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but temperatures are freezing and the clock is ticking. meanwhile, survivors in northern serious sift through rubble and bury their dead appeals are made to open corridors for aid to a region already devastated by civil war. also coming up, joe biden delivers his annual state of the union address. the u. s. president offers of message of unity calling on republicans to work with his democratic party to rebuild america. ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. more than 8000 people are now known to have been killed in earthquakes in turkey and syria. the death toll is expected to rise as more victims are found in remote areas, international rescue cruise beginning to arrive in the quake soon. the 1st quake

struck near the turkish city of garcia, untapped destruction stretches along turkeys, southern border and parts of northern syria. freezing conditions are hampering rescue efforts as emergency crews struggle with limited resources. searching on into the night in turkey's hard hit hat i province rescue as no time is of the essence nearly 2 days on from the 1st pre dawn quake. this still pulling survivors from the rubble. ah, but with thousands of buildings flattened, no one knows for sure how many remain buried under the ruins. already low temperatures sink further after dark, and authorities fear that few of victims will be recovered alive.

with for those fortunate enough to escape the destruction of their homes, the cold is only adding to that suffering i like to set up our we feel terrible. you can see our situation, buddhism was up and we're trying to warm up with this fire relativism. dish that we're trying to keep going without food or water oscillation out shaken opiates chickens. good w. we came here today, but we are freezing. there is water under the tent. it never gets warm. emergency crews provided safe for the 1st time and 2 days that we finally ate. then as an international relief effort gathers momentum, rescue as a doing their utmost to get supplies to those in need and to find more survivors before it's too late. to be able to still come

through d w, correspond, terry schultz is in the earthquake zone. she joins us now from a donna turkey. terry, tell us what you've been seeing there. hi, terry. well, exactly what you've been hearing is what's happening here in a donna, people desperately searching through the rubble. now, this was not one of the worst hit cities yet. this scene where we are now is definitely a harrowing one. we're told that as many as 20 apartments from both behind me. remember this was just after 4 o'clock in the morning. presumably they were full of people and were told there were many, many casualties here on the scene. in fact, just behind us in the last few minutes. hair pulling another body from the ronald. but we've been fortunate enough to find people who've been here since monday night, who know a lot more about what's been happening here on the scene. i'm joined now by buccheri and rescue worker. terrible death. he's been here since monday night and he came

with rescue dogs. tale bearer. what, what did your dogs find here in the scene behind us that explains why so many people are desperately digging down. they, they was a message brought up and then law after they francois alive for certain care. and that's why i asked us to go here. we for our rescue dot and the dr. mark for 2 of the docs mark here. that there is a, maybe i 1st of the proceeds to try to say, right. so they got a what's that message from under the rubble? yes, they got was well took much from durable and this was just yesterday. so there was, there was good reason to keep searching very now. yes, that's why they push so hard. clearly, 2nd people because they, they feel that we think that there is a life people. and the dogs can tell whether someone is alive or dead. usually with

driving our dogs, tomorrow life people because with a life people. and so there is a lot of, but it seems like part of the building a bedrooms and the doctor didn't mark those by this, but they mark other like they mark definitely will be on the other place. so you and i have just watched them pulling another body from the rubble. do we have any idea if this is the person who was sending the what's out messages yesterday? no, because this body was there, yesterday, there was a we saw that. but if there was a just can, so we have hope that there is still somebody alive under there now. yes. ok, this is, this is very, i hopeful news. i mean those, the temperatures are freezing. you've been out, you're working in it yourself. how much longer could someone survive under these conditions? but this is very hard to say. there is a different case is in all of the work. some people survive 10 days,

some do. and what will your team do? will you stay here and bring back the dogs as long as there is hope, there is someone to live here? no, it today, and we will go to on talk your info. but if we, if they ask us to confirm that there is a lot of people we, we will go with the doctor here again. well, thank you very much to you and all your team for helping on the same database from both the bulgarian red cross. thank you and good luck. so as you've heard here, there is still hope that someone could be pulled alive here. many people like that about giving their time staying up deep into the night just on that very slim hope that a person is still under this pile of of, of chaos behind me. terry, you are in the quake. so in there you're watching the rescue court cruise at work. what sort of challenges are they facing? swell is freezing. cold out here for,

for one thing and of course it was much worse over night. people have been told not to be in their homes. so as we walk around here, there are many people staying outside skiing and tend to building fires because they are afraid to go back into the zones where, where the building fell. and again, this is not one of the worst hit cities last night. we were in osman, nia, which is just a little over an hour from here. and the situation is, is desperately worse. there was no electricity whatsoever. we also joined a rescue operation there where there were some military personnel, but mostly it was just citizens who came out and are digging with their bare hands in a, in a place where, where one person was yet to be found. they didn't even believe this person could still be alive and yet they were, they're just trying to move aside the remnants of people's lives and, and possibly find a body of the last person that was there in that building. terry,

thank you very much. our correspondence, terry schultz, they're in the quake zone in turkey. meanwhile, rescuers and neighboring syria are appealing for aid corridors to be open to the disasters earned their northern syria has already been scarred by more than a decade of civil war. and there are fears that aid could be blocked from areas not held by the government for prayer trans from mosque burial sites in syria after destruction struck its border with turkey. the sadness, of course, but there is also physical and mental exhaustion. until comes the experience of bodies of 4 or 5 people charge and the earthquake, the marine. but we haven't stopped since the morning florida. hello. so we've buried more than 50 bodies. and yesterday, we buried around 85 people, you know, like from the missing are now field dead. there are glimmers of hope as the syrian arab red crescent work day and night to rescue those who have been trapped beneath

flattened homes and hospitals. a baby born during the earthquake survived building collapse, the only one of its family to make it out alive. even in the face of hope, desperation is ever present. while, if not, our situation is very bad. we need a hands on food water. we fled with jester close. look at us, we have no shoes abroad. it's not your thought on all the destruction is horrible. the buildings, everything has been reduced to rubble. the number of dead is incredible. any issue mobile, the red crescent has been instrumental in rescuing those in need during serious, ongoing 12 years civil war. but they are begging the international community for help. they want the united states and europe to lift sanctions imposed in 2011 after bashar assad. the regime, widening, crackdown on anti government protestants. woodland villa. we met her equipment ambulances, and fire fighting vehicles. we don't have heavy machinery to conduct rescue

operations. there are a lot of issues due to sanctions, sanctions against the syrian people in the red crescent phase. corridors are needed to bring in humanitarian aid, and they're asking the united nations to coordinate efforts to make that happen, as it has done with opposition held areas. in the past, 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 in turkey and northwest syria. and we're continuing to see the death toll rise. but this is mostly coming from urban areas and i think what we will get our shop from is whenever we start meeting, understand the scale and impact. encourage me to inaccessible areas, especially those areas where 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 trinity to stay. people who've been displacing their homes multiple times over the 12 your conflict in syria. there was some other stories making news around the world today. french police have fired tear gas or protesters rallying against plan pension reforms. hundreds of thousands taken to the streets in paris and other cities. president manuel michael wants to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 russian defense minister. so a geisha goes said the western weapons and ukraine will lead to the escalation of the war. speaking to military official sugars said the supplies, quote, effectively draw nato countries into the conflict. last week. ukrainian president bloggers, lensky said weapons supplied by the west would not be used for attacks on russian

territory. one of them is good us present. joe biden has delivered his annual state of the union address with a message of unity for america. he's calling on republican lawmakers to work with his democratic party, to rebuild the economy and bring the nation together. and i'm our republican friends. we could work together last, congress is no reason we can't work together and foreign consensus on important fringe in this cars as well. but i think the people shanisha clear message 40 for the sake of parting, paul, for the sake of power conflict, for the sugar comfort, gets us nowhere. that's all remark, vision of our country to know which many of yours to restore the shore was managed to rebuild the backbone of america, america, middle class, and united country. we've been shut her to finish the job. in my view. or washington correspondent carolina shamore was listening to bite and speech

a state of the union's pizza with a clear and the core message. the economy is doing well in the united states. president biden underlined his economic achievements, like, for example, the fact that he created 12000000 new jobs in a 2 years more than any other president before him. but the truth is that the latest polls show that americans remain upset about the high inflation and they are worried about the economy in the country. biden is trying to convince particularly workers without a college degree and that the economy is actually better than they are feeling. the president of the united states barely mentioned a foreign policy in his pete and on the war ukraine. he clearly underlined the unity of the allies defending ukraine, who referred to the ukrainian ambassador who was there saying, we are going to stand with you as long as it takes at. but the most important quote was probably we united nader. we built a global coalition,

showing unity with the western allies has been biden's priority since the war started. it was a quite a surprise though that president biden did not make any mention of the devastating earthquake in syria and turkey. you're watching dw news from berlin, coming up next. we got business news for you with steven beardsley. and of course you can get all the latest news information any time you want on our website at dw dot com, you'll find plenty there on the earthquake. i'm cherry martin. thanks for watching . with every jenny is full of surprises. we've gone all out to give you some tips one day in the in the footsteps of the great.