ah ah ah, this is dw news coming to you live from berlin, a race against time to rescue earthquake survivors. international teams join turkish cruise to reach victims still alive under the wreckage. dw news is on the ground in the quite so. meanwhile survivors in northern serious sit proved rubble and bury their dead. appeals are made to open corridors for aid to

a region already devastated by civil war. and a big announcement by germany's defense minister boris historian travels to key if where he tells president to lensky european states will provide more than 100 leopard tanks to craig. ah hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. more than 8000 people are now known to have been killed in earthquakes in turkey and syria. the death toll is expected to ra, says more victims are found in remote areas. international rescue crews are beginning to arrive in the quake zone. the 1st quake struck near the turkish city of ghazi, 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 is no time is of the essence nearly 2 days on from the 1st pre dawn quake. this still pulling survivors from the rebel. 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 that suffering. i like him to settle

gloves away. we feel terrible. you can see our situation, buddhism was up and we're trying to warm up with this fire militarization. if we're trying to keep going without food or water hospital, they shout shaking 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 seep 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. to be able to still come about our our correspondent terry shoals is in a done a turkey in the earthquake zone. terry tell us what you've been seeing them

terry, i have to be honest, i'm having trouble looking into the camera now because something very important is happening behind us. they have brought sniffer dogs back to this scene in a donna, this scene of the collapse to building. and i was told earlier by terrible tote of from the bulgarian red cross who has these dogs that they would only bring the dogs back if they thought there were still a chance, some one was alive under this rubble, the dogs are still on the scene. now we were told that last night a whatsapp message came from under this pile of concrete. someone was still alive. people have worked all night long with the equipment and digging with, with shovels and, and their bare hands because someone might still be alive behind me. they have also pulled very many bodies. from this scene, i was told a approximately 20 apartments collapsed here after the 1st earthquake at 4 o'clock in the morning. but i have to tell you right now people are standing around completely and wrapped watching these dogs, hoping that they're going to give

a signal that possibly right here would be one of those stories that someone could still be pulled alive from the scene. terry, you've been talking to some of the rescuers yourself for what are the main challenges that they're facing right now will as you've been hearing in the reports, is very, very cold here. international aid, other than the bulgarians. that i mentioned here who were 1st on the scene, i have been quite slow to arrive up there it. there are also huge traffic jams on the highways with people trying to flee the areas worst affected. and so aid is having trouble getting in, and we're told that this, the situation is very, very bad in the, in the epicenter. but even where we were last night in osman, near which is about an hour from here, from a donna, there was no electricity whatsoever in the city. so people were using the

headlights, their cars, everybody had brought generators, or we talked to general civilians who had had brought any home generators they had and just come out to keep digging in in these are the, the places where it were, buildings had collapsed, just trying to help the devastation, terry is overwhelming. how are people they're coping with this emotionally? well, obviously it's very difficult. i just as, as my colleague adrian and i were arriving yesterday, you saw so many people crying at the airport. and as we moved further into the disaster zone, i, everyone has been told to leave the affected areas. we're still feeling aftershocks . now, i mean that this aftershocks are still in the region now, and we're being told to avoid certain areas. but i have to say that we have been so struck by the reaction of people just to us. yes, they may be complaining about, about international aid or their own government. but when we arrived in us,

many of the city with no electricity, people came up to us and said, do you need food? do you need water? here's my phone number. if you need help, let us help you. and here, let me just take out of my pocket here a little while ago. i was so stupid, i hadn't brought my own gloves and some man came and said here, take my gloves. i said no, no, i have some. and he insisted that i take his gloves and we have just been struck by the humanity that people are showing each other, even those of us who have come here to cover the disaster. they have told us time and again, thank you for coming. thank you for showing the world what we're facing here. thank you for telling everyone we need help. what sort of help terry do people there need most urgently? right? no. i think the 1st thing that the people standing around us here need is shelter and warmth because they are being told not to go back into these buildings. we see people building fires. there's there sitting in the street in the middle of the

street so that they're not close to any tall buildings. and once again, showing concern for each other. if i forget, while i'm looking at it, the, the rubble behind me and get to close to the building, someone will come and say no, no, come away from that wall, which our security guys will be. it will be happy to hear people are being very, very kind to each other. they're coming and asking us the journalist, do you need water? i'm and i, i just, i just have to say people are, are, are, are absolutely devastated. but at the moment, while they're still hope, like i said behind me in the scene here, while they're still hope that even one person can be alive. this is what they're concerned about. we haven't heard anybody complaining at all. just looking for any sign of life. terry, thank you very much. our correspondent terry sholtes in a donna 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 o prayer chance from mass burial sites in syria after destruction struck its bordeaux with turkey. the sadness, of course, but there is also physical and mental exhaustion. until comes the 35 ambulance we learned the bodies of 4 or 5 people died in the earthquake submarine, but we haven't stopped since the morning for la la sawyer. buried more than 50 bodies. and yesterday we buried around 85 people in a late home. the missing are now field dead. there are glimmers of hope. as the citron arab red crescent worked 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 either or situation is very bad. we need her hands on

food water. we fled with just her clothes, look at us. we have no shoes open on how to select your 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 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 need 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 faith 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,

i take a look at some other stories making headlines around world to day, landslides in peru, i've killed 36 people with dozen still reported missing as villagers are beginning to assess the damage access by rescue brigades is hampered by roads blocked by mud and rocks. steady, rain over day's head, triggered the lands, lives in gold mining villages in southern for, i think u. s. navy has retrieved some of the wreckage of the chinese spy balloon shot down by a fighter jet above the sea of south carolina. beijing has said it wants it back, but washington plans to have it examined by its secret services. the balloon controversy has soured relations between the 2 countries. russian defense minister sergey showing go, has said that western weapons and ukraine will lead to the escalation of the war. speaking to military officials showing who said the supplies, quote,

effectively draw nato countries into the conflict. last week, ukrainian president allotments, lensky said, weapons supplied by the west would not be used for attacks on russian territory goblin. and did you, as 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 into my republican friends. good work together last, congress is no reason we can't work together and find consensus on important things in this congress as well. but i think the people sent us a clear message, fighting for the sake of fighting power for the 2nd power conflict, for the 2nd conflict gets us nowhere. that's always been my vision of our country. and i know it's many of yours to restore the shore, was nice to rebuild the backbone of america, american middle class,

and united country. we've been sent her to finish the job in my view of more on biden's 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. well, 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 this speech talking about the war in ukraine, which had been done just the week before the, 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 is kind of legendary political timetable. the

joe biden has passed the half way point in his presidency. speculation is managing 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, 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 the 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 congressman, we can talk about that in mind, but also the situation in the country. the national mood, according to polling is very negative. and us despite biden saying he has a good kind of economic story to tell 70 percent of people who are, 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 since biden took office 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 that he said, you know, if we could work together in this last congress and by that 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 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 the congress that is that he's, 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, 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, it's the extent to which you see a lot of trump is in, in biden's message by america percolating right. the way through it is 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 norm is positioning himself is kind of trump without the anger nationalism without the kind of pure american america 1st sort of overtones and a 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. now to ukraine and a consortium of 3 european countries is to supply ukraine with at least

a 100 battle tanks. the german defense minister announced the initiative during a surprise visit to kia where he met with ukraine's president brought him here to lensky. germany's defense minister boris pastorius came to keith, promising tanks captured russian tanks are on display here in the capitol. i remind me 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 leopard one tanks on top of the 14 newer leopard two's announce last month. welcome. estimated ukraine's president told his story of the number of tank currently pledged will not be enough to insure victory. why mister dob mudy? she should have the recent decisions taken by our european friends and our defense ministry can give us parity,

though not an advantage on the battlefield. through everything depends on the time frame news, the numbers he and the modality of the tanks. optically, vodka, via you, her ukrainian troops being presented with metals for bravery. his story is also meant soldiers who will operate the leopard tanks through it because you can see in their faces how overloaded they are. freshly returned from the front and their experiences have shaped them down in leo botkin. they're now going to germany to get trained on the leopard before going back to the front. these burdens are unimaginable respect with the jam and made tank. the badly needed as fighting intensifies. ukraine expects a new russian offensive in the coming weeks or more of this i spoke earlier to mike

barton, a defense expert at king's college, london. i began by asking him what he made of that surprised visit by the german defense minister to keep will it's really reflection of the importance of the announcement around the times. not just the leopard to last week, but the leopard ones and opening out the export licenses so that other countries you have on german made equipment. i can send that to ukraine. the one question of course is, is how long these times again take. and it seems to day from these images, particularly of the defense minister presenting awards, the ukranian troops see 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 tanks 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 in offensive in approximately a month when the spring thaw starts. ok, so time is of the essence there that 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 route, which is the city that your listeners, your viewers have been hearing so much about over the last 2 months. it is a very similar tactic to one that they use. ready before 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 from the trainings. and if the russians can cut those supply lines and it makes it almost inevitable, the city will fall at the moment is still holding on. but it is at great cost, both the trainings 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 russia's invasion of ukraine is also a war. this being fought on the information front and one of the main targets for

russian propaganda or russian speaking minorities in europe, t w's. killian, bio reports from latvia, lack of some of the bus number 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 again, dear friends at be drowned, the children drown them with the wooded. yeah, that will be nuclear. all threats of war rod cast 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 the people play with the 66 year old on her sonia's 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 and nato. in a talk show on russian t. v. a military expert described step by step how russia hypothetically could invade the baltic states. elin could ask a little bit of the economy grad grouping of the russian army and bell russian forces. the origin cut them up from the rest of the letter. good lord, at nobody. most soldiers from the western military district advanced him to his tonia latvia and lithuania. lab, you little. nowhere can 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. i democratic developments were 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 i 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 a voice in your opinion is there for me at the mouth with hatred, grampian, me? i am. i watch, let 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. we have the right to live in self determination. that's very important. maria to beat scott 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. now news from american professional base basketball rather at g. le bron james of the los angeles lakers has become the all time leader in career points in the national basketball

association. james scored his record breaking basket 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 impulsive. in fitting fashion. le bron so pra surpassed a fellow maker kareem abdul jabbar, who retired in 1980. no. well, it was a star studded affair in los angeles to witness james breaking the record during the entire game. he was miked up in anticipation of the big moment. here's james on his historic accomplishment. a right the man in our reno, my shoe, every single night from theodore roosevelt. and tonight i actually felt like i was like sitting on top with arina tonight. when i shall went in and

the roar from the, from the crowd. i'm not sure if i'll be able to fill it out again. everything just stopped and you know, and gave me an opportunity just to kind of like, embrace it and look around and see my family. seeing a fans and you are watching dw news coming up next we've got eco, india looking at issues in india. if you want more news, you can find it on our website at d w dot com. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching with with

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