ah, we take a look back in the morning and into the future. in the human slow rain. in february on d w. ah, ah, this is the w news live from berlin tonight against all odds. after being trapped a 100 hours, a woman is rescued from the earthquake rubble. she was pulled out alive to day days after earthquakes, flattened parts of turkey in syria. but hopes of finding more survivors are fading

. as the death toll has mel surpassed 23000. also coming up to night relief organizations, they are still struggling to deliver humanitarian aid to victims. in those rebel held areas of northern syria and russia, watches more missile enrolled strikes in ukraine, civilians taking cover yet again as sirens ring out across the country has the new russian events it has begun. ah, i've regards to our viewers watching on p b. s in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome. we will have those top stories for you in just a moment. we have some breaking news. the united states military has shot down an unidentified object over alaska. and we understand that the orders to shoot down that object came from president us officials have not confirmed whether or not this

was a balloon similar to the chinese spine balloon that was shot down last week by the u. s. military off the coast of south carolina. the white house just gave an update about what's happening. take a listen. in the case today, we're talking about an object again, we don't know a lot about it but, but that, and it's altitude represented a potential threat to the safety of fine customers in civil air traffic. your broad and deep experience do you think might own or have flown this thing in the air? i have no idea. all right, we want to get out are corresponded to me. some has gone to she is in washington following this story. floors. so be, so we've got the report that the united states has shot down an object over alaska . what more do we know, brent? this really is a developing story. so that sound bite. you just heard that is from

a press conference with the national security council spokesperson john kirby. and he is still speaking to the media right now. as i'm talking to you, he has been delivering some information, a little information about what has happened. as you mentioned the lead, and we have heard that this was a us fighter jet that shot down this object. and that is what john kirby is calling it at this moment. an object we don't know if it's a balloon. we don't know what exactly this was that was shot down, but we know that it was shot down over alaska. and we also know that this object, according to john kirby was much smaller than that big chinese spy balloon that you also mentioned in the lead in the across the us last week i. it was roughly the size of a small car. that's where john kirby sat now he was asked when this happened and happened in about the past hour. he didn't give it a specific time, but in about the last hour or so that us fighter jets shot down this object. he also was asked when the us learned about his object and he said that happened last

night didn't say exactly when last night, but we can assume a brent that that was when the president gave orders to the military to shoot down this object. he said that a fighter jets were able to get up into the sky and determined that this was not a mand object. that means that that is one of the reasons that they made the determination at that time. to shoot this down, it went down in northern alaska just near the canadian border and we know that it did cross over us land again, that is something that is crucial to know here. and it is again within us jurisdiction. and again, it's important to note here that john kirby is saying we do not know what this object is. we don't not know who was flying it if it was individual, if it was a nation. but of course, you know, brand, the country is on high alert after that spy balloon from china was shot down off the coast of the caroline as last week. when also the president biden came under massive pressure still is under a lot of pressure from republican. there is

a committee in the house of representatives right now, looking into the whole episode surrounding the us chinese, excuse me, the chinese spy balloon. looking to what happened, he is under pressure for not acting fast enough. here we see the white house deciding according to john kirby to take very quick action. of course, this is a developing story. we're going to see if we receive any more information about what this object was, who might have been behind it and why the white house side as a threat to civilian air traffic. and it was flying at around 40000 feet. but at the moment, that's the information we have from the white house yet that, that is an important point to big. 40000 feet is definitely we're, you may find the commercial aircraft and that would definitely be a threat to civilian air. travel, alright, or correspondence, misconduct, the latest on this developing story. so me, thank you or the number of people were killed in the earthquakes in turkey and syria has now passed. 23000 rescue teams are fighting to free. those

who may still be alive and trapped under the rubble. several people were saved on friday in turkey's heart, hit her type providence, but hopes of finding large numbers of survivors. 4 days after the 2 major quakes, those hopes are fate. he w news witnessed a german rescue team save a woman today in an operation that lasted more than 15 hours. deep under the rubble trapped beneath layers of concrete, here into town of carrie con, is 40 year old zainab. she has been trapped under this debris for days now that there is hope she will make it out alive. a complex mission to free her is underway, involving a team of german rescuers and using drills and specials equipment. they've been able to cut a path to her. oh,

all right. a under surface fitting amongst the rubble is debated. then up the younger sister. she has been here since monday, waiting and worrying and in a desperate attempt to give her sister the strength she needs to keep going. zabeda bravely heads under ground. later showing us a video of the moment they shared beneath the rubble. the name. debate

it. oh yes. oh yes, i'm a lawyer. all dead. i should go even if she is the guy. that's not an id. say i need one. xena is buried very deep under the rubble. i could only hear her voice. i can no longer hold out, save me. she said, i'm in so much pain, help me cool young middle. the rescue team works deep into the night offerings zabeda all the comfort they can do anything with his day attempt to free her sister.

and by the early hours of friday morning, there is good news after 50 hours of non stop work rescue workers miraculously pull zane up out alive. she said to be in stable condition. the relief is overwhelming. with an alleged we're all just so relieved, so relieved. this woman, she got herself through it yet she didn't give up. is an allison dog. we are so thankful that she is in this ambulance now, one of whom i have no words he brought. absolutely, and the attention was extreme. really up there when she was out, i said, now i believe in miracles. ah, after 100 hours fighting for her life, sadly, zainab own with free lube and her sisters desperate wait. it's finally over.

joining me here at the big table in the studio is air con, arctic on he is the head of d, w. 's turkish service, and he just returned from turkey air kind. i mean, i have to ask you, what kind of country did you just leave frankie bryant, i live a country of 70 to 82000000 people who are unified, who are so majority shown up from everybody, from every ethnic society in every ethnic religion of the turkish public, it's really incredible how much the people stand together side by side. just trying to help out these people who are really still in the rubble is that really terrifying situation. but we can, i could feel the warmness, the as i said, the solidarity of each other. it was really hard for me. and in a treasury life is

a national tragedy. like this. people look to their leaders, they look to, in this case, president here to want to be a, a can solar in chief, if you will. is that what he is doing me? how would you describe the way he is handling this crisis? honestly, i don't think that he's handling this cross is very political, correct, because normally you expect from a political leader to try to keep calm the people try to say warm words, but the only thing that he's doing with his at mister t was just to publish an application from the government watch doc. just to announce a fake news and false news. just to keep the news. well. calm down and don't, don't show up the tragedy which was barely, you can see, you know, and this is something that people will not forget. i think because they expected

that everyone will show up earlier, but he didn't hear arrived 48 hours later. what do you think that people are going to look at what has happened here and mediately blame the government? and of course, blame him. frankly. they do because visually got the on tip, carmen, mom and bellagio are really the, the castles you can say, the voting castles of everyone. and everybody is blaming him because the whole situation in that area, the whole buildings, the whole construction is the major fault of the government because they allowed everything like like these houses were built and they are built not very, very good. you can say here that there is that, i guess there questions about building codes that were violated. accusations already that if those building codes had been respected and followed, maybe we would have as many people did right now. i mean, is, are people saying that in those direct terms, right?

they do, they do definitely. they do because you can see that buildings which are made, let's say 5 or 10 years ago are still good in good shape. but that government buildings, schools, hospitals, and other public buildings are collapsed. and this is something that definitely the government had to had to be asked for. we know that elections are supposed to take place. what does this coming may, right? well, it's not officially but add on the aiming for 14th of may. 14th of maybe that was before the earthquake happened. now he's declared the state of emergency which would allow give him the authority then to postpone the election. is that possible just for that area to be honest, but actually he had to another set of emerging for the whole country. what he didn't yet. ok. and to be honest, it's not necessary to, to call for the state of emergency because he can ask the parliament, he's got the majority in the poem and he can say ok, we're postponing the,

the elections till 18th of june, which was the, on the actual date or maybe he will show himself as a real leader and postpone it till september. that but that's just a guess and nothing's confirmed yet. yeah. what can happen between now and the summer whenever these elections take place? or can we appreciate you coming in and sharing your story valuable insight? thank you. thanks for having in the syrian city of aleppo, people have been desperately waiting for humanitarian aid which has finally begun trickling in as local emergency crews and volunteers continue to search for survivors with whatever tools they can find. aid groups. the been delivering boxes with basic supplies. many of the syrians affected by the disaster were already struggling before the quakes hit. the syrian government says that it will allow aid into rebel held areas. a decision that has been welcomed by the united nations were joining me now from it lib. syria is osama al, who said he is

a humanitarian worker, and coordinator of may han's medical and humanitarian programs in it live province . we appreciate you joining us tonight. what is the situation where you are right now? yeah, actually this is a unique disaster which was under the already drama. the way here. i live in my, as you know, this is a fry giant infrastructure. so when the truck, we would own it right? actually. and not my long way, we're talking about wednesday at those meetings, at approximately about 5 injuries and my loan while when we talk about the nose of west of city and it live north and west then countryside so well. well, talking about 2000 and rather than 11000 rates from, from one displacement in and speak a little from one displacement as you know, it's a well

b as already people in those miss diaz, this suffering but natural disaster, which is it thinking oh, some a is aide reaching? is it reaching people where you are? i mean, do we know exactly where it's coming from? actually and until now or at least to my understanding, nothing has reached yet. it sounds that city and people are get in almost no international diet to it impacted areas in those were see, i think there is a lot of debate. i don't have to tell you about the impact of western sanctions on relief efforts. i mean, your people on the ground, they would know 1st had to be that what are they telling you are western sanctions against the of sod regime,

or they impeding rescue operations. now actually what we see so far from it there is that no 8 down since the beginning of the earth. so we will be lesbians. we are lo will get and no one after the in such a natural it as we expect actually the whole word, some interest you or see yeah, we are putting out people who are with our hands and, and the basic tools as you actually mentioned, this is this is now what i see from our, from my site. so record for the international. and i know that it, you've many of many people where you are feel isolated, feel forgotten. but there are a lot of people who want to help. they just don't know exactly how that what, what is the best way that people can help me? what do you need the most right now?

actually for having the best, the best way for us to support n g o, which are already inside c d. as in international n jones, they are the white helmets rescue people from under their awful and they are hands in g o z. and just like our organization we have, we are supporting live and we are, we respond through any buys, it's and if you do that, and then the mobile clinics also the, the hospitals have shortage actually. and medication and medical supplies or some al hussein, we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tonight and we certainly wish you and your team all the best in much success. thank you. thank you. russia has launched a massive attack on ukraine's battered civilian infrastructure. keep says that the

latest wave of strikes included drones, rockets and cruise missiles, many of which it was able to shoot down the stripes. come as russia intensifies, it's offensive in eastern ukraine. in the city of zepp arethia, at least 17 missiles, were spotted coming down per hour. russia's latest onslaught has hit with brutal force. this home nears operation is one of tin in the area that was damaged amid a wave of muscles across the country. the sheer power of the blast, sending a car on to a roof, local residence. i used to the fighting, but say things have escalated drastically. with michaud octave is a, was a water. it is obvious that the enemy has intensified his attacks. approximately 15 to 20 minutes. there were 5 or 6 powerful impacts, but she's, but of course we haven't experienced anything like this for quite some time on

average. while at the girl was dying last time, she was the end of spring, which i think dealing of summer to miss was the attack focused on eastern ukraine, but air raid sirens and keith forced residents underground as missiles threatened the capitol tow students quickly trading the classroom for lessons in a subway station to sit on, while ukrainian forces managed to shoot down tin missiles over cave, a home was heads. some of the missiles was seen to cross over other countries to garcia, several russian massages through through the air space lot over and romania. joel with the was prove that terra doesn't know and brought us more proof that the protection of ukraine is protection of the whole of europe and the world. see every country that simply wants to live it got today's missiles are charged nato to collect a security engine, or i can't think of a glueck mantle. gold thing was placing ukrainian officials have been bracing 1st

suspected spring offensive by russia's troops. but as the cleanup from this latest barrage, some suspects the escalation has already begun. ah, american football's super bowl 50 sylvan takes place on sunday between the kansas city chiefs and the philadelphia eagles. hundreds of millions of people are expected to then and for the 1st time and a super bowl to black quarterbacks as well as 2 brothers will be competing against each other. ah, the stage is set in arizona for one of the most remarkable super bowls, yet. it's the 1st time american football showpiece. we'll have 2 black starting quarterbacks as kansas city chiefs star patrick my homes. take some jaylen hurts and his philadelphia eagles. the significance of the moment is not lost on any one . that has been on his leslie thomas. i said his historic moment to be

on his performance to do so many others so much as to reasonable before telling them that they can do with him. so it's a problem hurts his in his 1st super bowl. his opposite number ma holmes has already lifted the trophy in 2020, but understands why this game is so special. to be lucky enough to be in this position. and the plague is another great galle jalen. it's only a special moment and i'm glad that we're here today. how can we keep moving forward and how can week motivate kids that are, are younger that are gonna oh, they're going to be a quarterback. it's going to be a special special day and a great morgan. ma holmes has struggled with an ankle problem of late, but nothing is going to stop him teaming up with start i to end travis kelsey, who will be facing his own brother, jason, a center for the eagles. this is also the 1st super bowl since 2017,

which was won by the eagles. where the 2 number one seeds from the regular season have reached the finale. if that's not enough to whet your appetite, pop star rhianna will be making her come back in the half time show. it's all shaping up to be a super bowl. like no other yet ahead of the big game on sunday in arizona. we can go now to jacob johnson. he is a german who is making his living as a player in the national football league. it's going to have you with this and tell me what does it mean for the game, and what does it mean for you to have a black quarterback leading each side for the 1st time in super bowl history? just off the top, i got a great you at the back of johnson, i'm german. i thought yada no no. ready no, no, no, it means

a lot. it means a lot of a couple years ago, you know, most especially mobile in athletic black quarterbacks were kind of put to the side and looked at as a risk factor to team as that wouldn't have the mental capability to, to lead a team to victory and i think that just has completely changed because of guys like like my homes and general hurts. i understand you were born in stuttgart, you know, better than anyone about the rise of american football as a global sport. why do you think, why does this sport in particular, the super bowl? why does it capture the imagination of 70 people around the globe? football is the sport like no other? it's the most entertaining sport out there. combined physicality with teamwork. it's the ultimate team sports. nobody has ever won a football game by themselves. in soccer, you have the opportunity to maybe score a lot of goals and search yourself that way. but in football there's no position that works with somebody else supporting them. and i think people just gravitate

towards that and the beauty of football is bringing people together from all different kinds of backgrounds. you guys from down south. busy florida, guys from iowa were raised on farms. guys like me that are from germany. we are all coming together for this beautiful game. so let's, let's, let's reverse rules for a moment. here you're a player, but i want you to, i want you to play the role of a prime tours. and you know, you're looking guy who's going to win sundays beginning. oh man, listen. these are to truly elite teams. as you heard, they were both the number one seeds all season on their respective sides of the league. personally, i cannot sit here and tell you that the kansas city chiefs are going to be the next 2 champions. because i have so much of both invested in the game still on active player, a play against the kansas city chiefs every year. they're one of our rival team. yeah. so i'm go with the philadelphia eagles,

and jaylen herds that great offensive blind that has a christmas album out. by the way, i think those guys are going to come together. and when this thing 3521 for you. all right, still a dell for you free to buy and i have to ask before we run out of time, or are you more excited about the game, or are you just as excited about seeing rhianna during the halftime show me a light like a diamond right here let's love excited to see some of my friends from the end of phil's international program playing in the games. jordan, my lot is a left tackle from australia that is now a starter in this game and has a chance to win for super bowl. so i'll be watching him, but my girlfriend with me for sure is watching for yes. all right. very good luck of john joining us from phoenix, arizona, where i think it's a little over there that it is here in berlin. i thank you. you got it, take care b r. let's take a look now, some of the other stories that are coming from the world of sport this hour. the

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