and turkey issues an international appeal for help. we ll be taking a look at how world leaders are responding. welcome to the programme. we begin in turkey and northern syria, where two powerful earthquakes have killed more than 2,000 people. many more injured and still missing. we ll look at the damage done and the rescue operations. first, let s see where this happened. the first earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8 the epicentre in turkey s gaziantep province. there have been almost 30 other shocks in the region, all powerful enough to magnify the damage. a second major earthquake 130km north of the first one. these pictures show buildings collapsing in south east turkey. the country has declared a state of emergency. here s president erdogan. translation: we do not know how far the number of dead and injured - will rise as debris removal works continue in many buildings in the earthquake zone. our hope is that we will recover from this disaster with the least loss of life
cold front. but the time again to thursday, that will push its way southwards and eastwards. still a windy, gusty kind of rain but the winds are not strong. we do have cooler air in winds are not strong. we do have coolerair in and winds are not strong. we do have cooler air in and that will bring showers to scotland, snow in the mountains above 400 metres of elevation. we will see some wintry showers, a bit of sleet and hail makes den where temperatures won t get that much above freezing. feeling cold here. across all of the uk, temperatures will be down but closer to average on thursday. that call a slice of weather doesn t hang around for long though, friday we re back into milder weather with some rain in scotland.