Syria

Chef and former refugee Imad Al Arnab joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to talk about fleeing Syria and his journey from losing everything in the war to rebuilding a life in the UK, in this week’s episode of Ways to Change the World.

Tragedy piled upon tragedy for the people of northwest Syria – the earthquake on the 6 February shattered lives which were already in pieces.

The death toll from the earthquake in Turkey and Syria has now passed 46,000, although – incredibly – people are still being pulled alive from the rubble of collapsed buildings twelve days on. 

We speak to Dr Mufaddal Hamadeh – the former president of the Syrian American Medical Society who has been treating the injured in Idlib Central Hospital.

The frantic hunt for survivors in the devastating earthquake last week which has so far claimed 38,000 lives in Turkey and Syria is slowing to a trickle as the clamour for aid and equipment intensifies. 

The United Nations says it is working urgently to get more aid into northern Syria, where areas devastated by the earthquake have seen little help. Rebel-held towns like Jandaris – close to the Turkish border – have had to make do without any of the supplies, heavy machinery and international rescue teams that have been…

The ancient city of Antakya lies almost entirely in ruins. Most of those who remain in the city are now waiting for the bodies of their loved ones to be unearthed from their homes.

More than 25,000 people are now confirmed to have died in Turkey and Syria, after the powerful earthquakes which struck the region on Monday. As rescue teams continue to search through destroyed buildings that number is expected to rise. Incredibly, some people are still being pulled out alive, after more than 130 hours trapped under…

People are still being pulled alive from collapsed buildings, following the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria. But they are now outnumbered by the dead.

David Miliband, who was Foreign Secretary when Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, is president of the aid organisation the International Rescue Committee. He joined us from New York. 

Dr Mahmoud Kaddah is a paediatric surgeon at Bab al-Hawa Hospital near the Turkish-Syrian border.

Our reporters have not been able to get into northern Syria where there has also been huge destruction and loss of life.

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.

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. 

Kurdish fighters say they have taken back control of a prison in Syria, which had earlier been captured by Islamic State militants.