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- one _ hours of digging. i was the medical - one of— hours of digging. i was the medical - one of four— hours of digging. i was the medical — one of four medics in that teens. and the _ — one of four medics in that teens. and the team had to basically go through— and the team had to basically go through one building that was still standing. — through one building that was still standing, tumble through the wall of the building, out through that wall, into the _ the building, out thr...

He is operating one of the worst affected areas as a result of that earthquake in turkey. thank you for being with us. i know you are taking out time from important work. so thank you for sharing it with us. tell us a little bit about what you are working with. we saw you rescuing that man. how difficult is it to do that and the jobs you are doing there right now?— it to do that and the jobs you are doing there right now? well, it is really challenging. _ doing there right now? well, it is rea...

Pulled a father and his young daughter from the fallen building, he was able to thank rescuers, but pleaded for them to keep digging. he believes his wife may still be alive. cnn has more from istanbul. it is just incredible that people have been pulled out alive. i mean some came out uninjured. i think it was a father and two sons, were pulled out of the rubble, just yesterday, i believe, and they had no injuries. but of course, its a race against time. >> reporter: it is really a race agains...

Any word on anybody inside somewhere in that massive heap behind you and all over through spots of northern turkey and syria. jomana, i appreciate you being there. we go to the turkish city. nick paton walsh, youre south of where jomana is. talk about what you have been seeing. >> yeah, its been a long day here of attempted rescues, false hope, and a brief moment of relief, particularly in the building behind me over here. anderson, about ducsk, there wa an intense influx of rescuers because the...

Been killed in turkey and syria following mondays massive earthquakes. tens of thousands more find their families living out in the streets during what has been a brutally cold winter season. there is a glimmer of hooch amid the horror. rescue teams pulled this 4-year-old girl from the rubble after hours of digging. just one of many miraculous rescues in recent days. officials say there may not be too many more of these. it is a race against the clock to find remaining survivors. that window is ...

At this heavy machinery is starting to write the number namely in the big cities like this one. we think about the rural villages, the towns which are as badly affected, it is much harder to get equipment like that there. but here, youre starting to see these big recovery operations for their sweeping away all of this trouble. looking for bodies is essentially what theyre doing. whenever you see a scene like this when you see the diggers and the earth movers, they do not believe anybody is alive...

This heavy machinery is starting to arrive mainly in the big cities like this one, it has to be said, when you think about the rural villages, towns that are as badly affected, it is so much harder to get the equipment like that fair. but here, youre starting to see these big recovery operations where they are sweeping away all of this rubble with big earth moving machinery looking for bodies, essentially, its what they are doing. whenever you see a scene like this one and you see a scene like t...

17-year-old high school girl is still alive beneath the rubble. she managed to message a friend of hers, to tell her that. the rescuers are working bucket by bucket with their bare hands, piece by piece, trying to rescue her and anyone else who might still be alive. her name is saadet coskun. the text message said "im okay, come and help me," says her father. all he can do is wait. but that was four days ago. since then, silence. enough to hear a pin drop, as rescuers listen for signs of life. i...

3:00 talking t tonight, a special edition of "world news tonight", whats unfolding right here behind us here in turkey. what we have witnessed on the ground here. the staggering devastation. more than 21,000 dead and rising tonight. and this evening here, the moment, what we saw with rescuers on the pile right behind us. here in turkey tonight, search and rescue teams working around the clock, many digging through rubble with their bare hands, looking for survivors now four days after the 7.9 ...

Welcome to the programme. the updates from turkey and syria are relentlessly grim. the deathtoll has now passed 20,000 — but only a fraction of the devastated areas have been searched, with hope fading for those still trapped. though there are still miracles. these pictures have recently come in from diyarbakir — and they show a little boy, six—year—old basir yildiz, being rescued. crews had been digging for him for 80 hours. but even for the lucky ones like basir, there are challenges a...