ah ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. more than 21000 killed in the earthquakes in turkey and syria. rescue worse continue to pull people alive from the rubble to find the odds. but for days after the catastrophic earthquakes, hopes of finding survivors are slowly beginning to fade. also coming up,

we meet expecting mothers and ukraine, determined to give birth in the capital, keep despite russia's war of aggression, even in mid fresh air raids across the country today. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. teams are so managing to rescue people trapped by the devastating earthquakes and turkey and syria. but for days on hopes of finding many more survivors alive are fading. more than 21000 people have been killed. the had a province in the south of turkey was one of the regents hardest hit by the tremors and has become a focus point for rescue efforts. several people there were saved over night. hold from the rubble and turkeys 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 journal threats, earth. turkish colleagues was surprised because of the war in our country. and 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 wall rescuers from turkey and further afield onto 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, this frustration with a lack of government health. these we in 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 it's the unity. president earth one defends 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 midwinter. for now,

the focus for many remains the increasingly desperate search for survivors. and for more let's bring in correspondent bahama, troy tay, who's joining us from osmani in turkey. what is the situation where you are cold and this gripping hundreds of thousands in the region there was hit by devastating earthquakes. best your workers are working on the club to find survivors dropped under the problem 4 or 4 days now. but hopes are fading, that many more would be found to live in the ruins and towns and cities like us money away. now, as you may see, behind me this property gathering by the wind of what used to be dead. oh, the bodies of their relatives are still dropped under the bubble. but rescue teams they said,

are giving priority for the job survivors. how are the search and the rescue team's coping amid the chances of finding survivors becoming increasingly slim? i mean, this is 4 days on now, such a tragedy. what people are expressing anger and frustration over the low delivery of a delay in getting the rescue efforts underway. official said that the government is working at the maximum capacity. we've seen more workers arriving to the airport . we seen a convoy on our way to walk money, but still be being best and be part of across a very large area. it is unclear how long would it think before in fire pounds, 3 po wendover. all people could go back to normal life if ever possible. what are

the biggest challenges facing the search effort right now? what are your teams are working round the clock. they are fighting, they are racing time to find any survivors under the rubble, there's a lack of equipment and the area is really big. the devastation is huge. so they are unable to cope with all the math of the destruction. turkeys president retro typer to one has been responding to some of the criticism of individuals who say that the slow government responses simply unacceptable tell us a little bit more about how his words have been received. their goal where people are really frustrated about the delay in the queue approach. i mean,

just like you can see behind me the 3 bodies under the rubble age. workers are not able to respond to the family that are asking to take out the bodies of the burials. they said they need to get priority for potential survivors under the rubble in different area to w correspondence. treated. joining us from as many turkey. thank you. so much for your reporting now we're going to move on to some other stories from around the world because us officials have released the 1st images of agents recovering the remains of a chinese balloon shop down last week. the us says the balloon was part of a major surveillance program targeting more than 40 countries. china insists it was a civilian aircraft. demonstrated her class with police and peru as antique

government protest center their 3rd month. the unrest was triggered by the attention of former president, a heal, protesters are demanding his release and the resignation of new president. for the walk, pe castillo was arrested in december after attempting to dissolve parliament. and who, by decree, south africa's presidency around the poster has declared a state of a disaster over the worst energy crisis. in decades. power outage is lasting, up to 12 hours, are damaging and already struggling economy. we couples broke out in parliament as opposition. law makers disrupted proceedings demanding from a poster resignation. ukrainian officials say that russia has targeted the country's energy infrastructure in a series of drone and missile strikes. the attacks on friday morning triggered air raid sirens in locations across ukraine. residents have been urged to take shelter in cities, including the capitol,

keith authority say in the city of the upper read sir region, at least 17 projectiles hit. within an hour, moscow appears to be stepping up attacks in ukraine's south and east of the dw team. and keith has also headed to a shelter. a short while ago dw special correspondent abraham joined us from their we are right now in key of where i like most residents of the city. we woke up to piercing sounds of sirens signaling that the city might come under attack. and just in the past couple of minutes we heard the sort of clocking sounds coming from the air. and that's usually a sign that a that did that. that's something that's been trying to target. the city has been struck a down and so that's why normally sir, will be coming to you from, let's say, a less improvised setting. but we have chosen to, to start heading to the shelter. you can see it's entrance right behind me. it's close enough that we could jump into it just in case anything happens. but our

residents have been advised to move to shelters. i think what's striking to me here is, you know, how, let's a nonchalant, the residents are with these. with these warnings, walking to the streets, walking just coming here to the shelter. and i must say not everybody is, no one is panicking, nobody is necessarily running to the shelters. and that's perhaps a sign of how used to the situations the residents have become. it's a, it's a very grim, a, you know, side effect of this horrible war. and that was c w, special correspondent, abraham in cave. we will check in with her again soon. first sang in ukraine and with the threats faced by its citizens at the beginning of the war. ukrainian hospitals were not spared from russia. shelling and some have taken preparations in case they are targeted again. asia, who we just saw there visited a hospital and keith earlier that had repurposed a storage basement, as a maternity ward, and met with women who are preparing to deliver their children. in wartime. snoo

gina cooling, spends a lot of her day waiting, waiting to hear from her husband maxime, who volunteered to fight putin's army on the eastern front. internet's and she's waiting for their 2nd child. a girl to arrive close to my little bit that we talk about family and things at home, as well as also in the us cable. he feels that he is abandoned us, but i tell him not to worry what i tell him. he is just doing his duty doctor. there are plenty of reasons to worry. russian shells have hit you cranes, maternity wards before in this war. like these haunting images from maria pole in the early phase of the invasion show. yet jana refuses to have her baby anywhere else, but give some of which have come from the beginning of the war. i never once thought about leaving ukraine, lily with never to march. it was out. it is very hard for me to

consider that question. even though i have an 8 year old daughter, i still couldn't leave. i didn't want her to see the war, but i feel calmer here. and i want to see how life is like in our country. i want to be close by aquatic, more moms to be, are choosing to have their children in ukraine despite the risks, says one doctor at this hospital in western cave. israel during the 1st 3 months of the war, natalia coach must saw a drop in the number of patients a year into the fighting. things are slowly returning to normal, but now her job is about much more than just delivering babies. love will live like younger, yet. we have seen patients with more complications during pregnancy or for now what that even though they have complications related to birth and enormous stress, bringing allan bootable hop we worked with the psychologists and our doctors also became psychologist themselves. hm. at albums, liam, re send me my the k bullets,

the volume, the whole. hm. doctor, coachman, her colleagues turned this basement used for storage into a delivery ward under fire, a safe place to deliver babies, even if the hospitalist targeted. it's one of the reasons why renata and constantine kalashnikov have chosen to have their 1st child timothy. here he was born just a few hours ago. the kalashnikov fled from jeanette's eastern ukraine. a region that seemed fighting between russian and ukrainian forces since 2014 a order that vehicle i have already left my home once i do not want to go through that again visually and where to run to poland. we do not have a home there. we do not speak the language, it was hard enough getting settled in kiev. either ring a bell orange is lost as of hugh. despite the war, both renate, antony, gina,

are optimistic about the future of the country. they're bringing their children into. i'll say bit of that i believe that we will rebuild everything. i believe that ukrainians will be happy again, we will draw the right conclusions and never forget this time was no good for that to happen. ukraine meets peace and susanna knows she'd likely have to wait a long time for that. and now final, avi oscar and grammy award winning american composer burt bacharach has died at the age of $94.00. ah, a house is not in this room to home. so i was one of the most prolific authors in music history. he composed works for a string of stars from dusty springfield, and tom jones to dion warwick. he produced dozens of hits including walk on by,

i say, a little prayer and rain jobs. keep falling on my head knobs, keep orlando in law, he can just plug the ga this. we got to live bit in with that. now you're up to date on d. w. news coming up. next we have a documentary film on afro germans and what it means to be black in germany. i'm sarah kelly and berlin. thank you so much for watching. do stay with us if you can for that. take care. ah ah luggable in what people laugh to say matters to us. mm hm. that's why we listen to their stories.