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Now it's about supporting the survivors. millions of them injured, traumatised and homeless in freezing conditions. providing shelter, food and health care in the wreckage of a stable country like turkey is challenging enough. across the border in syria, over a decade into a civil war, it's proving near impossible. only one of the four original border crossings in the country has been open. the us government has led calls for syria's president assad to let more aid reach people in rebel—held areas of northern syria. last night he agreed to let the un use two more crossings for three months o...

As it deals with the aftermath of the devastating earthquake. the country's president, bashar al—assad, agreed to open the routes from turkey after complaints about the time taken for support to reach some regions. vincent mcaviney reports. the second week of recovery in turkey and syria begins after the region's most powerful earthquake in a century. apartment blocks and homes turned to rubble and graves. in the southern turkish city of adiyaman, rescuers chant "god is great," as they pull a young girl alive after 178 hours under the ruins. but she's likely one of the last miraculous surviv...

They've buried 35 people in this small village — more than half of those who are living here. it's actually quite hard to take all of this in. a whole community, totally flattened. but it's the scale of this disaster that's so shocking, because this village could be one of so many here in turkey or in syria. and a week on, after these earthquakes, the challenge of starting to rebuild is becoming clearer. and it's absolutely massive. i don't know how many people is left now. round the corner, we find this man from london who has rushed back to his homeland to find this. i

Parts of the north west, following years of civil war. 0ur middle east correspondent, quentin sommerville, and cameraman robbie wright have managed to gain access and sent us their first report from inside the rebel—held area. a border and a catastrophe shared, but in the earthquake�*s aftermath, syria and turkey couldn't be further apart. we've just crossed into syria at the border crossing. there were about a dozen aid trucks, fuel tankers coming in, but actually, there were more refugees, more corpses coming out than there was aid coming in. the main street in idlib�*s harem is gone. ...

This is bbc news. i'm mark lobel with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. over 33,000 people are now known to have died in the earthquakes in turkey and syria, but a week after the disaster, survivors are still being pulled from the rubble. we report from inside syria, where the united nations says many people feel forgotten. these were people's homes. they were newly built. but look at it now. 80% of this village is gone, and they have had hardly any help. the us military shoots down another unidentified flying object — the third in as many days. and after a thr...