we begin with the race to get more aid into southern turkey and northern syria, where the death toll from last week s earthquakes has now surpassed 41 thousand. millions are still left without shelter in freezing conditions with little food and poor sanitation. the challenge in northern syria is particularly difficult the political situation is unstable after years of war and control of the border is split between the syrian government and rebel groups. until today aid has been routed through a single crossing point at bab al hawa. our correspondent laura bicker has been there and sent this report. every day in antakya, relatives huddle around piles of rubble that were once family homes, waiting for news. but rescue efforts have slowly become recovery missions, and now, as workers comb through bricks and dust, the hope is of finding a body to say a final farewell. 30 people are entombed in what is left of this building. layers of concrete are pulled apart to reve
we begin with the race to get more aid into southern turkey and northern syria, where the death toll from last week s earthquakes has now surpassed 41,000. millions are still left without shelter, in freezing conditions, with little food and poor sanitation. the challenge in northern syria is particularly difficult the political situation is unstable after years of war and control of the border is split between the syrian government and rebel groups. until today, aid has been routed through a single crossing point, at bab al hawa. 0ur correspondent laura bicker has been there and sent this report. every day in antakya, relatives huddle around piles of rubble that were once family homes, waiting for news. but rescue efforts have slowly become recovery missions, and now, as workers comb through bricks and dust, the hope is of finding a body to say a final farewell. 30 people are entombed in what is left of this building. layers of concrete are pulled apart to reveal the remai
to keep warm, have a roof over their head and have food and water and just the basics in order to be able to cope with a difficult situation. that s the situation overall, of course, perhaps you could talk to us about the difficulties in syria given the political situation there and given that these corridors have been open to try and get aid to people who need it. indeed, the earthquake has hit populations in turkey and syria particularly hard. it has been devastating for people living in syria who have endured a number of crisis and conflicts over the last decade. this is a population that has endured already a lot of hardship and has been fragile and destabilised. and now this earthquake has brought them to the brink of exhaustion, and it s a race
over their head and have food and water and just the basics in order to be able to cope with a difficult situation. that s the situation overall, of course, perhaps you could talk to us about the difficulties in syria given the political situation there and given that these corridors have been open to try and get aid to people. indeed. the earthquake has hit populations in turkey and to syria particularly hard. it has been devastating for people living in syria who have endured a number of crisis and conflicts over the last couple years. this is a population that has endured already a lot of hardship and has been fragile and destabilised. and now this earthquake has brought them to the brink of exhaustion and it s a race against time to make sure that
we have a different demographic, make up of our country compared to ireland, the uk and south africa and we certainly have different rates of immunization and types of immunization here. particularly concerned about what is going to happen is omicron hit populations that have neither been previously infected nor have received vaccines. regardless of this good news, the reality is our hospitals across the country are already overwhelmed with the surge of delta patients. and so even a small increase in hospitalizations as omicron tears through our population is going to put many of us into disaster levels of care. can we just be a little more plain spoken about what it means when we say we have a different population. what exactly does a doctor mean when you say this is a different population than ireland or south africa? great question. so, it s a couple of things. one is that our age distribution