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syria and appeal to the world. it's very difficult for us. we need help. we need to do something to help us to support us. the disaster also strong areas scarred by serious civil war, getting the most vulnerable, the boards, many thousands of refugees. ah, i've been fizzle and welcome to powerful quakes on the turkish syrian border have killed more than 2300 people. rescue efforts are underway, but the death toll is expected to rise further. flights in the region of being suspended, the initial 7.8 magnitude trema was centered north of the tucker city of casias tip . it caused destruction stretching along turkey southern border from the

mediterranean eastwards. an international aid if it is underway with the united states. european union, nato, israel, and even ukraine having offered assistance. the 1st quake here over night, but there was still more to come from the skies. the scale of the devastation caused by the giant quake is laid bare hitting in the early hours. he caused tremors that levelled entire sections of cities with hundreds of buildings collapsing as people were still asleep in their homes. authorities in turkey say as many as 10 provinces have been effected. this video posted on line giving a sense that the damage caused and the city of caravan marsh. we do not know how far the number of dead and injured will rise as debris removal works, continue it, and many buildings in the quake zone. our hope is that we will recover from this

disaster with the least loss of life. rescue is now face at daunting task in this search for survivors. their efforts impacted not only by the sheer size of the rubble piles but the i did danger of falling debris and even further collapses. local tv cruise capturing the moment when a 2nd quite kits forcing people to run for their lives. the epi center of the quake was in southeast, in turkey, but it also hit parts of neighboring sylvia leaving a trail of devastation with members of semi as opposition. civil defense force, also known as the white helmets, claiming many rebel held areas in the north west of the country are in a state of catastrophe. our themes responded to the,

to all the sites and the buildings and a thing know, many families know are under the rubble. oh oh, oh fab. our teams trying to serve them, trying to save their people, to save the oh, the people from on the level with all cavities. but it's, it's, it's very difficult us for us. we need help. we need the international community to do something. and there is some hope of that with international support now in its way and moments like this, providing some joy for rescues, raising expectations that more may be found alive. over to dorian jones, al correspondent, in a sample dorian, tell us more about the situation on the ground right now. well, with nights full of cross the region is bringing a new threats and danger to the rescue workers out of the cold given. and now much of the region is facing sub 0 temperatures along with praising brain,

free for risk, up hypothermia. not only for those traps in the building, up to the many, many people who are now on the streets, given seeing that many of the homes are being destroyed are being told me to unsafe to return to them. that they, we have being more and more buildings continue to collapse. huge apartment blocks just country like houses are called captured on video as the area has been struck by a 2nd powerful quake. and over a 100 off to shocks. and with each campus building brings a tragic story of the, among the hotel there to the secretary school volleyball teams was staying there. that hotel is now just a pile of rubble. the rescue work is trying to find survivors. and the stories be repeated again. and again, across the region. and it's heartbreaking stories are being expected to be told of the country. praises itself are really the worst you find it there in crisis. this country has faith in decades. rescue is say there are many more people under the

rubble. how much hope is there that more survivors will be found in time? well, toki does have an expertise in digging out through the rubble, given the fact that this country is no stranger to these powerful quakes. and in the past, people have been rescued. they even even a week off, in some cases, but given the fact that this is winter, there freezing conditions, making the risk of hypothermia for those trapped and trapped in those buildings rescue workers know they really are in a wreck in a race against time. and they also face dangerous themselves, given the fact that these areas continuing to be struck by powerful off the shocks which bring the risk of further classes in the building. and these rescue workers in many cases are just using their bare hands and space. they can use heavy equipment and most case because that can trickle further classes in the building. so they really are facing a huge top and it's a massive scale of it. we're talking about hundreds,

possibly thousands of buildings where people are believed to be possibly tracked in the and is the question over sources in getting people to the, to these things in time. so really they are really desperate to get so many people to the scene as possible, but that's been handled by the fact that many of the roads in this area are already been destroyed by the quake. i'm an air pulse. also one, apple has been put out of action and others really are facing very limited to so they really are up against it by a these arriving assistance is arriving, getting to the area. but this is just not enough. given the shoe scale of a problem the country is facing, or you say turkey has the expertise, but how prepared was the country for such a disaster as especially economically well, i mean tugee briefing itself already in hum mary out of economic problems a was. this is just another hammer blow, but now it's the priorities is saving people and i think that they do have the

expertise they do have these, the skilled workers who have worked many of a quite across the country. and the what turkey hasn't think she's scale of the we're talking about and major cities that are being badly affected home to around 30000000 people took you never face a scale or crisis that has faced with the math people or quake and the secretary quite across this whole area, and that is why they're looking for financial assistance muscle. the help in the major humanitarian crisis. you had it from dorian jones reporting from istanbul. thank you very much. dorian, in syria. many buildings were already in poor condition. you 2 years of neglect during the war that made the damage, particularly severe rescue efforts are being hampered by poor infrastructure and bad weather. rebel held areas in the north waste of the country were among the hardest hit. the white helmet volunteer groups as it is, hundreds of people could still be trapped under rubble. up byrom is the middle east

media or advisor for the norwegian refugee council in amman, which promotes assistance for people across syria. i asked him what he's hearing from serial. good evening, i just got off the phone actually with a friend in the l. a. po, one of the most affected worst affected areas and he was telling me, he was actually show me somebody and photos from the, from the devastation, from the scenes people hosted on the street. it's training and people are too scared to get back home because they are worried that the fragile constructions and unfair job homes will actually be destroyed. this is an earthquake that has not, i mean, course the did, the shock is so massive, but the aftermath is still here. people are refusing to go back home because they think that the roof is going to fall on top of them. a lot of people are looking

for children, a lot of people looking for relatives, it's training, it's called, it's pro such as 0 temperatures this evening. annella and other places across across syria is going to come at a worse time for, for populations to reading from the, from the ethics of the conflict. i mean, i was listening to your experts just now talking about how we can obviously avoid such scenarios in the future. this is, i mean, in places like we're talking about 12, you have the right to the infrastructure and you know, there's no way people can go into a 4 to reinforce the whole shelters. a construction is a lot of people are saying, you know, with, with a half, you know, with the hope that this place is not going to, you know, just, you know, collapse on top of them. i was speaking to people in the, in the morning. i am in the morning and they were telling me they have never experienced that get a lot of people also looking for their children. sadly,

a lot austin, missing and rescue operations continue. and he's talking about people who've experienced war and have to survive so many tragedies. how reliable are the figures the way getting in from serial at the moment? are we talking about figures a relation to the. busy to the toll exactly where the test i'm interest. yeah, i mean of course it's, it's, we should not speculate that then the numbers are going to continue to climb. sadly, i'm from experience i was in love and when the whole explosion happened and you know, we learnt not to, you know, just talk about numbers. i'm sure we have the final official numbers, but i'm going to continue to jump. sadly, this is of course, a disaster and you know, such a large proportion and scale. and of course, rescuers are doing their job and, and of course they are, you know, overstretched, overwhelmed hospitals that are meant to treat records track and, you know,

provide assistance to patients and wounded and the injured have you know, themselves taking a head and we talking about country where, you know, 50 percent of the hospital and health care system is not functioning or partially functionally. yeah, i mean, to says to his, this is, does often will be very early to talk about numbers. it would be very out about even people returning to the, to the, you know, having the courage and the say, the, you know, the fence of safety to get to leave the on the, you know, onto the bridge and go back home. a lot of people are staying in open areas which are called it's, it's overcrowded in such places. you can't, you know, you will be lucky to find a lot of people to turn to, you know, find out where they're going to wherever the relative old child or a friend is. we'll have to leave it out. but by ram from the norwegian refugee council, thank you very much for bringing us that analysis. and joining me now is the w

reporter, garvey, 0100. who's from syria? garza what? what are you hearing today from back home? yeah, i've been speaking to a lot of people in different parts of syria spoken to people and aleppo and latavia and some of the northern villages and towns. and they're all telling me that it was a terrifying experience for them. i mean the region does experience earthquakes and a lot of people have seen it before, but like not like this never before. and aleppo alone, 46, at least 46 buildings have collapsed. and as we can see in this one building, there was a rescue operation and they pulled an 18 year old woman alive and her father . but her mother and her brother unfortunately did not make it. and there's hundreds of the stories coming out now and the communities is just devastated. is the situation any different in syria, but in turkey i yeah. as the expert before mentioned,

serious infrastructure was already in a poor state because of the war because of the economic crisis. and so when the earthquake happened in the middle of the night, a lot of people didn't have electricity, they just did the 1st thing they could do. they just went down to the streets and, you know, you hear things from people like fortunately i had enough fuel in my car to drive to an open space and park there and waited out. and we really saw these situations play out because of the infrastructure in syria that we didn't see in turkey. and you're lucky if you have a car, if you don't it's, it's very difficult. yeah, yeah, yeah. how would people in syria, would you say dealing with the situation now with rescuing more people with finding what, where people are buried? ah, yeah. fortunately, a lot of people have come together. doctors are offering free treatment. the schools and universities are closed now. so they've opened up shelters, and people and volunteers are going down to the rebels and searching for people

even before outside help gets there. so the communities trying, it's best to cope with it and trying to organize funerals for the people found. and it's just chaotic, especially because syria is already divided between government and rebel held area. so if you have a relative in a different area, you can easily travel as well. there's a lot of a political dimension. garcia, thank you very much for coming in and filling us in on the situation. it's good to get someone from syria to tell us about what's going on. thank you and thank you for watching i been for so and i'll see you next hour. you're on detail with daddy store would include sure, interested you my throughout you will send this new dictation equals.