ah ah ah, this is the w news line from berlin. the death toll in the turkish and syrian earthquakes reaches more than 35000, un warns that number could double as more bodies are discovered also on the pro ground. cranes, military has long been asking west from allies for high tech weapons. now it seems that even bullets are in short supply beijing reject us claims at the latest and

identified object shot out of the sky by us forces has anything to do with china. is that basically uses washington, a flying high altitude balloons of its own. and american football super bowl goes down to the wire with kansas city coming out on top of all match report and coverage about much hyped, half time show starting brianna, coming up in school. ah, i'm from gail. welcome to the program. a week after earthquakes hit turkey and syria, more than 35000 people are now known to have been killed. providers are still being pulled from the rebel, but as time passes, those successes are becoming exceptions. relief has been slow to reach affected

areas of syria. i'm united nation says the rescue phase of its mission that is coming to an end. the focus will shift to caring for people who have been made homeless us growing despair. the sheer scale of the humanitarian crisis are corresponding to julia han has been in the southern to is hattie province. you said this report from the town of is kendall. ah, this is what's left of the state hospital in the city of his kingdom. fields to save lives, it became a death trap. the building collapsed on patients after the earthquake struck. one week later, rescue teams a still digging through the rattle, searching for survival. vision, can you give us any information about the past and you have found one? no, we couldn't find any id,

a list of them. mesa high ellison's anxiously, whenever the rescue is announced, they found some one who grandmother was at the hospital when the quaking mesa hasn't slept for days. she's been sitting here waiting, feeling helpless kitchen, having all, i don't know how many days have passed. i lost track of time and so they only started looking for her. now. we're waiting here for her. i love my grandma, very much. my number. my 2nd name is i soul. 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 your call methodically. 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. close to regions. thousands of buildings has collapsed and tire neighborhoods have been flattened and hundreds of thousands of people left homeless. maybe get him. yeah. we meet some of them in this makeshift camp and his kendall, and it feels disorganized desperate families who were strangers a week ago or now forced to share a small tent was not much in it. so this is consumers where you don't have enough tense. it's so cold in sight, it doesn't warm up a lot of it. i have 2 kids for boy. so myself, we only have his joy. every time we are sharing one tent with 2 other families, yamuna. yet that are thought it raining. the kids are all sick and i have

a small baby. please for god's sake to descend us attent young that have no help has come here at all. it's pretty out of them. get me o bri up mid table. how does the local governor he has been sent here to lead the crisis response in the area, 90 percent of his team of volunteers, blood. i admit that the countries disaster response was too slow in the 1st days. but now he says everyone's pulling in the same direction to 100 to roger the actually experienced a very big tragedy of, of which absolutely normal for those who are experiencing such a tragedy to feel, darn but thinking want to complain, hold on the public. all. surely we have license to learn what outcomes to examine the model on. all. gotcha, got a bought from this point forward. we will try to see this as a challenge to start over it. but i'm very sure we will try our best to emerge from less better that of his, you know, muster, and then get in the upper just will you be taking talk of mom's good at the ruins

of his skin dawns, hospital mesa isn't ready to start over yet she'll be waiting for news about her grandma, for as long as it takes and she knows the teams may get worse before they get better. or rapport was far by jojo han who's been traveling across the region affected by that her earth, craig, she now joins us from a donna in southern turkey out. welcome a uni eula. i'm what have you been seeing a week on well, to be honest. it is at times very difficult for me to describe what we witness here on the ground because the scale of the destruction and the scale of the grief is just so huge is very difficult to comprehend. like mesa and her family, many survivors have been waiting for days and nights next to collapsed buildings desperately waiting for their loved ones to be retrieved. we have seen how their

hopes have slowly faded and many people just now want the chance to say their final goodbyes. we do still see miracle rescue stories on turkish television, but experts say that the chances of finding more survivors are now very, very slim. a many buildings were so poorly constructed that they just collapsed into very tiny pieces, leaving very few spaces for people to survive in. you know, the human body can only survive for so long without water and food. add to that, the freezing temperatures at night. we don't know how many people he had died of hypothermia under the rubble. so the initial rescue efforts in the 1st days are now changing into a giant operation to retrieve dead bodies and to remove the rubble. and this is a bit of reality. many people are now slowly, you know, understanding and trying to come to terms with what the people, sorry,

very need. most right now. will people need shelter, they need heating, they need sanitation. what you can see there, right behind me is a makeshift camp. it was set up by the turkish disaster management authority effort . i was told it has a space for more than 500 people here in arden now right now in the city center, there are many more camps like this, but people here are trying to stay warm around. fi is they? the are receiving aid. there are thousands and thousands of 8 workers here in the region, both from the turkish authorities, but also international 8 workers. and there are tens of thousands of volunteers. the solidarity here in the country is really remarkable. but then if you, if you understand that people have been sleeping outside in the open, with little heating with a lack of medication with a lack of sanitation,

there are in many places, no toilets at all. no showers. of course, there are new health hazards and risks emerging from this crisis. humanitarian crisis that keeps unfolding. and you mentioned that the, the collapsing of the buildings and we, we've seen that some building contractors have been arrested now. who do survive, us hold responsible for the scale of this tragedy you well, turkey is one of the world's most ex, if earthquake, a zones. there have been several deadly quakes here in recent decades. so everybody knew this was inevitable. the government, new local authorities knew the people living here know about the risk, but the vast destruction that has been caused here that could have been prevented. experts say people, i speak with a blame the massive loss of life on faulty and irregular laces unregulated

constructions. and the government has begun begun a going after contractors that are allegedly tied and linked to these collapse to buildings. but many here has more questions to ask enter. many people are not are afraid of asking these questions out loud. they want to know, why have these contractors been allowed to operate like this for years? why have earthquake safety standards and codes that do exist here in turkey not have not been properly and forced to enter implemented? and these are questions the turkish government will eventually have to answer. thank you for that jojo, hong and adama and southern turkey will took his present ready typo on is facing growing criticism over his response to the earthquakes as he gives up for reelection. but there are now doubts about whether the vote will take place in may as expected. wretched tie up our de one has

dominated turkey for 20 years. first as prime minister then as president with increased powers at one was already facing a tough reelection campaign. with his approval rating sagging over his handling of the country's economy. now he's also being criticized over the government's response to the earthquake disaster adder. one has admitted that the initial rescue effort was too slow. elva dead exceed 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 in humanitarian work at a 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 on if my good him, it is a time for solidarity honda. was it in times like these it is not appropriate to take part in negative campaigning solely to serve political interests or themselves comp. i allowed the opposition newspaper, cham hurry. it has pointed out that the 1999 hurt quake ushered in a new era in turkish politics and said,

the 2023 disaster could do the same. let's get more or less from the head of the w turkish or service, or i can walk about the shooter go. let's start with a criticism being leveled at the circus president. the criticism is majorly that the 8 comes to, to slow people expected after the earthquake. one week ago on monday that the, the catastrophe organizations and all the people come in and helping for him. we'll be there very early, but they didn't. they showed up almost 1012 hours later, or 6 hours later to say $6.00 to $12.00. but that wasn't enough. it had to be like this that the government should be there earlier. and the major issues that this whole area is an earthquake area anyway. but they don't have any hard machines, you know. and so therefore, the critics were, of course, very loud that the government acted too slow. so there is an election as scheduled

a fist likely. is this disaster likely to have an effect on that election? i guess so because actually he ad one made up this state may 14th, but actually the date of the election should be june 18th, but take it a little bit more earlier, but now and because of the earthquake, i don't think that in 3 months, people and that earthquake area are ready to vote. and even though i expect, assume that ad one will definitely lose very hot because the people are very unhappy with the whole situation. they're unhappy with the government and they're unhappy with president ad. why is it fair to blame the head of the country for what? for? for the lack luster response. because i don't know, maybe this is a more of a local issue. unfortunately, i feel you have to blame ad one because in the past 21 years, nothing was done for,

for building earthquake proof buildings because the whole corruption is an issue. you know, everybody, the whole construction company wants to build buildings with low cost, you know, and, but they are not earthquake proof and most of the way. so therefore, it's definitely to blame. and i will say it's right because he make it came up with some excuses to the construction worker through the construction companies. he said, ok, you build up, buildings were not very earthquake proof, but i say ok and excuse this just to have some buildings for people to live. exactly. yeah. but now there have been an arrests amongst contractors. i mean that's just the top of the iceberg. i guess i think we'll, we'll see more further arrest in the future because there are a lot of construction workers construction companies who are just doing the corruption issue with the politicians and just put some money in their bags. and

not helping the people having some safe buildings where they can live. thank you so much for talking to that account from a database too. my pleasure. a lot of the war, a new crime has to fight against russia, consumes vast amounts of ammunition. ukrainian troops are running short of basic supplies like bullets, and the arms industry appears unable to keep up with them out. you cranes. endless quest for 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. when i'm so on the front lines, there have been reports that you, quine and 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. sheldon 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 her 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 one of those problems where he doesn't where it doesn't suffice to throw money to problem. camille grant spent 6 years in charge of defense investment at nato. he says the current ammunition shortage could not have been foreseen. but admit, now it's a race against time to fulfill ukraine's urgent needs and replenish nato allies. domestic stockpiles was 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 parts 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 ryan metal says it's hiring more people and may build a new production plant. camille grant says at this same time, countries should be looking at how to tap into other sources of ammunition components, germany as it, our technicians are metered, shown, with a lot of small companies producing a hunting ammunition sports ammunition. of course, a lot portion of that is not feats 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. a correspondent of shells,

producer reports, and she joins us not from nato headquarters in brussel. so welcome, terry. do we have a sense of how much ammunition is being used in the school? will feel we have a sense, but we don't have any specifics because obviously neither side once the other one to know exactly where their military weaknesses lie with which systems they're having to shortages of ammunition. but u. s. defense officials of estimated that ukraine uses between $4.70 rounds per day . and moscow up to $20000.00 rounds per day with its of course, much larger military operation. and the biggest thing to know about that is that this is more than europe produces more than more than the u. s. and europe together produces so at this point, a nato has said openly, secretary general san berg said it to day. they're using more than we can send. okay, so we just need to have a plan to deal with the problems or causing the shortage it

does have a plan, but that plan is moving very slowly when it became obvious that this war was going to be a shooting war and, and the weapons that we thought we'd never see again, we're going to be used. they started looking at their stockpiles and of course, sending ukraine everything they could. the allies had many weapons that they weren't using anymore. that had been outdated. so those went 1st. but as ukraine ran through that ammunition, a lot of that was not produced anymore. and now even for the newer weapons, they're having a lot of trouble scaling up quickly. one of those reasons is because the defense industry had been, had been cutting back on ammunition all these years. and it's, it takes a long time for industry to, to scale back up when you don't have the capacity to do that. you don't have trained workers, you don't have raw materials. all of these things take time to, to replenish and i just heard from an, an industry executive today. in fact, that as much as nato talks about how it's trying to scale up, it has not actually signed new contracts with weapons producers. that would actually start the clock ticking now on getting that ammunition prepared. and you

also touched in your report on the front of moscow supplier fi ammunition. what do we know about where the russian military stops? well, just like the russian military was overestimated in its capabilities before this war started. and that's been of course, blown out of the water. it was also believed that russia had vast supplies of ammunition. and now you can tell from the shrapnel that they're using older ammunition. and this is bad news for ukrainians on the ground because it's, it's much less precise. so they may even when they're not targeting civilians, they may be hitting them because it's, it's a lot less precision guided munitions. but the, the thing for russia is that most of its enterprises producing ammunition, our state owned russian president, putin can se scale up can, can tell them to do whatever he wants and they have to do it. and, and we understand that that is being done in russia. it's not as easy in europe

where their private companies and they say, show me the money before they start producing to a higher extent. thank you. territory shorts at nathan headquarters in brussels. a diplomatic rift is growing between china and the u. s. over a series of mysterious objects spotted flying over north america. u. s. a shot down, another one near the canadian border on sunday, the 4th this month. now the 1st is the only one that's been officially linked to china and the u. s. as they believe it was a chinese spy balloon mentioning denies the accusations and now accuses the u. s. a . flying i. altitude balloons of its own over china. at least 10 times this year as joined the corresponding customer in washington. welcome mikaela. what more do we know about this latest incident? well, surprisingly little by officials describe this flying object as

a octagonal shape with strings hanging off it. we do not know whether it was indeed a balloon and we don't know whether it has any spying equipment on board. that is something that is still hanging in the air as the big, overarching question. what were these other 3 objects that were shot down between friday and saturday, one every single day. so we're still eagerly waiting for the announcement of any kind of press conference to learn more. there's an impression here that the white house wants to be absolutely sure what they're talking about before they go public on this. given the fact that these, this incident, in particular, that 1st balloon that was clearly linked by the united states to china as a spying device, has already created such havoc in bilateral ties. and how serious is the damage to those by the actual ties? it's very serious and we just need to remind ourselves that you as president biden met president, is she of china at the end of last year during the g. 8 me

d 20 meeting rather. and the aim there was to put a new flaw in relations. now this floor has basically been blown out by this balloon incident and by the chinese allegations now that the u. s. has launched allegedly launched balloons over chinese territory. something that is being flatly denied here by don kirby, the spokesman for the top security advisory board for the united states president. so to the americans are denying that the national security council is denying it. and that's where both sides stand. this is a diplomatic stand off, and just to illustrate that we're talking about a lot more than some balloons or some spying here. both sides do not have a hotline. if there is any kind of miscommunication over taiwan over any kind of military linked incident, they simply cannot directly call each other. this would have to go through

diplomacy and that would take a long time. so that is actually a very high risk of an escalation. even military escalation, if anything is added on top of this balloon incident and board clearly at the very least misunderstandings, at worst, actually attempts to target each other politically leading to more disconnect between these 2 remaining world powers. thank you so much for coming together in washington. ah, the kansas city chiefs are the new american football super bowl champions after coming from behind to be the philadelphia eagles in the biggest game of the year. the chief star quarterback, patrick my homes are overcame and ankle injury and confirm the status of one of the as one of the nfl modern grades. patrick, my himes was looking for

a 2nd title in for years against the philadelphia eagles, but it was his rival quarterback jalen hurts who dominated the early stages. this was the 1st of 3 rushing touchdowns on the night for the 24 year old. the chiefs hit back with envy p. my himes finding tightened travis kelsey to level the scores bought hurts. them went deep to connect with a j brown to help the eagles to a 2414 half time lead. to the delight of coach nick ciriani. the chiefs found a new gear in the 2nd half though, running back i say a pacheko got the touch down his performance deserved. and ma homes hit cordarious tony to put the chiefs in a commanding position with just seconds left on the clock. it all came down to kick her harrison buck kept his field. gul sealed a $3835.00 victory for the chiefs and gave the franchise just that 3rd ever. superball crown on the super bowl halftime show pop superstar elena performed her

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