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Turkey-Syria earthquake: not enough aid getting to those desperate for help
Our chief correspondent Alex Thomson has been to the small town of Nurdagi which is close to the epicentre of Monday’s strongest quake.
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Turkey-Syria earthquake: tens of thousands still missing under rubble
The death toll from Monday’s earthquakes raced past 11,000 today. It’s possible that tens of thousands more lie dead in the rubble of thousands of collapsed buildings in Turkey and Syria.
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Earthquake response: Turkish and Syrian communities in the UK organise relief efforts
People from Britain’s Turkish and Syrian communities have responded quickly to the earthquake crisis.
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UNICEF’s representative in Aleppo explains the situation in Syria after deadly earthquakes
We were joined by Angela Kearney, UNICEF’s representative in Aleppo.
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Earthquake: Emergency upon emergency as crisis hits war-torn Syria
In Syria, as in Turkey, they are desperately going through rubble, trying to pull survivors out. With the official number killed heading towards 2000.
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‘When it comes to Syria, it is a much more complicated issue’, says Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell on quake rescue
The Foreign Office has said this evening that a plane carrying 77 UK search and rescue specialists, state-of-the-art equipment and four search dogs has landed her in southern Turkey.
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‘Situation in Syria is worse than what we are seeing in the media,’ says a Syrian emergency worker
We were joined by Ali Rahbe from the Syrian Emergency Taskforce, a US-based organisation which backs the Syrian opposition.
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Syria ‘not ready to handle this kind of disaster’, says White Helmets volunteer
We spoke with Ismail Alabdullah, from the Syrian White Helmets, in Northern Idlib.
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Those who had fled violence multiple times among Syrian earthquake victims
The scenes of devastation in Syria are distressingly familiar. But as the emergency workers known as the White Helmets pull people from the rubble today, the cause is a natural disaster, rather than the war that’s inflicted so much suffering over the past 12 years.
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The Olympian who escaped Syria by swimming the Aegean Sea
The Syrian sisters Yousra and Sara Mardini, professional swimmers back in Damascus, found themselves on a sinking dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Shamima Begum ‘smuggled into Syria by a Canadian spy’, new book claims
The lawyer for Shamima Begum, who fled from the UK as a schoolgirl to join the Islamic State group, has called for an inquiry – after reports that she was smuggled into Syria by a Canadian intelligence agent.
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Rescued Syrian refugees visited by Greek Minister
For days this programme has been reporting on the plight of 39 refugees including sick children and a pregnant woman who were stranded on an islet along the Greek-Turkish border.
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NGO calls for ‘full investigation’ into Syrians stranded on Greece Turkey border islet
Over the past few days this programme has reported on a group of 39 Syrians stranded on a small islet in the Evros river which forms the border between Greece and Turkey. Both the Greek and Turkish authorities have claimed the group is not on their territory and could not be rescued. Tonight we received…
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Syrian refugees stranded on Greek islet after attempting to enter country
Dozens of Syrian refugees are stranded on a Greek islet beside a highly militarised border crossing – as they attempted to enter the country from Turkey to seek asylum.
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Russia threatens to close last UN humanitarian aid route to Syria
Russia has also threatened to veto a UN resolution that guarantees the entry of international aid to Syria’s rebel-held areas in Idlib and Aleppo provinces. That would close down the last UN humanitarian aid route into Syria.
