and turkey issues an international appeal for help. we ll be taking a look at how world leaders are responding. welcome to the programme. we begin in turkey and northern syria, where two powerful earthquakes have killed more than 2,000 people. many more injured and still missing. we ll look at the damage done and the rescue operations. first, let s see where this happened. the first earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8 the epicentre in turkey s gaziantep province. there have been almost 30 other shocks in the region, all powerful enough to magnify the damage. a second major earthquake 130km north of the first one. these pictures show buildings collapsing in south east turkey. the country has declared a state of emergency. here s president erdogan. translation: we do not know how far the number of dead and injured - will rise as debris removal works continue in many buildings in the earthquake zone. our hope is that we will recover from this disaster with the least loss of life
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and turkey issues an international appeal for help we ll be taking a look at how world leaders are responding. staying with our top story, a rescue operation is under way across much of southern turkey and northern syria following a huge earthquake that has killed more than 2,600 people. let s look at the extent of the damage in turkey alone nearly 3,000 buildings have been destroyed. the first tremor may have happened before dawn but the dangers remain very active. this building collapsed in the city of diyarbakir after the second quake hit. rescue operations were taking place nearby. a similar collpase happened at this apartment block in haliliye just 100 kilometres from the epicentre. traffic and pedestrians are nearby seemingly not aware