ah ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin, desperately searching for earthquakes, survivors in turkey and syria. many people remain trapped 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 are complicating the rescue effort. the country's economy and infrastructure are already in tatters. meanwhile,

international relief efforts are getting underway. countries around the world are sending rescue teams and supplies to the effected regions. ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us too 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, untapped it cause destruction stretching along turkeys. southern border from the mediterranean eastwards, also affecting parts of northern syria emergency cruise had been working in freezing temperatures to find survivors. the district of georgia, this is what they've been hoping for. for hours a rescuer carries little say now about the rubble of the collapse building and cut

a man. brush bystanders keep shouting, the child is saved. then the rescuer breaks down in tears. ah, in atlanta to the search for survivors, went on all day. if you can shout, make yourself heard the rescue as hang on every movement on every sound. what's this that was 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. 6 and rescue is keep pulling bodies from the rubble. fear grows among those who are missing. loved ones. go to the shoe. my brother, his wife and my nephew, are still under the rubble because all can go 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 had been flattened. more and strong. aftershocks continued all day. those caused more buildings to collapse. president edwards spoke of a disaster of historic dimensions. today at $417.00 a. m. we were hit by the biggest catastrophe, while since 1939 earthquake, it's alicia holmes. the government declared the higher state of alarm and called for international aid. in many cities like here in adena, the search continues in i. c. temperatures in the hope of finding some one alive

a spring in emerge basi here he's an international aid worker who lives in ghazi and tapped near the epicenter of the earthquakes. he joined us now from there. he might describe to us what it was like there when the quakes hit. well, we were slipping, company in advance, around 470 in the morning when the alarm sought to drinking and airs. quake came, it was so intense the limit that we would, we were trying to find sheltered inside the house. and we were hearing concrete popping out of the walls and falling off the ceiling. so we waited until the creek was over. but it lasted for way too. long, we kept feeding it for a minute and a half. then after that we ran outside. we took the car and we drove to a nearby open space, where people started joining us. and we had to spend the night the 1st night and

the 2nd night out. and the weather is freezing for food and water drinking water. it's very limited. we barely have access to that. it's a weird feeling that we are 8 workers, but in a minute we became a people who are in the middle of this catastrophe. who need help? now we have very few access to food and drinking water. it's very limited for the 1st few hours. we had no water, no electricity, and no natural gas. so we had to rely on our cars for eating and to app shelter. and we tried to get it as much people as possible to stay with us and this open area. and then we helped them go to the shelters because the, even the shelters are having supply issues or with water and food and things like that. so what's the situation in gaussian tip right now is help getting through to

the city? well i got into the situation is really bad, but so even worse in areas like cost money and he and no doc ah, basically because on top is a very old city and it's a big city. so at the old, the part of the city had the most billing collapsing. and while the newer part of the city like the building, i stayed and i live in as an earthquake resistant. so at managed to take some of those shock waves. oh, the problem is that so the roads are cooked for several reasons. i did the roads i brought because people ran, i'd love fuel and left their cars in the middle of the street. or because they're using the street as like an open space where you can steep a doctor the risk of having the breeze falling of here on you. because like similar buildings just i've just collapsing because

a building got survived. the 1st wave did not survive. the 2nd week or so drones are brought, there is no way in or out of the city. oh. but if you will run out of the gas stations all over got santa, i hear that the city is very, very much equipped city. so they managed to survive for the 1st 2 days, but now we're starting to seize the shortage and for the drinking water in medicine . sheltered aside on like people are leaving shelters because they're trying to seek more out because shelters can keep up with that demand. emma, thank you very much for talking with this. that was ain't working. m at basi in gaussian or shore while ago. i spoke with our correspondent dorian jones. in istanbul. i asked him, what turkish authorities are 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 quakes 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 to 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 been and in this disaster zone is thousands of people may be tens of thousands people have spent the night to freezing conditions. children families, the old in on the street. they had to made 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 authorities really are aware that this is a massive, massive 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 with sources. they do have an experience with dealing with quake. they have these emergent emergency teams and it's national nice and 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 being 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 we believe receiving support. we've had tragic stories all through the night of people standing outside the building saying that they can hear their loved ones trapped in the building saying, where is the emergency services? where is the help? where is the support? you've heard that all through the region. there was the night was broken by cries of buildings, cries of people trapped in buildings. and given the fact that the temperatures are below subzero, with frank applied to fermi is all those people in the building and isn't awareness among the people survivors of those loved ones are in a race against kinds of survival. so there's a lot of pressure now building on their pharmacies to whack is all political pressure is now starting to build saying that 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 help of the very proud nation using 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 been promoted by sha, the gulf states, and the united states to a mobilizing. but turkey'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 and there. i me stumble, county, they've been organizing the collection of blog is also people have been going around collecting blanket, warm clothes because there are whether many people down or half of last everything they need warm, close to the collect some point going. there's also many people have gone to the samples main apple talk to specialists or trying to get on this special ed. does it be set up by the military, into the region to give assistance? and also the, the local municipalities also be sending their own rescue team by road to hell to

the region to help people i'm from it's time bull. the moment a criminal molar was being posting images, all those rescue team already on the see 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 while the earthquakes also cause devastation in northern parts of syria near the turkish border, tremor struck parts of the country already struggling after years of civil war. the devastation after the earthquake is evident in theory as not to quake levelled entire buildings in some parts killing sleeping residence. in the early morning hours, ginger bell held in the province residence,

described it as the strongest old quake they had seen in their lifetime. i love what i did not buy them of law. we went through horrifying moments in us building at 4 in the morning and we've never witnessed an earthquake like this. thoughts of buildings, of collapse, of my family and i survived. and the neighbors did too, but 5 people died here comes with us all sooner than the situation. it was so intensely, it felt like judgment a day. well that was said, the gun. we all know 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, but supplies are already running out. oh, i bought from a real yellow for that bill that say it gives you missouri a situation is very bad. the people of northern syria witness to real catastrophe

today. but most of the civil defense are still rescuing people. they're still pulling out the corpses from under debris laid out. and this will take many hours and days will that get many hospitals can't take any more patience, much every man i'm just and stuff. but while i'm out here in aleppo, residents work alongside rescue workers clearing the rubble of damaged buildings. hey, and trying to break to cement, to rescue those still trapped underneath. above all way, 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 challenger's 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 of moral the relief effort in syria. let's bring in m a forester from the norwegian refugee council. she joins us from the syrian capital, damascus, and will describe the challenges involved in responding to this disaster in syria. thank you, and yet it's a very challenging situation at the moment. and as you know, the temperatures are extremely low. this in a lot of rain is very cold, so that is hindering and relief efforts, making it difficult to respond. the destruction and debris also proves and other and access challenge. syria was already undergoing not as severe fuel crisis before the earthquake. so we're hearing already that there are challenges in terms of having enough fuel for the relief efforts to operate heavy machinery to and for transportation, for ambulances. and that there's been breakdowns of communication which is also caused by fuel, but the lack of fuel because people do not have their power to,

to power and their communication device and their mobile phones. and there is a real lack as already has already been mentioned of equipment for that for the relief efforts. i'm for train staff. you mentioned the fuel crisis. so syria has been also devastated by years of civil war. and now it's been hit by earthquakes. how is the country coping with all this? yes, like i said, the, the situation is extremely di before the before the start, the crisis public services were already at the point of collapse. 40 percent of only 40 percent of health facilities, valparaiso no food securities at the high has ever been and their economic situation has continued to deteriorate. so families are already struggling to make and meet their basic needs. so this on top of everything else has only exaggerated and already very dire humanitarian situation. and children were psych county. no. go ahead. i'm sorry. and yet it chilled him are struggling to return to school over

90 percent of that population is living in poverty. and that, and because of the people, millions of people have been displaced and some people there are an displays. they're either living in cancer, often also likely to be living in homes that are and not as strong and well structured to withstand an earthquake. so they're likely to be the worst effected given all that, what are the main priorities for your team right now? currently the priorities for our teams on the ground are assessing the needs. and i'm trying to provide any assistance that we can in the meantime, while we get a fuller understanding of the picture yesterday was funding was extremely difficult, as has already been mentioned and people are forming and coming together and collective shelter is that because of the aftershocks people have been fleeing those collective shelters as a colleague in aleppo this morning said that people are living on the streets. is there too scared to return to their homes? and yet, so the situation is, is very difficult. and just briefly, emma,

with people watching this program, what can they do to help and more funding is urgently needed to t. m. for the response. so any one that's watching the horrible situation that is unfolding in series today can provide any donation that be can to the response to help our teams on the ground. and you can provide support by visiting the n r c website. and our see, don't know if you would like to provide any sport. and we're thank you very much. that was emma forster from the norwegian refugee council. international response to the earthquake is gathering pace. humanitarian aid is on its way and rescue teams. we're round the world are heading to the region. germany is contributing to relief efforts packing as fast as they can. there's no time to waste as the german team from aid 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 or falls oregon. this includes not only the material we need to rescue and treat others, but also the material will need to stay there in the 1st place. so con, thus tanks, that's a whole kitchen elsewhere, that's food that's caught eaters, blanket items. so cronum are on the tarmac in the spanish capital, madrid, soldiers, and $45.00 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. a flying out to the quake zone in south eastern turkey

and more health is coming over land. the 1st convoy from the kurdistan region of iraq, 25 ambulances truck, 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 war torn neighbor, syria. it's a relief f at coordinated by the red crescent and the iraqi government that man men 3 tons of medical relief and emergency 8 don't. this will be delivered to the syrian people after the earthquake that hit turkey and syria authority. a marvin, we also sent 150 paramedics with their ambulances and mobile emergency equipment to turkey, home with him to help our brothers in turkey to face these problems. here i am more

yet had in a much handle 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 lay kate and rescue survivors. well, turkey is a stranger to earthquakes. the country lies on top of several tectonic plates, making it a hot spot of seismic activity. tremors occur in much of her e because of it's because it's chris crossed by the fault lines between the plates, all of which are moving the magnitude 7.8 tremor that struck turkey and syria on monday caused a rupture stretching more than a 100 kilometers along the anatolia and, and arabian plates of more on the physics of this,

we can talk to size mom or just angelo stroller with the german research center for ju sciences. saw that in potsdam, just so of the german capital where we are as well give us a sense of the force of this earthquake. how powerful wasn't a good morning from bought some. yeah, that was quite powerful. and the frequency there. basically, there we are used to see in the euro med region in the last to the case that at least one of many higher than that, which means in the order of 3050 times more energy related with what we observe in the recent years. for example, in croatia recently or centrally or your basically know being out so that really another order of menu to which is not surprising perfect model. jesus is expected for that region. indeed is one of the highest read. you are the regions with the highest in the region, and that's what not surprising. so basically what,

what has happened there? so the, and they some movement along the eastern authority and fall, which basically as accommodated the movement of a dial tone in place, which is relatively small and has talked in a triangle and we did it through this to work towards creeds and add that to give you a 10 so called be basically they're actually in the order of 200 kilometers and basically release all that information in the order of a couple of meters that there's been a one to 2 the years in a few minutes. okay. the magnitude of this quake, though, is maybe not the only factor. what does explain the devastation that this, that this quite caused? yeah, the different station cannot be explained from the menu to the loan. because i mean, we also know that in other countries, we have other samples of the size. they don't call it the devastation and the field

. so this type of image that we see here are, are very peculiar for the region. and indeed, they are probably that even by the high when that ability of buildings in the area and also basically the, the losses and the fatalities that are there are related also to the exposure which is another ingredient. part of the, of the, of the impact basically of this event, which at that quick track that night with people all at home. all so nobody industry nobody out in, in a sort of less exposed context. no, basically, the combination of the, of the large menu to the ability of buildings which is quite high in that region. and the exposure is coating the high number of fatalities that we are observing and that these inspectors to pro, into coming got work. and in addition to that, there are out of local complications related to local the cation of the, of the ground lent lighting, secondary effects,

and so on. until the thank you very much for speaking with us. that was angela stroller, a science model, just input stuff. just remind her, the top story were following for you. this hour of 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 continue rising. the initial 7.8 magnitude tremor was centered north of the turkish city of guys, young tech 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 regions. the german government is also readying deliveries of generators, tense, blankets and water treatment equipment. you are watching

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