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where donations had been pouring him. 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 ongoing, 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 crews have been working in freezing temperatures to find survivors. rescue is continue to dig the survivors among the thousands dead. a sign of hope as

a mom is pulled alike from the robo. oh, oh, okay. but the others hope is fading fast. i should whichever my wife is in yahoo! my wife is in between. one should never give up on hope, but most probably she died on the w. j. b must, there's always hope prisoner, but i stayed with it 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, you know, you could, i don't have any hope for any autism. these 7 point take magnitude earthquake flatten vast areas of southern turkey. and it's 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 bad one. man said he would sleep outside his damage stole to protect what remains of his business program. will deduct were algio because of the earthquake, we will stay the night so that our furniture and the store will not be looted like ost ambulance is rushed, survive is to 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 gazande near the 1st earthquakes epicenter . i asked him to describe the experience when the earth shook. 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, 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 to app shelter. and we tried to get people as much people as possible to stay with us in 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 it's even worse in areas like cost money and he and no doc. but basically

because on top is a very old city and it's a big city. so at the old 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 of 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 street as like an open space where you can steep a doctor the risk of having the breeze falling off here on you because like similar buildings just i'll just collapsing because building got survive. the 1st grade did not survive the 2nd week or so there was brought, there is no way in or out of the city. but if you will run out of gas stations all

over again until 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 see the shortage and for the drinking water in medicine. sheltered aside on like people are leaving shelters because they're trying to seek more help because shelters can keep up with the demand. emma, thank you very much for talking with us. that was 8 worker m at basi. in gaussian time. earlier i talked to our correspondent dorian jones and is stumble, 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. turkeys never experienced, such a those offs on such a white scale before it 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 disaster given the broad distances that we're talking about hundreds and hundreds kilometers of been 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. and it's also maybe even more people homeless. and as you, as you can see behind me the whole country isn't the grip of a lot of the free period, whether it's up to the, or a time just temperatures all across the region. it's. and in this, this office 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, of 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 that help gets to where it's needed quickly, the government saying they really are some mobilizing the whole of the country's resources. they do have an experience of dealing with quake. 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 pull to be by the effective one pulse has been 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 building saying that they can hear their loved ones trapped in the building saying, where is the emergency services? where is that help? where to 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 temperature is all below subs 0, what's frank? a pipe, a firm yet is all of those people in the building and there's an 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 is all even political pressure is now starting to build saying the law 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 monitor unusual. normally it takes

a lot longer for these appeals to go out from 3030 present itself with a 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 with dogs, dogs that are trained to find people in rubble that is seen as a piracy turkey has many of these themes. 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, or any of the european union, i've sent a number of 20 will. so search and rescue teams or arriving, we also have come out to buy shop the gulf states and the united states to mobilize the turkeys messages. we can't get these people fast enough, a priority. 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 where i me stumble, county, they've been organizing the collection of blog is also people have been going around collecting blankets, warm clothes, because they're a weather. many people down south of last, everything laney 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 approach. does it be set up by the suckers military, into the region to give assistance? and also the, the local municipalities also be sending their own rescue team by ro to help to the region to help people. i'm from stan bowl. the moment a criminal molar was being posting images, all those rescue teams already 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

corresponded dorian jones. there is stumble while they're 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. 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 sanitary 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 a disaster in turkey, cognition, social media on the news type. in the shabba mckee, i heard that there was a relief effort going on here that there's people that needed when to clothing and food have an effect of them have i?

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 to figure all the organize of the initiative knows 1st hand, how urgently help us need it. smooth for 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, but so i was grateful for every little thing. that's what, as soon as i heard the, i got involved immediately as being, as just a few. ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, 40. and i, she had the involvement of the turkish community in germany's also visible in other cities. the owners of a local boxing club in munich were overwhelmed by the number of donations from people who went to help, despite being so far away from the disaster sown. you're watching dw news, just

a reminder of the top story we're following for you. rescue crews are searching for survivors in 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 got close up for you taking a look at climate change and the world's rich. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. ah she's got a thought say well crazy.