ah, ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin desperately searching for earthquakes, survivors in turkey and syria. many people remain trapped off to quite devastated towns and cities across a wide area. more than 5000 people are now known to have died in syria. the effects of civil wars are complicating the rescue effort. the country's economy and infrastructure are already in tacit. meanwhile, international relief efforts are underway. countries around the world are sending rescue teams and supplies to the affected regions.

ah, i many cubes. mckennan. welcome to the program. at least 5000 people are now known to have died and 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 trema was centered north of the turkish city of gas the and have it cause destruction stretching along turkeys, 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. over here with what i was,

the scale of damage is monumental. so 2 is the attempt to save lives a day after the earthquakes shook this part of turkey. in this neighbourhood rescue workers have some success and confirm they found a survivor relief for the residence and for the rescue as to seeing the fruit of their labor. it's a delicate operation trying to find people in the wreckage. rescuers have to figure out where in the building survivors are trapped. they stabilize the rubble to keep it from collapsing further. and then they dig. the process is painstaking. and not fast enough for this woman. she suffers the agony of knowing her loved ones

are so close yet so far. still the rescue workers keep hope alive. combing through the debris, occasionally pausing to listen for signs of life. even as the clock is ticking. it mad that c as an international aid worker who lives in a ghazi antenna that's near the 1st earthquakes at the center, he described to us what he experienced when the 1st massive quake it well, we were sleeping calmly in our bed 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 talked. 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 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. i got into the situation was really bad . but 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 i 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 take some of those shock waves. oh, the problem is that so the roads are cooked for several reasons. i did, the roads aren't 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 sleep about the risk of having the breeze falling of here on you because like several buildings just i'll just collapsing because building got survived the 1st grade did not survive the 2nd week or so there was brought, there is no way in or out of the city or the fuel run out of the gas stations all over guys, until i hear 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 shelters. and i'd like people are leaving shelters because they're, they're trying to seek more help because shelters can keep up with that demand. oh, that was a man that's he speaking to rosanna from gas, an tap near the fast as quakes epicenter. now earlier i spoke with our

correspondent dorian jones, who's in istanbul, and he told me about the turkish authorities. reaction to this disaster take parties are really preparing themselves for. they said it is one of the worst natural disaster. this country is faithful to be watched. if the ships scale up to powerful earthquakes occurring within a few, our overall boss area which will be about several 100 kilometers, have been bad the effected in cities over $30000000.00 people with a scale that is off to a piece to grow according to a parties as many as 17000 buildings are believed to collapse with talking about tens of thousands of apartments, housing, hundreds of thousands of people, we give them the bank that is likely 1st to quote quake occurred in the early morning. many of those people were sleeping and are in tune in the piles of rubble that will once their home. there's a massive security search and rescue operation. now go home all across the region,

but this is been from the bitter atrocious weather conditions because all of the country is in the grip of the 5 barium blocks. the web temperatures are well below 0 and $1.00 night full to get even colder. this is holding the spectra. i prefer mia for many of those people all believe 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 symphony claps, so there's a major human humanitarian crisis about. they need urgent shelter, and they need even hopes food, a basic hope to, to see now as a major crisis point that needs to be addressed. and there was growing now pressure only merchants he served his i'm the government to provide this increasing criticism. he is growing. many people now say, where is the state, given the fact that this is a large area that is being affected, the school or the emergency stuff is all being pushed. the limit i'm 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? well, the government being said that they say it's 10000 of the rescue workers to the region. but getting the people into the region is proving a major problem, given the fact 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, it may just struggle. want to pull has been shut down because of damage of the military have opened up. an air car is all about the breaking from to the region of rescue work. and by the hour and stumble and pulls has seen images of thousands of people turning, offering a system, stop those specialized workers that kind of fits. 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 clamped houses, standing outside, desperately believing that a possibly relatives are trapped in there and they saying there's no assistance. so this is really putting a lot of pressure on the ultimately a part of the question was where, and so if you 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 fail, 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 the quake struck the move in an hour or so, the car to the government made an international appeal. and that is how unusual in the policy previous up a natural disaster. they have been a little bit slow. they like believe a turkish status 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 seen as a top priority, and that is being key that there are many teams now arriving european unit and also brought arriving the search and rescue opera teams with these crucial track with turkey dog. how 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 have not opened 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 still search and rescue operation? and you mentioned earlier that there is a great willingness to help,

but people or q and chewing up with apple. it's trying to get to the places where they can help. so what about non governmental support? can you tell us how civil society in turkey, in general is responding to the situation while the country is mobilizing them? and there is collective shock and collective realization. this is a once in a century challenge that the nation is facing people of being queuing up to off a blog. here, nist ambled as being long queues organized by the municipalities. also people have been collecting blankets, warm clothes because they, they realize how many of these people in the 2nd half of 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, special like bill and they be flown into the, the region by the military. i'm also the municipalities here in the 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 the seat and they are reporting the

already rescuing people that feel organized by the stumble at chrome. emma molo, similar mass all across the region that 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 less. dorian jones, in istanbul of the disaster also hit parts of northern syria, which were already devastated by a decade of brutal civil war areas near the turkish border. so bitter fighting during serious conflict. the world health organization says the movement of a to these areas is most likely being obstructed, and yet some lives that are still being saved. beneath the rumble in afrin, some one is trapped under the bed carefully, painstakingly but urgently this rescue or works to free them very

faintly, a child of cries can be heard over her blossom on your and then her face is revealed . roswell, her finally, the little girl is free. oh, the check from another child rescue by the white helmets law or other no, no, no legs on 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 takia, russian military personnel joined the rescue effort. every one who's able trying to help. oh, knowing that every minute counts. exxon shortly as the ceo of the marin foundation, which is headquartered in gussy untapped, near the epi center of the 1st earthquake. he told us how his team has been impacted by the disaster. while we're being shocked, i mean the 1st light, you know, for him in the morning, everybody has to be their houses with whereby they could manage to bring with them . so basically we got together like ask a few hours. we opened our office and we, we turned our office to a shelter, guys. 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 north and the funding being going down and down the last dances that i mean other words and there isn't, but i mean my seem to, i mean i could be take father enough for their work and they came to the office, they care what their family says. they kept barking waste, published in the few hours the 1st shelters and pay shelters, and type it to have ibp who really got infected by the earthquake. and we also have 2 people from the street here and 3 key to join our office to enjoy the warm and the to you. just like, i mean, we're trying to hide that 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's sad,

i mean we can not compare 32303030 is a state where they have like a situation where they have this trees and all this and north and 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 course for the resolution always happens every 6 months. so we, i mean we're already there. so much pressure funding been going down because the need is very big. as you mentioned, that war war, our like the situation and see, had been there for over 10 years and still we don't have a solution people. now if we look at the number of f, b over 14000000 people and the public to level already, we're talking about people who already lives in the 4th year where they have no shopping. or we've talked about, you know, education. so that's 2 issues already. they've gotten very about that's beside the

city where there were the snow and rain. so it's like it's coming from everywhere and we have a color of 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 based. so now we have people looking to go to the hospital. it was fine . you had in the reported very good story about the child. they could manage to help support but other, you probably could not have been to the hospitals because possible doesn't have the capacity. 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 they're not sure if you work and we usually, i mean, usually you know, there's some, some kind of bureaucracy, 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 i need because people who have been there for years, for a few years now they don't even have the with this to be a whether so i'm, i'm hoping and i believe we have faster relief or we'll have more war meals in the area as fast as we can and actually from the moran foundation. thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us and the very best with your efforts. thank you. thank you. now russia is a key supporter of syria. one of the countries devastated by this earthquake, the daily news off germany's foreign minister on elena bab, book what she expects of russia in terms of helping it's close ally right now. and here's what she told us earlier today. and as he sees off wish, bottom line lights of this terrible situation with the day till rising almost by

the minute and with an unbelievable number of people missing. yet the absolute imperative now is that humanitarian aid gets to where it's needed in what this. and this is, of course, particularly important in northwestern, syria, him because the situation there is anything but gauged beings organ allah. that's why all international actors, including russia, you should use their influence on the syrian regime to ensure that humanitarian aid can get there. and that there are no additional hurdles. that's because every minute, every error counts here so that more victims can be rescued. marcia vital opera who warden would all get into the addon kernan, germany's foreign minister speaking earlier today. now the international response to the earthquake is gathering pace and humanitarian aid is on its way. rescue teams from around the world are heading to the region and germany is joining that effort. people turning up in droves to help hundreds of

woolen tears or to stumble apples, 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 a little bit of address quakes and new zealand. and the significant effect with it

can have on people are hearts are with him on the zealand 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. a chicken chicken and jacqueline 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 who lie beneath the debris over the age response has been powerful at the grassroots level . 2, almost 3000000 people living here in germany, traced their routes back to turkey, and often their desire to help as a deeply personal one. children's shoes, warm clothing and sen,

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 thing, is also in turkey, congress and social media on the news type and chava mckee, i heard that there was a relief effort going on here. there's people there 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 la, then i brought it here. half of it. i'm also helping to make sure it gets to where it is needed for you, for the organizer of the initiative knows 1st hand tell urgently help is needed smart the for my i'm doing this from my heart because i 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 thing as just a few. ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, 40 on guys. yet. the involvement of the turkish community and jeremy'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 want to help, despite being so far away from the disaster. soon. a turkey is no stranger to earthquakes. the country lies on top of several tectonic plates making. it's a hot spot of seismic activity. tremors occur in much of tac, he because it his criss crossed by foot lines between the plates, all of which and moving the magnitude $7.00 trema that struck turkey and syria on monday cools to rock chat stretching more than 100 kilometers long b anatolia and a rabbit plates earlier we spoke to size molig just angelo charlo,

who explained why this earthquake event was just so powerful frequency there. basically, there we are used to see in the euro made the region in the last 2 d k. that's at least one order 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 in centrally 30. 0 basically no. been yeah. so that really another order of menu to it, which is not surprising perfect model expected for that region indeed is one of the highest read. you are the regions with the highest in the region. and that was not surprising. so basically what, what is happening there? so the, and it's a movement along the eastern origin forward, which basically as accommodated the movement of a dial tone in place, which is relatively small. and in a time goal and squeeze it through the torque. basic, i took it toward creeds and add that to give you

a 10 so called be basically there actually is in the order of 200 kilometers. and basically, i release all the information in the order of a couple of meters that there's been a coordinated through the years in a few minutes. that was, as molly just angeles charlo of the german research center for geosciences. in potsdam, reminder of our main story today rescue cruise, all searching for survivors in turkey and syria of the region was hit by 2 massive earthquakes. more than 5000 people have died and the death toll is expected to keep climbing. the initial 7.8 magnitude trema was centered north of the turkish city. of got the onset you are watching d. w news coming up next in d. w. news, asia, how hindu nationalists pop music can fuel anti muslim hate and india. and what that means for the countries future parish manager will bring you that story. animal

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