ah ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin, searching for earthquakes, survivors in turkey and syria. many people remain trapped and night after quakes devastated towns and cities across a wide area. more than 4000 people are known to have died. in syria, the effects of civil war complicating the rescue effort. the country's economy and infrastructure are already in tatters. meanwhile,

international relief efforts are underway. countries around the world are sending rescue teams and supplies to the effected breach. 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 at the turkish city of ghazi, untapped it caused destruction stretching along turkey's southern border from the mediterranean eastwards. also affecting parts of northern syria emergency crews have been working in freezing temperatures to pine survivors. the b to chip, the georgia. this is what they've been hoping for. for hours. a rescuer carries

little say not about of the rubble of the collapse building and kind of mum, brush bystanders keep shouting, the child is saved. then the rescuer breaks down in tears. ah, in hadn't i to the search for survivors? went on all day. yet ever. if you can shout, make yourself heard. the rescue is hang on every movement on every sound. what is that? what's wrong? we keep hearing quiet voices from under the rubble, we're finding lots of bodies, but also some survivors. here in atlanta, hundreds of people fear for the lives of family members and friends and rescue as keep pulling bodies from the rubble. fear grows among those who are missing. loved ones. go to the issue. my brother, his wife and my nephew, are still under the rubble because ultima, what? a terrible earthquake! allah surgery, all i god helpers, allah boshoway, mason,

but it's happened. bathrooms, are! yelled alma, the earth shook in the early hours of monday morning in south eastern turkey. these images are from a security camera. the situation is especially bad in the cities of cameras. close to the epicenter of the quake, and hattie, near the syrian border, whole neighborhoods here have been flattened. more and strong. aftershocks continued all day. those caused more buildings to collapse. president edward spoke of a disaster of historic dimensions. it today at $417.00 a. m. we were hit by the biggest catastrophe, quite since 1939 earthquake, it's alicia holmes. the government declared the highest state of alarm and called for international aid. in many cities, like here in adena, the search continues in i see temperatures in the hope of finding someone alive

a correspondent, but to boss kirk is traveling to the other center of the earthquake. he was in axa right in central turkey. when we spoke to him a short while ago, i asked him about the scale of this that this disaster. it is really disastrous or says one under its years it was the 2nd biggest earthquake and turkish history towards greek $7.07 made really bad effects on many cities, not 10 cities, maybe 1520 cities, even the capital anchor was affected because of it's now at almost 3000 people died just on the in turkey and almost 5000 building smoke collapsed. and torque is one of the biggest disasters. effects was in 99. and uncle jay, it's like really bad. the effects on many people, many people died in that art greek, but it seems that at this bill have a bed called seducers. badly sued the full. that's all and the other things tell us

how our rescue efforts progressing. actually, director is so called in oxides. love the i reach and 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 to 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 mini. 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 an the construction think. so in search efforts, the colds thing is like the 1st challenge. and the 2nd thing is, as i said, 5000 buildings caught up. so many people actually are on there for trouble.

this fun to do, this is a bit closer for doris goober curse. so i think it's 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 have you changed roads so many times so be, are going some way, but we saw like 80 kilometer traffic, the roads stopped for a to kilometer. so we tried another way, 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. are there they are really happy to so

robots as the vote more read, there is colds, and they are and having face a hard situations, for example, in some places, dance are made for them in some places for sol are made for them. but we can't even see that in to withdraw some social media accounts. they are trying to find the place to state. so yes, and there are tense sports holds on it men, 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 who most cook? thank you. now let's cross over to dorian jones, are corresponded in istanbul, norion, what are turkish authorities saying about this disaster? well, it takes very clear that this is one of the worst natural disaster his country has

face. if not be was. these are talking about 2 major earthquakes in the same region . the space of a few out. 10 major cities have been badly affected, holding a population around 13000000 people. so he's never experienced such a this off on such a wide scale before he is prone to earthquakes, even where i'm here and it's tumble in 1909. it was hit by a devastating quake just outside the city. 70000 people died. but this latest the dissolve that given the broad distances that we're talking about, hundreds and hundreds of kilometers of being affected by this devastating quick thousands of buildings have claps, buildings we're getting reporting or continuing to clamp. and that's really trapping many people in the rubble. but it's also maybe even more people homeless. and as soon as you can see behind me, the whole country isn't the grip of a lot of the free period, whether sub 0, temperatures, temperatures all across the region. it's. and in this disaster zone is thousands of

people, maybe 10000 people have spent the night to freezing conditions. children families, the old in on the streets. they had to make bomb fires, rub from the remains of buildings to keep warm. there's an urgent need of accommodation, urgent need of shelter. and the turkish parties really are aware that this is a massive, massive of the basics which is set to go on for many days. if not weeks. what is the government doing dorian? to assure the help gets to where it's needed quickly, the government saying they really are some mobilizing the whole of the countries resources. they do have an experience with dealing with quakes. they have these emergent emergency teams and their national notions, the organization that was mobilized from the very outset. and they also, they say they have a mobilize the military doctors and people. but the problem is, is getting people into this region is that most of the ad pulled to be by the

effective one pulses can put out of action. as you heard earlier, most of the roads have been very badly damaged. and the problem that is is that many areas are we believe receiving support. we've had tragic stories all through the night of people standing outside building saying that they can hear their loved ones trapped in the building. but saying where is the emergency services? where is that help? where is the support? you've heard that all through the reach and that was the night was broken by cries of buildings, cries of people trapped in buildings. and given the fact that the temperature is all below subs 0, let's frank a pipe, a firm yet is all of those people in the building and isn't awareness among the people survivors of those loved ones are in a race against kind of bible. so there's a lot of pressure now building on the far east, the lack of political pressure is now starting to build saying the more needs to be done. this is a disaster on a monumental scale. what kind of support has turkey asked for from abroad?

well, i think the 1st priority is search and rescue teams right from the very beginning of this of quake within an hour or so. turkey made an international appeal not so unusual. normally it takes a lot longer for these appeals to go out from 3030 present to the very proud nation, usually not needing simple, but this time they went in connect those from the very beginning. and they can find that they understood the magnitude of the problem. they need search and rescue teams. and in particular, these track the dogs, dogs, that are trained to find people in rubble that is seen as a piracy turkey has many of these themes. but given the fact we're talking about thousands upon thousands of buildings, they need more of these are the special train teams with dogs. and the appeal is been answered. we have already the european union. i've sent a number of 20 will. so search and rescue teams are arriving. we also have the bi sean, the gulf states, and the united states to mobilize. but toby's message is we can't get these people fast enough for piracy. now it's search and rescue because given these terrible

conditions, it is a race against time. and that window of opportunity of saving people is closing. what about non governmental support story and how is civil society and turkey responding? well, the country is mobilizing on the local level, local municipalities here, bear i me, assembled, county, they've been organizing the collection of blog is also people have been going around collecting blankets, warm clothes, because they are, whether many people down or half of last everything they need borne close to the collection point going, there's also many people have gone to the samples main apple talk to specialists or trying to get on the special ed. does it be set up by the circus military, into the region to give assistance? and also the, the local municipalities also be sending their own rescue team by ro to, to the region to help people i'm from, it's stumble. the moment a criminal molar was being posting images,

all of those rescue teams all ready on the c claimant. they all now saving people, the country really is mobilizing, there's an awareness of this is a once in a century natural disaster. the country is facing dorian. thank you very much. car correspondent, dorian jones, there is stumble, the earthquakes also calls devastation in northern parts of syria. near the turkish border, the tremor struck parts of the country already struggling after years of civil war . the devastation after the earthquake is evident in serious not the quake leveled entire buildings in some parts, killing sleeping residence in the early morning hours. ginger bell held in that province residence, described it as the strongest earthquake they had seen in their lifetime

above. what are those now by the law? we went through horrifying moments in us building at 4 in the morning is as and we've never witnessed an earthquake like this thoughts of buildings of collapse and my family. and i survived and the neighbors did too. but 5 people died here with us hosanna. in this situation, it was so intensely it felt like judgment a day. well that was said the only only he only they say the earthquake here went on for about a minute and a half. what followed was destruction on the scope that is proving difficult for warranty us from the syrian civil defense to manage on their own. in rebel held areas, they are still carrying out rescue operations that supplies are already running out . oh about from a real yellow for the bill that say it will show missouri a situation is very bad. the people of northern syria witness to rail catastrophe

to day by the civil defense are still rescuing people there, still pulling out the corpses from under debris value. so this will take many hours and days will that get many hospitals can't take anymore patients much every mom and stuff. but when somebody in aleppo residence work alongside rescue workers clearing the rubble of damaged buildings in trying to break to cement, to rescue those. it still crept underneath. i level o many remained outside in the streets in the cold, fearing buildings could still collapse. we're scared for the children. we went back home and there was another quake. so we went back into the street. despite the challenges, rescue workers have miraculously saved many from under the rubble. but as the body bags line up, local communities are grappling with the laws that came so abruptly in the middle

of the night. for more on the relief effort we spoke with young son shockey. he's the ceo of the marin foundation, which provides assistance to syrians from its headquarters and gaussian tip. sir, kids is like it's as 8. so you have a government, you have emergency team, we broke in the streets, we're getting text messages from afar about what we shouldn't do or which should not say we don't have this, we don't have government at the north, west syria. we don't have government, we have actually people who i, n g o as in civil society or trying to manage. and that's on the side all the difficulties. we've very short and funding when it's being cod body and then the national community because other issues in different countries. so basically the hospitals like being caught over 50 percent. so we already behind the medical supply. we are already behind the winter. i didn't kids and we already had the chunk thirds and pants. and now we have this emergency and we used to say emergency within emergency plus we have earthquake. i mean,

you can imagine them seeing them working 247 of them was less wanting unless equipment. so it's, it's hard. it is. it's like, there's no way to describe it honestly. so you look at a few other stories related to the earthquake disaster. turkish authorities are using a ship to transport. the injured to hospital ambulances varied dozens to a military vessel which then took them to hospitals in the port city of mercy and for treatment. the turkish ministry of defense says 3500 military personnel are assisting the rescue and search efforts. the united nations general assembly in new york has observed a minute of silence for victims of the earthquakes un secretary general antonio guerrero. she expressed his condolences and called on the international community to show solidarity with her said, un staff are already on the ground in turkey and syria, providing support to devastating people in ukraine or showing solidarity by

bringing flowers, candles, and toys to the turkish embassy and key of ukrainian president vladimir zalinski sent his condolences to turkey and syria, and offered to support the rescue operations. their irrational response to the earthquake is gathering pace. humanitarian aid is on its way and rescue teams from around the world are heading to the region. germany is contributing to 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. hearing 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. 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 that's 10, that's a whole kitchen atmosphere. that's food that's caught. heat is blanket items of credit on hammock in the spanish capital, madrid soldiers, and $45.00 fights as board a military plane bound to attack. he, 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 more health is coming overland. the 1st convoy from the kurdistan region of iraq, 25 ambulances trucks, some medical teams, q at the border with turkey. baghdad is dispatching civil defense teams

to and sending to planes of humanitarian aid to its water neighbor, syria. it's a relief f that coordinated by the red crescent and the iraqi government that up man, men, 3 tons of medical relief and emergency 8 doors. this will be delivered to the syrian people after the earthquake that hit turkey and syria authority, a marvin, we also sent 150 powder, medics with their ambulances and mobile emergency equipment to turkey. with enough to help our brothers in turkey to face these problems for care of you, i am one more year at hardin mushroom. couldn't handle is of help 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. bill gay men, there's cur, is a program coordinator for the agency. dea, connie, i asked her, what's drivers need most right though. yeah. as you said, like millions of people right now across those 10 provinces and turkey, south east are now 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 epicenter 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 are starting 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 infrastructural damage or is damages are difficult to assess at this time. and that means that routes are partially reportedly blocked in turn key block or were damaged in addition to power cuts. this makes it also difficult for us, and that was especially a challenge yesterday when the telecommunication 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 is a major concern or an approach. all right, now, because it's not possible, says the ruins 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 10 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. good, thank you very much for speaking with us. that was billed gilmer, next sir, from the agency. dia connie, thanks for having me. there are almost 3000000 people living here in germany who traced their routes back to turkey. the turkish and kurdish communities have responded to the devastating earthquakes with donations for those left homeless response has been overwhelming. the task now is to sort through the donations and get the aide to the places where it's most needed. children's shoes,

warm clothing and senator re products donations from the turkish community that these volunteers assaulting out in a school in berlin. as soon as they heard about the earthquakes, they wanted to help evolve to mourn for hall. i was at home this morning and heard about this tragic athletic disaster in turkey. cognitive, social media on the news type and chava. i heard that there was a relief effort going on here. there's people that needed when to clothing and food have an effect of them. have i was, i took everything i could take from home. and additionally, when shopping people, then i brought it here. half of it, i'm also helping to make sure it gets to where it is needed. if i give all the organizer of the initiative knows 1st hand how urgently help is needed. smoke the for my i'm doing this from my heart because they was once effected personally. all night i experienced the 1992 earthquake and i know how difficult the situation is. my son has. i was grateful for every little thing. that's what as soon as i had the

i got involved immediately thing i've just a few, ha ha, the happened before you and i, she had the involvement of the target community and jeremy's, also visible in other cities, the own as of a low co boxing club in munich, were overwhelmed by the number of donations from people who want to help, despite being so far away from the disaster sown. you're watching dw news, just reminder the top stories we are following for this. our rescue crews are searching for survivors in turkey and syria. after the region was hit by 2 massive earthquakes, more than 4000 people have died and the death toll is expected to keep climbing. the initial 7.8 magnitude tremor was centered north of the turkish city of gaussian 10th. and governments and international organizations are mobilizing to health,

the rescue operations in turkey and syria. dozens of countries have sent a personnel and equipment to the affected areas rescue teams and sniffer dogs from germany of headed to the region. the german government is also readying deliveries of generators. tense, blankets and water treatment equip you're watching d. w. news up next kick off with all the action from managed a 19 of the phone to sleep. thanks for watching. ah ah ah ah.

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