jets to ukraine. we start with the devastating earthquakes which have rocked southern turkey and northern syria and are now known to have killed more than 11,700 people. turkey s president erdogan has been defending his government s response to the disaster on a visit to some of the worst affected areas. we ll have more on that shortly. but first, with the search operations ongoing in the rubble of collapsed buildings, dramatic pictures continue to emerge of rescues in both countries. cheering. this was the moment that rescuers hauled a boy onto a stretcher moments after he was rescued from the rubble two days after the earthquake. there were also cheers ofjubilation at being able to save his life. there have been other glimmers of hope in an otherwise grim landscape of devastation and death. our correspondent, anna foster, has been in the village of karamanmaras. i was watching them take bodies out of here last night and again this morning. it is pulling aside all of this
there were also cheers ofjubilation at being able to save his life. there have been other glimmers of hope in an otherwise grim landscape of devastation and death. our correspondent, anna foster, has been in the village of karamanmaras. i was watching them take bodies out of here last night and again this morning. it is pulling aside all of this rubble until they see the sign of a body. this morning, it was an arm clad in a purple top. at one point, there was a leg, and then they stop and they gently, with their hands, remove the body, and they give it to the loved ones, their relatives, many of whom you will see actually on the fringes here. they come and go and they wait for news, because what they really want, they know that their loved ones have already perished inside this building, but what they want are essentially some kind of answers. they want a body, they want to be able to have a funeral.
we start with the devastating earthquakes which have rocked southern turkey and northern syria and are now known to have killed more than 12,000 people. turkey s president erdogan has been defending his government s response to the disaster on a visit to some of the worst affected areas. we ll have more on that shortly. but first, with search operations ongoing in the rubble of collapsed buildings, dramatic pictures continue to emerge of rescues in both countries. this was the moment rescuers hauled a boy onto a stretcher moments after he was rescued from the rubble two days after the earthquake. there were cheers ofjubilation at being able to save his life. there have been other glimmers of hope too in an otherwise grim landscape of devastation and death.