this team is highly skilled and elite in urban search and rescue and specially trained to assist and rescue efforts, especially after earthquakes like the one thatjust struck central and southeast turkey. china says it s allocated almost 60 million dollars worth of aid to support rescue efforts in turkey. it s first civilian rescue team including eight rescue experts is on its way from hangzhou city, with life searching instruments and a dog. here s a ministry of foreign affairs spokesperson: the chinese government has immediately activated the emergency humanitarian aid system. china will provide a first tranche of 5.9 million dollars in emergency aid to turkey. this includes sending urban rescue teams with heavy equipment, medical teams, and providing much needed relief supplies. we are coordinating the delivery of vital relief material to syria and accelerating the implementation of ongoing food aid projects. the uk foreign secretary, james cleverly, says british aid has
Apart from the special NDRF teams, medical teams consisting of doctors and paramedics with medical supplies are also ‘being readied’ to help quake-hit Turkey
thatis structure structural wall that is still standing in this village until you can see a home it s completely destroyed, and further down there are several other such homes that we ve seen. here, for the family were killed when the earthquake was struck, many people were injured, some of them are known hospital. we ve been told by the people here that they have been experiencing tremors several times a day every day so they are very scared, they are staying in tents at the base of this village. they also told us they receive no aid, no relief material from either the government or humanitarian agencies. on our way here, we did pass quite a few trucks that were carrying supplies and relief material that they stopped about an hour away, no one has made thejourney stopped about an hour away, no one has made the journey up to here. if you look at the mountains there to my right, it s beyond those mountains, not very far from here, that the epicentre of the earthquake was. and we ve b
on our way here, we did pass quite a few trucks that were carrying supplies and relief material, but they stopped about one hour away. no one has made the journey up to here. if you look at the mountains there, to my right, it s beyond those mountains, not very far from here, that the epicentre of the earthquake was. and we ve been told by the villagers here that, scattered across this mountainside, there are several such hamlets and villages where there s been destruction, where there have been deaths because of the earthquake. they say no aid, no relief has reached there so far. it is quite clear that afghanistan is in need of a lot of support, notjust in terms of food supplies or relief material but also in terms of the means to reach these remote, far flung areas. so, whether it s experienced disaster response teams or whether it s more air power, the taliban government here does not have any of that, and countries around the world are not sending it in because they do not
no relief material from either the government or humanitarian agencies. on our way here, we did pass quite a few trucks that were carrying supplies and relief material but they stopped about one hour away. no one has made the journey up to here. if you look at the mountains there, to my right, it s beyond those mountains, not very far from here, that the epicentre of the earthquake was. and we ve been told by the villagers here that, scattered across this mountainside, there are several such hamlets and villages where there s been destruction, where there have been deaths because of the earthquake. they say no aid, no relief has reached there so far. it is quite clear that afghanistan is in need of a lot of support, notjust in terms of food supplies or relief material but also in terms of the means to reach these remote, far flung areas, so whether it s experienced disaster response teams or whether it s more air power, the taliban government here does not have any of that,