whether athletes from russia and belarus should participate in next year s olympic games. and could the party be over for visitors to amsterdam? we ll explain why the city is clamping down on its reputation for sex, drink and drugs. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. fears are growing for the hundreds of thousands of people in turkey and syria in need after monday s devastating earthquakes. living in makeshift shelters and cars in freezing conditions, there are warnings that aid is not reaching areas fast enough. more than 23,000 people are now known to have died. syrian state media says the government has approved international aid delivery to rebel held areas in cooperation with the help of the un, syrian red crescent and international red cross. 0ur correspondent quentin somerville has been to antakya, a city which has seen some of the worst devastation in all of the country. he s been with rescue teams who ve been working round the clock, but
reacted very quickly. police officers from across the merseyside region here in the northwest of england were moved in fairly quickly. they ve now disperse. at one point the main motorway sections were all closed off. that s now been reopened. at a lot of the police have gone home. tensions in the area have dropped completely and things are back on an even keel here. but still, it s going to take some time to clear it up. it certainly time to clear it up. it certainly well. thank you for the update from merseyside. this is bbc news, the latest headlines. hope and despair in turkey and syria, as the painstaking search for survivors continues after the earthquakes. 0ur europe correspondent, nick beake, has been to visit the the town of pazarchik, in south eastern turkey, where families have been mourning their dead. wailing.
damaged buildings out of fear they might collapse at a later stage. around 60 buildings have collapsed, but there are around 400 others that are so damaged and at risk of collapse at any moment. reports say some 55,000 people have lost their homes, and they are now spread across different shelters in the city. the death toll has surpassed 4,000 people in both government and rebel held areas, and over 7,000 people are injured or unaccounted for. stay with us on bbc news, still to come. we ve a special report from the town of pazarchik, in south eastern turkey, where families have been mourning their dead.
in this small lancashire village, a theory her partner has had to nightly questions. personally i am 100% convinced it is not the river, so something has happened. something has happened, find out what it is. find out what it is. repeated searches of the waterway have found no trace of her. the police are now looking further afield in the belief she was carried out to sea. danny savage, bbc news, lancashire. back now to the devestating earthquakes in syria and turkey. our europe correspondent, nick beake, has been to visit the the town of pazarchik, in south eastern turkey, where families have been mourning their dead. here s his report. wailing this was a day of funerals in pazarchik, one after another. a week ago, this was empty wasteland, now full of grief and sorrow.