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ah, ah ah ah, this is dw slide from berlin in the wake of devastating earthquakes comes to the task of burying the debt. turkey digs mass graves for thousands of bodies of our most victims have been identified. many families are still desperately trying to find missing, loved ones, and balloons shot down over keith. ukraine says it has eliminated suspected surveillance aircraft has brush ramps up its attacks on the india and on the ground
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floor, the berries back, hollywood glamour robs up against politics. as berlin's famous film festival, the balin alo, it includes a premier of a documentary about ukraine's war president. ah, i'm gabelle as well come to the program. they're devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria half now claimed over 40000 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 t w's jack power reports, some grapes, remain unmarked. ah, the unmistakable sound of grief, ah, these people have just identified the body of a love one at this graveyard on the outskirts of kurama marsh in southern turkey.
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miss tougher arrives in search of his child has sent a letter hudson, blushing by the modem. i searched to hospitals for my baby like 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 gravy of miss lot. we should bill on a good at she been recovered in the storm bed. mister f 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 will if you will,
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i shall mother his me to the medium is josie. let him is one or processor time. look, there is still somebody's which can't be identified him a southerner for them would you like 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. yelp will uh, you know, assist them as your international mrs. allah, missouri washing luchella's my of 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
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the bodies before burial. gun them is danger. hutchison, i wish every one was alive, isn't students on the, were here treating the bodies as they should be treated in the islamic way? her brother did give the families peace of mind to law. michel clover is in the toronto. few places represent the horrors of the earthquake more than here. and as more bodies are buried, more families walked the graveyard to find their final resting place. while our correspond, jack carrack found that report, and earlier he told me more about the scenes that he witnessed at the burial sites . while the overwhelming send scout 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 on 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
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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 to 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 for, for us to watch. but paling incomes in significance 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,
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the situation is getting increasingly more difficult. many of the buildings for in is hearing garcia, untapped where we now are. you can see behind me that's 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 in to. and there are tens of thousands, if not hundreds, of thousands in this city alone, that 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 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 as really a race against time to try and to try and bring back some normality to the people's
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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. 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 rubble. we heard of a 17 year old woman who was fight in carroll. my marsh, earlier today, 248 hours after the earthquake 1st shot, it just can't even imagine what that 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,
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it is dwindling. that's the reality of it. the 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 path. they're reporting from turkey. frankie jack or the earthquake in turkey are the whole worse natural disaster on nato territory. since the alliance was founded, and secretary general ian stoughton back is in turkey today to discuss natal support for relief and reconstruction efforts. but turkeys objections to sweden. joining nato are also in focus. started back, repeated his call for turkey to quickly ratify sweden and finland joint membership in tokyo uses sweden of harboring terrorists and is opposing its application. turkish foreign minister him if he would come to soak, suggested finland's membership could be approved separately. while the w correspondent, dorian jones, is following that story and its double force earlier,
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i asked him to give us more information on what the officials were discussing at this 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 freezing wind condition to just be hearing about now took a foreign minister never java shoals pay tribute to the support of nato in a particular personal role of stolen but can be described always a friend of turkey bought the turkey for mister reaffirms his position to the swedish joy now said basically sweden had to some reforms in combat. the terrorist threat that turkey faces were using of being patient we them but says still not enough. as being done. phones introduced, they still have to be put into action. on this day they were open to finland, joining they said this little problem, they have the food application and nathan secretary general stolen and both the,
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the peer roots are into the ultimately, the 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 turkey is going to elections in the next few months. will the whole dynamically change if there is a new government in power? yeah, but still the met 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 in k k, which is recognized as a terrorist organization by the european unit. i'm the united states and they say that they are operating to offer a can to sweden and sweden has to do more to crack down on those groups now,
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sold them both said yet turkey has suffered more terrorist attack than any of a nato member. he said he understood that their, their anger and their concerns, and he said the sweden, all taking that box, troubleshoot base and concern. here with that, i think yes for phones have been introduced, but they want them to be put into action. in particular, the expectation of many individual, they have a list of over a 120 people in stock. um it says, this is a mess of politics. this is a matter of course. now your secretary of state entity blinking is due to arrive in on for next week. how might that affect the situation? you know, that could be keen in many ways. in fact, shovel short went out of his way to say the lincoln is coming to to tacky 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,
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and we don't want to get involved and that has irritated particular focus. president, project fifa was very much like to be at the high table talking direct direct with the us present bible. and he has been very reluctant to engage in that now. the fact the play and it's coming his suggest that you could be looking for some sections from washington in exchange for lifting your needs are waiving now washington, very reluctant to get involved in that. but the lincoln's coming in the fact the nato membership of leaving the centers on the table suggested it's getting its way, at least and having pull don johns, there is stumble. many thanks. door in and there are more suspected spire balloons around this time in ukraine. authorities there say they have shot down russian balloons over chiefs that may have carried surveillance equipment. officials say only a few of the 6 balloons detected, have been brought down. the kremlin has not yet commented on the reports. meanwhile,
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russia is ramping up its attacks on areas of eastern ukraine and nato countries are responding to keeps calls for support, but promising to increase their production of munitions for ukraine's military. our correspondence nick connelly is in keith and earlier he told me more about those suspected russian balloons that have been shot down. thanks to now's 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 can fake targets for ukraine's missile defense systems. a way to use very cheap balloons, 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've been hearing 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,
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stays realistic. but certainly that was on the new for key of we have actually had reports of similar balloons been used, close the front lines of these. but some if a key if that was something useless. now. busy russia has intensified clearly its attacks across southern and east of ukraine, and i will get no 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 x for journalists and the ukrainian military is pretty cagey about confirming these kinds 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 or where they currently are. so if they were to push brother, you know, that's all pretty difficult. but certainly there's 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
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back, more than the hunt ever. we seen the russians really upping the pressure on ukraine's forces not a to come to was 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 this worn, that 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 pull out all the stops and maybe send more missiles, more planes, potentially even to text you like here to the real worry. and it kind of does, i had to try and convince. i'm going to bring that message across to european countries who might be getting worse. 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
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a much bigger scale and to really change the way their economies are working to give you crane that support it currently or in a key of their thank you very much for your report. marashi horn ukraine has also fundamentally alter the perceived threat of security in europe. since the start of the war, nato has significantly ramped up its forces in the baltic states at the request of the governments. them law fairly through ania and a stony up all border. russia and, but once part of the soviet union, now they're members of nato, and the european union did abuse. julian buyer has been to the a mary abbeys in estonia, to look at nato's air policing mission. they're aimed at monitoring the skies for any unauthorized russian activity. thermal underwear, a water immersion suit boots. a g suit, a life jacket and
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a helmet. it takes to lieutenant colonel christoph hoffmeister just under 2 minutes to put it all on right next door. his euro fighter is refueled and armed with a $27.00 millimeter canon. and air to air missiles ready for take off in under 15 minutes. this is their court summons on how complex that's a very short time for such a highly complex system. as for ela, pillow, it's no secret that for all pilots, when you're fast asleep and the alarm goes off, the pulse starts rising molinas, that's in the adrenalin kicks in, because you're trying to be ready. heights is be completely awake line so that you can get your job done at day. oh, at night is and splitting ones off like a bottom half. my stuff is the german detachment commander for nato's enhanced air policing mission. in estonia, under his command on a my re air base our for euro fighter jets, their pilots, ground crew and support personnel. a total of around $150.00 soldiers. their
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military mission is to protect the air space over the baltic states and to identify unknown and potentially hostile aircraft. just like the other baltic states, estonia has a very small air force and no fighter jets of its own. nato has been providing air support to estonia, latvia and lithuania since 2004 in 2014. after russia illegally annexed crimea, nato started a 2nd air policing mission and amory, where the germans are now stationed. i'm standing here on the estonian coastline and behind me in that direction is the gulf of finland. and this is where nato fighter jets are regularly scramble to, to intercept russian airplane, heading from st. petersburg to coline ground. after take off the jets need as little as 3 minutes to reach international air space and intercept their targets. russian military aircraft regularly fly with their flight transponders turned off
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and do not communicate with aircraft controllers on the ground. a potential hazard for civilian air traffic. in this case, the loft buffer euro fighters are tasked to intercept the unknown aircraft and identify them. the melissa, so not normal when to fight a jets don't communicate in international airspace. i look the money and you're approaching an aircraft that you're not in contact with us and you don't know what the other guy's doing, what his intentions are, than what is flight path is going to. of course you are a bit more tense, can respond as well. as missing english, monta christoph hoffmeister and his soldiers are well prepared for all possible situations. together with other nato pilots, they secure the air space along the alliance eastern flank, 24 hours a day, all year round and were staying in the baltic sur la fairs, foreign minister answered europe as a united, despite controversies over tanks and other weapons deliveries to ukraine. at
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gasoline coverage says a sat down with d. w. ma, scarborough, she you were rescheduled to discuss the impact russia's invasion of ukraine is having on security in the baltic states and on europe and cohesion. mr and cabbage . how has your perspective on russia changed over this year? not much. cinder from our historic perspective, we did expect, but russia is going to launch kind of imperial, or was thornhill war? are single to we were warming the rest of the world that this is going to happen. well, to some extent, even rewrite a bit optimistic from years ago. but probably the corporation between russia and european union, russia and the rest would actually turns 4 in the country did the best above all western european countries, western leaders, i generates all the french,
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i neglect to the danger from russia. a single day was under estimation of the danger should europe have paid more attention to the warnings coming from the baltics hook up? i know that this is very tempting, sometimes to say, re told yourself, oh, i nodded. this is very thing thing now to say that 3 knew that, oh, let me so this a bit differently. i sing the, the biggest list but, but i would name was the dependency on russian. i jayce versus mr. couch. what about to day one gets the impression that you personally together be the colleagues from stony n. as in india, i calling for significantly tough or so not action 3 actions towards russia. then, for example, germany or western european countries. well the baltic countries be going their own way, the future no. a sing the this is part of the process. so this i don't
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friends too many differences res merger, markovic i sing along the roadwork is also having a very strong stance. so, and i would say that i would really much agree, wrists hurt cytochrome, what we should do, what is the impression it is a europe pulling together, or is there a growing divide within the you over this war? well, i think i will come to the defense of the german government to big surprise of butcher vote for 1st of all, let's, let's be clear on a lot of countries including germany during a lot of 6. sometimes the problem is not what they do, but how to clack to communication. the problem is that sometimes before decisions are taken, you have this kind of situation where you are discussing while the decision is not taken, things seem to be a bit different. the fact that yes, it was a bit drama of deciding on tanks. yes, it was
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a bit drama in the power deciding and other things that they know today, those decisions are there and also your grand sort of knowledge. and there is a conference remote military agreement on how from germany, from bitterly, from spain, from other countries, along with the best of the weapons, arms to ukraine, as long as it takes as long as your grain finds this work, as long as your claim liberates that spirit or is just re kabbage at some point this war will be over. does ukraine need to win? no matter what price? this is the method over the survival of your grade. and that is the price and get some kind of latin foreign minister. thank you for this interview and here a 1000000000 organizes are getting ready for the cities, annual film festivals known as the belly nodded on top of the usual glitz and glamour the red carpet as a string of movies and events and solidarity with ukraine and the protest in iran,
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the berlin allah is back after 2 scale 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 play as 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 order off their films, or it also may be dirt 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 in the berlin allah has
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always engage to with the real world and this year 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 with other documentary that are maybe less or now we have a films in panorama fiction and documentary. we have him since 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
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iron butterflies. a documentary about the shooting down of malaysia airlines flight m h. 17. 30 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, 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 band and a host of other prizes, they'll be handed out a week on saturday and into the in our fashion. any one of them could be a winner and revenue one level of fear. she was the world's largest ocean liner, thought to be unsinkable until well. she sank during her maiden voyage. now, rare footage of the titanic is being released for the for some of it. for the 1st time, in 1986, a team of us,
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scientists filled the wreckage of the finding the titanic a year earlier off the coast of canada footage is being released to coincide. the 25th anniversary of the hollywood movie, titanic. and that's it from me and the new c, marion berlin. for now, i'll have an update for you at the top of the our comfort zone is next. don't miss that extra lunch. with
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conflict with tim sebastian, it's almost a year since russia invaded ukraine with no talk. so a cease fire. many times in prospect. my guess is we lost a former army officer and former director of the carnegie moscow center, which was shut down last april. why did moscow go to war just as the west begun? the dialogue putin has been demanding conflict with
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with, when should we eat? mm. how do we treat animals? and why hasn't anything changed him? does. this is actually a clear violation of animal protection. why do we love so as companions? well eating others? yeah, i never thought about how strange it was that i could to pat my dog with one hand while i ate a pork chop with the other. what is the alternative? and how does it taste if like the real thing? yes out. will we all be begin in 50 years? i literally think that legs are the next generations. well, i'll look back and say,
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that's crazy that we ever use animals to get a documentary series about the future of food. and there were complex relationship with animals. the great media debate this week on d. w or it's almost a year since russia invaded ukraine with no p stokes or cease fire of any kind in prospect. and yet president putin insist the war is showing a positive trend. my guest this week for moscow is dimitri trimming. for my army officer and former director of the carnegie moscow center, which was shut down last april with tens of thousands of its soldiers killed a little progress on the ground. the kremlin is staking its own survival on the outcome of the war. in the might.

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