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emerging from the rubble rescue teams work tirelessly under the most difficult circumstances. ah. hello monica jones. welcome to the program. international aid is moving to help with the aftermath of catastrophic earthquakes and syria and turkey. but over a decade of war has left organization 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 on the west has suspended some sanctions on syria to help ease access in rebel controlled it live, but medical resources were already stretched thin. now medics are responding to

a dramatic influx of casualties and having to draw on hail wherever they can get it from d w team and syria reports with at the shipper hospital and central edward medical student 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 oh, ladder saw a kid. it could be if 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. we need all the support we can get in our hospital including surgical and medical supplies. that means to them at a halo from the while they wait for reinforcement, 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, from 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 hour correspondent mohammed straight a has been covering the situation and tech is caught. i province. he sent us this update on the difficult condition survivors and now facing hundreds of thousands

across both countries have been left homeless in the middle of winter. many have come out in their cause on, on the sidewalks and in makeshift shelter, often best put it for food, heat and water. 8 convoy have ordered the arrive to the devastated area in turkey, but delivery is looking much, much slower in northern city. feeding activists has been expressing frustration over the delays base that the bodies of the victims arrived from turkey to syria, much faster than the aid supplies. the turkish government said that they were overwhelmed by the situation and that they are now working on a plan with the international community to deliver aid to syria. rescue as have been battling against the odds and turkey on syria, but time for saving victims is running out. death in the regions 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. zainab sister kept vigil at the site and even went down into the rebel to speak with her dead eyes go even if she has the god is none id say after spending more than 100 hours trapped z nap 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. d, w, spoke to the team behind the operation. we would get, we gave her the chance to say goodbye. we gave her brother her sister the chance to

say good bye. she didn't die alone in the rubble. and this is a very important part of the job. any turkey has not seen devastation on this scale in decades. kyra, 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, garbage, children's lives, have to buy on 5 of my relatives a 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 renew her to go. there is no electricity. so i think we slapped in a tenant 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. you to his 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. some a groups have now suspended rescue efforts into k saying it's too dangerous to continue work. earlier i spoke to our correspondent in istanbul, dorian jones, he gave us this update on the security situation. yeah,

those great concern about this has be polled. solve some clashes between the citizens in the region, possibly, syrian refugees and tucks. although that hasn't been confirmed, but it just on the lines. the growing desperation of this region is facing. there were 8, a team of 80 australian rescue workers who had to withdraw from the scene of upkept building the confrontation, wrapped it around them. and there is concerns as the days unfold, that these tensions could flip or escalate. there is growing criticism still the build on not enough aid is being delivered, specially with hundreds of thousands of people. many of them all living still on the streets with no shelter, not even 10 for even access to hot drinks or, or hartwell food. and even though there's, the government insists that they all to point more or more results to that, the month facing seems to expand actually increase. so they, it does appear, they are really struggling over that. we even get reports for there are many villages in the region that still haven't received any support or any rescue

efforts. and their even talks of desperate efforts, a former radi drive as taking their full by full to go to bring help to these villages, such still haven't received any support her desperate situation. indeed, at the same time, we're hearing reports that turkish police have detained several people in connection to the thousands of collapse buildings who is to blame for the disaster . that is really a growing concern is why so many of these buildings failed in such a dramatic way. thousands upon thousands of buildings have collapsed now. they took, he does have very strict building regulations in the optim off of a devastating up break. just outside of the stumble in 1999, they said at the time they meant to be some of the strictest in the world. to show that you would not see these dramatic catastrophic failures of multi story apartment blocks up. but again,

we are witnessing the scenes of fail buildings now the government said that they will bring on hold to account anyone has been to a broken law and failed in the regulation. but there is growing criticism over the fact the 5 years ago, the government, i'm the, the over building. so i didn't comply with the great regulation. if the contractors pay the fine and called the summit. but they said many 100000 building in the area that struck by the way, took advantage of that. so there will be growing question over the government handling and enforcing all these regulation. but as we speak, yes, there are more contract. is that all being to take another one and this stumbled to take just a few hours go this evening. so there is pressure on these building constructors. i'm pressure from people who want justice. why just briefly dorian? from what you're saying and giving the scale of the quakes, could this disaster have been prevented? was this inevitable? president treasure typo on always insist that this is a once in

a century event. nowhere. no one has experienced 2 successive powerful quakes within a matter of hours. that said, inevitably there will be failings. but having said that, i witnessed the earthquake in 1099. and again, you saw apartment box apartment, dot clacking, but one building standing. that raises the question, one can stand, why could all the others fail? and again, we have seen same image is all over this. quite strict regional streets upon streets of fail building. but one building stands that raises the question again, how one can scram withstand? these are breaks, but others fail, and that will be a question. the gut will be facing going forward. my dorian jones reporting from east ample. thank you so much, dorian. and now to some of the other stories making use around the world. trucks are transporting aid from armenia into turkey across a border that had been closed for 35 years. ankara has thanked yerevan for its disaster health, which includes the search and rescue teams. the neighboring nations have had no diplomatic or commercial ties since the 1990s. hundreds of thousands of

people across france have joined another day of protests against the government pension reform plans. protesters set a car on fire and through objects and police. the government wants to raise workers retirement age from 62 to 64. 1 of south africa's best known wrappers has been shot dead, 35 year old kiernan, forbes known as aka, was gun down alongside another man. as they left a restaurant and the southeastern city of durban, police say the attackers and their motive are known. the last communist prime minister of east germany, hansen would row as died at the age of $95.00 appointed just 4 days after the berlin wall fell in 1989 more drone was known for guiding east germany's transition to a market economy and its 1st free and fair elections talking of

which 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 ballads were missing. or because polling stations closed with people still waiting in line is the 1st time germany has had to repeat an election because of botched organization. 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 that an election didn't work out for logistical and organisational reasons to the list of mishaps as long some pauling stations run 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 berlin leader who is the other? this, this is the only way to preserve democratic standards. i vietnam. so what do berlin us think of having to go to the poles twice? it's been dennis 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 that before the government under supplies the public with services or when does isn't matter. it is indeed typical for berlin, because many of the administrative problems in berlin are related to its district structure. we're just starts with the chauffeur. 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 him or horton 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 berlin us are now counting on election officials to get the 2nd election, right? you're watching dw news reporter is up next, looking at why read cholera less traffic in the eagerly and what italian authorities and doing about it. thanks for watching. never. oh sharla may i have office, i am currently more people than ever on the move world wide in such a better life.