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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They stand out here in the middle of the road because they are still concerned, as are so many, thousands of people here tonight that there may still be more buildings to collapse. this takes an obsolete huge area of which the city is just one snapshot, but as you move around, there are piles of bricks and rubble where shop fronts have fallen out, where windows have broken and crashed. a few minutes ago, i was at the scene of they think is a hotel which has collapsed on itself. they ve managed to get some lights there in a crane, and they re trying to swing away the big pieces of masonry. houses also saw another building collapse down the road, and that was in complete darkness. i think it s just they simply don t have the resources at the moment to be able to mount full scale refuge efforts rescue
So we are. we are doing our best. we are racing against time, actually, to save the people, to save the children, to save the families who are trapped now under the rubble. stay with us on outside source still to come. around 45 countries have offered their support to turkey as it s called a state of emergency we ll be taking a look at what s been promised.