hold that they swayed because i'm responsible for the shall fall country for the people on behind the boss. sh. guardians of truth starts february 18th on dw ah ah, this is dw is coming to live from berlin, growing criticism of the official response to the earthquakes that have killed thousands in turkey and syria. turkey's president seized destruction for himself and admits. there were failings on the day of the disaster, also coming up ukraine's president on a diplomatic drive to draw up support for his country's plight against russia.

little de ms. lensky, heads to brussels to meet with you. law makers. after holding talks in paris with the leaders of france and germany ah hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. turkeys present wretch of ty, powder one has defended his government's response to the catastrophic earthquakes. every one says it was almost impossible to prepare for the disaster considering its scale. the death toll from the quake has now reached more than 15000. international rescue teams have joined forces with local emergency crews in the worst effected areas. but hope of finding more survivors is 5 fading past, and in many places like turkey's hats, a province, residents say they've seen little outside help. the days these

residents have spent the night here camped amongst the ruins of homes in hattie province. one of the hardest hit by mondays quakes, they say they can still hear voices coming from under the rubble front a moment, but if in left without any help to save their loved ones, rescue teams, equipment and emergency support is now starting to arrive here. that many fear it's come to light and their frustrations are now turning to anger. we have 30 dead in that is our state really incapable? i think so incapable. i have no words. 30 bodies have been lying here until the morning. we should be a little zill auto for the sub holiday. he'll feel a little turkey's president is acutely aware of the fingers now being pointed at him and his government's response to the disaster. and while visiting some of the

worst affected areas on wednesday, he did admit that they had encountered some problems elevator. certainly there have been shortfalls, such as the conditions have become clear. it is impossible to prepare to face a disaster like this all over make merchandise the opposition leader sees things differently though, blaming the president for the destruction. with that, there is only one person responsible for this catastrophe, and that is there to one the 20 years. he has failed to prepare the country for earthquakes with other international emergency and rescue teams are now up and running with crew. so more than 2 dozen countries taking part in the rescue mission . and despite fears that the window to find more survivors is closing, there is still hope that more people may be found alive. with moments like this,

providing emergency teams with all the motivation they need to carry on the search for signs of life. earlier i spoke to our correspondent terry shultz, she's in a donna in southern turkey. i asked her about the situation in an age center. there . we are currently in a suburb of a donna to cordova, and in fact is, is not one of the areas hardest hit by the quake. but we spent time here yesterday at collapse buildings. and i just spoke with the mayor who said, 400 people in his community have been lost. and as you can see behind me, there are some 400 tens and 1200 people here. but as we have seen throughout the country, people seem to be in relatively good spirits and most of all they are so welcoming and i just want to share with you some new friends i made immediately upon arrival here. this is irene. she's 8 years old, and we're gonna come here. and when i came up with my tv makeup on my face,

they said we have some lipstick. and so i ran, you asked me to give you a stick to you and look at her america. she's only 3 or 4, let's think has done a better ride, but all of us know exactly how that goes. thank you girls. and as you can see, of course we do have their parents' permission. oh my gosh, highlight of my day. definitely. so sorry for the noise behind us, there are trucks arriving here with aid. and as i said, i just spoke with the mayor of she could have a who said that they have enough food and enough water for the moment, but no one knows how the situation will continue to develop. oh, my girls are still here. very yes. many people, terry, in the effective regions, there are angry that help hasn't arrived sooner. what are you hearing from those you're talking to their yes, of course we see those reactions. i read them,

i keep track of them on other media. and i did ask the mayor about this, i said, are you receiving aid from the national government or what as president air to one delivered to you. and he said that they are mostly getting local donations. there are piles of clothes around. we saw some greg delivered and again, this is not an area that is facing the absolute worst devastation. the buildings around us right now are still standing and not visibly damaged. but he said they will need aid in the days to come in. in addition to the 1200 people living in these tents, he said there are thousands sleeping in the streets, burning what they can find to stay warm. and there's no telling how long the situation will go on. we've been feeling, you know, we've been hearing about the aftershocks continuing and so people are very concerned that while they may feel okay today on a sunny day with no aftershocks, no one has any idea how long they are going to need to continue supporting people

who can't go back to their homes. turkeys president richard tapped out on has declared a 3 month state of emergency. is that something that's likely to help people on the ground they're terry? well, i think that will be their hope. if the situation continues, the mayor did not talk to me about about what kind of national programs they might be needing. but of course you've heard our other reporters talk about this across southern turkey. again here where i am right now. people seem to have enough of everything. in fact, as i've been reporting, they keep trying to give us a juice. i've got a cup of tea here on the ground and someone just came by and asked adrian if he wants some soup. so they seem to be ok for now, but no one knows how long that will last and again, throughout the rest of this region, people are in much, much worse condition. and here the people standing around me say time and again. thank you for coming. thank you for your help. please keep us in your thoughts.

we're going to need more international assistance. speaking of international assistance, terry, are you seeing some international relief workers in the region? are you seeing turkish relief workers in the form of the army? for example? well here is the aide center. there's no army, but all the tents that you see behind me, they have a f, a d on them. this is the turkish national relief organization. so they have set up the tents. the workers here are from that organization. so clearly they do have support from, from the national organizations at the moment. we do not see any international aid workers, nor anyone speaking english here in this camp, which is not, not so surprising, perhaps the 8 as best needed elsewhere. and particularly in the search and rescue operations again yesterday we saw the bulgarian red cross on the scene with a sniffer dogs. 5 and they were moving on to other areas where there were still people believe to be buried. and i can just say that

a bolsters everyone's spirits when, as we heard this morning, people are still being pulled alive from the rubble in other parts of in other parts of southern turkey. so rescue operations will not cease. terry, thank you very much for now. our correspond, terry schultz there in southern turkey, ukraine's president, florida. muse zalinski is expected to join a european union summit in brussels today. lensky has flown to brussels with french president. manuel michel the hell talks with michael and german transfer of shoals in paris on wednesday evening. well, that followed a visit to london earlier on wednesday. before meeting the leader, savanski is also expected to address that you parliament is likely to renew his appeal, made to the french, german, and british leaders on wednesday for more western weapons, including fighter jets, an enthusiastic greeting from french president,

micron and german chancellor sholtes. at the elisa palace after some slight confusion about who should stand, where what they who were zalinski returned to his main theme or any so greener, the sooner ukraine can get powerful, long range weapons. the sooner our pilots can get modern planes, the stronger our forces will be off, which he miss nissan would in africa liter thought william, and the sooner this russian aggression will end. and we will bring peace back to europe. if beverly where the french and german leaders were quick to reaffirm their support, lieutenant ukraine can count on france, its european partners and its allies to win the war. russia cannot and must not win novelty. houston inc,

and as we stand firmly by ukraine's efforts to strengthen its defenses to defend its values, sovereignty and territorial integrity held associates wished to just early as the lensky had also made a surprise visit to london for meeting with prime minister ritchie soon act. ukrainian president addressed the british parliament, thanking lawmakers for their support and urging them to provide fighter jets marching. i appeal to you, and the walt was simple, and yet most important wars combat aircraft for ukraine wings for free them and appealed at zalinski is likely to echo and brussels in the coming hours. and ukraine's president has now landed in brussels, was cross straight over to our brussels bureau chief, alexandra fun nomine. alexandra, at this summit, ukraine's president will have

a chance to meet the leaders of all you countries in person. how important is that? well, i think, terry, that we cannot overestimate this visit to brussels and the 1st face to face meeting with her. and all of the european leaders here at this visit is supposedly amends to remind the leaders of the urgency of the situation. the ukrainian president has been repeating 4 weeks now that the situation on the front lines in the eastern part of the country is getting more severe and that russia is throwing more and more troops into that battle. ukraine braces for a massive russian offensive in the spring, and of course what the country needs are more advanced weapons. we heard from a some leaders arriving here today who said that they are ready to provide more

weapons. you foreign policy chief for l sat that the you will provide more weapons . estonia as leader carlos suggested that member states should to jointly buy weapons to get them as quickly as possible to ukraine or law. demure zalinski is due to address that you parliament to day, as well as alexandra. what can we expect there? well this is speech is already being described as the whole visit asked historic. and of course we know that he is a very skilled, a speaker. we have seen him speaking before day you ask congress and the british parliament. and every time it was a very emotional speech and powerful speech. so that is what we are expecting a him to deliver. he as well. he has an urgent message to deliver. as i said, he is expected to speak about advance weapons that ukraine needs right now.

probably fighter jets. and we just to have to remind ourselves that just a few weeks ago ago, it was almost unthinkable that fighter jets could be ever delivered to train. and now we have for, for instance, the okay saying that there might look into that. and they have already announced that they are starting to train ukraine pilots. so there is some movement there. and we also have to say that zalinski speaking to the european parliament, will be speaking to friends and allies. a week ago, lawmakers their adopted a text it was calling on the european leaders to step up their military and financial support for ukraine and to work towards sir the start of accession talks with ukraine. remind yourself, under what the you has done already to help you crane defend herself against

russia's war of aggression while the block and its member states have already provided ukraine with weapons and military equipment worse, almost 12000000000 euros. as you know, just recently germany, denmark and a netherlands have announced are going to deliver at least a 100 to lay part one tanks to trainer, also working on delivering them more modern leverage to tanks to, to the battle field. and the u. s. also slated to continue helping ukraine with financial aid. they have promised to provide ukraine with 18000000000 euros this year to help the government keep paying wages and pensions and to keep it keeping to keep running the.