the uk today for the first time since the russian invasion of ukraine. the first stamps featuring king charles the third had been unveiled by the royal mail. and lebronjames has become the nba s all time leading scorer, passing the 39 year old record. hello and welcome. more than 9500 people are now known to have died following two devastating earthquakes which hit turkey and syria. the death toll is likely to rise significantly as rescue workers and civilians continue to search the rubble and survivors trapped beneath it succumb to their injuries and the bitterly cold weather. the earthquakes were the biggest in the region since 1939, and they have triggered dozens of after shocks along the east anatolian fault line. it is one of the world s most active areas for seismic activity. we can show you the scene live now at one attempted search and rescue operation. this scene, replicated throughout turkey and, indeed, northern syria. rescuers still hope to find survivors beneath
along the route of the railway line, and hs2 is clearly off track on the promises it has made to parliament and the public. called bennett from the wildlife trusts. ijust want i just want to show you these pictures from turkey, where president erdogan is making a speech, he has arrived, in the last short while, in the part of the country hit by these massive earthquakes on monday, 7.8, 7.5 magnitude, in excess of 9500 people now confirmed to have died as a result of these earthquakes in turkey and indeed into northern syria. but, sadly, as the search and rescue effort goes on, of course there is still hope that people may be found alive, but sadly it is inevitable that huge death toll is going to grow, so these pictures just coming into us of president
the desperate search for survivors continued overnight, often in bitterly cold conditions. with each hour that passes, the chance of finding more people alive diminishes. in the worst hit area of turkey, a grim scene, brightened by the smiles of rescuers. a woman has just been pulled alive from a collapsed building. elsewhere, relatives call out to loved ones, assuring the track that help is on its way. the first quake struck near gaziantep in the early hours of monday. whole streets reduced to rubble in less than a minute. syrian authorities have reported deaths as far south as hama, more than 150 miles from the epicentre. in this war torn country, there are limited emergency services, so relatives are digging with their hands to try to save the buried. translation: we need excavators.