international relief efforts. the un carries out search and rescue through un dac, its disaster assessment and coordination system. the wires start buzzing to make sure that we try and get an assessment team very quickly into wherever the problem lies so we can try and get as quickly as possible the right resource to the right place. the un also organises emergency medical teams, known as emt, through the world health organization. on 6th february, the world health organization had put out an emt global alert for the turkey earthquake, and they were calling on emt teams to self identify and put themselves forward for consideration for deployment for turkey. the un was quick to respond
to turkey s call for help. across the border in north west syria, it was a different story. no one could send search and rescue teams because north west syria is not under government control, is not recognised. you can t request intergovernmental help the way the syrian government was able to. the way that turkey was able to. this is the head of the volunteer syrian civil defence group known as the white helmets. un dac teams can deploy
on monday 6th february 00.47am, an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 strikes near gaziantep in south east turkey. across the border in syria, strong tremors are felt. hundreds of buildings collapse. as the hours pass, the scale of the disaster becomes apparent. rescue teams are overwhelmed. in turkey, a major aid effort gets under way. rescue teams from around the world rush to help. in syria, the earthquake hit several cities controlled
.Quake in Syria. Following the recent earthquake in Turkey, UN humanitarian assistance was slow to reach affected areas in parts of north west Syria under.
concerns and he is concerned of his own safety of turning up to those courts. they said the police operation has been temporarily suspended and that is because the super leak which is a cricket tournament that is ongoing in the semifinal is happening tonight and at the moment, this sort of disruption means that the support here have not suggested that they are going to go anywhere. let s take a look at some other stories in the headlines. floods have hit parts of south east turkey already struggling to recover from february s earthquake. the deluges have killed at least 10 people with the province of sanliurfa receiving a third of its annual rainfall in just two days. an explosion at a coal mine in central colombia has killed at least 11 people. officials say several others were trapped in the mine s tunnels. it is thought about thirty people were underground