tonight at 6: beneath the rubble at the earthquake�*s epicentre, they are still pulling people out alive. that woman was rescued — but at the epicentre in southern turkey, she was one of the lucky few now. this was an entire neighbourhood, and it's completely destroyed. it was hundreds of apartments, thousands of people, and the majority of them are still buried. almost 20,000 people have already lost their lives — we'll be reporting tonight from across the region as the first aid convoys finally reach syria. also on the programme... as a charity appeal is launched here in the uk, we report on efforts here to get much needed supplies to people in turkey and syria. # ijust don't know

what to do with myself. and we'll be looking back at the life of the man behind these lyrics. burt bacharach — one of pop music's greatest composers — has died aged 94. and coming up on the bbc news channel... despite protests from fans there are now revamped plans for a new look european super league with no permanent members and based on sporting performance. good evening. they're digging mass graves in turkey and syria as the death toll climbs rapidly. nearly 20,000 are known to have died in the earthquakes on monday. who knows how many more are still buried under the rubble, but time is running out to save them. the great fear now is for the survivors who are living on the streets with very little food and water in freezing conditions. the un secretary—general has promised more help is on its way,

but warned that the full extent of the crisis is still unfolding, with people facing "nightmares on top of nightmares". we'll hearfrom quentin sommerville in antakya, close to the syrian border. lyse doucet has travelled to 0smaniye. but first, anna foster is in kahramanmaras, the epicentre. you're seeing now, in places like this, a real contrast. there are sites like this one, collapsed buildings that are filled with noise and light and huge pieces of machinery pulling away this rubble as fast as they can. but in places where they still think that there is a spark of hope, the scene is different. an urgent call for quiet. these rescuers need complete silence. they have heard voices. even though this

building isn't safe, they don't hesitate. because despite the winter cold, there are still survivors, and to get to them, they need to be inside. in another collapsed building not far away, a british german team are helping local people to search. they risk their lives for moments like this.— to search. they risk their lives for i moments like this._ a moments like this. allahu akbar! a mother and — moments like this. allahu akbar! a mother and child _ moments like this. allahu akbar! a mother and child pulled _ moments like this. allahu akbar! a mother and child pulled from - moments like this. allahu akbar! a mother and child pulled from the i mother and child pulled from the ruins, freezing, exhausted, but alive. . ., , ., ~ ruins, freezing, exhausted, but alive. . ., , m ., alive. our team have been working on alive. our team have been working on a work site for— alive. our team have been working on a work site for the _ alive. our team have been working on a work site for the last _ alive. our team have been working on a work site for the last few _ alive. our team have been working on a work site for the last few hours. - a work site for the last few hours. and i'm very glad to say they have just been able to pull someone out of the rubble pile and pass them over to paramedics locally. it is laces over to paramedics locally. it is places like _ over to paramedics locally. it is places like this that _ over to paramedics locally. it is places like this that really show you why the death toll keeps rising. this was an entire neighbourhood, and it's completely destroyed. it was hundreds of apartments,

thousands of people, and the majority of them are still buried under these vast amounts of smoking rubble. good news is becoming increasingly rare here. each day, the number of bodies goes up. it's impossible to know how many more might be found. keenan travelled here from doncaster as soon as he heard the news of the quake. his brother is in there, somewhere. i tried yesterday to dig myself, but you can't. you see the concrete like this? i have no power to lift this. the wait is agony. the last few days i am here. — the wait is agony. the last few days i am here. i — the wait is agony. the last few days i am here, i keep _ the wait is agony. the last few days i am here, i keep seeing _ the wait is agony. the last few days i am here, i keep seeing dead -

lam here, i keep seeing dead bodies. many dead bodies. and they are just _ bodies. many dead bodies. and they are just putting each other on top. it's not _ are just putting each other on top. it's not nice, not nice. as darkness falls once again, _ it's not nice, not nice. as darkness falls once again, the rescue - falls once again, the rescue work continues. but the chance of finding more survivors is now small. four freezing nights have taken a heavy toll. anna, describe what it is like now? extraordinary images. they are, and i was trying to give you a sense of the scale of this. we keep talking about the size of the devastation. we keep showing you stem like this, but there is only so much the camera can see. if you follow me here, you can see. if you follow me here, you can see. if you follow me here, you can see this one collapsed building but in fact, all the way down this street, as far as the eye can see, there are groups of rescuers, there are fires keeping them warm. there are floodlit cranes and diggers. as we were saying, it is a city that has had its heart ripped out. just

think how many people lived in this one area. all of these apartment blocks that have just been completely destroyed, that are lying at ground level in these big piles of dust and twisted metal. and the in among them, you see the small things. when we talk about 20,000 people who have lost their lives, when you take it down to those possessions you find in the rubble, i found somebody�*s maths textbook today, just lying by the side of the road where rescuers were working. you find photos, clothes, things that give you an indication ofjust one life, just one person. and then you multiply that with how many people have lost their lives in this disaster and as we keep saying, every day the death toll rises, but it is impossible to predict, when you look at a place like this, it is impossible to know how many people were sleeping in the early hours of

monday morning. as one rescuer was telling me today, when you are asleep, you don't have an id on you, and that is making the process of identifying bodies even harder. when you see those people sitting on top of the rubble, as the rescuers work, they are waiting for a sign that the body has been found. and when they do, they were shout what the person is wearing, maybe hair colour, small details. and if somebody thinks they recognise them, if they think that is the person they are looking for, they will come down into that rubble and identify them. it is the most awful thing for people to go through, the wait. you heard kenan, waiting for that moment not for the return of your loved one alive, but almost certainly at this stage, four days and, of their body. that almost certainly at this stage, four days and, of their body.— days and, of their body. that is unfathomable. _ days and, of their body. that is unfathomable. anna _ days and, of their body. that is unfathomable. anna foster, i days and, of their body. that is unfathomable. anna foster, at| days and, of their body. that is - unfathomable. anna foster, at the epicentre of the earthquake in southern turkey, thank you. in north west syria — the situation is even more desperate after almost 12 years of civil war, which has made aid efforts far harder. this is rebel—held idlib, where there was already a humanitarian crisis before the earthquake struck.

this man — in neighbouring jandaris — has already lost 18 members of his family. he is searching the rubble alone with body bags under his arm for his brother, nephew and their wives. today an aid convoy from turkey — the first — finally arrived as our middle east correspondent quentin somerville reports. he is in antakya, close to the turkey syria border. at this corner of ataturk and jamal street, hope ends. from what was once an eight—storey building, the last four bodies have been retrieved. everyone else has been accounted for. all that's left is rubble. 0n the other side of the road, though, it's a different story. they shout. a desperate hope still remains. "the children are four and six years old. it's been four days," she says.

her nieces are trapped inside. "my god, my god, please return them to us," she says. they dig deep inside the building, but no survivors emerge. a few streets away, there's better news. a syrian boy, a one—year—old, is pulled out alive after 80 hours buried under the rubble. his eight—year—old sister was also saved, along with their older brother and their mother. turks and syrians have lived together here for years. most of the 3 million syrian refugees in turkey are in the earthquake zone and working hand—in—hand in its aftermath. this earthquake is a catastrophe for two countries, for turkey and for syria. syrian and turkish lives and faiths overlap here. this is the border region. syria's only 15 km from here. but when it comes to the national and international response to this disaster, well,

syria and turkey have never been further apart. it's taken long enough for help to make it here to southern turkey, but over the horizon in syria, desperate people still wait. quentin sommerville, bbc news. so many tiny children have been pulled from the rubble, many the sole survivor of their family. this is the turkish president's jet. it was used yesterday to carry to safety 16 babies — from newborns to a one—year—old who'd been found alive at the epicentre of the quake. they've been flown to the capital and taken to hospital, this footage released by the turkish presidency as criticism about the government's slow response to the quake intensifies. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet is in 0smaniye, near the epicentre. president erdogan was there today. lyse, he has been criticised for the

slow response of his government, but across the border in syria, they have had virtually no help at all? yes, it's hard here in southern turkey. really hard here, but it's even harder across the border in syria. i think we can stop emphasising that even before disaster struck in the early hours of monday morning, north—west syria, the last rebel—held enclave, was already one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, with people already living and half built houses and flimsy tents. tonight, if they are lucky, they have a tent. but

many are very unlucky, with so little aid arriving that many are now sleeping in the outdoors in the freezing temperatures. and that aid convoy you mentioned was not aid for the earthquake survivors, it was an

aid convoy which had been stuck at the border crossing before the earthquake and now it has been allowed to come in. but i also have to comment because all around me, the air here is coming up in sportsday on the bbc news channel. worcester warriors are no more — the new owners of the rugby union club have announced they're changing the name and will be rebranded as sixways rugby.

the man behind some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century, burt bacharach, has died at the age of 94. he composed famous hits for some of the biggest stars — from frank sinatra and aretha franklin to tom jones. he won three 0scars he won three oscars and his songs made 50 chart hits in the us and uk. he was hailed as one of the most important songwriters of the 20th century. as tributes pour in, our music correspondent mark savidge looks back his life. # for ever and ever, you will stay in my heart and i love you. burt bacharach songs were classy. musically complex and stylish. # what's new, pussycat? whoa.

with the lyricist hal david, he created hits like the look of love, raindrops keep fallin�* on my head and magic moments. # what's it all about, alfie? neverfinished a song in one never finished a song in one day, because he would like to go home to long island and i would want to go back to my apartment and work on what we were working on, and maybe finish it the next day or the day after that. so, you don't get awards for writing five songs a day. # what's it all about, alfie? and as a producer and arranger, he was a perfectionist. it took cilla black 31 takes to get this one right. # what's it all about when you started out, alfie?# did she speak to you afterwards? yes. and even if she didn't, it would have been 0k. all that mattered was that record came out the way i wanted it to come out.

# burt bacharach had his greatest successes in the 1960s, when his sophisticated pop was a counterpoint to the chaos of rock and roll. #just like me, # just like me, they longed #just like me, they longed to be close to you. during the 1970s, artists like the carpenters continued his run of hits. and even punk bands like the stranglers acknowledged his greatness. # walk on by, walk on by. # walk on by, walk on by. # what do you get when you fall in but the ultimate interpreter of burt bacharach�*s songs was dionne warwick. their chemistry was magical. in his later years, bacharach worked with elvis costello, adele and even the rapper dr dre. proof of the lasting power

of his timeless airborne melodies. the legendary composer burt bacharach, who has died at the age of 94. there's been a dramatic rise in evictions from rented homes across england and wales, according to the latest government figures. the number of landlord possession orders issued by the courts more than doubled in the last three months of last year to more than 16,000, compared to the same period the year before. the number of repossessions by bailiffs has nearly doubled to over 5,000 in the same period, but not every tenant lets it go that far. danjohnson has been speaking to one mother—of—four in bristol who had to leave her home when her landlord decided to sell it. this is the stress... oh, my god! ..of being forced from your home. "the court has ordered you to leave the premises by the date stated. if you do not leave,

the claimant can ask the court to authorise a bailiff to evict you." lucy's landlord wants to sell. she's held out for six months, but now, with herfour kids, she has to leave. so, where? if i went and rented somewhere else, somewhere exactly the same as this, it will be 1,650. and you can't afford that? absolutely not. they've rented this private family home for 14 years... i don't really want to leave, to be honest. i've grown up here. ..but tomorrow, where they sleep will depend on council emergency accommodation. we could end up in a hostel, we could be miles away from the school. honestly, tomorrow is going to be a big day. right, 0k. goodnight, baby. phone rings 0h, here we go. ready? hiya. voice on phone: we've got a place for you in bedminster. _ thank you.

this is the only property that we have available. i thank you very much. thanks, bye—bye. bye. it's temporary, but look what it means. my god! oh, that is such a relief! when you were evicted, what notice were you served? but so many others need help... we are currently not taking on any new enquiries. - this charity's had to stop taking calls. there's a lack of understanding from a lot of landlords of the impact that it has on a family, and i think a lot of landlords are under pressure as well, financially. and tenants are in despair. i've spoken to several people who have been suicidal on the phone. it gets to that urgent crisis point. just as lucy's settling in her emergency accommodation, a council message means more uncertainty. so you're facing another move, potentially? another move. hello? another nervous phone call. but, for now... someone will be in touch, - but until then, stay where you are. ..they can stay.

it's good news... oh, my god! ..but it's all getting too much. it's breaking me. anybody that is in the same situation as me, like... i feel you. because you just feel like you're on your own and you are dying, like, you're drowning. i can't let my kids feel the way i'm feeling. i don't want them to see this, and i don't want them to feel the worry. let's do this, kids! no—one is at fault here — not lucy or her landlord — but rising costs and a housing crisis mean more families are being forced from the place they call home. danjohnson, bbc news, bristol. time it took ambulances in england to get patients suffering from emergencies like heart attacks and strokes fell significantly last month, that is the good news from

the latest nhs figures. a&e waiting times also improved. 0ur health editor hugh pym is here. good news, they have fallen quite significantly.— they have fallen quite sianificantl . ., �*, they have fallen quite sianificantl . . �*, , , significantly. that's right, pretty significant. _ significantly. that's right, pretty significant, this. in _ significantly. that's right, pretty significant, this. in december, | significant, this. in december, there was this rise in flu cases adding to the other winter pressures on hospitals. for the category 2 response times in england, which includes heart attacks and strokes, on average, it was taking an hour and a half for ambulances to get patients in december. injanuary, that fell to half an hour, although still above the target of 80 minutes. in a&e, the four hour benchmark to be treated or assessed, in january, benchmark to be treated or assessed, injanuary, just over a quarter had to wait more than four hours, that was down from more than a third in december. flu cases have fallen back quite sharply injanuary, there were fewer people going into a&e, but the warnings about another virus, norovirus, the winter vomiting bug, that has seen cases increase which adds to pressure on hospitals because beds have to be isolated for infection control reasons. covid is creeping up to —— up a bit again, so

nobody on the front line of the nhs is at all complacent about the next week's and months.— is at all complacent about the next week's and months. thank you. back to the earthquakes _ week's and months. thank you. back to the earthquakes now _ week's and months. thank you. back to the earthquakes now in _ week's and months. thank you. back to the earthquakes now in turkey - week's and months. thank you. back| to the earthquakes now in turkey and syria. the death toll has risen again where we have been on air, more than 20,000 people have died. 0n more than 20,000 people have died. on top of that, there are all the people who have suffered terrible injuries in the earthquake after their homes collapsed. at least 60,000 in turkey alone. why have so many buildings been razed to the ground despite regulations meant to ensure new buildings were earthquake resilience. 0uranalysis ensure new buildings were earthquake resilience. our analysis editor ross atkins has been asking that very question. these people are running to safety as a building collapses on monday in the malatya. turkey's president erdogan says 6,500 buildings were destroyed by the earthquake. many collapsed as each floor fell into

the next, and those inside would have had little chance. and there are several reasons why so many buildings came down. firstly, well, it is simply the size of the earthquake itself. this satellite image is of the city of kahramanmaras before the quake. this is afterwards. you can see the extent of the damage. the fact the earthquake was relatively shallow increased its impact. all of this created a degree of movement that many buildings couldn't withstand. and it wasn'tjust older buildings that succumb to. questions are being asked about the standard of turkey's newer buildings, too. the bbc has verified this picture, an apartment block built in 2019. this is the same block now. 0r there is this video also from 2019 showing the opening of a new housing complex in antakya. look at it now. some of it

collapsed. the owners of the complex deny any wrongdoing and say almost every building in the city has been affected. and across the affected area in turkey, the sheer power of the earthquake is one factor. but it is not the only one.— is not the only one. you've got desolation _ is not the only one. you've got desolation beyond _ is not the only one. you've got desolation beyond what the . is not the only one. you've got - desolation beyond what the building can withstand. it will move to an extent that it can no longer stand up extent that it can no longer stand up and as it goes down, it will completely fall apart. and that is indicative of building standards. but turkey has modern construction standards designed to help buildings cope with earthquakes. these standards were introduced after an earthquake in 1999 which killed 17,000 people. rules have since been tightened even further. but those rules only work if they are enforced. and in many cases, that hasn't happened. so—called construction amnesties allow owners of illegal buildings to receive an

exemption in exchange for paying a fee. the last amnesty was in 2018. and over 50% of buildings in turkey, close to 13 million buildings, were constructed in violation of regulations. this earthquake scale means it would always have claimed lives, but the standard of some of turkey's buildings in part explains how many lives have been lost. ros atkins, bbc news. a charity appeal has been launched today by the uk's disasters emergency committee. four days, desperate relatives in the uk have been trying to find a way to help. 0ur midlands correspondent navtej johal has been speaking to those who've already been trying to get help to survivors. ali in nottingham is speaking to his brother in hatay,

in southern turkey. he's homeless, but he's alive — one of the lucky ones. but six of their relatives were killed in monday's earthquake. it's terrible and, you know, i've... i want to go, and i want to, you know, get a plane ticket. and then on the other hand, you know, i'm leaving the community, you know, the nottingham turkish community, so i say as a community, we can do loads of things here. i've not had a chance to grieve, but this is probably my way of grieving, you know? i cannot describe... i've not had a chance to think about these things yet, and my focus is, let's help. ali's helped to send two lorries carrying aid to turkey. in leicester, this community centre has been doing the same. it's where esra has been spending every waking moment of the last few days. herfamily, including her

grandparents, have been living in their cars in gaziantep since monday. my uncle said they were in their vehicles, which is the safest place they can be. a stable vehicle was uncontrollable during the second earthquake. my uncle said that they were just in their vehicles screaming because it'sjust going back. although the handbrake is on, you know, they can't control a stable vehicle on the road... i'mjust thinking, people from turkey are probably watching this as well, and ijust want them to know that we are all here for them. the items from here are being taken to birmingham airport, from where, they'll be flown to turkey. but the centre has been so overwhelmed with donations, that they're now urging people to send money instead. it's a message being spread by uk charities helping in northern syria too. shakeel works with volunteers on the ground who are saving people from beneath the rubble. he says containers will take up to six weeks to arrive in the region.

what we need now on the ground in syria — and this is first—hand from the volunteers who are digging through the rubble — is life—saving equipment. that costs money. so the need at the time now is money and it's as soon as possible to save as many lives as possible. a reminder that for those here who can, there are ways to help those suffering thousands of miles away. navteonhal, bbc news. and you can see the official launch of the disasters emergency committee appeal on bbc one in about half an hour. time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz schafernaker. good evening, some fine weather right now. a touch of frost on the way, across parts of england and wales into the morning hours. but the north of the country is going to be relatively mild and that heralds a change. we will lose the crisp conditions and this thicker cloud will sweep in off the atlantic and draw in relatively mild air in the coming days. but notice how this

milder air through tomorrow arrives across scotland, northern ireland, the north of england. but in the south, we still have a frost. the temperatures could a chilly drop to about minus five degrees in southern parts of england by early tomorrow morning. this is the south—westerly breeze pushing in the clouds. a bit of rain towards the western isles. may be spits and spots around western coasts. but some sunshine around the moray firth, eastern scotland, to the east of the pennines and some bright weather in the south east. temperatures generally between nine and 11 degrees. high pressure is driving our weather. so, yes, settled. but around the areas of high pressure, we quite often have strong winds. a fair bit of cloud as well. but the winds are coming in from the south, so that means it is not medically cold. so saturday's weather on the whole not looking bad at all, those temperatures should be around double figures across the board. in the best of the brightness will be towards the east. so not a bad saturday on the way and i don't

think there will be an awful lot of change over all across the country by sunday. it is just the areas of cloud moving around so it is difficult to say which day would be better for you. difficult to say which day would be betterforyou. it difficult to say which day would be betterfor you. it may difficult to say which day would be better for you. it may be the case that one day will be cloudy and the other will be sunny. and i think there's not much change into tuesday. may be from wednesday onwards, we could see a weather front approaching and a bit of rain. untilthen, is front approaching and a bit of rain. until then, is dry. and that's bbc news at six. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it's time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. goodnight. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm laura mcghie. coming up on today's programme. despite protests from fans there are now revamped plans for a new look european super league. worcester warriors are no more. the club will be renamed sixways rugby and will not feature in next

season's championship.