ah ah this is dw news life from berlin, ukraine's president renews his appeal for you membership. mister lansky tells officials in brussels though only be peace in europe once russia is defeated, that ukraine becomes a member of the block. as the death toll from earthquakes in turkey and syria tops

19000, the 1st un aiden boy arrives watch one syria to distribute humanitarian assistance . and the way such uses trying to have a huge surveillance program over several years. the pentagon says china had a whole fleet of balloons flying over 5 continents. aging denies the object shot down over american skies was being used for spine. ah, i've been fas all unwelcome, hailed as a hero. lot of aysa lensky is in brussels with leaders of the european union's $27.00 member countries at their special summit on ukraine. officials welcome c ukrainian president on his 2nd trip outside his country since the south rushes full scale invasion. before the summit, mister lensky addressed the european parliament. you grand piano,

we of lives. number, how just shipping. the russians are trying to destroy the ukraine in european way of life. totally was, was again, not for what you were a place to destroys and cranium and european way of life. and of course, will not allow that. but for each of all, 27 elements of the european way of life versus 27 countries of the european union. this total waterfall, which rushes unleashed, is not only for territory and one that we're not a partner or a he. one it's threat lies only in the fact that there's a dictator with a massive stock pile of soviet weapons, iraq, and supporting weapons, or from other dictatorship each other was a alicia thomas, in particular data from the reigning machine or against was lloyd that did good was bro, to be able to weight this war or the kremlin? absolutely. and cynically, what this consistently no step by step said year by year,

mostly destroy what we see me as the basis of far your position with you mean by some of us? know, the national is la maya. he hoping i asked brussels correspond, and jack barrick, what stood out for him in that speech by the ukraine in lida. well, it was an impassioned speech in the european parliament. we went on extremely well . there was huge cheers actually, even as he was walking in to the hamis aykl of the european parliament. but that was expected. i think the members of the european parliament, we knew that they would respond to him in that way. but what's happened since is that he's moved here to the european count, where on the same day, the 27 leaders of the european union are meeting and he gave a joint press conference with us on the lion. and we shall, michelle, the european council president, and she being the european commission president, demanding that actually talks for ukraine's membership of the european union begin before the end of this year. president zalinski being here is very symbolic,

but also he wanted action during this visit. what about what ukraine needs in his war against russia? what it, what about the, the sticking point of fighter jets? well, this has been the big talking point, especially over the last couple of weeks since european partners allowed leopard to another tanks to be exported or re exported into ukraine. the germans had a block on re exportation of a that were made in germany. they have not released that ever since that it's been opened to discussion and the pressure from keith, the government is asking for a fight to judge said as he comes here on the back of a visit to the united kingdom, where the british said that they would accept that they would train fights of pilots, but what they need, as well as those fight to jazz. obviously that door having been opened with the times is one thing, but there is reluctance among in the big a you capital, specifically for france and germany, him and berlin in paris to send a more fight to jesse for over a number of concerns firstly, and what that will mean the escalation of the war,

but also what it means for their own domestic national security. let's have a listen to the message the european commission president had. i want to ask you about that in a say. we all heard the urgency of your call to support ukraine. now you spoke in a very moving manner about and praising a european way of life and to add it that ukrainians want to come home to this european way of life. and indeed today you see we are one families, we have one vision and family members help each other. you can count on us. we will continue to provide our full support now to sustain your people, so this atrocious war and for the future. so all the right signals being sent there. when i went, when we look at what you find needs but can keep,

rely on process for what it does actually need. at the end of the day when it comes to munitions and weapons to well, the european union would say is yes, they say that they're providing lots and lots of money that the process for ukraine to join. the european union is underway and moving quicker than possible, but the decision on the weapons is done with the individual member states of the european union. as i was saying, france and germany being probably the biggest players in that. what was interesting is the us of on july, the nice that they will put now forward as 10th round of sanctions that they will sanction senior political and military leadership. that they will also look at other exports to try and hit the russian economy further to try and twist the arm of vladimir putin to bring the invasion to an end. but so far that 9 rounds, the sanction said of it being imposed haven't worked. i think what's interesting is this, this process in 3 you exception. the symbolism of this meeting is really, really important as

a landscape visit here. because ukraine isn't only fighting to become independent of russian russia. the vision of the ukrainian government and the ukrainian authority is not just to turn away from the kremlin, but a turn towards brussels, a turn towards the european union. they want to be a member of this club. so jack, what else can we expect from today? some well, an interesting thing, but is this february summit that we're him right now was meant to be all about the european union, sorting out its migration, working out how it can deal with additional flows of, of, of, of migrants coming in across the mediterranean and through the western balkan routes zalinski his visit has really hard thrown it in a different direction, but the leaders are resuming that meetings as we speak. and we'll be talking about that. very thornley thorny internal e. u issue of gratian abrazzo, correspond the jack car. thank you very much. now to some of the other stories making use. north korea has showcased several intercontinental ballistic missiles

during the night time parade, marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of its military, north korean leader kim jong on attended the event with his daughter. young gang claims. the missiles are designed to reach the west mainland. the philippine president has met with japanese prime minister in tokyo as the 2 nations look to strengthen ties in response to china's growing military pressure in the region. the 2 leaders are expected to assign a key defense agreement later that would allow japanese troops to join more training exercises and respond to natural disasters in the philippines to lay in president guppy. burridge has asked for international assistance to combat wildfires across the central and south of the country. 24 people have died in the flies in recent days. authorities of warned that a new heat wife was in the situation the death toll for mondays, earthquakes in turkey, and syria has taught 19000 turkish president, branch of tie

a better one has defended his government's response. saying that preparing for a disaster of this scale is practically impossible. international rescue teams have joined local emergency crews in the worst effected areas, but hope of finding more survivors is fighting. and in many places like turkey's had a province, residents say they've seen little outside help. the day these residents have spent the night here can amongst the ruins of homes in hats. how you province . one of the hardest hit by mondays quakes, they say they can still hear voices coming from under the rubble to 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, the millersville ought to front us a lot already filled with 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 effected areas on wednesday, he did admit that they had encountered some problems elevator. certainly, there have been shortfalls. as the conditions have become clear, it is impossible to prepare to face a disaster like this. all of you mc, mentioned in 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 the 3rd one the 20 years. he has failed to prepare the country for earthquakes without 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 fear 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 dw corresponded julia han is in the bouncing affected province of . i'll tell you something. turkey in the town of con julia, tell us about the situation where you well well, right now, we're witnessing a very specific rescue operation where you can see their right behind me used to be a multi story residential building, a home for several families. but this building just collapsed in an instant when the quake hit on monday. and now several days later,

rescues here found signs of life. they found a woman trapped under this giant pile of rubble alive. her name is zayna rescues. here, a joined by a special team from germany, from an n g o pulled, i s a r international search and rescue germany. they brought a special search and rescue dogs and technical equipment and they actually managed to localize. they know, under this pile of rubble, they are in contact with her. they know where she is. they have provided her with food and water and now they are working to retrieve her from under the rubble. and i can tell you everybody around here, the rescues friends, her sister is here. they are desperately waiting for that moment to happen. we are all waiting for those moments to happen. julia. tell us that is enough of that expertise and that equipment reaching the places where it's actually need.

well, we have a met teams actually from very different countries. mexico hungry, the u. k as well. german team is here now today. so dozens of countries have pledged aid and that aid is coming in. but you have to really look at the scale of this humanitarian crisis. it's massive. thousands of buildings just like this. have collapsed across the reeds are more than 18000000 people have been affected. the turkish government says it has send in more than a 100000 rescue workers. but the impression we get here that it is just not enough, we really hear from people that they have received no help or help came in late that they had to start digging for their loved ones with their bare hands local rescue. as volunteers, many, many volunteers have joined the efforts here they tell us that the 8 efforts are very poorly organized and that makes it very,

very difficult at the moment. but we have definitely seen aid coming in on the way when we were in the car on our way here. we actually saw lots of trucks loaded with food, for example, because they're just so many things people here in the region need right now. and what you make of the government's response, it's defense in saying that it couldn't prepare for a disaster of this scale. well, it's a natural natural disaster that is of course true. but what we hear in terms of criticism now is of course the question. how cut it, how could it come to this? how come that some buildings have? what's with store the trauma, while others have just collapse like current houses. so there are lots of criticism in towards, you know, building standards, building safety standards, accusations that the government has not implemented them, that they have not been watching that process very closely. and that also explains

a part that explains why people are angry here in the region and why this is closing up? yeah, that is putting the government of president edwin under pressure right now and causing so much grief dw, with johan. thank you very much for joining us with the latest that will be following the progress in syria. international aid has reached a rebel held enclave despite complications caused by a 12 year civil war and official at the above. our white border crossing between turkey and syria has confirmed that he un aid convoy has entered the region where millions rely on humanitarian 8. d w team is there and sent this exclusive report. digging through the rubble an assyrian town of harrow, just one of hundreds in the region that have been flattened by the quake. rescuers often just using their fair hands. for the most basic of tools,

graphite is one of the locals, frustrated by the lack of proper digging machinery that's compounded by exhaustion . after working 2 days without sleep. oh no, haven't. we need help from other countries. we're getting some equipment, but we have people under the rubble and we're trying to pull them out. we have malice, but what good are mallet was got this little. what we really need is heavy equipment to rescue people and they've been under the rubble for 48 hours and we need heavy equipment to get them out. she on a soccer, oh, but al ala, some bulldozers have arrived. but they're not nearly enough, given the widespread scale of destruction and hopes of finding more survivors are diminishing by the hour. while the able bodied assist with rescue efforts, others are left to ponder. what's next for them? louder, anela. miss willa. dont have any clothes or any possessions any more than other

than the streets and the rain without socks or anything man had they don't have anyone to stay with out of my siblings died in a leper while i had a hot him, especially in the hadn't rafa and the other helpers in her, him who continued to hammer away until their mission is complete. and after that, they'll have another massive task rebuilding their village. and let's cross over to young, shall play theo, of the marin foundation. he's joining us from guardian tap in turkey. we hear reports about a 1st com boy that made it over the border from turkey into syria. but is that heavy lifting equipment that we've heard about arriving in other parts of turkey arriving in parts of serial, where it's also needed? we have to be clear about this. i mean, this conveys 6 big trucks where it's scheduled before the earthquake. so basically it doesn't have any earth, great, corresponding equipment doesn't have really 1st aid equipment. it's just been

scheduled before. yes, it's necessary. it's needed. but there's nothing, nothing yet came after the crate or it came belonging to the quick. how can syrians hope to even help or save their relative, their friends who are stuck under rubble? when all they have is their, their hands to dig through the rubble, none of the heavy lifting equipment and none of the international expertise when it comes to finding earthquakes, survivors, you know, it's very sad, not even the heavy lifting equipment, no equipment. that's all the for taking, like wherever they find, like the small, 45 minute port, where would they can find and in many cases by their hands going through their relative houses and they dig in the ground and they calling for everybody's health . so what you always see, so society teams, of course, including our games ation. i worked for the going from door to door asking for people to support. and there is no equipment and i'm talking about the,

i mean an area where it's surviving. it's 12 is work. so basically, unless we get good equipment or at normal equipment, we're not going to be able to help more people. the civil defense weiss have mentioned that they will give up so on because it's the entree bank and they can not work anymore. hoping to find people who's responsible for getting that equipment in their that's really the big question that we have no government to control. so basically we're calling better national committee but un agencies and they are responsible for this area. i mean, the response would be, so i heard like you're mentioning some countries that money and this money just to be clear, was not there tomorrow. and the complication for logistic will take weeks to our i . so i think that international committee should act faster. but our sanctions a problem, no section of the problem because i mean sanction is on there is in house area.

we're talking about other guys and also and food medical supply and other necessities are not fact sanction. and u. s. and other european countries mentioned this over and over those. these are not the detection shockey. thank you very much for joining a ceo of the mara found a de foundation filling his in on the situation and serial. thank or germany is home to the largest turkish community outside of turkey and here in berlin. many who have friends and loved once in the disasters on doing what they can to help d w's on a hone report. ha, ha, ha, ha ha. if you pack, we'll pack those 2. i get that medic, evelyn has been organizing donations for days. she posted about the campaign on social media, asking friends and colleagues was spread the word. helpers and 8 supplies have kept on coming since day one. by the the i slept with 3 hours last night,

but we will continue it. we are doing this for the people who cannot believe that now we are sleepless with it. very gladly. even danziger alquon works for the just tele senior citizens home in berlin. right after they heard about the earthquake, they offered their bureaus, bruise a storage for the donations. after a few hours, the rooms were so full, further packing had to be done on the street in miss and i just have to help we are doing well here. we have a roof over our head, we are full, we have something to where we still have our families. and that is exactly why we are able to help noticing what boys in germany is home to the biggest turkish diaz bra from day one facility. start to collecting donations here. what has eaten spread outside the community from oak are going to grow up. i'm not a turkey, but i'm doing this from the hardships that are giving as human to human. whether turkish or not shorter doesn't matter where all human being russellville is. melina

mentioned. hygiene products and warm clothing. these volunteers collect what is needed most because on every one can go to turkey to help on the ground. many of the people are distributing and collecting donations, some of them has been doing this for 3 days in a row. they also told me that is their way of battling the feeling of helplessness that overcomes them when they see images of the devastated areas. some volunteers have family in the affected region. this, we don't know anything. we have one or 2 relative who we've heard are fine, but there are hundreds whom we have not been able to reach. the whole family is over there, and many people here are in the same position, began to family, went to school here in years, all the donations are now being brought to the airport and 2 flights to turkey as scheduled to leave to day. now some of the other stories making news, canadian police say to children have been killed out for a bus, smashed into

a daycare center in montreal. police believe drive across the vehicle deliberately, but say they do not know why. disney says it will count $7000.00 jobs around the world and slash costs by $5.00 and a half $1000000000.00. the media company also announced that it'll spend less on producing films and series as follows. announcements from warner and netflix, which are also cutting back on content. china has said america is waging and information war against it by accusing beijing of spying with high altitude balloons. the pentagon said the balloon, it shot down saturday over the carolina coast was part of a large surveillance program. china contains, it was just a weather balloon, but us officials say it belonged to an aerial observation network spanning 5 continents. these are the soggy remains of what is alleged to be a powerful chinese spy craft. you is defense teams here pulling the remnants from

the sea off the south carolina coast for further inspection. and the pentagon doesn't believe this balloon was an isolated incident. us and nato officials have meet to discuss what comes next. china engage in this irresponsible action, violation of our, our sovereignty and turtle integrity and international law. and as we noted as well, we're not alone in this. countries across 5 continents have also had surveillance balloons over fly, other territory, which is why we're sharing this information with others. we're also seeing increased chinese intelligence activities in europe. again, different platforms. hm. um they use in south florida, so they, they, they cyber analysis in order not to say it's also volumes. the

discovery of the balloon and at subsequent shooting down have wilson washington's already, teens relations with china. the u. s. has briefed 40 countries on the situation with a stray li are responding by pulling chinese made security cameras from some government buildings like this war memorial to ensure that they are completely secure in china insist the balloon was simply monitoring the weaver before veering off. course. it is unacceptable for the us to attack china. civilian is ships and it is irresponsible. sensationalizing, the phone call. china threat doesn't help improve bilateral just nor does it make the us more secure as the united states, mops up from the balloon fall out. president joe biden is stressing relations between the 2 countries, have not taken a hit amid growing global tensions. the white house seemingly still hopeful of

salvaging ties with beijing. you've been watching t w. use a reminder of our top stories. ukrainian president, florida lensky has renewed his appeal for his country to join the e. u. in brussels. he said that long term peace in europe will on the happen when you kind of h. russia and becomes an, a humana european commission. president, also a funder line, said there was no rigid timeline on you by joining the block and the death toll from the recent earthquakes and turkey and syria has top 19000 international rescue . teams have joined local emergency crews in the west affected areas. the hope of finding mo survivors is coming up next in dw news, asia, people in a small indian village say they're drinking water, is making them seriously ill. and local authorities have failed to do anything about it. and india's hindu nationalist government is asking people to how good

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