this is outside source live from the bbc. first aid daters arrived in syria which have been devastated by recent earthquake. more on the story that we were talking about a short time ago. the military says it has recovered its electronic parts from a chinese surveillance balloon it shot down earlier this month. china denies this was used to spy and accused the us a flying ten balloons over its own airspace. this is a political scientist in china joining us now from stanford. thank you for your time today. how alarmed are you, looking at these, while there certainly one balloon that has been identified as being chinese and other objects of the us are shot
of syria s long war. the geological faults that brought down these buildings cut right across the front lines and zones of influence that have devastated syria since 2011. this is aleppo, syria s biggest city, back in regime hands since the rebels here were defeated in 2016. now syria has a huge natural disaster on the back of the man made catastrophe that broke the country. in aleppo hospital, every bed has its own tragedy. only three members of this man s family survived when their home collapsed. 13 of them were killed. they were, he says my father, my mother, my brother, his wife, and their four children. and the wife and two kids of the brother who was rescued with me also died. faced with such disaster,
doctors, they don t have fixations, all finished because of the huge number of people. we have till last night 2000 dead and more than 3500 injured. at a hospital will not cope with this huge number. we need help. we need instruments. we need drugs. we need analgesia. we need anaesthesia drugs. we need ventilators. we need more beds. rarely, ifi will talk for one hour, i will not give the good impression about the situation. not give the good impression about the situation. where do ou about the situation. where do you hepe that about the situation. where do you hope that that about the situation. where do you hope that that help - about the situation. where do you hope that that help will i you hope that that help will come from? where is it most likely to come from? i know that you are sponsored by the syrian american medical society, which has been working in syria for many, many years. i know that they are pushing
the rubble in idlib, the last part of syria still controlled by rebels. the rescuers, a group called the white helmets that the uk helps to fund, are experts. they ve been digging out survivors of the assad regime s air strikes for much of syria s long war. the geological faults that brought down these buildings cut right across the front lines and zones of influence that have devastated syria since 2011. this is aleppo, syria s biggest city, back in regime hands since the rebels here were defeated in 2016. now syria has a huge natural disaster on the back of the man made catastrophe that broke the country. in aleppo hospital, every bed has its own tragedy. only three members of this man s family survived when their home collapsed. 13 of them were killed.
the rescuers, a group called the white helmets that the uk helps to fund, are experts. they ve been digging out survivors of the assad regime s air strikes for much of syria s long war. the geological faults that brought down these buildings cut right across the front lines and zones of influence that have devastated syria since 2011. this is aleppo, syria s biggest city, back in regime hands since the rebels here were defeated in 2016. now syria has a huge natural disaster on the back of the man made catastrophe that broke the country. in aleppo hospital, every bed has its own tragedy. only three members of this man s family survived when their home collapsed. 13 of them were killed. they were, he says my father, my mother, my brother, his wife, and their four children.