and to the future in the new millennium, slowly, in february on d, w with this is dw use life from both in the death toll keeps rising after devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria. breski cruise run for their lives as a 2nd powerful tremor. his cities and towns already devastated. the destruction stretches across hundreds of kilometers and from syria, an appeal to the world. it's very difficult for us. we need help. we need the

international community to do something to help was to support the bazaar also struck areas scarred by serious civil war. getting the most vulnerable, the was many thousands of refugees. ah and been fas all and welcome to powerful earthquakes on the turkish syrian border. have killed more than 2300 people. rescue efforts are underway, but the death toll is expected to rise further. flights in the region have been suspended. initial 7.8, magnitude tremor was centered north of the turkish city of garcia and tip. it caused destruction stretching along turkeys, southern border from the mediterranean eastwards. an international aid effort is gearing up with the united states, 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 online 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 at 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 serious 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 team responded to the, to all the sites and the buildings. and still no, many families, no are under that. i will, i will, i will do trying to save him,

trying to save the people, to serve the or the people from on the level with all cavities. but it's, it's, it's very difficult 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 rescuers raising expectations that more may be found alive. last hour is 10 bow correspondent, dorian jones, to tell us more about the scale of the disaster. major rescue operation all across turkey. southern border 10 cities have been hit by this massive are quite well most powerful in the country's history, 7.8. and these 10 cities are the millions of people, some of the largest cities in turkey, between images of buildings and men. all the cities of whole apartment blocks of just piled into piles of rubble. according to the vice president, what he said,

at least 1700 buildings have collapsed. that number is expected to continue to rise . and now there is desperate such a dig into the rubble to find the bible. we already seen hearing reports, adults, survivors all being pulled out of these piles of rubble. but this is a long and painstaking job ahead. but these rescue workers of turkey organizes up into one of the most biggest rescue operations in the country's history. the scale of this is, is almost unimaginable. can you give us a sense of the challenges that the rescue workers are facing right now? well, this is an extremely difficult job to dig into the rubble to find survivors. it doesn't eat most of the time. it's just using your hands or pain from things you can't use heavy equipment because our funds are risk appropriate causing further collapses. so they are literally borrowing into the rubble to find people specials

or talks. trying to find people will be a key among the turkey will be looking for. it's part of it international appeal around the world, along with the expertise to help in this effort. turkey has low experience with dealing with the devastating quake, but this shape not to be the probably the biggest chinese, but the country has faith in decades. on top of these efforts, you are always having the risk of off the shock which refer a cap to the buildings. we see images of building that the perfectly fine suddenly just collapsing into the street and this is the risk. the rest of your work is face up. they too could become victims to these clocks building on top of that, people not even aware of the scale, the problem at the moment, the center of the great car mirage. there is little information coming from out from that place is a lot of concern of the little video we've seen one high street shows a whole street of apartment blocks that have collect,

i'll be school. and the concern to this country is facing such a massive crisis. here and already there has been its appeal for international support, and that's been request appears to be honest with the united states that they already provide assistance as is israel and even the ukraine. this quite was a major one. you mentioned 7.8. how vulnerable is this region to us? quakes well, tragically, young turkey is no stranger to the place, nearly the whole of the country is prone to major quakes. and where i'm here in this damn bowl stumble in 190909. the worst creek in recent times, 70000 people were killed. now they are quite the latest. quake appeared to be even more powerful. i'm also adding because it was very shallow, which amplify the power of the plate. now, given the fact that turkey has this prone this to quake, there is an expertise that has been developed to deal with this. although criminal

actions, i've already talked to the fact that this country has its history. people are again offering the question, why have so many buildings clamped in such a dramatic way and even include state hospital and the police buildings. administrative building, all have. this has happened again and again. and the latest on the latest quote. quaint don't seem to ongoing. the buttons, so he hasn't learned his lesson from the pump, or in thanks so much his door in jones reporting from stumble. and dorian speaking to my colleague chris mckenna. no, you're there. well, let's go now to videographer. salanza who's in the city of guys the unhappy southern turkey. he told us more about the challenges facing rescue workers. 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 as she said,

the call that because the whole building are funny together. no one noticing it's because it's like behind the in the far away from the city center. so it's really hard to cover for, for the, the are never have been before like this in the city and the multi ethically together with the code. so with that, if it really fire war the on but on doesn't matter if it was a private hospitals or public hospitals all working together, even there is no some people, some have been from the for like they are able to help the be the volunteering to have the 45 or whatever the 4th is, are 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 savior cities. but it's always dangerous to give some aid support for that. 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 for sandra. the board on the board fall or the service center. because the from one the floor you'll be able to hold the shake of their fit. we use it as a ship. it's no that is the shy for the, for the board because i thought this is the 1st time so that i be more

focusing. and i need a lot of support now with things i've heard that be good some but i'm feeling some like for the, from the stumble are coming to help link some people from the city. it's really needed emotional, like mental support. it's also needed. definitely having a lot of trauma respond 3 in the border this afternoon in the 2nd. and secondly, i think we could have been this afternoon. i saw it by my eyes that my response for like people they were living was before they had the same, the same moments, the same shape by the shaking the fan, grow my response. and let's go now to stephen hicks,

his eyes knowledge of the university college london. even how often do to massive earthquake strike one after the other like these. yeah, it's, it's fatty ran in psychology for most earthquakes. we take a sort of average rule that the largest off the shop following a large main shop will be one units of magnitude less than the main shop. so in this tape measure with magnitude 7.8. so we expected maybe the maximum off the shocks, high speed magnitude, 6.8, and we had that 11 minutes off to the the main shop. however, not all as quite conformed to this rule. we have to call the stuff that makes sense to similar size. the brakes, and like i said, i play for each other in a symbol, a small time, a pop. we've seen these around the world full. they don't tend to impact sort of humans at the surface too much. but this case here that we've seen in touch this morning, this is, you know,

perhaps the most devastating example of one of these have such a larger megawatt rescue oppression going on. what about the impact on lives? could this be a, have an even bigger impact on, on previous earthquakes that have already been so devastating for turkey? i mean, this touch stuckey is certainly no stranger to the 2 larger crates. in recent decades, most of the larger crate has been sort of to the north of the country and particularly along what we call the northern and it's having vote. and that's sort of a folks a weakness in the, in the crust that extends east from a stumble and not barriers received a lot of attention because of the recent breaks up. however, in the southeast of the country, which is where today's at place of happened. that hasn't been a larger crate here for a long time. the hasn't been anything as this lodge, since we've had sort of instruments. instrumental monitoring beside moments is

around well, to go back to 1900, for example, that went off the records get back. if we get further out sort of more, there are some examples in written history on people write down their experiences, the seem to make sense within a break. but these are many centuries ago. so i think the people in the, in the southeast of thank you, might not about any larger crate like this before. so i think that really impacts preparedness as well. but we've had st trees to prepare for this sort of thing of the region, at least. what, what can be done to mitigate future earthquakes like face? well, i'm looking at the scientific literature this morning that i defined a paper that identified this particular portion of the folks as of the size. so basically the thought was locked and prime and haven't released the pent up energy for a long, long time. so no, great,

there is no unexpected problem is we can't predict exactly when it will happen. so we come because we can't predict that. we have to prepare other methods so to make sure buildings and construction is done to make an attempt to ensure that those buildings are safe for a minimum given level of a stormy sky. but also cool has come because sometimes in building in sort of in construction operations. so particularly in an area that has an experience and there's a memory of them. so i can sometimes be, it's outside the box. ok, thank you for the information. steven hicks as a small just at university college funded well in syria. many buildings were already in poor condition due to years of neglect during the war that made the damage, particularly severe rescue if it's being hampered by poor infrastructure and bad

weather. rebel held areas in the north west of the country were among the hardest hit. the white helmet volunteer group says is hundreds of people could still be trapped under rabble. iran is the middle east media advisor for the norwegian refugee council in amman that promotes assistance for people across syria. what are you hearing right now from syria? good evening. i just got off the phone actually with a friend in our po. what are the most affected worst effected areas? and he was telling me, he was actually show me some videos and, and photos from the, from the station from the scenes p, posted on the street. it's raining and people are too scared to get back home because they are worried for joy constructions and unfair job homes will actually be destroyed. this is an earthquake that has not, i mean,

course the did, the shock is so massive. but the aftermarket still here. people are refusing to go back home because they think the roof is gonna fall on top of them. a lot of people are looking for children. a lot of people looking for relatives, it's training. it's called, it's closer to 0 temperatures this evening. another around other places across, across syria is going to come at a worse time for, for populations to reading from the, from the ethics of the conflict. i mean, i was listening to your expert just now to think about how we can obviously avoid such scenarios in the future. this is, i mean, in places like, you know, we're talking about 12, you have rated the infrastructure and you know, there's no way people can go into a 4 to reinforce the whole shelters of construction is a lot of people are saying, you know, with, with a heart with the hope that this place is not going to,

you know, just, you know, collapse on top of them. i was speaking to people in the morning and i am in the morning and they were telling me they have never experienced that get a lot people also the people that run sadly a lot austin, missing and rescue operations continue. he's talking about people who experienced war and have to survive so many tragedies. how reliable are the figures the way getting in from syria at the moment? are we talking about figures a relation to. busy to the told that the best interest. yeah, i mean, of course it's, it's, we should not speculate that the numbers are going to continue to climb sadly on from experience i was in love. and when the whole explosion happened, and, you know, we learnt not to, you know, just talk about numbers until we have the final official numbers. but i was going

to continue to jump. sadly, this is of course, a disaster. you know, such a large proportion and scale of course, rescuers are doing their job and, and of course they are, you know, overstretched, overwhelmed hospitals that are meant to treat records track and, and, you know, provide assistance to patients and wounded and the injured have, you know, themselves taking a head and we talking about country where you know, 50 percent of the hospital and health care system is, is not functioning or partially functionally. yeah. to says to his, this is, does often will be very early to talk about numbers. it would be about even people returning to the, to the, you know, having the courage and say, you know, the sense of safety to get to leave the under, you know, onto the bridge and go back home. a lot of people are staying an open areas which are called it's, it's overcrowded in such places. you can't, you know, you will be lucky to find a lot of people trying to find out where they're going to wherever the relative old

child or a friend is. we'll have to leave it out by ram from the norwegian refugee council. thank you very much for bringing us that analysis. thank and joining me now is the w reporter, garvey, 0100. who's from syria? garza what? what are you hearing today from back home? yeah, i've been speaking to a lot of people in different parts of syria spoken to people and aleppo and latavia and some of the northern villages and towns. and they're all telling me that it was a terrifying experience for them. i mean the region does experience earthquakes and a lot of people have seen it before, but like not like this never before. and aleppo alone, 46, at least 46 buildings have collapsed. and as we can see in this one building, there was a rescue operation and they pulled an 18 year old woman alive and her father

. but her mother and her brother unfortunately did not make it. and there's hundreds of the stories coming out now and the communities is just devastated. is the situation any different in syria? but in turkey, i yeah, as the expert before mentioned, syria's infrastructure was already in a poor state because of the war because of the economic crisis. and so when the earthquake happened in the middle of the night, a lot of people didn't have electricity, they just did the 1st thing they could do. they just went down to the streets and, you know, you hear things from people like fortunately i had enough fuel in my car to drive to an open space and park there and waited out. and we really saw these situations play out because of the infrastructure in syria that we didn't see in turkey. and you're lucky if you have a car, if you don't it's, it's very difficult. yeah, yeah, yeah. how will people in syria would you say dealing with the situation now with

rescuing more people with finding what, where people are buried? yeah, fortunately, a lot of people have come together. doctors are offering free treatment. the schools and universities are closed now. so they've opened up shelters, and people and volunteers are going down to the rebels and searching for people even before outside help gets there. so the communities trying, it's best to cope with it and trying to organize funerals for the people found. and it's just chaotic, especially because syria is already divided between government and rebel held area. so if you have a relative in a different area, you can easily travel as well. there's a lot of a political dimension. garcia, thank you very much for coming in and filling us in on the situation. it's good to get someone from syria to tell us about what's going on. thank you. or german chancellor or salt says, tweeted his government's condolences over the earthquake disaster and his promise

to send help. he wrote, we are following the news 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 rubble, germany will be sure to send support. a spokesman for the german interior ministry, said germany is already working with turkish authorities to send aid with n alley. 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, with a response from the european union from our brussels bureau chief, now alexander phenomena. the you says it's already mobilizing help for turkey. tell us what form that takes the european commission here in brussels said that they

reacted sir immediately after receiving the request from the turkish government to activate the protection mechanism. every country whose national own a resources are overwhelmed by the disaster can request to this mechanism to be activated. and the you commissioner in charge, she honest leonard should show who is in charge her of her crisis management and humanitarian aid. he said on twitter that her 1st her search had to rescue units from the netherlands and romania were already on their way this morning. according to that show socrates, the team from the netherlands includes police, military personnel. but of course, also 1st respondents and fire fighters, and we have to say that over a dozen of you countries have said that there are a sending search and rescue units to

a turkey. this is of course only the beginning. we just heard from the german government that more held east needed, and the european commission president author fund alliance said on twitter that europe stance ready to provide at the help that it's needed. i think it's also worth it or worth mentioning that turkey as a member of nato, has already requested sir, assistance of from the alliance as well on their list or a emergency medical teams and equipment, as well as a field hospitals for extreme weather conditions. what about help for syria or just turkey from the you? well, the situation in syria is of course a bit different and then in turkey, and that is what as spokesperson for the european commission, told us to de, pointing out that some areas that are affected by the air as quakes in syria are controlled by the government. others are held by the opposition there,

and the spokesperson told the reporters at that the european commission is working with pardoner organizations on the ground, on the ground. and that those organizations are trying to channel some of the human italian assistance already there to help the areas affected about the european commission. he also said that they are, of course, ready to provide more humanitarian 8 alexander, do get the feeling that this is all going to be enough for such a huge disaster. i know so many countries chipping in the you also stepping up to the plate extremely quickly while as i thing. and i and i also assumed that everyone here believes that that could be just at the beginning. just like a 1st search and rescue units of 1st a helper that 1st her name responders to be there on the ground to immediately help. but of course, what people there a wood needs, and that is of course,

also the understanding he in brussels are water supplies, shelters and medical help d, w, 's alexandro phenomena. thank you very much for joining us there from brussels. and you're watching t w use up next d w science sun tomorrow today. i ben fizzle. and thanks for watching. i'll have more information on the situation in tokyo and syria, next out to see that. ah, [000:00:00;00]

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