documentary series about the future of food and there were complex relationship with animals. the great debate this week on d w ah ah, this is dw news wife from berlin. syria is a stretched medical resource is now responding to a natural disaster or than a decade of war has already tested it lives, doctors, and medics doubt they need all the support they can get to help. earthquake casualties. also coming hopes fading in turkey, for any more survivors,

emerging from the rubble rescue teams are working tirelessly. the most difficult circumstances and super bowl sunday is coming up. and for the 1st time in history, america's biggest sporting events will feature to black starting quarterback. ah hello, i'm claire richardson. thank you so much for joining us. international aid is moving to help with the aftermath of the massive earthquake in syria and turkey. bought over a decade of war has left organization struggling to reach victims. in some parts of syria, the government of a sharla side has that it will allow humanitarian assistance into rebel held areas . international aid has the gun trickling in, and the u. s. has suspended some sanctions on syria to help ease access to the war

torn country. in in lab medical resources were already stretched thin before this natural disaster struck. now medics are having to respond to a dramatic influx of casualties and her drawing on help wherever they can get it. dw team in syria report with at the i'll ship a hospital and central ed libby. medical students are quickly finding out what it's like to be a doctor. they've been working nonstop since the earthquake struck several days ago. currently they're treating 200 patients described as in critical condition, more than they would normally be able to handle louder saw a kid, it could be a, we have a large number of patients and it exceeds our capacity it. in spite of that, we are giving it all our effort oddity. patients have multiple injuries requiring more than one treatment, and we need all the support we can get in our hospital including surgical and

medical supplies. that means to demand a here from the while, they wait for reinforcements, they manage as best they can. and that requires harnessing all the resources available and improvising hardy and by that will awesome. we've switched all the wards from cardiac care to surgical care month. how, what at the most of the wards have been completely transform as of the smoke gunman . the entire staff has been called in for a full week because of the tremendous pressure on the hospital now, not from the heart of the land. and we also have a shortage of medicine and our stock, lyles, under him can no more than a do you live, put on more health is on the way to this hospital close to the turkish border. and advanced team from a spanish aid organization is paying the hospital a visit to lay the groundwork. it's hoped though, soon have an emergency hospital up and running to help boost treatment capacity here. one. to tell us more about this unfolding crisis. let's bring and jennifer

higgins, a serial policy coordinator for the international rescue committee. she is joining me today from the jordanian capital and my jennifer, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. your organization is on the ground providing support in syria. many people there have already lost their homes many times over because of the ongoing conflicts. can you describe for us the situation that they are facing now? yeah, thank you very much for having me on to discuss this. i mean this area syria already before this disaster was incredibly hard to access. the situation really remains dire as a region where 90 percent of population were already reliant on humanitarian assistance . hundreds and people report the remain trapped in the rubble of claps. houses in an earthquake came really at the worst imaginable time when people were in bed asleep. and many of the houses just weren't built to sustain an impact that an earthquake that they saw it could have, you know,

community main responders are really fully occupied with the search and rescue. and the huge number of casualties is just overwhelming hospitals and medical center in the northwest. you know, the health system. there was already critically fragile, even before this, and not only from the coven 19 pandemic. but also of until you know, the earthquake, we were working to respond to a very serious corner outbreak. there was 30000 cases just in december. so you can imagine that all still happening in the background of this is big disaster. and we've already had around 30000 displacement lumens recorded. and in 3 days between the 6th and 8th of february. and this is a population that has had to move maybe are in a dozen times over the last decade, air of conflict. you know, those that who hosted by it and, and facing another day and you know, the exposed to the, an immense breathing temperatures. we've had reports of floating also and they're just in desperate need for se shelter, electricity, medical aid and sources of heat. thank you. so much for sharing with us that how

urgent been needed, but since the earthquake has struck on monday morning, we've seen that international in general has been reaching syria in particular slowly at this point, 5 days later how much aid is able to get in yeah, it's been really, really hard to estimate this and you know, the one thing that we have to remember is that, you know, where the main crossing points are. they are, you know, between turkey and northwest syrian. and the main crossing point, which the u. n. use is bob on howard to move goods between turkey and cross border between turkey and northwest. syria is in haiti, and this is the one of the most affected regions a, you know, in turkey from the earthquake. so some of the delay in the 1st few days of getting 8 across was simply because of infrastructure damaged to road. and also because the staff that are working in these crossings themselves, they're also impacted by this strategy tragedy. but i think we do welcome certainly that we've seen some aid convoys go across from the un and over the last 2 days.

and we expect this to really ramp up urgently as so that we can start to see the necessary assistance get to those communities who need it most. and what exactly needs to happen. i in order to see more of those 8 convoys getting across the board and getting to where that 8 is needed. yeah, i mean, as i said, and as you've said now scaling off of this assistance is, is really of paramount importance. you know, we need to be really seeing a lot more convoys going across a, you know, everything should be, needs based and really focused on what local organizations are telling us on the ground. you know what dr. they're telling us what local organization they're telling us that they need, you know, since 2020 the u. n. and has only had one border crossing, you know, into northern syria after the other ab ostena was closed for you and operations many. and you can still use these, you know, for commercial, ruth. and but understanding access has been really difficult since then, you know, the increasing needs in the northwest really show that we just need to be

prioritizing, you know, specific goods to be able to get in. and as you've already highlighted air earlier, before i came on, you know, the health system in particular is really critical. and we need to make sure that we're getting in the necessary medical goods to be able to support a huge report response that's needed. now. thank you so much for joining us today. that's jennifer higgins, the serial policy coordinator at the international rescue committee. appreciate your time. thank you for having me. this is as turkey's president says, the quake death toll in turkey has now passed at 21000. an international aid effort is underway with rescue crews and supplies being deployed to the region. teams and turkey are still searching for survivors in the rubble working in freezing temperatures, despite fading home. and in the past few hours, dw has been reporting on what was an extraordinary tale of survival. in the town of caroline, a woman named santa was buried under the rubble for 4 days after the earthquake

struck against all odds and to the joy of her relatives. a team of wrestlers managed to pull her out alive. she was transferred to a hospital and said to be in a stable condition. however, i'm very cited to report an update to her story to day our team and turkey has learned about se not has since passed away. and i just want to share our heartfelt condolences people around the world have been asking what they can do to help here . in germany, a growing number of volunteers are taking part in relief efforts. let's take a look at how humanitarian aid is getting from germany to the disaster zone. tense, blankets generators, all stored in almost 20000 pallets here in old, in the south of germany. all rescue against the germany delivers to turkey and syria. go through this logistic center. it's germany's central rescue supply hub than by the agency for technical disaster assistance. a federal organization that

is mostly stuff by volunteers. they come here multiple days in a row, leaving their jobs behind to help the flying out on them. i had already gone with one of the a transports and when you see how much the people actually needed, i think it's just good if you can support them. because otherwise it's almost impossible. you don't know whether the 8 will arrive or not. and here you really have the opportunity to see that the aid is delivered. the train volunteer spring into action when disaster strikes. almost immediately after the earthquake in turkey and syria, about 30 volunteers started to prepare supplies. the volunteers load the goods on to trucks and then drive them about 600 kilometers to the von stuff in those saxony . get something the f yesterday, the 1st 3 a 400 ems to come from here from boons top. and another 4 planes will leave today with a total of more than 40 tons of aid supplies. it's a fantastically prepared operation. there are already logistics experts in turkey.

that's good because now it's important that the supplies arrive quickly so we can help people and for security reasons, the german air 1st can currently only fly to turkey. decisions on where the goods are going. i taken day by day with regards to the security situation, but this is no longer a decision for our agency, but for the foreign office or brussels, tend to push the german foreign minister and in a bad book has asked for the turkish syrian borders to be open for rescue supplies, something that could prove difficult. meanwhile, the volunteers in olm will continue their mission, and the blue trucks will keep driving. let's bring you up to speed now it's mother stories making headlines around the world. mystery surrounds the object the us as it shot down over alaska on the orders of president biden. the object object which was described as roughly the size of a small car was said to pose a threat to civilian aviation last week. the us down

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