[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin in the wake of devastating earthquakes comes to the task of burying the debt turkey dick's mass graves for thousands of bodies and bar most victims have been identified. many families are still desperately trying to find missing lump ban balloon shop down over cave. ukraine says it has eliminated suspected surveillance aircraft,

as russia ramps up its attacks in the air and on the ground cloth. in germany, a record number of refugees are arriving as the war and ukraine rages on. local authorities are now sounding the alarm and the government is under pressure to respond. plus, the bear is back, hollywood glamour, robs up against politics. as berlin's famous film festival, the bell in our open with all that is new and cinema, including a premier of a documentary about ukraine's war presidents. ah, i'm gabelle as welcome to the program. the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria have now claim to over $40000.00 lives in turkey. many of the dead are being buried in mass graves, making it difficult for their loved ones to find them. and as d. w,

as jack paris reports, some graves are still unmarked. the unmistakable sound of grief. ah! these people have just identified the body of a loved one at this graveyard on the outskirts of kurama marsh in southern turkey. miss duffer arrives in search of his child. has sent a letter had symbol, as you buy the modem, i searched to hospitals for my baby like i'm almost europe, but i want to bury my baby. and to pray rosalind, that's all i want to miss you. but it's no loss miss yesterday. and nurse told me my baby had died is all that i get and that i should come here, but they showed me a photo let. now i'm here to find the great of miss lot. we should bill on a good at she been kobinie stewart on been the stuff a goes to find. his baby fans arrive here every few minutes throughout the day,

each carrying up to 4 people who died in the earthquakes. the national police force is coordinating the operation taking photos and fingerprints of the bodies which they match up to a national database in coordination with the interior ministry and the office of immigration lives, which i'll show mother his me to them at him is jealousy. let him is one or processor done look, there is still somebody's which can't be identified whomever southerner for them. would you want to avoid any confusion in the future? in our knowledge, we take a biological sample for dna analysis. another which can be matched to blood samples from their families later miss. yup. will um, you know, assist them as an initiative to the mrs. allah, missouri washing luchella's my up yours. there are 600 people working in this graveyard alone. each of the graves here has a number on it so that the families can come and find out exactly where their loved one has been buried. it is an extremely sad and extremely powerful scene. and the

reality of this earthquake is that this is just one graveyard like this pretty much every city in the region has a similar one. around 95 percent of the buried have been identified for those whose families don't make it here in time. volunteers have come to treat the bodies before burial. your name is dan get hutchison. i wish every one was alive is susan steers, i'm but we're here treating the bodies as they should be treated in the islamic way . her brother did give the family's peace of mind to law me shak larva, he is in the toronto few places represent the horrors of the earthquake more than here and is more bodies buried. more families walk to graveyard to find their final resting place. multi w as jack power kyle that report. and earlier he told me more about the scenes that he witnessed at that burial sight. while the overwhelming sense

gout was that the authorities and the people that have volunteered to work, there were just doing absolutely everything within their power to try and show the bodies and the families of those people who had died. the utmost respect and dignity in what is a really, really difficult situation. bearing in mind that a lot of the people that are doing that work are themselves affected by this earthquake. pretty much every single person in this region has a story of sadness of grief, of destruction from that earthquake that hit 10 days ago. and i just want to say that our, our team didn't take it lightly, that the people in that report allowed us to film them in that moment of unbearable grief. one of the hardest things i think for a person to do is to look inside of a body bag and to identify a loved one. and that was certainly some of the,

some of the most difficult scenes but for us to watch. but paling incomes insignificance compared to the pain of those families that, that had to do that, that horribly heartbreaking, of course. and so what's the situation like now for the survivors that you've been speaking to with this is it, the situation is getting increasingly more difficult. many of the bill beings, for instance, hearing gassy, untapped where we now are, you can see behind me that clearing away buildings where they want to rebuild. but there are a lot of buildings that are still standing that haven't been cleared to be safe for people to return into. and there are tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands in this city alone that are sleeping on the street sleeping in their cars. still 10 days after the quake head and many more across the region. so the authorities, the government, are doing everything they can to move as quickly as possible to try and get those building secured or to provide additional tens for people to be able to stay in because it is bitterly cold. the sun shining out on us now,

but it is seriously cold here. and the doctors and hospitals are reporting increasing levels of infections of long infections of issues for people that is sleeping out cold in the streets, is really a race against time to try and to try and bring back some normality to the people's lives who have survived now there are still some miracle moments there if you want to call it that of people being pulled alive from the rubble so long after the earthquake hit a how much longer do you think they're going to keep up these rescue efforts at that, they say that they're going to continue for as long as they possibly can. as you say, there's a sort of juxtaposition with the scenes that we saw in that graveyard of people identified their bodies while the scenes of real hope of people being pulled from the rubber. we heard of a 17 year old woman who was fined in carroll. my mirage earlier today, 248 hours after the earthquake 1st shot,

you just can't even imagine what the al deal must have been like being stuck under the rubble. but the reports of those rescues are coming. fewer and farther between many of the people that have been saved in the last couple of days have been young in their sort of either children or in their teens. i hope is fading, it is dwindling. that's the reality of it. rescue operations in the aid workers say they will continue until they they, they, they just cannot continue any, any further lit up his jack pack, very porting from turkey. thank you, john. now the earth quakes in a turkey ah, also concerning natal because it's the worst natural disaster on the alliance's territory since it was founded. and secretary general young stoughton back is in turkey today to discuss natal support for relief and reconstruction efforts. but turkey's objections to sweden joining nato are also in focus. start mag repeated

his call for turkey to quickly ratify sweden and finland joined membership. our build turkey. she was a sweden of harboring terrorists and is opposing its application target. foreign minister load cover. so glue suggested finland's membership could be approved separately of a more on that i am now joint, but it obvious. dorian johnson is stumble, a dorian, what more has been said, and then press conference. nato secretary general in. so somebody was outlining the magnitude of the support, the nato is deploying to turkey, particularly thousands upon thousands of tents which are urgently needed in the region. given the fact of the freaking with condition to just be hearing about now took a foreign minister. every child should pay tribute to the support of nato in a particular personal role of stolen but can be described always. the friend of turkey bought the turkey for mister reaffirms is opposition to the swedish joy. no

said basically sweden had to some reforms in combat. the terrorist threat that turkey faces were using of being based in sweden, but says still not enough as being done. phones introduced, they still have to be put into action troubleshoot with this day, they were open to finland, joining they said this little problem, they have the food application and nathan secretary general stolen both the, the peer roots are into the ultimately be to northern countries will not be joining together, saying that the priority for nato is to get them in as soon as possible, suggesting the fin the maybe 1st and possibly need sweden later. but has to be said . ready is going to elections in the next few months, will the whole dynamics change if there is a new government in power? you haven't told them that also said that he understands and quote turkey's concerns regarding finland and sweden membership. what exactly is turkey objecting to well, basically turkey has particular concern that they say that there are terrorist

organization groups based in switzerland, suite. them that are operated again. talking office takes a concern. this is curtis texas group because don't look at policies, take a, which is recognized as a terrorist organization by the european unit. i'm the united states. and they say that they are operating, offering them to sweden, and sweden has to do more to crack down on those groups now sold them both said yet turkey has suffered more terrorist attacks than any of a nato member. he said he understood that their, their anger and their concerns, and he said the 3, the all taking steps. well, troubleshoot facing concern here is that they think yes for phones have been introduced, but they want them to be put into action. in particular, the expectation of many individuals, they have a list of over a 120 people in stock. um it says this is a matter of politics. this is a master for the course. now your secretary of state entity blinking is due to

arrive at on for next week. how might that affect the situation? you know, that could be key in many ways. in fact, shovel shortly went out of his way to say that lincoln is coming to to taki now, turkey happy pressing very hard to have direct talk to washington over the issue of nato. now, washington has been very reluctant to say this is a massive amount of turkey, sweden, we don't want to get involved. i'm that has irritated particular focus. president, project 5 was very much likes to be at the high table talking direct direct with the us present the bible. and he has been very reluctant to engage in that. now. the fact the play and it's coming, he's the chest that he could be looking for. sexual washington in exchange for living is going to waving now, washington, very reluctant to get involved in a fight and blink. and it's coming in the fact the nato membership of leaving the thing is on the table, suggested it's getting its way at least and having people going, joins the stumble, many things for him,

and there are more suspected spy balloons. and this time in ukraine authorities dare say they have shot down russian balloons over keith. it may have carried surveillance equipment. officials say only a few of the 6 balloons detected have been brought down the kremlin, as not commented on the reports are russia is ramping up its attack attacks on areas of east of ukraine and nato countries are responding to keep score for support. by promising to increase their production of munitions for ukraine's military w's. nick connelly is in cuba and he told us more about the suspected russian balloons that have been shot down. thanks for now. the details are pretty scant, but it seems like so these balloons were about surveillance about finding out where ukraine's air defenses, missile defenses are. but there's also suggestion that some of these were basically kind of fake targets for ukraine's missile defense systems. a way to use very cheap

balloon, maybe with so can metallic objects involved that trick radars, trick ukraine's force into wasting very, very expensive and very scarce. anti missile anti aircraft, munitions, which as we behave which days are in very short supply and western countries. now, scrambling to kind of up production of those for ukraine to make sure that the kind of present level of defense capability stays in place, stays realistic. but certainly that was something new for care of. we have actually had reports of similar balloons been used, close the front lines of east, but certificate that was something new yesterday. now a russia has intensified. clearly it's a tax across southern and east of ukraine and i will get reports of ukrainian forces retreating. what's the latest from those front lines? why it's pretty difficult to report in this kind of in real time, because obviously there's very limits, sex for journalists. and the ukrainian military is pretty cagey about confirming these kind of reports often, especially when things aren't going well for them. they will only confirm these things a couple of days later, the russians claiming some advances in law hans cobbler's,

but yet they basically control all of that region. so this is all pretty small stuff and there's also a pretty wide river at west to where they currently alter if they were to push brother. yeah, that's all pretty difficult. but certainly does a sense that russia is desperate for anything. it can sell is victory, right? now anything to kind of reverse the tide of bad news for the russian military and in but more than the hands ever, we seen the russians really upping the pressure on ukraine's forces not a to come to is just promised to increase their production of artillery munitions what's the view, keith? there? will it arrive in time and will it be enough? well, i certainly there is a fear in ukraine that western can just simply don't get the scale of this warning . they don't understand the intensity of fighting. you might be able to hear the air, it's sorry, just behind me, especially this year anniversary comes closer. there's a feeling that vladimir putin is so desperate to kind of explain why he's doing this and to kind of convince the russian people to keep committed to this war. that he is going to try and you pull out all the stops and maybe send more massage more planes,

potentially even protects the like you have to the real worry and the kind of desire here to try and convince and going to bring that message across to european countries who might be getting work new eventually a bit weary of this war, that it is time to up. there is a support for ukraine and to really provide supplies on a much bigger scale and to really change the way their economies are working to give you credit support may currently or in a key of their thank you very much for your important no rushes war and ukraine as once again putting the focus back on the issue of refugees here in germany. last year, more than 1200000 refugees arrived. that's a lot more than in previous years. and even more than during the 2 years of what became known as the refugee crisis of 2015 and 16, many fled countries that have long been suffering from wars and conflicts like syria and have gone a star of farther majority more than 80 percent. and now from ukraine, now,

many local authorities are feeling overwhelmed and as sounding the alarm, that's why today politicians and experts are meeting in berlin to discuss solutions . and following that story for us at the federal ministry of interior invalid as our political corresponded, hands brand hands. why is germany now struggling to cope with the arrival of refugees and what are the main issues there? well the problem is the long term needs of the refugees, as you've just described over a 1000001200000 arrived last year in germany. a 1000000 of those just over a 1000000 were from ukraine. the other 250000 or so away from various other countries, especially from siri and afghanistan. and while accepting the refugees sort of in the initial stages of finding emergency accommodations for them and so on. that is something that has worked very well, but now over the long term,

the refugees are being distributed across germany to various towns and cities and villages too, depending on their size. so the problem in the sense is being given handed on to these places, and many of them already have refugees from the past few years and they are struggling in fact to accommodate them. that's the major problem. accommodation is a big problem over germany, not only for people coming in from germany, but also for people who have been living here for, for many years. and then there are the more long term needs, such as schooling for children, such as learning the german language, finding jobs, reintegrating, or integrating people into german society. one of these need personnel, they need money, and there's a lot of that lacking now. germany faced a very similar situation, a 70 years ago when more than a 1000000 refugees from the war and syria arrived, yet did germany learn anything from this experience? yes,

there were many lessons learned from what happened in 20152016. many of the structures were available when the ukranian refugees arrived to emergency shelters were able to be put into operation pretty quickly. they were non governmental organizations that were able to help in receiving refugees and finding out what their needs were and so on. and even with the villages and towns and cities that are accepting refugees, they to have structures in place. but the structures are being strained by the number of refugees that are arriving. and we don't know exactly how many people might still arrive from ukraine. that depends very much on the development of that war. we don't know how long the refugees from ukraine will remain in germany. that to depends on the development of the war. and at the same time, the number of refugees from other countries is increasing very strongly. again,

one can see that says since the beginning of the year already at the number of people arriving, for instance from siri and afghan hassan has increased significantly. so the problem is not going away, that's it. and germany is facing this problem and is struggling in fact to find places for all of these people hands pump reporting. thank you very much. as well as germany, struggles to keep up with an unprecedented level of refugees in the country. as hans just said, some communities are trying out constructive solutions to house people. the small city of gorsline central germany is using all the resources it has to make the new arrivals feel at home a taste of home to day you, yellowstone panko is making ukrainian bush beetroot soup. she fled from key if to germany and march 2022 with her 2 daughters. since then they've been living in the small city of kosler. her husband, a policeman, stayed behind you,

leah's daughters, anya and maria go to local school and kindergarten. at 1st, the family lived in a hostile room provided by the district, but moved to a private apartment. just 2 months later, lepage health what's in the will and was on at the beginning. it wasn't very important where we lived because the situation was so terrible and she didn't have any expectations. wound up with. all we wanted was safety that we ended up moving here with these great conditions is very cool. not that she is here or more with said, ohio group, just over 2000 ukrainian refugees like julia and her kids have come to the district of goss law since the war began. the local population is about a 130000 people. there are many older people here and many apartments have been left empty. the local administration created a system to match refugees up with the owners of that free accommodation. the district also has several temporary arrival centers for refugees on offer,

including a hotel and a hostile and me, its facilities misdemeanor. if i imagined that i had to live for several months in a sports hall with lots of people, i don't know. conflict put into of course, that kind of thing can create conflict. and of course, having people living in apartments across the ghost law district allows us to integrate them better in. mm hm. and then we also have a lot of volunteers and villages and cities who else these people in the inch didn't dimensions as i understand, you know, like in this former casino in the city of goslin. now a center for donations around 30 volunteers have been here almost every day to help the refugees with advice and to sort through clothes, furniture, and household objects, all things the ukrainians desperately need when they move into completely empty apartments. the common he, he at is they come here and the 1st thing they say it's, do you have cutlery, neck blankets? i do have a pillow as well. it's almost unimaginable what that means to really have nothing

middle hub. the state has now officially stopped assigning ukrainians to the goslin district, but the local administration is expecting around 700 asylum seekers from other countries to arrive in the coming months. some of them may not be as lucky as eula and her family. the local administration says the stock of empty apartments may run out soon. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines to there. a court in italy has acquitted a former prime minister, silvio berlusconi on charges of witnessing witness tampering in an underage prostitution case. the judge sides of the legal errors by the prosecutors. it's the 3rd trial related to his so called bunger bunger. 6 parties that bullet county hosted while an office the chief of the world bank, david my past says he will step down nearly a year early. he was appointed to the role in 2019. when donald trump was presidents,

recently my passes come up against cause to resign for is inadequate approach to combat the effects of climate changes. here in berlin organizes are getting ready to roll out the red carpet for the cities, annual film festival, known as the belly knowledge. on top of the usual glitz and glamour. there's a string of movies and events in solidarity with ukraine and the protests in iran. the berlin allah is back after 2 scaled down additions this february. it's back to business for one of the world's biggest film festivals. and one of the german capitals, greatest cultural jewels. the organizers are pulling out all the stops to get filled lovers of their couches and industry players out of home office artistic director carlo shats the all says this year's festival received more film entries than ever before. maybe in the last 2 additions, some companies hold off their films or it also may be. ready the

result of the fact that after 2 years, many companies, many filmmakers wanted and want to be back and be part of this great celebration of cinema. hollywood will be well represented with actress kristin stewart, heading the international jury. she'll be joined by a host of stars on the red carpet. besides the glamour, the berlin ala has always engage to with the real world. and this is no exception. last year's festival ended days before russia's invasion of ukraine and lis, 73rd berliner is putting the country center stage. sean, penn's documentary about president zalinski superpower will have its world premiere here a to for the berlin ana. oh, so for me, this film is like the doors through which i hope the entire audience of the festival i can pass and, and then be connected without

a documentary or maybe less. or now we have films in panorama fiction and documentary. we're phillips and generation. we're film films in form that really provide a very wide diversified picture of what happened in cream and still happening during the last 12 months. the festival will also feature the european premier of iron butterflies. a documentary about the shooting down of malaysia airlines flight m h. 17. about the current human rights protests in iran are also reflected in the line up films. primary include 7 winters into iran, about an iranian woman who was executed for defending herself against a rapist. ah, as well as politics and glitter for the next 10 days. all eyes will be on the gold . as 19 films from across the globe compete for the coveted golden bear and a host of other prizes, they'll be handed out

a week on saturday and in true berlin olive fashion, any one of them could be a winner and revenue. one. pamela fear, with a message from me and the news to him. for now, i'll open up it for you at the top of the hour. uncle way focus on europe is next for. look at the earth quake in turkey and serial. that's coming up after the break . i'm gabrielle f, as in berlin from me and the team thanks for watching. ah ah,

with ah ah, in turkey people are not only morning they're dead. they're in shock, the said fail to prevent the catastrophe. ah, the cause of shawny construction. everything lies in ruins. for syrian refugees who have come here seeking safety,

the future looks equally bleed focus in europe. next on d. w. conflicts with tim sebastian, it's almost a year since russia invaded ukraine with no peace talks or cease fire of any kind in prospect. my guess is we must go to meet with former army officer and former director of the county moscow center, which was shut down las vegas. why did moscow go to war? just as the west had begun, the dialog continues been demanding conflict with a 60 minute dw, with getting ahead,

using tech. as our documentary series of founders valley foliage africa. to meet the founders empowering their continent through digital innovation, transforming work and health and living conditions in their country and inspiring world with their ideas. founders valley africa. watch now. i met with this is focus on europe. i'm lar, bubble lola, welcome to the show. the earthquakes in turkey and syria have left a staggering trail of destruction. many towns and villages have been affected by