[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin more than 21000 kil, than the earthquakes in turkey and syria rescue as continue to pull people alive from the rubble defying the odds. but for days after the catastrophic quakes,

hopes of finding survivors are slowly beginning to fate. also coming out brush and launches fresh miss island drones strikes in ukraine. 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 key despite brushes, rule of aggression and b, corruption scandal in the european parliament. length of could talk gathers paid authorities detained. belgian ne p market tower bella, for questioning in connection with the affair that brought the block in december. ah, i many trips mckennon. thank so much for joining us. teams are still managing to

rescue people trapped by the stacey as quakes in turkey and syria thought for days on hopes of finding many more survivors alive are now fading. more than 21000 people have been killed. the had tie province in the south of turkey was one of the regions hardest hit by the tremors, and it has become a focus point for rescue efforts. several people there were saved overnight. hold 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 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 rhetoric ish,

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 walls of wings from william 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 these we as civilians 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. the more we can cross now did he double his eula han who is in kara and mares for us. are you yeah. can you tell us more about what's going on there where you are? hey, i here in come on, marsh. the damage is just so huge. let me show you around

a bit. just if you look they are right behind me. several huge apartment blocks have collapsed. i'm being told they had 10 to 12 stories. just imagine how many people, how many families used to live here, and people tell me, there weren't many survivors. not many people have made it out alive. rescuers is still desperately going and digging through the rubble, looking for signs of life. there is a team here from abroad, from other by john, i'm being told, helping with the efforts, but really a destruction here in the region here. and carmen marsh is just so huge, it's really difficult to comprehend. and you have to know that hundreds of thousands of people here in the region have lost absolutely everything, their homes, their mothers and fathers, their children. and they are now faced with nothing there right now,

there is no electricity here. no gas, no heating. so a people are trying to stay warm around a fire. they sleep in makeshift shelters or they sleep in the cause because people here tell me they are too afraid to even go back to the buildings that are still standing because those buildings are at risk of collapsing as well. do you do? you describe it so vividly and really the extent of this is difficult for all of us to get all our heads around. we do know that there are some survivors that were found in the night, but of course the chances of finding more survivors is now getting smaller, isn't it? i think i've lost the connection. julia, can you hear me? i think i've lost yes. now i can hear you. okay. yeah, i was just saying middle midnight please hold question. now the, the chances are finding more survivors must be getting smaller. now yes indeed. it's been more than

a 100 hours since these 2 powerful quakes hit here on monday. and chances of finding people alive under the rubble are practically fading with every hour because it's really bitterly cold here at night. temperatures below 0, that's one of the biggest challenge. and of course, we don't really know, no one knows how many people are still trapped under the rubble. sometimes people say they can hear voices, they can hear people scream. but if they do detect these signs of light, then how it really needs to be dead on the spot immediately. and that is a huge problem here in the region. there just isn't enough help. but we actually managed to a witness, a successful search and rescue operation. in current con, in the province of hattie, this is our report. deep under the rubble trapped beneath lay is of concrete.

here in the town of kimmy con is 40 rhodes zane up. she's been stuck under the debrief a days now. but there's hope she'll make it out alive. there . complex mission to free her is underway, involving a team of german rescuers and using drills in specialist equipment, they've been able to cut a path to her. oh . all right. a on the surface sitting amongst the rebel is zubaydah zane,

eps youngest sister. she's been here since monday waiting. i'm worrying and in a desperate attempt to give her sister the strength she needs to keep going to beta bravely heads on the ground. later showing as a video of the moment they shed beneath the rebel and then they debated it for the yes yes, i'm a oh all they may i should come in now. here's the i did not know the same meaning. zayna is buried very deep under the rebel. i could only hear her

voice. i can no longer hold out, save me. she said, i'm in so much pain, help me. yards in there. the rescue team works deep into the night. offering zubaydah all the comfort they can with as they attempt to free her sister. and by the early hours of friday morning, things are looking more positive within kith, we are right above her, now i can access her from the top and from the side. this means that the doctor has been able to get to her a bit and feel her. that as far as his arms could reach in good is that if you do, the good thing is that he can now touch her. she felt it, and this will give her a bit of strength. it's news that will give zubaydah renewed hope that her sister

will make it out of the rubble alive. and they will soon see each other once again . julia, can you give us any good news about that rescue? well, it took the rescue as more than 50 hours to get to they now been now of course everybody is incredibly relieved including us, including me in my a team. and we hear that vein up is doing relatively well, considering the circumstances, at least physically, julia hon. thank you for your extraordinary reporting from karen and marsh. thank you. now, sir, 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, asthma, visited wounded patients in hospital, and that's according to state media and syria. meanwhile,

international aid has finally begun to reach the country, but some organizations are uneasy about working with president assad due to his role in the countries civil war. now the ukrainian air force says that it shut down 61 out of 71 miss isles, in russia's latest wave of attacks against ukraine's and g infrastructure. the attacks on friday morning triggered air raid sirens in cities across ukraine. residents have been urged to take shelter, including in the capitol keeps the may of italy clips go says 10 missiles were shut down over the city. in the jap arissa region, authority say at least 17 projectiles hit. within an hour. d w. special correspondent abraham is in keys and after she and had seen that this morning and a shelter, she updated us on what's 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, the parts of the country that have come under particular a heavy attack have been towns and cities in the east were talking about places like her keep her son that you know, her son are, or 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 world, 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 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. 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, all russian assault units, training for combat. moscow that its troops were conducting exercises in what it called the western military district in the quote ria area area of the special military operation. now this is what moscow cools, it's invasion of ukraine. also today,

russia's foreign ministry release. the video address to russian diplomats in which foreign minister, the gay lover of says moscow will stand firm and emerge stronger from the confrontation with the west. but those of gilbert soon you could, we will continue to do everything necessary to protect our national interests and create a favourable 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. good brooms. frank language is a senior let trail, university of portsmouth in the u. k. in a former military intelligence offer officer, given today's major russians asked, writes, i asked him earlier if the new russian offensive the ukrainians have been warning all for a while and has now begun. well, good afternoon on your i would suggest that what we say now probing attacks we saw yesterday

a failed assault on food are just not too far from back move. we are see a salt seem to be a slice of a line just about 50 kilometers. are 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'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, asked before reaching ukraine animal david has just confirmed that a russian missile did in fact violate it as space romania says, no, miss style entered its own as space romania is, of course, and may 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 romania space. a little information at the moment. we'll have to see what nato says if they were fired through romanian, i'm old enough 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 state's orthodontist 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 note, we may see the ukrainians withdraw from that have been advised 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. thank you. thank you. on you are russian missile strikes are of course not a new reality in ukraine at the beginning of the russian invasion, not even ukrainian hospitals were sped from russian shelling. now some have prepared themselves in case they are targeted again. he w's 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 a war. finish on a cooling, spent a lot of her day waiting, waiting to hear from her husband maxime, who volunteered to fight prudence army on the eastern front internet's and she's

waiting for their 2nd child, a girl to arrive, customize them with the we talk about family and things at home, as well as social witness 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 ukraine's maternity awards before in this war. like these hunting images from maria pole in the early phase of the invasion show. yet jana refuses to have her baby anywhere else but key of 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 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 affect the younger yet we have seen patients with more complications during pregnancy or for non what that even though they have complications related to birth and enormous stress. bring him alagood on behalf of we worked with psychologists and our doctors also became psychologist themselves. hm. at albums, langley is sammy my. the k bullets develops the whole a. hm. dr. 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 konstantin colas nicole have chosen to have their 1st child timothy. here he was born just a few hours ago. the clossnick hobbs fled from to nets in eastern ukraine, a region that seen fighting between russian and ukrainian forces since 2014 reordered athlete. i've already left my home once. i do not want to go through that again. visual aids 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 q. despite the war, both renata anston to 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. ok. for that to happen,

ukraine meets peace. and susanna knows should likely have to wait a long time for that. d w. news can confirm that belgian authorities have arrested the emi p mart caribella in connection with the catalog scandal. the european parliament waived his immunity last week. caribella 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 been influenced by category officials. in b o. to tell you, correspondent jack park is in brussels and he told us what the belgian prosecute has been saying about the rest of the m e p. march harrah bella. they say that this morning, a number of searches were carried out, including on a 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 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 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 140000 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, 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. and he 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, he's the head of an geo that shed an 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 is 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 carrick and brussels. you are watching d. w. news coming up next in d. w. news,

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