through rubble in idlib province. of course, just as in turkey, t s feared the death toll will rise with those trapped stuck in freezing conditions. earlier, i spoke to a member of the white helmets and he told me more about the rescue operation there. let me start that the number of dead rises every second and this is that in the last update 663 people were killed by the powerful earthquake and more than 1500 were injured. 0ur and more than 1500 were injured. our efforts started from the very beginning, from a minute after the earthquake. we responded to all the sight of bombing, the sites of collapsed buildings and in all the cities and villages. every village,
still feeling regular aftershocks, we re feeling the tremors on the ground so as you can see they ve [it some wood, they re trying to stay warm and, in fact, every time we do get an aftershock they move away from their shelter in the stand out here in the middle of the road because they are still concerned, as are so many thousands, hundreds of thousands of people here tonight, that there may still be more buildings to collapse. and this takes on an absolutely huge area of which this city is just one snapshot but as you move around on the pavements there are piles of bricks and rubble where shop fronts have fallen out, where windows have broken and crashed to the ground. a few minutes ago, i was at the scene of. they think it s a hotel which has just collapsed in on itself. they ve managed to get some generators and some lights there there and a crane and are trying to swing away at ther big pieces of masonry to try and get to people underneath. but i also saw another building collapse
today s earthquake quake tax was collected but directed to the government treasury. to the government treasury. let s talk more about the rescue efforts happening across much of southern turkey and northern syria. these are live pictures from the turkish city of diyaar bakur it s just after 10pm locally, and it s expected rescuers will work through the night. crews have been working since before dawn this is the scene in the same city, shortly after the first quake hit at 4:17am. there have been some succesful rescues this man was carried to safety from a collapsed building, close to the epicentre of the quake. there was applause as another survivor was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building in turkey s isken deroon. and in the city of adana hundreds were involved in the rescue effort, forming a chain and using buckets to clear the rubble. here s a civil engineering professor on how turkey is coping.
was incomplete darkness. i think what it suggests is they simply don t have the resources at the moment to be able to mount full scale rescue efforts on all of these collapsed buildings and as you rightly say, this is a city which is struggling tonight. there are so many more across southern turkey, villages as well where people are really trying to deal with desperate conditions, with this pouring rain and bitter cold, knowing that help, in many cases, is going to take a long time still to arrive. for the very latest emre temel from the bbc s turkish service. the prime minister announced that the death toll has rising to 2651. more than 11,000 people have been wounded and the number of buildings which have been destroyed is over 5600. turkish officials say 6545 people had been rescued from the rubble but, obviously, they are racing against time to save more lives. turkey s president recep
in the dead of night rescue workers known as white helmets raced to help pulling this young girl from the rubble. this is work they know well. the last rebel held enclave has lived for years with ferocious bombardment by warplanes of the syrian military or its russian allies. the few hospitals which still operate here have hardly any resources or staff. now they re overwhelmed. we received hundreds of casualties. really, we need urgent help for the area, especially we are talking about medical help. these patients were already living on the edge in a war zone, displaced time and again for more than a decade now they ve been knocked down again. translation: we were sleeping