guardians of truth starts february 18th on d, w. ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin, desperately searching for earthquake survivors in turkey and syria. many people remain trapped off to quakes devastated towns and cities across a wide area. more than 5000 people are now known to have died in syria. the effects of civil war are complicating the rescue effort, the country's economy and infrastructure we're already in tatters. meanwhile, international relief efforts are underway,

countries around the world offending rescue teams and supplies to the affected regions. ah, i'm a new campus, mccann and thank you for joining us. at least 5000 people are now known to have died in a series of powerful earthquakes that hit turkey and syria. rescue efforts are ongoing, but the death toll is expected to rise significantly. the united nation says up to $23000000.00 people in total could be affected by this disaster. the initial $7.00 magnitude tremor was centered north of the turkish city of a gas the and tap it caused destruction stretching along turkey's southern border from the mediterranean eastwards, also affecting parts of northern syria. the dimensions of this disaster are

enormous, but thousands of lives are also being saved. rescue was continue to dig the survivors among the thousands dead. a sign of hope as a man is pulled alike from the rebel. 0, one hurt oh. but for 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 problem solved 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 to hear from you on what some of these 7.8,

magnitude earthquake flattened vast areas of southern turkey and his freezing temperatures. sweep the region, the now homeless struggle to stay warm. the 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 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. asked 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 in mad bazzi is an international aid worker who lives in gaussian tat near the 1st earthquakes epicenter, he described to us what he experienced when the 1st massive quake hit 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 is 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 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. i got into the situation is really bad . but even the 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 building collapsing. and while the newer part of the city like the building, i stayed and i live in as an earthquake resistant. so it managed to i think some of those shock waves. oh, the problem is that so the roads are cocked for several reasons. i did the roads i brought because people ran ablow of 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. but um, the risk of having the breeze falling of here on you because like similar buildings just i'll just collapsing because a building that survived the 1st wave did not survive the 2nd wave. right. and so the rows are brought, there is no way in or out of the city or whether the fuel run out of the gas

stations all over guys aren't up here that the city is so 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, shelter it's, i'd, i'd like people are leaving shelters because they're, they're trying to seek more out because shelters can keep up with that demand in that was mad, but he's speaking to us earlier from garcia's tech, next near the 1st earthquakes epi center. now, earlier i spoke with our correspondent dorian jones, who's in is done bull. and he told me about the turkish authorities reaction to this disaster. these are really preparing themselves and they said, this is one of the worst natural disasters this country is faithful to me. the was, is the sheer scale of too powerful of occurring. moving up you out over a boss area which will be about several 100 kilometers. have been bad,

the effective in cities own to over 30000000 people with a gang of this after piece to grow according to a parties as many as 17000 buildings up and lead to a collapse. we're talking about tens of thousands of apartments, housing, hundreds of thousands of people. we give them the fact that this is the 1st quote quake occurred in the early morning. many of those people were sleeping on our in tune, in piles of rubble that were once their homes. there's a massive security search and rescue operation. now go home all across the region, but this is been by the bitter, atrocious weather conditions because all of the country is in the grip of the siberian bloss, the web temperatures are well below 0 and one night full to get even colder. this is quoting the spectrum, i prefer mia for many of those people are believed to be buried in the level. but also those people that are now on the street just trying to make do because the homes are considered to one state to return. well, they have stephanie claps,

so there's a major human humanitarian crisis event. they need urgent shelter, and they need even hopes food, the basic hope food have seen now as a major crisis point that needs to be addressed. and there was growing now pressure only emergency service. i'm the government to provide this increasing criticism. me is growing. many people now say, where is the state given the fact that it is such a large area that is being affected, the school or the emergency stuff is all being pushed. the limit and beyond time is obviously of the essence here. so what is the government doing to ensure that how to get to where it's needed as quickly as possible? when the government being said that they are, they have been out of the rescue workers to the region. but getting these people into the region is proving a major problem given the many of the roads are impossible because of quite damage

. and those that are open up being locked by blizzard conditions and many occasions . so getting people into the onto the ground. if a major struggle, one, a pull has been shut down because of damage or the military have opened up, an air car is all by the breaking from the region by the interest of rescue work. and by the al and it's tumble, airports has seen images of thousands of people turning out, offering assistance. those specialized workers can assist, but it's getting those people into the region. and given the fact that now we're hearing tragic stories across social media, but people are in the claps houses, standing outside, desperately believing that possibly relatives are trapped in there. and they said there's no assistance. so this is really putting a lot of pressure on the ultimately part is i'm, the question was where it show me as a very large army. but the people are saying that the army doesn't seem to be assisting in the level of scale, but is expected given the scale of this operation. so there is

a lot of pressure building up. what kind of support has turkey asking for from abroad? i mean, given the scale of what we're looking at here, clearly they're going to need help from, from outside of the country. yeah, absolutely. i mean, when this quakes trust that move in an hour or so, the turkish current car to the government made an international appeal about how unusual in the past and previous other natural disaster. they have been a little bit slow. they like believe of turkey stated powerpoints growing up and deal with these issues on its own, but this time they went straight international. they made an appeal and that has been being seated. and now a particular command is search and rescue team. that is the priority, particularly once i have these specials, the train tracker dogs can find people live in claps, building that's seen as a top priority. and that is being key that there are many teams now arriving european union and also brought arriving the search and rescue for teams with these

crucial trackers on turkey. dod have many of these dogs and the search and rescue because it is felt that many right or similar breaks in the books, basically they just don't have enough of them. and this is seen as the key priority . the officials say we need search and rescue teams later on possibly medical support, but the prior now is it's still such a rescue operation. and you mentioned earlier that there is a great willingness to help, but people or q and chewing up at apple. it's trying to get to the places where they can help. so what about non governmental support? can you tell us how the civil society in turkey, in general is responding to the situation while the country is mobilizing them? and there is collective shock and collect your realization. this is a once in a century challenge that the nation is facing people of being curing up to off a blog. here,

nist ambled as being long queues organized by the municipalities. also people are being collect, the blankets won't close because they, they realize how many of these people in the most, everything and they are facing these bitter conditions on top of that, people have been also going to stumble, ample, to offer assistance specialists and they'll be flown into the region by the military. i'm also the municipalities here in this sample. they have their own search and rescue teams to the region they left in the early hours of yesterday morning and they are already on their reports in the already rescuing people that feel organized by the stumble at chrome, emma molo, similar mass all across the region. they have these, these skills and facilities all now sending them to the region. the country really is mobilizing the all galvanized because they realize that this is such a terrible moment the country is facing the door and thanks so much. so story and jones in istanbul, as a disaster,

has also hit parts of northern syria, which were already devastated by years of brutal civil war. these areas near the turkish border have seen bitter fighting during syria's armed conflicts. worse off, all areas not on the syrian government control and official from the world health organization says the movement of aid to these areas is most likely being obstructed. beneath the rumble in afrin, some one is trapped on it. have you been carefully, painstakingly, but urgently? this rescue or works to free them very faintly, a child cries can be heard, never will have a lot. and then her face is revealed. roseville. finally, the little girl is free. for the 3rd trucks from another child rescue by the white helmets law or no, no,

no like someone of this boy had been trapped under rubble in it lip for more than 20 hours. some hope emerging from beneath the sea of devastation in a country already dealing with the years of civil war. the death toll from the earthquake mounting. but despite difficult conditions, the rescue as were con, help pouring in from across the world. these around jerry and rescue crews arriving at aleppo, airport. and in la talk here, russian military personnel joined the rescue effort. every one who's able trying to help all knowing that every minute counts and we can speak now to jak sanchez,

shadley who's the ceo of the markham foundation, which provides assistance to syrians. thanks for your time. jackson. i understand that you are organization is, is headquartered in gather until which is near the ab center of the 1st earthquake . can you tell us how your team has been impacted by this disaster while was being shocked. i mean, for like, you know, for him in the morning, everybody has to be there houses with whereby they could manage to bring with them . so basically we got together like, after a few hours, we opened our office and we, we turned our office to shut our guys in. so your office is functioning right now despite what's happened and presumably you are trying, trying to help. i mean, what are you doing to help the most vulnerable? do you have enough resources? i mean, resources never enough. i mean, if we're talking about the nor than the funding being going down and down the last

dances that i mean other words than variation. but i mean my seem to, i mean i could be thankful enough for their work. they came to the office with their families. they kept working with others. and the few hours, the 1st shutters inside didn't have to have ibp, who really got infected by the earthquake. and we also have 2 people from the street here and 13 to join our office to enjoy the warm and the to you. just like, i mean, we're trying to help with every way possible. yeah. you said that you know, that the resource is never enough, but can you describe to us the, the challenges of carrying out relief work in theory or a country itself as he been ravaged by civil war compared to, let's say, the relief assets in turkey. you know what i mean? we can compare 32303030 is a state where they have like a situation where they have industries and all this and northern. we don't have this. we've been work at the civil society actually like 247 to be able to support

the people that need. and of course, funding is always critical issue. we have the 1st for the resolution, always the critic happens every 6 months. so we, i mean, we're already there too much pressure funding. been going down because the need is very big. as you mentioned, that war war, our like the tuition and see i've been there for over 10 years and still we don't have a solution people. now if we look at the number of the f, b over 40000000 people and they're the public to level already, we're talking about people who already lives in the tents for 10 years, where they have no shopping. or we've talked about that with no education. so that's 2 issues already gotten free about that besides the city where there were this not and there. and so it's like it's coming from everywhere and we have a color where we've been like fighting and so now we have this earthquake. so

literally we have nothing. hospitals is already lost enough to the normal like normal day. so now we have people looking to go to the hospital. it was, it was fine. you had in the report, the good story about the child they could manage to help support but other you probably could not have them for the hospitals because the hospital doesn't have your back. can you just give us a brief sort of sense of what the next few days are going to be like for those people waiting for help? well, i mean, it all depends how fast that the master community works. and we usually, i mean, usually, you know, there is some, some kind of brackets, see some kind of paper work that has to do. but now we really looking for all kinds of support to move faster. we want everybody to work after hours to support the people that need because people who live and then focus for

a few years now they don't even have the with this to be a weather. so i'm, i'm hoping and i believe we'll have relief or we'll have more war meal the area as fast as we can. yes. and actually from the moron foundation. thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us and the very best with your efforts. thank you. thank you. ok, we're going to take a look at some of the other stories about the earthquake disaster turkish authorities, a using a ship to transport. the injured to hospital ambulance was carried doesn't to a military vessel which then took them to hospitals in the port city of my sin for treatment, the turkish ministry of defense. as the 3 and a half 1000 military personnel are assisting the search and rescue efforts, the united nations general assembly and neil because of 30 minutes of silence for the victims of the earthquakes. un secretary general antonia good terrorist expressed of condolences and called on the international community to show

solidarity for the terrorists said you and staff are already on the ground in turkey and syria providing support the get gone, a and football at christian up through has been pulled alive from the rubble in the turkish city of her, ty gone, a football association confirmed the successful rescue. 31 year old who was reported missing on monday. he currently plays for the turkey side at high school. the international 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 and germany is joining the effort. people turning up in droves to help hundreds wall entails or to stumble airport, trying to get to southern turkey where the devastating earthquake has killed. thousands of people. countries around the world have dispatched rescue teams

equipment as well as humanitarian aid. among them, mexico, india, and israel. our goal is to save life. we believe that life could be saved still in this time slot. the conditions and the circumstances are difficult. the weather is cold and the destruction is severe. others like new zealand and australia have pledged support the condolences from the people of new zealand to those and are tricky. and in syria we, we know little bit of areas, quakes and new zealand. and the significant effect they can have on people are hearts are with him. and these ellen will also be contributing to the international effort. some international rescue teams have already started to arrive. the task ahead of them is daunting. rescue workers and turkey have been digging through the

night to find survivors with chicken chicken. jiggle in an effort made no easier by the biting cold and rain workers of rushing to find as many people as possible as it has already been a day since the initial earthquake and time may be running out for many aku. like beneath the debris. oh monica, the response has been powerful at the grass roots level 2, almost 3000000 people living here in germany, trace their routes back to turkey, and often their desire to help is a deeply personal and 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 earthquake is also in turkey. the cognitive social media on the

news type and chava mckee, i heard that there was a relief effort going on here that there's people there needed winter clothing and food at 6 of them will have i'll, if i took everything i could take from home and additionally when shopping a 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 organizer of the initiative knows 1st hand, how urgently help is needed. smartphones for my i'm doing this from my heart because they was once effected personally off nice. i experienced the 9092 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 heard i got involved immediately, i had to support you and i had the involvement of the turkish community in germany also visible in other cities. the owners of

a local 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 zone. now turkey is of course no stranger to earthquakes. the country lies on top of several tectonic plates, making it a hotspot of seismic activity. tremors occur in much of a key because it's chris crossed by full lines between the plates, all of which i'm moving. now the magnitude $7.00 trema that struck turkey and serial on monday course, a rupture stretching more than 100 kilometers along the anatolia and, and radian plates. earlier we spoke to sized molly just to angela strong, who explained why this earthquake then was so powerful frequency. they're basically the equity i used to see in the euro made region in the last 2, they k that at least one order of menu to higher than that, which means in the order of 3050 times more energy related with what we observe it

in the recent years, for example in croatia recently or intentionally 30. 0 basically no been yeah. so that's really another order of magnitude which is not surprising. first model, jesus is expected for that region. indeed is one of the highest read. you are the regions with the highest in the euro met region, and that's what not surprising. so basically what, what has happened there? so the, and it's a movement along the eastern authority and fall, which basically as accommodated the movement of a dial tone in place, which is relatively small. and talk in a triangle and squeeze it through this to work towards greece. and that to give you a sense of how big the basically there actually is in the order of 200 kilometers and basically a relief on that information in the order of a couple of meters that went through the years in a few minutes. hi, molly,

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