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officials and brussels will only be peace of europe. one. russia is defeated as ukraine becomes a member of the you. ah, and we're here mohammed, welcome to the program. rescue teams are still searching for survivors that are stuck under the rubble of those earthquakes in that turkey and syria. but for days on hopes of finding more victims alive are fading more than 21000 people have been killed. and turkey's government has defended its handling of the disaster and the face of growing criticism president, reggie type odon, says it's impossible to prepare for a catastrophe. on this scale. pulled from the rubble in turkeys, devastated to her tie province after nearly 90 hours. this little boy is fortunate

to be alive. oh, exhausted, rescues, have been working nonstop 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. the channel threats, earth attack ish colleagues was surprised because of the war in our country. but we believe that we have to how that's the nature of mutual aid. while there's no other way to do it, the more we actually a 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 help these, these. we is civilian support these people, but i am not a crane. i can't lift these concrete blocks. i'm the 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.

all some of those made homeless by the earthquake, the trying to reach relatives, they believed to be still alive. bit trapped under collapsed buildings. he w turkish service met one family who say the authorities are not doing enough to help save their loved ones. other, you figured, you know, they're, they're 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 this no sign of life, but they might be unconscious down. there it is. some of the state is not helping at all. they keep saying there's 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, but 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. a nice, the nation's aid convoy has arrived in northwest syria. is the 1st since the

earthquake struck. 8 organizations has struggled to bring supplies into rebel held northern syria, which has blockaded by the government. burdened with grief and living in harsh conditions, holly, my mood is staying at this makeshift camp in the aleppo province. he says he lost many of his family members to the earthquake. his surviving daughter is now a widow with 2 children. he led the little hole. my kids died under the rubble. warlock situation is horrible. working on it. we're 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 the rebel control 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 just sort of odds in dunphy. we're finding it difficult to secure chance food water, mia and even mattresses financially. and in this winter it was minus 6 degrees celsius day over gone. it's very cold. this disaster meets the support of nations yanine. ha, that individual initiative alone and not enough. i'm getting off out of the am i have your heart other than the hot in ed live. the situation is equally grim. many have had to brave poor weather conditions. lemme and him now man we how as loud gave, how can we sleep avionics obs very cold, while alex out things are bad and it's raining on us and here. oh, would know us that we want help is that we want someone to help us men of our lives . we have only god. there's a lot of call didn't but we didn't feel warm yesterday. and the children were

freezing that will let them know that he thought that allegedly, 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. it grants president vladimir lens. he has renewed his appeal for ukraine to join the european union. he told you leaders meeting and brussels that europe will only be at peace once russia is defeated and ukraine becomes a full member of the block. lansky is also called on e allies to keep military and economic aid flowing to keith images for the history books. president zalinski and the you parliament president met sola, standing side by side to demonstrate that ukraine is part of the european family. it is this family and its values. zalinski emphasized in his address that did

people of ukraine defend every day on the battlefield. sand, marshy of rabo, this is our europe. now, these are our rules, this is our way of life. it go green him for ukraine. it's a way whole me away to it's home. law does whole dorman zalinski praised 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 salenti speech was her powerful mom. it was moving the fact that he spoke with such 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 ukraine. 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 negotiable wizard, the number for us to survive? we need these weapons void. that is what i'm talking about. such levy 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 going to really want these signals to become concrete words. so can ali, but a torrijos concret in his walk. hello. and she made clear that his country also needs a concrete date for the start of accession talks with the you. of course we needed this year. and this year child, when i see this year, i mean this year, i mean there's ah, 22023. i feel i feel really,

really responsibility at that. unanimity me repeat yourself with regardless. 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 said 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 as president, sarah, rama pasa has declared a state of disaster over the worst. nationwide energy crisis and decades, power cuts lasting up to 12 hours are damaging and already struggling economy. from

a pose, i announced the measures in parliament and scuffles broke out as opposition. lawmakers disrupted proceedings, demanding the president steps down. to have these, christine mud, what is in johannesburg, and she says, members of parliament are deeply divided over from a poses disaster declaration. if for, for those of us who knew the audience in the room, those clapping and cheering would have been from the president's party right. so 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, that is prompted many concerns or 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 the 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 are off. this provision that the president has announced, and this is unlikely to, to solve the problem that, 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 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. 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 . the oscar and grammy award winning american composer,

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growing criticism. hopes of finding more survivors are fading. ukraine's president for him is lensky has renewed his appeal for ukraine to join the european union. he told leaders meeting in brussels that europe will only be at peace once russia is defeated. and ukraine becomes a full member of the block. this is des, live from berlin, up next is duffle of season a bite. with nearly burnished booty. dirty austin, you mouth right? yet. the end of a superpower. the collapse of the soviet union rushes worn crane one years since the invention weekend.