welcome to bbc news, i'm rich preston. our top stories: three days after the earthquakes in turkey and syria, more than 12,000 people are dead, thousands more are still thought to be trapped. president erdogan has acknowledged mistakes were made in the initial response, as the extent of the devastation becomes ever clearer. the rescuers say that they will come back tomorrow and the next day. they will return to sites like this for as long as it takes to return loved ones to their relatives.