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tayabullah, barely breathing, ill with pneumonia and malnutrition. his family wants us to see his condition. alone in a corner, his mother nigar realises her son is fading. doctors find a faint heartbeat. already defeated by a lack of resources, they re trying to revive him with the little they have. this man tells us it took eight hours, on rubble roads, to bring his grandson here. a family that can barely afford to eat, scrape together money to pay for the ride, trying to save their little boy. idema is one of two nurses treating 60 children. she makes a final attempt. minutes later, she tells nigar her boy has died. sobbing. they carry their baby home. he should be alive. every disease he had was curable. translation: i am also a mother, and when i saw the baby die, - i felt like i ve lost my own child. when i saw his mother sobbing, it broke my heart. it hurt my conscience. we don t have equipment and trained staff. there is nothing we can do but watch babies dying. ....
and help is still in short supply. in northern syria, disbelief on the face this small child pulled from the wreckage of her home after a night beneath the rubble. also on the programme the man who carried out dozens of rapes and sexual offences whilst an officer in the metropolitan police has given 36 life sentences. police say they believe emma pattison and her daughter were shot dead in the surrey school where she coming up in sports day in the next 15 minutes on the bbc news channel. serena names her fierce serena names herfierce england squad of the year. the met police officerjailed for at least 30 years. and an appealfor aid the london communities rallying to help turkey s earthquake victims. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the desperate search for survivors is continuing for a second night across a vast area of southern turkey and northern syria after two major earthquakes devastated the region yesterday. at least 6,000 people are known to h ....
we ll be speaking to a disaster response expert live in the programme. the desperate search for survivors is continuing for a second night across a vast area of southern turkey and northern syria after two major earthquakes devastated the region on monday. at least six thousand people are known to have died, but with so many feared trapped under the rubble, the death toll will climb further. we ll be talking to an aid worker on the ground and will look at the scale of the devastation in just a moment. but first lets go through what happened. the first earthquake on sunday had a magnitude of 7.8, the epicentre was 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 struck 130km north of the first. rescue efforts continue across the region. this is the scene live. this is gaziantep, this is the live shot, it s just after ten in the evening locally. it s expected rescuers ....
welcome. more now on monday s devastating earthquake, the biggest in the region since 1939. it s killed over 7,000 people. the border area between turkey and syria is one of the world s most seismically active regions. 0ur correspondent quentin sommerville has travelled to antakya, close to the border with syria, that s been hit by aftershocks. with pickaxe and hammer, determination and hope, they dig for lost relatives in antakya. this backbreaking work falls to these men. their city and country are overwhelmed, and the lives of those trapped in here depend on them. this was a sixth floor apartment block. families on every floor. ten minutes ago, theyjust heard a voice, so they re digging to try and get to whoever it is buried deep inside all of this. they can see a man and a child trapped inside. again, they hear something, so they call for silence. and they wait. they dig more carefully now, but they re too late. both are already dead. with so many still trapped, the ....
Toll will double. All the details are disturbing more than 3a,000 people are now homeless. Witnesses talk of the sea constantly depositing bodies on the shoreline. Before i show you more of the aftermath, have a look at the moments the floodwater actually hit this city. The power, the speed, the force sweeping everything away. People describe the land, just disappearing in an instant. Aid agencies on the ground talk of an overwhelming need for everything from water, shelter, medicine, rescue teams with clinic and hospitals in the east of the country overwhelmed by the injured. The Rescue Operation has been made more difficult by the complicated political situation in libya. The country is split with an internationally recognised government in tripoli, and a Rival Government in the east. This is one description of what it is like in derna from a libyan journalist who spoke ....