seized the date and join us for this discussion. at the 16th edition of d w's global media forum. ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin, desperately searching for earthquake survivors in turkey and syria. many people remain trapped after quakes devastated towns and cities across a wide area. more than 5000 people are known to have di. meanwhile, help is being mobilized near and far. d w. news visits of berlin school where donations have been pouring in.

ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us too powerful earthquakes have killed more than 5000 people in turkey and syria. rescue efforts are all going, but the death toll is expected to rise further. the initial 7.8 magnitude tremor was centered north of the turkish city of gaussian tap. it caused 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. rescue is continue to dig the survivors among the thousands dead for a sign of hope as a man is pulled alike from the rubble. 0 one. 0

oh. but the others hope is fading fast. i should be jo. 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. we saw 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 avenue 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. they have of that will 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 to protect what remains of his business. grumbled up, we're all cheer because of the earthquake, we will stay the night so that our furniture and the store will not be looted. asked ambulances, rush, survive is the hospital. the search for life goes on. but as i was turning to days, there were fee, as these bitter sweet moments of rescue will give way to an ever rising number of dead shore. while ago i spoke with him at basi, an international aid worker who lives in guardianship near the 1st earthquakes epicenter. i asked him to describe the experience when the earth shook. well, we were sleeping calmly in our beds around 470 in the morning when the alarm

sought to drinking and, and earthquake 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 a drinkers, 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 lap shelter. and we tried to get it as much people as possible to stay with us and discipline area. and then we helped them go to the shelters because the, even the shelters are having supply issues or i would 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 even the worse in areas like cost money and he and no doc. yeah, basically because on top is a very old city and it's

a big city. so at the old part of the city i had the most building collapsing. and while then you were 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. but the problem is that so the roads are crunched for several reasons. i did the roads i brought because people ran, i have low 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 sleep about the risk of having the breeze falling of here on you because like similar buildings just i'll just collapsing because building that survived the 1st grade did not survive the 2nd week or so there was brought, there is no way in our out of the city. but if you will run out of the gas stations, all over guys on top of the city is very,

very much equipped city. so they managed to survive for the 1st 2 days. but now we're starting to see the shortage and for the drinking water in medicine. sheltered inside i'd like people are living 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 us. that was 8 working im at basi in gaussian time. earlier i talked to our correspondent dorian jones in istanbul, 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, that is also 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 the sub 0 temperatures all across the region is. and in this disaster is only thousands of people may be tens of thousands 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 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 awesome mobilizing the whole of the country's resources. they do have an experience with dealing with quake. they have these emergent emergency teams and it's national motions, 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 tried to 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 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 all below subs 0, let's frank apply 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 kinds of survival. so there's a lot of pressure now building on their parties to work with. all of the 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 $3030.00, present itself with a 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 teams. 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 to buy shop 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 and there. i me stumble, kathy, 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 this 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 from the stumble, the moment a criminal molar was being posting images, all those rescue team already on the c claimant. they all now saving people, the country really is mobilizing, there's an awareness that this is a once in a century natural disaster. the country is facing dory. and thank you very much. car correspondent, dorian jones. there is symbol. well,

there are almost 3000000 people living here in germany who traced their routes back to turn in. the turkish and kurdish communities have responded to the devastating earthquakes with donations for those left homeless. the response has been overwhelming. the task now is to sort through the donations and get the aid to the places where it's needed. most children's shoes, warm clothing and senator 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 long for hall. i was at home this morning and heard about this tragic, i think, is also in turkey, congress from social media in on the news type and chava mckee. i heard that there was a relief effort going on here. the. there's people that needed when to clothing and food effective of have i was, i took everything i could take from home. and additionally, when shopping the block,

then i brought it here. half of it. i'm also helping to make sure it gets to where it is needed for your fall. the organize of the initiative knows 1st hand, how urgently help is needed. smoke the from my, i'm doing this from my heart because they was once effected personally off. nice. i experienced the 1992 earthquake and i know how difficult the situation is like so. i was grateful for every little thing. that's what as soon as i heard, i got involved immediately this thing as the stiff get. ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, 40 and i, she had the involvement of the turkish community and jeremy's, also visible in other cities. the owners 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 remind her of the top story we're following for you. rescue crews are searching for survivors and turkey and syria. after the region was hit by 2 massive

earthquakes. more than 5000 people have died and the death toll is expected to keep rising. the initial 7.8 magnitude tremor was centered north of the turkish city of gaussian time. coming up next, we've got close up for you taking a look at climate change and the world's rich. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. ah, leonardo da vinci's, mysterious masterpiece in this perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece in the collection of the louvre. it is the virgin of the rocks. was there another symbolic meaning to this beautiful painting that perhaps we just don't understand today? the search.