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People from Britain’s Turkish and Syrian communities have responded quickly to the earthquake crisis. 

We were joined by Angela Kearney, UNICEF’s representative in Aleppo.

Right across the regions affected by the quake, there has been growing anger with the lack of aid as rescue teams struggle to cope with the sheer scale of the destruction.

In Syria, as in Turkey, they are desperately going through rubble, trying to pull survivors out. With the official number killed heading towards 2000.

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. 

We were joined by Ali Rahbe from the Syrian Emergency Taskforce, a US-based organisation which backs the Syrian opposition.

More than seven thousand people are confirmed to have died across Syria and Turkey.

Our reporter Emily Wither is in Adana, a city in southern Turkey that’s around 150 miles from the first quake’s epicentre.

The Foreign Office has pledged to help Turkey with the deployment tonight of search and rescue specialists, equipment and an Emergency Medical Team.

We spoke with Ismail Alabdullah, from the Syrian White Helmets, in Northern Idlib.

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.

The former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has died at the age of 79. He was a key ally during America’s war on terror, but he became a hugely divisive figure in his own country. He passed away in hospital in Dubai, where he’d been living in self imposed exile for several years.

The United States has insisted  that the high altitude Chinese balloon which it shot down last night over the Atlantic was being used for surveillance. President Biden described the mission as a success while the US Navy and Coast guards are now searching the area for debris. China has lodged a formal protest,   accusing…

We spoke to Ala Talabani, who’s an advisor to the Iraqi Prime Minister on Women’s Affairs in Baghdad, and began by asking how people in Iraq have responded to the young woman’s killing.

The death of a young Iraqi Youtube star at the hands of her father has sparked outrage across the country over the practice known as ‘honour killing’. 22-year-old Tiba al-Ali had been living in Turkey, where she posted regular videos about her daily life with her fiance. She was killed after returning to Iraq to…