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That were relatively new. people are also taking a lot of this into their own hands. at a local mosque here, they were there for friday prayers, praying for the rescue workers, for the people who are still missing. once those prayers were over, that mosque turned back into a shelter. more than 1,000 syrian refugees are staying there. syrian refugees who have lost everything twice. they are staying there hoping for shelter, for food. they are getting it there for now. everyone is asking, whats ne...

Rescue workers in turkey say the chances of finding survivors still trapped in the rubble are becoming slim. tens of thousands of survivors have spent another night sleeping in makeshift shelters in freezing temperatures. the disaster is known to have killed more than 22,000 people. 0ur correspondent quentin sommerville is with rescuers in antakya in southern turkey. it is now day five of the rescue operation. just have a look up in this building. we have been following these rescue workers sinc...

Found difficult but really important isjust trying to give an idea of the scale of this, because you can only see so much here that the camera shows you and you can see everything thats going on behind me. you can see this destroyed building. you can see the rescue workers and you can see the diggers. but, beyond the cameras view, it goes all the way as far as the eye can see, all the way down this street. this was a neighbourhood. it was full of apartments. its only one part of a huge city that...

—— therell be more for lyse and team shortly. dr ubeyd sakin is the country director for turkey for aid organisation human appeal. hejoins us from hatay, one of the worst affected places in turkey. dr ubeyd sakin, can you just tell us what help is urgently needed at the moment? fist what help is urgently needed at the moment? �* , ., , , moment? at this moment, the shift is chanauin moment? at this moment, the shift is changing from — moment? at this moment, the shift is changing from m...

There human feeling does not exist. >> rescue workers are still coming up with miracles. two young children pulled from the rubble and the turkish town, 27-year-old woman found alive in the wreckage. a happy and to a story that we first reported wednesday. emergency workers dug through a collapse apartment building leed 4-year-old. who managed to make it alive looked on with terror. the scene turned to joy earlier this morning when the teams brought about. he made it through some long days in a ...

This lot pulled out maybe a couple of dozen, including very young children, from buildings all along here. they say these buildings, and if you look at these buildings, they have collapsed on their side and then you have these buildings which have flattened completely. these are the most dangerous buildings, they say, the ones that are still teetering, but the ones that have collapsed completely, pancaked, they are going right inside, they are digging deep inside and making tunnels to try and ge...

Through the rubble of these homes, working almost without sleep, without rest because every time they begin to hear the sound of life, as you said, they have to work tirelessly. and we have a couple of stories to bring you with some video to show you. i think the one that is really playing out here today in turkey is the story of two sisters two teenage sisters who were trapped in the rubble of their homes, they were rescued around the 100th hour of this crisis. one of them, i found out after a ...

And he waited and waited and waited for hours, 48 hours before the rescue workers showed up, only to tell him that he had -- that they had received instructions to focus somewhere else. and thats why he lost his loved ones, and so the thousands of people there. >> ive been wondering as we watch the video of people searching, trying to find people, the tens of thousands who are injured, where do they go with the thousands, literally thousands of buildings in turkey alone that are heavily damaged ...

Often involving the tiniest victims. now, this is a warning that the video youre about to see is graphic. anderson cooper takes us to the front line for rescue workers there in syria. >> feet away, they move the womans arm, and find a toddler named hamuda she was protecting. his eyes closed, no sign of life, they pick away the concrete, but then -- [ crying ] the cry of life. >> wow. cnns selma abdelaziz is in inta istanbul. tell us what you know about the rescues that were seeing, that so far o...

If anyone survived this. search teams frantically digging through the debris. you can see theyre now handing pieces of concrete to each other, forming a human chain to try to get to anyone who might be beneath this more quickly. they bring in heavy machines to lift the concrete floors that have come down, flattening the building, hoping to get underneath. its just incredible to think that five days after this earthquake hit -- they are calling for silence. it is a haunting moment playing over an...