also in the programme. president zelensky addresses the european parliament saying ukraine is fighting to protect europe s way of life president zelensky pleas for. we start with the devastation following monday s earthquakes in turkey and syria, where mass graves are being dug, as the death toll climbs rapidly. nearly 20,000 are known to have lost their lives. rescuers are continuing desperate attempts to find and free survivors, four days after the quakes hit. the world health organization has warned there could be a secondary disaster with survivors living on the streets with very little food and water and in freezing temperatures. our middle east correspondent anna foster is in gaziantep the epicentre of the biggest earthquake to hit the region on monday. 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 equip
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, you re starting to see these big recovery operations for their sweeping away all of this trouble. looking for bodies is essentially what they re doing. whenever you see a scene like this when you see the diggers and the earth movers, they do not believe anybody is alive and that building any more. so, a shift towards searching for bodies and clearing the rubble. but as we said rescue teams haven t given up on finding survivors with some successes. these pictures have recently come in from diyar bakir and they show a little boy, six year old basir yildiz, being rescued. crews had been digging for him for 80 hours. he s been sent to hospital for medical checks.
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, you re 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, it s what they are doing. whenever you see a scene like this one and you see a scene like this one and you see a scene like this one and you see the diggers and the earth movers, that means that they don t believe anybody is alive and that building any more. so a shift towards searching for bodies and clearing the rubble. but as we said rescue teams haven t given up on finding survivors with some successes. these pictures have come in in the last hour from diyarbakir and they show a little boy basir yildiz, six year old boy, they d been digging for him for 80 houres. he is safe.