[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is dw news lying from for a land of powerful earthquake strikes, eastern afghanistan. officials say a 1000 are dead and many more injured making in the countries deadliest quake and decades. also coming up here in germany, chancellor, allah shaw says democratic nations have joined forces as never before to come back russian imperialism and a speech to parliament. he said german would not sure it's security

responsibilities as comes as the 1st german heavy weapons arrive in ukraine. but are they enough to silence critics who say germany has done too little to help ukraine defend itself. and a controversial visit aimed at mending ties to saudi arabia's crown principal had been some visits turkey for the 1st time since the killing of the saudis, journalists plunged relations between the 2 countries and to crisis. ah, i'm nichol froze. it's good to have you with us. the death toll from a powerful earthquake in eastern afghanistan continues to rise. at least 1000 people have died with hundreds more injured. rescue efforts are especially difficult in the remote mountainous region. adding to the challenge is the fact that many international aid agencies left afghanistan after the taliban took over.

rescuers and survivors rush, the injured to waiting helicopters, getting around, and the remote mountainous regions of eastern afghanistan is challenging under normal circumstances. but after wednesday's earthquake, it is even more difficult. the powerful tremor took residents by surprise. many were at home in their beds when it hit the sea, the spanish boy did up. i think it was midnight when the quake struck the mangano, the kids and i screamed, one of our rooms was destroyed, while our neighbors screamed and we saw everyone's rooms collapsed my own bows. eventually the houses in this rural region are mostly made of mud or stone, and dozens were destroyed. authorities fear, many people could be trapped beneath the rubble. among the disaster opposes a manger test for the taliban, lead government, which seized power last year. since then, many international agencies have left the country and billions of euros in development aid were cut as a result of dentist and was already facing

a severe economic crisis. in light of these difficult circumstances, the taliban lead government is asking for international help. the afghan red crescent society has dispatched humanitarian aid from cobbled to the affected areas . and the united nations says it's also sending its teams. so maris i had raman is the advocacy and communications director for the international rescue committee of ghana, stan, and cobble and she gave us this update. well, it is an absolutely devastating situation that we are seeing unraveling and practical host. um, as was mentioned in the report earlier, these are some of the most underserved and impoverished communities in the country on there. extremely remote with poor infrastructure as people do not have the economic means to build proper housing. most in these areas live in mud homes that could not handle the massive job that they received last night. and i've mentioned

the death toll is ex, has already exceeded a 1000 with scores more injured. and initial estimates are that 1800 homes have been destroyed or damaged. i do to, you know, the remote nature of the areas in which the largest impact is we are expecting that this figure will rise. has your organization been given access to the region? yes, we all have deployed mobile health teams to districts affected in a whole host province to provide emergency medical relief. we're also sending an emergency teams to provide cash support to victims affected. i'm currently the humanitarian community here. international and yos are coordinating through u. n. o tra, to have a better understanding and i'm through an assessment to have a better understanding of the scale of the impact of this disaster. so that we can

best utilize the resources and capacities of all the organizations that are currently present. i'm so that we can reach as many affected people and as many affected communities as possible in trying to reach those communities. what are the irises priorities in these kinds of catastrophic scenarios? well, our priority has always been women and children are 1st and foremost, given that oftentimes women and children face the brunt of humanitarian disasters from food 10th medicine cache, support, whatever we can provide. we're going to look into that and expand our presence in the region. how do you think this will impact theed already very dire humanitarian situation in the country in that area? specifically? i'm like you mentioned in this disaster, this rick event comes out a time where afghanistan is in the midst of

a massive economic crisis. a worsening humanitarian crisis. poverty on the rise, and a health system that is on the brink due to brain drain and a lack of funding. this is just going to exacerbate the existing problems that are on the ground in afghanistan. right now. a grim picture, your painting there, samira sy, at roman of the international rescue committee. thank you so much for your time. and the earthquake could be felt hundreds of kilometers away for more on why this happened. where and how it did. i can now welcome the best stevens from our science department but but give us the bigger picture. how common are earthquakes in afghanistan? so in the area around peg, tito has seen about 50 in the last 5 years. but in terms of earthquakes of this magnitude, they're relatively rare in afghanistan. there's only been 5 in the last decade that have actually been a similar or stronger magnitude is worth bearing in mind. the region around

afghanistan is 2nd only to the ring of fire in the pacific in terms of the most seismically active areas in the world. so that means that yes of quite a common and why has this earthquake happened in practica? so the earth's crust is divided into that, it out to shall, is divided into tectonic tapes. they're moving all the time, and sometimes they get stuck on when they do, there's a build up of tension. and when they become unstuck than the release of that pressure is an earthquake, an afghanistan finds itself on the boundary between 2 plays between the indian and the racial plates. that's what causes the himalayas to rise every year, farther to the east. but afghan has done is also in the region where another plate is involved as well. so you have a triple collision, not the arabic plate. you have a triple collision, and all of that again means that afghanistan is that one of the most active site logically active regions in the well, what made this earthquake,

so destructive was its magnitude. do you know why it was so severe? is there a reason for that? well, the in, in geological terms, it matters how deep the origin of the earthquake is. this one was really quite shallow, is only 10 kilometers. for comparison, there was an earthquake in northern afghanistan in, in 2015. there was actually a great magnitude, but it was 200 kilometers deep. and so we didn't see anything like the numbers people dying that we see now. and the mountainous region as well means that that is that that can be landslides. and it will say quite a condensed area in terms of population density and size seismologists, a warning of significant further damage. and let's talk about aftershocks, which are often a problem when, when these kinds of events happen. how concerned should people in the area b of that now, i'd have to refer that question to a psychologist. all right,

thank you so much for the stevens. from our science department. germany will do justice to its responsibilities. that's the method found german chancellor off shots who used an address to the countries parliament to re state and germany's commitment to supporting ukraine and other international allies. in a wide ranging speech. scholes said the e u and nato had joined forces like never before, to fight against russian imperialism is that germany knew from its history, that alliances were important and that germany was a reliable partner. is a big is security challenge just in your for decades. germany, the oldest and most densely populated country and the largest country, the european union is doing justice to its responsibility. taking responsibility, not for its own security alone, but also that of its allies. 2 weeks ago when i was in the baltic states, i made it clear that an attack on the baltic states would be an attack on all of us

and words and with our not to now have. i asked d. w as chief political editor, mckayla. if not, if it was remarkable. the chancellor so heavily emphasized not just germany security, but also its responsibility towards its allies. yes, absolutely. and germany has the stepped out. it's support so picky for those baltic countries. in lithuania, there's a whole brigade that's rotating in and out to support the eastern flank. so goldie some flank of nato. so that means hardware. that means heavy weapons. now that we've learned that indeed 7 how it says have arrived in ukraine. we're germany had trained ukrainian soldiers in total, it was 12, in addition, 5 from the netherlands. but the commitment he made and the responsibility he says spawns beyond ukraine and one's own security, but also towards the southern hemisphere. those countries who are feeling the brunt of what is fast amounting to

a food crisis. and those countries in the global south, he said, if they don't see that commitment from ost, meaning the europeans meeting the wide a west right now, that would mean that they would be under the sphere of influence of russia and china. and that, that must be avoided. so this is the big kind of spawning speech we saw. of course, we all those key summits coming up or the new summit, the g 7 summit on the nato summit of the coming days. he certainly used the stage. he had to day to try and quash the idea that he's moving too slowly on helping ukraine. do you think he achieved that goal? why said he didn't convince the opposition and there's more positive signals coming out of ukraine. what helped a great deal was, of course, that there's been a change in information policy now that is a freely available list published of weapons committed equipment committed and

equipment that has already arrived. and that is tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition that is surface to air missiles and there's more heavy weapons including more houses, but also those tanks that will be sent to the czech republic. and the 2nd public sending soviet built ones on that is all still in the pipeline. the possess steps and still lingers that tony was a bit slow to move off the mock, but then germany points at the bad situation, its own armed forces. i and right now we hear okay, now i'm going to some thank you so much. well, in his speech to the german parliament chancellor, a shelter also said ukraine had every right to defend itself, adding quote, it is our duty to support your grain as best we can. germany has faith international criticism for his initial reluctance to supply ukraine with weapons. and then for the time it took to deliver them the german panza, hobbits,

at $5001.00 of the most sophisticated artillery systems in the world. most 5 months after russia's invasion of ukraine, 7 of these self propelled houses have finally arrived on the battlefield. germany has long been accused of dragging its heels over the delivery of legal aid to ukraine. to counter such criticism, berlin has released a lengthy list of weapons and equipment. it is handed over to keith. it includes pansy fast infantry anti tank rocket launchers, man portable air defense systems, or man pads that enable soldiers to down enemy aircraft. 60000000 rounds of ammunition. these deliveries proved useful in the early stages of the war when ukrainian forces ambushed russian columns often at close range. ah, but against the math, a tillery deployed by russia in it's gone bus offensive. ukraine needs more heavy

guns of its own. germany has been slow to react, unlike some of its nato allies. o. u. s. has delivered over a 100 of these modern and hilary pieces and will soon send long range missile systems. poland has donated at least 18 self pelt. how it's us and hundreds of soviet era tanks. germany to has pledged more heavy equipment on the to do list. the gap itself propelled anti aircraft gun effective against low flying aircraft. the mos multiple launch rockets system, able to targets up to 80 kilometers away. and the state of the ot iris t anti aircraft system, able to clear the sky of enemy aircraft and missiles but the 1st batch of gay pots and the mos launches only slated for delivery in july, the iris t. what only arrive in ukraine in october. a long wait for

a country under constant attack from the air the, the leisure by corridors is in cave, and i asked her how heavy weapons finally arriving from germany could be seen as a 1st step for ukraine. oh, finally is really the word. the key word in that sentence, i mean that's the word that was used by the ukraine defense ministry when the defense minister, rather when he tweeted about their delivery, he said that we're happy to finally have them as part of our arsenal. that's not to to mean or to sound like they're ungrateful, they're really, really grateful for any help. they've been calling that heavy weaponry for such time for such a long time. they desperately needed, as you would to sang in that report, to try and halt the gradual progress of russian forces to push them back. but they are increasingly frustrated at the pace at which they're coming. we know that, as you mentioned, that these is just a small portion of what germany has actually offered to ukraine. but, but the, the bigger the even heavier artillery that they've offered won't come until the end of this summer, or potentially even in the autumn. which of course,

is frustrating for the ukrainian army when they're seeing as many or even more as $200.00 soldiers per day dying on the battle field. and they are seeing, however, slowly rushing, pushing russia, pushing forward in the don bass region. and they are increasingly frustrated at their lack of ability. the fact that they just completely are gone by russia still . and they, they just want these things to come faster so that they can try and protect their land. but of course, very happy, very good news. and anna, and a good 1st step at least. meanwhile, a diplomatic dispute between russia and lithuania, keeps escalating. the baltic state has blocked the rail transit of sanctioned goods, through its territory to the russian exclaimed of colon and grad lithuania, says it's just following e guidelines. but moscow is threatening what it calls, serious consequences bound from russia to russia. this strain is bringing goods from russia's heartland to x,

x clave of colleen and grad collision grant is separated from the rest of russia by 2 countries, lithuania and belarus could while bella bruce is letting all russian trains transit its territory. lithuania has started blocking all trains carrying sanctioned goods lightly through new doing anything. it's our european sanctions that are started working from the 17th of june. coal metal cement, wood building, materials, and high tech goods are among the items on the sanctions list. they count for up to 50 percent of all goods bound for cleaning grad. moscow has called the parcel trance, had been a hostile blockade, and is threatening nato member lithuania, usually militia chevy, macro afraid traffic, between the kellen in grad region and the rest of russia's territory is not fully restored. in the next few days. russia retains its right to take measures to defend

its national interests. he gives way, not only hinted, as of russia insists that international freight transportation agreements must be respected and is accusing lithuania, violating the human rights of its citizens and cleaning grad that you has rejected moscow's criticism and isn't turn accusing the russian government of exploiting the partial trends had been for its own ets, stop or government did. they could have expected this. the russian side knew full well that sanctions will limit the transport of goods and are now using this as a weapon and in information war understood. passenger trains from russia continued to pass through lithuania without any problems. however, travellers are not allowed to get off the train back here at the station in vienna . yes. in order to get around the blockade. russia now wants to, you see roots as an alternative. in the meantime, for you are growing that moscow could try to throw the escalate to stand off. and

let's get you up to speed on some other stories making headlines at this hour. the u. s. senate has taken a step towards passing the country's 1st major gun control legislation in decades. senators voted to speed up the passage of a bipartisan bill to toughen federal gun laws. the senate is expected to vote on the measures this week. the proposals follow a number of recent mast shootings including the one in your valley, texas pack the school. any you valgy were a gunman killed $21.00 people last month is set to be demolished. the city's mayor sat in, houseman came hours after an official called the police response to the shooting, an abject failure which put the officers lines ahead of those of the children is rarely lawmakers have voted in favor of dissolving parliament, moving the country closer to its 5th parliamentary election in 3 years. that emotion is the 1st step in a series of votes to disband. the government, after prime minister natalie bennett,

announced his aid party coalition was no longer tenable. and a commercial plank on fire. after landing at miami international airport on tuesday, authority say the front landing gear malfunction upon touchdown. 126 people were on board the jet liner, which was traveling from the dominican republic. the aircraft was safely evacuated and no serious injuries were reported. saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman is visiting turkey for the 1st time since the killing of a saudi journalists plunged relations between the 2 countries into crisis. the crown prince has been meeting turkish president, rid of type ardon in ankara. falling a trip by ergo, on to re ard in april, both sides say they are keen to men ties that have been strange since journalists jamal kashodi was killed in the saudi consul, it is temple in 2018. and earlier i spoke to i am carmel from the political risk, consult, and see the eurasia group,

and asked why this rapprochement was happening now. you know, i think they had one year is let bygones be bygones. and the strategic interest means that there has to be some formal normalization between turkey and saudi arabia. the heart of this, the saudis wanted to get over to the dispute normalized. they wanted to a better relationship with their c horizon on the defense throng corporation there . target can be used for the iranian france as well, in terms of containing iran, and it's a regional activity, but also turkey younger economic pressure. how's, when you're from south uribe or perhaps also the u. e. in terms of just more relations tourism corporation. something that could have healthy con, what can hurt on realistically expect to get from mohammed bin phelman? so i, i think that there is really a conviction of the senior level by the conference that there should be

a real effort here. the invitation of the conference that tended to president or the gone to visit. sorry i just got trip was highly successful in my view very well here. and here i think the. busy when chris mohammed is visiting cher, if you, the expectation here is that they're wanting to do more their mother to do more on the economics side and the trade side. however, i think the senior leadership and saudi is going to trek carefully. if he wants concessions from turkey on issues that matter to saudi arabia. so i think it's going to be a step by step development. the search of me move towards more normalization and a better relationship. and i want to bring up a reaction from jamal. she's turkish fiance, her teacher changing. let's see if we can bring it up. she tweeted today, the political legitimacy prince aman urns through the visits he makes to a different country every day. doesn't change the fact that he is

a murderer. mister cardinal turkey isn't the only country courting and b as in my, my call and boys johnson both visited him and very on. joe biden is planning a visit in july, and he promised to make the nation a pariah has necessity caused amnesia in the west. and away so i think, you know, for, for the west, in general, i think there's a brand new lot to, to do in terms of dealing with saudi arabia. and really the most important here is a strategic compound. of course, there are issues that many countries have in different domains to saudi pumps. but the strategic idea is that it's very difficult to bypass. and saudi arabia is a very important creation of our efforts to just base the conference. we're never going to really succeed, not by the us or anyone else. so as much as there might be a reservation across different issues. what everyone i think will do is approach the relationship with saudi arabia in

a much more pragmatic way and understanding that they just cannot break that relationship with saudi to important. no way around. mbm says i am come in middle east researcher at your age group. thank you so much. thank you. drastically shifting gears now, a new bio fake telling the story of elvis presley. it's movie theaters this week. presley scandalized the united states with his swinging hips in 1957 and became an overnight sensation in the process. take a look at what's in store. ladies and gentlemen, i play austin butler is elvis, the young actor went to great lengths to get his portrayal rights. so we're just being a sponge, you know, reading every book that i can get my lawn watching everything and every image that are costly, fine, treating like a detective. and then also working with the number of different focal coaches on

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