ah ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin. the death toll from last week's earthquakes in syria and turkey surpasses 33000 un phase, the number of dead could double plasma bodies are being pulled from the rubble. also coming up turkeys president adam on is coming under fire for his response to

the disaster. could this impact his performance in upcoming election? the ukrainian military has long been asking for high tech weapons, but it seems it's now also running out of something more basic. bullets are increasingly short supply plus bob sariana takes to the stated the super bowl in her 1st show in 5 years with ah, i'm glad off as well come to the program. one week after 2 devastating earthquakes struck turkey and syria, the report, the death toll reach 33000 on sunday. ha!

that's all mormons of rescue is pulling people alive from the rubble are now happening less and less. a top un official is predicting the number of dead could reach more than 50000. many survivors have no shelter at all. 8 is re to turkey, but b u. n. has said that more is desperately needed for the regions of syria, where relief has been slow to arrive. and i was growing despair at the massive ongoing human humanitarian crisis. oh correspondent julia hahn is in turkey's heart . his heart's high province and brought us this report from the town of his kinda room. ah, this is what's left of the state hospital in the city of his kingdom, builds to save lives. it became a death trap. the building collapsed on patients after the earthquake struck

one week later, rescue teams are still digging through the rattle, searching for survivors. if you can, can you give us any information about the person you have found? one? no, we couldn't find any id. a list of them. mesa high ellison's anxiously whenever the rescue has announced they found some one. her grandmother was at the hospital when the quake hit mesa hasn't slept for days. she's been sitting here waiting, feeling helpless, kitchen having all the same. i don't know how many days have passed. i lost track of time. the only started looking for her now. we're waiting here for her. i love my grandmother very much. my 2nd name is eisen. i was named after her. me says cousin ali john says mismanagement by the local authorities contributed to the disaster. he shows me what the hospital looked like before it collapsed. the

building was dilapidated for years he says unsafe, but no one did anything about it. you call us up and then we'll get nickel mythology collision. it was obvious that this building would collapse sooner or later even without an earthquake. but why, of the kept using it until it became a tomb for every one inside. the scale of the destruction is overwhelming across the regions. thousands of buildings have collapsed and tie a neighborhoods have been flattened and hundreds of thousands of people left homeless. maybe get him, you know, we meet some of them in this makeshift camp and is kendall, and it feels disorganized desperate families who was strangers a week ago or now forced to share a small tent, was not much in it until the school was loud. yet we don't have enough tens. it's

so cold inside. it doesn't warm up and i have 2 kids. oh boy, somewhere we only have a stove time. we are sharing one tend with 2 other families, yamuna. yeah. that i thought that, oh good. it's been raining. the kids are all sick and i have a small baby. please for gold say, send us attend. your no help has come here at all. billiard room, gang, rio verde up metal. i was a local governor, he's been sent here to leave the crisis response in the area. 90 percent of his team of volunteers who her admits that the countries disaster response was too slow in the 1st days. but now he says everyone's pulling in the same direction, trouble, olivia tragedy actually experienced a very big tragedy of it. absolutely normal for those who are experiencing such a tragedy to feel down. but thinking want to complain with on the probably all, surely we have license to learn what outcomes to exam the model on all gotch got

about from this point forward. we will try to see this as a chance to start over with the plan that you show. we will try our best to emerge from this better that of this enormous to. and it was generally up a just where you needed to come talk moms. you're looking at the ruins of a scandal ins, hospital mesa isn't ready to stange over yet. she'll be waiting for news about her grandma for as long as it takes and she knows that things may get worse before they get better. ira damon is the founder and president of the international network for aid relief and assistance. and early i asked her what her impression of the situation in northern eyes where she arrived yesterday. it's the sort of situation that still, even though as you mentioned there, it has been a week since the earthquake struck is very difficult for anyone who experienced it . and those of us who are coming and trying to respond to it to really truly

comprehend, look, i was a war correspondent with cnn for 17 years. a lot of people have compared this to a war zone. from my perspective, this is not a war zone. this is something else entirely, the sheer level of destruction that happened over the sheer expanse of space that it happened over is not anything that anyone, any organization in recent memory has had to cope with. and the situation on the ground is growing increasingly desperate for those who are waiting for any kind of news from their loved ones. and for those of us who are trying to respond to the overwhelming needs that exist, we're talking about millions of, or at the same time, who had their lives of and good. and we've been going out into the field trying to reach the children that we used to work with trying to reach other families doing very specific. i targeted humanitarian distribution. and you see the sort of shock on people's faces. and it's almost as if their expressions have been frozen in time

. there is a sort of side to the way that their faces would have normally expressed an emotion . and right now it's shock. it's trauma, it's sorrow, it's anguish. and then it's confusion. i mean, where does this country go from here? where does this go from here with it? do you think in light of the abyss, unprecedented a event really in terms of scale is the international community a doing enough? i in a nutshell, no, i would have to say you do have a significant and very heart warming flood an outpouring of support for turkey. we have seen international crews from all over the world, sending in their rescue teams. we've seen 8 coming in to turkey, from land, from see from air turkey's response has been quite innovative. in some cases

they've transformed fairies into moving a hospitals. they put universities in person education on hulu, and they are using university space as born with worries. but that's on the torture side of the border. let's talk about what's happened, right, northwestern syria, you do not see any of that. the you on has barely been able to get a few trucks across that border. get an aide into that area. so bogged down in politics, it's almost despicable and all that being said and done though, despite this outpouring of a that we're seeing into turkey because of the sure scale of it, it's not enough. look, i was out in the field all day yesterday. we have teams here, there are countless families who are not receiving the aid that they need, and that's inside turkey. again, in northwestern syria, everything is needed. everyone needs a ribbon. when even here you have families who are unable to access distribution points. you have people scattered over an area that is so bad that aid is not

reaching them. and then you have specifically what we at not are focusing on, which is targeted distributions to these families that either are not accessing aid or that have very specific needs. and then there's things that aren't generally innate baskets or talking about, you know, clean undergarments, or talking about battery acts and flashing lights because power keeps out and everyone wants to be able to stay in touch with their loved ones. and let me just go back to what northwestern syria for a moment, there a lack of assistance, a lack of heavy machinery, a lack of diesel to run the heavy machinery that was inside the country, a lack of humanitarian assistance, being able to cross across the border not is killing people. all of them in that, in, on and off. thank you very much. now turkeys president recipe. babylon has been facing growing criticism over his response to

the earthquake disaster. it comes at a time when he's gearing up for re election campaign of now, doubts are being caused on whether the vote will even take place as expected in may more that in a moment. but 1st, this report wretched. tie up our to one has dominated turkey. for 20 years 1st as prime minister then as president with increased powers at a one was already facing a tough reelection campaign, with his approval rating sagging over his handling of the country's economy. and now he's also being criticized over the government's response to the earthquake disaster. and no one has admitted that the initial rescue effort was too slow. elevate day if that certainly there were shortcomings. that is clear. it also though it is impossible to be prepared to deal with a disaster like this mentioned in this. but turkey is no stranger to earthquakes.

after the 1999 disaster that killed more than $17000.00 people, the government implemented what's known as the earthquake tax. to bolster emergency services, but how the more than 4000000000 euros has actually been spent has never been made public. while edwin was visiting the disasters own after last week's quake, turkish authorities restricted access to twitter for several hours, allegedly, to stop this information. opposition leaders said the move threatened to hinder, volunteer rescue, and humanitarian work at one lashed out at what he called dishonest people who he said were trying to use the crisis for political gain will don't em billick that up right now is the time for unity only sma, good him. it is a time for solidarity honda but it in times like these it is not appropriate to take part in negative campaigning solely to serve political interests. williamson

company, alert the opposition newspaper, cham hurry, it has pointed out that the 1999 earthquake ushered in a new era in turkish politics and said the 2023 disaster could do the same. i'm not in the studio, i can, erica, and he's the head of the w turkish service or can thank you. thanks for joining us here in the studio. now. everyone and his government are facing a lot of criticism over this emergency response. right now, can you give us more details? get past week i was in ankara talking to some opposition, politicians, and they say that the government reacted to slow. they send it to slow, have machines accelerators and so on, just to help the people. because the whole situation, because of the rescue mission turned out to a mission to put out the debt, but is out of the rebels. so therefore time the time was,

was the major impact in the whole situation. and as i said, the positions that everyone reacts to to slow, and he showed up at the earthquake area just 48 hours later. and this is plenty to, to slow and too late. so during this will have an impact on the upcoming elections . well, frankly, the elections. everyone said something about maybe the 14th, but it wasn't sho, get sure yet because the election code committee has to approve this date. they haven't. so it can be that the original date of june, the 18th will be focused right now. but i'm not sure whether they can make it on june because it seems, as i said, the opposition makers, which i talked to last week. they say everyone could use this to postpone or to delay the elections till september. everything is possible. as a, there was, there was a problem in turkey,

you never know and 24 hours. what happened in turkey. you might even know what happened in the next 3 months and turkey. now do you think, given that he's been in power in a variety of functions for so long more than 20 years? is it justified to point the finger at him and look for responsibility there? unfortunately, yes. from youth quake in 1999. the, the lessons weren't learned, even in the little valley, they build up a lot of houses and hospitals, for example. and even the hospitals, government buildings, you know, are not that safe, like private buildings. and this is something that lessons weren't learned. they had to be more secure and had to be more protected through the earthquakes and that wasn't very good right now. so therefore, unfortunately,

i have to say yes. and everyone has to face a lot of more criticism in the future. now, you mentioned that these buildings are many, many buildings should have been built in a more structurally sound way. is this going to happen after this? you think it's a very tough question. i have to say, i don't think so, because the corruption is one of the major impacts and talks politics. and we'll have to see, and we have to wait, what kind of a finish we're going to see in the elections. and probably the next president will do something more for this kind of incidents and the head of d. w turkish service. the thank you for joining us. thank you. and i'll, let's have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. u. s. defense officials say they've had contact with china about the suspected surveillance balloon shut down earlier this month. the u. s. has now down for subs

objects the latest on sunday. near the u. s. canadian border defense official say they know little about the objects. israel has launched s rice on garza in response to a rocket fired from the palestinian territory over the weekend. the israeli military report was struck and on the ground complex story. rocket materials allegedly belonging to hamas in a separate attack. one person was killed during an israeli army raid in the west. back people in new zealand have been told to brace for more flooding and heavy rain as cyclone gabrielle approaches. the storm is currently around 250 kilometers off the coast and is expected to make a landfall over the next day. the 2nd major storm to hit new zealand in 2 weeks to ukraine are murdered. military is using up vast amounts of ammunition and it's

fight against russian troops. but the ukrainians are fast running out of basic supplies, such as bullets. and that the arms industry appears. unable to keep up with demand t w's, terry shoals reports. ukraine's endless quest per higher tech weapons dominates the headlines. but in fact, the country soldiers and its allies have a much more basic problem. everybody's not asking for more ammunition, but even i'm sorry, on the front lines, there have been reports that ukrainian soldiers are nearly running out of bullets and some nato countries say they're cupboards are bare. the fact is no one expected to see a shooting war in europe ever again with thousands and thousands of rounds of bullets shelven missiles used every day by both sides, stockpiles of ammunition in nato countries, and more crucially, production capacity in the weapons industry had declined for years in favor of more

sophisticated equipment is or unfortunate, but that's what it is and it's the result of just in time just enough. our way of looking at our economy. it's not a situation that can quickly be reversed. western countries have been learning the hard way that it's a the, one of those problems where he doesn't where it doesn't suffice to throw money to problem. cameo grant spent 6 years in charge of defense investment at nato. he says the current ammunition shortage could not have been foreseen, but admits. now it's a race against time to fulfill ukraine's urgent needs and replenish nato allies. domestic stockpiles. what is slowing us down as a bureaucracy? is the fact that we don't have enough skilled workers, is it the fact that the supply chains or not, what they should be, that we don't have the stock bards of critical component? the answer he says is, all of the above. nato allies are scaling up as fast as they can. the us says it will increase production of artillery shells by 500 percent over the next 2 years.

germany's rind metal says it's hiring more people and may build a new production plant. camille grants says at this same time, countries should be looking at how to tap into other sources of ammunition components. germany as an order munition or a metered, shown with a lot of small companies producing a hunting ammunition, sports ammunition. of course, a lot portion of that is not seats to do strictly military ammunition, but they can certainly contribute to the supply chain. earlier in the conflict, it was believed russia stock piles were vast. but now the pentagon estimates moscow supply of modern ammunition will run out within months do that because one of the commonly joins is now from here. full morning. how critical is the shortage for ukrainian soldiers? why definitely had visits the front lines where you had commanders telling you off

the record off camera that they weren't sure how much longer they could keep firing how much longer they could actually use the equipment, the kinds of kind of how it says and about how to re pieces they had because they didn't know where the next portion of ammunition was coming from. so this is definitely a huge logistical problem. and all along you here from the ukraine's that they are forced to be more creative to be a lot more careful about how they use the m. o they have because they're rushing opponents have just so much more in the way of these resources and are able to basically turn the battlefields into kind of luna landscapes without much thought. so there's a real kind of push on the grains to be clever and to actually be a lot more economical with the resources. and now what does your crime be doing to replenish stalks? well, some of it is about trying to tap into supplies. that may be what me obvious before we've even had reports in recent days of pakistani made soviet caliber ammunition being sent to ukraine. these all countries around the world that have soviet

standards. so it's kind of built equipment and producer ammunition for those systems. the different kind of desperate diplomatic attempt that to try and drum up those supplies where they can be reports of ukraine tried to produce weapons in safe later countries or setting up production facilities and polling check republic . but definitely this is still not working fully. there's still a really acute problem. we've even had reports today of the russians sending over balloons of into ukraine. hope in the hope seeming that they can exhaust ukraine and defenses to try and force you to waste very valuable in the self on that. so this is really a problem that keeps you bringing them to people up right now. we heard in terry's report earlier that russia is also facing its own supply shortage. are they going to out of bullets as well? i think with bullets that if in the, in a better position, you know, there is no real threat to russian s. facilities, production of cities, new quote is not pulling those on

a regular basis. russia has all the met allergic kind of factories and production capacity to what they already struggling with is high tech equipment. and we are already having reports of them having to kind of simplify that tanks and other bits of kind of mechanical kit because they just can't get weston, spare part sanctions really are starting to bite. and that is really having an impact on their ability to be used to more complex equipment. but in terms of the kind of really kind of nuts and bolts, the bullets they are in a much better position than your grand. we've seen them using them in much, much bigger quantities than ukraine will be able to do w as nick connelly. they're reporting from keith. thank you, nick. ah, some sports news now and after a winter of gold discontent at abilene have broken through and spectacular fashion to score when of a glove box. their troubles on over, as they said, 3rd from bottom on the leak table. but 4 calls at 3 points is for now something to

finally smile about ah, the libya, shoddy and is a beautiful building for visitors to admire. the problem for her to fans is that it's also been a very friendly place where the opposition often leaves with 3 points to take time as a gift. the kids. on an emotional day midfield a toga, spaghetti, carried the turkish flag during a moment of silence to on earthquake victims. before the whistle. the problem was, after 17 minutes, it looked like emotion was not going to be enough to stir the hum side lucan. it's his corner from the right met by the leaping nico alvready to get blood back to lead the hm. so i needed a spark and that came from the feet of the man who carried the flag pregame cigarettes. he plays a tasty back heel and a 302 minute head to gold route is over. 11 at half time. so gets he also set up the next martin dies 1st. go for the club.

it's in not a screamer. it came on his 21st birthday. he's dead, the form had to coach day to see it in all its glory here to added to more light in the going to win for wow, a day to remember for many reasons, 3 points. putting a spring in the state of players and fans, one big loud, happy family at least for the day as hath a jump for now, just out of the relegation zone. and to american for both. and the biggest game of the year went on to the final seconds before the kansas city chiefs beat the philadelphia eagles in the super bowl. the march featured to top quarterbacks growing. the 4 ball included the eagles. jaylen hurts, who found a j. brown for it touched all that help push philadelphia to a lead at the ha, ha ha ha, it's rival, patrick holmes, brought his team

a back to even late in the game with his passes and runs even on a bad and cold with 8 seconds remaining. the chiefs scored the winning field goal and the homes one is 2nd super bowl already it just 5 seasons. at half time pop superstar rhianna made a grand appearance performing her greatest hits for 13 minutes. rhianna was back on stage for her 1st show in 5 years. ah, 34 year old grammy winner has confirmed. she is pregnant with another child. appearance on stage, caused some speculation. social media. ah,

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