to facilitate this process to make sure that this humanitarian aid is distributed without any discriminations and to all syrians who need it. his comments come as the first deliveries of international aid entered the opposition held areas of northern syria through one of two newly reopened border crossings with turkey. let s look at why aid has been so difficult to deliver. the affected areas are controlled by multiple groups. they include the syrian and turkish governments, kurds, andjihadi rebels in the north west idlib province. on tuesday syria s president bashar al assad , allowed two more border crossings to be opened up, as you can see from this map. before, aid agencies only had access to one crossing for the entire country. but the white helmets they re the group leading rescue efforts say those extra crossings still may not be enough. meanwhile we are, you know, very grateful that two new border crossings are open.
getting to the people who need it. and that once again, we are seeing diversion from the syrian regime. has the aide failed though because they could have perhaps done more to open the crossings from turkey? and initially try to rescue those trapped under the rubble? definitely. i think it striking that the chief un aid official actually said this is a failure. and that news has certainly spread quickly throughout syria. a lot of syrians feel incredibly abandoned. they don t understand why it took so long for international aid to start trickling in. and of course for many people it was too late for those who are trapped under the rubble every hour, every second mattered. and so the delay they find completely
mentor star, they are a big fan of hers first mentorstar, equally they are a big fan of hers first mentor star, equally there is a lot of people going and vote that way because they support scottish independence. whoever succeeds or are they are going to hold those same views on the constitution. so perhaps not as simple as nicholas detergents doing as well in the future. let s turn to the earthquakes in turkey and syria now. in the last hour we ve heard us secretary of state antony blinken will travel to turkey to observe the aid response there. in neighbouring syria the assad government has insisted international aid will be given to earthquake survivors fairly. many syrians are angry over the lack of humanitarian relief more than four million people in the opposition controlled northwest received no deliveries from the un via turkey until thursday. here s syria s ambassador to the united nations speaking to the bbc. and the international red cross and other international organisat
a long road to recovery. now let s look at why that aid is so badly needed in syria, nine days in to this disaster. this is the extent of the devastation in rebel held north west syria. excavators are working to clear away rubble. hopes of finding survivors are fading, but some search and rescue work is still being done. these volunteers have set up a soup kitchen in the town of jandaris and are feeding hundreds people a day despite limited supplies. also injandaris, volunteer doctors have set up this mobile medical clinic for survivors. a lack of supplies are again a huge problem. here s one of the doctors. the main challenge is that we lost a lot of medical personnel in the earthquake. a large number of the medical personnel in the area died, while others lost family members or relatives, and were therefore preoccupied and away from medical service, creating a shortage in medical personnel. this is one of the reasons that led us to provide service in this location. 0ther shortages