ah, ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin more than 21000 killed in the earthquakes in turkey and syria rescue is continue to pull people alive from the rubble defying be all 4 days after the catastrophic earthquakes hopes the finding survivors all

slowly, beginning to fade. also on the program, russia launches, press miss style and drones strikes and you crate ukrainian civilians are again, forced to take cover. the sirens ring out across the country. authorities say the strikes targeted power facilities in 6 ukrainian regions. also in ukraine, we meet expectant mothers, determined to give birth in the capital, keith, despite russia's war of aggression and south africa as president, cyril rom, a pose is interrupted by opposition lawmakers just before he declares the state of emergency to tackle the country electricity shortages. his opponent was saying he's exploiting situation for political gain. ah, i'm nixa this mccannen. thanks so much for joining us. schemes are still managing

to rescue people trapped by the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria. but for days on hopes of finding many more survivors alive are now fading more than 21000 people have been killed. the hoss i province in the south of turkey was one of the regions hardest hit by the tremors and has become a focus point for rescue efforts. several people there were saved overnight. hold from the rubble and turkeys devastated her tie province after nearly 90 hours . this little boy is fortunate to be alive. oh. 0 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 retire

kesh colleagues was surprised because of the war in our country. but we believe that we have to hell. that's the nature of mutual aid. while there's no other way to do it, the more of wing trulia wall rescuers 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, this frustration with a lack of government help these we as 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 is 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. as boat to w correspondent, battle bells cut earlier, he's in the turkish city of ada yemen. and he told us more about the situation on the ground there to them and is just one on the limit of a,

from the 1st and jason is not so good. as you can see, many risks are trying their best to achieve the goals. they are going to rescue people, but there are many building pulled up so nothing to, to reach all of them that they've read. all of them that are rebel. as you can see, there are people, people writing and they have problems communicating the limited or so. and so, so you know them, everyone is like in a run is having problem. maybe they are trying to reach the rebels or if they survive and they are in a cold bed, or can you tell us what it is that is most needed at this point? what do people need right now?

sure. sensitive are affected by the big and most of them are really cold. and because of the winter. so the times is the most needed think in the to be. and also surely like because you just said that it's not going to be fired. it should get bombs. that's the 1st point i'm done with the cold. people need to be there and those people are criticizing the government for not moving fast enough. to what extent is government a support helping those in need right now. sure. here is the 3rd. so and the 4th later, because after the after the 2nd band, you restart the diver more volunteer people at the time. but after some hours,

government to read read that and they vote in the side. so mean it sounds like the talk to them more competitive 1st they sides at the beginning, like very the people that are the people going to risk us. these are us. so i'm going to find another thing. as i said, there's a problem in many to be so people are basing for time from government to at least reach one place if they though they okay, he w corresponding back to both cook. thank you so much for that. now there is president bashar al assad has made his 1st public appearance since the earthquake visiting the devastated area of aleppo, assad along with his wife, a small, visited wounded patient in hospital. now let's according to state media. meanwhile,

international aid has finally begun to reach the country. some organizations are uneasy about working with president assad due to his role in the country civil war . russian president vladimir putin, however, has been quick to promise assistance to syria. he's sending military personnel to deliver aid to the crisis struck country. the governments of both syrian president assad and russians vladimir putin se, west and sanctions against them are hampering relief efforts. we all spend to shallow is from the berlin bass. think tank behind life both found ation to tell us more. well, they have been issuing, they have been insisting on this point for several years now. but this is not true that humanitarian aid is affected by or it is prevented by these sections. there was one thing, the banking sector among the sexual functions. this has been hampering aid so fun

to recreate. fundraisers for example have been stopped in the past by yesterday. i saw there is a general license that was issued by the united states that allows all and any aid that it's related to the earthquake, i think now at this point it's a and i think this is as much as we can do. it just makes sense to lift the sanctions and hope that your minute here in a will come most it's a political will off the syrian regime and we have not seen this are very interested in the state of citizens that was sent to shallow speaking to us earlier, ukrainian officials say russia has targeted the country's energy infrastructure in a series of drone and missiles strikes the attack from friday morning triggered air raid sirens in cities across ukraine. residents have been urged to take shelter, including the capitol key, the mayor vitality, which co says 10 russian missiles were shot down over the city authorities in the rehab region. say at least 17 projectiles hit within an hour.

and d w. special correspondent abraham is in cave and after she had team spent this morning in a shelter, she updated us on what has been happening there. yes . in the early hours of today, we are woken up by the sounds of an air raid sirens here over a key. and we then had to move to a shelter temporarily. as you know, residents across the city have been advised. we also heard sounds short of these plopping sounds in the air. now that's usually a sign, anya, that rockets or missiles have been intercepted above the city that we're heading to a target. it's a residence here. now things have calmed down slightly. that's why we're able to join you from our usual spot here. but i must say, what was striking is just how,

how little panic there was on the streets here in key of as we were heading to the shelter this morning, a residence more or less were going on with their lives as they would any other day . and on the one hand, that's a sign of defiance, i think that they, you know, they want to show that they're not afraid of this, of this russian envision. but on the other hand, it's a sad sort of side effect of this war. just how used to these conditions civilians are here in the city. yeah, ukrainian officials has put the whole country on a la now. the asked strikes and what are you hearing from other parts of ukraine? so overnight and in the early hours, the parts of the country that have come under particular a heavy attack have been of towns and cities in the east. we're talking about places like har, keep her son that, you know, her son with our, our viewers were, remember that was the region in the east that was under russian occupation from march till november. it was then liberated by ukrainian forces and has since then

come under relentless attack by the russians were now approaching the one year anniversary of this invasion, february 24th. and russia is really desperate if you will, after a year, you know, after, at the beginning of the word they were expecting that this entire country would fall within a matter of weeks to show some kind of power in with these air raids on the one hand on the other hand, this, of course, this is just the morning after ukrainian presidency. lensky was given a very warm reception by you leaders in brussels, where he is again, you know, renewed his calls for fighter jets and more weapons. and it seems that that discussion is, is, is beginning. and so this, you know, this definitely falls into the pattern of russia trying to send a message to ukraine and, and the west. yeah, thanks so much for that. let's d, w a uber. him reporting from keith. now the russian ministry of defense

has released a video of what it says are russian salt units, training for combat. moscow said its troops were conducting exercises in what it called the western military district in the quote rear area of the special military operation. this is what moscow called it's invasion of ukraine. also to de rushes, foreign ministry release to video address, to russian. diplomats in which the foreign minister. so gay lever off says moscow will stand firm and emerge stronger from the confrontation with the west. but the doors will deal with studio. we will continue to do everything necessary to protect our national interests and create a favorable and we're joined now by frank lead, which a, he's a senior lecturer in strategy and look at the university of portsmouth. and he's a former military intelligence officer. thanks for joining us. frank, thou, the ukrainians, have been warning of an impending new russian offensive for some time. we've seen

major russia as strikes in the east to day. and of course, also moscow releasing footage of its troops. training for combat is all of this evidence enough that this new offensive has now begun. well, good afternoon on your i would suggest that what we're seeing now probing attacks we saw yesterday a failed assault on zillow dar, just not too far from the bus route or we are seeing assaults in to be a slice of a line just about 50 kilometers or so north of there, i think yes, it looks to me that the offensive has begun. we will not see the main thrust of it for a while. but all the indications seem to be that that's what's happening. can i else can you cranes top general says the 2 russian missiles launched today, entered, mold those and and romanian as before, reaching ukraine. amazon has just confirmed that a russian missile did in fact violate it as space romania says, no missile and its own as space. romania is of course, and they so member,

can you give us a sense of how significant all this can be very difficult to say on the evidence already. some reports that i've read indicate that to calibrate missiles, which of cruise missiles and quite valuable much more. so than the iranian motor, jones that we see were fired from the black sea and did cross romanian aerospace, a little information at the moment. we'll have to see what nato says if they were fired through romanian. i'm all don't ask space that would indicate the value of the target 1st of all, trying to evade ukrainian air defenses. it would also indicate that it's a very strange trajectory to take and rather risky one the symbolic one year anniversary of the war isn't far off. now, do you think that moscow is capable of achieving game changing battlefield gains by

then the states or for dance to dasanya? the answer is no. the best that they can hope for is a, an increasing encirclement of the. what looks to be salient now, which is almost surrounded town of buck mote, we may city ukrainians, withdraw from that have been advised to do so for quite some time. and you can see and envelopment developing the aside from that before the week after next. no, the russians will not achieve any game changing successes, the best they can hope for is incremental advances of the kind we've seen over the last few weeks. military analyst frank ledge way can thanks so much for your analysis. good. thank you. thank you. on, you know, russian missile strikes are of course not a new reality in ukraine at the beginning of the russian invasion, not even ukrainian hospitals was sped from russian shelling. now some have prepared themselves in case they are targeted again, he'd other use. abraham visited

a hospital in keith that has repurposed a storage basement as a maternity ward. and she met with women who are preparing to deliver their children in the middle of the war. finish on a 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 manipulate the we talk about family and things at home, as well as also in the scale. he feels that he is abandoned us, but i tell him not to worry what i tell him. he is just doing his duty. there are plenty of reasons to worry. russian shells have hit you cranes maternity words before in this war. like these hunting images from maria paul in the early phase of the invasion show. yet janna refuses to have her baby anywhere else. becky, if some of which had come from the beginning of the war,

i never once thought about leaving ukraine, lily with leverage merchant 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, quote, more moms to be, are choosing to have their children in ukraine despite the risks, says one doctor at this hospital in western cave. 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, or not with it even though they have complications related to birth and enormous

stress. bringing alagood on behalf of we worked with psychologists and our doctors also became psychologist themselves. hm. at albums, liam, would you send me my, the cable, its the value of the whole a. hm. dr. cushman, 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 callous in a cove 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 toyota, 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 or some to the last us of key you. despite the war, both renata anston to gina are optimistic about the future of the country. they're bringing their children into. i also did 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. ok for that to happen. ukraine needs piece, and sna gina knows, should likely have to wait a long time for that. now d, w use can confirm that belgian authorities have arrested the emi p. mark tara bella in connection with the could tal gate scandal. european parliament waived his immunity last week. caribella had already been kicked out of his socialist policy in the european parliaments that could talk her options. scandal erupted over allegations that members of the european parliament lobbyists and their families had been influenced by category officials supposed to be full tidy,

whom knowing at the very latest from a correspondent, jack pirate, who joins us from brussels high that jack, can you explain to us why this belgian ne p mark caribella has been arrested, was just had a statement from the belgium prosecutors who are investigating. in this case, they say that this morning, a number of searches were carried out, including on a bank safe in the belgian city of lee age. and then that followed a following that he was arrested, marked her bella. as you say, he had his diplomatic immunity. his parliamentary immunity waived last week and a vote in the european parliament. and actually he himself was seen holding his hand up to wave the immunity he has consistently denied any wrong doing and said that he is not implicated in any of the charges. the belgian, the belgians will now have an investigating judge decide whether they can keep him in detention and that's alongside now. eva kylie, a fellow socialist,

but greek m e p. she was a former vice president of the european parliament, her partner, francesco georgie, who remains in detention and another former m. e p. antonio pans airy, who's agreed with the belgium, prosecutors, a plea deal in order to essentially blow the whistle and, and explain exactly how this corruption ring was operating another m e p also last week had his immunity lifted. andrea caught selina, but at the moment we don't have any information on whether the police and investigators are going towards him in any sense today, it looks like it's all about marked caribella interestingly as well. the left group in the european parliament who had eyes on the judicial case on this suggested that marked her bella could have been implicated in the corruption ring. and that cash could have been involved to the tune of about a $140000.00 euros. that is unconfirmed that was reported by the left group in the european parliament that hasn't been confirmed by the prosecutors themselves. but

for a long time now we've been expecting this case to broaden and with this arrest, it now has, while i was going to say, i mean it just sounds like this is growing and growing. i mean, what are, what are the implications of all of this with implications. a huge, it's been a massively detrimental process for the european parliament to see these allegations. these charges be leveled at some of their most senior most prominent members. in fact, the european parliament has put in a whole new system to try and reduce corruption or the ability for corruption. and just from sort of being on the ground and working in the european parliament. there's a real nervousness in the institution at the moment. having said that, there was one person who was implicated in the who was arrested in the 1st round, a 4th man on top of the 3 that had the i just mentioned, nicolo figure to how the monkey is the head of an angio that shed in office with the man geo of antonio pan. sorry. and he was actually released from his detention last week as well. the charges havent been dropped but it looks like he's no longer

going to be too heavily involved in the investigations. the question is whether they go from here, most horrible it will appear before a judge. and we'll see whether those sort of the sort of web in the european parliament around this corruption scandal broadens even further. we'll have all eyes on this in the coming hours and days. jack, thanks for breaking that down for us. i think at least correspondent jack terracon brussels. now south africa's president cyril rom, oppose has declared a national disaster. a move he says is necessary to tackle a record electricity shortage. the country is currently seeing its worst energy crisis in decades, which is stifling economic growth and disrupting public services. but opposition parties are angry at this emergency declaration. they're accusing the president of overreach. ah

chaos, a roberts in cape town, city who members of the left wing economic freedom fighters, party storm. the stage where south africa's president is about to give his annual state of the nation address security. some of them heavily armed, managed to expel the opposition lawmakers. the disruption inside this chamber may have been brought under control, but own going disruption to south africa. his electricity supply led to president sero ram, oppose a declaring a national disaster. the national disaster management center has consequently classified the energy crisis and its impact as a disaster. we are therefore declaring emission on state of disaster doris barn. 2,

the electricity crisis and electricity, black counts across south africa, can last up to 12 hours a day. the power costs are affecting old businesses and are hitting the countries economic growth they've been imposed to help the country's struggling coal generated power system survived. as demand grows, declaring a national state of disaster gives rom, opposes government more power to unlock funds. but some say he's exploiting the crisis. how could glue the fit of do jumped up because one department has a problem. what is going to happen with, is it going to be another fit of disaster? what is happening with the government? and so now the government has to prove it can get

a grip of the energy crisis. otherwise, rama pose a may face more scenes like this, both inside and outside parliament. with that you up to date to the point is coming up next. looking at us china tensions after the downing of the chinese balloon. i manuscript, mccann and i'll be back at the top. the hour more international headlines have you can join me them for tooth ah, ah ah

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