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Bit of a boost to the people involved in these operations in southern turkey. as tom was just saying there, people are so desperate. there has been unrest in some parts of southern turkey, which has disrupted some of the rescue efforts that are continuing. attention is now being turned to whether human failings in the way buildings were constructed in this part of turkey have added to the impact of the natural disaster of the earthquakes. thousands of buildings collapsed. turkish officials have issued more than a hundred arrest warrants in connection with the poor construction of buildings that collapsed in monday s earthquakes. professor mustafa erdik is an earthquake engineering specialist and professor emeritus at bogazici univeristy in istanbul. he told me more about building standards in turkey. earthquake standards in turkey is as good as anywhere else in the world. the difficulty is not ....
You can see the search and rescue operation continues. those involved somewhat buoyed by the fact they have managed to pull out a little girl in another of the search and rescue operations this morning after 147 hours, but, of course, as tom was saying, people are feeling more and more desperate. in fact, yesterday, german rescuers and the austrian army had to pull some of their rescuers in hatay province after clashes with an unnamed group. they have managed to start that again, but the situation is such that people feel they have been abandoned, not enough is being done, and that of the situation in turkey, which is what they had a lot more help than north west syria. they say there may be an underlying human failure as a result of poor ....
Lyse doucet there, our chief international correspondent reporting from turkey. 0ur correspondent tom bateman is near the city of antakya in the hatay province the southernmost province of turkey and has just sent this report. 0n the road here outside the city of antakya in hatay, and antakya is devastated, one of the worst affected areas. what s happening here is that people who have managed to escape the city are stopping here. this has become a staging post. you can see this way there are some tents, not many. these are official turkish aid agency tents, and then there are supplies that have been turning up, but one of the big things that s happening here are the buses. you can see minibuses here, other buses behind them, and if you come down this way, we will walk this way. there are some turkish troops that have been directing people. but what we ve just been finding ....
This is some of the support that s being provided by the state, but you can just feel how it s spread so thin. and this is before we ve even got into antakya itself. these are the ones that are managing to get out. tom bateman reporting from southern turkey there. it s almost a week since the earthquake. let s ta ke let s take a look at these pictures today, where a little girl was rescued bringing some hope amidst the despair and devastation. here she is being pulled up through a hole in the floor of a building in the south eastern turkish province of hatay. rescuers, who we can see here, said the girl is called cudi and that she had been buried for 147 hours. and we have just received these pictures of a father ....
Reporting their lost family members, and asking us to check areas. we are still continuing to search for people, whether dead or alive, at this point. it s almost a week since the earthquake. but take a look at these pictures from this morning where a little girl was rescued, bringing hope amid the despair. here she is being pulled up through a hole in the floor of a building in the south eastern turkish province of hatay. rescuers who we can see here said the girl is called cudi and that she had been buried for 147 hours. after getting her out of the hole, she was put on a stretcher and carried out. in turkey, about 80,000 people are in hospital, with more than one million in temporary shelters. 0ur correspondent tom bateman is near the city of antakya, in the hatay province, the southernmost province of turkey, and has just sent this report. 0n the road here outside the city of antakya, and antakya is devastated, ....