I saw the ceiling coming toward me Gunala told Anatolia

I saw the ceiling coming toward me,” Gunala told Anatolia.Parents questioned the quality of the school’s construction.”The stable I built did not collapse, but the school did,” Gunala’s father, Abdullah Gunala said.TV footage showed a soldier carrying a boy from the school’s wreckage, amid cheers from onlookers. The boy could be heard shouting, “Father!”"May God save us from the worst,” said Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a news conference in Ankara. President Ahmet Necdet Sezer said he hoped “our children under the debris will be saved as soon as possible.”Doctors at Bingol’s state hospital appealed for help to deal with the crisis.”We need every kind of help,” said Ilhan Cokabay, chief doctor at the hospital. “Medical supplies, people, whatever.”The hospital was seriously damaged in the quake and scores of injured were being treated outside the hospital.The mayor said the city also needed more large tents.The Red Crescent had already sent 3,100 tents, 13,000 blankets, as well as mobile kitchens, generators, ambulances, and four tons of food supplies, Anatolia reported.Soldiers, emergency workers and mountaineers with rescue experience were all headed to the area from Ankara.More than 100 aftershocks struck the area, including one with a magnitude 5. The temblor also was felt in the nearby provinces of Erzincan, Tunceli, Bingol, Erzurum, Kayseri and Sivas.The quake lasted 17 seconds, said Gulay Barbarasoglu of the Istanbul observatory.Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, which lies on the active North Anatolian fault.

A 1971 quake in Bingol killed 900 people.Ruptures in the fault caused two quakes in August 1999 that killed 18,000 people and devastated large parts of northwestern Turkey.. Gerhard Schr? is not exactly football crazy, but he is the most football-friendly Chancellor the Germans have had. A star player for local teams in his youth, “Gerd” rarely misses an opportunity to be photographed kicking a ball around. Those who dare to defy the ban face an immediate €50 (£35) fine.”Football players damage the underground sprinkler system and the turf. We cannot afford to pay for the upkeep,” is how Harald B?er, the head of Berlin’s parks and gardens authority, justified the ban.His office appears to have gravely underestimated the scale of the protests the measure would provoke. Television documentary teams appeared on the Reichstag’s lawns before the ban to film sympathetic portraits of some of the 100,000 players who belong to Berlin’s association of amateur football clubs. The weekend players have complained bitterly that they have nowhere else to go because the city authorities take a dim view of football games in public parks.

Jan Schl?en, who plays for the amateur club Cosmos, said: “Compared with other world cities Berlin is totally provincial. When I lived in London, I used to play regularly in Regent’s Park.”Mr Schl?en, who happens to be a lawyer, has announced plans to take the Berlin authorities to court. He has been backed by Otto H?, president of the city’s football association, who has promised to defy the ban.Cosmos is already one goal ahead in its battle with bureaucracy. The team openly flouted the ban when it came into force on Monday and nobody was fined The police decided it was prudent to stay away.. Silvio Berlusconi’s carefully laid plans to escape the judgment of Milan were in ruins yesterday after the Italian Prime Minister’s friend, lawyer and political colleague Cesare Previti was sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment for bribing judges. After deliberating for more than seven hours, the judges convicted all but one of the six accused, all formerly high-flying judges and lawyers, to jail terms ranging from four years to 13.The defendants were accused of giving and receiving bribes amounting to 67bn lira (£24m) to encourage judges in Rome’s appeal courts to award ownership of two business conglomerates, including Italy’s biggest publisher, Mondadori, to Mr Berlusconi’s company, Fininvest.The Prime Minister was originally one of the accused, but dropped off the list under the statute of limitations because the charges against him were less serious.His office responded to the sentencing of Previti, a senator in Mr Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party, harshly.

“This is an ugly day for Italian justice,” his spokesman said. Mr Berlusconi added: “The politicisation of certain magistrates, which has come to condition our political life, is a problem that must be resolved for the good of the country, of the institutions and of Italian citizens.”Mr Berlusconi had devoted his political energy to preventing yesterday’s embarrassment. Against angry opposition protests, he rammed through a law allowing cases to be transformed to a different judiciary if “legitimate suspicion” that the judges are biased could be proved. But when Previti used the new law to try to get his case switched from Milan, Italy’s highest court of appeal turned him down.The sentencing of Previti was seen as a humiliation for Mr Berlusconi, “at least embarrassing”, said Giuseppe D’Avanzo of La Repubblica newspaper, “for a man who, as proprietor of Mondadori, was the direct benefactor of this corrupt act”. But it was not expected to weaken his grip on power.Francesco Perfetti, professor of politics at Rome’s University of Luiss, said: “I rule out the possibility that the conviction will have an immediate impact on the stability of the government.” A corruption scandal that broke during Mr Berlusconi’s previous term as Prime Minister, in 1994, hastened the downfall of that government. But this time his coalition appears more robust, while the centre-left opposition is in disarray.Previti, who like the other defendants was not present in court for the judgment, declared angrily: “[The judges] have brought to a conclusion what they had decided to do in advance .. I have been persecuted by the ‘red togas’ It’s a political sentence.