for the people who are behind the gardens of truth starts february 18th on d, w. ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. the death toll in the turkish and syrian earthquakes reaches more than 35000, un warns that number could double us more bodies are discovered also on the program . beijing rejects american claims that the latest on identify the object shot out of the sky by us forces has anything to do with china and accuses washington are

flying high altitude balloons over china. ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program. a week after earthquakes in turkey and syria, more than 35000 people are now known to have been killed. so i was are still being pulled from the rubble. 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. there is coming to an end. a focus will shift to caring for people who've been made homeless was growing despair, the sheer scale of the humanitarian crisis. d w julia han has been in the south and turkish problems of her ty and said this report from the time of escandone

this is what's left of the state hospital in the city of his kingdom, fields to save life. it became a death trap. the building collapsed and patients after the earthquake struck one week later rescue teams are still digging through the rattle, searching for survivors. if you can kindly give us any information about the person you have found, no, we couldn't find any id. alyssa labella mesa hi ellison's anxiously. whenever the rescue is announced, they found some one. 0 grandmother was at the hospital when the quaking mesa hasn't slept for days. she's been sitting here waiting, feeling helpless, cuts everything all over. 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 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 robin milgar, nickle 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 tire neighborhoods 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 were strangers a week ago or now forced to share a small tent, was not much in it. so this is considered don't have enough tens of law. it's so cold inside. it doesn't warm up a lot of it. i have 2 kids for boy somewhere. so we only have his join every time. we are sharing one tent with 2 other families. can ya mother yet? it's been 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 as come here at all. yes, video to them. young me abriya miti boy is 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. for when i live with

roger, 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 will on the probably all, surely we have license to learn what outcomes to examine the model on all, gotch got a bought from this point forward. we will try to see this as a chance to start over with that. but i'm very sure we will try our best to emerge from this better. that of it's, you know, muster and then gillen. yep. i'll just will you be taken? talk of 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. lulu has been travelling across stuff at turkish. she's now in a donna and gave me her impressions a week into this disaster. 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 may knee, 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, 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 make shift 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 the, the collapsing of the buildings and we, we've seen that 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 out and implemented? and these are questions the turkish government will eventually have to answer.

thank you for that jojo, julia han and adama and southern turkey. i hear some all sorts of making news. at this hour, several people have been injured in new york city after a truck driver mounted the sidewalk of robin's pedestrians. driver la police will not chase through the city before being eventually stopped and take him to customer catholic clergy in portugal, abuse nearly 5000 children over the last 70 years. according to an independent commission investigator say, most of the abuses were priests. the commissions war that is fine, is just the tip of the iceberg. israel has launched airstrikes against garza in response to a rocket, apparently fired from the palestinian territory. jets are reported to have struck an underground complex, allegedly used by hamas as an arm step of thousands of demonstrators of rallied outside israel's parliament against to plan judicial reforms. claiming the changes

attack democracy. the measures would give the government more power to appoint supreme court judges, and is to say the reforms would correct and the balance of power between lawmakers and the court. the diplomatic rift between china and the united states over a series of mysterious objects in the skies over north america is growing at the u . s. a shot down another one near the canadian border on sunday, the 4th this month. the 1st is the only one that's been officially linked to china, the usa. they believe that one was a chinese spy balloon. beijing denies the accusation and he's now accusing the u. s . a flying high altitude blues over china, at least 10 times this year. washington correspondent mikaela cooper told me more. i asked her what more we know about this latest incident? well, surprisingly 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'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 a 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 that 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 meet you 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 karen kind of in washington. i'm when i'm with sport, the kansas city chiefs saw the american super bowl super bowl champ ends after beating the philadelphia, eagles, and arizona. but for some, the super bowl night was all about the half time show, with our reality performed our greatest sense for 13 minutes the 1st time on stage 534 year old dr. me when

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