ah ah ah ah this is the w use lie from birth in the frantic search for survivors in turkey and syria rescue was picked through the rubble of powerful white cities and towns. thousands of people are dead and more still trapped. the turkish president clays, a state of emergency in syria, the effects of civil war complicate urgent rescue. it's both infrastructure and the

economy were already in tatters. humanitarian agencies tell d. w, there's a need to increase the aid being sent to the contract and international relief efforts, gather pace, countries around the world, st. rescue teams and supplies to the affected areas. ah, i've been phys all 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 gassy, unzip. it caused destruction stretching along turkey's southern border and parts of northern syria. the dimensions of the disaster are enormous. but thousands of lives

have been saved so far with the scale of damage is monumental. so too 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. allow rapport to terry schultz has just arrived in osmond here in southern turkey. terry, we can see the rescue efforts going on behind. you tell us more that's right here in us many i'm standing in what remains of a 5 story building that fell in the 2nd earthquake yesterday. the people behind me are searching for one person who remains missing sadly,

but. 6 actually remarkably 9 people died in this building and not more, i mean all around us. we can see signs a of the families that lived here. my camera man is standing right next to what used to be a couch. i was just looking in what was someone's all here in osman? here you've landed in the middle of the disasters or how are people coping it? well this is the city is that out of electricity. so the streets are all dark and as we drove in we can see people gathering around and we're having technical difficulties. they're trying to reach jerry, but we'll, we'll continue. terry tell us more. they lost us. i can hear you tell it, tell us more about the rescue efforts going on there. terry?

yes, said it behind me, people are digging ah, with shovels and pigs and even their bare hands. they tell me that in the remains of this, what used to be a 5 story building there is one that this person would still be alive. 8 bodies have already been found in this pile of. 6 rubble but none the less a sorry folks way of were having really bad troubles there with the line. we'll have to leave it there. terry sholtes reporting from as many as she said there, they drove into town darkness because the electricity is out. people they're trying to scramble through the rubble with their bare hands in some cases trying to save people. and they have been not only pulling up bodies, but also saving people there where she is in southern turkey, just west of ghazi, and have the epi center of the quake turkish president, wretched tie,

a bad one has declared a state of emergency to help his country deal with the disaster. let's listen in automobile tom 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 1. 19 of the constitution 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 rested in it. was that all new to us in syria rescue efforts, being hampered by a lack of supplies, including the heavy equipment needed to clear the rubble away. the window for finding people alive under the debris is closing in aleppo. cemetery workers are facing exhaustion as they begin laying dozens of the dead to rest where chance from mac burial sites and syria after destruction struck its border with turkey. their

sadness, of course. but there's physical and mental exhaustion until comes to the every 5 minutes we bury the bodies of 4 or 5 people died in the earthquake, the marine, but we haven't stopped since the morning for ella last week. buried more than 50 bodies. and yesterday, we buried around 85 people in the late. there are glimmers of help as a searing air bred crescent races to rescue those. he been trapped beneath collapse buildings. still, there's desperation holiday. our situation is very bad and we need a hand some food water. we fled with just her clothes, look at us. we have no shoes open on how to connect your thought on. all the destruction is horrible. the buildings, everything has been reduced to rubble. the number of dead is incredible. any issue mobile i will. the red crescent husband instrumental in rescuing those in need during serious, ongoing 12 year civil war. but they're begging the international community to lift

sanctions imposed and 2011 after bashar assad regime violently crackdown on anti government protesters. listen so we need to have the equipment ambulances and firefighting vehicles out. if we don't have heavy machinery to conduct rescue operations, there are a lot of issues to, to sanctions, sanctions against the syrian people. he says, corridors are needed to bring in humanitarian aid. and he's asking the united nations to coordinate efforts to make that happen. as it's done successfully with opposition held areas in the past. huh. and to explain even more dire a complicated situation across the board in syria is our report. garcia, or hon. this is from syria. i'm 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 to day broke the news to the surviving family members about what had happened so many of what are they 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 and this is what is happening right now. people are organizing, funerals and 8 work are still working nonstop, many of them, and they're exhausted, but everyone's doing what they can to. let's talk about the aide work is 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 in 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 cause 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. and let's take a look at some of the other stories on the earthquake disaster. turkish authorities is shipping some of the injured to hospitals. ambulances carried dozens to a military vessel headed for the port city of bessie in. the defense ministry says 3 and a half 1000 military personnel are assisting the search and rescue efforts. german crews have joined the effort to assist with the operation in turkey. a team of

emergency workers has landed in a donna bringing with them equipment and search dogs. rescue teams from mexico, india and israel are also headed to the region with other nations. also promising support people turning up in droves to help hundreds of 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 chicky and in syria we, we know a little bit about earth quakes and new zealand and the significant effect with it can have on people. so our 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 all with chicken. a minute 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 who like

beneath the debris, reminder ravel main story today. rescue crews a searching for survivors in turkey and syria after the region was hit by 2 massive both quite more than 5000 people. died. the death toll is expected to keep climbing . coming up d, w. 's asia with beer, ashby energy, i'm been for sewland, i'll be back here next hour with mo, useful you to grant with journalism help us in overcoming divisions. save the date for the d. w. global media forum. 2023 in bonn, germany and increasingly.