in the you with a slow in february on d, w. ah, ah, this is the w news coming to you live from berlin, searching for earthquake survivors in turkey and syria, a girl pulled from the rebel asks, where is my mother? many remain trapped to night after quakes devastated towns and cities across multiple countries. more than 4000 people are known to have died. meanwhile, international relief efforts get underway. countries around the world are sending rescue teams and supplies to the effective regions.

ah hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. to powerful earthquakes have killed more than 4000 people in turkey and syria. rescue efforts are ongoing, but the death toll is expected to rise further. the initial $7.00 magnitude tremor was centered north of the turkish city of ghazi and tap it cause destruction stretching along turkeys. southern border from the mediterranean eastwards, also affecting parts of northern syria emergency crews of work through the night and freezing temperatures. to find survivors. as night falls across turkey, rescue is continue to dig the survivors among the thousands dead. huh. a sign of hope. as

a mom is pulled alike from the rebel o. one earth. oh. but the others hope is fading fast. i should whichever my wife is in the yeah, what my wife is in the region. one should never give up on hope, but most probably she died. j b must as always hope, christmas, but i stayed with her for 3 hours and spent another hour to get out on the hold up for you, but i didn't get any response from her for 3 hours, which i don't know. i can't bring myself to say it is no good. i don't have any hope for almost a month up the $7.00, magnitude earthquake flattened vast areas of southern turkey and its freezing temperatures. sweep the region, the now homeless struggle to stay warm. i was at we'll be cold here until morning.

freezing getting wet. we have no place to go. no place to stay. my god, we don't even have a bed. one man said he would sleep outside his damage stole. actually

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we are trying to reach the place where it's a so called and also in the southern part, it's also called 0 degree one degree 2 degree. so it is not easy to navigate inside at nights. for example, at night it's colder, by the way, and most of the roads weren't close to do a presenter at midnight. we are in the car a v v. v bar in the car, 10 minutes ago. and many of the roads were closed. some bardari accident summer or like a construction think. so in search efforts, the colds thing is like the 1st tillage. and the 2nd thing is, as i said, 5000 buildings called up. so many people actually are on the rubble. it's fun to do. this is a bit closer for do rescue workers. so i think it will be harder, by the way, vile it's colds. it's hard for the people under rubble to survive. now you

are on your, in the disaster zone on your way to the epicenter. how difficult is it to move around in the affected areas actually level around shortly, but if you changed roads so many times, so we are going somewhere, but we saw like 80 kilometer traffic. the roads stopped for 80 kilometer. so detroit than other ray, but the other ways are like cold, icy. so it's not easy to restart. what about the survivors here? we can see that weather conditions. there are appalling. what's being done to help the survivors under these conditions. this is a be christian actually surviving is yes they are. they are really happy to so robot's as the vote read the risk colds. they are having face hard situations. for example, in some places that are made for them in some places for sol are made for them. but

we can't even see that there are some social media accounts they are trying to find the place the state. so yes, there are tense sports holds on it. many other public places will stay, but as some people are asking for help to stay somewhere, but who thank you very much for your reporting. that was d w correspondent, but to most cook. thank you. let's look at some other aspects of this earthquake disaster. turkish authorities are using a shift to transport. the injured to hospital ambulances carried dozens to a military vessel which then took them to hospitals in the port city of mass. in for treatment, the turkish ministry of defense says 3500 military personnel are assisting the search and rescue at united nations general assembly and new york has observed

a minute of silence for victims of the earthquakes. un secretary general antonia go cherish expressed his condolences and called on the international community to show solidarity begin. gutierrez said, you and staff are already on the ground in turkey and syria, providing support. people in ukraine are showing solidarity by bringing flowers, candles, and toys to the turkish embassy. and keith, ukrainian president will, over me as the landscape sent his condolences to turkey and syria and offered to support the rescue operations there. all the international response to the earthquake is gathering pace. humanitarian aid is on the way and rescue teams were around, the world are heading to the region. germany is part of the effort packing as fast as they can. there's no time to waste. as the german team from agency, international search and rescue prepares their equipment for their mission in

earthquake hit tacky. during the rescue operations, they'll have to be totally self sufficient. because in some areas, the earthquake destroyed everything. you're missing. what we need to be able to provide for ourselves and others for 10 days was organ code. this includes not only the material we need to rescue and treat others, but also the material we need to stay there in the 1st place. and so con, thus tanks, that's a whole kitchen house, that's food that's caught. heaters, blanket items o'connor are on the tarmac in the spanish capital. madrid. soldiers and 40 fire fights is bored. a military plane bound for turkey. it will be bringing a cargo of aid and a team of rescue dogs to the search and rescue teams from greece, the netherlands, and poland flying out to the quake zone in south eastern turkey.

and office of health have been flooding in from israel, russia and the us. it's a race against time to get the international teams here into turkey and set up before they can even start to locate and rescue survivors. spring in belgium and next her here. she is a program coordinator for the agency. dear connie and she joined us from amman in jordan. thanks for being with us. and we've just seen videos of towns reduced to rubble. tens of thousands of people are homeless. what is it that, that victims of this earthquake need most right now? yeah, as you said, like millions of people right now across those 10 provinces and turkey se are no outdoors due to not only because of the our main else quite yesterday,

but also because of the aftershocks and right now on looking at the temperatures, for instance, it's one degree in the province of carmel marsh, where the at the center is located. and this being said, working, we're right now working on the exact extent of the damage and needs to of our, our emergency teams have already arrived yesterday in the south eastern province of high tide. so we have started to set up shelters. but of course, people also need teaching materials because because of the harsh winter conditions, provision of tents with isolation sheets, for instance, is very much needed. and of course women to rise asian items such as jackets, blankets, but also hiding items including mobile electrons is going to be needed in the coming hours and days. what challenges are you facing as you try to deliver these aid supplies?

right now we can say that for instance, the infrastructure or damage or is damages are difficult to assess at this time. and that means that routes are partially reportedly blocked in turn key blocked or were damaged in addition to power cuts. this makes it also difficult for us and that was especially a challenge yesterday when to tell the communication system was also disrupted. so we also know from the field that some pre existing warehouses have even collapsed and referral of people to other provinces as a major concern or an approach allan right now, because it's not possible since the roots are damaged, not only the damage through it, but also the lack of capacities at the moments are also very much stretched, since those affected tenant provinces are heavily affected and are located next to each other. and as i said, the harsh winter conditions,

the so to say are difficult communication lines right now are making it for all the difficult for us. however, we have been able to mobilize our capacities, as i said, and our teams are already on the route working on it. so massive, massive challenges there. what all survivors of this earthquake be dealing with in the coming days yesterday, government authorities have asked people to stay out doors to stay outside because damaged buildings might collapse any time. so this is also a scenario or situation that will continue in the next couple of hours and days. people will need to stay outside those people who have already lost. now their homes will have to stay outside anyways. and as i've mentioned in the current temperatures, the harsh winter conditions is further deteriorating. the situation bigger. thank you very much for speaking with us. that was billed gwinnett sir from the agency.

dear connie, thanks for having me. you are watching d. w is just a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. this, our rescue crews are searching for survivors in turkey and syria. after the region was hit by too powerful earthquakes, more than 4000 people have died and the death toll is expected to keep climbing. initials, 7.8. magnitude tremor was centered north of trophies, city of ghazi, of 10th. and governments and international organizations are mobilizing to help the rescue operations in turkey and syria. thousands of countries have sent aid personnel and equipment to the affected areas. rescue teams and sniffer dogs from germany have headed to the region. the german government is also readying deliveries of generators, tense, blankets, and water treatment equipment. to forget,

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