ah ah ah, this is d w. news coming to live from berlin. a massive earthquake. it's a wide area in turkey and syria. martin is the crews are rescuing people from the rubble, but the death toll is rising fast in both countries. amid widespread destruction, turkey has been 40 deaths in 7 problems. also coming up hong kong largest national

security trial has begun. 47 defendants, including some of the cities, most prominent activists are accused of trying to topple the government. they could face life in prison if convicted plus beyond say, becomes the most decorated performer in the history of the grammys. the album of the year goes to another big ne and by and munich when they're 1st loosely matched this year with the poor to victory over bulls. ah. hello m terry martin, good to have you with us. a powerful earthquake has hit a wide area along the turkish syrian border. hundreds of people have been killed and the death toll continues to rise. the magnitude 7.8 tremor was centered north of the turkish city of garcia's tap. it's caused destruction stretching all along

turkey's southern border from the mediterranean eastwards. rescue operations are just getting underway. the quake struck in the early hours lasting only around a minute. the ferocity of the tremor caught on camera by one resident in the city of d. r back here, the impact has been devastating. official said that at least 17 buildings collapsed . here, chopping many in their homes while they were sleeping with those who did manage to escape using any means possible in the search for survivors . authority say in turkey as many as 10 cities have been affected by the quake, sparking a huge rescue effort from the all our governors are on duty now.

gen damari, security forces, turkish armed forces, disaster and emergency management teams, red crescent teams, and search and rescue teams for many points of turkey, a being dispatched to the relevant regions. oh, the epi cent of the quake was in southeast in turkey. but it also hit parts of neighboring sylvia leaving a trail of devastation with tremors, reaching as far away as cyprus and egypt. a short while ago i spoke with her correspond dorian jones, in is stumble. he gave us his update. well, this is a massive emergency operation is now going to force, but it's taking time this. it's very little concrete information we know at the moment. this happened in the early hours of the morning in the southern bold,

over syria and turkey. and there are desperate desperate efforts now to rescue people from numerous collapse buildings all across the southern border. we've seen images coming out with people just trying to borrow into building a multi, sorry apartment, love sort of just claps in, into just moans of rubble. this is an extremely difficult time. this is one of the most powerful of quakes that turkey is as it talk to you in decades. it appears that possibly will even support the 1999 of weight that struck in the sample which claimed the lives of 17000 people. so the pricing itself, one of the worst this office is country has faith in decades. tell us more about the region where the quake hit, how densely populated is that area. well, it struck between 2 turkeys main cities in the south car marsh. and does the marsh

has a population of over a $1000000.00? the on tip is one over $2000000.00 and which is around half a 1000000 syrian refugees. but also many of us cities all across this region have been the 350 kilometers from the epi sensor that has a population of the 2000000. having reports, there are many claps, buildings and casualties, and similar alpha cities, all in my area. this is a, has many densely populated cities and the nature and the magnitude of this quite has inflicted major, major damage on all of these systems. how are turkey and the international community responding to this so far? while the turkish president jeff taper, the one which has already spoken, saying that they all declared a state of emergency, they are also mobilizing all of the security forces. the military are being

mobilized along with these emergency services. there's also be now an appeal for international help. and now that gives you an idea of how serious this quite is normally does take some time before they make such appeals. but this came out very, very quickly. we understand the united states have also issued a statement saying that they are assessing that my beach is crisis and will respond accordingly to the needs of turkey. so i think turkey is looking, comparing one of the biggest emergency operations in recent history and is looking for international support in both efforts. and these efforts are being hampered by appalling weather conditions. up until recently the country has been escaping a major wind up and now winter struck just stays cool for much of this area is on the heavy snow freezing rain and this is making even more difficult to rescue those attract in numerous cap buildings. as you mentioned earlier, the quick hit the southern part of the country that's on the border there to syria

and lebanon. what can you tell us about the situation in those countries? while we are getting reports from syria's similar reports, what's happening in turkey, the there in the official agencies have said that yes, there are thousands of casualties and many more injures reports of claps. buildings . this areas just recovering from a case of war and conflict. and now this powerful of quakers struck this this area as well. ready also important the a powerful quake with them as well, and even with self as far as israel, and this is on the line, the scale of the so correct, not only it side, but also called the 5 molly just happened to a very shallow level of 10 kilometers which amplifies the power of the quake. dorian, thank you very much for now. our correspondent dorian jones. they're in the stumble

now to hong kong, where the trial begins. today of $47.00 pro democracy activists charged with conspiracy. to commit subversion. they're accused of holding unofficial primary elections in july 2020. just after sweeping national security law stripped the territory of previously held freedoms. pro democracy activist joshua long is among those who already pleaded guilty, but 16 people have denied the charge and their trial is expected to last for money months. many of the 47 defendants have already been in custody for almost 2 years. or course for the phoebe kong is in hong kong following the story force. phoebe, this is hong kong largest national security trial with 47 defendants. as mentioned . tell us who they are and what charges they're facing. hey, this is elaine mock trial,

which is more closely monitored, not only on the ground, but also international level. as we have seen, diplomats from many european countries also lay attend the hearing here at the courts building. and many of all our public members also light light up up in their long keys outside the court building to hear to case. so this is really like in the middle of the spotlight in hong kong else innovation. so they are accused of a conspiracy to separate the state power, not because they participate in an unofficial primary organized by the pro democracy can back in 2020. that was a bit to select the candidates for the national election back there. but the prosecutions like houston off, ah, like, i'll accuse the primary off a plug that is to paralyze an oval. so the government, like those candidates elected either that's good and they will be taught budget so, so that is and mainly about the constitution. and lisa lay basically the biggest

round up off the most influential opposition, thinkers in talent, to have sat in the reports that joshua wallen, also like fanny tie, who is also an organizer of the prominence on reading the funds in hong kong. and over 13 directly elected lawmakers in district council. there's so many of them media faces are now put on trial here at the court. what kind of trial is expected to be phoebe? it, could it be considered a fair trial, but international standards? well this is national security. how so they basic is some of the rules at different from the ordinary criminal cases in hong kong, like under the communist system, that like the judges, that 3 judges were handling this case. are designated by the chief executive in hong kong, and there is no jury in this trial. so there is

a different practice from the common law system that isn't upset in hong kong. and so there is also some like a defenses. going to testify against artist as classification witnesses, so they would definitely be the spotlight in this case. what does this child mean, phoebe, for what's left of the pro democracy movement in hong kong? well as we've all seen, that po task has become very rare in hong home because of the children, if that brought by the national security law that that of today was out of steel seen on to the 3 activists and some families of this out of the defendants co testing against a trial, which is really both are in nowadays, hong kong off because they could face a consequences of like invoicing the sense. but at the fact that most of the defendants, in this case up to a 3rd of the defendants happen. i'll remember in custody that isn't it like defacto

jail terms in many people's eyes before the child begins. so this kind of ready on they, they that the treatment to, to national security, defendants ready intensify the effect. and the time many of politicians from voicing that extend. so some critics say this is like an effective criminalization of the political, the sense in hong kong. phoebe thank you very much. that was our correspond at phoebe kong in hong kong in ukraine. allies of president vladimir zalinski say he's changing his defense minister, one senior lawmaker said holdeski arrested coff will be replaced by the head of military intelligence. the expected re shuffle comes after russian missile struck. you crane 2nd largest city hockey on sunday. at least 5 people were injured and

buildings damaged in the city center. emergency workers were on the scene after 2 russian missiles slammed into the northeastern city of har. keith, reportedly hitting to civilian structures, not far from the central plaza. several floors of a university were destroyed and a nearby apartment building was left uninhabitable. one resident said she and her partner only survived thanks to lucky timing. on yet mclension, we happened to have just gone into the bath friend and right after that had happened. my husband was covered and broken glass, but everybody is alive. it's the main thing. to think. moscow's forces have seemingly given up trying to capture ukraine's 2nd largest city, but they continue to bombarded, frequently hitting civilian targets. but a couple 100 kilometers to the south. the war on the ground is still raging with buck moot at its epicenter. for months ukrainian soldiers had been fighting off an

onslaught by russian forces, intent on resting control of the region. their line held through the depths of winter and into the new year. but now keeps as its fighters are slowly being pushed back toward bach mote. while they battle in the trenches throughout all ukraine's leaders are waging their own fight automotives for more support from nato allies. the saddle grains they say, the only way to push the russian offensive back is with more powerful weapons. after initial hesitation, pledges of tanks and long range rockets began to roll in from western allies with deliveries expected to begin arriving in the spring for ukrainian soldiers. that might seem a long time to wait. especially with many analysts predicting that russia will intensify its assault as winter weather gives way to spring was cape or mar, correspond mathias, berlin in cuba mathias? let's start with that cabinet. re shuffle y as present. the lance

e removing is defense minister at this crucial point in time. yeah, if these reports are true and they pretty much seem so because at the moment already, many people have thrown in that 5 sense who is going to be was for example, going to be the next rule of minister, or isn't the cuff people from the governing party, so although it's not official, yet he is still in office. these reports are pretty, pretty consistent. if all that is true, that the most likely case is that this is because of the corruption scandal that the military a few days ago where the military was accused of buying food at elevated prices from suppliers has reacted not very adapt to this. he's reacted a bit clumsy, accusing the journalist of harming national security instead of taking

responsibility and doing everything he could to, to, to investigate these claims. he has made public what his position is on that, that these prices were not elevated, but it's also a bit stupid because everybody can go to the supermarket and see what these products cost in the supermarket. so he was not very adept then people are not very tolerant of corruption in war times if before that was a big problem. now in war times, people are even less inclined. so he's become a liability for the president. it's not his military management, it's not how he conducted operations. how he was finding tongues in abroad that is criticized. but this corruption scandal

you're saying mathias, that there's already quite a bit of speculation about who might become the new defense minister for ukraine. tell us about who is expected to get that job and what we can expect from him, jerry posey, are also very consistent on that would be the head of the military intelligence. would don office his name. he's a very young general and has made a very steep korea in the military. and so he's considered one of them, of the most able military leaders in the country. he was also one who had warned off this war before it started when most of the government was still down playing the research. so he's posted at a highly a book, military man. unlike grizzly cough, who was a civilian, was a jurist by a education, a wooden of is a military man. and one of the 3 most senior military figures here in the country

to his thank you so much. shar corresponded mathias spelling of their in queue catch up on a few other stories making headlines today. presidential elections in cyprus will go to a 2nd round after sundays election failed to produce a clear winner. in a surprise result, the left his candidate and diplomat, andreas marlborough ayana's, will face the islands, former foreign minister, nickos cristo, deleted in a rental in the danish capital, copenhagen, thousands of people have protested against the proposal to scrap a public holiday. the government wants to use the tax revenue generated from more working days to increase defense spending to nato's target. up to percent of g. v. firefighters are trying to control dozens of forest buyers in chile, at least 2003 people have died in the blazes and hundreds of been injured. chile is

experiencing a summer heat wave with temperature is nearing 40 degrees celsius. spraying war traffic can assist to extinguish the fires with temperatures as high as 38 degrees an arrow, and kenya, the flames keep spreading faster. he says yes, the wind picks up his direction and we'll look us up. our whole reach is going to burn. the fire is threatening move villages, police and the army evacuated local people to safer areas. the chilean government declared a state of emergency in 3 regions. the interior minister says the destruction from a week for fires is of the scale usually seen in a year or 2. and we have asked for international health and are in talks without the government's central model. yeah. contact them body olivia, sandy lows for the packaging industry. has been produced for export in these via prone regions spent decades. the rule materials come from a monoculture,

a fast growing eucalyptus trees that non native species dries out, the soils and helps the flames spread once blaze the start. local people are asking what caused the fires, a guy toiling to some one must have started a fire, a yogi m, and i was too late. you know? like i said, all we can do is wait until the flags reach us. they don't get for one or the police are investigating and there have been some arrests. argentinian fire teams are expected to join the battle against the flames. in the next few days there's been attainment news, and beyonce has made history with her 32nd grammy when at the annual music awards ceremony and los angeles, the singer picked up forward. so in the night, including best dance electronic album. she did, however miss out again on the prestigious best album award, which went to pop sensation harry styles. meanwhile, adel tacoma, gong for best seller performance. the big surprise of the night was 73 year old

bonny rate landing the soul of the year war war was bring in entertainment. journalist k j must is she's joining us from los angeles, terry bell, and say was the star of the night. but she kept us waiting, did she? oh my god, you know, as i was watching the red carpet, i kept waiting for beyond say, and i noticed all the stars were walking down the red carpet, but i didn't see any interviews with beyond say, so i thought maybe she was going to be you know, fashionably late a couple of minutes and not do the red carpet and go directly into the award ceremony. come to find out. she actually was late because she was stuck in traffic . so then people started to say, you know, she's supposed to make history. will she make it in time to receive the award? if she does make history or will she be stuck in traffic? everybody kind of had her fingers crossed, and luckily she made it. she was about 45 minutes late for the actual ceremony. and

they kind of ushered her right into her seat, but she didn't make it. and we found out that she now is the most decorated artist to have so many graham you. he has 32 graham, you know, other musician has that many grammy awards. so it was really nice to see her go up on stage, be able to accept her award, say thank you to her mother her father, obviously god. and she also mentioned her uncle recently passed away, that she knows that he will be with her there in spirit. so it was nice to see her be able to kind of get her flower so to speak. so balance a making history there. tell us about the other night, the other big winners of the night. yet, you know, it was really, really good night for the bridge. of course we had harry styles. he had a dell and we had sams with winning. so we had a dell winning for best song about pop pop solo performance, that he has 4 easy on me. we have very styles, a winning outcome of the year. so we were surprised about that. and then we have

sam smith and kim, patricia, germans, german, you don't competitors winning for their performance of unholy, which is really controversial song. so people were kind of surprised that they were actually able to perform it. they didn't have a couple of sensors, though. we're still, the words were bleeped out here in the states, so it was really nice to see the perform. but of course it is a controversial song. it was really, really nice to see can go on stage and accept the award and say that, you know, she's the 1st transgender woman to win a grammy award. she talked about growing up in a small town in germany and obviously having these aspirations to do something more and be a seeing her. and here she is now winning the 1st grammy for her and 1st grammy for any transgender women. so that was nice to see k j. thank you very much. k j masters there in ela, always a pleasure. thank you. ah

m, but as lay a soccer by a munich finally got back to their winning ways against ball spork. the defending champion started 2023 with 3. busy draws, but they've dominated the wolves in recent times, and this game was no exception. as they coasted to a 4 to victory. ah, buyer munich, needed a victory in wolf spur to retake the table. lead and kingsley co mom helped with too early goals. komatt put just enough on the ball, and thomas mueller played decoy to put burn up. come on 2nd was assisted by a buyer newcomer defender jo alcuin cielo showing his value at the other end of the pitch. by the 90 minute buyers were up 3 nail. thanks to thomas miller, a header off the free kick. in the walls, fans were not amused. the 1st half was all

wire. however, the wolf soon a bit of bite from yoko kaminsky just before the break buyer and joshua timothy was sent off for his 2nd yellow car just before the aramark in kim ich didn't like to call at all, but it was buyer who struck again through jamal muse yala to put the match out of reach. lucy, allah winding his lay past the wolf bird to fits before fiery lin buyers feel. the wolves managed to pull another back, but it was too late to motivate that boy. buyers 1st league victory in 2023 comes in dominating fashion with the 4 to win over wolf spar in sundays, all the game bell breyman secured their 2nd straight tree and the league winning to dale at stuttgart. after a scoreless 1st hour, yen stared,

gave raymond the lead with that, so prob strike and the goals didn't stop there. marvin ducks rounded out the comfortable wind for breyman in style. victory moves them up to 8 in the table. and finally, revellers have gathered in the taiwanese capital tie, pay to observe the lantern festival that marks the official and of chinese new year celebrations. the tradition is thought to date back over 2000 years and sees people let lanterns off into the sky. thought to symbolize letting go of the past year. this year's festival is the 1st taiwan ria since taiwan ray of miss borders following covey restrictions. ah, and just remember at the top stories were following for you this hour. a massive earthquake has struck large areas in turkey and syria. told the total death toll is

already in the hundreds and expected to keep climbing amid destruction, stretching from serious mediterranean coast to eastern turkey. you're watching the w news up next. it's eco africa. i'm terry martin for me it's all of us here at the w news. thanks for watching with ah,

with who we depend on past totally depend on what we depend on on this to better benefit climate change. climate activist anita signer is fighting to protect a home in kenya and not with weapons. 3 saplings,

a call to action, which i think that's a little hoping to me with some with oh, i will interest the global economy our portfolio d w business beyond. here's a closer look out the project. our mission. to analyze the fight for market dominance, east versus west. given the head with the w business beyond ukraine was like a stepping point to, you know, i bought you that warranty wants to finish your studies. now you have

a certificate from crane, you can choose to go back to somewhere else. currently more people than ever on the move world wide in search of a better life. so why do i want to go back to nigeria like i don't have any reason school, but there's no reason that's moving for me that yeah, i believe something great is coming very, very so and yeah, come with you more about law, we're least story in for my grief reliable news, how my going, wherever they may be a do you know the think and tell me what you eat, and i will tell you what you are. food is essential to all survival the way.