for mm hm. ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, desperate search for survivors of 2 massive earthquakes, rescuer, its work and freezing conditions to reach victims in turkey and syria times are confirmed dad to an international relief effort is underway. hope of finding more

survivors in syria are fading, but there have been moments of joy. this new born baby miraculously pulled alive from the rope. also on the program. heavy weapons for ukraine, european countries will deliver at least $100.00 leopard tax. germany's defense minister made a surprise visit to keith with president elect ah on pablo foley as welcome to the program. more than 7000 people are known to have been killed and earthquakes, and turkey and syria. the death toll is expected to rise as more victims are found in remote areas, and international relief effort has begun. the 1st quake stroke near the turkish city of gauzy on tip destruction stretches along turkeys. southern border and parts

of northern syria. freezing conditions are hampering rescue efforts as emergency crews struggle with limited resources, hopes of finding more survivors are fading. so with 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 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

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. while our corresponding terry shows says, in us mania in southern turkey, she sent us this update on the rescue efforts here in the city of osman. 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. terry shows reporting there will turkish president, treasure of tie up air to one has declared a state of emergency to free up resources for the disaster relief operation. alma,

who told me of how it did, and 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. while we were complete the processes 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. they may just sit in it who's the time on the us. on our correspond, dorian jones, in a stumble, has more on the implications of the state of emergency will not 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, them 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 state emergency in an area that is gonna 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. he said that these double earthquake was unprecedented. i'm posing probably one of the biggest natural disaster challenges of a 100 year republic. so he said these majors all needed a tribute to this occurred to the emergency efforts that are going on. we set off or dealing with treacherous weather conditions, which is a koli compounding magnitude of the toss. facing them. dorian jones, reporting baroness dumble or rescue efforts and syria are being hampered by a lack of supplies, including heavy equipment needed to clear rubble away. hopes of finding more survivors are fading exhausted. cemetery workers are carrying out mass burials of those killed 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 are very the bodies of 4 or 5 people died in the earthquake submarine, but we haven't stopped since the warning for ella last week 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 a syrian air, red crescent, work day and night to rescue those who've 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 the hands of food water. we fled with just her clothes, look at us. we have no shoes. applauding. next year saw body. 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 quality or 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 so we need to have the 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 humana hearing 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 i, jennifer higgins of the international rescue committee told us what's needed in the days ahead. 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 are thinking hot on turkey, on the northwest, syria. and we're continuing to see the 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 to understand it, scale and impact and hard to inaccessible areas, especially those areas where syria, even before the 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. i've been trying to stay people who've been displaced in their homes multiple times over the 12 your conflict in syria. let's take a look now at some other stories on the earthquake disaster. turkish authorities are shipping. some of the injured to hospital ambulances carried dozens to a naval vessel headed for the port of mercer. 3 and

a half 1000 troops are involved in the rescue operation. german crews of joined the relief effort in turkey. a team of emergency workers has landed in a donna bringing with them equipment and search dogs. while international assistance is gathering momentum, rescue teams from mexico, india and the israel are heading to the region and several other nations are also promising support people turning up in droves to help hundreds wall entails or to stumble. apples 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 turkey and in syria. we know a little bit of batteries, quakes and new zealand. significant effect that they can have on people are hearts are with him. 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 with chicken chicken giggle 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 lie beneath the debris or at us take a look now at some of their stories making news around the world. french police are fired tear gas. the protesters rallying against planned pension reforms. hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets in paris and other cities. president emanuel my call wants to raise the retirement age from 62. to 64. north korean leader kim young on has ordered his generals to step up military exercises tensions with neighboring countries. and the united states arising a lavish parade is planned to mark the 75th anniversary of the north korean army.

will germany and other european countries are to supply ukraine with more than 100 battle tanks. the german defense minister bars pastorius and managed to move on a surprise visit to president vladimir zalinski and keith, the tanks being delivered or the older type one leopard fighting vehicles. they look new cars one than the conley was with the german defense minister in keith, and he told us, had the visit is being received in ukraine. 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 boisterous,

a meeting. ukrainian soldiers who'd been awarded for various kind of metals for gallantry, who are 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 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, 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 on the ground and then receiving equipment, a bit near to slow and choose more quantities. nick only in ukraine there. well, here's a reminder of our main story. more than 7000 people are known to have been killed in earthquakes in turkey and syria. the death toll is likely to rise sharply as

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