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about our complex relationship with animals global i think i will live long enough to witness the factory farming the great debate this week on d. w or ah ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin. after the devastation on turkey arrests are being made. officials detain those allegedly involved in 40 construction of buildings that have crossed thousands to desk. we have the latest updates for you from our correspondent in the area. international aid is flowing to earthquakes of august in
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syria, but a u. an official says not enough is reaching rebel held areas and is pushing the damascus regime for more access and berliners passed both in a re run of local elections. we look at how authorities watched the initial vote and what it could mean for today's results. ah, hello monica jones, welcome to the program. turkish authorities have issued arrest warrants for over 100 people allegedly involved in constructing many of the buildings that collapsed in the earthquakes. the government has vowed to punish any one responsible, but critics say turkeys. construction codes are rarely enforced with rescues, still trying to locate any remaining. so ivers desperation on the ground is also
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leading to looting and civil unrest in some areas. hampering the efforts of emergency cruise the death toll across turkey and syria is now over 33000 people. but the u. n warns that figure could go much higher. sooner. klein's the rubble of his building has been waiting for a signal from rescue teams who were trying to locate his family. still, course, he is not optimistic that his mother and sister was to come out alive. but he refuses to leave the place before they are fond here. we don't know my from i know, and i just want to find my modeling. no doubt, strong, but reduction against her. they've been through, around possible defined
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as chances of finding survivors feed the z, noticeable shift rescue teams go from quietly searching for trop survivors to digging and removing bravo families here. no exactly what this means. sonata and his family are gathering near the ruins of what used to be their home. there still have that family members dropped under the rubble, but they lost hope that anyone would come alive. now, all they want is to find a bodies of their loved ones. for proper burial, a good one and if you just want to find anything, anything ever, we just want that. we want to pray for our from and what we we gent sure. where is god dammit, maybe we can find them. i read know, believe dad died,
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we never been because we can't see them on our face. to city office come to room is largely destroyed. the buildings that had not fall are cracked and have been evacuated. people sleep in public, yards and sleep and a cold night era. many residents are leaving for safer areas. best come their own turns into a coast town. dw johan is on the ground in our donna and speaks with f quite victims they every day i asked her what their main concerns are now. well 1st of all, people are grieving almost everybody. we speak with here and we have been to different cities in the affected region and has lost a loved one or know someone who did. the scale of the grief is not only heartbreaking. it's overwhelming. and then there is despair. hundreds of thousands of people have been left homeless by the quakes. you can see there is also
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a makeshift can here in a donna set up by the local turkish disaster management authority. people here are trying to stay warm around fires as well. it's going to be another bitterly cold night. grief and despair have also very quickly turned into anger in the areas that i've been seeing and visiting. in the past days, people say that rescue teams have only arrived days off to the quakes hit. they also say that the buildings, many of the buildings that have collapsed, have been poorly constructed or earthquake safety standards have been neglected. and these people won't answer is they won't those responsible for this to be held to account. we hear that arrests have been made, but i believe this is just the beginning, right under clearly need help. union. we've just heard it in the report as it seems to be a lack of government aid coming to the affected areas. is that what you're seeing
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to will the turkish government has admitted that there has been a problem with the initial response to the crisis. but now they're trying to give the impression that the situation is under control and that they are managing to reach everybody who is in need of aid right now. but we also speak to many people who tell us they have received no help. pens are a big issue, there is a lack of tens heating is an issue. people really just have the fires. they're making themselves oftentimes asenique since a hot meal. many people are really they are left with nothing and they absolutely have no ideas. oh no idea what's coming in the next weeks for them. right, our correspondence johan, their reporting from a donna in the earthquake hit a region of turkey. julia, thank you so much for that. the united nations humanitarian chief says the
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international community has failed to the people of northwestern syria. martin griffith once the un security council to authorize the opening off to more border crossings from turkey into rebel held regions of syria. years of civil war have left 8 organizations struggling to reach victims of monday's earthquake, particularly in parts of the country outside government control. there is currently only one crossing open to un agencies hampering deliveries of life saving food and medical supplies, destruction and devastation in a part of the world which can hardly take any more. it lip province has been a central theater of the syrian civil war. and its home to one of the last remaining rebel controlled and lives. the earthquake has killed more than 2100 people here. among them this man's 4 year old son. he's angry that a lack of support meant it took 4 days to recover his child's body. raffle member
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dishonor, who is helping us in turkey. they're getting every thing. they made a special ed bridge to bring aid from all round the world. but no one is coming to help us. what did this child do wrong to be under ground for 4 days before we found him? getting aid into this part of syria is complicated by the war. and the sad regime still being in conflict with rebels and it lived there has long been only one approved route in for international aid, over the turkish border. one of the rebel leaders says the civil war has impacted the where the government has responded to the catastrophe. in the region and the people who died in the earthquake would not terrorists, they were innocent civilians, they were women and children. such confused, humanitarian issues with politics is
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a big problem. state media report that the government will now allow it into it live from within syria, but not through other international border crossings. that would help those scrambling to make the best of a desperate situation. but for thousands of victims, it's already too late. and now to some of the other stories making news around the welt round. and then he was senate majority leader. chuck schumer says it's likely that to unidentified objects recently shot down of a north american. asked bass were balloons. 3 objects have been down to over the us and canada in just over a week in the 1st incident shown here, the u. s. took down a chinese balloon. it said was used for spying. nick also, chris door door leaders has one cypress as presidential election. he served as foreign minister under the ruling, right wing
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d i s y party but stood for election as an independent is rival veteran diplomat andreea's. a macro janish has conceded defeats christa to lead us will be tasked with reviving peace talks on the divided island. here in berlin, voters have been to the polls for a re run off local elections that were botched in 2021. when many were unable to cast their votes due to missing ballads or long lines exit polls indicate a big lead for the conservative christian democrats. followed by the center left social democrats, whoever is able to form a government will have to tackle pressing issues like rising rents and housing shortages, as well as the cities notoriously dysfunctional administration. berliners have long been frustrated with our political correspondent benham, in other as gruber told us more about the challenges of today's election. re run. that's right. we already have the exits full,
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was standing right next to the room with a fall, right? a if the party have a party, an election party. so what we've heard throughout the day is that there were more volunteers in the pulling stations that wilma booth as well and what we heard and what many that public already heard. is it international observers that i hear from the european council said that everything works movie, even though they said that if small things happen, it's important to always put that in a broader context. and what about to turn out, how motivated to were berlin, us to actually go and vote a 2nd time so by 12. so by noon the, the voter turnout was lower than the last time. but the good thing, and there's been one of the problems that we had at during the last lecture. there were many things happening in that city. on that same day, we had a housing referendum, we had the berlin marathon that also led to officials, that it was difficult for them to get this ballast to this place. so there were ballots missing. some people had ballots with other candidates on it. others were
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not able to vote, or we had to vote in latin wait in line for many hours, and had to vote after 6 pm going to post exit. a pause came out. so now we have the 1st result, but we're expecting it a to last still a few hours until we get other results that we can also portal. and then yeah, and forgive me for asking that. but can we be sure that everything worked the way it should, this time it definitely worked better than last time. but as i mentioned, there was an expert who said, even if there are small miss happenings happening in those stations, it's important to wait also to see the bigger problems that happened. we have this poll, it was a very, very good election. according to the x is full for the conservative cd, you party almost the 10 percent more we had the social democrats. so the s p d who lost a few percentage points. and as we see the exit polls that we have, that the f d p. so the for business f t p party that's also in the government,
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would not make it again into the local in parliament and berlin as they got whole point 5 percent. and therefore 9 every 5 percent threshold. all right, going to be a, an interesting night for many berlin politicians, sir, did you pull it of correspond benjamin others gruber? thank you so much. and i, let's take to the skies in kenya to meet the world's 1st black female hot air balloon parlance. the trailblazer has been taken to arrest on safari with a unique perspective of the treasured messiah mara wildlife reserve. the messiah, modern by air, a spectacle from above. one of africans, most famous, national parks. for captain joyce beckwith, it's just another day in her office in the skies. she became the world's 1st life from black female hot air balloon pilot in 2019 colleagues called her captain smiles. i knew that i was going to be the cannon. the 1st canyon,
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