because i'm tired and tied, physically untied, morally, is too much on my shoulders, but i have to hold this way because i'm responsible for the future follow country for the people find behind the boss. so guardians of truth starts february 18th on d w. ah ah ah, this is dw news, live it from berlin. a massive earthquake is hit parts of turkey and syria with a 2nd tremor just hours later, adding to the devastation in the cold and dark rescue crews are working to bring

people out of the rubble. thousands have died, thousands more, are injured, and in syria, the relief effort, complicated by the side effects of years of civil war countries, economy and its infrastructure are already in tatters. plus international relief efforts getting underway. countries from around the world are now sending rescue teams and supplies in a race against tough. ah i'm bring. gov is good to have you with us on this one day too powerful earthquakes on the turkish syrian border of killed. more than 3400 people rescue efforts continue, but the death toll it's expected to rise further over night. flights into an out of this region have been canceled. the initial 7.8 magnitude tremor. it was centered

north of the turkish city of gauzy and tip. it caused destruction stretching along turkey's southern border from the mediterranean eastwards, also affecting parts of northern syria and international aid effort is now taking shape with the united states, the european union, nato. israel with even ukraine, offering assistance. now the 1st quake it hit over night, but it would prove not to be the last unspeakable loss and sadness had swept across southern turkey. gordon or mid 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 floor. we can't reach my family, my grandson la, la, la da, to master. it quite 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 trimmers, but not like this. ma'am, 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 way 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 aftershocks if colluded to hamper rescue and recovery efforts of 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 belleville. hospitals are tending to thousands of injured despite power shortages. the states, crude, oil and natural gas corporation had to shut off 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 you as president joe biden says it's on the way. another country, such as germany have also pledge support, but it will take time for the area to recover from the loss of life and widespread damage. dorian jones is our correspondent in if stan bowl, he told us more about the situation in turkey right now. well with night descending across the region, the rescue work because of facing of our enemy and that it's cold with temperatures paloma teen below 0 coupled with snow and freezing rain. and that poses a risk of hypothermia will. to me for those traps in the building, up to the many more of those on the streets whose homes have been destroyed or they've been seen those 2 unsafe stay in them and all prove that they we have seen

more and more of these buildings collapsing like piles of called wall for more and more off the shots, and along with this of a very powerful earthquake striking the region. and with each of these collapse building becomes 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 work is trying to find any one else alive. and as the days and hours on hold, more or more of these tragic stories are expected of the country price itself for probably the worst crisis in living memory. in dory, in the area that has been hit by these 2 quakes, tell me about how populated it is because that, of course, has a direct impact on being able to get heavy equipment. for example, in 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 the huge load of pressure on the say, the emergency service, the turkey has experience of dealing with quakes is 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 cool. the military of be mobilized all across the country, mobile mobile, to teens on going to the air it, but they getting the air into problem. one of the major ports found that has been

rendered useless by the quake, and many of the roads seem destroyed by the powerful quake and following off to show to getting to the area, getting a motion to people. there is also a challenge, but the scale of his problem mean turkey is reaching out of gold, is looking for international assistance to help with what is expected the days of really huge emergency folks to find anyone trapped in the conference, 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 tremors for rescue crews 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 workers, they really are putting their lives in the answer because they are really many cases. they are just burying the powering deep into the clamps buildings to try and

find people alive. it's really the only way to get heavy equipment is impossible because he was rid of a class in the building. so you have the power in deep when that happens and there is a powerful, this powerful 2nd quite useful. many of the work is running for their lives is buildings all around them. but collapsing on top of that and on the face, over a 100 off the shops, most shock continue to shake already we can building. so these rescue workers really are a monumental, tough, very dangerous job because a lot of expertise, a lot of bravery. and i think that going for the pricing is 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. in syria. many buildings who are already in poor condition do 2 years of neglect during the war that has made the damage particularly severe. the rescue efforts are being hampered by poor infrastructure,

as well as by bad weather. rebel held areas in the northwest, the country were among the hardest hit. the white helmets fall into your group says that if you're hundreds of people could still be trapped under rubble. yaks on the shockey is the ceo of the mara foundation. that provides assistance to syrians from its headquarters across the border in the turkish city of gaussian tip. i asked him what he is hearing out of theory. while it's very bad, we've been communicating with my team and we set this a temporary shug base to have people who really did their houses and we're not talking, as you mentioned, just like a building we're talking about. the settlement camps who would like to attend, were destroyed and really walls were falling over to like people, why they would, they were steeping and you said you're talking to was from inside your car and that's not just by chance. is it there? are you, are you where it is soft?

is it to be right now? while honestly i didn't the but think in a test or, and the whole being was shaking. i drove around. i mean that check with the other colleagues and friends and it's not, there's no safe place i want to, i'm not only mean, i mean, even after i had said, don't go back to building so we're not sure what going to happen tonight. we also traumatize to go to sleep in the same bed where we woke up for am was, was shaking. so way i think the cars and some small shelters were going to. that's the same 1st place, at least for tonight in the numbers that we are getting, the figures that we're getting from syria. how reliable would you say they are? i think it's a basic numbers that number is way more because what i'm getting my team even with that that we're having and of course with other agencies, un entities and, and to mention agencies, we're getting the basic numbers that not to mention it's

a freezing of their it's called, it's almost 0 temperature celsius and like nose. so basically it's, we're working and they're very, very hash conditions. and at the same time, we have no 100 percent reach to all the areas and the area there in northwest syria, we know 10 years of civil war in the country. there's already a lot of physical destruction. the earthquake will just compound the suffering for the people there. i'm wondering that when we hear the red crescent, red cross societies are trying to get people and equipment into northern syria. how easy is that for them to do? compared to the situation in southern turkey, did not well, i mean it's, it's like it's a state, so you have a government, you have emergency team, we walk in the street, we get the text messages form. i fad about what we shouldn't do. i would not say we

don't have this, we don't have government at the north west area. we don't have government. we have actually people who i, n g o is and civil society or trying to manage and that type of difficulties. we very short term funding when it's being cut by the international community because other shows in different countries. so basically the hospitals like being cut over 50 percent. so we are the behind the medical supply. we are already behind winter different kids and we already had the chunk thirds and things. and now we have this emergency and we used to say emergency within emergency plus we have with quick. i mean, you can imagine them not working for any 47 was less something less equipment. so it's, it's hard. it's like, there's no way to describe it honestly. yeah. well, you know, we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tonight, sharing information about the situation there. and we wish you and the people working with you, you know, all the best, especially getting through this 1st critical night. thank you. in new york,

the united nations general assembly has observed a minute of silence for victims of the earthquakes. un secretary general, antonio quoterush expressed his condolences to the families and he called on the international community to show solidarity. quoterush famous says of the un is mobilizing to support the emergency response. he says that you and staff are already on the ground in turkey and in syria to assess how best to provide the system most devastating as well. the european union, if sending aid to turkey, i spoke earlier with ball ash or have audi, he's a spokesperson for humanitarian aid in crisis management at the european commission . today's 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 you protection mechanism. now 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 throughout 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 the efforts 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 by this our and here is a reminder that tom story that we are following for you this hour. a 2nd powerful tremor had struck the turkish syrian border, which was already reeling from an earlier earthquake. and even more massive, earthquake, more than 3400 people have died. the death toll is expected to climb, amid destruction that stretches from syria's mediterranean coast to eastern turkey . watching the w news, steven beardsley is up next after a short break with your business news, i will see you tomorrow with every journey is full of surprises. we've got all our.