tonight at ten... the pain in turkey and syria as the death toll continues to climb. four days on from the earthquake, 20,000 people are now known to have died. still relatives hope their loved ones might emerge alive. i tried to do yesterday digging myself, but you can't. you see the concrete like this — i've got no power to lift this. 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. there are stories too of miraculous survival. we'll hear from doctors looking after the syrian baby born in the rubble. and we'll show you how difficult it remains for aid to cross the border from turkey into syria.

also tonight... president zelensky takes his appeal for more weapons — and fighterjets for ukraine — to brussels. and... # ijust don't know what to do with myself. we'll remember burt bacharach — the man behind dozens of hit songs — who has died. and on bbc london, donations from londoners for earthquake and coming up on the bbc news channel, the idea has been dismissed once already but there are fresh calls for a european super league. welcome to the programme, on a day when the devastation caused by the earthquakes in turkey and syria became ever more clear, as the death toll rose above 20,000. in the region, rescuers continue to work through the rubble, sometimes still finding people

alive. tonight, we'll share the stories of those working with survivors, including doctors looking after a tiny baby — this little girl — who was born in the rubble and whose mother, father and siblings have all been killed. we'll hear from three of our correspondents, one very close to the syrian border in antakya — on the attempts to get aid supplies across from turkey into syria. and two in the turkish earthquake zone — in 0smaniye, where there are thousands of people in need of shelter. and at the epicentre, in the town of kahramanmaras. that's where anna foster joins us from now. it feels four days after this earthquake that rescue and recovery teams have barely even scratched the

surface. the size and the scale of the devastation is even now still being uncovered. this swathes of southern turkey, town after town, city after city, where you see scenes like this, collapsed buildings and bodies at the moment, uncountable numbers of bodies in the rubble, is that death toll continues to rise every day, but still, still, there are moments of hope. an urgent call for quiet. these rescuers need complete silence. they've 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. allahu akbar! a mother and child pulled

from the ruins, freezing, exhausted, but alive. the team have been working on a work site for the last few hours. and i'm very glad to say they've just been able to pull someone out of the rubble pile and pass them over to paramedics locally. it's 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 mounds of smoking rubble. good news is becoming increasingly rare in maras. 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. i'm sorry. the wait is agony. you know, i can't stop crying. the last three, two days i'm here, i keep seeing the dead bodies. many dead bodies. and they are just putting each other on top. it's not nice, not nice. as darkness falls once again, the rescue work continues. but the chance of finding more survivors is now small. these are the longest hours, on the streets and in car parks, people huddled together. many are homeless now. 0thers huddled together. many are homeless now. others are too frightened to go back indoors. translation: ., ., ~ ., ,

translation: the earthquake was terri inc. translation: the earthquake was terrifying- some — translation: the earthquake was terrifying. some people's _ translation: the earthquake was terrifying. some people's homes i terrifying. some people's homes collapsed but some, like mine, stayed standing, but i'm too afraid to go home. stayed standing, but i'm too afraid to go home-— stayed standing, but i'm too afraid to go home. stripped of the basics, hundreds of— to go home. stripped of the basics, hundreds of thousands _ to go home. stripped of the basics, hundreds of thousands now - to go home. stripped of the basics, hundreds of thousands now rely - to go home. stripped of the basics, hundreds of thousands now rely on | hundreds of thousands now rely on aid and four freezing nights have taken a heavy toll. that man is still waiting for news tonight as are so many thousands of people across southern turkey, because when you look at sites like this you can only imagine how long it will take to clear that to the ground, to find everybody that is in there, and that is why as you can see people spend the night here. rescuers are still climbing over the rubble. you can see them in their fluorescent jackets rubble. you can see them in their fluorescentjackets on rubble. you can see them in their fluorescent jackets on the rubble. you can see them in their fluorescentjackets on the top there and i want to show you the size and the scale of all of this, because the scale of all of this, because the camera only shows you a very small picture but if you look down here this was a whole street, a whole row of apartment buildings. and all it is now is a black and empty hole. that should have been

buildings, lights on, families, people talking, laughing, sharing stories about their day and instead it is just darkness. and this is one street, one neighbourhood, in one city, in an area which is absolutely devastated. when we talk about that death toll, more than 20,000 people now, it's difficult to know really how high that number will go. i was talking to rescuers today who were saying that because this happened in the middle of the night when people were asleep, in bed, they had no identification on them and that makes it even more difficult when the rescuers actually find the bodies to work out which relatives to refer them to come to hand them back to, so they can say a final goodbye. this death toll i'm sure will only sadly tragically continue to rise. anna, thank you for all your work in the last few days, anna foster, who is at the epicentre of the turkish side of the earthquake zone. getting aid to victims

of the disaster in north—western syria is an even more complicated process than in turkey because of the effect of 12 years of civil war. much of the earthquake zone in northern syria is controlled by groups who are fighting the government. there's only one border crossing that's currently open for un aid convoys to use. it's called bab al—hawa, and six lorries did go through it today, but specialist machinery for lifting rubble is still desperately needed in syria. 0ur correspondent quentin somerville has been just on the turkish side of the syrian border today, and this is what he saw. at the 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 in antakya for years. most of the three 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 fates 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, antakya. if there is one image that combines both tragedy and survival in the earthquake zone, it is probably this tiny little girl, born under the rubble in syria and whose mother died. bbc arabic�*s special correspondent nawal al—maghafi has more now on her story, and other survivors who we've been following. the signs of a life. only a few days old but already

the wounds on aya's body tell the story of her harsh entry into this world. translation: she arrived on monday in such a bad state. _ she had knocks and bruises. she was cold and barely breathing. now in the safety of a hospital in afrin in syria's north west, but only with staff by her side. she was born under the rubble of syria's earthquake. found in her mother's arms, she's now having to survive life alone. her mother, herfather, and all four of her siblings, have perished. their home one of 50 injindayris that was flattened by the quake in a town with many tales of horror. her plight has moved people all over the world. 0n social media, thousands of people asking for details to adopt her. "i'd like to adopt her and give her a decent life," says one person. "i'm ready to take care of and adopt this child if legal procedures

allow," from an arab tv anchor. but for now, dr khalid attiah, the hospital's manager, is taking care of her. his wife breast—feeding aya alongside their own. translation: i won't allow anyone to adopt her. - she has some distant family and until they come i will treat her like one of my own. doctors say if she had stayed just one more hour under the rubble she would have died. for nearly three days now the search has been relentless, dangerous and exhausting, but every person saved renews hope that there are more people still alive to be found. yesterday, 36 hours into the search, another story of survival. a family of six was miraculously pulled from their fallen building in idlib. mustapha tells us how he had little hope they would be found, but his six—year—old daughter kept

praying to keep them calm. translation: they took us out of the rubble, just like that. - glory to allah, it was an absolute miracle. and now that they've survived, she dares to dream. i want to be a doctor when i'm older, she says. rare stories of hope at a very dark time. nawal al—maghafi, bbc news. back now to turkey, where the president visited the badly affected town of 0smaniye today. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet arrived there earlier today, and is with us live now. what have you seen, lyse? well, look what we are still seeing, its past one i am in the morning, just about three hours away from the five day mark of when the earthquake first struck, and throughout the day in places like this we have seen the

weight of hope, loved ones coming crowding round these rescue efforts, hoping against hope that their loved ones will still be pulled alive from this rubble. and we saw at this very spot a few hours ago there was a man pulled out to the cheers of allahu akbar, god is great, and yetjust down the street something else was pulled out but it wasn't someone alive, it was another dead body, and the cry which went up from the crowds was one of agony. two young sisters realising that all hope was gone. but you also feel in places like this the huge weight of loss, on the main street, by the main cemetery, the mobile morgues... loud noise they are empty boxes, coffins made —— whatever materials at hand, trying to keep up with the rising death toll. we

trying to keep up with the rising death toll. ~ u, trying to keep up with the rising death toll. ~ h, , trying to keep up with the rising death toll. ~ u, , ., ., ., death toll. we can see and hear how that relief effort _ death toll. we can see and hear how that relief effort and _ death toll. we can see and hear how that relief effort and that _ death toll. we can see and hear how that relief effort and that effort - that relief effort and that effort to lift the rubble is going on around you. when the president came earlier today, around you. when the president came earliertoday, how around you. when the president came earlier today, how was he received? the president wanted to come to this one of the worst affected areas, so he could be seen to be here, but he didn't want to hear what the people had to say. every time he visits sites like this he tells people, stop criticising the effort, keep politics out of this. yes, there are shortcomings, but he said who could have been prepared for an earthquake like this? and then falling back and saying this is all the fate of destiny. but we've heard the criticism here of an effort which was too late and look at the buildings behind me, they are still standing, but all of them have huge cracks of the signs of the shoddy building standards which meant that when the earthquake came they simply had no chance. lyse

when the earthquake came they simply had no chance-— had no chance. lyse doucet, thank ou for had no chance. lyse doucet, thank you for now. _ had no chance. lyse doucet, thank you for now. in _ had no chance. lyse doucet, thank you for now, in turkey, _ had no chance. lyse doucet, thank you for now, in turkey, and - had no chance. lyse doucet, thank you for now, in turkey, and we - had no chance. lyse doucet, thankj you for now, in turkey, and we will return to more from the earthquake zonein return to more from the earthquake zone in a few minutes' time.- you can get the very latest on the situation in turkey and syria on bbc news 0nline. that's bbc.co.uk/news. or you can use the bbc news app. tributes are being paid tonight to burt bacharach, the composer and songwriter behind some of aretha franklin, dionne warwick and dusty springfield's greatest hits. he was 94 and over an extraordinarily creative life won three 0scars, two golden globes, six grammys, and had dozens of songs in the charts here and in america. here he is remembered by our music correspondent mark savage. # the moment i wake up. burt bacharach songs were classy, musically complex and stylish. # knowing i love you. his muses were some

of the world's greatest singers. # magic moments... with the lyricist hal david, he created hits like the look of love, raindrops keep fallin' on my head and magic moments. we 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. # ijust don't know- what to do with myself. 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, they long 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. # what do you get when you fall in love? # you only get lies and pain and sorrow. but the ultimate interpreter of burt bacharach�*s songs was dionne warwick. their chemistry was magical. this, i do need you to sing.

# raindrops keep falling on my head. he was still performing to huge crowds in his 90s, collaborated with everyone from adele to dr dre, proof of the enduring power of those airborne melodies. the composer burt bacharach, who has died at the age of 94. now to the latest nhs figures for england. ambulances in england responded one hour faster to some calls last month than they did at the end of last year. more than half of the more urgent category one patients were reached within eight and a half minutes. the nhs target for these calls is seven minutes. the average response time for category two — which includes heart attacks and strokes — was 32 minutes, six seconds injanuary, which is the best performance for 19 months.

in accident and emergency units, meanwhile, 72% of patients waited less than four hours to be seen. that's better than december�*s 60% figure, but well short of the nhs target of 95%. the data also shows waiting lists have grown, partly due to the impact of the current strikes. one in three people who need a key diagnostic test such as an mri now face a wait of more than six weeks. and 7.2 million people are awaiting planned treatments like knee or hip replacements. after his trip here, ukraine's president zelensky was in brussels today, taking his appeal for more weapons and fighter aircraft to eu leaders. he told the european parliament that his country is fighting not just to defend itself, but also europe's way of life. meanwhile, russia warned today that the line between direct and indirect western involvement in the conflict was disappearing. 0ur europe correspondent

jessica parker reports. first off the french president's private plane, volodymyr zelensky stepped out to another ceremonious welcome. the president of ukraine, his excellency volodymyr zelensky. before walking into a standing ovation at the european parliament. when the world thinks of ukraine, they think of heroes fighting the odds. of david beating goliath. but he did not make this rare trip out of ukraine just for warm words or symbolism. flanked here by eu chiefs, he is on the march for more weapons, those that have been promised and those that have not, including western fighter jets. he said he can't return to ukraine empty—handed. translation: | haven't got | the right, i simply haven't got

the right to go back home without the results. that depends on international partners and me personally. for me, it's very important that all the talks we conduct can lead to a result. president zelensky may want to talk about weapons deliveries and fighter jets but that isn't really what this summit is for. ukraine is emphasising a sense of urgency but for some european leaders, they are wary of rushing into big decisions. mr rutte, do you have little question for the bbc? just one? anxious not to escalate a war that is between ukraine and russia. do you think the west should be delivering fighterjets to ukraine? there are many sensitive issues to be discussed, the pros and cons. you have to make absolutely sure that you are not getting into an article five direct confrontation between nato and russia, so all these things have to be assessed and as soon as conclusions have been reached, you can bring them to the outside world. this is supposed to send a simple message of unity for an aspiring eu

member but the question of combat aircraft is complex and goes well beyond these halls. ukraine says confidential conversations are going its way. it is already an achievement for him that they are happening at all. jessica park, bbc news, in brussels. let's take you back now to the earthquake and the questions about the number of buildings that collapsed in turkey — more than 6,000 — something that happened despite regulations meant to ensure new buildings were earthquake resilient. here's our analysis editor, ros atkins. these people are running to safety as a building collapses on monday in 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 succumbed. questions are being asked about the standards of turkey's newer buildings, too. the bbc has verified this picture. it's an apartment block built in iskenderun 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. you've got deformation beyond what the building can withstand. it will move to an extent that it can no longer stand up and as it goes down, it will completely fall apart. and that is indicative of pretty bad building standards. but turkey has modern construction standards, designed to help buildings cope with earthquakes. these standards were introduced after an earthquake in izmit 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's 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. here, the disasters emergency committee launched its charity appeal for earthquake victims, and people who have family members in the affected areas have been responding. 0ur midlands correspondent, navteonhal, has been speaking to some of them. 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. time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz schafernaker. good evening. fairly quiet weather out like right now and looking at the weekend, it's not looking too bad for most. tomorrow, rather cloudy and quite breezy. this weather system is pushing into the north—west of the uk, bringing some mild weather overnight but to the south we have clearer skies and some cold air in place. in the early hours of friday morning, a widespread frost across southern england the midlands and into southern wales. city temperatures down to —2, roll spots, five, but

glasgow and edinburgh and further north in its mild. this is tomorrow, the south—westerly winds pushing in a lot of cloud. it will be rainy at times in the western isles but for most of us, a dry day. 0ften cloudy with the best of the central eastern scotland and the east of the pennines and east anglia and the south—east. about 10 degrees. this is a saturday and a large high—pressure established across western part of europe and that means a settled weather. if you are in the centre of it with light winds pulled but around the edges there are stronger winds and that pushes in the clouds into northern ireland and western scotland. temperatures whether sunshine comes out towards the east of the pennines and grampians about 13 degrees. difficult to say which of the two days will be better because it depends on the wind direction, if it's from the south, the breaks in the cloud tend to be to the north of any mountain and hill ranges.