[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin in the wake of devastating earthquakes comes the task of burying the dead. turkey digs mass graves for thousands of bodies. and while most victims have been identified, many families are still desperately trying to find missing lawful. class balloons shop down over keith. ukraine says it has eliminated suspected surveillance

aircraft as russia ramps up its attacks in the air and on the grad class. in germany, a record number of refugees are arriving as the war in ukraine rages on local authorities are sunday. the alarm, and the government is under pressure to respond. ah, i'm glad elf as well come to the program. the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria have 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 d. w as jack paris reports, some grapes remain unmarked. ah, 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 rush in southern turkey. the stuffer arrives in search of his child. how silly little hudson blush him by the modem, i searched to hospitals for my baby like almost the room, but i want to bury my baby. and to pray, rosalind, that's all i want washing machine. it is no loss miss yesterday. and nurse told me my baby had died his or that i get and that i should come here. but as 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 mccullen this durham, beth. my 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 williams,

which i'll show mother his me to them at him is jealousy. let him is when our processes are done, look, there's still some bodies which can't be identified. him a 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 family. slater. miss. yup. all of you know, systems and then a station to 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

the bodies before burial. gonna miss dan getter. hutchison, i wish every one was alive, isn't students on but we're here treating the bodies as they should be treated in the islamic way. a brother did give the families peace of mind to law me shak lava kissing the toronto some 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. oh respond and jack profile dash report and he told us more about the scenes he witnessed at the burial side. while the overwhelming sense god 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. and 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 for, for us to watch. but palinkas in significance compared to the pain of those families 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 buildings, for instance, hearing gassy, 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 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 tense 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 in the hospital was a 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

lives who have survived. now there are still some miracle moments to her 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 gonna 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 in 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. the rescue operations and 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. thank you. jack. the earthquakes in turkey are the worst natural disaster on nato territory. since the alliance was founded, and secretary general hints stopped by his in turkey today to discuss native support for relief and construction efforts, but turkeys objections to sweden. joining nato are also in focus. stillberg repeated his goal for turkey to quickly ratify sweden and finland joins joined. membership in turkey accuses sweden of harboring terrorists and is opposing it's application that took a foreign minister leveled. i was soaked, suggested finland's membership, could be approved separately. our correspondent dorian jones is in stumble,

and earlier i asked him to give us more information on what the officials were discussing. nato secretary general, you saw 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 job or should i 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 our position to the swedish joy. no said basically sweden had to some reforms in combat. the terrorist threats of toki faces in a sense of being based in sweden, but says still not enough as being done and the phones introduced. they still have to be put into action. troubleshooters did say they were open to finland, joining they said as little problem. they have the food application and nathan secretary general stolen and both the,

the peer referring to 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 both and possibly sweden later but has to be said. ready is going to elections in the next few months, will the whole dynamically change if there is a new government in power you haven't told them. i also said that he understands and quote turkey's concerns regarding finland and sweden's membership. what exactly as turkey objecting to well, basically turkey has particular concern that they say that there are terrorist organization groups based in switzerland, suite and operated again talking office 6. the concern is, 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 suitable for akin to sweden and sweden has to do more to

crack down on those going to now. so from both said, yet turkey has suffered more terrorist attacks than any of a nato member. he said he understood that their anger and their concerns, and he said that we all taking step box, troubleshoot facing concern here with that i think yes for phones have been introduced while they want them to be put into action. in particular, the expectation of many individuals, they have a list of over a 120 people. so come is, this is a matter of a politics. this is a matter of course. now your secretary of state and the blinking is due to arrive at on for next week. how might that affect the situation? you know, that could be keen in many ways. in fact, troubleshoot went out of his way to say the lincoln is coming to turkey. now turkey have been pressing very hard to have direct talk to washington over the issue of nato. now washington, the very relock, somebody say this is a massive amount of turkey, sweden,

and then we don't want to get involved. i'm not had irritated talking particular focus president, project 5 was very much like 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 link and it's coming here suggests that he could be looking for concessions from washington in exchange for living is sweeping. now, washington, very reluctant to get involved in a fight and blink and coming in the fact the nato membership of sweden centers on the table suggest is getting its way at least and having joyce, there is stumble, many thanks door and there are more suspected spire balloons and this time over ukraine authorities there say they have shot down russian balloons over keith. that may have carried surveillance equipment. officials say only a few of the 6 balloons detected, have been brought down. kremlin has not yet commented on the reports. meanwhile,

russia is ramping up its attacks on areas of east in ukraine and nato countries are responding to keith's call for support by promising to increase their production of munitions for ukraine's military deliveries. mcconnell is in keith, and earlier he told me more about the suspected russian balloons that have been shot. that thanks for. 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 kind of 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 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 its attacks across southern and east of ukraine. and i, we are getting 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 cobblers. 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 are. so if they were to push brother, yeah, that's all pretty difficult. but certainly to the sense that russia is desperate for anything it can sell is a victory right now, anything to kind of reverse the tide of bad news for the russian military and in but more than the hunt ever. always seen the russians really up in 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 west you 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 and 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 a much bigger scale and to really change the way their economies are working to

give you a crane that support it currently or in a key of their thank you very much for your report. nauseous for ukraine has fundamentally altered the perceived threat to 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 latvia, lithuania and estonia all border on russia and were once part of the soviet union. now they're members of nato and the european union did obvious killian buyer as been to the emory abbeys in estonia, to look at nato's air policing mission, them aimed at monitoring the skies for any unauthorized russian activity. thermal underwear, a water immersion suit. boots. a g suit, a life jacket and a helmet. it takes 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 millimeter cannon, and air to air missiles ready for take off in under 15 minutes. this is their court summons on hall 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, you know when you're fast asleep and the alarm goes off the pulse, dodd's rising molinas, that's not the adrenalin kicks in, because you're trying to be ready hates as i be completely awake, shine so that you can get your job done at day or at night is and splitting ones off. take about half meister is the german detachment commander for nato's enhanced air policing mission in estonia, under his command on a mile re air base or for euro fighter jets, their pilots, ground crew and support personnel. a total of around $150.00 soldiers. their 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 kill any 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 and do not communicate with aircraft controllers on the ground. a potential hazard

for civilian air traffic. in this case, the lift buffer euro fighters are tasked to intercept the unknown aircraft and identify them. melissa, so not normal when to fight a jets don't communicate in international airspace i look on. but when you're approaching an act craft that you're not in contact with facts and you don't know what the other guy's doing, what his intentions are, and what is the flight path is going to. of course, you are a bit more tense. can willis this unless monta crist of 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. no rush swan ukraine is also putting the focus back on the issue of refugees. urine, germany, last year. more than $1200000.00 refugees arrived in total. that's a lot more than in previous years. and even more than you're the 2 years of what

became known as refugee crisis. 20152016. many of last year's new arrivals fled countries that have long been suffering from wars and conflicts like syria or afghanistan. but by far the majority more than 80 percent are now from ukraine. emergency accommodation centers across germany are full. and that's why today politicians and experts are meeting in berlin to discuss solutions pressure as high as many local authorities say they're overwhelmed and they're sounding the alarm are following that story for us at germany's interior minister invalid as did obviously responded hans plant. so, hans, why is germany struggling to cope with the numbers of wretched refugees arriving in the country? well, initially we remember about

a year ago when the refugees from ukraine arrived, there was a pretty efficient system in place to give them emergency accommodation. there was a huge response from the german population offering accommodation in private homes and so on. but as the crisis in ukraine, as the war and ukraine is dragged on, it's become clear that these people will be here for a long time. and they have been distributed now across germany and every local authority, according to its size, is assigned some refugees. in addition, they have been a much larger number of refugees from other countries to a to point 820-225-0000. that also arrived last year, so the pressure on local communities especially is rising because they have to find accommodation now for, for refugees accommodation for basic permanent accommodation, not only emergency accommodation. and then they are all the tasks that come

afterwards. it cost of teaching them german of giving schooling to their children, of possibly finding jobs for people, all of their cost money, all of that needs personnel. and in the end, especially at the local level, there's not enough of that. now germany, as you've, you've indicated face a similar situation 7 years ago with over a 1000000 refugees from the warranty arriving here at one of the lessons that germany has land. he said there were systems in place from, from that time, from 2016, 2015 and they will reactivate it pretty quickly. that helped to take up that huge number of ukrainian refugees that arrived within very few months about a year ago. and they were also non governmental organizations that were involved in helping. there were even organizations such as those that did emergency schooling

or emergency language courses and so on. but all of that now has to be converted into something a little bit more permanent, and nobody knows how the war in ukraine is going to develop. it's possible that more refugees might arrive from there when a new offensive starts. is there that everyone is expecting? is also possible that many of the refugees will leave again and go back to ukraine if the situation there improves. and in addition to that, other large number of refugees from serial afghanistan. that on also again arriving across the mediterranean and through thousands of southern europe and causing pressure on systems for refugees and asylum seekers across europe. not only in germany corresponded hands around their thank you very much. now as germany is struggling to keep up with an unprecedented level of refugees in the country, some communities are trying out constructive solutions to house people. the small city of gorsline central germany,

is using all the resources if 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 gorsline. her husband, a policeman, stayed behind julia'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 world 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. i that we ended up moving here with these great conditions is very cool. lot that's here sir, or more with said auto group of 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, it's for silly 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 putting. so 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 them. and then we also have a lot of volunteers and villages and cities who help these people in shayton dimensions was interesting. 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. common yet if they come here and the 1st thing they say is do you have cutlery blankets? i do have a pillow as well. it's almost unimaginable what that means to really have nothing as high as midnight hub. the state has now officially stopped assigning ukrainians to the ga sla 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 stalk of empty apartments may run out soon. you're watching t w still to come. it's a murder plots that script indonesia. for months, one of the nation's most senior police officer officials is sentenced to death. plus cat and south korea for free,

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