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hopes fade in turkey for any more survivors emerging from the rubble rescue teams have been working tirelessly in the most difficult of circumstances. ah hello, i'm claire richardson. thank you so much for joining us. international aid is moving to help with the aftermath of catastrophic earthquakes in syria and turkey. but over a decade of war has left organisations struggling to reach victims. in some areas of syria, the government of bashar al assad has said it will allow humanitarian assistance into rebel held areas. international aid has begun. trickling in and the u. s. has suspended some sanctions on syria to help ease access in rebel controlled ed lab, medical resources were already stretched then. now medics are responding to

a dramatic influx of casualties and having to draw on help wherever they can get to that these team in syria reports with at the i'll ship a hospital in central ed lib 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 cubic view, we have a large number of patients and it exceeds our capacity. 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 them at a full day while they wait for reinforcements, they manage as best they can. and that requires harnessing all the resources

available and improvising honey and by the hole. awesome. we've switched all the wards from cardiac care to surgical care month. how about the most of the wards have been completely transformed at this lockerman? 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 in our stock. lyles, under him, ken ludwig 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. earlier i spoke to jennifer higgins from the international rescue committee whose organisation has been providing aid in syria. she described the desperate situation affecting people there. 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 the population were already reliant on humanitarian assistance. hundreds and people report the remain trapped in the rubble of claps. houses. you noticed 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, bank 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 over until you know, the earthquake, we were working to respond to a very serious caught her outbreak. there was 30000 cases just in december. so you can imagine that all still happening in the background of this if this big disaster

. and we've already had around 30000 displacement lumens recorded at 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, exposed to the, an immense breathing temperatures. we've had reports of floating also and they're just in desperate need for stay shelter, electricity, medical aid and sources of heat. thank you so much for sharing with us that how urgent the need is. 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 target 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 we simply because of infrastructure damaged to road and also because the staff that are working in these crossings themselves are also impacted by the 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 border and getting to where that 8 is needed. yeah, i mean, as i said, and as you 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 doctors are telling us what local organizations are telling us that they need, you know, since 2020 the u. n. has only had one border crossing, you know, into northern syria after the other. and thus anom 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, he know specific, going 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 good to be able to support the 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 a restoral have been battling against the odds in turkey and syria. the time for

saving victims is running out. according to turkish president, wretched type air to one deaths in the region have now exceeded 25000. it was an operation. rescuers called a miracle in the southern turkish city of kira can. we follow the story of a woman named zane ep. cruz worked tirelessly to free her from the rubble. zane up sister kept vigil at the sight and even went down into the rebel to speak with her dead eyes gum, even if she is the guy that neither. soon after spending more than 100 hours trapped, zainab was pulled out alive. but the elation of her family in rescuers was cut short as a knapsack come to her injuries. the next day in the hospital dw spoke to the team

behind the operation. we would get, we gave her the chance to say good bye. we gave her brother her sister the chance to say good bye. she didn't die alone in the rubble. i am, this is a very important part of the job in turkey has not seen devastation on this scale in decades. kara man, mirage is the turkish city closest to the epi center, parts of it were flattened in the quake. and aftershock, emergency teams and residents are working against the clock to find those still alive. for some hope is waning, as help has been slow to arrive, moisture to bears, children's wish, of sublime 5 of my relatives are still in all women. we haven't heard from them in 5 days. only now have they started to look for them. before that they didn't do anything to her to renewal her doctor to go. there is no electricity. so hopefully

that we slept in a tenant. going to walk with we slept on the street for 3 days, and it's been raining so much. i don't want to know so good was in sickness we have food and water and also hating what we don't have technical equipment. nothing to cut through the iron balls to break the cement. little, it's just not enough. it is president wretched tie up our to want address criticism of his government's response to the disaster. acknowledging there had been delays in reaching victims. critics also accuse them of failing to implement infrastructure reforms. nations from around the world are sending rescue teams and aid to the region. relatives have not given up hope on finding survivors as efforts turned towards housing and helping those who have survived the quake. let's bring you up to speed now, what's another world? news headlines?

trucks are transporting aid from armenia into turkey across the border that have been closed for 35 years. i'm carol has thanked here of and for its disaster health, which includes the search and rescue teams. the neighboring nations have had no diplomatic or commercial ties since the 19 ninety's. hundreds of thousands of people across france have joined another day of protests against the government pension reform plan. the government wants to raise workers retirement age from 62 to 64. mystery surrounds the object, the us says it's shot down over alaska, on the orders of president joe biden, described as roughly the size of a small car. it was sent to pose a threat to civilian ation. very much last week. us warplanes down the suspected chinese bible oh no. over the atlantic of the object, one of south africa's best known wrappers has been shot dead. 35 year old kiernan forbes known as ha, was gunned down alongside another man as they left

a restaurant in the south eastern city of durban. police say the attackers and their motive are unknown. and the last communist prime minister of east germany and more dro has died at the age of $95.00 appointed just 4 days after the berlin wall fell in 1989 micro is known for guiding east germany's transition to a market economy. and it's 1st free and fair elections. on sunday, the people of berlin go to the polls to re run an election held in 2021. many would be voters could not cast their votes because ballots were missing. or because polling stations closed with people still waiting in line. if the 1st time germany has had to repeat an election because of botched organisation. pictures of an election gone wrong. in 2021, many voters and berlin were unable to cast their ballot. not my business as far as i know, nothing like this has ever happened to germany before led an election didn't work

out for logistical and organizational reasons to the list of mishaps as long. some pauling stations ran out of ballads like this one or didn't have enough pawing booths in the 1st place. some received ballads for the wrong district. the situation was so bad that after long deliberation berlin's highest court stepped in the whitefish kite when, according to the constitutional court, the frequency and severity of the electoral era's lead to the only option. but the elections must be repeated throughout balin liter hoyt. the other this this is the only way to preserve democratic standards. i hate the other. so what do berlin us think of having to go to the polls twice? it's been that is berlin. things like that happen he all the time from an end of the world, but it has to be run a stupid. it's typical berlin, but it's good that they're doing it good for democracy. you as and see it's

a daily problem. the election is only the tip of the iceberg there before the government under supplies the public with services. and when does isn't matter? it is indeed typical for berlin, because many of the administrative problems and berlin are related to its district structure were dash taxes on the shuffler. some it is time to hold that at the end of the day, this election rerun will strength and trust and democracy in its institutions soon . because we're also proving how in order houghton, the democratic elections are to us. it's your of the by isn't the leash, the once the more cartoonish of irons in then does either. one thing is very important. there was absolutely no vote or fraud in this last election yet form for let us on. now counting on election officials to get the 2nd election. right? well, that's a news update at this hour before we go, let's get a reminder of our main story today. more than 24000 people have been killed in the

earthquakes in turkey and syria. hopes of finding many more survivors are fading and aid is starting to trickle into syria. watching d. w. news, a sports life coming up next after a short break. and of course, there's always more on our website too. and d, w dot com. you can also check us out on social media at the handle. there is at dw, i'm cloud richards, and that is all for me for now, for me and the team behind the scenes. thanks for watching with if you ever have to cover up a murder, the best way is to make it look like an accident. raring to me you've never read a book like this.