Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear.

Rescue workers are making a final push to find any survivors from this week's major

earthquake in Turkey in Syria, though with frigid weather and the death toll already well

above 23,000 times running out.

NPR's Ruth Sherlock has been viewing some of the devastation, including the earthquake

zone in Syria, which because of the country's civil war, has had limited access.

These are in both Turkey and Syria, conditions of deteriorated.

We traveled to the town of Jinderis, and there were some places still standing there,

but there were also dozens of other buildings that just turned to rubble.

The head of the local council there told me, you know, if the international community

had sent aid, like better machinery for digging people out of the rubble, he thinks that

many more people would be alive now.

He thinks now that's too late.

It's probably too late to rescue those still trapped.

But there's no basics for the living.

He says people are even starting to fight over just a single cup of drinking water.

NPR's Ruth Sherlock.

In Iran, today the government is marking the eve of Revolution Day with firework, some

Iranians, meanwhile marking it by chanting freedom and death to the dictator.

From Tehran, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports.

Revolution Day here in Iran marks the anniversary of the 1979 Revolution, which toppled the

Shah and installed Ayatollah Khomeini as the first supreme leader of the Islamic Republic.

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