much on my shoulders, but i have to hold this weight because i am responsible for the future of our country for the people far behind the boss. gardens of truth starts february 18th on d. w. ah ah ah . visit d w live from berlin? the death toll after we earthquake in syria and turkey now exceeds 35000. the un was that number could doubled while relief efforts shift from rescue to providing food and shelter. also the program,

the white house says there is no evidence of alien activity linked to mystery flying objects that us fighter jets have shop down. the us and china trade blame over alleged bible and new zealand to class a national emergency. as a powerful sy, clone causes widespread flooding and forces evacuation. ah, i'm good. how else as well come to the program? but as told after the earthquake in syria and turkey has now exceeded 35000 united nation says that number could still double as rescue and recovery efforts are going on. but his hopes dwindle off, pulling more people out of the rubble alive. the un says it is shifting focus to finding shelter for survivors. a moment of joy and relief,

a young girl is pulled out to lie from the rubble. after 7 and a half days trapped under collapsed building, the girl named mary was found in a town in southern turkey by groups of rescue workers tirelessly digging to find remaining survivors. it is difficult and often dangerous work inside the ship or dangerous the collapse. food cannot just coin inside and you should be really careful. so not the home. the people use side. yeah. like kind of you see in turkey guard thinking with our nails. one by one floor is very sorry. but over a week after the earthquake devastated parts of turkey and syria, the chances of finding people still trapped alive, dwindles with each passing hour. there is a sign of hope for the millions of earthquake victims in north west syria. after the country's president, bashar al assad said,

you will allow 2 new crossing points for the much needed humanitarian aid to reach the rebel health region. a move welcomed internationally. the assad regime has consistently argued against additional humanitarian crossings. but if the regime is serious about this, and if the regime is willing to put those words into action, that would be a good thing for rms hearing people. immediate help is needed for millions of people in both syria and turkey. as rescue operations for survivors enter their final days, the death toll from the devastation is predicted to rise dramatically. let's go now to w's jack park, who joins us from the turks, city of auburn, jack a week on, is there much hope left to find survivors. well, the reports of people being pulled from the rubber coming few and further between

as the days continue. and many of the people that are actually put, being pulled out alive are children and suddenly young sort of teenagers rather than adults watching. turkish rolling t v. this morning, what aid workers have started to do is to brand and to, to put signs up next to the buildings, which as sess york, which means no sign that the marking, each building now for places where there is no longer any signed. and they should continue with their rescue efforts elsewhere. 8 days on from when the earthquake 1st hit. the question is how many more people wills we'll of been able to survive for so long underneath the rebel? now, jack, what's needed next? most urgently? well, food, water, shelter, just here where we are in adena. this is a sort of makeshift 10 city that's been put up by offered, which is the turkish crisis response center. but most of the people here,

the people that are just behind me here they, they're actually from the city and of a donna that houses are affected here. but this is an enormous region that has been affected. there are hundreds of thousands of people without shelter still we believe that the region is affected was at home for, for about 13000000 people are in the region of that number at least. and so, and there are many parts of this region that still haven't really, hadn't received much humanitarian support. so that is the apple in a donna at the moment. you can see large numbers of, of humanitarian aid workers coming in and fight. some of the people that we were speaking to that were flying in with us said that they had been coming from keith into turkey to try and support this effort. they are trying to, as i say, how's people find them shelter, find them food, find them water. but also there is a need to start looking long term because so many people's homes were destroyed in

this earthquake. now there are allegations of corruption and negligence by building contractors, and indeed the government will, people told you yet that's becoming part of the discourse as the days go on. now this region saw a construction boom and the turkish authorities have, have issued warrens for a rest for around a 113 people. contractors who believe to have broken the earthquake regulation rules a dozen or so of them have been arrested publicly filmed. being arrested in a sort of show of desire to show that there is something being done about this. but there are also questions about blind eyes that were turned potentially by the authorities to allow these kind of buildings to be built. and that is really sort of, one of the focus is now of the discussion here in turkey about what exactly happened to perhaps allow us so many buildings that maybe weren't up to scratch,

to deal with the earthquakes, to be built. bearing in mind that turkey as a country is one of the worst affected by earthquakes in the world is says on 2 fault lines gab jackpot than reporting from other in turkey. thank you. jack. mother us is still working to identify unknown flying objects spotted and neutralized in north american as base us fighter jets on sunday, shot down what they described as an 8 sided object overlake who run along the canadian border. it's just the latest incident since a suspected chinese surveillance balloon was blown out of the sky earlier this month. the white houses the object do objects do not pose an immediate threat. this is the moment a you as chat, shut down a big white balloon, which washington believes could be a sophisticated chinese spine device. it 1st entered u. s. territory in late january and was shut down off the coast of south carolina

on february 4th. since then, 2 smaller objects have been shut down over alaska and canada, and another one over michigan. the uncertainty around the last 3 mysterious object has raised concerns over north american security. and among some even fewer speculation over an alien invasion. the white house has responded to these claims with amusement and good afternoon. there is no indication of aliens or terrestrial activity with these recent take downs. wanted to make sure that the american people knew that all of you knew that. and it was important for us to say that from here, because we've been hearing a lot about it, only the white balloon has so far been linked to china. investigators are analyzing frank mans recovered at sea, hoping to find out more about beaching and says to the balloon was conducting whether research goals and has rejected any connection to the last 3 objects.

bershana or me other, jody. jag we have stated many times, may, 5th, china's civilian unmanned airship entered the u. s. aerospace accidentally, which was an unexpected accident due to force missouri which we thought maybe wanted a 100, as for the 3 other so called unidentified flying objects, not her. and i have no information on ok, make wall her make what i mean, that actually i'm a, should you show, you know, after years of mistrust, these latest tensions highlight yet another downturn in us. china relations. kelly greek hope is a senior fellow the stimson center. that's a think tank at washington earlier. we asked her whether she thought there was a larger global security threat given the tensions between the us and china or whether these were just isolated incidents. i think there is a much bigger security impact here in part because this incident is happening at

a time of deteriorating us chinese relations. and it's being fit into a larger narrative about china being a threat in about competition and a need for the united states to become much more serious about the china threat. and both parties in some ways are trying to almost outfit each other. and they're, you know, hawkish ness towards china. i would just say, i think there is a real opportunity here for some kind of diplomacy around this issue. you know, one of the 1st china did was note, it's regret about this incident. that's highly unusual. and i would just suggest that there is an opening there with that statement for the white house to perhaps engage with, particularly around the in the issue of surveillance balloons, and maybe setting up some rules of the road. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. the moldova president, my son, was accused russia plotting to overthrow our country's government using foreign,

sabotaged, disguised as protesters. the statement comes off ukrainian, president plug ms. lewinsky said ukraine uncovered details of the russian plan. moscow has not responded to the accusations. thousands of people protested outside israel's parliament on monday, against government plans to reform the judiciary. the proposed changes would give the government more power to appoint judges to the supreme court of position. law makers have been contesting the proposals vigorously. israel's far right government says the reforms are needed to correct an imbalance of power between lawmakers and the court and his 3 people are dead and several injured after shooting at the university in the night at the university in the united states, police surrounded michigan state university campus after gunfire was reported as 2 locations late monday night. please have confirmed,

one suspect was found dead from a self inflicted gunshot sack long gabrielle has cause widespread damage in new zealand. some of the west effected areas are the countries north, ireland, for just the 3rd time. officials have declared a national state of emergency it's been described as a significant disaster. and in hawkes bay on new zealand north island cyclone gabrielle has left a trail of devastation. the storm hit the country with wind gusts of more than 140 kilometers an hour and heavy rain. as much as 20 centimeters has fallen in just 24 hours. with the rapidly rising waters, cutting off roads and leaving vast swathes of land submerged. and some, and trying to fight their way out of the depths and to safety. it has been a very big noise for new zealanders across the country,

but particularly in the upper north island. i want to acknowledge the situation that new zealanders have been waking up. so this morning, a lot of families displaced a lot of homes without power, extensive damage done across the country. it will take us a while to get a handle on exactly what's happened. and that's because flood waters and landslides have left some areas completely cut off. have bring efforts by emergency and rescue teams to respond. the deadly impact of the severe weather is now pushed authorities to declare a national state of emergency for only the 3rd time in new zealand history. little, but this is a significant disaster with a real threat to lives of new zealanders, to die. we are expecting to see more rine and high winds. we through the worst of

the storm itself. but we know that we are all fighting extensive flooding slips, damage rides, and infrastructure. tens of thousands of homes are without electricity. with new zealand, national power grid operator declaring an emergency following the loss of supplies . it's warned that it may take weeks for some areas to be reconnected with more severe weather expected to arrive. the check for boy jak of young t o has announced that he is gay in a step that remains extremely ram. among professional male players, junko published a video on social media and which he said he no longer wanted to hide his sexual orientation. the midfielder has played $45.00 times for the check national team. he's only active male player, kept as a full, international tough come out public years. you watching the w news is a reminder of our top story. a week off,

the devastating earthquakes hit turkey and syria. the death toll has now climbed to more than $35000.00. united nations has wall that that number could sort of pass 50000. it also says rescue happens in syria winding down as the focus now shifts to finding shelter. full so, but that's it from me and the new steam as they to though steven bits the will be here in a moment with your business update. i've got office and berlin from me and the new seem to watch ah ah, imagine that you're eating a hamburger and.