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born baby rescued and taken to hospital and international relief efforts, gather pace, countries around the world sent rescue teams and supplies to the affected areas. ah, i've been phys all and welcome. more than 6000 people have died from the earthquakes in turkey and syria. the death toll is expected to rise even further as the rescue and recovery f. a continued. the united nation says in total up to $23000000.00 people could be affected. the 1st premier was santa, north of the turkish city of gaussian tip. it cause destruction stretching along turkeys, southern border and pots of northern syria with limited equipment and help rescue. as in both countries face a rice against time and freezing conditions. no 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. turkish president bridge a tie, a better one has declared a state of emergency to help his country deal with the disaster. i'm a put on my list in order to ensure that search and rescue operations and the works in the aftermath a 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. not that long ago, our report of terry schultz arrived in osmani in southern turkey at terry. could you tell us a bit more about what's happening, where you are? i can see that there are rescue work as they're going on rescue work going on behind. you were having trouble with the line unfortunately, but if you can hear me, please tell me what's going on. now unfortunately, we're not getting through to terry. it's difficult times, but we will try again very soon. let's move on then and go to al, corresponded in istanbul, dorian jones, who told us more about it one speech, you heard a snippet from just moments ago. 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 a week before may the 14th, which is the expected date 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 was paid 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 earthquakes has never happened before yet. and i said that the holy weather conditions, the hampering efforts, but he says, bite all of it. he said the rescue service is all delivering. now these come to the race 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

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 for they a facing, we're talking about. hadn't of turkey's major cities, and i turn around 13000000, all of them being very badly affected by these double quakes. latest figures phase, many, 17000 buildings collapsed across the region, talking about tens of thousands apartments potentially thousands of people in these apartments. but most of them claps in the 1st quake, which with the early hours of the morning, 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 some of the many more of the people that are now on the streets who cannot go back to the hose 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 times that just now facing a 2nd knife now below 0. and there's a major operation. now to get these provide even just food. so there they are pretty massive task. an f 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 to talk you need from abroad will? absolutely. i mean that is the, 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're saying that there is very little assistance as a ride on the worst effect there. and i mean, whole parts of the hot city have been laid waste and we just saying that the motion said this are simply overwhelmed. and there is some 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 international system is arriving now, particularly search and rescue team. now 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 cheap because they can find these people very quickly. speed is very much of the essence that 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? yeah, 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 closely because he's many of these people have lost everything . there was also people giving blood all across the country here and it's stumble. the, the criminal has sense, the cities 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 out the life. i mean, similar stories of many of the policies across the country are also delivery so 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 books story and joins. thank you very much for bringing us the latest details there. and let's try bringing in dw, corresponding back to both cook. he's now in elbows start in central turkey, the at the center of the 2nd quake. tell us what's happening now where you are. it's been taught to spun our since the 2nd don't vic, it's the l to santa clara, mom or she can talk it now very little just on under a couple of their eyes you're a couple of hours ago and the situation is not so good. have the are no, no rebels. the rescue folks are still continue. be, you know that there is 7 people in that trouble as you can see below. so both of them are totes, are like making sound. but after they come to your close people, the rescue workers and now 3 people were awful in the space. so 2

of them is that, but none of them up there to go to run out. hello. and the rescue workers are trying to rescue that person. his name is john, you're with several years old. old efforts in all the people, all the brokers here are new to rescue him by the bay. b span to you by 5 hours. you have like 5 hours. and in some places there are government officials for helping to the rescue teams but in some to places there. busy there volunteer, so it's not easy to navigate back about. they should help and stuff. is it because there are many ecological links more than 5000 as michelle report say. so for example, now we are. busy or another level actually did a neighbor van. so that's one. so maybe there are people under not they're not

sure get enough. you don't know it's it's so hard better. it's like almost minus 5 degrees and the burke is not electric. the gun. there's no other kids in the city and people are trying their best and the volunteers down trying best a corresponded there are 2 boys in this town in central turkey, in front of rescue work that is going on. they're describing the situations at the freezing, cold to the lack of electricity, mostly volunteers helping, as you heard there, it's a very difficult situation. we wish you all the best and all the best for any possible survivors. like under that runaway and serial rescue efforts. being hampered by a lack of supplies, including the heavy equipment needed to clear the rumble away. the window for

finding people to live under the debris is closing. in a lab post cemetery work as a facing exhaustion as they begin laying dozens of the dead to rest. well, where chance from mass burial sites and syria after destruction struck its border with turkey, their sadness, of course, but there is physical and mental exhaustion. until comes though, every 5 minutes we bury the bodies of 4 or 5 people died in the earthquake submarine, but we haven't stopped since the morning for la la sawyer. buried more than 50 bodies. and yesterday we buried around $85.00 people in a low. hm. there are glimmers of help as a searing air bred crescent races to rescue those who been trapped beneath collapse buildings. still, there's desperation olive, not our situation. and jerry bad we need hence, or food water. we fled with just her clothes. look at us. we have no shoes open on hottest next year, saw body. all the destruction is horrible. the buildings,

everything has been reduced to rubble. the number of dead is incredible. any issue mobile album, the red crescent has been instrumental in rescuing those in need during serious, ongoing 12 year civil war. but they're begging the international community to lift sanctions imposed in 2011 after bashar assad regime violently crackdown on anti government protesters. little another we need heavy equipment ambulances and fire fighting vehicles. 2 faded, we don't have heavy machinery to conduct rescue operations. there are a lot of issues due to sanctions, sanctions against the syrian people. if 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, and he's bringing you up to date on the story we're following for you to day here

on the w use. the death toll from the powerful quakes. rock turkey and syria, as written yet again. officials aids now talked 6000. they expected to keep rising breski cruise, frantically picking through rumble in a race against time to save most of binders. stay with us here on dw, i've been for school and they'll be well, well used next hour with brent golf. i'll be back later this week to get you off today. don't be big storage banking use around with a thought say well great a.