live shots on your screen of diyarbakir in turkey.ensive and slow, but we have seen some of the people coming out of that rubble alive. i believe, if you just stay with me on this, there we go, another survivor has just been pulled... ijust caught sight of that. emre tamil is in istanbul the rescue efforts are important. just update us on what is taking place and what the turkish government is saying. the turkish armed forces _ government is saying. the turkish armed forces have _ government is saying. the turkish armed forces have set _ government is saying. the turkish armed forces have set up - government is saying. the turkish armed forces have set up an - government is saying. the turkish armed forces have set up an air. armed forces have set up an air corridor to enable search and rescue teams to reach the zone affected by this major earthquake. the defence minister released a statement a short while ago, saying that turkey mobilised its planes to send medical teams, search and rescue teams, and vehicles to the earthquake zone.

i am now in diyarbakir.have only six buildings that were collapsed and we have close to 500 people who have lost their lives, but a lot of people of course left the city. many buildings are damaged. new compare with other places, o say it is not comparable because the kind of destruction and devastation in places like certain districts, i mean, it is really, really big. we are having a complete disaster here. it is a nightmare situation. not only so many people died, probably around 40,000 but we know there are still tens of thousands of people who are still under the rubble and most of the rescue operations are suspended. millions of people are affected. complete districts, complete towns are destroyed so it will take a lot of time to recover, actually. in that sense, i totally agree with othman moqbel that it is not really possible for the turkish government to respond to this crisis. the first three days, state government situations were not anywhere, it was just ordinary people who mobilized to have peop

field reports indicate that the amount of discounts in diyarbakır is different.the news agencies showed pictures of the place where the buildings collapsed and the effort to finding imprisoned people or dead bodies is spreading in syria. official sources have announced that 326 people have died and more than a thousand people have been injured . dozens of buildings and houses in the three provinces of aleppo, hama and latakia have been destroyed . the earthquake affected areas of this country have warned, the civil defense director of northern syria announced that the country is facing the problem of lack of facilities for providing aid and debris removal in the earthquake affected areas. a third official said that the international aid allocated to the northwest of syria has worsened the situation in these areas . and many hospitals and medical centers have been closed for several months due to the lack of equipment and facilities. the earthquake of 7 and 8 on the richter scale this morning in southern turkey was felt in several other countries, including syria,

this is one of the worst affected areas, diyarbakir.ur other main story this hour, in the uk, ambulance workers are joining nurses taking strike action in what will be the biggest ever nhs walk—out in england. we are still hopefully on track and getting waiting lists below a year at the end of march. the more strikes we have, the more challenging that becomes. at the moment, ourstaff challenging that becomes. at the moment, our staff are working incredibly hard to get the waiting lists down. let us know how the strikes are affecting you and do you support them? you can get in touch with your thoughts on this story and the rest of the days news by contacting me on twitter — @annitabbc or using the hashtag #bbc your questions we're bringing you special coverage of breaking news this hour — a powerful earthquake which has struck northern syria and south eastern turkey, killing more than 640 people. the tremor had a magnitude of seven point eight, and struckjust before dawn. the epicentre was in the turkish province of gaziantep — but build

extensive human and financial damage in this province and nine other provinces, including adana, diyarbakir, malatya tay, and gazi enteb. the vice president of turkey announced the latest earthquake damage figures at noon today at more than 2,600 dead and injured. unfortunately, 284 turkish citizens have died and 2323 people have been injured as a result of the earthquake. all bodies and organizations are on alert and the relief work continues. in the earthquake, the border between turkey and syria , in addition to iranian parts of syria and turkey, and some medical infrastructures. economic and the turkish military was seriously injured, the collapse of the mountain blocked some roads leading to the cities, and the explosion of the gas pipeline caused a fire in some parts of the province of kahraman marash. there has been a widespread incident of warning 04 from today's season , the snow and cold have faced serious problems in providing relief in some earthquake-affected areas. radio and television in damascus halali salam waqt hello, hello, i am at the service of mr. helali, in which area

earthquake victims, azita, adana, diyarbakir, europe, malata, ghareem province, marash , the epicenter of the earthquake, everyone is stranded and homeless , i have no shelter but tents and fire. on the day of mahabad, we will warm our family. the fire is burning, i can't reach it. we sat in the cold for two days and nights. we are sick and homeless. we have asked for help , but the scale of the crisis is very large . in the center of radio and television conferences it was held in this ceremony with the presence of the head of the national media and the head of the martyr and martyr affairs foundation, the families of the martyrs and artists of the islamic revolution front were thanked. these photos are more than 40 years since their martyrdom. the revolution of their city was the wife of shah tahmasb, the first martyr, a glass photo, the photos that remain in their own history are only my father, abbas iglimi, martyred on 15 khordad, 1942 , i am amini from the grief of my brother ali akbar, maybe wal-fajr, 8, 1964. we saw the fathers and other families of the martyrs of the revolutio

lives of 14 million people and tayyip erdoğan, while visiting the earthquake affected areas in diyarbakıraid that 160 thousand people are participating in search and rescue operations day and night, and some political parties are fishing out of muddy water and for the benefit of all the earthquake affected areas in the period one year to rebuild. the rescuers in the earthquake affected areas in qazi antep, turkey were able to pull the pregnant woman and her 7-year-old daughter alive from under the rubble after 115 hours. also, a 70 -year-old woman after 121 hours of the earthquake in the city the turkish marash hero was saved. rescuers in ghazian pulled an 18-year-old youth out of the rubble after 113 hours alive . the american police killed another black youth . the police in north carolina shocked this young man three times with an electric shock. he attacked while this young black man told the police that he had a heart disease, but the police cast doubt on him regardless of the request for a photo. last month, at least two other young black men lost their lives due to police brutality

we will go from tehran, the capital of iran, to kerman province, diyarbakir, along with my colleague mrs. hadi khani, and listen to the explanations. colleagues of journalists in kerman, but i would like to serve you, dear and respected viewers, that one of the important projects that is going to be added in kerman province today is a power plant in kerman , that's why we are in the morning program. sardari director general the engineering and project supervision office at hossein jan sardari thermal power generation company is very welcome . hello, good morning to your excellency and the dear people of our country. i congratulate you and i am very happy . we are at your service. it is going to be opened in kerman province, the capacity of mahtab kavir power plant includes two gas units and one heating unit. the capacity of each gas unit is 162 megawatts and the capacity of 160 steam units is 484 megawatts. the capacity of this power plant will be 443. it delivers to the grid. two gas units have been installed. in fact, 324 megawatts we have a steam unit and we have plans , god willi

eating a tent in one of the cities of turkey, an earthquake-hit amusement park, from hatay, adana, diyarbakir, europe, to the province of kahraman marash, the epicenter of the earthquake. everyone is wandering and homeless . i have no shelter except tents and fire. on the day of mahabad, because we warm our family, this fire tent is not enough for me. we sat in the cold for two days and nights we don't have anyone sick and helpless, we asked for help, but the size of the crisis areas is very large, the relief groups are not able to respond to this volume of the crisis , complete news agency of turkey's earthquake today , iranian rescuers in turkey managed to rescue a child who was trapped under the rubble for 60 hours. following the 7th and 8th magnitude earthquakes in turkey, 6 medical and medical teams including 45 people were sent to this country to help the people affected by the earthquake. they were also injured in our relationship with our reporter turkey has been established, mr. kamele, greetings to you. i am waiting to hear the latest news about the earthquake in this country. greet

turkish media, so far the earthquake has led to to the collapse of many buildings in a part of diyarbakir provinces has been destroyed and at least 42 turkish citizens have been declared dead and more than 200 people have been injured. turkey still has no clear estimate of the amount of material and human damage caused by the earthquake. they cannot be put on alert, but more importantly. the fact that turkish interior minister suleiman souti has passed the fourth stage in the current situation, which means asking for international help, means that the situation is better than what was expected based on the images broadcast by the turkish media. this earthquake has so far the largest one is 6 and 6 tenths of richter. it was announced that my film is from hamidreza kameli, a tv reporter in turkey. at the meeting of the government board, the end-of-year bonus for government employees and retirees was determined to be 1 million and 800 thousand tomans. for each dependent child, according to the decision of the government board, an eid will be paid with bahman's salary. in the meeting of the g

there, the air has cooled to zero , the threshers of diyarbakir and gyzant are located relatively close to each other, so the temperature regime is similar from -6 to -2, even in extreme weather conditions, under the ruins, they still remain alive after 73 hours. after the earthquake in kahraman, marash is under the rubble saved a family of three, including a child. isotherms almost repeat the height map countries, the higher, the colder and the coldest remains the center and the north-eastern region of the country during the day, the temperature remains well below zero in the south-eastern regions, thanks to the sun, the air in the daytime has time to warm up quite well from plus five to plus ten degrees, but no clouds. night hours contribute to intense radiation cooling. that is why night frosts persist in the country, the upcoming night will be as frosty as the last one in the northeast, below -15. closer to the syrian border, it is warmer from -5 to 0 in gaziantep. the weather has stabilized due to the anticyclone clouds, there is little precipitation, and there will be no temperatu

this is the city of diyarbakir as well.ome people are still being pulled out alive, given the freezing conditions there. as howard johnson mentioned in his report, the disasters emergency committee has launched an appeal to help the rescue effort. the dec is a group of leading uk charities who work together when disasters happen overseas. they say british donations will make a real difference. our member charities are already on the ground, they've been responding since the earthquake sadly hit both turkey and syria. people would have seen the immense damage, sadly over 15,000 people have lost their lives and now is the priority shift from that search and rescue to making sure those survivors get the food, water and medical assistance they need. and to help people keep warm in the terrible winter conditions that were seeing. this is why we have urged the british public today through this appeal to give what they can. i've seen for myself, i've just come back from ukraine and have seen what uk donations have done helping on

in diyarbakir, turkey, the voice of a young boy, besir yildiz, just 6 years old. trapped nearly 80 hours under the rubble. rescuers finding him, holding his hand to calm him as they work to dig him out. he tells them his body is aching and asks them for water. the team working for hours to get him out, wrapping him in a nermal blanket, giving him oxygen, and racing him to the hospital. nearly 96 hours into this, more than 21,000 people dead. it's been four days now since the 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit in the middle of the night, 4:17 in the morning, while families were sleeping. and the breathtaking reach, felt nearly 700 miles out, across turkey and into syria. a a group of rescuers on their hands and knees, digging a small opening, carrying a 2-year-old boy to safety. t border in sia, the vi fm above haunting. theus rising. in this village, rescue teams have been working around the clock, on top of the smoldering rubble. the syrian white helmets, the rescuers, and their remarkable find. threading their camera through the rubble, searching for a brother and sis

diyarbakir is a city that has become home to many who have fled the war in neighbouring syria.being played out across many other towns and cities in the region. across the border in northern syria, hundreds more have been killed and thousands more are trapped and 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 army and the rebel forces — making rescue efforts even harder. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet reports. assyrian village which vanished in minutes. people are all that's left 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 for us, we need help, we need the international community to do something. international community to do something-— international community to do somethin. ., , international community to do somethin.. ., , ., something. families are shaken from their slee- something. families are shaken from their s

among it in gaza, and malatya, andiy diyarbakir. do not have the opportunity to survive in the streets. so, we are moving them to the schools, the mosques, and even as you see, on the community centers, just to keep them survive for a few days. one of the priorities is to provide tents and provide heat for them and also food and heat and materials. and the area that was affected about a 20-people operation includieing the syria side. and 15, 16 million people are affected. and i'm sure the number of death would be up to 5,000 to 6,000 in turkey. as i was listening to cnn news just the news before, the number has increased to 680 on the state side. and the north side, northern syria which is under opposition, it's about 200 for the moment. the issue right now in syria, they don't have rescue capacity. the rescue capacity. and that death toll is going to increase very much more. >> it looks as though everything is being done by hand at the moment as well. you clearly need heavy lifting equipment and sort of urgent equipment supplies f

shops left diyarbakir are closed, schools and kindergartens do not work, as well as some other stateitutions over 300 km from the epicenter of the earthquake. it would seem far away, and yet dr bakuru, seriously, got dozens of buildings completely destroyed. here is one of these houses in the very center of the city. or rather, what was left of it was a few seconds of the moment of collapse and the house in ruins all happened late at night, when people were sleeping for rescuers, while they managed to extract 37 people from under the rubble, they receive medical care 42 died rescuers and volunteers around the clock sort out the rubble in hope. find, there may be at least 40 more survivors under these heavy concrete slabs. by the way, is it a real miracle that voices are heard, because 3 days have already passed and here, where the bakyra is quite cold, minus one during the day, and at night the temperature drops even lower, this man has relatives left under the rubble, he understands every hour of hope. less than one nephew was rescued and pulled out half an hour after the earthquake

let's move now to the city of diyarbakir, the - to the city of diyarbakir, the latest scene there, and this morning, we know that there has been freezing weather and storms coming in, as well, and there is heavy rain predicted which is why they have to do this work urgently to try to reach people because every second counts. aid from the uk, including around 80 search and rescue personnel, four search dogs, and specialist equipment, arrived in turkey late last night. justinjohnston is chief fire officer for lancashire fire and rescue who have deployed six firefighters and two dogs. good morning. it is quite an effort to get everything out there quickly but it seems to be arriving now. good morning. it is a mammoth effort. probably about three hours ago they will have got to their base of operations and they will be looking out to be deployed onto scene. i spoke to a couple of them yesterday, i know they are absolutely champing at the bit to start helping. they have so much specialist equipment, knowledge and expertise from all over the uk, the 77 people. expertise from all over the uk,

this building collapsed in the city of diyarbakir after the second quake hit.atay, videos have emerged showing large fires bursting into the air — believed to be the result of burst gas pipelines. and this is gaziantep castle before.. ..and after the quake, the 2,000—year—old castle from the roman—era destroyed. it's sparked fears for other historic sites in the region. here's turkey's interior minister. translation: this is seriously destructive and at the moment, all of our governors are that of their duties. police, turkish armed forces, disaster and emergency teams, turkish present in search and rescue teams from all of the country are being dispatched. across the border, northern syria. it's been cut off from the international community after years of conflict between president assad's army and the rebel forces — making rescue efforts even harder. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet explains. a syrian village which vanished in minutes. people are all that's left those who survived. so many didn't. all along this area next to turkey. still now

in diyarbakir, more than 200 miles from the epicenter, a mother and her son were buri under ruins for0 hours. as they were carried to ambulances, rescuers took a brief moment to rejoice. cevik: it's an incredible moment. we started giving warnings like, "is anyone there? is anyone hearing my voice?" for a moment i thought the voices of the survivors were coming from my mind. jane: babies and young children are still being discovered, too. but as hours pass, hope dwindles for the thousands waiting for word of their missing loved ones. meanwhile, turkish president tayyip erdogan is continng his tours of the destruction today in adiyaman. he visited an aid hub, swarming with people whose town was levelled by the quake. pres. erdogan: i know very well that words are not enough to describe the pain we are going through. jane: criticism over lax government assistance has been unceasing. the slow response leads to desperation in tent cities like this one, where many syrian refugees are living. rabie: i am not sleeping at night trying to provide for my kids. when the aid car shows up, a thous

turkey and syria reports by our special correspondents alexander biboletov eduard at the airport of diyarbakir, this millionth city looks almost unaffected, but the serene picture is deceptive , you just have to take a closer look. as you can see, it was destroyed to the ground by the rescuers. now they are dismantling the fallen concrete slabs and ceilings, but every hour to find at least one of the surviving chances under them. less and less, the second day. here, as well as throughout the south-east of turkey, rubble is being sorted out and searched, heavy equipment bites into the survivors with buckets. concrete, pushing aside large fragments, and the rescuers manually literally piece by piece disassemble those areas where people can still be. now it has completely calmed down, literally the whole district has been declared a minute of silence with their hum, motors, heavy construction equipment people, that sobr around also quieted down rescuers listen and shout. here, in this mountain of concrete, perhaps there, and there are voids in which there may still be those who managed to survive

we are still i seeing some pictures, this time from turkey, from diyarbakir, on the very eastern edgectly next to it, with the same impact, had completely collapsed, virtually disintegrated. and that is a question which i think will be a very awkward one for the government, even if it is nothing to do with the current government, it is bound to come up in the course of the election campaign. interesting that the president said the election campaign could well be his last. in other words, the last time he will put himself up for election and if he wins he will do one more term and if he loses it will be the end of an extraordinary political career. let's talk about the question of the impact of this in terms of its seismological impact, what it tells us about the geology of that part that overlap between europe and asia. let's speak now to ziggy lubkowski, seismic expert at arup — a firm focused on developing sustainable built environment. what are your thoughts when you see the pictures coming out of the last few days from turkey in particular? well, it's really very sad. unfortunatel

these pictures have come in in the last hour from diyarbakir and they show a little boy basir yildiz,y, they'd been digging for him for 80 houres. he is safe. he has been sent to hospitalfor medical checks. this is the rescue of a woman buried with her four—year—old under wreckage. the crew managed to get the camera into the rubble to see what was happening inside. you can see the woman's hand reaching out. she was pulled out along with her child. this is the moment a 7—month—old baby, named helen, is pulled to safety — after almost 68 hours — buried under rubble in hatay. and this is the turkish president's jet — it was used last night to carry to safety 16 babies — from newborns to a —year—old — who'd been found alive at the epicentre of the quake. they've been flown to the capital and taken to hospital. but it's a different story outside the larger centres. while french rescue volunteers have arrived here in the town of antakya, many residents say there's been no help from the government. there is no professional team. there is no team to remove the bodies or the survivers still un

even such a small one, like a diyerbaker, where a little more than two dozen buildings collapsed , diyarbakirike this closed shops empty streets. now the locals. return work even cafes and restaurants go public transport. in general, life is gradually getting better. and yet this week has divided the life of many turkish cities into before and after every day of the funeral , there are so many tears and despair of the dead that there is often no time to identify the bodies being buried. so under the numbers and the scale of this catastrophe is not completely clear according to some estimates. under the rubble were up to 190,000 people, taking into account rescued and already raised to the surface of the dead people. this means that there are tens of thousands more down there in syria, according to the world health organization , about eight and a half thousand people are on the death toll, and this figure is also not final. anastasia who is calling? alexey belov eduard mamedov maria martanov. sergeevichuella channel one, turkey 39 of our compatriots were evacuated from turkey to russia today.

these are the scenes live in diyarbakir in southern turkey where people are continuing to scour the rubble2,000 people are now known to have died. jon donnison reports. four days after monday's double earthquake, the scale of this disaster continues to shock. much of southern turkey now resembles a war zone. along the border with syria, they are burying the dead in mass graves. well over 20,000 are already known to have died. moments like this are rare. this baby boy, only ten days old, was rescued along with his mother. they had been under the rubble for almost 100 hours. the country's hospitals are struggling to cope with the tens of thousands of injured. this young girl has had to have her leg amputated. the doctors didn't tell me they were going to do it, she says, now all i want for my birthday is a beautiful prosthetic leg. hundreds of thousands of people have been left homeless, struggling to keep warm in freezing temperatures. translation: | swear, - we do not know what to do, a few days passed, we don't know what to do, those who stayed, may god help them, there is nothing to save

these pictures have recently come in from diyarbakir — and they show a little boy, six—year—old basir rescued. crews had been digging for him for 80 hours. but even for the lucky ones like basir, there are challenges ahead. the world health organization has talked about a new disaster, with thousands unable to find shelter, food and water. help is arriving — the first aid has crossed into syria, through the one border crossing point that is open. and in the last hour, the director general of the who, dr tedros ghebreyesus, has said he is on his way to syria. for the latest, our chief international correspondent lyse doucet is in southern turkey. 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, northwest syria, the last rebel—held enclave, was already one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. and that aid convoy you mentioned was not an aid for the earthquake survivors — it was an aid convoy which had been stuck at the one bord

this is the scene live in one of the worst affected areas, diyarbakir in south eastern turkey.

this is the scene in southern turkey, diyarbakir, which has again been hit by a devastating earthquakewonderful stories of rescues, a ten—day—old baby has been pulled from the rubble last night after being trapped for nearly four days. his mother also rescued alive. but those stories of dramatic rescues are, i'm afraid, very few and far between. but the search does go on for survivors. 21,000 that is the current death toll across turkey and syria. you have been watching bbc news. hello. well, the coming mornings won't be quite as cold as we've seen over the past few days, nor will they're be as sunny. certainly got to change to cloudier weather at the moment. cloud has been spilling in through the night and the morning, in from the atlantic, taking away some of that early sunshine, turning it a bit hazy, but what it's also doing is introducing milder atlantic air, so the temperatures are lifting up relative to recent days. for the rest of today, though, that cloud still thick enough of outbreaks of rain or drizzle, heaviest across parts of the western highlands. some patchy rain or dri

you have other that diyarbakir, gaziantep hatay.ed cities that are laying in ruins. i mean, you have a city like hatay, a very beautiful old ancient city. about 80, 90% of it just destroyed right now. and it's going to be a huge rebuilding project . it's going to be project. it's going to be probably the biggest construction project in human history. then you're basically rebuilding a region of your country going forward. so yes, this this is not a normal earthquake. this this is the disaster of the century. and the numbers, when they're finally tallied up, are going to directly suggest that. and when l, directly suggest that. and when i, say, 50,000, i think that's what it's an abuse of. just tell us a little bit about the situation in syria. very difficult to get aid through there with . only one pathway there with. only one pathway open. there with. only one pathway open . tell us a bit more about open. tell us a bit more about what's going on now and if more aid has reached the country as the situation in syria is equally bad ,

these are the rescue efforts in the turkish city of diyarbakir which is around 150 miles from the epicentreon there. we will be talking to our correspondence through the morning to get a sense of what kind of work is happening and clearly areas of rubble are being cleared by heavy machinery, but i can see, slightly beyond that those rescue teams still working in the rubble, looking for those who are victims of what happened on monday. across the uk, turkish and syrian communities are still coming to terms with the devastation and loss of loved ones. many are channelling their feelings of grief and helplessness into something more practical, as they get involved in the aid effort. graham satchell has more. all over the uk, turkish and syrian nationals living here are watching the news in horror. the devastation, the loss of life, unimaginable. we can't even recognise which part of the town. and we were there just before christmas. yeah, yeah. in leeds, silla and her husband now know most of their hometown in turkey has been destroyed. i have people i was going to school together with when i