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the wobble, i'm bianca nobilo. >> i'm max foster joining you just ahead on "cnn newsroom." a major earthquake has killed hundreds of people in syria and turkey. >> the strongest earthquake in 100 years or more of record keeping.h and rescue operations, of course, very, very difficult. >> how and when president joe biden was informed about the suspected chinese spy balloon. >> china's now accusing the u.s. of overreacting. in fact, it's not just the balloon. it's the message to send the world that we can do whatever we want and america can't stop us. ♪ live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. this monday, february 6th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 12:00

p.m. in turkey, search and rescue crews are working desperately to find people trapped in a major earthquake that struck in the early hoursch this morning. >> turkey's vice president said as least 280 people have died. 2200 are injured. and thousands of rescue engineers are headed to the region. the u.s. geological center says that the epicenter likely will continue in the hours and days to come. a little journalist who spoke to cnn earlier described the scene. >> reporter: i was sitting up there at the house, we were asleep. and tried to get them to stay under the roof, under the doors. and i tried to confirm it, and i was trying to calm them down,

telling them be calm, stay under the door. i was telling them it's going to be over soon. it's going to be over soon, but it felt like it would never be over. and a lot of stuff got broken in my house, like furniture, electronics. and then when it started continuing, we ran out of the building with all literally. >> germany and the netherlands answering turkey's call for international support saying they will provided assistance. the devastation is widespread in neighboring sear year where at least 386 people have died and hundreds of others were injured in the earthquake. the syrian defense minute still said it was mobilizing all units to provide urgent need. >> and more scenes like this, crews in syria pulling a toddler alive from beneath the rubble. hospitals are said to be overwhelmed with patients with the syrian medical society saying there's now an urgent

need for trauma supplies. cnn's scouttt mclean is here in london. as we look at the pictures it's going to go up dramatically. >> there's only two in history to compare to, one 7.8, tied to turkish history, in 1939, thousands of were killed. a more contemporary happened in 1999, 7.4, 17,000 people were killed. half of the country made homeless around the country in istanbul. these are the kind of numbers perhaps that we'll see in this case. adding insult to injury on top of this, not only were people very likely sleeping at the time, 4:00 in the morning, you heard there from the local journalist in gaziantep, they were going to temperatures that are just above freezing. they're in the midst of a cold spell now. even when we talk about is,000

workers coming from istanbul, they're having to get there in the midst of very bad winter weather as well. some of the machinery, some of the cars having to go that way, having to go on roads that are icy, that are wintry, that's going to take a long time. they don't have a lot of time, frankly. the rescue efforts are extremely desperate, especially in the cold temperatures, if there are people trapped there, they won't be able to survive tour too too long, given how cold it is outside. i want to show you one town in the affected area called malatya, dozens of people reported dead, of a rescue effort. watch. >> hey! >> yeah, so, please think about yourself right now. i can't see anything else. i mean, these are the kind of

scenes that we're seeing where people are worried about other people who may be trapped. rescue workers are obviously just trying to get the people out who they can see and actually hear from at that moment, you can see from that, just all delicate the situation is, just how much rubble, extremely heavy slabs of concrete, you don't want to move anything, heavy machinery is help sfl ful but delicate not t move. and also reportedly heavy damage to the gaziantep castle, a unesco world heritage site. electricity is gone in many places. the gas is shut off. mobile connectivity is not great. on top of that, we're seeing

video of large concrete on the highway as well, that gives you a sense of how strong the force was that we're talking abe here. scott, thank you. >> joining me is the vice president of the international blue cross relief and development ngo and he's in gaziantep. thank you so much for joining us. just checking the line, you can hear us? >> yeah, thank you, very much, for paying attention for huge disaster that we are facing since a few hours before. and the immediate is dramatic here. >> absolutely. we're looking at the images. is this is impossible to ignore. such tragedy, and obviously the dental toll continues to climb. we were just hear from our reporter scott about the immediate effort. obviously, every single minute counts right now. what is the urgent priorities in terms of rescue and where the resources need to be directed right now? >> yeah.

the urgency, of course, is to take those people under the rubble to survive them, to rescue them. we need urgent rescue teams to mobilize, because the turkish government it doing its best efforts to rescue those people. but there are thousands of buildings, six floors, seven floors, ten floors, even 17 floors, that totally collapsed. there are some hospitals in malatya that have collapsed, we are getting calls and also people are in the desperate position because, still, the state told us right to authorize the rescue operations, but nonetheless, the buildings and the capacity of the rescue teams is not enough. so first priority must be given to the rescue operation. and we need urgent rescue teams to come back to turkey to help

us on the rescue. the second issue is it is unusual for this time. and especially in the epicenter of the earthquake. among it in gaza, and malatya, andiy diyarbakir. and do not have the opportunity to survive in the streets. so, we are moving them to the schools, the mosques, and even as you see, on the community centers, just to keep them survive for a few days. one of the priorities is to provide tents and provide heat for them and also food and heat and materials. and the area that was affected about a 20-people operation

includieing the syria side. and 15, 16 million people are affected. and i'm sure the number of death would be up to 5,000 to 6,000 in turkey. as i was listening to cnn news just the news before, the number has increased to 680 on the state side. and the north side, northern syria which is under opposition, it's about 200 for the moment. the issue right now in syria, they don't have rescue capacity. the rescue capacity. and that death toll is going to increase very much more. >> it looks as though everything is being done by hand at the moment as well. you clearly need heavy lifting equipment and sort of urgent equipment supplies from abroad presumedly. >> right. the turkish government has

declared international assistance, but as a turkish ngo, we have the same -- the same announcement, because really, we don't have the capacity to rescue those people. of course, the rescue teams must run as it is today, if those people under the rubble stay more than one day, more than four days, the most, three days, you know, it's not severe to rescue them after. this is one of the main priorities. i'm sure the united states and other government are ready to help and even teams from germany and netherlands, as you said, they're arrived. even the parts that are not affected by this earthquake area, they move their rescue teams to the field. and as i said, the first priorities is to rescue those people. also, the second is to endure

people. you know, some of the hospitals, big hospitals are destroyed totally, so, we need temporary mobile hospitals in the field. maybe tent hospitals or other type of mobile hospitals, we need medical assistance to help those injured and to save them. the priority, as i told you, is to shelter them somewhere. we cannot keep them forever. you know, the schools are closed now for this one week. and also the state departments are prepared to be closed by tomorrow. the departments are direct to the earthquake, but despite that, we cannot keep them in those buildings. and those buildings are not enough to shelter them. so, we need to start with some kind of small parts around the city to keep them arriving at

least and later on for more shelters. >> muzaffer, baca, thank you so much for joining us in this critical moment and informing us and the international community about what your most urgent priorities are. i'm sure we'll be checking back in with you. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. and the worldwide response effort for assistance, thank you very much. >> just stay with cnn throughout the hour for the very latest. it's very clear from those images we're getting in from syria, there's so much damage that were haven't got a sense of yet. >> exactly, because the government isn't fully functioning and also this is a country that's been ravaged by war and has very vulnerable infrastructure and we're seeing the toll that's taking. >> the u.s. military says that its searching for the remnants of a suspected chinese spy balloon after it was shot down over the weekend. >> on sunday, residents in south carolina filmed the possible

debris on a boat. cnn can confirm that it was part of the balloon, but the video was taken close to where it was shot down. >> officials say it grew concerned about the balloon when it moved td towards the mainlan. cnn's alex marquardt reports. we are now learning more and when and how president biden was informed that the spy balloon was crossing the united states and eventually shot down on saturday. biden was first told on tuesday, four days before it was eventually shot down, and three days after if first entered u.s. airspace isn alaska. after asking for military options biden was advised not to shut it down over land because of the harm. he was urged to shoot it down, we're today, in a way that was safe to people but to try to preserve as much equipment on board as possible. as soon as it throughout over the water over south carolina on saturday, the f-22 jets ths fle

and shot it down. the administration will now face fierce questioning as early as tuesday from so-called members of congress, and from the eight from the senate and intelligence committees. they may ask of past incidents of chinese balloons over the u.s. we're told there are at least four others that flew over the continental united states over the fast four years including mike walsh, over a year texas and florida. and former president donald trump denied that it happened while he was in office. but the pentagon now says there were at least three times that it did. alex marquardt, cnn, new york. china's defense ministry has accused the u.s. of overreacting by shooting the balloon down saying it reserves the right to

deal with situations. let's get more from bureau chief steven xiang. talk us through what the point of all of this was, there's obviously multiple layers, what actually happened and then the projection and rhetoric on top of it. so, what does china strand to gain by this balloon mission? and then its reaction? >> yeah, bianca, before i go there some new development for you on the story, just a short while ago, china, for the first, acknowledged a second balloon spotted in the skies over latin america also belongs to china. and they're very much sticking to the same story line, claiming that balloon was also a civilian vessel used for flight testing and it drifted off course due to weather. and the foreign ministry spokeswoman said china has explained the situation to relevant governments and saying this balloon posed no threat to those countries. and according to her, those governments, quote-unquote,

expressed their understanding. that obviously was not the reaction they got from washington which is why they continue to accuse the u.s. by overreacting. many find it ironic, given beijing's unusual obsession with sovereignty. in addition to the administration threat, the big threat, you mentioned, 9 foreign ministry spokeswoman addressed the accusations saying shooting the balloon down and quote-unquote hyping up the snipts incident was very unresponsive. and part of the sentiment being reflected on the strictly control social media heel where the reaction total news have now reached a fever pitch which is something that we've previously seen whenever the two governments had serious run-in.

there was hope, according to analysts, despite the public outspring from beijing, they want want to turn this page over quickly to bring this relationship back on. of course that highly anticipated trip by blinken to beijing. that has since been cut off. but as you mentioned bianca, a lot of unanswered questions including why china and the top leader xi jinping decided to do that. bianca and max. >> steven jiang in beijing. thank you. we'll take a short break and continue with more breaking news coverage of the deadly earthquake in turk with. urkrainian forces about to begin more attack. and the ability to russia to cut off the ability to fund. the details coming up ahead.

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trapped man, until their finally able to pull him free from the debris. at least 670 people have been killed in turkey and neighboring cities. >> and nearly 3,000 more have been injured. the earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8, according to the u.s. geological survey, at least 18 aftershocks with a magnitude over 4 have been recorded since that initial quake. ♪ we're also learning that ukraine could be wedging to replace its defense ministry with a re suffihuffle. >> it says the move to replace oleksii reznikov is, quote, absolutely logic am for wartime. the defense minister has been under observation for several weeks. for corruption. reznikov is expected to be replaced by the current head of defense.

reznikov is warning of a wildly expected russian offensive which may start soon. he says his country still needs long-range weapons which he emphasized would not be used on targets in russian territory. >> defense ministry said russian troops when begin training on monday. several nato allies will have the tanks to ukraine. nic robertson in estonia. a huge project ahead of them, before they can become active, these tanks. >> reporter: yeah, we're at a nato hill tear exercise, just 170 kilometers from the russian border here. 500 vehicles here, 44 of them are tanks, the shepherd 2 tank. you can see behind me, the british challenger tanks as well. and this exercise is designed to get the different nations, estonia, france, the uk, denmark, these are danish help per leopard tanks here.

all an area that can snatch and take territory. the tanks can provide a powerful punch from the infantry here. we're learning quite a few things from the danish troops here, particularly about the advantages and the training times of the leopard 2 tank. of course, all of this information is hugely valuable to the ukrainians, as they try to get their hands on these tanks, get trained up, and use them as they want to, as an iron fist to punch through russian lines and take territory. but the lessons they're learning here it's not quick. the danish troops here with basic training can train up a driver or gun operator in a couple weeks. but to get them as an effective crew together, that can take a couple of months. to get them to fight as a platoon together and a squadron, that can take much, much longer. let me give you an idea. it's not just about the tank.

you've got a recovery vehicle over here. these will have to be provided to the ukrainians as well. so that these groups, these squadrons of tanks, these 14 tanks that will be in these squadrons can operate together, operate effectively, and what they're training for here and what the ukrainians will need to do as well, is to have them work effectively with the infantry on the ground. yesterday, we saw french troops in a mock battle storming estonians in trenches, just like we see in ukraine, under that punch that came up with the leopard 2 tanks. they are better than the russian tanks. they've got night capability, they is fire at one target, track another target. they've got high-speed reverse which is way better than the russian tanks which believe it or not is very important on the ba battlefield. but the big line, i guess, out of here, it will take some sometime for the ukrainians to get really effective as they want to be on the battlefield. >> nic in estonia, thank you.

there's a new effort to limit russia's ability to make money and finance its war in ukraine. the u.s. and other seven nation, with diesel and fuel oil. clare, this has been a priority for the west, to try to hamstring them economically, so they cannot fund the war. with the uk having it in russia, 0.2%, do you think this is going to be effective, in actually damaging russia's ability to finance the war? >> not immediately, certainly not, the sanction the second phase where we saw this on the crude oil along with the g7 price cut mechanism, now the same on the likes of oil products, diesel, two price caps, one for products that sell

more expensive than crude oil and one for less expensive than crude oil but initially, the biggest impact is from is that embargo, i can show you the map of the biggest diesel ex sport exporters. the crude oil to fund the barrels that would have gone to europe, india and china. india and china are big exporters of products. it's less important where the russian-placed are going to go. meanwhile, europe has to find more suppliers to pay more to outwin the competition. we could see 9 pthe prices go u. >> clare sebastian, thank you very much. a frantic search of survivors under way in turkey and syria, after a major earthquake hit that region. i'll have the very latest for you. stick around. shortening brand!md

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♪ welcome back to "cnn newsroom." if you're just joining us, let me bring you up to date with our top story this hour. a major earthquake has killed hundreds of people in turkey and syria the.u.s. geological says the earthquake was centered in southern turkey, the magnitude 7.8 was so powerful it could be felt in lebanon and palestinian territories. >> let's go to karen maginnis on this. talk us through the areas affected by this, and how long

the aftershocks could continue for. >> yeah. i'll answer your second question first. that is, it will last for weeks and months. now, they'll gradually taper off both in frequency and intensity. over the last -- since the earthquake was reported just after 4:00 a.m. local time, south central turkey, there have been about 26 aftershocks. the strongest one was a 6.8 magnitude that occurred about 11 minutes after the main shock occurred. now, this is real time. these are some of the aftershocks. this is an interesting trajectory, just kind of this geometry of where that energy was lying as it raised along that fault line. and this is one of the most active, seismic areas in the entire world. that's because we've got a lot of at the tectonic plates and z

that are illustrative of how devastating these could be. luckily, a lot are major earthquakes but this one, 7.8, in 1939, 17,000 associated with that. this earthquake is shallow, that means the effects are felt much more severely, than if it were much farther down in the core of the earth. all right. this is the vicinity of that earthquake, 7.8 magnitude. as i mentioned, they're going to feel the aftereffects. people were sleeping in their beds when they were jolted by this horrific earthquake that now is interrupting the power grid, the gas lines. the infrastructure. homes collapsede, buildings

coll collapsed, there livelihoods. and temperature readings 5 degrees below normal. this is the vicinity where that earthquake took place. raining but a cold rain. there's no place to be but down in the place you don't know where the aftershocks are going to shake. some of those buildings are compromised and they could collapse. all right, here are the tectonic plates i was talking about. essentially, these are always shifting. there are always earthquakes somewhere in this region being reported but this one happened to be a major earthquake and devastating. this is devastating, one in the record books, we'll remember february 2023 for this massive violent earthquake that took place in south central turkey that has interrupted so many people's lives but not just in turkey, in israel, in jordan, in

syria, where so many displaced people are currently located. and the weather is just one of those aggravating factors that figurers into the forecast over the next several days and weeks, in fact. back to you, guys. >> karen maginnis, thank you. >> we're joined as well monitoring the images more shocking than the turkish ones in terms of the videos. >> northwest syria is in a state of catastrophe, and it was already in a state of catastrophe. this is a country that's been devastated by over a decade of war, so what resources are really left behind to have this earthquake. president bashar al assad has held an emergency meeting. he's instructed all ministers, all provinces any regions they, doctors, firefighters, they can to the affected area. again, the question is what's left? what do they have to use?

over a decade of war means the infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed. hospitals and clinics, i know we're looking at images of those, those were hit in the overwhelming conflicts so you're looking at doctors struggling to get the medical aid they need. the very important thing to remember here, is that the government does not have full control of these areas. there's a huge portion of northwest syria under rebel control. that means those families will be reliant on rebel forces and volunteers to get that access and that help to pull people out of the rubble. one of those groups, the white helmets which has been pulling people out of the rubble for years because of bombings, but today because of earthquake. i want you to take a look at a very brief sound bite i want to play for you. >> very different task for us. we need help. we need the international community to do something to help us, to support us. what you see now, you see the

area, we need help from everyone, to save our people. >> you hear the emotion in that man's voice. and he's appealing to the international community. but what's important to remember is the international community has very little access, considering the war, to get to these areas. and, again, a traumatized country, a traumatized community. syrians who woke up wondering if it was a bomb when it was really an earthquake. defers stating. >> salma, thank you very much, indeed. joining us live from demarcus syria is the head of communications for the syrian red crescent. what are your teams telling you? >> hello, everyone. the red crescent volunteers are a very effective sight and helping the people in the building, collapsed as the earthquakes that happened early today in the morning. at 4:00 a.m., more than 500

volunteers, 27 ambulances to try to assist, to help people. at the moment, they very far transported 452 cases. and 51 and 26 deaths. so far, the foreign ministry has registered 639 injuries. and in ruins now sifting through and trying to help with manpower. unfor unfortunately, we have very bad weather and we've been working, with wounded and injured people to the facilities. >> and what sort of help are you getting there? have you got the facilities you need? or have they all been damaged as well? >> we have first aid. we've been providing primary health care. and if people need surgeries,

they are transferring them to our hospitals. we are doing our best to help reference. >> and how far -- i'm sorry, please continue. >> sorry. and the response is still going until now. >> and how far is the rescue effort complicated by the areas that are under government control versus areas of syria which are under rebel control? >> as you know, it exists in all government, so, we have reach to all of the place. and as you see, the earthquake happ happened -- and we hope to stop here, and let's see, maybe about -- maybe tomorrow morning,

we receive and we're grateful for all of the phone calls and aides that we've received from the international society that have been with you since the beginning of the day. we have the emirates, the iraqi, the egyptian and they promised us to send emergency assistance. >> okay. thank you very much indeed for joining us. incredible amount of work needs to be done there. >> actually i have -- allow me, i have to give the word through cnn, if that's okay. >> yes. >> on behalf of red rcrescent t call for the assistance for the devastating earthquake that took place. we can request the necessary

resources and support including shelter, food and medical care and other essential supplies and we hope that the support for those suffering and those who have been impacted by this earthquake through first line intervention. thank you all. >> yes. thank you very much indeed for bringing us that. we're hearing the same from turkey. they're desperate for support. then governments are saying, they will work out exactly what will they can offer specifically, because they don't want to send all the same sort of thing. >> exactly. and unfortunately, because the region has experience of quakes in the past there are hubs in place. but that coordination to make that effective to use those resources is key. still ahead on the program, hong kong's harsh security law will be used to decide the fate of leaders. we'll have the latest with more

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more on the breaking news that we're following out of turkey and syria. a deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake striking southern turkey just hours ago, sending strong aftershocks through syria as well. more than 380 deaths have been reported by syrian state tv. more than 280 so far by officials in turkey. the u.s. geological survey estimates the death toll will most likely exceed 1,000 lives lost. we'll continue to bring you all of the developments as they come into us. pro-democracy leaders are standing trial in hong kong after being charged under the regions controversial national security law more than two years ago. >> trial is linked to arrest of 47 people in early 2021 charged with participating in an

unofficial election the previous year. the trial is expected to last up to three months. >> the national security law was imposed by beijing in 2020 and amid months of pro-democracy protests challenging hong kong. kristie lu stout joins us in hong kong. what is the population most concerned about as they watch the trials happen? >> reporter: first some context here, this case, bianca, concerns the hong kong 47 which is a group of 47 pro-democracy activists who have been charged with the conspiracy to commit subversion which is a very serious crime here under the international security law, in fact, it's punishable by up to life in prison. and this trial, a landmark trial, it begins today. this is the largest national security trial to take place here in the territory since beijing and imposed sweeping legislation in the wake of the 2019 anti-government hong kong protests. among the 47 who are on trial, you have very prominent bigs

like joshua wong and bennie tai and claudia lo. they represent those who pleaded guilty, 16 other are pleading, pleading not guilty, including a former journalist, gwyneth ho. they're accused of participating in an unofficial vote that took place in july 2020. hong kong had hosted a similar event without incident in 2018, but when this vote took place, it brought up the eire of chinas top representative in hong con. saying this took place in 2020 contravened the national security law. critics say the law is being used to you crush dissent. to crush and dismantle opposition here in the territory. this is saying this, hong kong's biggest national security case is wrapped in legal language, but it's just part of the

chinese government's relentless efforts to smother democracy. the real threat for peaceful activist shows beijing's other con2e6r79 for processes and the rule of law, unquote. and bianca and max, this is indeed a landmark trial it's expected to last at least 90 days but its implications will last for decades. back to you. >> what sort of coverage do you think this will get in china? >> reporter: it's getting plenty of coverage here in hong kong. in fact there have been protests here in hong kong, a very small group of protesters gathered earlier today in front of the courtroom. and they were holding signs. one of them that read according to my notes "crackdown is shameless." there is coverage, of course, the local press here, they're on alert. because they don't want to be accused of breaching the national security law themselves. but a lot of people here in the territory, and, of course, a lot of people from hong kong, have immigrated overseas, closely

watching events here for hong kong. the critics say the national security law has been weaponized to crush dissent. it's been meant to crush one's vibrant civil society here in hong kong. while the hong kong government, chinese authorities, they continue to dispute say that and say that the national security law was meant to restore order and bring back establishment to hong kong since 2019. back to you. >> kristie lu stout in hong kong. dozens of iraqis gathered in iraq to protest the killing of an iraqi. she lived in istanbul with her syrian boyfriend where she had a youtube channel with millions of subscribers they were not married and dishonorable to family. she returned to iraq and her family allegedly strangled her. he turned himself in to the

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