on behind the bus gardens of truth starts february 18th on d w a. ah, this is the w news line from by land. the un describes the earthquakes in turkey and syria as the regions, worst natural disaster for a century report from the turkish city of attack here, where nearly 3 quarters of the buildings have been destroyed to the rich cultural history wiped out. also on the program, nato says russia has begun a new offensive in ukraine, nato defense ministers, or in brussels,

along with your friends. other military backers to consider keeps a feel for more heavy weapons, including fighter jets, fats or sources in india, re the offices of the b, b. c in delhi, and one by after the broadcast. as a controversial documentary critical prime minister rand remote new zealand declared a national emergency, of course is widespread flooding and forces evacuate. ah, i'm feel gale. welcome to the program. more than 37000 people are now known to have been killed in the earthquakes in syria and turkey. the un says it's the worst natural disaster in the region for a 100 years. tens of thousands have been evacuated from the hardest hit areas of southern turkey, and had a province. the city of van takia was almost entirely flattened. a correspondent

unit hon. is there a welcome julia? give us a sense of what your c well and tucker is a city in ruins. the scale of the destruction here is massive about 70 percent of the city. these are the estimates here are gone. just look around, i'm trying to show you a little bit of what i see here. we've been driving around town to day and we saw hardly any building still standing, and the buildings that are still standing are shattered, to cracked, tilted unsafe, and uninhabitable. and you should know that on takia used to be a home for more than 400000 people in the city with a rich cultural heritage. i'm in fact in the ancient old city right now, which was a popular spot with tourists from turkey, but also from a broad, a city that was multi cultural,

multi religious. but the architectural damage done here is colossal to iconic landmarks as well as 7th century mosque. the city synagogue churches have been heavily damaged and then of course, when we speak with the people who decided to stay here, they are in so much pain because everyone here has lost someone. so people are grieving, they are grieving for their loved ones. they are grieving for their city. we still see search and rescue teams, a disaster response teams of both from turkey, of course, but also from mexico, from australia. they are still walking the streets and trying to hear if there are sounds and noises coming from under these piles of rubble. one team from istanbul told us that they are determined to continue. they won't give up to try and find survivors even though the chances of still finding people alive now, all very, very slim. but you have also have to know that many of the roads here are entirely

blocked by the collapse buildings. the main roads have been cleared and are accessible, but there are many smaller roads. the teams have not yet managed to access. so you, you, you mentioned some of the people who have survived and stayed. how are they living? what virtually, what are the easy, what are you living on? well, 1st of all, am what we see here today is basically a ghost town. most of the people, many people have, have left and takia. they moved to city the villages nearby. and those who stayed are now living basically in intent camps that have been set up here by n g o z by the authorities. some of the 10s we're being told will be replaced by more solid containers. but still the situation is desperate. we spoke to 8 workers here on the ground. many of them are actually volunteers and they tell us, there are still people who sleep out in the open. they need tens shelter, heating,

electricity, generators. they need high jenny products, they need toilets and things like underwear. so because people have lost almost everything here and what they also need is psychological help because the people here who have been through this nightmare here and untouched, they are absolutely traumatized. and is it too early to think about what happens next when a place has been so comprehensively destroyed? that's what i've asked people here to day and they have absolutely no idea what's coming for them in the next day's next few weeks. months, even the turkish government has promised to wake them of these earthquakes financial aid. they have promised to provide permanent shelter within a year, but from where i am standing, seeing the destruction, it's very hard to imagine how, you know, reconstruction, could look like the entire city basically would need to be rebuilt and

reconstructed. it's a city where the history of mood and 2000 years, which was to a large part wiped out by these earthquakes within minutes. and this is gonna take time. it's also gonna take time for people to come to tons. was to really understand what has happened here. thank you lou. julia han and i'm talking some talking with united nations says the focus of this operation is in the disaster zone is now on caring for people who have been made. homeless emergency crews haven't given up the search for survivors and are still saving people who've been trapped for more than a week. 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,

sire, the super dangerous the collapse. so you cannot just go inside and you should be really careful, so not to harm the people inside that kind of you see in turkey guard thinking with our nails, one by one floor is always love it. but over a week after the earthquake devastated parts of turkey in 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 he will allow 2 new crossing points to the much needed humanitarian aid to reach the rebel health region and 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 him is 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. ukraine's a western allies, a meeting in brussels to discuss that further military assistance in the war against russia. nato secretary general against dalton burke. i'm said reverend expected russian offensive in easton, ukraine has begun that keeps allies on now in a logistical race to supply weapons and ammunition. as to trans secretary lloyd austin opened the meeting of the international contact group, coordinating military assistance to ukraine. herman is still very, very good way to sell, but when you're on, we are,

as you made it as and that's your result will help sustain the crazy momentum crucial weeks. i don't crave travel, the challenging road that lies be, are looking around this room today. i know that our unity will only grow. we all understand the stakes in rushes. we're sure this isn't just about your grade right to live in peace and security. it's also about the world that our children when they're well, let's see how the land lies now with our brussels bureau chief, alexandra found them and whose at nato headquarters in brussels, and correspondent and nic comedy, who's in ki, welcome both. let's start with you on exam dra, regardless of general austin's war words. there are nato allies on the same page. well, allies have remained remarkably united since the beginning of the war with sir us,

secretary of defense, austin saying that western support for ukraine will not fold for. however, when it comes to weapons deliveries by individual nato countries. there are differences. view as is one of the main donors of weapons to ukraine. other countries are more restrained and we have already seen some signs of discord recently. for instance, sir, between paul and hence germany would a polish government, sir, criticizing germany for doing too little too late. and the german government saying this is not justified that the polish government is using the criticism for domestic reasons. so they have remained united. but the question is, of course, how to maintain this you need see, the longer the war drex on an economy in came from. so we've heard from the nato

secretary general that the war has now been escalated, or ukrainian, or russian forces are locked in a fierce battle in back mort. can you bring us the latest on it's pretty difficult to stay abreast situation. there. we have seen all that through conflict that when things start getting really, really intense in the fight and gets really bad, the ukrainian and up to the russian military as a get very tight lipped and very little in the way of confirmed information coming out of there but it does seem like the battle for bad mood after months of kind of it warming up has now reached its kind of climax. and there is an expectation guarantee of that raffles might be forced to leave the city in the next week or 2. the russians really are using all their haven't terms of artillery to attack the 2 main supply route, the 2 main roads reading, leading into baltimore from creating controlled territory. and the russian seemingly unwilling to engage in kind of hand to hand bit building to building urban warfare. so trying to kind of force the cranes to leave the images when you look at them are devastating. it's kind of 1st world war style crated landscapes.

huge amounts of artillery being used at lots and lots of losses on both sides, but specifically on the russian side, seemingly not much willingness there to do much to protect russian lives and to, you know, fights in a way that would preserve them. an expectation that soon the leaders here in ukraine are going to take decision that it's not worth it anymore. but holding the russians in buttonwood is just killing of helen, too costly for ukraine. and alexandra, you, ukraine is pushing for more ammunition delivery. can we expect today's meeting of the contact group to give them what they want? well, nato officials with been speaking, we're told us that we can expect her in new pledges, or however we don't know whether there are going to be made a public. but yes or nato and its partners are ready to increase military assistance for a ukraine. and of course, ammunition is at the top of the agenda when we consider that ukraine is firing

crown around $5000.00 sir artillery rounds every day. or roughly as much as the small european nation would order every year and a piece full time. so they need ammunition. this is urgent, and nato allies know that. and the leopard 2 tanks, which have been promised to the said to be on the way ukrainian troops are now being trained in their use. and perhaps you can tell us more about that, alexandra well, it shall you have had a chance to visit a military site in western poland, where ukrainian soldiers are being trained to be able to operate leopards to tanks soon. and we were told there at that sir, they are eager that they are asking a lot of questions. but let's have a look at our report. leverage to tanks

in action showing what they are capable of at a military site in western poland. the 1st ukranian soldiers have started to train here. fish of shadowed ski is one of their instructors. she's only a her. we don't need to motivate the soldiers at all. in fact, we have to hold them back a bit to let them learn a bit by bit. i'm over to the book. they are highly motivated and want to learn everything with motor needed to operate or the tanks, the mechanical junior machines. normally the training takes 2 months, but instructors here say they can cut it in half. the polish government has been one of the staunchest supporters of ukraine calling time and again for deliveries of more advanced weapons. president angie, duda himself has come from war. so to visit the training center level just now, we hope that these modern weapons will help them strike back against russia.

stronger than before the people considered one of the best tanks in the west arsenal. the leopard too, is also one of the most widely used that makes him such a good fit for keith. experts say tanks and known wouldn't be a game change on the battlefield, but they could help ukraine to go on the offensive again. only days ago, major varden hot dog and his tank brigade were fighting on the front lines, intent on at screeching. now they are here in poland. were yet the girls emir sure . i think these tanks will be a great helicopter and great support for our army reserve would at the game were 3 manion luxury army. when we learn how to operate them and begin using them in battle of will be home, this will have a big will hang over her yet, then why should they will that does have validity effect? we still ukraine has been waiting for western tanks for months. now the 1st ones

are expected to arrive on the front lines at the end of march. to pick that up with that nick connelly in case our nick we just heard from her alexanders report. the tank training is being harvey in time. and the other fears that they say that this is being rushed and that perhaps the ukrainian troops will be underprepared. i think in terms of the operation that there are fewer worries we've seen time and time again that ukrainian military personnel have exceeded expectations of them from west l, as in terms of their ability to quickly deal with complex weapon systems. as you heard in the report, these people who are already long term tank operators just coming from the front lines where they've been working with soviet era tanks. i think the bigger question is going to be the logistics of repairing and keeping these tanks up and running, especially since ukraine is not getting one type of lack of 2 tanks. but it looks at get different modifications, different variance, but slightly different needs a slightly different spare parts. so the real fear here this could turn into a logistical nightmare. few grains only. and part of that, of course,

because russia is already intensifying aid, sir, it's assault will delivery of these that tanks at the end of march. i will not be too late. what i think the end of march p, if that really is possible, improves to happen as is promised. now people here and cave will be very happy, but this is of see only the 1st step is the 1st tranche of these leopard 2 tanks. more modern tanks and further tanks of the older leopard, one type are expected to come in the middle of the year, even later in the year. so this is only the 1st kind of installment of this promise of tanks for ukraine's army. i think it is here, 1st of all, very important symbolic step. but as we've been hearing these reports from that ukranian army briefings emanation is of seat the number one thing ukraine has a lot of artillery systems, other yet soviet era weapon systems. but just simply know emma to use them in their bases sitting there useless for now. so i think, you know, tanks are important and as symbolic, important because they kind of tie in that western support and that willingness to

go further in terms of the tech and the complexity of the sport, few grain. but right now, facing a russian troops long hundreds clumps, front lines. ammunition is going to be definitely the party, alexander phenomena in brussels. i'm a ukraine originally said what we need is tanks and nato. and it's i said, well, you can't have them, you can't have them. all right, then now ukraine is saying we need fighter jets. and at the moment they're getting mixed signals. for from that the west, i'll be likely to say any movement from nato on that today. well the topic is a definitely on the agenda. discussion is ongoing eons. a stolen burke, a secretary general of nato, told us to day. and we also know for instance, that the netherlands has received a request from ukraine to deliver such western made fighter jets. however, we are not expecting any decisions to day with many allies, saying as such a step could leads to an escalation of the conflict. this is

a more complex matter. and so we don't expect any announcements, at least not in public here today. thank you for that alexandra phenomena, brussels bureau chief, and that nick connelly. a key. thank you both to add to india, where authorities have rated the bbc's office is in delhi, unmanned by weeks after the broadcaster showed a documentary, critical of prime minister in the raindrop modi. bbc says it's fully cooperating with attacks investigation. british broadcasters, to part documentary claim said mister moody failed to prevent sectarian riots on running the state. government in good, you're out in 2002. we get more from d, w. south asia bureau chief on rita cima, who's in delhi. welcome amrita. let's start with the timing of this raid.

hi phil. first of all, you know, the income tax authorities are not describing this as a read, but rather a survey. and they say that they have carrying out the survey to investigate what they called financial irregularities at the b, b, c, and non compliance with the indent tax laws. now the action started just before mid day. some, a 20 officials marched into the bbc offices are in delhi and some more in mom, bye. and this sees telephones belonging to people working there as well as their laptops. they're also been asserting their desktops there. now obviously everybody is talking about the timing. there's intense debate about here, about the timing, and as you mentioned, these are servers or reads game just a few weeks after this documentary, there's bbc documentary, a questioning that in that a more these rule in the 2002 voyager dark rise and the indian government was furious about this documentary because they said the prime minister had already

been cleared by the indent supreme court. so they try to block this documentary and a very still an action against students who were organizing a private viewings. so obviously not everybody is just drawing a link between what happened with the documentary and what's happening today in the offices of the b, b. c. to tell us more about what people are saying, what is the reaction been to this re slash survey? well it, it, it was the breaking news, an all major news channels here in india, that widespread condemnation from the opposition describing it as an authoritarian move in some said it was an undeclared emergency. and other said that it was tarnishing india's image. but the b, b, the ruling bgp was quick to responded. describe the opposition or comments as anti india. and then the spokesman for the b j. b lashed out a scathing attack on the bbc using very strong derogatory language. he described

the b, b, c as anti in deal with the hidden agenda and describe it's reporting as venomous and, and said that, you know, india was being targeted by the b, b, c. so based strong words there which didn't go down very well, or with lots of people who are critical of the government section under i'm researchers in the 1st time media organizations in india have run into trouble with the law of that's right. i mean, there's been a history of journalists who are viewed as critical of the government being targeted in this manner with income tax reads for financial irregularities. you know, in the middle of the pandemic, 2 large media houses were targeted because they're reporting was viewed as critical of the government's handling of the pandemic. since then, many other journalists as well as media houses who are viewed as independent, not pro government, has faced this kind of action, including television stations, leading newspapers, and also individual journalists. now,

given that india is and who is the presidency of the g 20. this is really not such a good look for india, which aspires to play a much more significant role on the international stage. thank you for that. i am brita chima in new delhi. let's take a look now. some of the other stories are making headlines around the world. equitorial guineas confirmed its 1st outbreak of the marburg virus. the highly contagious disease is related to abolla. 9 people have died so far more than 200 are in quarantine. 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 opposition. law makers. i've been contesting the proposals, and israel's foreign government says forms are needed to correct an imbalance of power between lawmakers in the court. russia is denying

a plotting to overthrow the government moldova, using forum saboteurs. although from president a, my a sandy who is accused a mosque of planning a q ukraine also says it's uncovered details of the russian. one kremlin says the club claims are unfounded to new zealand, where a national state of emergency is in force. cyclone gabrielle house, cause widespread damage including land slides was defected. areas are on the north island. 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 you zealand as have been waking up to 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. hampering efforts by emergency and rescue teams to response 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

a little, but this is a significant disaster with a real threat to the 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 united states is trying to identify the flying objects, objects it shot down in north american, the air space. u. s. air force brought down the latest overlaid huron on the canadian border. a suspected chinese surveillance balloon was targeted earlier. white house as the objects don't pose any immediate threat. this is the moment

a u. s. jack shot down a big white balloon, which washington believed could be a sophisticated chinese spying device. it 1st entered u. s. territory in late january and was shot down off the coast of south carolina on february 4th. since then, 2 smaller objects have been shot 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

fragments recovered at c, hoping to find out more breaking up with beating and says to the balloon was conducting whether research and has rejected any connection to the last 3 objects. bershana or me other judy. we have stated many times may the 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. now her and i have no information on how to make war 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. ah said football or yeah, jacobi unto young toe has announced that he's gay. a rest step amount professional

on may who are footballers. and he published a video in social media in which he said he no longer wants to hide his sexuality. midfielder has played with a check national team $45.00 times and is the only active male player kept as a full international will come out publicly as gay. and well this seasons, the addition of the champions league continues on tuesday evening. with the round of 16, germany's top club by and munich will be on the road to play the top club in france . perry sandra and the 1st of 2 matches as well that ac milan will host at london side. tottenham is her mind about top story at this hour. the death toll from the earthquakes in silvia and turkey's clients. more than 37000 folk is now and finding shelter for millions of people. left hopes coming up next day. news, asia, indonesia, as president admits historical state sponsored atrocities. but victims and activists are demanding much more on why cambodia is evicting the locals from

around its set famous se, se most famous of world heritage site british mandatory will have those stories more than just to have a good ah visit the dublin years, a shark coming up to date, questions asked about indonesia, public reckoning with a dock chapter, and it's past half a 1000000 people were killed in the 19 sixty's in antique communist badges. president, yoko, dodo acknowledges the trustees. but is that enough? plus being evicted from a tourist hotspot, cambodians are losing their homes there and.