hm ah this is the w news live from berlin, but i told him the turkish and syrian earthquakes reaches more than 35000 the u. n . bonds that number could double as more bodies are discovered also on the program . beijing rejects us claims that the latest unidentified objects shot out of the sky by american forces has anything to do with china. instead,

beijing accuses washington flying high altitude balloons over china. ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program. a week after earthquakes hit turkey and syria, more than 35000 people are now known to have been killed. oh, so i was asked ill being pulled from the rubble, but as time passes, those successes are becoming exceptions. relief has been slow to reach a factory to areas of syria. the united nation says the rescue phase of its mission . there is coming to an end. the focus will shift to caring for people who be made homeless. i was growing despair, the sheer scale of the humanitarian crisis. d w. 's julia han has been in the southern turkish province of her tie. as she said,

this report from the town of is canberra. 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 are still digging so the rattle, searching for survival. vision, can you give us any information about the person you have found? 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. a grandmother was at the hospital when the quake hate mesa hasn't slept for days. she's been sitting here waiting, feeling helpless. katerina, although i don't know how many days have passed. i lost track of time until 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 sal. 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 a job in morgan nichol mythology collision. it was obvious that this building would collapse sooner or later. even without an earthquake, but why, of the kept using it subtle 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 neighborhood have been flattened and hundreds of thousands of people left

homeless, maybe get him yearbook, we meet some of them in this makeshift camp and his candid on it feels disorganized desperate families who was strangers a week ago, are now forced to share a small tent. was not much in it. can you tell this couple of don't have enough tense law. it's so cold in sight. it doesn't warm up florida. i have 2 kids for boy somewhere. so we only have his join every time we're sharing one tent with 2 other families, yamuna yet than i thought i'd been raining. the kids are all sick and i have a small baby. please for god's sake to send us a tent young that have no help us come here at all. it's really out of them young me of what he met. a boy does a local governor. he's been sent here to lead the crisis response in the area, 90 percent of his team of volunteers blood. i admit that the country's disaster

response was too slow in the 1st days. but now he says everyone's pulling in the same direction to 100 raja the actually experienced a very big tragedy with which absolutely normal for those who are experiencing such a tragedy to feel darn but thinking want to complain was on the public. all surely we have license to learn what outcomes to examine the model of all got a bought from this point forward. we will try to see this as a challenge to start over. good will debit. i'm the you shall, we will try our best to emerge from this better. that of is no muster. and then get in the upper just will you be taken? talk, mom's good at the ruins of his skin dunes. 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 that things may get worse before they get better. luna has been travelling across 7 turkish now in

a donna and gave me her impressions to waco. 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. and 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 for a 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 our donna right now in the city center. there are many more camps like this, but people here are trying to stay warm around, fires 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. the humanitarian crisis that keeps unfolding. and you mentioned that very, very collapsing of the buildings and we've, we've seen that. so some building contractors have been arrested now. who do survivors hold responsible for the scale of this tragedy? you will. turkey is one of the world's most active

earthquake 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 have 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 and implemented?

and these are questions the turkish government will eventually have to answer. thank you for that jojo, julia hong and adama southern took could look at some more stories making news at this hour. we'll start in portugal where catholic clergy are said to have abuse, maybe 5000 children of the pastors 70 years. this is, according to an independent commission investigator say, most of the abuses were priests commissions war maddox findings are just the tip of an iceberg. israel has launched air strikes against garza in response to a rocket that was apparently fired from the palestinian territory. jets reported to struck an underground complex, allegedly used by her mass as an arm stepped 1000 demonstrators of rallied outside israel's parliament against planned judicial reforms. claiming that the changes attack the countries democracy,

measures would give the government more power to appoint supreme court, judges, minutes to say the reforms would correct and the balance of power between law makers and the court. the diplomatic ref between china and the u. s. is growing course, it's over a series of mysterious objects spotted flying over north america. the us shot down another one there, the canadian border on sunday. the 4th this month. the 1st is the only one that's been officially linked to china, the u. s. i believe that one was a chinese spy balloon. beijing denies the accusation and now it uses the u. s. a. flying high altitude balloons over china at least 10 times this year. last ira washington correspondent mikaela kirsten. what more is known about the current incident also facing the little and 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, and 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 are still eagerly waiting for the announcement of any kind of press conference to learn more. there is 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 c of china at the end of last year during the g 8 meeting to 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 hot line if there is any kind of miscommunication over taiwan over any kind of military linked incident. and 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 axis attempts to target each other politically. leading to more disconnect between these 2 remaining world powers. thank you so much for karen, kind of in washington of kansas city chiefs avenue, american football superbowl champions after briefing the philadelphia eagles in arizona. but for some, the super bowl night was all about the half time show. ah, seems the forms are greatest hits for 13 minutes of us on facebook by the 34 year old to drop me when i use the shuttle from the bill that she is present

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