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

an appeal to the world. it's very difficult for us. we need help. we need to do something to help us to support the disaster also strong areas scarred by serious civil war, eating the most vulnerable. the was many thousands of refugees. ah i've been fizzle 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. flight to the region have been suspended. the initials, $7.00, magnitude tremor was centered north of the turkish city of kazi and tap it cause destruction stretching along turkeys, southern border from the mediterranean eastwards and international late if it 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 join 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 had 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 at daunting task in the

search for survivors. their efforts impacted not only by the sheer size of the rubble piles but the i did 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, if the quake was in southeast in turkey, but it also hit parts of neighboring sylvia leaving a trail of devastation with members of semi as 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 a thing. know many families,

no are under durable. oh oh, oh fab, i will teams trying to save him, trying to save the people to save the oh, the people from on 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 of that with international support now on its way and moments like this, providing some joy for rescuers raising expectations that more may be found alive. i asked how his temple corresponded dorian jones to tell us more about the scale of the disaster in turkey. while the country is reeling from this massive, quick on this 2nd quite that has struck the country a few hours ago. this is a region power to say that this is northern off, the shock for the separate quite that was triggered by the initial one this morning . it was almost the same magnitude. in fact,

it was 1000 cos much of the country and that is triggered 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 further 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, when we have tons of 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 scene. when there's a 3rd off the shot from a collapse is on top of that isn't the only problem facing these rescue workers. the whole area has been very devastated votes have been destroyed. one, of course, at least with people out of out of action problems getting help to these. there. we understand that launcher bought some quick, strict and air. it hadn't received much assisting 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 quake. 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 snow in another place. it's freezing rain, which is out in the field, the piper fermi for many of the people of horse 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? besides some of the larger cities in talking, thank the whole region that this makes it around. 13000000 people are living in this area that underlying for scale of is facing the emergency. but not only trying to find people trapped in the building, we're talking about long term providing of shells of the people they need. she needs a tent, they need from the heat. and we're talking about providing north for 2000. it's

going 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 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 call it the onset $150.00. that was very close to the center. the way has over half a 1000000 syrian refugee. and we also hearing about similar, urgent need just to call the syrian border from the refugee agency, saying that they are desperate need of assistance as well. so this is a major you monitoring crisis is unfolding. so 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, no strangers,

tragically tunnel quake cities, 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 this sample in 1999. a quake struck just outside the sample, killing 70000 people. one of the worst monitoring crisis hit this country. and so that might quake nightly to was as part by initial readings like today's, of quite because i do on the schools. how much of the time to you mentoring crisis facing the country again for turkey does have expertise in dealing with this. 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 save the people that are facing a terrible climate this month. he w story and joins reporting there from stumble. videographer up to salinger hood is

in the city of the unhappy in southern turkey. he told us more about the challenges facing rescue workers. many buildings are falling down because of the huge mountain building start falling. we are having really a little not the little actually because a lot because the whole building got funding together. no one noticing it's because it's like behind the in far away from the city. so it's really hard to cover for, for the never have been before like this in the city and we've multi ethically together where they could have been with that if it really fire war the arm, but on but doesn't matter if it was a private hospitals or public hospital all working through guys or even there is no some people,

some people from the folks are like, they are able to help the be the volunteering to have the $45.00 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 save your cities. but it's all always dangerous to give some aid's support for that. people who aren't sheltering in the streets or in the board following them once they've been there this morning that the, the for the for thought on the board. all or that

service centers. because the from one the floor you'll be able to whole shake of there. we use it as a ship. it's no that is the shy for the for to be able because i thought the in the 1st time so that i be more focusing and i need a lot of support. now the way things are they heard of that be good. somebody feeling something like 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 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 leaving was before they had the same, the same moment, the same shape by the shaking them grow. my response that i talk to us i smallish is stephen hicks from university college london, asked how often to massive earthquake strike one to be other. yeah, it's, it's fatty ram in psychology. thought that most of quite 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 case manager with magnitude 7.8. so we expected maybe the maximum aftershocks 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 like breaks. and like i said, i play for each other and it's

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 been in touch this morning, this is, you know, perhaps the most devastating example of one of these have such a ration is going on. what about the impact on lives? could this be have an even bigger impact on previous earthquakes that have already been so devastating kentucky? i mean, this touch stuckey is certainly no strange at the 2 larger crates. in recent decades, most of the larger crate has been sort of to the north of the country, particularly along what we call the northern and it's having fault. 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 reason that breaks up. however, in the southeast of the country, which is where today's, at the grace 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 moment is around well, to go back to 1900. for example, i went off the record to get back. if we get my further out sort of more, there are some examples in written history. people write down their experiences, the seem to make sense within a great but the for many centuries ago. so i think the people in the, in the southeast, like it might not about, and he lodges quite 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, the scientific literature this morning that i did find

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 that's great, there is no unexpected problem is we can't predict exactly when they got great happen. so we come because a conflict and we have to prepare the methods. so to make sure the construction is done to ensure that those buildings are safe for a minimum given level of a minimum that was included in a crate the strongest by. but also cool has come because sometimes in building and sort of in construction operations. so particularly in an area that has an experience with them and there's a memory of one, so i can sometimes be it's outside the box. ok, thank you for the information,

steven hicks as a smaller just to add university college, find it in syria. many buildings were already in poor condition, do 2 years of neglect during the war. that's made the damage, particularly severe rescue if it's being hampered by poor infrastructure as well and bad weather. rebel held areas in the north west of the country were among the hardest hit. the white helmet volunteer group says it is hundreds of people could still be trapped under rubble. johan boy, is the world vision syria response director and joins us from on. are there any estimates on how many people need rescuing and help right now in syria? i think we're talking about 100 people. although it said the connections are bad with the area, but we can't reach a lot of our stuff directly. but, but it must be a 100 and they're talking about thousands of woodard besides

bag connections. what. what are the other challenges age groups like yours face in assisting syrians affected by this quite well, i seen the middle of the waves. the earth could not have come at a worse time. it's been raining for a couple of weeks now. we've had snow recently. it is very cold. and many of the syria people live and tense or temporary shelters. and some of the buildings are not the buildings that they lived, but rather buildings that were adjacent to where, where they were living. so what are the next days and nights going to look like for people waiting aid in that region? well i, like i said it's, it's very cold. and normally when people live and schools are ready,

but at least they have some getting what we've started doing this morning is moving our supply of users to temporarily school where people stay for or shorter period. and we provide in eating and some basic needs like drinking water and, and so on. and is your group getting the support it needs to get into those regions to connect with these people that need a words and think yes we, we worked in this area for the last 7 or 8 years. so we have found good ways to kind of connect and the various groups we have to do. we're kind of know well and, and they allow us to work where it's needed. so we have no issues. and also

the area is accessible from turkey and the turkish authorities will give us the full access across the border. some hope they're found, johan boy, from what vision. thank you very much for joining us there from amman. and joining me now is the w report, ogazio hunters who's from syria garcia 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 in electro 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 i would like not like this never before, and a leper alone. $46.00 at least $46.00 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 than in turkey? i yeah, as the, the expert before mentioned, serious 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. you lucky if you have a car, if you don't it's, it's a very difficult. yeah. yeah, yeah. how would 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 community is 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 those as 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. john shazlaw will have sholtes has tweeted his government's condolences over the earthquake

disaster and has promised to send help. a spokesman for the german interior ministry said germany is already working with turkish authorities to send aid within. i live, 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 out from the rides, as well as help from germany. turkey will also receive assistance from a joint european union relief effort, coordinated from brussels. from there, our bureau chief alexandro phenomena told me more about the use plans to help. 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 for 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 you needs to a turkey. this is of course only the beginning. we just heard from the german government that more help is needed and the european commission president, also our fund alliance said on twitter that europe stands ready to provide at

a health 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 or from the alliance as well on their list are a emergency medical teams and equipment, as well as a field hospitals for extreme weather conditions. what about help for syria, not just turkey from the you? well, the situation in syria is of course a bit different. and then in turkey, that is what as spokesperson for the european commission told us today, 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, alexandra, 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. well 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 help or at 1st her 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. he don't use alexander phenomena. thank you very much for joining

us there from brussels. and reminder of the top story we're following for you. the 2nd power full trema has struck the turkish syrian border, which was already reeling from an earlier, massive, quite of a 2300 people have died. the death toll is expected to keep climbing and destruction stretching from syria's mediterranean coast to east kentucky. d, w 's asia is next wave berrish vanity. i've been fas all, and i'll see you next hour in with

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