ah ah ah ah, this is the w use my from berlin. the death toll keeps rising after devastating earthquakes and turkey and syria rescue crews run for their lives as the 2nd powerful tremor. its cities and towns already devastated. the destruction stretches across hundreds of kilometers and from syria and appealed to the world. it's very

difficult for us. we need help. we need the internet community to do something to help us to support us. the disaster also struck areas scanned by serious civil war hitting the most vulnerable, the was many thousands of refugees. ah i've been fas all unwelcome. the earth continues to shake along the turkish syrian border with another powerful tremor hitting. only 2000 people have been killed and the death toll continues to rise. flights in the region have been suspended. the initial $7.00 magnitude trema was centered north of the turkish city of gas, the unzip. it caused destruction stretching all along turkey, southern border from the mediterranean eastwards, an international aid, if it is gearing up with the west, the european union, nato, israel,

and even ukraine having offered assistance from the skies. the scale of the devastation caused by the joint quake is laid bare hitting in the early hours. it caused tremors that levelled entire sections of cities with hundreds of buildings collapsing as people were still asleep in their homes. authorities in turkey say as many as 10 provinces have been effected. this video posted on line giving a sense that the damage caused and the city of caravan marsh. we do not know how far the number of dead and injured will rise as debris removal works, continue it, and many buildings in the quake zone. our hope is that we will recover from this disaster with the least loss of life. rescue is now face a daunting task in the search for survivors. their efforts impacted not only by the

sheer size of the rubble piles but the added danger of falling debris and even further collapses. local tv cruise capturing the moment when a 2nd quake hits forcing people to run for their lives. the epi center of the quake was in southeast, in turkey, but it also hit parts of neighboring sylvia leaving a trail of devastation with members of seniors opposition. civil defense force, also known as the white helmets, claiming many rebel held areas in the north west of the country are in a state of catastrophe. our themes responded to the old, the sites and the buildings. and i still know many families know are under that. i

will a teams trying to serve them, trying to see if the people to see the, all of the people from the level with all cavities. but it's, it's, it's very difficult us for us. we need help. we need the international community to do something. and there is some hope that with international support now in its way and moments like this, providing some joy for rescues, raising expectations that more may be found alive, are joined now by videographer as a salanza or twos in the city of n tippin southern turkey. near the central where the 1st earthquake hit, can you give us a sense of the devastation there? yeah. hello. thanks for hosting me. now the situation is getting worse and worse, but the outside force now they are trying to call but the situation and trying

to hold the fall can do, you know, it's not this fall between syrians or turkish. it's not, is just, is just having, you know, the 1st time this kind of wakes, as i said before, it's always far away. we are making go down to the south of 30 is not going to be in here from the center of dr. quick. but now we are facing it like around 30 kilometers far away from the city with this weather. now, the situation is getting to cover, but damage it is. it will never cover everything because it's not you. so what we're going to do now is to take some steps like to watch the people before having like a week or 2 that afflict of them in ethically that have been this afternoon bike. i think that tricity to one of the people it's coming. so they can go out to just

like open areas and it's needed really international support to hold this situation and even with the neighbourhood that are not near to the city center, which is a b go and all the houses we call these people and i do not know what they think hold buildings are for the dollars without noticing. we are having a lot of people and that's for sure. we are calling by social media findings like the last hope to find like a little bit of connections by chance to call while we are out there. we still alive, but we are to start on fracture. i'm just tell them what, what sort of hope is there for survivors? the devastation you described sounds horrible. the weather conditions as well. just how cold is it where you are a nearly 0.

its really freezing here, like i'm totally covered by a lot of layers of the cloth this and i'm looking around me here. and this is squire that if people are making fire out of like a plastic shell or something, or use the public transportation bus parking get next, like in the 3, it just taking galvan and when would they feel it? shaking the are going out in the 3. it's raining since a long time. in the mean time right now we don't train, but the whole day was green and it was really bad because we, there is a lot of children, the kids. and if it is not used for it, have you seen some sort of emergency response where you are? yes. and what sort of difficulties are they facing right now? the difficult it's like, as i told you,

they are not north. the thing many buildings are falling down because of the huge mountain buildings are falling. we are having really a little that's a little actually because because the whole building got funding together. no one noticing it because it's like behind the in far away from the city centers. so it's really hard to cover for, for the never happened. people like this in the city and the multi ethically together with the backbone. so with that, if it really fire war the arm, but on doesn't matter. if it was a private hospital daughter, public was all working together. even there is no some people, some tim from the folks are like, they are able to help the be the one thing to have the 45 or whatever the

4th is walking in the field. now, because if you know a bit not able to help you out, like obviously this, this disaster is continuing. what, what more help do you need from the outside? there's like i from my point, this is view as me, i would say to flee some people from the city to like savior, cities. but it's always dangerous to give some aid support for the people who are and she'll think in the streets or in the board following them once they've been at the announced this morning that we get there for sandra. they can, is the board on the board call or the service center because the out from one the floor you'll be able to hold shake of their

weak. you know, there is that shy for a part of the feeble because i thought this is the 1st time so that i'd be more focusing and i need a lot of support now with things as they heard they'd be good. someone feeling something like that from the stumble are coming to him and fling some people from the city. it's a really needed emotional, like mental support. it's also needed definitely because we are having a lot of trauma response between that be a border this afternoon in the 2nd and 2nd. there are sick week that have been this afternoon. i so it, by, in my eyes that so my response for like people, there were in the living war before they had the same the same moments,

the same shape by the shaking the sam crow my response that say it's so important to help needed there. right? now, not just in rescuing but also recovering and, and dealing with these people who are suffering from this tragedy in this ongoing disaster. as you hear there from videographer, as a set of jo hood who's in the city of because the on tap in southern 30. thank you very much for joining us here on the w. thank you for and we heard thereabouts. the response coming from istanbul. let's go to our corresponding there . dorian jones is standing by. tell us more, 1st vol about the scale of this disaster. dorian, while the country's reeling from this massive, quick on the 2nd quite that had struck the country a few hours ago. this region power to say that this is northern off,

the shock for the separate quite that was true good by the initial one. this morning. it was almost the same magnitude and it was felt cause much of the country and that is triggered further classes of buildings all across the quake stricken region. adding to the problems of the emergency workers on those efforts to find people tracked in the rubble of the buildings. and this is just part of this ongoing effort to say what needs to be possibly thousands of people trapped and building all across the country. and with that, the risks of further classes and the off the shops which is only adding to the problems of, of the risk of, of helping the people on the streets who are currently many of them in sub 0 temperatures. that's what i was going to ask you. the challenges of this, of this huge rescue effort. i mean, how dangerous is it for the, the rescue is themselves going into these areas? well, what happens is time. this is extremely dangerous work because say they can't use

any heavy lifting equipment. most of the time. it's them simply just digging their way into these piles of rubble trying to find people very possibly very deep inside these current buildings a once people's homes. and every time there's an author shop that brings the risk of further collapsing, killing not only the possible survival, but also those trying to rescue them and many time to see people running away from the scenes when there's a 3rd off the shot from a collapse as well, on top of that, that isn't the only problem facing the rescue workers. the whole area has been very devastated votes have been destroy one of course, at least with people out of out of action, problems getting help to these there. we understand that mont sure bought some quick strict and eric haven't received much assistance yet. we simply people can't get to them as urgent appeals for help thing. where are people coming to help us? and this is part of the problem because it is a large period, large area. it will be about 10 major cities in turkey. i've been effective by this

quite. and on top of that, you've got the ferocious, atrocious weather conditions. winter really only hit this region only a few days before the break strike with a piece knowing some and other places freezing rain, which is the phase of hypothermia. for many of the people, of course, to live on the street, the moment waiting for some sort of a system problem. if you're talking about a large number of people that need help and tell us more about the, the area have densely populated, is the region that's been effected. you've talked about 10 cities across the southern turkey, also part of syria. what about the density of the population there? this has some of the larger cities in talking. thank the whole region that this makes it around. 13000000 people are living in this area, but on the lines, the scale of the top is facing the emergent not only trying to find people trapped

in the building. we're talking about long term providing shelter, the people they need urgent needs of 10 thing need. so the heat and we're talking about providing not any for you to have to pay to be hundreds of thousands of people. we will need urgent. this is terrible, terrible weather conditions. and on top of that, one of the and the cities also have large numbers of syrian refugee. people are already traumatized from escaping one complex and now be facing this terrible dissolve. that is unfolding as we speak. and we got the f 150. that was very close to the center. the quick has over half a 1000000 syrian refugees. and we also hearing about similar, urgent need just to call the syrian border from the refugee agency, saying that they are in desperate need of assistance as well. so this is a major monitoring crisis, folding from one disaster to the next. but how get up, how prepared is this part of the world for, for earthquakes like this?

while turkey is no strangers, tragically quakes, it is one of the most of the countries in the world and most of the country is at risk of major quake mer. i'm here in the sample in 1999. no wait struck just outside the sample healing 70000 people, one of the worst mentoring crisis is of this country. and so that might quake nightly to was as part by initial readings like today's, of quite that i get on the school. how much of the time to you mentoring crisis facing the country again and he does have expertise in dealing with it. they have very experienced rescue workers who have been working in the past. they will be putting that expertise. introduce now it's just getting the people in the region and also talk you will be looking for international assistance because the scale of this crisis in and took the word except they need urgent help from across the world

to face the people that are facing a terrible climate, do you know, is it enough with the help it's being pledged from abroad? we have a usb e, u, nato, israel, even ukraine, offering assistance. well i think that and several levels assistance we looking for will be the initial getting expertise to get to the people into the potentially thousands of building for the collapse. and they will be looking professionally like sniffer dogs. dog, specially trained and smelling people are living people in building they are. i've been using the past and similar quakes and took the really values that kind of expertise along with other people. other kinds of assistant, possibly certainly setting up field hospital. but beyond that, they're talking about setting a large 10 cities as well, to help with these people and then further down the line, they will be obviously looking for possible financial assistance as well to help with the massive rebuilding operation that is facing the country. and although in the middle of winter, dorian joins reporting from assemble there. thank you very much for filling us in

on all the details on that breaking story. stephen hicks is a sized militia state university college london. we asked him whether he'd ever seen 2 massive earthquakes like these one right after the other. so occasionally this did happen. normally, when we have a larger crate, we expect the largest offshore b. one units of magnitude less than the main truck. but in this case we've got, we sometimes call it a 2 very similar size. they do happen probably a low. we've seen them before. sort of in offshore areas with bigger than expectancy. nami, both have this. a 2nd largest break shallow with an area with her rescue operation. but yeah, completely double spaces. i don't think i've ever seen such

a strong impact of civil aside for 3. so that was steven hicks, s i some ologist that university college london, german chancellor. all i've showed says tweeted his government's condolences over the earthquake disaster and has promised to send help. he wrote, we're following the use of the earthquake on the turkish syrian border region with deep concern. the number of victims is continuing to rise. we mourn with their loved ones and fear for those trapped under the rumble. germany will be sure to send support a spokesman for the german interior ministry, said germany is already working with turkish authorities to st. 8. then if we will set in motion all the help that we can immediately, the technical relief agency can provide camps with emergency shelters and water treatment units, as well as a delivery with emergency generators, tents, and blankets. this is being prepared now in close coordination with the turkish civil defense. this coordination is already underway to move from the rides. let's

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