TURKEY EARTHQUAKE

TURK EARTHQUAKE

More than three and a half thousand people have been killed after two major earthquakes hit Southern Turkey and Northern Syria today flattening thousands of buildings and leaving tens of thousands injured in a massive rescue operation is underway tonight to try to find any survivors people have spent the day digging with their bare hands it's feared thousands could be trapped beneath the rubble the first Quake measuring 7.8 struck when people were asleep in the early hours of this the morning the epicenter was near. The Turkish city of Gaziantep triggered a second Tremor almost as powerful as just a few hours later the United Nations called for an

International response.

earthquakes world leaders have pledged send aid but freezing temperatures are already hampering the aid effort a Middle East correspondent Anna Foster arrived in Turkey this morning and spent  the day traveling towards the epicenter close to the border with Syria, she's broadcasting using just her mobile phone and she joins us now from the town of Osmania 80 miles from the epicenter Anna the closer, you get to the epicenter of this fight the more you you can see the damage in this city It is completely dark apart from this rescue that you see going on behind me now this was a hotel I was talking to owner and he told me that 14 people were asleep in there last night when the

A quake happened seven had already 

Recovered seven bodies and they are hoping that they can find some survivors in that Rubble but wherever you look in this city you can see where shop fronts have collapsed there is broken glass and of course, there is Darkness complete darkness everywhere apart from the light of a mobile phone that you can see me by and this is the scene that has been replicated across Southern turkey running for their lives shaken to their foundations whole buildings fell and across Southern turkey peace became panic people helped where they could this was a series of powerful earthquakes were not just one they were only around 20 kilometers under the surface and shallow Quakes caused the most damage in towns and cities across a vast area the rescue efforts began with diggers and sniffer dogs teams of people began to dig frantically in search of survivors for decades turkey has been bracing itself for a considerable quake tonight everyone is a rescuer and they all want to find a survivor.

It's a painful wait for news there are people still trapped under Rubble I have a friend living in this apartment his children were rescued from the top floor but only his daughter broke an arm we'll see what happened to those living on the ground floor may

God gives us a speedy recovery

I was sleeping when my wife suddenly woke me up the Quake was very severe very scary it took almost two minutes until the shaking stopped outside turkey the world stands ready to help offers to send specialist equipment and teams of experts have been coming in all-day we have received several offers of international aid for our country offers of assistance from 45 countries including NATO and the European Union have reached us help arrived quickly alongside the

Emergency Services young men fit enough.

Emergency to move the rubble stepped in size of the effort that's going on here on top of this kind of rubble Rescuers are using their bare hands and you can see the rowing down blocks and and trying to search desperately for survivors this used to be a 12 story and before they'd only found three survivors for families with missing relatives the wait for news is agony we all heard the sound of the earthquake she has her sister down there under the it's eight people under there three ofthey are the children of my uncle and his wif and their son and their daughter andthree children there are my sister and her three children under the building also here husband her mother and her father-in-law are there too

Turkey has dealt with natural disasters.

 Turkey before few are on this scaleas night falls cities like Osmania arewithout power in darkness the few lights there have been sent to searches that offer the best chance of Hope it's still too early to know the real the extent of the destruction here finding those who are trapped beneath collapsed buildings will take days if not weeks the death toll is already many hundreds the numbers have injured stands in the thousands it's bitterly cold and the rain keeps  falling the aftermath of this Quake is testing Rescuers to their limits Anna Foster BBC News horse mania across the border in Northern Syria at At least 1400 people have been killed and thousands more injured in what is one of the poorest regions of the world it's been cut off from the International Community after years of conflict between President Assad's forces and rebel Fighters making rescue efforts even harder our chief International correspondent Liz Doucette who has reported extensively from Syria has thisrepor  .

       Syrian Village which vanished in minutes. Its people are all that's left standing

 those who survived so many didn't all along this area next to Turkey still now many families are under the rubble our teams trying to save them it's tough to test us we need help we need the International Community to do something families shook from their sleep just after 4 am by a powerful earthquake whose epicenter is just across the border in the dead of night rescue workers known as white helmets race to hell hopefully this young girl from the rubble.

 This is work they know well it lived the last rebel-held Enclave that has lived for years with ferociousbombardment by warplanes of the Syrian military or its Russian Allythe few hospitals which still operate here have hardly any resources or stop now they're overwhelmed we received hundreds of casualties really we need Argent well for the areas especially talking about medical help options were already living on the edge in a war zone displaced time and again for more than a decade now they've been knocked down again we were sleeping peacefully at 4 am we felt a massive earthquake I woke up my wife and my children and I run towards the exit door we opened it and suddenly all the buildings nature doesn't take sides areas like Hama under the Syrian government control was also hit they're also worn down by War here it's the Syrian Arab red crescent working with bare hands and also with diggers everyone will carry on their deities as needed we ask for Mercy for the victims and speedy recovery for the injured it is our  serious plight has been thrust into the eyes of the world again today it's fighting a different kind of battle the International Community is has failed Syria for many years this is an opportunity to try and put that right this is a moment I think to put principles over politics to really look at ways that they can show solidarity with those who are on the ground and make sure that Syrians you know who've been going for over a decade of Crisis now do get the support they so desperately need Syrians have felt forgotten by the world reaching people across this broken the country will be rugged but this disaster may make the world care again least to