oh no more about love release story in for my gosh, reliable news from my grants wherever they may be. ah, ah ah, this is, these are the news lying from berlin more than 21000 to killed in the earthquakes and turkey and syria hopes of finding more survivors of fading as turkey's government is forced to defend its handling of the disaster or for the paragraph ukraine's president renews his appeal for membership. for him is lance he tells

officials and brussels the only be peace in europe when russia is defeated and ukraine becomes the member of the ear. ah and marina mohammed, welcome to the program. rescue teens are still pulling survivors from the rubble of the earthquakes and turkey and syria. but for days on hopes of finding many more victims alive are fading or then 21000 people have been killed. turkey's government has defended its handling of the disaster and the face of growing criticism. president raj, a typo on, says it's impossible to prepare for a catastrophe on the scale. pulled from the rubble in turkey is devastated her tie province after nearly 90 hours. this little boy is fortunate to be alive.

oh, exhausted, rescues, had been working non stop for days now. throughout the disaster zone, health has been coming in from all around the world. this ukrainian team was dispatched by keith despite the fighting back home to china to rest earth. turkish colleagues was surprised because of the war in our country. but we believe that we have to howl. that's the nature of mutual aid. while there's no other way to do it, the more of wing shamaya, while rescue us from turkey and further afield, aunt giving up the more time passes the lower the chances of finding more survivors . freezing temperatures are only making matters worse. thousands of bodies have already been recovered and the death toll is expected to rise even further. in many areas, there's frustration with

a lack of government health. these we is civilian support these people, but i am not a crane. i can't lift these concrete blocks. i'm a mother, but my heart can only bear so much pain. no one's listening. where's the army? where's the stays? where is the unity? president irwin defended his government's response as he visited the disaster area and promised to rebuild destroyed homes within a year. with thousands of buildings flattened and countless more damaged and the cost of reconstruction expected to run into billions of euros. it's unclear how achievable this pledge may be. while the prospect of rebuilding may offer hope to the hundreds of thousands left homeless in mid winter. for now, the focus for many remains the increasingly desperate search for survivors.

oh, for those hundreds of thousands of people made homeless by the earthquake, they're trying to reach relatives that they believe asked the lived, but trapped under these collapse to buildings. he w 's turkish service, that one family whom save your verities are not doing enough to help save their loved ones or the youth triggered into the other. my wife and my 3 daughters are trapped under there as well as our neighbors. but the authorities won't help us because they say there's no sign of life, but they might be unconscious down there with several of them. the state is not helping at all. they keep saying this no sign of life, but there are people down there. no food, no water, no air for 3 days. what are they supposed to do? knock on the walls all day above. um we got them about. gotcha. they called us at 4

am from down below we heard their voices may be their unconscious. now. the state may be providing food and drink, but that's not enough. we want to save people from the rubble. we need assistance. people come and say no, there's no voices for we heard a voice this morning. they say i didn't hear it. i can't help. and then they leave . we'd been on the go for 2 days without sleeping. we haven't rested or eaten. we came into work. my house is collapsed. i left it. i'm trying to find my brother's kids. food and water is provided, but we can provide those, we need manpower, we're not getting any help. they come and then leave because they say there's no sign of life. that's not the way to do it. united nations aid convoy

has arrived in northwest syria. is the 1st since the earthquake struck, 8 organizations have struggled to bring supplies into rebel held northern syria, which is blockaded by the government. burdened with grief and living in harsh conditions. holly, my mood is staying at this makeshift camp and aleppo province. he says he lost many of his family members to the earthquake. his surviving daughter is now a widow with 2 children, led the it'll hold. my kids died under the rubble, while the situation is horrible. murky. no one ever were here in a camp. the foreigner turned scream. there's nothing. the situation is bad. i wish i'd also died with my kids. it would have been better. now your lawyer molded when of organizations in the country are stretching their resources over a decade of war. had already left millions, dependent on aid, especially in that rebel controlled northwest. in the aftermath of the earthquake,

there is even less assistance to go round. local aid worker say they are unable to secure the basic needs of all survivors. i'm not sure sort of odds in dunphy. we're finding it difficult to secure chance food water mia and even mattresses financially. and then this winter, it was minus 6 degrees celsius day over gone. it's very cold. this disaster needs to support of nation. see any law that individual initiatives alone are not enough kenyatta via my area. however, that lot in ed live de situation is equally grim. many have had to brave, poor weather conditions, law man him now man we how as loud gave, how can we sleep any thoughts? very cold, while alex things are bad and it's raining on us in here. oh, would know that we want help is that we want someone to help us men of our lives. we have only god. there's a lot call didn't, but we didn't feel warm yesterday. and the children were freezing that colette and

i thought he thought the ladder as the demand for eat skyrockets, the pressure is mounting on damascus, which is said to be obstructing aid. while international agencies are criticized for not acting fast enough, syrians feel they have no choice. but to wait. hines, president vladimir zalinski has renewed his appeal for ukraine to join the european union. he told you leaders meeting in brussels, that europe will only be at peace once russia is defeated. an ukraine becomes a full member of the block. soleski, also called on e allies to keep military and economic aid flowing to ukraine. images for the history books. president zalinski and the parliaments president met sola, standing side by side to demonstrate that ukraine is part of the european family. it is this family and its value. cilenzo emphasized in his address that the people

of ukraine defend every day on the battlefield. sir massey of rabo. this is our europe match. these are our rules. this is our way of life. it o gray limb for ukraine, it's away wholly away to its home. sla, those whole dormer, zelinski priest, the chamber for its early backing of you. kennedy status will ukraine, pointing out that this support motivated his country to be strong and to stay the course. president to lensky speech was her powerful, and it was moving the fact that he spoke with such a character and passion for joining our family. here in the european union, we have been walking this path for the past year, and there is only so much you can add on except for solidarity and our feeling that we belong together. and this is the feeling that we all felt today. solidarity with

your queen. that was what you opinion leaders wanted to demonstrate as well when they came together in brussels for they were meeting with the ukrainian president tougher sanctions on russia and further arms deliveries were at the top of their agenda. would zalinski once again asking for western made fighter jets for his pilots, much numb shibel visibly mantra for us to survive. we need these weapons for that is what i'm talking about socially. me was that are positive signals concerning the respect of weapons. roy, we've got positive signals that we heat each other. awesome, we all know that i really want these signals to become concrete words. so can ali, but a torrijos concret and his or her long. and she made clear that his country also needs a concrete date for the start of accession talks with the eel. of course we needed . and this year and this year child, when i see this year i'm in this year and there's ah,

2202 to 3. i feel, i feel really, really responsibility as is humanly meeting the regular dorsal with regard with but despite all the laughs and a lighter tone, ukraine is likely to have a long way to go to join the block. it's a merit base process. the commission president funder lion said not one set to rigid timelines for the lensky however, ukraine's e. u membership is not a distant dream, but a future that is certain. his visit to brussels has seen a lot of good will, and promises to provide more military support. but the ukraine and leader made it clear that what his country needs right now is not promises. but swift action. south africa's president, sir, rama pasa, has declared a state of disaster over the worst nationwide energy crisis. in decades our caught flossing up to 12 hours are damaging and already struggling economy from

a poster announced the measures in parliament. scuffles broke out as opposition. lawmakers disrupt the proceedings, demanding the president. that's down with each of these christine windward is in johannesburg, and she says, members of parliament are deeply divided over rama poses disaster decoration it for, for those of us who knew the audience in the room, those capping and cheering would have been from the president's party rights we saw that many of the opposition parties the necessary applaud at that announcement effectively. what this now does is it allows the government to operate with less checks and balance. and in fact, betters prompted many concerns by people in the opposition who are opposed to this measure by the way, because they say it's going to open up at the floodgates to looting on mass, because suddenly as spending will be unaccounted for, they don't have to go through the normal checks and balance of a parliamentary procedures, for example, under the, under the auspices of we are operating in a state of disaster. so that is the main concern. in fact,

the opposition has gone as far as to say that they're going to be challenging the constitutionality off. this provision that the president has announced this is unlikely to, to solve the problem that the south africans are experiencing right now. these up to 12 hours a day of power outages that people are experiencing. this is a prison trying to put lipstick on a pig, but the reality is these power cuts are going to be enduring. if anything, i saw the africans have been told this evening that they've got to learn to adapt, add to the situation because even this measure is not going to solve the problem, it will try and make things better in the sense that the government will make provisions for example, a bigger budget for the pol utility to use at to burn more diesel. this is very expensive and only helps to alleviate that that, that, that the pressure on the problem but doesn't take it away. so south africans this concludes small businesses as a farm is everything from travel all factors of life have been impacted by these power. has this measure simply isn't going to help them. oscar and grammy award

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of the disaster in the face of growing criticism. the hopes are fading of finding more survivors and president vladimir zalinski has renewed his appeal for ukraine to join the european union. he told me this meeting in brussels, that europe will only be at peace once russia is defeated and ukraine becomes a full member of the block. i'm fortunate all the latest business news is coming up next season. ah. ah, what secrets lie behind these wall? discover new adventures in 360 degrees and explore fascinating world heritage sites d w world heritage 3.