Watch live: KayBurley is live from Adiyaman, Turkey where she will be talking to displaced families and emergency aid experts, also on the show Conservative MP ClaireCoutinho and shadow foreign secretary DavidLammy
Updates from Alex Crawford in Adana, John Sparks in Kahramanmaras, Mark Austin and Yousra Elbagir in Gaziantep, and Kay Burley and Siobhan Robbins in Adiyaman. Live reporting by Brad YoungThe"critical 72-hour window" since the earthquake, when the chances of rescuing survivors were at their best, has passed.
Against all odds, emergency crews working through the night in the city of Antakya, Turkey, pulled a young girl and her father from the ruins of a building, news agency IHA reported. Questions have been raised across the border in Turkey over how the government spent the so-called"earthquake tax", introduced in 1999 for disaster preparedness. How it has been used is not public knowledge.
"Metrics confirm access to Twitter is being restored in Turkey following hours of filtering," NetBlocks said on its Twitter account. In total, 15,865 have been confirmed dead, but the World Health Organisation expects this could rise to approximately 20,000.Good morning and welcome back to our live coverage
And an adviser to the Syrian president accused the West of only sending aid via Turkey to the White Helmets in the rebel-held north. Semrah says she's in the process of starting to accept they may no longer be alive, and if that's the case, she wants answers so she can begin grieving. Although it is"extremely difficult" to prepare for a natural disaster on the scale witnessed in Turkey, the country has not increased its resilience to earthquakes, an expert has said.if Turkey had prepared enough, David Alexander, professor of emergency planning and management at University College London, says:"Probably not, because it is extremely difficult to prepare for a disaster on that scale.
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