a on d w ah ah, this is the w use line from berlin desperately searching for earthquakes, survivors in turkey and syria. many people remain trapped, devastated towns and cities across a huge area. thousands of building crumbled thousands of people are dead or trapped in syria. the effects of civil war complicating the rescue. countries economy and infrastructure are all brady and tactics and international relief efforts are

underway. countries around the world ascending rescue teams and a massive amount of supplies to be effective. ah, i'm been fas all and welcomed at least 5000 people that are known to have died in a series of powerful quakes that had turkey and syria rescue efforts are ongoing, but the death toll is expected to by significantly, the united nation says up to $23000000.00 people in total could be affected by the disaster. the initial $7.00 magnitude tremor was centered north of the turkish city of gassy and tape it cause destruction stretching along turkeys, southern border from the mediterranean eastwards, also affecting parts of northern syria. the dimensions of the disaster are enormous, but thousands of lives have also been saved. this,

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. ima darcy is an international aid worker who lives in gaussian tap near the 1st earthquakes. every center 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 airs. quick 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 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 down to the situation was really bad. but even worse in areas like cost money and he and no dock. 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 crunched for several reasons. i did the roads i brought because people ran on loft 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 a doctor, the risk of having the breeze falling off here on you. because like several buildings just i'll just collapsing because a 1000000 got survived. the 1st grade did not survive. the 2nd week or so drones are brought. there is no way in our out of the city. oh. 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 seize the shortage and for the drinking water in medicine . sheltered inside, i'd like be for our living shelters because they're trying to seek more help because shelters can't keep up with that. amanda i was emma darcy speaking to us all the of from gassy, untapped near the 1st earthquake safety center. turkish president, wretched tie. a bad one has declared a state of emergency to help his country deal with the disaster. his body on

a mac without him affiliated in order to ensure that search and rescue operations and the works in the aftermath are carried out quickly. we've decided to declare a state of emergency based on article 119 of the constitution line is too high. we will complete the process as rapidly in the presidency and parliament with regard to this decision taken for the 10 cities that suffered from the earthquake. and it will last for 3 months where major should i sit in. it was the time on us. and let's bring in our correspondent in a sample. dorian jones, it tell us more about what ed one had to say, a respect to this 3 month state of emergency. well, this declaration of a 3 month state of emergency will be potentially very controversial. given the fact that this will take turkey up to the week before may the 14th, which is the expected date of presidential and took parliamentary elections. so

there we think it could be quite a push back over that. but beyond that, one speech will also pay tribute to the rescue workers and the efforts and making. and he spent a lot of time highlighting how this crisis is so different from previous natural. there's also 2nd phase. he pointed out the fact that these 2 consecutive powerful quakes has never happened before yet. and i said that the holy weather conditions, the hampering efforts, but he says, but all of it, he said the rescue service is all delivering. now these comes, there is growing, push back the criticism over the right to the reaction of the emergency services, the growing criticism that they are not getting so many of the most definitely needed areas. and i also carried out and gave deliver the threats as well. saying that the prosecutors all these growing criticisms, what he called unscrupulous people. and he said that they will people from hell to account in the future. he did point out that a 1000 people have been saved from the rebel, but there are many more still

a waiting help. what's the government doing about those people? well they, they did a massive house for they a facing, we talking about 10 turkeys, major cities, and i turn around 13000000, all of them being very badly affected by these double quakes. latest figures, phase many, 17000 buildings, clamps across the region, talking about tens of thousands apartment potentially hundreds of thousands of people in these apartments. but most of them claps in the 1st quake, which with the early hours of the morning. so there's a huge operation to find somebody in the clamps buildings and it comes as there are, they are facing sub 0 temperatures. it's free, the danger, the hypothermia to many of those people in the building. so it is very much a race against time. and some of the many more of the people that are now on the streets who cannot go back to the home to live up there. i have

a class so that because it is unsafe, so they are just trying to survive on the streets in recess. what we call temperatures, facing a 2nd knife now below 0. and there's a major operation now to get these provide even just hot food. so there they are pretty massive task. an f one says 50000 rescue work is working on stop to save people. but if you do the math based on what you're saying, that's not enough. how much help to talk you need from abroad will. absolutely. i mean that is the, that is the problem. this is a huge ask all the emergency services. and given the fact that now there is growing criticism concerns, particularly in the hot type province, where they're saying that there is very little assistance as arrived from this one, the worst effect there. and i mean, whole parts of the hot city have been laid waste and we just saying that the merchant service are simply overwhelmed and there is criticism. the turkish army

hasn't deployed in large enough numbers. we do a p b. now mobilizing the criticism from the opposition that they haven't been deployed sufficient numbers quickly enough, but there is also now the international system is arriving now, particularly search and rescue team. this is the key to mom's for the emergency efforts in this country, especially with the special dogs which are trained to find people alive in the rubble. they are key because they can find these people very quickly and speed is very much of the essence. there is a closing window of opportunity find people like the talks with the key. and the special search and rescue teams are coming from european union from russia. i'm from other parts of the world as well. so there is growing international efforts coming, but is expected to boost their efforts to find any survivors is buried in the rubble and dory. and what about volunteers? non government support as well. how important is that?

yeah, i mean, the country in many ways is mobilizing beyond the turkish states and government actions local municipalities or organizing. so the collector blankets and urgently needed to close for because he's many of these people have lost everything . there is also people giving blood all across the country here and is stan ball. the merriman memorial has sent the city's own search and rescue teams with my car and i were on the scene within a matter of hours after the 1st great struck and there have been posting videos of them actually digging people out alive. i mean, similar stories are many other policies across the country are also deliveries. are many ways the country as a whole is coming together. they are mobilizing to get to these people because there is an awareness is in many ways is once in the century, disaster facing this country. exactly. this will go down in the history books. dorian jones, thank you very much for bringing us the latest details. as i mentioned, the disasters also had 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 armed conflict. the world health organization says the movement of aid to these areas is most likely being obstructed, and yet some lives there are still being saved. beneath the rumble in afrin, someone is trapped a carefully, painstakingly, but urgently this rescue a works to free them. very faintly, a child cries can be heard and then have faith is revealed. finally, the little girl is free. with another child rescued by the white helmets, a 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 at port. 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 to explain to even more dire a complicated situation across the border in syria is our report. garcia or hunters is from syria. garcia, howard, people, you know, coping

a day into this disaster. now, our friends and relatives had a terrible evening and many couldn't sleep overnight. they were staying in cars out in the cold. and they started their mornings by going back to their apartments for a family. i know who lost 2 of its members. they just today broke the news to the surviving family members about what had happened so many that have a returning to of while they're building is gone right of. there's just a lot for people to reconcile with to coming to terms with this is what is happening right now. people are organizing, funerals and aid workers are still working nonstop, many of them, and they're exhausted, but everyone's doing what they can. let's talk about the aid workers because the u . n. has pointed out that the but the disasters disrupting the one and only land crossing the border, crossing from turkey into syria. that's used for 8. 0, can you clarify the situation to a certain extent? the land crossing between turkey and syria was really a lifeline for

a lot of the rebel health areas and the north and do you and doesn't say the extent of destruction. they say this is an issue with understaffing and depending on the extent it could be really catastrophic. i mean, every time there's been talks of this border, crossing, closing, all humanitarian agencies warned that it could lead to humanitarian catastrophe. and this was before the earthquake before the sun magine, what could happen now? so it's also a case of staff at this border crossing out, searching for their own family and friends, you know, being able to staff the crossing up. but there are also the political differences here in rebel held areas and the support from abroad communication lines. a very complicated situation just explain was hm. yeah, you could really see the political divide when it comes to aid. and the way rescue operations are being carried out and siri right now, when it comes to rebel held areas,

this border crossing was the main point of entry for supplies for heavy machinery. and now there is a problem with that, but money is still coming through. and organizations do have the money, but whether this will translate into them being able to help on the ground is a completely different question. but it has to happen quickly. yes. but when it comes to government areas, there's also the logistical problems because there are sanctions, there is banking controls. there's a lot of questions to be answered there. but the government's central bank recently changed the exchange rate to facilitate these kinds of transfers of foreign currency because there's just so many complicated factors. but people in the community are trying to mobilize and they're trying to get aid from lebanon, from armenia and wherever possible, or talking about if it's, i don't know until utopia, but is this a, a chance for both sides to work together?

possibly in solving this, everybody and syria is grieving the losses on both sides regardless of the political affiliations. but when it comes to working together, i think that's what we're seeing on the ground. you see iran and you see russia helping government areas as well as algeria and some other arab countries. but you can already see the divide and who's helping, where, right, where the 8 is coming from and who's working with who these differences still stand? and the mistress still runs very deep because here thank you very much for pointing out the political differences and also the logistical challenges they're involved in the effort in syria. thank you. well, jennifer higgins is syria policy coordinator at the international rescue committee in amman. and joseph south jennifer, this is a race against time as we've heard what's needed in the coming hours in your opinion. thank you for having me. yes. today's now the 2nd day that we're really

dealing with this devastating earthquake and we're still to now gauging and understanding the real impact that this is hard not only in turkey, but also in northwest syria. and i think as the desktop continues to rise. and as we start to be able to respond to some of those more rural areas and really see a dramatic increase, i think in the need and the impact on the ground. you know, this area of syria as you were mentioning just now was already before this very, incredibly hard to access and it was largely reliant on humanitarian assistance. so i think all of this is coming also in the wake of the very devastating snowstorm which is caused freezing temperatures. and it's making the ability to respond effectively to those in need. very, very, very difficult to tell us more about how your organization is making a difference in what are the access issues for you. yes for us, you know, and i think for a lot of organizations in the area, this response is to really in its infancy and the need for the humanitarian aid is

really stark. i mean, road, infrastructure, bridges, etc, have been damaged. and i think all of that will prove even more challenging in order to get the supplies that we need for those. and even basic supplies, you know, for those that have now survived and it's winter, so close food heating at the i received your sponsor, the earthquake will be both in turkey and also in syria. and we are focusing on the provision of the assistance of assistance items such as cache basic basic hassle kicks, dignity kits for women and girls. also providing emergency shelters and in the iron seeing, we also have a very strategic focus on working directly with our partners. because they are the ones that are on the ground 1st and they are the ones that really know the need for . so those are the ones that we are really bare typing, trying to support in providing this immediate response. do you have any idea for us how, how many shelters a need for, for the so many people left homeless or even forced to stay out of the open? because because they can't go back it because of off the shocks or the danger of

buildings collapse. it yeah, of course, i mean this is an area that is already at filled with a high numbers of refugees and internal displacement camps. there was already incredibly great need for these people living and makes it shelters. and we had been the warning even before now that a harsh winter coming would be incredibly detrimental for the people living there. and now with the onset of this earthquake, you have people really left displaced already multiple times because of the conflict. but now once again, they are being left based with a harsh winter with difficult supplies and assistance, and also sometimes looking for their loved ones. how well equipped would you say a hospitals and such a rescue teams? the entire recovery effort? yeah, i think it's, it's just as i said before, so hard to gauge, but you know, i mean it's been quite a lot of assistance and support. been going to tricky which is very much needed, but we really need to recognize that earthquakes don't respect borders. there. the

devastation has been on both sides. and there is a need to ramp up and scale not only to search and rescue on the syrian side, but also to provide support to those ad partners. and after that, they said on the grounds that are dealing with even before now, especially the health care system in this practice area was very, very fragile. and it's also dealing with the very least and severe on and break a cholera. and there's a lack of resources of doctors and as you were mentioning, all of the medicines are coming in through the one border crossing with tricky not only wasn't fragile and unable to deal with emergency beforehand, but now it's tough to deal with a huge ramble and a really serious and you know incoming a very severe patients and you know they're really worried that they're not prepared to be able to do so. jennifer, thank you so much for all the details. jennifer higgins with the international rescue committee that i hope that governments,

the rebel groups and aid organizations role listening to what you've had to say today. thank you. let's take a look at some other stories on the quite disaster turkish authorities and using a ship to transport. the injured to hospital, ambulances carried dozens to a military vessel which then took them to hospitals in the port city of miss. in for treatment, the turkish ministry of defense as 3 and a half 1000 military personnel are assisting the search and rescue efforts. and a and footballer christian odd suit has been hold the line from the rubble in a tucker city party. got as football association confirmed, the successful rescue of the 31 year old, who was reported missing on monday. he currently plays for turkish side tati school . international response to your quake is gathering pace. humanitarian aid is on its way and rescue teams from around the world. a heading to the region. people turning up in droves to help hundreds of warranty, also 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 i, chicky, and, and syria. we know a little bit of barriers, quakes and new zealand, and the significant effect with it can have on people are hearts are with him. i'm

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. lavet chicken a minute chicken jacqueline, an effort made no easy by the biting cold and twain 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, late response has been powerful at the grassroots level. 2, almost 3000000 people living here in germany, trace their routes back to turkey, and often had desired to help is deeply personal. children 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 earthquake dissolves in turkey, that congress from social media on the news type in the harbor make you think i heard that there was a relief effort going on here that people there needed when to clothing and food have an effect of them. have i live? i took everything i could take from home. and additionally, when shopping of law, then i brought it here. half of it. i'm also helping to make sure it gets to where it is needed for your, 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 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 why as

soon as i heard i got involved, i immediately his thing as just a few. ha, ha! happy for 40 and i, she had 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 sown. how you're up to date on data zalinski you next out with a, with

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