In the freezing cold, it is a real race against time that is being played out in Turkey and Syria.

Rescuers are still looking for survivors of the powerful earthquake, whose death toll now exceeds 5,000.

Totally affected, twenty-three million people are "potentially exposed", warned the World Health Organization (WHO).

According to Ann Avril, Executive Director of UNICEF France, "we can never stress enough the importance of local solidarity at first. It is really the outstretched arms of your neighbors and then, then, aid is deployed and help is coming".