the basic aid that will now hopefully reach them will make living possible. but their lives in a country still locked in a civil war won t be easily rebuilt. vincent mcaviney, bbc news. let s speak now to our correspondent caroline davies, who s in southern turkey. caroline, the focus is now on helping survivors and getting aid to where it s most needed. yes, of course, now that we are over a week on since the earthquake, there is a realfocus a week on since the earthquake, there is a real focus on the humanitarian disaster. behind me shows why often it is so difficult. this was part of the hospital here. this was part of the hospital here. this was part of the hospital here. this was the intensive care unit. now completely reduced to rubble. among their pink hits of white. those were medical documents which
through all possible crossing points, whatever, from inside syria or across the borders. the white helmets emergency group says people in the region have felt disappointed and abandoned. the basic aid that will now hopefully reach them will make living possible. but their lives in a country still locked in a civil war won t be easily rebuilt. vincent mcaviney, bbc news. eight days after the earthquake hit in turkey and syria. hopes of rescuing people out of the rubble is diminishing. this morning more stories of rescue. reuters new agency reporting a young man has been rescued alive from the rubble.
as their houses collapsed, and then you have ordinary background, normal primary and secondary problems you d see in any population of this size, so a significantly increased caseload and a significantly decreased ability to deal with that, which is why we and the army are here. seb burn, we have been reporting two more border crossings will be opened up to allow aid to flow into northern syria. is that anything the british military will be involved with? as british military we do not routinely go into syria so that won t be something we will be doing, we are focused on the aid effort in turkey. we have a number of partner organisations who are working inside syria, are present inside syria, and we have been talking to them. the needs are unbelievable, it is catastrophic. so we will, as uk med, be working with partners who provide
or across the borders. the white helmets emergency group says people in the region have felt disappointed and abandoned. the basic aid that will now hopefully reach them will make living possible, but their lives in a country still locked in a civil war won t be easily rebuilt. vincent mcaviney, bbc news. david wightwick is chief executive of uk med, a charity which deploys british nhs medics to emergencies he s in turkoglu, turkey. he s joined by lieutenant colonel seb burn. he is from the uk military. thank you forjoining us, i can only imagine how busy you are. david wightwick, can you give us a sense of what is going on? we wightwick, can you give us a sense of what is going on? of what is going on? we are in a town of about 80,000 -
the basic aid that will now hopefully reach them will make living possible, but their lives in a country still locked in a civil war won t be easily rebuilt. vincent mcaviney, bbc news. barak akkurt and his team have been working on a rescue mission in antakya in southeast turkey following the earthquakes. bbc panorama was following their work as they received a call from a man desperate to find his parents, wife, and his three year old daughter. and a warning, you might find some of this clip distressing.