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more than 37000 people are now dead a week on from the devastating earthquakes and turkey and syria for their survivors . anger and frustration. mount emergency, cruise, inter kia, continue to find survivors. but the un 8 chief says the rescue phase is coming to an end. ah, we're watching al jazeera life from headquarters, and del heim, daddy and abigail, also a heads. the world is accused of failing syrians, as international aid trickles into areas devastated by the earthquake also ahead ah anger in israel as the parliament debates giving itself powers to overrule the supreme court. ah

m. hello. it's been a week since 2 powerful earthquake struck turkey and syria. more than 37000 people have been declared dead de across the 2 countries. but the real toll is likely to be significantly higher. there are still moments of hope. rescuers have pulled a women alive from the rubble of collapse building and her tie. cruise are also working into her mind mirage to free a mother and her newborn child who are reportedly still alive. after being trapped under the rubble for 7 days, will summons her kia or choosing the government of a slow rescue response and some of the furnace had areas. bitter, cold and damage. roads are hampering the humanitarian response. aid is desperately needed. people in northwest syria say they feel abandoned by the international community. the u. n. a chief visited the area saying the world has failed people there. and that the rescue phase of the response is coming to an end. what we've

seen happening in these zones of the earthquake is that the rescue phase is dragging live people out from the rebel. i'm finding those who died in the rebel that's coming to a close. and now the who my chair and phase, the urgency of providing shelter psycho social cat food schooling and a sense of the future for these people. that's our obligation. we have a team of correspondence covering the story across trickier. but 1st saw me say down looks back at how the 1st hours of the disaster unfolded. more than 37000 days. more than 90000 has been injured. 1000000 have lost their home. and the president of turkey says, hundreds of thousands of building have been damaged and uninhabitable. all against all the all people have been pulled out of the robber alive today. in

a young girl was rescued after a 178 hours in the cold. in the rubble. well that's giving hopes in places like here and new. today's started here with some good news with hope. a young girl, an 18 year old sod pulled out alive from the rubble. she said please help my sister. she's alive inside to. well, that's the hours when tom we will, following the rescue effort to reach her and they did eventually reach her. but sadly, she was not alive. this area now is full of these kinds of stories full of emotional rollercoaster of one minute hope. and the next minute, the hopes crash, fall too often into despair into crying and wailing and grief. this location was a collection of buildings or as they call them in turkish,

a c k. now it's just a heap of rubble that is buried people's hopes for the future. a very difficult situation that all began with one fateful minute about 4, 17 am local time. monday, the 6th of february. this security camera from a driveway in civic southeast to kia, captures the rumble. and the town going out in another city, 2 hours or so further east. the earthquake sounds like gunfire. in gaussian tip, nurses rushed into the neonatal war to stop the babies. incubate his falling over. witnesses say the swaying roll of the earth lasted 2 minutes, but felt like

a lifetime. and as buildings topple ah, crowds rush out on to the streets. lobrado thought it to save themselves yoga and surveyed the damage they confronted with chaos, to drop one good. the magnitude 7 point, hey, trema was one of the largest ever recorded in total care. it was powerful, as you can see, it was shallow and it was felt as far away as greenland. wow . across to the pier and the neighboring syria, the rescues began immediately on the torchlight and in difficult conditions. oh mm hm.

people desperately digging through the rubble with their bag. i engendered in northern syria rescue as from the white helmet group, pulled out a young baby who had been cradled in the arms of her dead eldest sister. i was left and his 1st light broke. the scale of the disaster became clear. sammy's a dan al jazeera no dar tanikia will now bring and stephanie decker, whose, joining us from carmen marsh and last hour, when we spoke you stephanie, there was a, an ongoing rescue operation. can you tell us what's happened with it? yes it's, it's still ongoing. has been going for almost 36 hours now on law. i'll just let you see on the left hand side, basically what they're doing. they've identified to what youth to living people.

they believe it can be a mother and a newborn child on the left hand side, you know, see what they're doing. they're digging a tunnel, trying to get to the building where they believe they are, which is 2 buildings to the back. it was identified by funny rescue dog and then on the right hand side in the forefront, you probably see those men in white jackets. they've actually been drawing something on the wall. they've been digging a tunnel to try and get through the rubble to try to get to the building or where the mother and child and potentially a grandmother, not clear with a she is alive or not. are to be found. they're digging a tunnel. what. what on 2 sides then further by 5, you will tell it was going to show you. we have our spanish rescue worker search and rescue team. these are fire fighters, their volunteers. they also have a doctor with them. they have a dog. the dog is the one that identified the living when they got a call from the miners. they then also came in with thermal equipment. this was yesterday morning and identified again that there was life so they are certain they

remain alive. but of course, time is of the essence when it comes to this, it's already 7 days off to the earthquake, as we been, you know, highlighting all day long. this is really miraculous when we still and there still are very rare cases of people being pulled july from the rubble, particularly children. but time of the of the us is and, and here as well, it is very dangerous work. the building that collapsed with 7 stories, the spanish rescue worker was explaining to you how dangerous it is for them also to get there to make sure they don't damage anything on the way in the sense there may, it may actually affect those still alive because everything all the structures and so very damaged that it can break even more. so that's what we're seeing now. it's been a very long operation, as i say 36 hours. i'll go, you know, the 2nd night they've worked through the night. they sleep outside, it is freezing. but they're terminated determination not only from these rescue

teams, but all of the volunteers that we've been talking to over this week is unbreakable . i think, you know, it's come to a point here where of course, relatives are, are incredibly ecstatic when someone gets full delight. but it's come to the point where they're even grateful just to receive their doubt so that they, they can bury them. this is the tragedy of the devastation that is happened here. one volunteer telling me, you know, i give them a corpse and they hug me and thank me. he said it's, it's incredibly difficult to digest with this is why we do it. we want to give their families closure one way or the other are at stephanie. thank you so much for that update from co herman mirage in turkey. you will the government inter kia only counts. those who've been formally identified in it's deaths whole, but it's estimated that around half of those killed have not yet been named. and so they haven't been added to the official figures. burnett smith reports from a cemetery in escondido, in south eastern turkey. his scantrons grave diggers

must work quickly. the noise from the heavy machinery disturbs what is normally a peaceful place. all of the booty asked, lamb waits with her surviving family for the bodies of one of her sons, his wife and their 3 children. they killed my son because they didn't send a crane to do the rescue. did my son have nothing to give this state? didn't he sobbed them, he was the best mathematics teacher in hattie. how could that conscience accept this? after all of his others, all survive as contend and prey by the freshly dug graves of their loved ones? not all of the dead have been identified. so they are buried here. it's respectfully done, but there's little ceremony a know mourners. and sometimes not much left to bury. the victim is now a number d n a samples of been taken. if anyone comes looking in the future,

only the dad who been identified, accounted in the official death, told some estimate, saw that the identity of around half those killed him. monday's earthquakes is unknown. the manager here, the cemetery, tells us these plots all the way up to the fence will take about 4 years to be filled up beforehand now in 3 to 4 days from the distraught survivors. the complaint we've heard regularly this past week that the government's rescue effort has been too slow. i learned that you are a tyrant. you have no conscience. you took my 5 kids. how could you let a whole family disappear because of a crane? they are still under the rubble for 7 days now. even if they got winded by the quake, they are already dead now. you killed them. turkeys president has admitted failings in the initial response to the earthquake. reggie type bird one says the rebuilding will start within weeks. the frustration here is why did those buildings collapse in the 1st place? bernard smith al jazeera is kendra,

and while her tie province is one of the hardest hit parts of her chia natasha. the name is in the city of taco with more on the recovery operations there. and takia has been described this week as a city of earthquake ruins this street that we're on, gives you an excellent indication as to why this was about a 5 story building over here with apartments businesses on the bottom. and then when you cross the street, as far as the i can see down the road was a massive apartment complex were told, hundreds of families once lived here. this city has been decimated, the population was about 200000. during the last senses, one man told me we are psychologically broken. there are no services. people have been told to evacuate yet some do remain. and that is because they are holding h,

sol shattering weeklong vigil outside the rubble of their loved ones, homes clinging to a sliver of hope. however, infant testimony that they will be granted a miracle rescue. these people also are homeless. they've been living out in the open because they've lost their homes. they say they've been given a food. they've been giving clothing, but they have no shelter. they've complained that it took 3 to 4 days for search to rescue operations to begin here in earnest. they also say that it has been a very slow process trying to find out what has happened to their loved ones, but they want to remain. they just can't leave until that happens. one of the buildings we visited today was the focus of a case in the court system surrounding it structural integrity. now there are dozens of families waiting outside for hope of their loved ones. one man told us he knows that his nephew is in, was inside that building at the time because they pulled out his wallet and his id

card. now, since this earthquake hit, there has been a national reckoning regarding a well known use of shoddy co, shoddy construction materials, and lax enforcement of bill codes in compliance with earthquake engineering standards for years. warnings were issued, amnesty is given and now people are angry. the coverage is new. it's wrong to blame the government, although they've made mistakes. i think all the responsibility is on the contractors in san lock. all know our history is here. i have footprints on every street of this town. if i leave here, it means to leasing my past. now it's like a new century. everyone will start a new century with many traumas. a lot of the ministry of justice says, arrest warrants have been issued for 100. 34 people, 3 have been arrested. so far and police are looking for about a 100 suspects in connection with these building code violations regarding the

people here in antalya. they say this diverse city with ancient roots will surely rebuild. but they are coming to terms of the fact that due to this devastation of historic proportions, it will take a very long time while there been moments of hope and joy like this one right there in the city of avi, among where a young girl who's been named as near roy was pulled from the rubble a 178 hours after the 1st quake. rescuers are set to be close to reaching her older sister is well. but experts say the window for such rescues is nearly shut because of the freezing temperature. as well as the number of colossal buildings. meanwhile, the turkish president, renta taber, tuan, announced on saturday that university accommodation will be used to house those affected by the earthquakes. students in istanbul have been vacating their university dorms to make room for survivors. i said bag reports

after being told the news, the government plan to has earthquakes of i was in university accommodation. these students in istanbul had to vacate their dorms at short notice, decayed their belongings and said their good byes. losses would not be moved online until the end of june, june gilbert. after the president made a speech the same evening, we learned that our blocks will be emptied. we are sad. it's like the pandemic period. we will have online educational. we do not want this and we have some criticism. we looked at my god grant us to build and we have nothing to do or making the sacrifice on our education is bothering me a bit to be honest. in the biblical sheltered, parents came to help their children pack and move. we do want to do our part to help the families in need. i am sad that i'm not going to go to school, but also the situation is pretty bad. so i know that families need a place to say so. yeah, i don't really feel too bad. then tie education system in the affected areas has

been hit. but the government says it's determined to make sure there is minimum destruction. education. shouldn't copeland my year litigation by building additional tense, we will support our children's learning process and conduct a series of activities to normalize life. we have up to 141 tents in the stance. we have 3 school teachers and psychological counseling and guide exam. all our teachers on duty inside the dorms, they're ready to receive directories. here in istanbul, most of the students we spoke to were happy to be doing their bit. not all students have to leave those with family affected by the earthquake international students. medical students, as well as those with no found me, they can stay with can all remain. but this is a part of the effort and sacrifice the entire country has been asked to make to deal with this disaster. i said vague, i'll jazeera assemble the fear. anger is building across the border in syria, with survivors saying the international community has let them down. aid has been

slow to arrive in the rebel held northwest. and then when i am customer resort is one of those who scheel's abandoned. the one i'm i'm here to watch you remember? if you'll still book the memories here, i see my sister's rest, her son's clothes, and all of them there smell is here because when they remove everything, i won't come back. i say, here's their car because they're water tank. a lot of the solar panels, memories good, all the sort of the whole world lead the syrian people down. this is struction was in europe or any other foreign country. the whole world would have gathered here to rescue those killed rather. but here no one care where displace football no one ask about jermel and we were bomb. barrel bombs were dropped,

but no one cared about us. on phil, i didn't know we're getting nothing from turkey and not, and not from the government side. you know, we hear besieged a cat, hurry, aid on war, a convoy rather of 7 trucks carrying blankets, winter clothing, tents and other essential, has crossed into northwest syria. from through the convoy was organized by the charity cutter funds for development. the charity says its immediate focus is on providing age, but it will transition to rebuilding houses, universities and schools and earthquake had areas. let's go more on the situation on the ground in syria and speak to kelly clements, who is the deputy hiking minister at the united nations high commissioner for refugees. she's joining us from a leper in syria. welcome to al jazeera a lot. of course, one of the worst had areas in the earthquake in syria. tell us what you've seen there. thanks for having us on the program we have spent

today touring some of the ruins now and they are quite literally ruins block after block complete devastation of apartment buildings. in some places. it just looks like the, the earthquake took a, took a knife through the middle of a building and knocked off half of it. on there's rubble in the streets. there are people, families, women, children that are now in parks. there are tense in multiple locations. and it's cold, it's really cold. so we have it working very quickly, very speedily with others partners in terms of collective centers, trying to get more support to community centers. a shelter remains the largest single need right at the moment. for the many people that are displaced, but they're also deep trauma. now that we're seeing with families who have experienced a year after year of crisis right away here, over and over that a to syria is not nearly enough and the responds to syria needs to be scaled up. so

how, how will you do that at the, you and hcr, and also how much aid is actually getting into aleppo now where you are? well in fact the, in the un refugee agency with, with many partners have been present in this country for many, many years. we have a large operation here in syria. and in fact we had preposition stocks that we were able to deploy quite quickly. including here in a level things from mattresses, to warm clothing, to blankets and so on, as well as some shelter materials. and this is something we're going to have to significantly grampa, this is a country where obviously displacement has been unfortunate year after year 6800000 people total affected. and it is an operation that is seriously underfunded. so we have materials here, but we're going to need much, much more support to be able to get to places like

a level and other parts of this country, given large number of people that are displaced in the northwest. right. and speaking of the, the shortfall and funding and how do you as an organization respond adequately to the humanitarian crisis right now, taking place in syria when the funding gap has been, frankly catastrophic. it also, as we know, the aid to syria, it has been politicized. well, in fact, we're saying politics is not what we should be talking about right now. people are people we need to reach them where ever, whenever and however, we can, and we will aiden to do that. a funding is indeed a serious problem. we will be appealing as the united nations in the next day, or 2 with an international appeal for support both for you know, for the needs here, obviously for and for us as an agency, but other partners as well. and we have significant programs here that we can already see further subscribed with more support coming in. we have seen generosity

from, from private sector, from individual donors, some public, a donors have already step forward to support. but we need much more and not just for today, not just next week. this is going to be a long term recovery process. and people here need serious long term support. right . and a paypal and syria have been made a refugees once, some of them even twice and, and now have been raid refugees again, due to the earthquake and the latest figure from the u. n. a saying that up to 5300000 people may have been made homeless as a result of this earthquake. could that number actually be an under estimate? as the scale of the destruction continues to unfold? it could be an underestimate. i, you know, i talked to families to day 8 who in fact as you've mentioned, have been displaced multiple times. some had returned to a level just a short time ago, i and in were rebuilding their lives,

trying to rebuild their lives. and, and this is another, it's a crisis on top of a crisis, though in terms of the, the number that are now without homes or can return to their homes yet because they don't know whether not they're secure and safe. we are working very closely with, with engineers and others to try to, to look individually and shelters. but this is gonna be a long term process and people are going to be out of their homes if they are still standing for some time to come. all right, thank you so much. kelly clemens for joining us from aleppo in syria. thank you. and other news, israel's cabinet has recognized 9 illegal settler o post and they occupied westbank despite past us opposition. the far right finance minister is at $10000.00 housing units. could be built in separate existing, illegal settlements, the palestinian authority called it an open war against the palestinian people that i but i have has more from drama, le let's talk about the context here in the occupied westbank where we haven't had

even one night of calmness where we've seen a lot of israeli raids in palestinian cities leading to fatal tease. we're talking about a month and a half since the beginning of this year, and nearly 50 palestinians were killed by israeli forces. this is a 3rd of the number of palestinians who were killed by israeli forces in last year . so that gives you an idea of how tense the situation is. and we are looking at an escalation probably given the nature of this current far right is really government . now we've seen the announcement by the israeli government to niga lies the settlement outposts in the occupied westbank and according to international law. all documents are considered illegal, but what's happened is that israeli settlers come and build whatever they want and then wait for an authorization by the israeli government,

which ritual actively recognizes those outputs. now, according to the palestinian prime minister, he says that this signals that israel has indeed started annexing palestinian territory. he said that this is a challenge to all the efforts that has been taking place by us officials to lead to a de escalation in the situation. but as far as the palestinians are concerned, they believe that they are heading towards an escalation given the nature of the current. this is where the government, moldova president is accusing moscow, applauding to topple or government. maya sandra says she's confirmed and allegation made by ukraine in president of all of them are landscape last week that his countries, intelligence services have discovered a plan by russia to bring down mold over the pro e u. government found, do, says russia is aiming to use over the war against ukraine, and that the kremlin efforts will fail. russia is yet to respond to the allegations . the german chancellor, olaf, salsa. social democratic party has suffered

a major setback in a rerun election in berlin. preliminary results show the opposition conservatives are leading in the capital for the 1st time and more than 2 decades. the original vote was held in 2021, at the constitutional court overturned the results because of what it called systematic faults. dominic cane has more from berlin the opinion polls had been suggesting that the social democrats were in trouble in this city for some time. but so look at the figures you really get a sense of quite how much trouble they're in, at least in this city. by the thought that you have to go back more than 100 years to a situation to an election where the social democrats did worse than they did last night. and that was back in 1920 in it's, i'm a real tumult in terms of demographics in this country. so clearly from their perspective,

a historic disaster in terms of what's happened here. and it has repercussions for them already. there are people in the party asking serious questions about the lady who presided over this electoral problem for them. francisca gifford, for monic form a cabinet minister in the federal government. the mare of this city, since 2021. she had hoped to be reelected when in fact she lost her own seat in terms of direct votes to parliament. she'll still get in through the proportional system, but a really serious problem for her. and indeed for all our shots looking at this election resultant saying, okay, well what does this portend for me in terms of my party, not just in berlin, but around the country. women make up half of nigeria as population, but only 10 percent of candidates running for office. in this months elections. one women vying for a state governor is raising hopes that voters may elect the 1st female to the this

an act of a say, this could mark a turning point for women in a male dominated society. i did that is reports in the eastern city of yula. i mean, this is a moment female activist and nigeria have walked ha, ha, ha ha, a woman from a major political party becoming a candidate for governor. and she is a from tra, i should have been any overcame religious and cultural bodies in the patrick of society to get to you. she says it's been worth the struggle. it gives the woman it gives, so a daughters and gives us says together, i'm to sell. what does the confidence that to yes or soul ah, who wore men can walk towards buying what ever elective position the desired although women make up half of nitrous population, they've long been on the fringes economic.