ah ah ah, this is d w. news coming to you live from berlin, a race against time to rescue survivors of catastrophic earthquakes. international teams join turkish cruise to reach victims still alive under the wreckage. dw news is on the ground in the quakes. meanwhile survivors in northern syria sip through rubble and bury their dead appeals are made to open corridors for aid to

a regent. already devastated by civil war, also on the program, joe biden delivers his annual state of the union address. the u. s. president offers the message of unity calling on republicans to work with his democratic party to rebuild america. and germany's defense minister travels to achieve for a big announcement. european countries pledging more than a 100 leopard one, thanks to ukraine. ah. hello and terry martin. good to have you with us. more than 8000 people are now known to have been killed in earthquakes and turkey and syria. the death toll is expected to rise as more victims are found in remote areas. international rescue crews are beginning to arrive in quake zone. the 1st quake struck near the turkish

city of gauzy and tough. destruction stretches along turkey's 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 heart hit hat i province rescue has 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 remained 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 their suffering. i like to set to go away. 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 also suitable. they shout 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 soup for the 1st time in 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. i

i show a while ago i spoke to our correspondent terry shultz, she's in auburn, a turkey in the quite zone. she gave us this update. 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, they are pulling another body from the rubble. 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. better. what. what did your dogs find here in the scene

behind that's been explained? why so many people are desperately digging down they, they was a message brought up and then law after they francois a life, was sort of here. and that's why they asked us to go here. we for our rescue dot and the docs mark for 2 of the docs mark here. that there is a, maybe i 1st of the proceeds to congress to say, right, so they got a what's that message from under the rubble? yes, they got was locked up much from, from the level and this was just yesterday. so there was, there was good reason to keep searching very desperately. now. yes, that's why they push sol car care with protective care and 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 withdrawing our dogs tomorrow life people. because we've tried that with

a life people. and so there is a lot of other things are part of the building. oh, well, well stop bedrooms and the doctor pay them out, those buddies, but they might cover like they might appeal to the other. so you and i have just watched them pulling another body from the rug. well, 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 . okay, this is, this is very a 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's hope there was someone alive here. no it today we will go to i'm talking about and so, but if we, if they ask us to confirm that there is a lot of people we, we will go with the docs care again. well, thank you very much to you and all your team for helping on the st that avail 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 overnight. people have been told not

to be in their homes. so as we walk around here, there are many people staying outside, staying and tend to building fires because they are afraid to go back into the zones where, where the buildings fell. and again, this is not one of the worst hit cities last night. we were in osman, near which is just a little over an hour from here. and the situation is, is desperate. we were there was no electricity whatsoever. we also joined a rescue our 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 for the last person that was there in that building. terry, thank you very much. our corresponded terry schultz. they're in the quite zone in

turkey. meanwhile, rescuers in neighboring syria are appealing for aid corridors to be open to the disaster zone. there. 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 prayer chance from mass burial sites in syria after destruction struck its border with turkey. the sadness, of course, but there's also 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 the marine, but we haven't stopped since the morning for la luz always buried more than 50 bodies. and yesterday, we buried around $85.00 people in a low. hm. the missing are now field dead. there are glimmers of hope. as the citron arab red crescent work the 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. our situation is very bad. we need a hands on food water. we fled with just her clothes, look at us, we have no shoes on how to connect 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 album, the red crescent have 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 widened, crackdown on anti government protestants. with land thought we might have a equipment ambulances and fire fighting vehicles. 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. the red crescent fav corridors are needed to

be in humanitarian aid. and they're asking the united nations to coordinate efforts to make that happen, as it has done good opposition, held areas in the past. oh, now to the us where president 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. in my republican friends, good work together last, congress has no reason. we can't work together and find consensus on important things in this congress as well. i think. but i think that people send us a clear message. fighting for the sake of fighting power for the sake of power. conflict for the 2nd conflict gets us nowhere. that's always been my vision of our

country to know it's many of yours to restore the soul was nice to rebuild the backbone of america. america's middle class and unite the country. we been sent her to finish the job in my view. or more on by the speech we have our chief international editor, richard walker with us could see richard. what stood out for you in that state of the union address yet would terry i think it's really interesting to compare this address to the speech that he made just last year. and what really stood out is just how much the focus was really very much on domestic politics rather than what's going on outside in the rest of the world. last year he spent the 1st 10, maybe 11 minutes of the speech, talking about the war in ukraine, which had been done just the week before the state of the union last year. that was very much the sort of framing of the debate this year in the speech that he made last night. he took almost an hour before he got to foreign policy, very much focused on the domestic agenda. and that i think,

reflecting where we are in america's kind of legendary political time table, the joe biden has passed the half way point in his presidency. speculation is mounting that despite his great age, that he is expected now and to say that he wants to run again for the presidency next time. so he went through his speech hitting a lot of the political points where he thinks that, that he needs to kind of reach out to voters. and you think that expression that we just heard there, finish the job. 12 times hitting finish the job on a prescription drug costs, all sorts of other kind of like bread and butter issues that he feels would be it would help him get re elected. the challenge that he has politically is the situation. congressmen, we can talk about that in mom, but also the situation in the country. the national mood, according to polling is very negative. and us despite biden's saying he has a good kind of economic story to tell. 70 percent of people who are asked is the

united states on the right track of the wrong track have been saying recently on the wrong track. so he's got a challenge ahead of him. that was, that was clear there. the balance of power richard has changed in congress, spied and took off as to what degree was that reflected in his speech? yeah, i think very much terry, i mean, the 1st thing we just heard him say in that clip there. he said, you know, if we could work together in this last congress and buys and says, you know, he did actually pass a lot of bipartisan legislation in the last congress. well, there's no reason that we can't work together and find consensus on important things in this congress will actually, there's a very good reason why he can't, because the, the new congress is now divided behind him. here we see on the right in the photograph just behind you, we see kevin mccarthy, that's the leader of the house that used to be nancy pelosi, a democrat sitting there. so joe biden is having to deal with a congress that is, that is, you know, half of it is against him. plus the fact that we have, you know, that presidential election kind of looming on the horizon,

obviously within the republican party, you know, a fight likely to build soon about. well, you know, it's very much facing us during the course of this year about whether donald trump is going to come back. who might be up against him. i think was quite interesting in this speech though, is the extent to which you see a lot of trump is in, in biden's message by america percolating right the way through it. it's all about, you know, bringing industry industrial jobs back to the united states. kind of pride in being members of the working class. that's an awful lot of trumps message to bike. norma's positioning himself is kind of trump without the anger nationalism without the kind of pure american america. first sort of overtones of santa phobia within it. so i think it's question to see with biden's speech, just how much you know, his predecessors shifted the ground of the political debate. very interesting. richard walker or chief international editor. thank you so much.

sketchup on a few other stories making headlines today. the u. s. navy has retrieved some of the wreckage of the chinese bible learn shot down by a fighter jet above the sea or south carolina. beijing has said it wants to back once the debris back, but washington plans to have it examined by its secret services. the balloon controversy has soured relations between the 2 countries. landslides in peru have killed 36 people with dozens still reported missing as villagers are beginning to assess the damage. assess by rescue. access rather by rescue grades is hampered by roads blocked by mud and rocks. steady rain over days has triggered the landslides in gold mining villages in the southern peru and defense. russian defense minister sergey starts showing who has said that western weapons in ukraine will lead to the escalation of the war. so speaking to military officials,

shaw you said the supplies, quote, effectively draw nato countries into the conflict last week. ukrainian, president, lot of me as a lensky said weapons supplied by the west would not be used for attacks on russian territory. a consortium of 3 european countries is to supply ukraine with at least $100.00 battle tanks. the german defense minister announced the initiative during a surprise visit to kip, where he met with ukraine's president laudermill zalinski. germany's defense minnes subarus historian came to keefe promising tanks, captured russian tanks are on display here in the capitol. i remind of how fast both sides are losing fighting vehicles. germany, the netherlands and denmark now want to send ukraine at least a 100. refurbished old a leopard one tanks on top of the 14 newer leopard two's announce last month

when i submitted it, ukraine's president told his story of the number of tank currently pledged will not be enough to insure victory. mon, mr. dov mudy should that the recent decisions taken by our european friends and our defense ministry can give us parity, though not an advantage on the battlefield. ah, but everything depends on the time frame. news, the numbers you and the modernity of the tanks optically, veronica, via you, her ukranian troops being presented with metals for bravery. historian also met soldiers who will operate the leopard tanks through it. it is, you can see in their faces how overloaded they are freshly returned from the front

for the really their experiences have shaped them apart can, they're now going to germany to get trained on the leopard before going back to the front. these burdens are unimaginable. spect what do you realize? the german made tank the badly needed as fighting intensifies ukraine expects a new russian offensive in the coming weeks. more let's bring in mike martin here. he is a defense analyst from king's college london. mike, the german defense minister, boars, pastorius, making a surprise visit there to ukraine. what do you make of that? well, it's really reflection of the importance of the announcement around the tanks. not just the leopard to last week, but the leopard ones and opening out the export licenses so that other countries you have german made equipment can send that to ukraine.

the one question of course, is, is how long these times again take and, but it seems to day from these images, particularly of the defense minister presenting awards, the ukranian troops that germany really is positioning itself fully behind the crime. now. so leopard tanks for ukraine, about a 100 of them, i understand. do you think they will get there fast enough to make a difference? especially given that russia itself was mobilizing more soldiers and weapons, there been a lot of confusing reports about the timelines. so before the decision was made last week about the 2, it became clear that a lot of the training had already been completed on the some of the western systems . so the british and the american in the german systems. but now reports today is saying that some of these lead times are going to come within months and some are going to come next year. well, the war is going to be decided this year. and so really,

the tanks need to come within the next 6 weeks or so. a 2 months at most, russia will be starting and offensive in approximately a month when the spring thaw starts. ok, so time is of the essence there. now we're getting reports that are russia is making advances in the don't ask region right now. what's your assessment of the situation on the battlefield like so russia is still pushing on to the city of moot, which is the city that you're listening to. your viewers have been hearing so much about over the last 2 months. it is a very similar tactic to one that they've used before. ready lots of troops slowly advancing. and what they're trying to do moment is to come around the north, the city and around the south, because that's the route to supply routes take in for the trainings. and if the

russians can cut those supply lines, then it makes it almost inevitable. the city will fall at the moment, is still holding on. but it is at great cost, both the cravings and also to the russians who are trying to press the city. mike, thank you so much. is always defense analyst, mike martin there from kings college. one well, russia's invasion of ukraine is also a war that's being fought on the information front. and one of the main targets for russian propaganda are russian speaking minorities in europe. t w's. killian bio reports from latvia. lack of some of the via nona. ah latvia along the russian border. many people here watch russians. they television via satellite and over the internet. and with that propaganda from russia, that a either dear friends, i'd be teaching drama, children drown them with the wooded. yeah, that will be nuclear. all threats of war broadcast across the border from luck,

fios much bigger neighbor, russia. this worries maria to beat sca one in for latvians has russian heritage and speaks russian since the ukraine war started latvia has become even more polarized with it and for except we are losing our friends and our neighbors that her son in law propaganda is like poison that's dividing people play with the 66 year old on her son yan is have lots of russian friends. russia tv is blocked here, but many people still managed to watch a lot of it, even before the russian invasion, the information war was well underway. russian media frequently broadcasts aggressive rhetoric about the e. u. n. nato. in a talk show on russian t. v. a military expert described step by step, how russia hypothetically, could invade the baltic states. my alien glasgow would have it over the colony grad grouping of the russian army and bell russian forces gilded from the ceiling. cut

them up from the rest of the letter. good lord, i'd never most soldiers from the western military district optimal advanced him to his tonia latvia and lithuania. lab you little. nowhere and you government for each country, let the national peoples republic of estonia once come to the national people's republic of latvia. anti lithuania, it is probably saw many people in the eastern part of latvia look back fondly on their soviet passed, especially here along one of the main roads connecting riga to moscow, where some people feel left behind by democratic developments. we're right in the center of music near a small town, not far from the russian border, about half an hour drive and around half of the population, a bit less is russian speaking. we've come here to find out how many people here actually watch russian television. i think are you happy with russian media?

my dad, although live with very happy and the quality you think they have to leave on us just like these days. it's better not to answer questions like this. but as a russian, you're scared of voice in your opinion. if they're foaming at the mouth with hatred, grampian, me, i am, i watch lat be mtv. well, there's propaganda on both sides. 32 years ago. this was all part of the soviet union. many people came here from other parts of the giant soviet empire to work, and then stayed to this day. maria insists that not everyone feels the same here. and she says that any one can be poisoned by television regardless of their nationality. she has given up discussing politics with many of her neighbors with i think if we want to live in freedom, an artist, we do not want to be ruled by anyone here. if we have the right to live in self

determination, that's very important. maria to beat sca is proud that lot via now belongs to the e. u and not to the soviet union as was once the case out here in the countryside. she enjoys her free time, just a short drive from the russian border. else news and american professional basketball. the bron james of the los angeles lakers has become the all time leader in career points in the n. b. a. james scored his record breaking points against the oklahoma city thunder on tuesday night in los angeles, james now has a total of $38390.00 career points. most fans thought breaking the record was impossible. in fitting fashion labranz surpassed a fellow laker, kareem abdul jabbar, who retired in 1980 you're

watching dw news, just remind her of the main story we're following for you this. our international teams are joining turkish crews working to reach survivors of a devastating series of earthquakes. but especially follies now being pulled from the rubble, the confirmed death toll in turkey and syria has climbed to more than $8000.00 up next close up is taking a look at climate change and the rich. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. ah ah, with

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