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rescue crews are working to bring people out of the rob. thousands are dead and thousands more injured and inferior. the relief effort is complicated by the side effects of years of civil war. the country's economy and infrastructure are already in tatters. plus, international relief effort skit underway countries from around the world are sending rescue teams and supplies to the effected regions. ah, i'm regard to our viewers watching on p b. s in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome to power for earthquakes on the turkish syrian border have killed more than 2700 people. rescue efforts continue. but the death toll is expected to rise flights in and out of the

region have been canceled. that the initial $7.00 magnitude tremor was centered north of the turkish city of gauzy into it, cause destruction stretching along turkeys, southern border from the mediterranean eastwards, also affecting parts of northern syria and international aid efforts is taking shape with the united states. the european union, nato, israel, and even ukraine offering assistance. the 1st quake hit over nights, but it turned out that there was still more to come. unspeakable loss and sadness had swept across southern turkey. northern and it was again, my grandson is 18 months old. please help them please. we can't hear them. have not had any news from them since morning, please. they were on the 12th florida. we can't reach my family, my grandson. a law

did to master it like struck within hours of each other. the tremendous floors flattening homes and businesses. people living near what is known as the anatolia fault, or used to trainers but not like this that we all came downstairs and there was heavy rain. people have been through horrible things. a relative of our friend is here. they haven't been rescued yet. we are waiting for them on the right. as searches go on, more than missing our fear dead. the quakes were felt as far away as lebanon, jordan, israel, and egypt. hundreds of after shocks have colluded to hamper rescue and recovery efforts. over the i'm looking for the wife of my brother. 2 of my nephews are inside. yeah, my brother's wife came here last night as a guest from memorial. my gms bob role hospitals are tending to thousands of injured despite power shortages. the states, crude, oil and natural gas corporation had to show not the flow of gas to the area after

quakes damage the main pipeline. on top of all that more aftershocks and bad weather are expected. the rest of the week turkey's turning to the international community for help us president joe biden says it's on the way. another country, such as germany have also pledged support, but it will take time for the area to recover from the loss of life and widespread damage. now we want to go to our correspondent dorian jones, he's standing by in istanbul. dorian, once the situation right now in turkey, well with night descending across the region, the rescue workers of pacing enough our enemy about it's cold with temperatures paloma teen below 0. coupled with snow and freezing rain, that poses a risk of hypothermia will. to me for those traps in the building of the many more of those on the streets whose homes have been destroyed or they've been seeing

those 2 unsafe to stay in them and all prove that they we have seen more and more of the building collapsing like piles of called wall for more and more shots, and along with this of a very powerful earthquake striking the region. and with each of these collapse building comes a tragic story in the amana hotel was hosting to secondary school volleyball team. now that hotel is not more than a pile of rubble rescue workers trying to find anyone else alive. and as the days and i was on hold more or more of these tragic stories are expected of the country . prices self, probably the worst crisis and living memory in dory and the, the area that has been hit by these 2 quakes. tell me, just about how populated it is because that, of course, has a direct impact on being able to get heavy equipment. for example, i mean areas where they're trying to pull up big blocks of concrete to try to find

survivors. well, this area in southern turkeys is very densely populated. now we have this massive, powerful, quite one of the most powerful to strike the country in decades and a symbol of the powerful one. following just a few hours later. it's an area that has 10 of larger cities. this whole area is home to around 13000000 people. know all of the cities have been very badly affected pictures of claps, buildings, whole streets have literally collapsed in many cases. and this is putting much neutral load of pressure almost to the emergency service. the turkey has experience of dealing with quakes as oh, country is prone to quakes, but it has never really faced the scale that it is all of 10 cities, all being similar, painlessly by this devastating of the powerful quake. and this is pushing emergency services to the limit. they are called the military of the mobilize all across the country. mobile mobile to teens are going to the area,

but they getting the air into problem. one of the major pulled down that has been rendered useless by the quake. many of the roads seem destroyed by the powerful of great following off to shelter getting to the area, getting emotion people. there is also a challenge. but the scale of this problem mean turkey is reaching out of bolt, is looking for international assistance to help with what is expected the days of really huge emergency folks to find any one trapped in the 100 possibly thousands of buildings across this region. in terms of rescue workers being able to get to people dory. what are you hearing? because there was a 2nd quake that happened hours after the 1st quake, and there was enough time between these 2 trimmers, for rescue cruise to get to the scene. and they were basically standing on piles of rubble when the 2nd quake hit yeah that's, i mean, that's right. i mean, so the rescue work because they really are putting their lives in the hands because

they are really many of the cases they are just burying the powering deep in the clamps buildings to try and find people alive. it's really the only way to get heavy equipment is impossible because he was capturing the building. so you have the power in the when that happens and there's a powerful, this powerful 2nd quite useful. many of the work is running for the lives of buildings all around them, but collapsing on top of that and on the face, over a 100 off the shops, most shocked, continue to shake. already we can building. so these rescue workers really are facing a monumental, tough, very dangerous job, recording a lot of expertise, a lot of bravery. and i think that going for their pricing's also very difficult days ahead. debbie's orient, jones with the latest tonight on these 2 major earthquakes in turkey and syria. dorian, thank you. jonathan brass is an operations manager at the international federation of red cross and red crescent society. she told me about the work it's being done

by rescuers on the ground in turkey. thank you very much for having me and that you had a serious the program is here at the moment. at the moment is everything from specialized equipment which that they're utilizing to, to access people to handing out kids to ensuring that says good communication to for, for families who are looking for their loved ones. i really, it's a spectrum. everything from finding people, which now is the, the window of opportunity. and as we see, we have seen some many cases where people have been recovered. but really over the next few hours it was critical. and once the fam have people removed from the rubble, they need phases to say they need food and clothing every law, much of their stuff because they have left their homes to for the 1st the many have

not returned. the 2nd earthquake then resulted in more homes collapsing, so it's really a spectrum of issues at the moment. if you are in a race against time right now, because you want to find as many survivors as possible, what do your workers, what do they need right now? in through the night through the night it's time, it's probably the most important thing people need. but as you heard, it's hard to get the heavy equipment in that it's, it's at the moment really, it's ensuring that those who are on the street, those it doesn't have to homes are being looked off the warm, they have food. those are in the rubble and now many thousands of people still to be accounted for. ensuring that the workers have the access, the lights, the want to be able to keep working. jonathan, what do we know to about the situation in syria? be the people in turkey, obviously, i'm turkey has not been hit by

a civil war. the way syria has for the past 10 years. that makes the situation there, particularly are in the it province even more dangerous for the people who survived . what can you tell us about rescue efforts there tonight? why again, and that continuing. obviously, here in turkey, there's many, hundreds of thousands, millions of refugees who i'm from from syria. so again, the situation is being, it's by hon. those who are still in syria. of course the, the situation that facing is, is extreme just because of the fact that they don't already have resources that they're living on the edge. anyway. that said, the rescue workers are doing that. everything that he can to ensure that they're recovering as many people as possible and ensuring those who are recovered are accessing the systems that they need. johnson branch operations,

manager of the international federation of red cross and red crescent society johnson. we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tonight. thank you. thank you. this quote is being called the strongest to hit turkey in a century. for more now, i'm joined by austin elliott, an earthquake geologist at the earthquake science center of the us geological survey. near san francisco bay, it's going to have you with us tonight. how prone is this area there between turkey and syria to earthquakes? indeed, turkey is one of the more earthquake preowned countries of the on the globe. and this earthquake struck an area that has been long known and understood do a significant seismic hazard. an alternate. we've heard that there were reports of for shocks or, or pre shocks if you will. you always hear about after shocks, but there were reports of for sharks before the major earthquake hit. does that

mean there was a chance for people to actually get out of the buildings in the end to save themselves if they had reacted immediately after the 4 shocks were felt? the 4 shocks to this event were i believe there was one earthquake of around magnitude for or so on the day prior for the most part, earthquakes like that are common in this area and in many sized weekly active areas . and very few of them are followed immediately by a larger earthquake. so unfortunately, there's really no predictive capacity with any given for shock of a magnet of any given earthquake with a magnitude of 4. so, like we saw in this case the you end up sort of ascribing for shock of the arm to define these are after the fact once a larger one occurs. so in other words,

you're saying that you could actually be having a force shock, but there's no way to actually know that it's a force shock until you have the actual quake itself. and there's no way to predict that. that's right. there's currently no way to predict the time of any future earthquakes. what we can know is where they'll occur and relatively, how often the other thing that we know which has already been phased is currently being phased in the region. now is that larger crates, most of the critics are followed by aftershocks, and in this case, the aftershock sequences quite vigorous. we've seen hundreds of manager for earthquakes and did fives a larger aftershock of 6.7. and then of course, the sort of 2nd quake still may be nominally an aftershock, but on a different fault or near the original weight that had a particularly large magnitude. yeah, i mean, so we're talking about 2 devastating earthquakes happening with just several hours

of each other. i'm wondering then if we're looking into the next 1224 hours and we know that after shocks are possible, how safe then is it for people to return to buildings that may have been damaged? i mean, are we still looking at the possibility of a nother a 3rd major quick. well, what we do know is that there will continue to be earthquakes. aftershock sequence from this pretty massive event is going to last 4 months to years. people be experiencing certainly at least moderate manage moderate intensity. earthquakes fairly frequently. the frequency of those decreases over time, so there will be less than most of them that's maybe already been seen or recognized by people just over the course of the day. although surely it feels like it's just almost continuous shaking there on the ground. the prospects of other large earthquakes are low,

but the potential always exists in earth. moving from place like turkey, like many parts of the world, that face earthquake to this magnitude. the reality of possible. similarly, larger quakes exists. we know from statistics and history is that for the most part or followed by smaller aftershocks. so in terms of austin, if i'm understanding you right, it sounds like the people who are living in the area that has been hit, their southern turkey, northern syria, they're going to have to learn to live with the possibility of the big one hitting similar to the way people out where you are on the west coast of the united states . and so what could be done then for them to be better prepared for the inevitable, for yet another quake? well indeed, i suppose. the morbid silver lining here is not really a silver lining that the morbid reality of that situation is that their big one has

just hit on. so this $7.00 is approaching the largest magnitude that we expect within the continents. and so they have just suffered through you know, pretty much the worst case of this disaster. but of course, having a nother larger break. 9 hours later compounds the situation. further earthquakes of that magnitude are frankly unlikely, but the possibility will always remain just as it remains in any or great pro and part of the world. and so the best thing that people can do in the region, of course, they're dealing with a lot, but anyone who's really in other regions, other parts of the country or other places that we know to be at risk of earthquakes in the future should look at this and if, if the situation alarms them, think about what they would want to do to be prepared. should the eventual earthquake strike them. and there are a lot of resources that people can look up with local agencies, local governments,

about how to get prepared for earthquakes and what's being done in the region in which yeah, it's fascinating how you're describing it and i'm sure when people got up yesterday morning they had no idea that they were about what for them would be the big one. austin elliott earthquake geologist also. we appreciate your time tonight. thank you. thank you. in new york, the united nations general assembly has observed a minute of silence for victims of the earthquakes. un secretary general, antonia brutish, expressed his condolences to the families, and he called on the international community to show solidarity quoterush. it says that the un is mobilizing to support the emergency response and that you went, staff are already on the ground in turkey and syria, assessing how best to provide assistance about the diverse germany chance r o shoulds has expressed his solid arity with turkey and with the victims of these deadly earthquakes and he is also offered help from his my i'd like to say to all

those who have been affected by this terrible disaster for them to her relatives and friends employ you the whole of turkey, we stem and solidarity and we mourn with the lighting that this is, it's really very sad, a disaster and a massive scale to some home with them together with all the others we have offered help him isn't if problem we avoiding aiding it with the turkish government. but also with all of the others in europe and elsewhere, who have offered help in the school to his article will, along with help from germany, turkey will also receive assistance from a joint european union relief effort, coordinated from brussels. joining me now from brussels is bullish or the body t is with the european commission. he's the spokesperson for humanitarian aid and crisis management. it's good to have you with us tonight. i mean,

we've seen that rescue teams. they are on the wait, how does the european union plan to continue helping? turkey is good evening today. unfortunately, a very difficult day for church in syria and here in brussels that you have orders . we do whatever we can to mobilize assistance very quickly and get a search and rescue teams on the, on the ground. the old, they started by turkey activating what we call it section. and it's not is the structure that has been designed to deal with an amendment and natural disasters 30 has been requesting in the 1st place, search and rescue teams. and today we have been working very hard for the whole day as a result of which we've been able to make available almost 20 such teams coming from 17 european countries there on the way to turkey. in fact,

some of the teams that already arrived, for example, we have romanian bulgarian hungarian teams already contributing to a difference on the ground and as a 2nd step, now we're looking into the possibility of mobilizing emergency medical teams, which is also part of the service request for some of some such offers, i already have been made by you members. it's very simple. there's a spanish team ready to go. so one can expect that in the coming hours and days more and more european personnel will be arriving in turkey. collectively. by the way, we talk about nearly a 1000 people or by this hour, mister or the only when you say that these people from the european union will be arriving in turkey to help are you also implying there that they're going to be able to assist people across the border in syria, i mean, we know time is of the essence here, but we also, we know the reality of geo politics. they are between turkey and syria. when it comes to syria, the situation is somewhat different. as opposed to turkey,

syria has not activated a protection mechanism, and we cannot act if this is not the case. it would only be able to send such things if we received a formal request from the searing authorities. however, what we can do is to operate to our many terry operations in the country, obviously that european union to get over to member states is the largest donor of when it comes to community or an 8 in syria. just to give you some figures, since 2011 be made available together. we don't remember more than 27000000 euro just last year we announced a 150000000 euro. so what is happening now is that we are in a close contact with our miniature important organizations in this means m n g o is sort of un, what we've from them is that they are reorienting. there is now in the coming days and weeks the words, the zone which has been struck by the earthquake and they are engaged in

a wide variety of activities such as providing transportation support, but also a shelter in general. but also basic hygiene items. and here in brussels, we stand ready to provide additional community or an 8 which could be going through a partner organizations in this area on the ground. and, but i just wanna make sure i understand you correctly the, for the, for the people who are in northern syria now you would be able to send them assistance from you. but you would have to have a request that would have to come straight from damascus straight from the the the government leadership basha of saw. is that correct? during the 2 ways in which we could help on the one hand is the actual assistance which is conditioned up on a formal request from dia, a steering up. there it is, but in the meantime, of course, we can proceed to our humanitarian policy, which is being implemented on the ground next to the partner organizations that we have in syria and geo as you. and as i said through days, organizations,

we are able to channel in a system that's on top of this. we could also at through the a single production mechanism as we are doing, by the way, in turkey, bosh or the body with the european commission. we appreciate your time tonight, we appreciate you taking the time to tell us exactly what is being done. thank you . well, there are fears that gonna international soccer player christiane up. so could be trapped under rubble following that earthquake. those 2 earthquakes in turkey, media report say that the 31 year old is missing to has playing 65 times for gonna last september, he joined the turkish side to support his former club, newcastle, united from the english premier league, and said that they are praying for positive news and we're going to stay with soccer now. minister city have been charged by the premier league with

more than $100.00 council, violating finance rules. english champions have denied any wrong doing an independent commission will now decide whether to punish the club if possible. sanctions including a point deduction, or even expulsion from believe. manchester city of the most successful premier league side of the last decade, fueled by the riches of the abu dhabi owners city of 16 titles. but now their glory has been called into question after news came from premier league headquarters that the club were being charged over more than 100 alleged breaches of financial rules between 20092018. the league said city to both star players such as earling, harland had failed to provide accurate financial information that gives a true and fair view of the clubs finances. after a 4 year investigation, an independent commission will now decide if city are guilty and if so,

what punishment should follow. a reprimand, find points, deduction or expulsion from the league or among the possible sanctions. coach pet body, ola said last year he would quit the club if he found he had been lied to about their finances and why defend the club in the people's because i war with them. and when they're suspicious, all the people say a to something i asked them would tell you that it was, it was like diesel a deadline there. okay. i believe because i sent to them. if you lied to me that they asked on him, i will be out and i you will be my friend amy city had already been in trouble with european building buddy you, ava over their finances. the club were accused of overstating sponsorship revenue to help limit net losses, but had a to hear back from european football overturned on appeal in 2020 city also believe they will prevail in this new case saying in a statement that they were surprised by the charges.

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