ah ah, this is the w used lie from berlin. frantic search for survivors in turkey and syria, rescue as pig through the rubble of the powerful quakes in cities and towns. thousands of people are dead and more still trapped. the turkish president declares a state of emergency in syria. the effects of civil war complicate the urgent

rescue effort. both infrastructure and the economy were already in tatters. agencies, healthy w visit need to wrap up aid and international relief efforts. gather pace, countries around the world, st. rescue teams and supplies to the affected areas. ah, i've been visible and welcome. at least 5000 people have died in a series of earthquakes in turkey and syria. the death toll is expected to rise significantly as rescue efforts continue. the united nation says in total, up to $23000000.00 people could be affected. the 1st tremor was centered north of the turkish city of kazi unzip. it caused destruction stretching along turkeys, southern border and parts of northern syria. the dimensions of the disaster are enormous. that thousands of lives have also been saved. so

with 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. let's go to us, but i'll catch him. a syrian journalist and activist you were there, i believe when the earthquake actually hit could you talk us through what you experienced

okay, i can hear you find that for some reason we're having technical difficulties and, and we can't hear you on air. i will try to get back to you in a moment. first of all, let me bring in what the turkish president has been saying, a rich of tie, a better one's declared, a state of emergency to help his country deal with the disaster. alamahood norma, violated 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. 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. it was the time on us a correspondent in his sample. dorian jones told us more about it to one speech. 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 fate of presidential and took parliamentary elections. so the reason it takes it could be quite on a pushback 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 you said the rescue service is all delivering. now these come to the rates growing,

push back the criticism over the right to the reaction of the emergency services, the growing criticism that they are not getting for many of the most definitely needed areas. and i also carried out and gave deliver the threats as well. saying 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 rubble, but there are many more still a waiting help. what's the government doing about those people? well they, they did a massive house with their faces were talking about hadn't turkey's major cities. and i turned around 13000000, all of them being very badly affected by these double quakes. latest figures phase, many of $17000.00 buildings collapsed across the region, talking about tens of thousands apartments, potentially thousands of people in these apartments,

when most of them claps in the 1st quake, which was in the early hours of the morning. so there's a huge operation to find the survivors 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 racing against time. and so the many more other people that are now on the street, so i cannot go back to the home of the drive up there. i have a class so that cuz it is unsafe. so they are just trying to survive on the streets in recess. but the cold temperatures affecting a 2nd now is now below 0. and there's a major operations now to get these provide even just hot food so that they have massive task. and the other one says 50000 rescue work is working on stuff to save people. but if you do the math, based on what you're saying, that's not enough. how much help does turkey need from abroad?

will? absolutely. i mean that is, that is the problem. this is a huge ass called the emergency services. and given the fact that now there is growing criticism concerns, particularly in the hot type province, where they are saying that there is very little assistance has arrived on the worst effect there. and i mean, whole parts of the hot high 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 with sufficient numbers quickly enough, but there is also now the international system is arriving now, particularly search and rescue team visit 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. speed is very much of the essence. there is

a closing window of opportunity. find people like lead talks with the key and the special. so to rescue things 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? i mean, the country many ways is mobile, i think beyond the turkey state, government actions local municipalities or organizing to collect blankets. and i'm 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 it's stumble. the criminal has sense. the city is own search and rescue piece and they went by car and we're on the scene within a matter of hours off of the 1st quite struck and there would be posting videos of

them actually taking people alive. i mean, similar stories are, many of policies across the country are also delivery for many ways. the country as a whole is coming together. they all mobilize the to get to the people because there isn't the when this is in many ways, it once in the century bizarre the, facing this country. exactly. this will go down in the history book story and joins . thank you very much for bringing us the latest details there. as i mentioned before, the quakes also hid parts of northern syria, already devastated by a decade of civil war. the world health organization says the disaster is obstructing the movement of assistance and the aid to these areas. but lives are still being saved. beneath the rock in afrin, someone is trapped other carefully, painstakingly but urgently. this rescue a works to free them. very faintly, a child cries can be heard and then her face is revealed.

finally, the little girl is free. from another child rescue by the white helmets law. 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 be 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. everyone who's able trying to help all knowing that every minute

counts. and to explain the even more dire and complicated situation across the border in syria is our reporter garcia on. this is from syria. garcia, how are 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, what are they returning to us while they're building is gone right. of. there's just a lot for people to reconcile with to coming to terms with and this is what is happening right now. people are organizing, funerals, and 8 workers are still working nonstop, many of them, and they're exhausted,

but everyone's doing what they can to. let's talk about the aid workers because the un is pointed out that the, that the disasters disrupting the one and only land crossing the border, crossing from turkey into syria that's used for aid. 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 in the north. and do you and doesn't say the extent of disruption. 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 a 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's 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 a bit of 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. i asked jennifer higgins from the international rescue committee. what's needed in syria in the coming out? 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 area. 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 cause 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 just responses to really in its infancy and the need for the humanitarian aid is really stark. i mean, road, infrastructure, bridge and 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 iris user 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, see 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 very 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 it, 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 shows 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 the 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,

as we've seen, it's been quite a lot of assistance and support been going to turkey, which is very much needed. but we really need to recognize that earthquakes don't respect and borders there. the devastation has been on both sides. and there is a need to ramp up in scale, not only to search and rescue on the theory inside, but also to provide support to those ad partners and actors. and they said on the grounds that are dealing with even before now, especially the health care system in this part of syria was very, very fragile. and it's also dealing with the very least and severe on and break of cholera. and there's a lack of resources of doctors and as you were mentioning, a lot of the medicines are coming in through the one border crossing with tricky. so not only wasn't fragile and unable to deal with emergency beforehand, but now with talking to deal with a huge ramble and a really serious and you know incoming of very severe patients. and you know, the really is 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 8 organizations are all listening to what you've had to say today. thank you. rasa is a k supporter of syria, d. w news. aust, germany's foreign minister on alina bab bulk what she expects, a brochure in terms of helping it's close ally right now. and this is our swish, bottom line of this terrible situation with the death to rising almost by the minutes and with an unbelievable number of people missing. yet the absolute imperative now is that humanitarian aid gets to where it's needed in order this. and this is, of course, particularly important in northwestern syria in because the situation there is anything but gauge, things like an alert. 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 leaking because every minute, every hour came here so that more victims can be rescued or save vital alpha. good walking would oh, good at it to the addon, kernan. let's look at some of the other stories related to the crisis. the syrian city of la po has been bearing victims of the earthquake, at least a $140.00 people would like to rest at an islamic cemetery on monday and tuesday, with many residents, feared trapped under the rumble. the death toll is expected to rise. german crews of joined the effort to assist with search and rescue operations in turkey. a team of emergency workers has landed in a donna bringing with them equipment and such dogs rescued teams from mexico, india and israel are also heading to the region with other nations. also promising support people turning up in droves to help

hundreds wollen tiers low to stumble. apples trying to get to sudden 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 about who is quakes and new zealand. and the significant effect that they 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 and giggling 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 like beneath the debris and to give you more of an idea of the conditions, emma bounce, he is an international aid worker who lives in gaussian tip, a the 1st earthquake safety center. he described to us what he experienced when the 1st massive quite kid. well, we were sleeping company in our bathroom,

around 470 in the morning when a saw to drinking and and as clay 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 out site. 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. 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 in this area. and then we helped them go to the shelters because the, even the shelters are having supply issues as 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, the 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 take 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, i blow 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 a building that survived the 1st wave did not survive the 2nd week or so there was brought. there is no way in or out of the city or whether 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, 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,

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