tonight at ten, more than 3500 people have been killed by major earthquakes in turkey and syria — the worst in almost a century. desperate rescue operations are under way tonight across towns and cities in the region, as people dig with their bare hands to find survivors. thousands of buildings have been flattened. the first quake struck in the early hours, when people were asleep, and it's feared many are still trapped. the second quake — just hours later — brought down more buildings, hampering the rescue efforts. you can really see the size of the effort that is going on here, on top of this pile of rubble. rescuers are using their bare hands, and you can see them throwing down blocks and trying to search desperately for survivors. we'll speak to our correspondent anna foster, who's spent the day

travelling towards the epicentre near the syrian border. we will be hearing from her shortly. also on the programme... the former metropolitan police officer david carrick will be sentenced tomorrow after pleading guilty to multiple sex offences against women. we hear from one of his victims. nurses and ambulance workers in england go on strike on the same day for the first time in this dispute. we assess the impact. and trouble for manchester city as the premier league charges the club with more than 100 breaches of its financial rules. and coming up on the bbc news channel: "marsching" on without jesse, as leeds united sack their manager after less than a year in charge. good evening. more than 3500 people have been

killed after two major earthquakes hit southern turkey and northern syria today, flattening thousands of buildings and leaving tens of thousands injured. a massive rescue operation is under way to try to find any survivors — people have spent the day digging with their bare hands. it's feared thousands could be trapped beneath the rubble. the first quake, measuring 7.8, struck when people were asleep in the early hours of this morning. the epicentre was near the turkish city of gazientep. it triggered a second tremor — almost as powerful — just a few hours later. the united nations has called for an international response to the earthquakes. world leaders have pledged to send aid. but freezing temperatures are already hampering the aid effort. 0ur middle east correspondent anna foster arrived in turkey this morning and has spent the day travelling towards the epicentre, close to the border with syria. she's broadcasting using just her mobile phone, and she joins us now from the town of 0smaniye, 80 miles from the epicentre.

the closer you get to the epicentre of this quake, the more you can see the damage and in this city it is completely dark apart from this rescue going on behind me. this was a hotel hunter i talked to the owner who told me 14 people were asleep there last night when the quake happened. seven have been recovered, seven bodies, and they are hoping they can find some survivors in the rubble but wherever you look in this city, you can see where buildings had collapsed, there is broken glass and of course darkness, complete darkness everywhere apart from the light of a mobile phone you can see me by. this is the scene that has been replicated across southern turkey. running for their lives. shaken to their foundations. whole buildings fell. and across southern turkey, peace became panic. people helped where they could. this was a series of powerful

earthquakes, notjust one. they were only around 20 kilometres under the surface, and shallow quakes cause the most damage. in towns and cities across a huge area, the rescue efforts began. with diggers and sniffer dogs, teams of people began to dig frantically in search of survivors. for decades, turkey has been bracing itself for a huge quake. tonight everyone is a rescuer, and they all want to find a survivor. it's a painful wait for news. translation: there are people still trapped under rubble. - i have a friend living in this apartment. his children were rescued from the top floor but only his daughter broke an arm. we will see what happened to those living on the ground floors. may god give us a speedy recovery. i was sleeping when my wife suddenly woke me up. the quake was very severe, very scary. it took almost two minutes

until the shaking stopped. 0utside turkey, the world stands ready to help. offers to send specialist equipment and teams of experts have been coming in all day. translation: we have received several offers of international - aid for our country. offers of assistance from 45 countries including nato and the european union have reached us. in the city of adana, help arrived quickly. alongside the emergency services, young men fit enough to move the rubble stepped in. you can really see the size of the effort that's going on here on top of this pile of rubble, rescuers using their bare hands and you can see them throwing down blocks and trying to search desperately for survivors. this used to be a12—storey apartment building just like the one behind it, and so far they've only found three survivors. forfamilies with missing relatives, the wait for news is agony.

translation: we all heard | the sound of the earthquake. she has her sister down there under the rubble. it's eight people under there, three of them are children. my uncle and his wife, their son and their daughter, and three children. there are my sister and her three children under the building. - also her husband, her mother. and father—in—law are there too. turkey has dealt with natural disasters before. few are on this scale. as night falls, cities like 0smaniye are without power, in darkness. the few lights there are have been sent to searches that offer the best chance of hope. it is still too early to know the real extent of the destruction here. binding those trapped beneath collapsed buildings will take days if not weeks. the death toll is already many hundreds. the numbers

of injured stands in the thousands. it is bitterly cold and the rain keeps falling. the aftermath of this quake is testing rescuers to their limits. anna foster, bbc news, 0smaniye. across the border in northern syria, at least moo people have been killed and thousands more injured in what is one of the poorest regions of the world. it's been cut off from the international community after years of conflict between president assad's forces and rebel fighters, making rescue efforts even harder. 0ur chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, who has reported extensively from syria, has this report. a syrian village which vanished in minutes. besnia. its people are all that's left standing. those who survived. so many didn't, all along this area, next to turkey. still now many families are under the rubble.

0ur teams are trying to save them. it is very difficult task for us, we need help, we need the international community to do something. families shaken from their sleep just after 4am by a powerful earthquake whose epicentre is just across the border. in the dead of night, rescue workers known as white helmets race to help, pulling this young girl from the rubble. this is work they know well. idlib, the last rebel—held enclave, has lived for years with ferocious bombardment by war planes of the syrian military or its russian ally. the few hospitals which still operate here have hardly any resources or staff. now they're overwhelmed. we received hundreds of casualties. really we need urgent help

for the area, especially we are talking about medical help. these patients were already living on the edge in a war zone. displaced time and again for more than a decade. now they have been knocked down again. translation: we were sleeping peacefully. - at 4am we felt a huge earthquake. i woke up my wife and children and we ran towards the exit door. we opened it, and suddenly all the building collapsed. nature doesn't take sides. areas like hama, under syrian government control, were also hit. they are also worn down by war. here it's the syrian arab red crescent working with bare hands and also with diggers. translation: everyone will carry on their duties as needed. - we ask for mercy for the victims and speedy recovery for the injured. it is our fate.

syria's plight has been thrust into the eyes of the world again. today it's fighting a different kind of battle. the international community has failed syria for many years. this is an opportunity to try and put that right. this is a moment, i think, to put principles over politics, to really look at ways they can show solidarity with those on the ground and make sure that syrians, who have been going through over a decade of crisis now, do get the support they so desperately need. long—suffering syrians have felt forgotten by the world. reaching people across this broken country will be hard, but this disaster may make the world care again. lyse doucet, bbc news. lysejoins me now. desperate images coming from both turkey and syria and getting aid into syria will be complicated? tiara

into syria will be complicated? two neighbours. _ into syria will be complicated? twr neighbours, both hit by tragedy, both will require major international coordination to get the aid in but much harder in syria. 0n the turkish side, whatever different as any world leaders have with president erdogan, they have put them aside. 45 countries immediately offered aid. president assad of syria received reassurances from his powerfulfriends, russia, china, but what about western countries? some arab states? his sworn enemies in a more than decade—long war? and will president assad allow aid? large quantities going into north—west, the rebel held area worst affected by the crisis? right now there is only one small crossing into syria from turkey. it is choked with traffic. we have seen time and again how natural disasters can provide opportunities to overcome political obstacles and enmity is. imilli opportunities to overcome political obstacles and enmity is.— obstacles and enmity is. will this be one? thank— obstacles and enmity is. will this be one? thank you. _ turkey's president has tonight declared seven days

of national mourning after the biggest earthquake to hit for decades. turkey is situated on or near several fault lines and it is one of the world's most active earthquake zones. many are deadly — one of the worst on record, in 1999, killed more than 17,000 people. here's our science editor, rebecca morelle. thank you. this is the most powerful earthquake to have hit the region in almost a century. so what do we know about it? the epicentre was here in the south of turkey, close to the city of gaziantep near the syrian border — in one of the world's most seismically active regions. the reason for that is turkey sits where three tectonic plates come together. the arabian plate is constantly pushing into the eurasian plate, which squeezes this one — the anatolian plate — to the west. it's moving about 2cm every year. where the plates grind past each other, fault lines are created. the north anatolian fault has seen

some major earthquakes over the last century. but the east anatolian fault — where this earthquake struck — has been less active. so tension has built up along it — until today when it was released in this huge earthquake. what's made this particularly deadly though is that it struck at a shallow depth, just 11 miles below the surface. this is magnitude seven, nearly magnitude eight. this was a big one. this is an earthquake such as we don't get more than about 20—odd every year somewhere in the world, so this was big, and it was also quite shallow. if the rupture is closer to the surface, you get greater shaking of the ground surface than an earthquake of the same energy that happens at a greater depth. so it is a particularly nasty one. this region's all too familiar with these natural disasters. one of the most destructive happened in 1999, in the west of turkey. the magnitude 7.6 earthquake caused monumental damage, and around 18,000 deaths. but this earthquake

is even more powerful. the full scale of the devastation is yet to be determined, but many buildings have been reduced to piles of rubble. turkey does have seismic codes for their buildings, strict codes because of being such an earthquake prone country. the problem is, i mean, old buildings weren't designed with those. newer buildings, sometimes there might be corners cut in some occasions. sometimes it's just that the ground responds in a different way. more earthquakes triggered by the first are now the main concern. these circles show the dozens that have been recorded along the fault line. here's the first earthquake, measuring magnitude 7.8. an aftershockjust ten minutes later was recorded at 6.7. several hours after, this one to the north measured a huge 7.5 — almost as powerful as the first. this is making a desperate situation

even more challenging. sophie. let's go back to our correspondent anna foster who's in southern turkey, about 80 miles away from the epicentre. you've been travelling all day, you're heading towards the epicentre. what is it like there tonight? what have you seen? you can certainly feel those aftershocks, those tremors rebecca was talking about. they happen really quite regularly and in fact i was in a petrol station about half an hour ago, was in a petrol station about half an hourago, we was in a petrol station about half an hour ago, we felt the ground shake and everybody moved outside because there is a real fear that the buildings that are still standing here are not safe and people are concerned about collapse. some families are actually spending the night outside because they don't feel safe within these buildings. what i think is notable as well is you can see this action going on behind me. you can see the lights and this search. just on this street

alone, there are collapse buildings in every direction that is in darkness. there is no searching happening there. in fact, across a wide swathe of southern turkey, there are places rescuers have not even reached yet. they are doing their best but it is really impossible to know at this stage just how many people have lost their lives. even here in the last hour or so, a body was brought out, waiting to be collected and across this part of the country, there are loved ones who still don't know the fate of their relatives who are trapped beneath rubble like this. blind beneath rubble like this. anna forster reporting _ beneath rubble like this. anna forster reporting there. - bbc news online is running a live page with all the latest updates on the situation in both turkey and syria. you can find it at bbc.co.uk/news and by using the bbc news app. the former met police officer david carrick have been it will be sentenced tomorrow.

today, some of his victims gave details in court about the physical and mental torment they suffered at his hands and a lasting impact it has had. our home affairs correspondent june kelly has been speaking to one of the woman who told their story. david carrick isolated and imprisoned some of the women he abused — just one of his monstrous methods of control. since his arrest 16 months ago, he has been locked up in high security facilities. today, he was brought to court from prison for the first day of a hearing which will see him sentenced for his long list of crimes. they date back to 2003 — the year he finished his police probation. that year, he raped a 20—year—old after she described how he put a hand gun to her head. she said that with carrick she felt she had encountered evil. another of his victims was a fellow metropolitan police officer who's using the pseudonym michelle.

she was raped by carrick during a brief relationship in 200a. he suggested that i should stay at his house. he raped me. i am a police officer, i know the definition of a rape, and i know no means no. michelle was one of the women who came to court to see their abuser finally face justice. david carrick, the once swaggering police bully, now a diminished convicted criminal in the dock. the court heard how, at his home in stevenage in hertfordshire, he would regularly lock one woman in a small cupboard under the stairs. he'd also use this whip on her. carrick installed a camera at the house so he could spy on her and some of the other women while he was working as an armed officer, guarding government buildings. in a series of harrowing personal statements read to the court by the prosecutor, the women described how david carrick had wrecked their lives, their health and their family relationships. he'd left them unable to trust

other men and the police. one woman said he'd made herfeel dirty, humiliated and degraded. the metropolitan police has admitted that david carrick — the rapist in their ranks — should have been rooted out earlier. he'll be sentenced tomorrow. june kelly, bbc news, at southwark crown court. tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance staff have been on strike in england today — the first time both have taken industrial action on the same day. some ambulance workers have also been on strike in wales today. health leaders have warned today's action could be the most disruptive so far in this winter's pay dispute. 0ur health editor hugh pym reports. car horns toot on a nurses' picket line in liverpool today. kelly, who's been at the local hospital for over 25 years, explains why she was willing

to go on strike. i wouldn't be stood here now if i thought that i'd left a patient at risk, but we need to do something — enough�*s enough. and a few hundred metres away, local ambulance staff were also picketing. we need more ambulances out on the road, but to staff those ambulances, then we need more staff and better conditions and a pay rise to keep staff here. but some patients lose out. more than 88,000 operations and appointments were cancelled on previous strike days according to nhs leaders. and there is disruption, too, for hospitals. officially, emergency care is not affected by the strike action, but at local level, hospitals reach their own agreements with the royal college of nursing, and in this emergency department, there are fewer nurses on shift than on a normal day — so other staff are drafted in. we just need to get some meds out... more consultants than usual are on shift, like phil, here at st george's hospital in south london. he's helping dispense medication — a job that might normally be done by nurses. and postponements in routine care on strike days can mean

more pressure on a&e. we encourage people to still come forward. if you need emergency life or limb—saving care, we are here. if we have other areas of the hospital that are affected, such as day assessment units or day surgery units, it may be that more patients end up needing to come through the emergency department to receive urgent care. ministers meanwhile say they will talk about next year's pay from april, but not the wage award already paid out. they've got evidence in terms of this april that we're working with the trade unions on that will reflect inflation, reflect those circumstances. but it should be done through the independent pay review body — process that can look at both what the nhs needs but also the wider needs of the economy. nurses' leaders, though, say they're ready to continue strikes if there are no talks on this year's pay. 0ur mandate is until may. but, again, i would say rishi sunak can call these strikes off at any time. he shouldn't push nurses onto picket lines to may. that's unforgivable if he does.

let's resolve this by getting around a table and talking. health unions are in talks with the scottish and welsh governments over new pay offers, but there's no sign yet of that happening in england. hugh pym, bbc news. the head of epsom college — a private school in surrey — has been found dead along with her husband and seven—year—old daughter in their home in the school grounds. 45—year—old emma pattison — who became the first woman to lead the prestigious school last september — was found with her husband george, and their daughter lettie in the early hours of yesterday morning. police say they are confident there was "no third—party involvement". here's our special correspondent, lucy manning. the school that she led, where she inspired, has police cars, detectives, and a major crime investigation. emma pattison was the first female head of award—winning epsom college in surrey.

she was an example of female leadership — a woman at the top of her career. but yesterday morning, her body and that of her seven—year—old daughter, lettie, and her husband were found. i am absolutely loving my time here so far. in an interview with pupils just two months ago, emma pattison spoke about how much she was enjoying her new role as head. it has been wonderful. in terms of transition, it has been a really big change for my family. so we've obviously moved house, we've bought a dog. i've got a newjob, my husband's got a newjob, which wasn't meant to happen but did, and my daughter has started a new school, so there has been a lot of change for us as a family. the school said it was in a state of utter shock and disbelief, and that mrs pattison, as she was known to her pupils here, had enriched the lives of so many throughout her career. herformer school, croydon high, where she was also head, described her as a passionate, energetic and inspiring leader,

and a dedicated teacher. hello, my name is emma pattison... in videos from croydon high school, her passion is obvious. 0ur mantra is "every girl, every day". her body — and that of her child and husband — found at a house in epsom college's grounds. blue tarpaulin now in front of it. the head teacher's house in the centre, the school's indoor rifle range behind it. police have described what's happened as an isolated incident. that means they aren't looking for anyone else. they will give more details soon. the flag flies at half mast. how to help the hundreds of pupils here understand what happened and how they lost their head teacher in the most terrible way. lucy manning, bbc news.

the partner of nicola bulley — who disappeared ten days ago — says her children are missing her desperately and need their mother back. paul ansell has also thanked a private underwater search team who have joined the effort to find the 16—year—old. she was last seen in st michael's on wyre in lancashire. police believe nicola bully could have fallen into the river wyre while she was walking her dog after dropping her children at school. she set off along this stretch of the river on friday 27th january and was seen several times before and after 9am. police say she was last seen at about ten past nine. just minutes later, her dog willow was found along with her mobile phone on this bench. nicola hasn't been seen again. detectives have again appealed for anyone with dashcam or mobile phone footage from near the river that day to come forward. for the latest on that story, you can head over to the website at bbc.co.uk/news or you can find the latest updates on the bbc news app. now to the world of artificial

intelligence and chatbots. if you've heard of chatgpt, you'll know that the computer programme released two months ago by the company 0penai provides convincingly human responses to questions using information from the internet. well, now google has come up with a rival — it's called bard. our technology editor zoe kleinmanjoins me. what is it and why are these computer programmes making such waves? chatgpt has chatg pt has absolutely chatgpt has absolutely exploded since it launched a couple of months ago. we know over a million people tried out in its first few days. basically what it does is it uses the internet as a giant database and it can answer questions. it can also write speeches, songs, poems and computer code as well. there are concerns that students are using it to help them write their homework and there are also worries that it could take over lots ofjobs that are currently done by humans, but its value to the big tech companies

is because they think it is the future of internet search. currently go to a search engine and search something and you get pages and pages of links to wade through whilst you are trying to look for the answer. the tech firms think if you have a de decent ai chatbot, you ask a question, you get a definitive answer and it means a lot to those companies because it makes them more money. companies because it makes them more mone . . ~' companies because it makes them more mone . . ~ i. companies because it makes them more mone . . ~ ., . the premier league has charged manchester city with more than 100 breaches of its financial rules following a four—year investigation in to the club. an independent commission will now review the allegations that date between 2009 and 2018. if found guilty, the club could be docked points or even expelled from the premier league. city say they were "surprised" by the charges and their position is supported by a "body of irrefutable evidence". 0ur sports editor dan roan has the latest. they're the dominant force in english football but manchester city find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals the game has seen. the six times and reigning premier league champions facing

the threat of expulsion from the top flight, after being charged with more than 100 breaches of financial rules relating to every full season since the abu dhabi takeover that transformed it into the richest club in the world in 2008. the catalogue of charges is unprecedented. those regarding financial reporting relate to nine seasons. the club's accused of not providing full details of player renumeration over six seasons, and failing to cooperate with a four—year premier league investigation. city are also accused of not providing details of former manager roberto mancini's pay over the four seasons he was at the club. three years ago, city were thrown out of the champions league for breaking uefa financial fair play rules — the club accused of over—inflating state—linked sponsorship deals, but city denied the breaches and its lawyers successfully appealed. the independent commission that's going to be appointed to deal with this has a huge swathe of potential sanctions available to it that range from fines, at one end of the spectrum,

all the way through to, i suppose, point deductions, even retrospective points deductions, and potentially, i suppose, expulsion from the premier league itself. last year, city's manager, pep guardiola, defended the club but warned he'd resign if allegations of financial rule breaking were ever proven. city, who have always denied any wrongdoing, said in a statement they were surprised by the charges and had the support of a body of irrefutable evidence. they said they were looking forward to putting the matter to rest once and for all, but there's no doubt the club's reputation is now on the line. aiming for a fifth premier league crown in six seasons, city's title defence is faltering, losing again this weekend, and the legal battle they now face in the weeks and months ahead could have huge repercussions for the club and the game. dan roan, bbc news. the weather is next but first let me just show you this the snow moon, the second full moon of the year, rising tonight above london.

this photograph was taken by the bbc�*s photographerjeff 0vers, who was standing in richmond park, 11 miles away from the city, which gives such a dramatic perspective of the moon. extraordinary picture. time for a look at the weather. here's stav da naos. from moon rising to sunsetting. yes, it looked fantastic _ from moon rising to sunsetting. yes, it looked fantastic and _ from moon rising to sunsetting. lei: it looked fantastic and you will from moon rising to sunsetting. le: it looked fantastic and you will be lucky to capture that in central and southern parts of the country with clear skies but here it will be very are cold and frosty. further north, more cloud around generally. so not much good looking up to the skies there. high pressure is holding on which is why we are seeing a lot of fine and dry weather in central and southern areas. through the night, those patches of mr fog, and southern areas. through the night, those patches of mrfog, and it southern areas. through the night, those patches of mr fog, and it will turn a lot colder as well. these are town and city values in the countryside. central and southern england could be down to —5 —6. scotland and northern ireland, where they have the cloud, it will be less

cold. patchy rain