around wednesday and thursday and certainly towards the weekend, those temperatures will start to dip and, yes, there is a possibility of some wintry weather reaching the uk but it's still a long way off so, at the moment, we'll be hedging our bets — we'll call it "perhaps turning "wintry" at some point later on next week. that's it from me. bye— bye.

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live from washington, this is bbc news. the us carries out retaliatory air strikes against dozens of targets in syria and iraq, linked to iran. this comes in response to sunday's attack injordan that killed three us service members. earlier president biden took part in a dignified transfer for those soldiers in delaware. he says the us response will continue, at times and places of its choosing. hello, i'm caitriona perry. you're very welcome. the us has carried out retaliatory air strikes against iranian backed targets in iraq and syria,

hitting 85 positions in total. the white house says manned and unmanned aircraft struck three targets in iraq and four in syria. these are new pictures released by us central command of b1 bombers taking off to carry out the air strikes. president biden has issued a statement, saying... the strikes are in retaliation for the drone attack on sunday that killed three us soldiers and injured dozens more. iran denies involvement, calling the accusations if baseless, and saying it was not involved

in the decision—making of resistance groups.