world leaders have offered help with rescue operations following two huge earthquakes which have devastated parts of southern turkey and northern syria. at least 4300 people are known to have died. rescuers are racing to save those trapped beneath the rubble. the first earthquake struck in the early hours of monday morning while people were asleep. the epicentre was near the turkish city of gaziantep, which is near the border with syria and measured a magnitude of 7.8. the second earthquake measured 7.5 magnitude and hit 130 kilometres, about 80 miles to the north of the first. millions of people across turkey, syria, lebanon, cyprus and israel felt the earthquake. freezing temperatures and the closure of airports make getting aid into the area more challenging. years of civil war and political isolation present obstacles to helping syria. 0ur middle east correspondent anna foster is in turkey, and is travelling towards the epicentre of the earthquake, close to the border wit
over10 have already been suffering for over 10 years, almost, part of the place that has been devastated is not controlled even by the government and the people who control those areas have the least resources to help. on the turkey side, of course the devastation is larger, the areas much larger, the cities much bigger, and together, that whole area, somewhere around 10 i2 together, that whole area, somewhere around 10 12 million people are estimated to live, of which at least half of this population one way or another will have to be impacted. i think the number of deaths will continue to rise. my concern as it may rise to 20 or 30,000 people. now they say 4,000 or 5,000, it is less than what actually could be the case. but
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