hold this way because i'm responsible for the shall fall country for the people on behind the boss. so gardens of truth starts february 18th on d w. 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 rescue was are working in freezing conditions, trying to reach people trapped. 1000 are confirmed dead. and the target president today declared a state of emergency in syria time, also running out to find people alive under the rubble moments punctuated like this

. a newborn baby today rescue alive. also coming up on the show, germany's defense minister boars pastorius makes a surprise visit to key for talks with president zalinski as germany and other countries announced new plans to supply ukraine with at least a 100 battle take ah, i bring up it's good to have you with this on this tuesday, more than that sub in 1000 people have died as a result of powerful earthquakes in turkey and syria. the death toll continuing to rise as rescue and recovery efforts also continue the united nations as in total up to $23000000.00 people could be affected by the quakes. the 1st trimmer was

centered north of the turkish city of kazi and tip it cause destruction stretching . if you see a long turkey southern borders in parts of northern syria with limited equipment and help rescuers in both countries are racing against time and freezing conditions . no over here, 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 part 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. i corresponded to re, george is in osmani here in southern turkey. she sent us this update on the rescue efforts underway there. 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. those terry shoals, reporting in syria rescue efforts are being hampered by a lack of supplies,

including the heavy equipment that is needed to clear away the rubble, the window for finding people alive under the debris. it is getting smaller by the hour and in the leper cemetery. workers say that they are almost exhausting 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 the every 5 minutes we learned the bodies of 4 or 5 people died in the earthquake the marine, but we haven't stopped since the morning florida lost always buried more than 50 bodies. and yesterday we buried around 85 people in a late home. the missing are now fear dead. there are glimmers of hope as the syrian air red crescent work day and night to rescue those who've been trapped beneath flatten 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 positively. our situation is very bad. we need her hands on food water. we fled with just her clothes, look at us, we have no shoes of an odd, effective thought on. all the destruction is horrible. and the buildings, everything has been reduced to rubble. a 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. midland, so we need heavy equipment ambulances and fire fighting vehicles out if we don't have heavy machinery to conduct rescue operations. there are a lot of issues due to some nominal sanctions against the syrian people here that

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 about jennifer higgins is syria policy coordinator at the international rescue committee in amman . jordan, she told us what is needed and the next coming 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 in northwest syria. and we're continuing to see the death toll rise. but this is mostly the coming from urban areas and i think what we will get a star shot from is whenever we started meeting, understand a scale and impact and hard to meeting 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 to stay . people who've been displaced in their homes, multiple hines over there to have your 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 needs of scale of humanitarian assistance. even before this current earthquake and now we're finding is that people that have survived, i know left out, embraced the elements the cold, they urgently need the means to survive, which is shelter, which is food, which is, you know, basic. and he's an even for our colleagues and based in northwest very 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 and died. so people are really trying to mobilize that so many people, especially those that have been living and made tens exemption are really left out to, to break the elements in cells. an accent, and humanitarian and corridors 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 directly. 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 for 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 flight to the neatest ag. i think that 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 within northwest area to see what the consorts 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 here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around

the world in paris. police fire tear gas protestors rallying against planned pension reform is the 3rd time this year that hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets despite widespread opposition. president emanuel macaroni has bound to raise the age of retirement from 62 to 64. russia's defense minister said, shogun says that western weapons in ukraine will lead to an escalation of this war . speaking to military officials today. sure, you said that the supplies, quote, effectively draw nato countries into the conflict. last week, ukraine's president zalinski said that weapon supplied by the west will not be used for attacks on russian territory. while the german defense minister boris story is to day made an unannounced visit to ukraine in keith historian, who has been in office for less than 3 weeks, met. ukrainian,

president volume is zalinski. he also held taunts with his ukrainian counterpart. resonant, caught the story as announced that ukraine will receive more than a 100 beveled tanks of the older leopard. one type from a consortium of several european countries, dw, corresponding to connelly called up with the german defense minister in key today. and i asked nick, what stood out to him about the visit by the german defense minister stephanie bore his pursuers 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 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 if you take a step back and look at the bigger picture, this is about the mood music about trying to turn a page and trying to get back to

a more kind of productive dialogue that had been the case between ukraine, ukrainian politicians, least of the record and his predecessor, christina, lumped 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 listen to what he had say. yelling at 5, i've now had 2 meetings with my ukranian counterpart. once in ramstein and went to day, i'm 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. 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. i was kind what to kitty. no criticism, but let's talk about the time table here. what the stories is saying is that these things are going to arrive in, keep a lot later than people were expect the yeah, i'm wondering, but that in mind, how is his visit, how is it being perceived on the ukrainian soc?

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'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 or 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 boisterous and meeting ukrainian soldiers who'd been awarded for various kind 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 that if he is a 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. we're expecting a big russian event in the next couple months. and when you hear about those, all the 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 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. that sounds like a broken record, some would say a corresponding economy in keep tonight, nick, thank you. you're watching the w news is stephen beard leaves up next after a short break with your business news, i will see you tomorrow. sometimes books more exciting than real life raring to read. ah what if there's no escape do w literature.