so much on my shoulders, but i have to hold this weight because i am responsible for the future of our country for the people far behind the boss. guardians of truth starts february 18th on d. w. it's with, ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin more than 21000 killed in the earthquakes in turkey and syria rescue as continue to pull people alive from the rubble defying the odds. that 4 days after the catastrophic earthquakes hopes of finding survivors

all slowly, beginning to fade. also coming out, russia launch is fresh messiah and drone strikes in you, craig, ukrainian civilians are again forced to take cover. as sirens ring out across the country, authority say the strikes targets had power facilities in fix ukrainian regents also in ukraine. we meet expectant mothers determined to give birth in the capital key. despite the brushes war of aggression. and the corruption scandal in the european parliament blix of could todd gathers pates or sources detained, belgium and b. p. mark tara bella. the questioning in connection with the affair that rocked the block in december. ah, and i manuscripts, mac and, and welcome to the program. is asked still managing to rescue people traps 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 hat, a province in the south of turkey, was one of the regions hardest hairs by the tram is and it has become a focus point for rescue athletes. several people there were saved overnight, pulled from the rubble in turkey's devastated hut. i province after nearly 90 hours . this little boy is fortunate to be alive. oh, exhausted, rescues, have 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 to risk earth return. his

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. well, there's no other way to do it. the more uh we actually 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, there's frustration with a lack of government help these, 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 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 midwinter. for now, the focus for many remains the increasingly desperate search for survivors. i spoke to d. w correspondent, battery buzz cut earlier. he's in the turkish city of at a young man. and he told us more about the situation on the ground. to them is just one on the limit of a, from the 1st and the jason is not so good. as you can see,

many risks you voted are trying their best to achieve the goals, their goal rescue people. but there are many building up. so nothing to, to reach all of them that the reach all of them that are rebel. as you can see, there are people got people writing and they have problems communicating limited until 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 people need right now? sure. sense it is very affected by the big,

and most of them are really cold. none is of interest. and because of the vin, so the times is the most needed thing in the to be and also surely of arms. and because he just said that it's not to be fired, it should get bombs. that's the 1st point. and again, 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 later because after the, after the 2nd been the restart diver more volunteer people at the time. but up to some ours government overseas. re read that and they

vote in the side. so many times like these are more competitive 1st, they this sense at the beginning, like very the people that are the people going to risk us. these were us so many find another thing, as i said, there is a problem in many to be so people are basing far from government at least reach one place if they go they w correspondent, basketballs cook. thank you so much for that sir. is president bashar al assad has made his 1st public appearance since the earthquake visiting the devastated area of aleppo of solids along with his wife of small visited wounded patients in hospital. now that's according to state media. meanwhile, international aid has finally begun to reach the country,

but some organizations on easy about working with assad due to his role in the countries civil war. okay, we're going to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. now, u. s. officials have released the 1st images of agents recovering the remains of a chinese balloon shot down last week. the u. s. as the balloon was part of a major surveillance program targeting more than 40 countries. china insists it was a civilian aircraft. and demonstrators of clashed with police and peru as anti government protests. enter the 3rd month, the unrest was triggered by the detention of former president pedro castillo protested on demanding his release. and the resignation of the new president dina bellotta castillo, was arrested in december or for attempting to dissolve parliament and rule by decree. now ukrainian officials say that russia has targeted the

countries energy infrastructure in a series of drone and missiles strikes these apps on friday morning triggered air raid sirens in cities across ukraine. residents have been urged to take shelter, including in the capitol keeps mayer. metallic fisco says 10 russian missiles were shot down over the city authorities say in these apparitions region at least 17 projectiles hit within one hour. dw special correspondent abraham is in cave and after she and her team spent this morning in a shelter, she updated us of 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 a, you know,

resident across the city have been advised. we also heard sounds sort 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 calm 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 and 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 invasion. 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 lot now. the asked strikes and what are you hearing from other parts of ukraine?

so overnight and in the early hours that the parts of the country that have come under particular a heavy attack have been of towns and cities in the east were talking about places like her 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 war, they were expecting that this entire country would fall within a matter of weeks to show some kind of power in with these air rates. 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, you know, the pattern of russia trying to send a message to ukraine and, and the west. and thanks so much for that. let's d w 's. abraham reporting from keith the russian ministry of defense has released a video of what it says are russian assault units, training for combat. moscow said its troops were conducting exercises in what it called the western military district in the rear area of the quote, special military operation. this is what moscow calls it's invasion of ukraine. also today, russia's foreign ministry released a video address to russian diplomats in which foreign minister. so gay lover of says moscow will stand firm and that it will emerge stronger from the confrontation with the west. but those are good sooner. we will continue to do everything

necessary to protect our national interests and create a favorable environment for russia stable development and for raising the living standards of its people. the honor and dignity of our motherland and all our citizens have never been and never will be subject to any compromise. bruce, as russia's foreign minister and frank lead, which is a senior lecturer at the university of portsmouth in the u. k. and a former military intelligence officer, given today's major russian as strikes, i asked him earlier if the new russian offensive that ukrainians have been warning of thorough while has now begun. well, good afternoon on your i would suggest that what was said now probing attacks. we saw yesterday a failed assault on zillow. gar, just not too far from bus route. and we are sea salt. seemed to be a source 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 that to 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 miss style 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 are 2 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 at 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 withdrawal from there to be revised to do so for quite some time. and you can see on envelopment developing the aside from that before the week after next, know 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 speaking. thank you. on you. a russian missile strikes are of course not a new reality in ukraine. at the beginning of the russian invasion, not even ukrainian hospitals were spared from russian shelling. now some have prepared themselves in case of being targeted again, t w's, i. abraham visited a hospital in keith that has re purchased a storage basement, as the maternity ward. and she met with women who are preparing to deliver their children in the middle of a 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 my little bit that we talk about family and things at home, as well as the soonest came, or 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 ukraine's maternity awards before in this war. like these hunting images from maria pole in the early phase of the invasion show, yet new jana refuses to have her baby anywhere else. becky, if some of which have come from the beginning of the war, i never once thought about leaving ukraine really with never to march. it was, oh, 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 movie during the 1st 3 months of

the war. natalia coach ma 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 look like yankee. yet we have seen patients with more complications during pregnancy or non what that 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, re send me my, the cable, its the volume, 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 collection 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 in eastern ukraine.

a region that seen fighting between russian and ukrainian forces since 2014. i ordered a vehicle. i have already left my home once. i do not want to go through that again . vision, it's nowhere 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 q, despite the war. both renata antony, gina, are optimistic about the future of the country. they're bringing their children into. oh, they did have 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 ro, smoker for that to happen. ukraine meets peace. and susanna knows should likely have to wait a long time for that. he tell you news can confirm that belgian

authorities have arrested emmy pe marked her bella in connection with the category scandal. the european parliament waved his immunity last week. terrible had already been kicked out of his socialist policy in the european parliament. the canal corruption scandal erupted over allegations that members of the european parliament lobbyists and their families had all been influenced by category officials even between the faulty whom he w correspondent, john park has in brussels. and he told us what the belgian prosecutor has been saying about the rest of the socialist emi p marked caribella. they say that this morning a number of searches were carried out, including on the bank safe in the belgian city of lee edge. 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 waive 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 ary 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 remy 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 her bela interestingly as well. the left group

in the european parliament who had argues 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 a, well, i was gonna say, i mean it just sounds like this is growing and growing. i mean, what is, 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 figured tele 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, where do 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 carrick and brussels. now, south africa's president cyril around the pose a has declared a national disaster. it's a move that he says is necessary to tackle a record electricity shortage. the current country is currently seeing its worst

energy crisis in decades, which is stifling economic growth and disrupting public services. but opposition policies are angry at the emergency declaration. they're accusing the president of overreach. ah chaos in rob's in cape town, city hall, 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 curious born to the electricity crisis under super electricity blackouts across south africa can last up to 12 hours a day. the power costs are affecting old businesses and are hitting the country's economic growth they've been imposed to help the country's struggling coal generated power system survived as demand growth declaring a national state of disaster. gibbs rama poses government more power to unlock funds, but some say he's exploiting the crisis. how could glue, if the governor goes one department has a problem? what is going to help 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. now the oscar and grammy award winning american composer burt bacharach has died aged, 94. ah, and a house is not a home member's noon to home. so it is one of the most prolific all says in music history. composing works for

a string of stars from dusty springfield and tom jones to dion wick. bacharach produced dozens of hits, including we'll come by, i say, a little prayer, and of course, raindrops keep falling on my head up to keep all and on law. he can just plug the gather speed up to date for you and with that you up to date in good shape is up. next, looking at the world wide increase in allergies. my manuscripts, mac and, and i'll be back at the top of the hour with more headlines. thanks for watching. ah. with

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