06/02/2016 BBC Weekend News

Rescuers in Taiwan are continuing to search for people trapped

in the ruins of buildings following a powerful earthquake.

At least 11 people are known to have been killed and others

efforts are centred on the ruins of a 17-storey apartment block.

Until the quake struck in the early hours of this the morning,

in to try to save those still trapped inside

Most of the more than 200 residents would have been asleep

TRANSLATION: Rescue workers broke through layer by layer

and they asked us to climb out, but I said my children are too small

Then one rescue worker tried his best to climb in and take

the children out and then I slowly climbed out myself.

The earthquake was felt right across the island of Taiwan.

But the city of Tainan, close to the epicentre,

Thankfully the damage is not as widespread as first feared

and the rescue operation is now focussed on this one

TRANSLATION: We've seen people alive, but they're trapped.

Right now these people are our priority and it is a matter

The next stage is to get access to the survivors using all kinds

of equipment including those that detect life.

Following the powerful earthquake in 1999 that claimed more than 2,000

lives, Taiwan has improved its building safety standards.

The collapsed tower block was built long before those changes,

but questions will still be asked about whether corners were cut

The White House has warned of a growing humanitarian crisis

in Syria as tens of thousands of people flee a government

Many of them are stranded at the Turkish border which has been

Their only thought is escape, away from the madness

15,000 gathered on the Syrian side, given shelter but not safe

A country that has already taken over two million Syrians,

Rebel supply lines have been cut off, 350,000 civilians

Washington accuses Moscow of bombing civilian areas.

But says there is still hope that the fighting might be halted.

The number of modalities for providing that humanitarian

access have been discussed and the modalities of a ceasefire

And the Russians have made some constructive of ideas about how

a ceasefire in fact, could be implemented.

But if it is just talk for the sake of talk in order to continue

the bombing, nobody is going to accept that.

Taking temporary shelter for now on the Syrian side of the border,

an even greater humanitarian disaster looms.

But Turkey, the question - whether to open the door

to those in need or bow to EU pressure to stem the flow

Turkey, the gatekeeper, faces a tough choice.

Gavin, that difficult choice will be discussed with the German

chancellor, Angela Merkel, who is visiting Ankara on Monday, her

second visit to Turkey in the space of months. And a sign of the

pressure that's being exerted on this country to reduce the number of

refugees. As for the 15,000 who are queuing on the other side of the

border, well, many of them have dispersed west of Aleppo to

opposition held areas. Others could be brought over the crossing into

Turkey to other refugee camps, but there is no sign yet, there is no

definite decision on that so far. But all we do know is that even if

the 15,000 are dealt with, tens of thousands more could yet follow in

their wake as Aleppo descends into chaos.

Twitter says it has suspended 125,000 accounts since the middle

of last year because they threatened or promoted terrorist acts.

Most of the deleted profiles were related to the so-called

The company says that, as a result, what it calls "this type

of activity" is shifting off its network.

Charities are to be banned from using government grants to fund

lobbying campaigns aimed at pressurising ministers to change

The new rules, which will take effect in May, will not prevent

charities from using privately-raised money

Our Political Correspondent Alan Soady is here.

What is the Government thinking about this, Alan? Well, the

Government gets lobbied all the time on all sorts of issues, whether it

is minimum pricing for alcohol, a sugar tax, environmental issues and

some of that influencing can come from charities that are partly being

funded by taxpayers money. The Government says that it thinks

that's wrong. With those organisations want to do that kind

of lobbying, they should pay for it by money they raise themselves,

hence this change of rules, but it is not going down very well in the

charity sectorment some say, that they need to try to influence

Government policy in order to help the very people whose lives they're

trying to improve. There are some who are asking whether it is some

sort of an attempt by the Government to stifle its critics and there are

also questions being raised of just how practical it is to enforce it.

Alan, thank you very much. Alan Soady.

You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.

The next news on BBC One is at 6.55pm.

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the next two-and-a-half days. Things have looked more sparkling than this

in Plymouth, I can assure you, but that's what you will be stepping out

into this afternoon. A lot of isobars ahead of