welcome to bbc news. more now on the news that a massive earthquake has killed more than 500 people in turkey and syria, and i canjoin my colleague for more. welcome to all of you watching on pbs and around the globe. we are bringing you special coverage of breaking news this hour. a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake has struck northern syria and also south eastern turkey. official figures say officialfigures say more official figures say more than 650 people have been killed, that figure will rise. the earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.8 struckjust before dawn. the epicentre was in the turkish province of gaziantep. buildings collapsed, hundreds of miles away. there were also reports of many of the casualties in northern syria, across the border. the tremor was also felt in lebanon, gaza, jordan, cyprus and iraq. turkey has declared a state of emergency. syria s government, meanwhile, has also held an emergency meeting in order to decide how they will respond. witnesses from
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Hello im Adrian Finnegan this is that he is out live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes aid workers begin to move syrians desperate for medical care from a rebel held area of the capital damascus. The government of the philippines reaches out to help people displaced by storms and political violence. Vote counting underway in liberias runoff president ial election. And the legacy of pakistans first female Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ten years after the nation. Aid workers have begun to evacuate critical patients from eastern guta in syrias capital damascus sixteen people have died while waiting he sent goods is one of the last remaining rebel strongholds its been under a tight government siege since twenty thirteen of the target of hundreds of airstrikes and artillery attacks thats caused severe food and medical shortages for around four hundred thousand syrians trapped last month the u. N. Calls for five hundred people in need of Urgent Medical care to be allowed to leave
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