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we'll be speaking to a disaster response expert live in the programme. the desperate search for survivors is continuing for a second night across a vast area of southern turkey and northern syria after two major earthquakes devastated the region on monday. at least six thousand people are known to have died, but with so many feared trapped under the rubble, the death toll will climb further. we'll be talking to an aid worker on the ground and will look at the scale of the devastation in just a moment. but first lets go through what happened. the first earthquake on sunday had a magni...

welcome. more now on monday's devastating earthquake, the biggest in the region since 1939. it's killed over 7,000 people. the border area between turkey and syria is one of the world's most seismically active regions. 0ur correspondent quentin sommerville has travelled to antakya, close to the border with syria, that's been hit by aftershocks. with pickaxe and hammer, determination and hope, they dig for lost relatives in antakya. this backbreaking work falls to these men. their city and country are overwhelmed, and the lives of those trapped in here depend on them. this was a sixth...

the devastation and loss of life in both turkey and syria. also tonight... the man who carried out dozens of rapes and sexual offences while a serving police officer is given 36 life sentences by a judge in london. behind a public appearance of propriety and trustworthiness, you took monstrous advantage of the women drawn into intimate relationships with you. why the tech giant microsoft believes artificial intelligence will revolutionise the business of searching the web. and in the final moments of the match, non—league wrexham have lost to sheffield united and coming up on the b...

city year. in other news — president biden will give his state of the union address tonight to a divided congress and flanked by a republican speaker of the house. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in the devastated region of southern turkey and northern syria, where the search for survivors from monday's huge earthquake has entered a second night. the death toll continues to escalate rapidly. more than 7 thousand people are known to have lost their lives and officials are warning that number could rise significantly in the days to come. thousands are thought to be trapp...

Financial and social disaster. A region already destabilised by war, where another humanitarian crisis is unfolding. The worst Case Scenario is that people who werent killed by the earthquake are killed by the failure to get aid to them after the earthquake. Across turkey and syria, families were woken by a massive earthquake. This ten storey Apartment Block collapsed, the rubble trapping residents. My colleague, selin gerit, went to meet a woman who lived on the third floor. Dilek� s father and brother also died. The earthquake� s epicentre was close to the turkish syrian border. It was f...