oh yes ma'am, don't allow many story. ensure my grief reliable me from my going wherever they may be, hulu. ah, ah, this is the w news live from berlin to night. the desperate search for survivors of 2 major earthquakes in turkey and syria. rescuers are working in freezing conditions, trying to reach people still track thousands have been confirmed dead. the target president today declared a state of emergence in serious time running out to find people who may still be

alive under the rubble. and we have moments like this moment of hope. this newborn baby was rescued earlier today, also coming up and denied germany's defense minister forrest historian makes a surprise visit to key for talks with president zalinski and germany and other countries announced new plans to supply ukraine with at least a 100 battle tanks. ah, i'm regards to our viewers watching a p b s in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin tonight with the numbers and they are not good 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 in recovery efforts continued the united nations. it says

that in total, up to $23000000.00 people could be effective. at the 1st trimmer was centered north of the turkish city of gauzy onto it, cause destruction stretching along turkeys, southern border and parts of northern syria and with limited equipment and help rescuers in both countries are facing a race against time and freezing conditions. oh, what i, what is 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. 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

or corresponded to re sholtes, she is in osmani or in southern turkey, she should as this update of the rescue efforts underway, bear here in the city of osmani. i 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. that was terry schultz reporting earlier. we spoke with our correspondent bar to pose kirk, who is now in albus, done in central turkey. that is the epicenter of the 2nd earthquake and he told us what's happening there. it's been 31 hours since the 2nd don't. vic, it's the eldest son, karma mashing and talk it over. that would be sun under the couple of their eyes you're a couple of hours ago and the situation is not so good. happy or no, no rubber. the rescue folks are still continued me. we know that there is 7 people in that trouble as you can see below. so i thought that was like they give sound but after they come to your close people, the rescue workers. now 3 people are. busy in this place,

so 2 of them is that but one of them, after 231 hours is alive and the rescue workers are trying to rescue that person. his name is john. you'll get in 7 years old. all there for you and all the people, all the workers here are you to risk in by the way, have been respond to you about 5 hours like 5 hours. and in some places there are government officials for helping to the rescue teams. but in some places there are only volunteers, so it's not easy to navigate back about. they should help and stuff. is it because there are many ecological links more than $5000.00 michele reports say so for example, now we are. busy or another robin actually did a neighbor of on that one. so maybe there are people under the are not

sure you're not, you don't know it's, it's so heart better is like almost minus 5 degrees and the electricity is gone. there's no that keeps the in the city and people are trying their best for sales and the volunteers are trying best yesterday. that was our correspondence, but we both took their reporting from the epicenter of that 2nd earthquake in central turkey or turkeys president, reggie tire of 8 a one to day, declared a state of emergency to free up resources to help his country deal with this disaster. adamos without him affiliated 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 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. let me just finish that in. it was the time on us and our correspond. dorian jones, he is in istanbul, he told us more about it. a once announcement today will that be sweeping powers? i'll be given to the presidency and to the security forces. and this decision is going to be proven pretty controversial, given the fact 3 months will take, take the country up to one week before the expected date of presidential. i'm tall, him entry elections. this will be a deep area of concern for the opposition that already worried about what can happen with these election or the clearing the states in motion see in an area that is going to be contested in the polls will be controversial. well, president heard one and 6 of these measures are necessary given huge scale of a cost facing emergency workers. you said that these double earthquake was unprecedented. i'm posing probably one of the biggest natural disaster challenges,

100 year public se he said these majors all needed. a tribute to the emergency efforts that are going on. we said of dealing with treasury, weather conditions, which is only compounding the magnitude of the toss facing them. and during do we know what our authorities is saying about the extent and the level of destruction. but it is just monumental. those calls, the stubble of quakers calls 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 30000000 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 dozens of apartments we're talking about. and a thousands of blacks, of homes, of 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 to 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 be made. 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, dorian, it 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?

for the goblin said they had completed thousands of the search and rescue teams all across the all of across the region supported by the military and emergency services. but given the magnitude of this problem, there is growing a criticism and calls for desperation. many people saying that simply help is not arriving so tragic stories of people standing outside the home, hearing the 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 said there has to be very little assistance saying that are dead bodies all across the globe. thousands of people believe to be tracked and building. and it's also going to turkish army saying that they are too slow to deploy. now that has been rejected, but there is this growing wave of criticism i'm the, 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 ability is the opposition. mr. politics, they are sending their own team here in this town. boldly harris, 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. yeah. and so many lives hang in the balance. dorian jobs with the latest tonight from your sample. dorian, thank you. in syria rescue efforts are being hampered by a lack of supply, including the heavy equipment that's needed to clear away the rubble, the window for finding people to live under the debrief. as we know it is closing by the hour. in a leopard cemetery workers can barely keep up 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 is physical and mental exhaustion. until comes though, every 5 minutes we burned the bodies of 4 or 5 people died in the earthquake submarine, but we haven't stopped since the warning for la la sawyer buried more than 50 bodies. and yesterday we buried around $85.00 people in a low. hm. on the missing are now fear dead. there are glimmers of hope as the syrian air bread crescent, work, day and night to rescue those who been trapped beneath flattened homes and hospitals. a baby born during the earthquake survived the only one of its family to make it out alive. even in the face of hope, desperation is present positive. our situation is very bad. we need a hand some food water. we fled with just her clothes, look at us. we have no shoes open on hottest neck. there. thought on all the destruction is horrible. the buildings, everything has been reduced to rubble. 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 and i thought we need heavy equipment ambulances and fire fighting vehicles. 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 health areas in the past we're jennifer higgins is syria policy coordinator at the international rescue committee in amman, g. and she told us what's needed in the next few hours. thank you so much for

having. mean, 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 at earthlink is 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 shot from is whenever we start, we understand it scale and impact in 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 and syrian 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 these b? yeah, exactly. like, you know, we have been warning for a very long time about upcoming harsh winter conditions and the need to scale up humanitarian assistance. even before this current earthquake and now we're finding is that people that have survived, i know, let 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 colleagues and based in northwest theory and also in turkey. and they've been staying and car, and 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 maine shaped tens, exemption are really left out to, to break the elements of an accent, and humanitarian and corridor. and need to be prioritize 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 aid from eh, or northwest syria is through turkey and you know, road and infrastructure like bridges have been damaged. and this means that it will prove really difficult to get the flight to the neatest at. i think that even before the earthquake monetary and this is really constrained in this area and most of it close 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 co,

the situation very closely. and we're working directly with our partners within your employ. your agency buffy consorts on the ground and how we can start to ramble and implement eh, you know, respond immediately. i'm remembering that most of the people that you know are stop, but also working in these partners. they're also now trying to recover themselves from living through this experience is very good 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 . rattling, let's take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world . the syrian city of aleppo has been burying victims of the earthquake at least a 140 people were laid to rest in his womic cemetery on monday and tuesday, with many residents feared trap. under the rubble, the death toll is expected to rods. german crews have joined the upper 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 heading to the region with other nations. also promising support people turning up in drugs 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 i, chicky, and, and syria. we know a little bit of areas, quakes and new zealand, and significant effect with it can have on people or hats are with them. and these ellen 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. love, it was chicken him. it ticket and jiggling an effort made no easier by the biting, cold, and green 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. at every other with turkey is no stranger to earthquakes. the country lies on top of several tectonic plates making it a hot spot of seismic activities from his occur in much of turkey because it is criss crossed by 4 winds between the plates, all of which are moving. now the magnitude southern point 8 tremor that struck turkey and syria on monday, it caused a rupture stretching more than a 100 kilometers along the anatolia and a radiant plates. earlier we spoke to seismologists angelo stroller who explained why this earthquake event was so powerful frequency, their basic equity i used to see in the euro met region in the last 2 decades. that's, that's at least one order of magnitude higher than that, which means, you know, there are $3050.00 times more energy released with what we observe in the recent

years. for example in croatia recently when centrally a venue out. so that's, that's really another order of magnitude, which is not surprising. first, it's more, it's more use is expected for that region indeed is one of the highest read, or the regions with the highest are in durham at region. and that's was not surprising. so basically what, what is happening there? so the, they some movement along the east and i thought in force which basically as a movement of a dial tone is played, which is relatively small and is often a triangle and you squeeze through that to work basic. i took it towards greece and say that to give you a sense of how easy basically there actually is in the order of 200 kilometers. and basically as release in all that information in the order of a couple of meters that has been wanted for the years. in a few minutes. that was a psychologist angela stroller with the german research center for geosciences in

potsdam, just outside of berlin. here are some of the other stories now making headlines around the world. the shower in paris. police have fired tear gas purchasers railing against plan pension reforms. this is the 3rd time this year that hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the st. despite widespread opposition, president emanuel micron has vowed to raise the age of retirement from 62 to 64. russia's defense minister say gay, georgia says that western weapons in ukraine will lead to an escalation of the wars . speaking to military officials today, shaw ago said that the supplies, quote, effectively draw nato countries into the conflict. last week, ukrainian president brought him, his zalinski said that weapon supplied by the west would not be used for attacks on russian territory. again, that's as bad as staying with the war in ukraine. the german defense minister,

boris. the story is made an unannounced visit to ukraine today in cave historian, who has been in office for less than 3 weeks met. ukrainian president will be zalinski. he also held talks with his ukrainian counterpart resume caught the story is announced that ukraine will receive more than a 100 battle tanks of the older leopard. one type from a consortium of several european countries a corresponding economy. he called up with the german defense minister in keith to day. and i asked nick what stood out from the german defense minister's visit. but definitely for his pastor 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. but i think it's important for him to talk about that because of the previous announcement of the more modern leopard, 2 tanks, it seems like germany in a handful of the 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 bigger picture, this is at the mood music about trying to turn a page and trying to get back to a more kind of productive dialogue. and it being the case between ukraine, ukrainian, politicians, least off the record. and his predecessor christine alum pushed them. i asked him how he had spent his time talking to ukrainian politicians, what kind of feedback he got from them. and let's have listen to what he had to say sitting at sites. i've now had 2 meetings with my ukranian counterpart once in ramstein and once to day i'm all in all those talks in ramstein and today not a word of criticism has been voice towards germany's approach in but on the contrary, they are very appreciative of and grateful for how much commitment germany has shown wife, 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 kind what to kitty? no criticism, but let's talk about the time table here. what the story is saying is that these

things are going to arrive in, keep a lot later than people were expect the yeah, i'm wondering with 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 gonna meet its commitments in terms of the more modern tanks. it just the other european countries have 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 released, 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 row 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 kind of metals for gallantry, were going to 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 definitely the worry here that there isn't just the understanding in germany or in europe as a whole of quite how quickly ukraine need those tanks. we're expecting

a big russian event in the next couple of 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 still not pushing those all manufacturers 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 on the ground, and then receiving equipment, a bit. net to slow and into 2 small quantities. yeah, it sounds like a broken record. somebody sick? a corresponding economy in. keep tonight, nick, thank you. you're watching the w news after a short break. i'll be back to take you through the day. our coverage of the earthquake disaster in turkey and syria continues will be right back.

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end of a superpower. the collapse of the soviet union rushes more in ukraine lu, one year seen vision began. we take a look back and into the future. in the human slowly, in february on d. w. on this 2nd night since the devastating earthquake in turkey and syria, the death toll have surpassed 6000 against the dark and freezing cold. they search for survivors rescue teams and equip better arriving every hour. but in syria they can only hope for help. we understand.