ah ah ah missus d w news live from berlin tonight. a frantic search continues for survivors in turkey and syria. press viewers are working in freezing conditions, trying to reach people were still trapped. thousands have died. the turkish president has declared a state of emergency in syria time is also running out to find people alive under

the rubble. but these moments are punctuated by scenes of hope like this. a new born baby rescue earlier today. also on the show tonight, german defense minister boars, the story is, makes a surprise visit the key for talks with president zalinski as germany and other countries announced new plans to supply ukraine with at least $100.00 leopard one take ah i'm bring gov. it's good to have you with this on this tuesday, we begin in the aftermath of that earthquake, more than 6000 people have died from the quakes in turkey and syria. the death toll is expected to rise even further. as the rescue and recovery effort continued, the united nation says that in total up to 2

t $3000000.00 people could be effective. and the 1st trimmer was centered north of the turkish city of garcia. it caused destruction stretching as you see right there, along turkeys, southern border, and parts of northern syria with limited equipment and help rescuers in both countries face a race against time and freezing conditions. oh, the scale of damage is monumental. so 2 is the attempt to save lives a day after the earthquakes shook. this pot of turkey in this neighbourhood rescue workers have some success and confirm a 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 rescue as have to figure out where in the building survive. as a 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 so close, yet so far. still to rescue workers keep hope alive. combing through the debris, occasionally pausing to listen for signs of life. even as the clock is ticking. and our corresponded to re sholtes. she is in osmani in southern turkey. she sent

us this update on the rescue efforts underway there here in the city of osmond here, were standing in what remains of a 5 story building that collapsed yesterday in the 2nd earthquake here. in this region, the people behind me some of them, military personnel, most of them just ordinary citizens. digging in the rubble for what they say is one person still missing from this building. sadly, but in some ways, remarkably only 9 people were killed in this particular collapse. and so they are determined to find the body of this last resident. elsewhere in the city, there is no electricity. as we drove into town, the streets are completely dark. people are huddled around fires, they're either afraid to go back in the buildings where they live, if those buildings are even still standing there told perhaps not to go back in those areas. and so they gathered together, afraid of what comes next. as aftershocks continued to be felt throughout the

region, there was terry shoals reporting their turkeys president, richard pyre. bear to one today declared a state of emergency to free up resources to help his country deal with the disaster on a mac without more violated. and 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 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. we're made sure that it was that among users aren't want to bring in or corresponded now when it's been bull doria, jones leaving to you. dorian sir, talk us through. hear it or wind declaring a state of emergency. what does that mean exactly. will that be sweeping powers are being given to the presidency and to the security

forces. and this decision is going to be proven credit, controversial. given the fact that 3 months will take the take the country up to one week before the expected date of presidential and tal. a mentoring elections. this will be a deep area of concern for the opposition. they're already worried about what can happen with these elections for their declaring the state and notice, see in an area that is going be hotly contested in the polls will be controversial, but president heard one insistent, these measures are necessary given huge scale of towards facing emergency workers, he said that these double earthquake was unprecedented. imposing probably one of the biggest natural disaster challenges of the 100 year republic say he said these majors are needed and pay tribute to the speaker the the emergency efforts that are going on who sent out are dealing with a process where the conditions, which is the only compounding magnitude of the task facing them. and during do we know what our authorities is saying about the extent of the level of destruction?

it is just monumental, those calls the stubble of quakers cause devastation in a vast area of turkey. i mean turkey is used to these big quakes, but there's never experience of quakes of devastated such a large area. we're talking month in the area if we are american views or goes from boston for neil down to washington, a large area, they compensate and of turkey largest cities around $13000000.00 people live in this area. and according to the latest reports, as many as 17000 buildings claps, and these are small buildings, many cases, these are large apartment blocks 101214 stories high holding thousands of apartments. we're talking about and a thousands of blacks. and some people have been lost and given the fact that the 1st quake occurred in the middle of the night, many of those apartments have now become tunes of the people at once. cool to sell home. so it's a very large part that is facing them. and given the fact that it is now

a race against time to find survivors, given the atrocious weather conditions, sub 0 temperatures, and the danger piper fermi wanting to those traps in them, but also to the 10s of thousands of people who may. yeah, and it's hard to get your mind around just the sheer numbers that we could be dealing with here. we haven't entire apartment buildings that have collapsed. as you said, oriented just happened in the middle of the night. people were sleeping, they may not have even known. what hit them, what do we know in terms of trying to get people out who may still be alive? what is the government providing in terms of resources to do that? the goblin said they had completed thousands of search and rescue teams all across the of across the region supported by the military and other emergency services. but given the magnitude of this problem, there is growing a criticism and calls for desperation. among many people saying that simply help is not arriving so tragic stories of people standing outside the homes,

hearing their loved ones trapped and said, there's no one to help us find them. no one to help us get out of these buildings. so there is a growing criticism, especially in the region of khaki, which is close to the theory in bold. how bad is made was 2 areas. 2 of the local members upon the position that there has been very little assistance saying that our dead bodies all across the globe, thousands of people believe to be tracked in buildings. and it's also going to turkish army, saying that they are too slow to deploy. how that has been rejected, but there is this growing wave of criticism on the company will be looking for emergency ethics to arrive as soon as possible proposed to the efforts by filling the board at the moment. in many cases, the opposition bella, is the opposition. mister policies, they are sending their own team here in this town pole, the parents, my think opposites a criminal. i sent over a 100 secure search and rescue teams and he is visiting the region today with the leader of the main opposition. come on color stall. so there's

a growing up potential here between what the government's doing and what the opposition and so many lives hang in the balance. dorian jobs with the latest tonight from his temple. dorian, thank you. in this syria rescue efforts are being hampered by a lack of supplies, including the heavy equipment that it's needed to clear the rubble, the window for finding people alive under the debris. that window was closing in a leopard cemetery. workers are facing exhaustion as they begin laying dozens of the dead to rest. where chance from mass burial sites and syria after destruction struck its border with turkey. their sadness, of course, but there's physical and mental exhaustion. until comes though, every 5 minutes we burned the bodies of 4 or 5 people died in the earthquake. it's a marine, but we haven't stopped since the warning floor. la la, thought we've buried more than 50 bodies. and yesterday, we buried around 85 people in lake helen. there glimmers of help. as the syringe,

air bred crescent races to rescue those have been trapped beneath collapsed buildings. still there's desperation. olive, i situation jerry bad. we need a hands food water. we fled with gesture close. look at us. we have no shoes. open on hottest neck. there saw a body. all the destruction is horrible. the buildings, everything has been reduced to rubble of the number of dead is incredible. an 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 nfl. we need heavy equipment ambulances and firefighting vehicles, if. 2 if we don't have heavy machinery to conduct rescue operations, there are a lot of issues due 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, i am janelle by jennifer higgins and she is at syria policy coordinator at the international rescue committee in amman. jordan jennifer, it's good to have you with this. i don't have to tell you that this is a race against time. what is needed in the next few hours. thank you so much for having me. i mean, we're coming into another night now and i think we're still really trying to understand the very real impact that this devastating ad are thinking. hot honesty, integrity and, and northwest syria. and we're continuing to see this death toll rise. but this is mostly them coming from urban areas and i think what we will get a star shock from is whenever we start, we understand a scale and impact and hard to meet in inaccessible areas,

especially those areas in north west, syria, even before this current earthquake this area of syria was extremely difficult to access, and it was largely reliant on humanitarian assistance with, you know, challenges with infrastructure, from health, water and electricity. and it also has very large populations of internally disdain . people who've been displaced in their homes. multiple heinz over the 12 year conflict in syria and people now, many of them have lost their homes in this earthquake. obviously they can't stay out of the elements overnight. it's freezing cold. and that part of the world, what is happening in terms of providing shelters for the speak? yeah, exactly like, you know, we have been warning for a very long time about upcoming harsh winter conditions and the need to scale of humanitarian assistance. even before this current earthquake and now we're finding is that people that have survived, i know left out and break the elements, the cold, they urgently need the means to survive, which is shelter, which is food,

which is, you know, bank fake and he's a, even for our honeymoon and based in northwest theory and also in turkey. and they've been staying and cars. they've been working from their la, like from their phones and their laptops, them died. so people are really trying to mobilize that so many people, especially those that have been living in may shaped tens, eccentric, or reading left out to, to break the elements of an accent, and humanitarian and corridor. and need to be prioritized to make sure that the same level of response is happening in northwest areas we're seeing in other critical places from the earth wake. are you expecting that type of safe passage to be guaranteed, particularly by the rebels, but also by the russian military and the syrian military? i think this is an extremely difficult question to answer right now. i mean, for now what we're really trying to do is just get

a grasp on what the actual situation is to understand what is the ability to bring . you know, the main crossing for aide from a or northwest syria is through turkey and you know, roads and infrastructure like bridges have been damaged. and this means that it will prove really difficult to get the right to the neatest ag. as i said, even before this earthquake, monetary and this is really constrained in this area. and most of it comes to one specific point. and from what we know, this point was closed yesterday, but it was operational today. but what that means and practice for what can actually getting, we don't know what we're reading, monitoring the situation very closely. and we're working directly with our partners with in northwest area to see what they can source on the ground and how we can start to ramble and implement eh, you know, responds immediately and remembering that most of the people that you know are stuff but also working in these partners, they're also now trying to recover themselves from living through this experience. point to make the jennifer higgins with the international rescue committee.

jennifer, we appreciate your time and all the best to you and your team. thank you. thank you for having or some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world in paris. police have fired tear gas for testers rallying against planned inch. and reforms is the 3rd time this year that hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets, despite widespread opposition. president emanuel mac, ron has vowed to raise the age of retirement from 62 to 64. russia's defense minister sergey choy good had said that western weapons in ukraine will lead to the escalation of the war call. us speaking to military officials today showing do said the supplies quote, effectively draw nato countries into the conflict last week. ukrainian president volume is zalinski, so that weapons supplied by the west would not be used for attacks on russian territory. affairs. the german defense minister boris pastorius has made an

unannounced visit to ukraine in cave. the story of it who has been in office for less than 3 weeks, met ukrainian, president fulton, miss zalinski. he also talks with his ukrainian counterpart. mister resnick, off the story has announced that ukraine will receive more than a 100 battled tanks of the older leopard. one type from a consortium of several european countries. i want to bring in a correspondent owned economy. he called up with a german defense minister to day in keeping me to you. nick, what stands out from the german defense minister's visit so far? will definitely forrest bestow as is making a lot of that announcement of those older leopard one tanks will be it. lots of them are going to be only arriving in ukraine towards the end of 2023, if not early. 2024. by think it's important for him to talk about that because the previous announcement of the more modern leopard 2 tanks, it seems like germany in

a handful of other countries are going to be on time. but if you read the german press, it seems that like a lot of other european countries are going to be much later than suggested or even promised. but i think if you take a step back and look at the big picture, this is at the mood music about trying to turn a page and trying to get back to me will kind of productive dialogue that had been the case between ukraine, ukrainian politicians, least off the record and his predecessor, christina lam, placed am i asked him how he had spent his time talking to ukrainian politicians, what kind of feedback he got from them and let so listen to what he had to say getting at 5, i've now had 2 meetings with my ukranian counterpart, once in ramstein and went to day, all in all those talks and ramstein and today not a word of criticism has been voice towards germany's approach. but on the contrary, they are very appreciative of and grateful for how much commitment germany has shown rights. of course, they would like to see more, but not a single word of criticism has been voice to you. and we'll see that truly mia was, could kind of want to kitty, no criticism. but let's talk about the time table here. and what the story is

saying is that these things are going to arrive in, keep a lot later than people were expect a yeah, i'm wondering, but that in mind, how is his visit, how is it being perceived on the ukrainian saw? what's important stress is it actually, it seems like germany is actually going to meet its commitments in terms of the more modern tanks. it's just the other european countries who've been pushing germany to send these tanks and who had busy been suggesting it was berlin that was blocking everything. they, if you read the german press, at least it would seem a not capable of basically making good on those promises. if you look at the kind of ukrainian responses, there's definitely a desire to kind of roll back from some of the kind of open animosity we saw in previous month to kind of work together better. we also saw a boost, mysterious, and meeting ukrainian soldiers who'd been awarded for various kinds of metals for gallantry, who can be sent to germany, to learn to use those german tanks. and he was definitely a lot more relaxed in that setting than his predecessor ever was. but i think the defeat of worry here that there isn't just the understanding in germany or in

europe as a whole of quite how quickly ukraine needs those tanks, rural, expecting a big russian events in the next couple months. and when you hear about those older tanks being delivered in early 2024, that all sounds pretty scary. and there's a sense here that it may be germany is still not pushing those arms manufactures enough to really deliver faster to ramp up production. and that, you know, it's going to be the same story every time over and over again. ukraine asking ukraine, losing a lot of people in the ground and then receiving equipment, a bit. net to slow and too small quantities. yeah. it sounds like a broken record. some would say a corresponding economy in keep tonight, nick thinking to the united states now plans to build a new state of the art police training facility in atlanta, georgia have lead to violence to the death of approach. after an to a tense stand off between protesters and authorities, and activists who oppose this project, they have been sporadically occupying a large part of the proposed $300.00 acre site. they want to stop the development.

the w corresponded stuff on simon's has more birds. i view of what was until a few weeks ago, a community park activists opposing development of a new atlanta police and fire training facility occupied the site. this is the entry of the cam side for the protesters are off the protesters, or what's left of it. doesn't look too good. totally mangled are probably all right there. and you see it's completely deserted because the purchases got really roughed up a few times. she by police bulldozers under police protection, came in and tore the place apart. protesters had to leave in a hurry, leaving a mess behind the local residents, including jenna novick, are now trying to clean up. there's nobody there. i think that they're scared. and i think they're regrouping maybe in other ways in different places. and their sympathy for those opposing the new facility. i don't think that building

a mac city and and having police dressed in military uniforms. i mean that's basically what they look like. ah, with military style weapons. i mean, that says to me, a bunch of things militarization, but also policing residents that don't need to be police in the modern high end training facilities urgently needed. according to the atlanta police association, a non profit organization promoting law enforcement claims, the center will completely reform police tree. we met with my car, her skin, one of the organizes of what he claims is a growing movement against the so called cup city that sort of coming back to the campsite and the surrounding woods is not easy for hated. he shows us where venezuelan borne activist esteban manuel priced it on nicknamed torture was shot dead when police raid at the protest. parties claim toward shot at police 1st

injuring one officer, an independent autopsy states. that torque was shot 13 times for shaheen rana, another protest organizer. this comes as no surprise. these are exactly the kind of things we were afraid would happen. that escalation of violence by the police for activists like shaheen and mika, the death of tort. and tyree nichols and memphis, tennessee marked a turning point, not just in their fight against the training for some of the but against policing as a whole. police have been reformed for years and decades. and you know that the police department in memphis that killed tyree nichols had adopted a bunch of, you know, these popular reforms were living the reforms. and it's, it's not working to keep people safe. that is why he says the protest movement is determined to ensure a cup city will never be built. however, the city of atlanta and says nothing will stop the project.

i want to give back to our top story now in response to those earthquakes in turkey and syria, the international response is gathering pace. humanitarian aid is on its way and rescue teams around the world are heading to the region. oh, people turning up in droves to help hundreds wall interior to stumble airport, trying to get the 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.

other 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 know a little bit of barriers, quakes and new zealand significant effect with it can have on people or hats. i with them, 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 in daunting rescue. walk as in turkey, have been digging through the night to find some either. so with chicken, him it ticket and giggling and i thought made no easier by the biting cold and rain walkers. i'm 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 whose reminder of the main story were following the death toll from the powerful earthquakes that rocked turkey. it's uria has risen yet again, officials say it has now talked 6000. they expected to continue increasing. risky crews are frantically picking through rubble in a race against time to save more lives. and governments and international organizations are mobilize you to help the rescue operations in turkey and syria. dozens of countries have said, aid personnel and equipment to the affected areas rescue teams and sniffer dogs from germany have arrived. the german government is also readying deliveries of generators, tense, blankets, and water treatment equip. and don't forget, you can always get the w news on the go, just download our app from google play or from the apple app store that will give

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