as britain considers that request we report on the front line where and coming up on the bbc news channel, managerless leeds look to cause an upset in the premier league as they take on manchester united at old trafford. devastating earthquake in turkey. we report from one of the depots. good evening. time is running out for those buried beneath the rubble of the earthquake in turkey and syria after the deadly earthquakes that happened on monday morning. the humanitarian crisis is growing fast. more than 12,000 people are now confirmed dead, as rescue workers continue their search for survivors.
out the tunnel so that we can talk back to her and do patient assessment. but, i mean, the fact that she d been in that area three and a half days was still talking and smiling the minute she saw us. it s one rescue in a city where thousands are still missing. their work here has onlyjust begun. quentin sommerville, bbc news, antakya. in northern syria, the situation was desperate even before the earthquake struck. a region with crumbling infrastructure and freezing conditions. now it is a whole lot worse, they are. getting international aid into syria has proved very difficult. some help has been flown in from iran and the gulf states but the syrian government is now asking the european union for help. for now, rescue efforts are being led by the group of volunteers known as the white helmets, as our international editorjeremy bowen reports.
jeremy bowen, bbc news. anna a n na foster anna foster is in southern turkey. this is the third day since the earthquake, are the rescuers still managing to get many people out alive now? , . . . , alive now? they are certainly t inc. alive now? they are certainly trying- if alive now? they are certainly trying- if they alive now? they are certainly trying. if they think - alive now? they are certainly trying. if they think there - alive now? they are certainly trying. if they think there is l alive now? they are certainly i trying. if they think there is any shred of hope, then they are doing everything they possibly can. i was a few hours ago at a site less than ten minutes from here where israeli rescuers said they heard the voices of two women. and that particular building was different to this one which collapsed down into its foundations. that one had fallen to the sides of the big gaps and voids that they thought people were in, and they said it would continue. they said las
but proper help from the state is not arriving fast enough. we report from the epicentre of the earthquake where survivors are spending their third night without shelter in freezing temperatures. quentin somerville will tell the story of a british search and rescue team as they try to save a woman buried in her home. and jeremy bowen reports from northern syria, a region already ravaged by years of war. in today s programme, our middle east correspondent anna foster was among the first journalists to reach the epicentre, and we canjoin her now. people here want to know why, three days after this earthquake, in a country where they are paid earthquake tax, because something like this had been on the cards for years, they want to know why they are still out on the streets, why they are still huddling gun fires like this to keep warm, and why the aid is taking so long to arrive.