Desperate pleas have been made to help hundreds of thousands of people left homeless after the devastating earthquake battering Turkey and Syria, as the official death toll passed 19,000.
Daniel Craig and Tamsin Greig have fronted new televised fundraising appeals by the Disasters Emergency Committee, with Sir Michael Palin presenting radio adverts.
And aid workers on the ground told of terrified families sleeping on the streets in below-freezing conditions, with infections spreading while many people remained trapped beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings.
The British government has agreed to match donations of up to £5million to the appeal launched by the DEC, an alliance of 15 charities.
Rescues were continuing with two-year-old boy was picked out of the rubble by a Romanian and Polish rescue team in Hatay 79 hours after the Monday’s 7.8-magnitude quake.
The boy, wearing a striped sweater, cried as he was gently lifted from the hole where he had been trapped.
But recovery efforts have been hampered by freezing weather and dozens of aftershocks, as well as already-damaged infrastructure and blocked aid corridors in civil war-torn Syria.
