ah ah, this is d w. news live from berlin. first panic afternoon. earthquake strike in southern to at least 3 paypal book killed by the tremors hitting a region already devastated by massive whites 2 weeks ago. also coming up, you as president joe biden arrives in poland after a surprise visit to keith,

offering more military aid. he's due to deliver a speech in warsaw ended rally western allies. ah, i'm anthony held working to the program to more powerful earthquakes of hit the turkey syria border region. rescue teams once again deployed to find people trapped under rubble. the magnitude 6.4 and 5.8 tremors struck minutes apart just 2 weeks after massive quakes killed tens of thousands in the same type province. while the epa centers of the latest quakes were in southern turkey, they were felt as far away as lebanon and egypt turkeys. interior minister says at least 6 people have been killed and hundreds injured. a more anguish and terror for the people of turkey and

syria. moments after the new earthquake struck shocked residents who rushed to the streets for safety and to try and make contact with people. russia, families clung to one another, relieved to be okay, but really with the shock and trauma off it all. over the oldest just 2 weeks after the devastating earthquakes which so far confirmed to have killed at least $45000.00. some buildings severely damaged by those have now collapsed because of the latest ones. for many, the safest place to be now is on the street. ah fine, of course i know it does seem feel you the same feeling of unease. we cannot enter inside. well, if we do, we cannot stay. we don't know. we don't know what to do. god have mercy on us. there's nothing to save. people here know that lights can change in an instant. this dash confidential caught that instant in her die. and

a live tv interview was dramatically cut short. the moment the quake struck in it from older daughter did this, all one, you're going to use it in neighboring syria. the earthquake also brought new panic . is it the lynette? i'm sad. reform is it has everyone started screaming when the earthquake occurred. people were panicking and started crying and screaming and vote and shot in my head that old on so long. it's a sad reality of life here. right now. people living on a precipice from one minute to the next. are they are? i asked a double is dorian jones in istanbul, about the lightest search and rescue operations given what region has just been through. well, mercifully, there was still many search and rescue teams in the area and thought that was one payment. the apple, when the quakes truck comes and instead of returning back to their home, they went back to the scene. so to help in this latest emergency of finding people

getting people out of the building. so people work close on hand to help. and i think this certainly will help in the efforts of getting people out alive, but this will add to growing concerns of so many people in these we can buildings because that was not enough temporary shelter available. we're talking about the government emergency service is helping to how millions of people and many people because of the freezing convent condition, well, forced to go back into these, we can buildings and some of them are beliefs of suffolk, i mean caught him to make his claps from the latest of quake. so there is going to be growing pressure on the emergency service. they get more temporary shelter. so people can be at least enjoy some relative safety in these, these difficult time date of this during john's day reporting from sample. ok, let's take a look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the world to sell brazil's president lula. the silver has visited areas in the southeast of the

country hit by flooding of landslides. at least 40 people have died and hundreds of homes have been destroyed. assistant heavy rains or hampering rescue efforts. severe weather struck just as brazil's annual kind of our season got into full swing. i once president says the country will boost military exchanges with the united states, following a meeting with visiting us lawmakers and in vain says, ty, one's corporation, the u. s. is meant to curb or 3rd tyrann expansionism reference to china with times taiwan. as part of its territory or built more resilient technology demonstrate has failed fresh protests in moldova as capital demanding the resignation of president my ascended the protest to being organized by a minority pro russian. government says they are part of a wider plan by moscow to destabilize the country. u. s. president joe biden has arrived in poland after making a surprise visit to ukraine wide and flew from the polish border into warsaw on air

force. one capping a long day of travel that included a trip to keep by train while in warsaw biden will meet the polish president along with leaders of other countries on nato's eastern flank. u. s. leaders. diplomatic blitz comes just days ahead of the was one year mark and russia's expected spring offensive. covering the body visit for us in warsaw estate, w correspondent, bent rigate. ben after biden surprise visit yesterday to keith, he will mate president due to to thy what can we expect from that meeting today? under the impression of the train ride from keith to also enter the destruction he saw yesterday in key of the president her vill deliver his message. again. he may reiterate what he already said in a key of yesterday that the united states stands with ukraine. the west stands with ukraine as long as it takes and, and you will also give

a speech later in the afternoon to address the pose the united states. and also the world to say that the world has to unite against the russian aggression. now, almost one year into this war. and so it's, it's a message of reassurance that ukraine will not be left alone. bentley was president her biden and his polish counterpart, and i did, or we'll discuss reinforcing poland security. do we know how this reinforcement might look like? well, earned the bd retrieve the true presidency and the present. capella's is not meant to be a negotiation about numbers of troops. but it's also a political reassurance that the united states stands with poland. and over the course of the last year, more american troops have arrived here and they now have $10000.00 troops in poland . one fighting brigade is on the ground here,

and there will be also the construction of a permanent headquarter here in poland, father and yard state troops. so this is very welcomed by poland and they want american troops on the ground as a reassurance that the united states stands to its commitment under the nato treaty to defend europe if it's necessary. a political rather, and strategic level. these meetings are critical. how is biden's visit perceived though by people in poland? well, the pose actually very proud that biden is showing up here for the 2nd time in only 11 months. a war time was it expresses that that poland is really now the center of gravity in nato, and maybe also in europe in an american view of this is what the poets think about this. because dear, strategically and also geographically potent, of course,

is very important in this war against her or the defense of ukraine, because all the transports go to poland, to ukraine, all the weapons and all them, i mean this and goes to poland. so this is it's, it's very important and the polls are actually a very american friendly people. they w, corresponded bentley good in warsaw. thank you. now, russian president vladimir putin will shortly give a state of the nation addressed to both houses of the russian parliament in moscow . in the same speech one year ago, he recognized the breakaway ukrainian regions of the nets and lou hands as independent, a prelude to the russian invasion of ukraine. for preview of that speech, i'm joined now by from vilios by day dudley russia analysts constantine exit. vladimir putin speaking to russia's parliament, but also the nation to day. what do you expect in to say, konstantin?

well, frankly, there are so many rumors in russian social media about what we could hear. ah, that i'm actually last for broken noses if you may. ah, it's everything from a nuclear announcing imminent nuclear strike with the technical weapons on give up to up. and mixing formerly annexing the de facto russian occupied regions. georgia regions of a posse in north assented to expand russia's territory bots. my, if he was hunch, is that nothing much will happen put, and will deliver a speech which will enumerate achievements of russia over the last year, which are withstanding western pressure, finding new allies like india, south african china, ah, and promising to finish the so called special minute operation as this war,

aggression is called in a moscow end, what i think will happen is that vladimir putin, as his habit recently will promise you pay outs to the russian society to students, to pensioners, to veterans. i think that essentially buying the loyalty of the russian society is very, very important for him. so at least about this part of the speech, i have no doubt. and that of russians view vladimir putin after a year of war in ukraine. does he still have the support of the population personally, and is this speech important to reinforce their support for this war? well, the no speeches are not important in russia. the person's been around for now the 23rd year. even if you consider the rub presidency of dmitri midville, when he was put in, was a number to person in the country. ah, people are used to hit the button and put in, arranged it in such a way that um,

there is no alternative to him. there was no plausible alternative, and he worked on that for all this 20 plus years. so i'd say that war are not about the majority things. well, ok, there is put in the kremlin. he will decide as he sees fit. it is an indifferent cynical in a society which is very much, i think, removed a most of it is very much removed from the realities of the war which see which we see on our screens all the time. at least in the big cities. and on our major russian tv channels, it's all arranged in such a way that people will not see the horrors of war. so i think that basically speech are not put in is still there. no, they don't believe russia analyst, constantine it. thank you. thank you. football now and liverpool and rail madrid will meet to night for the 1st time in the champions league since the frightening vents that my last year's final in paris fans were

forced to white for hours to enter the stadium. as police used tear gas on the crowds, european footballs, governing, body, you, wiper has finally accepted responsibility for the chaos. but for many fans, the scars remain dangerous crushes unprovoked. he gas attacks and terrifying seems of violence. the liverpool funds may 28th will live long the memory for all the wrong reasons. this was paris. this was the champions league final. he gone to the festival football. he wafers in a blue ribbon events of the year. and andy, se if there's all the carnival of ours paris booked but painful memories of the hills, prostate him disaster in 1989 to its 15 year old cousin was among with 97 who died in the battle for justice. continues to this day, right from the outset eligible was mentions. this film has been completely anyway

in the where think and so on is going to die on cy, gotten messages, my phones up being crushed, chills of freedom for the lives that that's thinking. the child's own, and i had a champions league final, even when fans trouble back from the stadium, the nightmare wasn't over. i didn't know the way until the scene common in than it was obviously what it was. it was the locals as hackles. we would as much danger from the police are to be away from them. now. what has happened was teddy still coming to terms with what happened to him that night when you're in a wheelchair all day capacity isn't faculty? my wheelchair was on read. i said to me, i visit that this goes off to run with them and get to that station. and i cut it off at a while at our school to kill people at my at my wheel yard to just died. ichard would be catastrophic. dreyfus, apologies welcome. but the real test is what comes next? it changes to comb. it's got a call from you eva. they need to make sure that no football supposed to eat at the

same with or non disabled is ada placed in harm's way again simply for golds, watch a game of football. and that's your news. the now, after a short break is close up with an in depth look at the turkey syria earthquakes. and the after month list, i forget that a website is their d, w dot com and they w social channels. are there any time you need the handle? insta and twitter is at the dublin use. i'm anthony howard in berlin for me in the team here. thanks for watching and stay with an interest in the global economy. our portfolio d w. business beyond. here's a closer look at the project. our mission. to analyze the flight for market

dominance, get a step ahead with d w. business beyond the yeah. he couldn't make it to the funeral in time. sitting in front of his mother's freshly dug grave in the turkish village of tow car. 2 inch i shall haine, still can't believe what has happened. his mother was among the 10s of thousands of people whose lives were claimed by the severe quakes in the turkish syrian border region. mm. this was once the family's home on dalton huffman isn't up. there was the kitchen, this is i know that, and that's what's left of the roof. aunt and all the house slid in that direction, listings are good. then the walls burst apart. on dana and stephen, the good plat what it looks like now. well,

so the to falls on. sadly my mother died here. it's golden. now one of his aunts was also buried under the rubble to enjoy is a student in the german capital, berlin on chaplain telephone off get home. i got a call from my cousin cuz i k, then m, what he said, your mother was very badly injured. copeland, i was an earthquake. it was very severe of the most of all you have to get to turkey immediately with these feelings. in this situation, you can't put it into words. an earthquake is still the turkish syrian border region at 417 local time on the morning of the 6th. the february 2023. it's epicenter was

located in the turkish province of cut ahmad marashi was wrong with measuring 7.8. on the richter scale, it was one of the strongest quakes to hit the region in the last 900 to 1000 years . i, torn out of their sleep, people fled their homes. in some areas, the temperatures were below freezing. a natural disaster on a devastating scale. thousands of buildings were destroyed across an area of 100000 square kilometers in south eastern turkey and north western syria. in turkey alone, more than 100000 buildings collapsed or were severely damaged

the start of a race against time. mm. the chances of surviving longer than 72 to 100 hours trapped under rubble are extremely slim. hope dwindles with every passing minute. ah. the same morning, the region was rocked by a 2nd quake of 7.6, magnitude this time in the critical 48 hours after the disaster, the turkish state and the disaster and emergency management authority, f a, d, were unable to cope. not even the armed forces were mobilized to rescue people

trapped beneath the rebel. heartbreaking images were beamed across the world. like that of maize, your tongue chatter in the southern turkish city of common marsh. clinging to the hand of his dead daughter aramark. she was 15, the w h o estimates 26000000 people in turkey and syria have been affected. were trying to save people from the rubble, but we made help. when the rescue has come, they say they can't hear any one. but we heard someone calling this morning, the rescue, let's just say if we can't hear any one, we can't help. and they may lead those experts believe that the earthquakes could have claimed the lives of up 280000 people in the 2 countries.

ah hundreds of eighteens from all around the world set off for turkey. even a team from ukraine with 87 search and rescue workers, trained dogs and special equipment. a moving gesture of solidarity from a war torn country attack from russia. o and time and again small miracles, $1011.00, and even 12 days after the quakes rescue teams continued to pull survivors out of the rubble of young children and babies were also among those rescued from the ruins in syria, the disaster hit people already beleaguered. after almost 12 years of war and who

were already dependent on humanitarian aid before the quakes. but in the badly affected areas such as italy, province, which is not under the control of president bashar assad. health did not arrive for days, no rescue teams, no medication, nothing but here to there were small miracles. a baby born during the earthquake, the rescue was cut the umbilical cord. the baby girl's entire family is dead. in the hospital, they called her idea arabic for miracle. now she has a new family. they've named her after after her dead mother

the ground has been torn apart by the quakes. this is one of the most earthquake prone regions in the world. it sits at the crossroads of continental tectonic plates. the arabian plate is pushing northwards into the eurasian plate, forcing the anatoly and plate wedged between them to move 2 centimeters westwards. each year. the pressure builds over years and then it suddenly released in the form of an earthquake. in this case, the jolt caused the plates to shift some 6 meters. the region hit by the most recent disaster is not the only area and turkey vulnerable to quakes. the majority of its population lives defact to under constant threat. the danger is particularly high in the area around is double for decades, geologists sep, in warning of the risk of an earthquake of magnitude 7 or above, after $99.00. okay. there are some policy calculations that indicated and

ok a larger. okay, more than moms did. 7 will probably ask tried she stumble area my my region are the polar until flat. 62 percent within the next 30 years and it's already on 24 year for many experts. it's not a case of if, but rather when the next earthquake will strike, the consequences would likely be even more devastating than they've been in south eastern turkey. that coconut bought like 50000 buildings house in rebates shape. imagine half of them being, you know, collapse numbers will be an incredible back until car, which was close to the epicenter. neighbors managed to free 3 trapped children.

professional rescue teams never made it to the village. is my telephone. i would like to show you another house or 2 neighbors died. their phone tocar only has a 100 inhabitants. 6 residents died in the disaster, including tundra is mother. the people here are poor, south eastern turkey is one of the most deprived parts of the country. the villagers had never considered earthquake resilient construction before. but now to enjoy his father, who wasn't home on the night of the disaster, realizes just how shoddy the building materials were them in a box. so look at the steel that's been used for both ways. then bars were meant to support these load bearing columns. the j budget mar that we only learned the hard

way, whose amana lemonade you yet live miss n a. yep. will this house should have been inspected by the authorities? yeah, been into, i think from now on the buildings in the village as well should be more closely monitored, dark chocolate, faster than miss as far from the cities that have been hit, the hardest the people have took on are still largely going it alone. days after the quakes, the international aid and rescue efforts are focused on the big urban areas. well, a car sent by turkey's bar association has come to the village. the volunteers are giving out food and sanitary products with drucquer dollars. sure. we're going from village to village. we're distributing the items that people need right now. we're trying to help us best we can and butyllithium jeanette, m b, e d. i saw this wrong. people here need tense shop if you will,

middle dome of gun. but we don't have any shot the they'll get it most people until car still don't dare to return to their homes. all the authorities have sent one single tent. the hope is that at least the elderly will be protected at night, the temperatures drop below freezing. under the sha hanes and their neighbors will be staying in a store room for the time being together with their livestock. so how will things continue in the village, yarmouth and they suspect changes do they plan to build new homes differently from now on that top? oh, just build one story high in the future at clack, in the past, your height, your thought tundra is father already has plans to build a new home debbie and nothing will of course if i can afford it somehow fill it.

every one would like to build a house for their children, is that, but it will have to be sturdily built this time. and unfortunately, that's expensive. again, with good construction materials and a solid foundation. i know that's all i'm almost yet if you how many people's lives would have been spared. if these buildings had been earthquake, proof turkey does have very strict seismic building codes. enforcement is another matter. i do on a war that major construction infrastructure projects, government projects to a close circle of people, close associates from his own circle from the construction sector. so these are companies are basically embarked on a building scree, a building infrastructure, a building homes in n,

in earthquake hot spots without following proper building coats as pre election sweeteners am estes were repeatedly granted for buildings that didn't meet the standards. hundreds of thousands of buildings were legalized that way, including in the disastrous own public money for earthquake resilient buildings was diverted elsewhere. and despite warnings from geologists, critical infrastructure projects such as hospitals and the airport and her tie were erected right on top of tectonic fault lines. developers are being arrested, but government and administrative officials have not been held to account so far. most shockingly, the writing was on the wall. for months. geologists had been warning of a severe quake in the region. the president's office was also informed the new and,

and this was of course reported in scientific papers and also in on the government called the joseph, or starchy, i did loss of investigations along this folder. and of course, these all report good as to time, but of course ah, it's up to the politicians to make the necessary measurements. madame, i did, they just ignore. on the left it wasn't r returning to report it in syria on the other side of the border this north western province is rebel territory and is not under the control of the us at regime. even at the best of times, the people here are largely cut off from the outside world. at 1st too, they found themselves on their own international search and rescue teams with specialist equipment and humanitarian aid.