06/02/2016 BBC Weekend News

More than 100 people are missing after a powerful

earthquake hit Taiwan in the early hours of the morning,

14 people are known to have died and nearly 500

The epicentre of the quake was close to the city of Tainan,

where a frantic search is focused on the ruins of a 17-storey

From there, our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports.

Nearly 24 hours after the earthquake struck here, they have not given up

This is now the focus of the rescue, a huge 17 storey apartment block

ripped from its foundations and now lying on its back.

All day they've been pulling people out alive.

This woman is one of more than 200 residents who have emerged almost

But as night returned dozens of relatives still waited

anxiously, their eyes are red with worry.

This woman is waiting for news of her nephew.

"Don't be scared," she tells her family on the phone,

The rescuers have heard a noise, she tells me,

they are pretty sure it's him and he's alive.

And then the moment she's been waiting for.

Minutes later on the other side of the building, another rescue.

After several hours with no good news we

First they brought the little boy out alive,

We understand there are two more about to be brought out who are also

It's a boost to those still waiting anxiously for news,

but the grim truth is the easy rescues have now all been done

and there are still over 100 people missing inside

And we can speak to Rupert now - why did this particular

There's clearly something very wrong with this building, it shouldn't

have come down. A 6.4 earthquake is moderately large but buildings in

Taiwan are supposed to be able to withstand that size of the

earthquake, in fact, much bigger earthquakes than that. I should say

while this building behind me has come down, all of the other

buildings around me in the streets here appear to be completely

untouched, so the investigation will now also focus on why this building

came down, was their corruption in the company that built it? And why

did this happen? It should not have happened. Many thanks, Rupert

Wingfield-Hayes. There are warnings of

a new humanitarian crisis in Syria - with 35,000 people trapped

on the border with Turkey - They are fleeing an offensive

by government forces Turkey has said it is prepared

to help them - but the border Our correspondent Mark Lowen

has sent this report. Their only thought is escape, away

from the madness of war, towards safety. Their aim was Turkey, but

today the Turkish authorities said the border would not open. 35,000

people have gathered on the Syrian side, they said, given food and

shelter but not access to Turkey. They are freeing a two pronged

attack by Russian air strikes and forces loyal to President Assad,

closing in on opposition areas of Aleppo. Rebel supply lines have been

cut off, 300,000 civilians there could soon be trapped. If the city

falls it could be a fatal blow to the Syrian opposition. This man left

Aleppo three weeks ago and still hopes to return. But he says the

city is enduring a nightmare. Living in Aleppo actually is like a life

full of scared, you don't know how or when you will die, because of

Assad's aircraft, Russian aircraft. Dropping bombs. On you. With the

refugees cared for by Turkish groups on the Syrian side of the border,

Turkey says there is no need to let them cross. Could this country

finally be closing its doors? The Foreign Minister says not. We still

keep it open border policy for these people fleeing the regime as well as

air strikes of Russia. These people are fleeing, so we need to keep this

open-door policy for them. Turkey has welcomed over two and a half

million Syrian refugees. At its open-door policy has precipitated

the mass migration towards Europe. -- but its open-door policy. This

country faces conflicting pressures to help those in need while being

told by the EU to stem the flow going West. Turkey has long been the

gatekeeper to century, but resources are stretched and it now faces a

dilemma, to give safe passage or decide a limit has been reached.

Five skiers have been killed in a huge avalanche near Innsbruck in the

Austrian Alps. The avalanche was reported

to be two-kilometres wide Those who died were from the Czech

Republic. A number of survivors are now being treated in hospital.

The government has been criticised over plans to ban charities

and other organisations from using public money

Under the new rules to be introduced in May, charities would be

restricted to using only money raised privately for anything deemed

Our Political Correspondent Eleanor Garnier is here in the studio.

Why does the government want to do this?

The government gets pressured to change its policies on all sorts of

issues. A minimum price of alcohol, sugar tax, even environment issues.

It happens all the time from different organisations. Big

business, industry, but also bodies that are partly funded by the

taxpayer, through government grants. Like charities. The government

thinks that's wrong, that if charities want to do this kind of

lobbying work, as it's called, it should pay for that through money it

has raised itself, not through government grants or taxpayer money.

It hasn't gone down very well in the charity sector, it has called the

changes struck only in and said the charities lay a vital role in the

decision-making process, informing policies being brought in. -- play a

vital role. Sara Wollaston, Conservative MP, who chairs the

health committee in the House of Commons, has been critical. She says

when it comes to public health this will tip the balance in favour of

those with vested interest, big business and industry, and away from

the charity sector. That, she told me, was a very worrying move.

Football now. of the Premier League after beating

title rivals Manchester City 3 -1 Here's our Sports

reporter Rob Heath. Just like Manchester's weather,

teams know what's coming with Leicester City,

but there's nothing Some bookmakers had

Leicester at 5000-1 Here they were 1-0 up

inside three minutes, This season has been

no fluke, Leicester They started the second

half as they had This time, Riyad Mahrez,

one of the season's revelations, The manager, Manuel Pellegrini,

knows he's off at the end He might have wished his departure

was sooner after watching Manchester City was spared further

embarrassment and managed to score The most remarkable story

in Premier League history is heading From 5000-1, Leicester

are now title favourites. And in the Six Nations Rugby -

which kicked off today - France narrowly beat

Italy by 23 points to 21. England won the Calcutta Cup,

beating Scotland at Murrayfield 15-9. Joe Wilson is there for us.

Here in Edinburgh it wasn't pretty. Mind you, nobody thought it would

be. England picked a team full of experience to hold their nerve, that

is what happened. The best passage of play, and with England's second

try in the second half as they moved the ball wide to Jack Nowell on the

wing to score. It followed a try from close range by George Cruise in

the first half. Scotland got in the game thanks to penalties from

Captain Greg Laidlaw. Their frustration will be if another match

with a great Murrayfield atmosphere against England in which they failed

to score a try. England's satisfaction is that they cause of

frustration. England with their new coach will ponder the frustration

that it easy to build on a narrow win, easier than on a narrow defeat.

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