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Hope for finding people alive after Turkey and Syria quake is fading

People are still being pulled from the rubble in Turkey and Syria, but with the death toll from Monday's earthquakes now passing 15,000, hope for finding people alive is fading.

People are still being pulled from the rubble in southern Turkey and northern Syria, but with the death toll from Monday's earthquakes now passing 15,000, hope for finding people alive is fading. A large number have spent a third night in the open and the focus is moving towards getting help to the people in the affected towns and cites. There are fears that many who survived the quake could die of cold and lack of basic facilities.

In Turkey president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has visited the disaster zone but has received criticism that help is not reaching needy people fast enough. We report on the financial impact of the earthquake and whether Turkey's earthquake tax has been well spent .

And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has left Kyiv to visit key European allies, He spent Wednesday in London before moving on to Paris, and will visit Brussels today. He is asking for fighter planes for Ukraine's war against Russia.

50 minutes

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  • Thu 9 Feb 202306:06GMT