ah, global ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make cities greener? how can we protect habitat? what to do with all our waste? we can make a difference by choosing smartness solutions over stains, said in our ways global ideas. the environmental series that included $3000.00 on d, w, and online video . 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 tunes. i shall he 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. ah, this was once the family's home on dalton optimizon up. there was the kitchen. this is i missed 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 de la lindsey, when they get plats, what it looks like now. well, so the just falls on sadly, my mother died here. he was stolen. no one of his aunts was also buried under the rubble to enjoy as a student in the german capital, berlin, and chaplain telephone off to take home. i got a call from my cousin to dan and what he said, your mother is 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 and the situation. you can't put it into

words. an earthquake is still the turkish syrian border region at 417 local time when the morning of the 6th, the february 2023. it's epicenter was located in the turkish province of cut. ahmad marashi. farm was longer a. 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, 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 who tongue chad in the southern turkish city of carmen 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 then that leaves us with experts believe that the earthquakes could have claimed the lives of up to 80000 people in the 2 countries. hundreds of a teams from all around the world set off for turkey, even a team from ukraine, with $87.00 search and rescue workers, trained dogs and special equipment. a moving gesture of solidarity from a war torn country under attack from russia. hello and time and again,

small miracles, 1011, and even 12 days after the quakes rescue teams continue 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. help 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 anatolia 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 in 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 happen warning of the risk of an earthquake of magnitude 7 or above, after $99.00. okay, there are some pros, the calculations that indicated and okay. a larger okay, more than moms did. 7 would probably ask, tried she stumble area my my region or the polar until flood 6 to 2 percent within the next 30 years. and it's already or 24 years 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. back open about like 50000 buildings house in mid of a trade. imagine half of them being, you know, collapse, number of education will be a credit 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. miss myrtle hun, i would like to show you another house. our 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 have 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 limited. max will look at the steel that's been used in a book. what is 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 ha, yep, well this house should have been inspected by the authorities. the i've been into, i think from now on the buildings in the village as well should be more closely monitored. that's what professor than miss. no, you're far from the cities that have been hit, the hardest. the people of tucker are still largely going it alone days after the quakes. the international aid and rescue efforts are focused on the big urban areas

. a car sent by turkey's bar association has come to the village. the volunteers are giving out food and sanitary products from the trigger dollars. you're looking for going from village to village. we're distributing the items that people need right now. we're trying to help as best we can and butyllithium jeanette m b e d. i saw this wrong people here need tense chub if you will, middle dome of gun, but we don't have any shall be they will 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 dropped below freezing under the sha haynes 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 got you just build one story high in the future at clack, in the past, your height, your thought tundra his father already has plans to build a new home debbie and nothing will, of course, if i can afford it somehow and it is, 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 love comments all, i'm almost yet 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 ward of 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 spree, a building infrastructure, and building homes in n in earthquake hot spots without following proper building coats as pre electrons. 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 disaster zone. public money for earthquake resilient buildings was diverted elsewhere. and despite warnings from geologists, critical infrastructure projects such as hospitals in 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 the government. because the jaws are turkey, a loss of investigations along this fault. and of course, these all were report good as to time. but of course it's up to the politicians to take the necessary measurements, madame a da da, and they just ignore her. ah, neglected ones. are written very far 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. didn't get here for days. they dug through the rubble with just their hands with the white helmets who have organized civil defense in the areas not controlled by the us at regime during the war. rescued survivors from the rubble up to 3 days after the quake license. i heard think humanitarian organizations can

just help us remove the debris and just equipment and medical help. that's old bob up would be that indeed, as near the turkish border, the destruction was particularly severe. la la la la hoyle, my brother and his younger son are still under the rubble. we are not able to get them out. we don't know what to do won't come through danville if there had been support yesterday. maybe we could have saved them off also. i saw them, i saw blood running out of my brother's nose move. his son was in his arms. we rescued his daughter, but then it got dark. on day 7 after the quake, the white helmets ended their search. without the necessary equipment, they had been unable to pull out any survivors from day for the survivors are still waiting for aid. derek dave darlena walking with our

situation is very bad. there is no help. we need tents, we need food, we need drink. we just left with what we had on the look at us. we have no shoes. people have lent us clothes for had been our lawn for 9 years now. there has only been one single border crossing between syria and turkey. open for humanitarian aid deliveries to the opposition held area. bob, ha ha. according to a un security council resolution, it's the only place where cross border aid is allowed to pass. but the disaster has partly destroyed surrounding roads. and with its security council, vito russia can close the border at any time. a 1st convoy of 6 trucks passed through bub a holla to northern syria on february 9th. but these trucks had been waiting here before the quakes and were only carrying blankets, detergent and diapers. there

are few hospitals in eclip. many were destroyed by bombing carried out by the asset regime and its ally russia. that also killed health workers. now the medics are doing what they can, but they are unable to save all the injured law those so accurately. if there is a large number of patients, why it's beyond our capacity. despite that, we are doing our very best all about them without the the patients have multiple injuries and need a range of specialists in this hospital that we need across the board support including surgical and medical supplies themselves and arthur available me almost 3000000 people fled here from other parts of syria during the war with now they have lost loved ones and their homes once more.

90 percent of them were already reliant on humanitarian aid. before the quakes seen, i was shorter, i knew i'm his lover. we've ended up on the street and more. i'd rather be dead. death would be better for me that there are no tense. there's nothing left clear. the situation was very bad. it would have been better for me to die with my children. i jojo molded went over they wait in vain for help, but hundreds of dead are being transported over the border. syrian refugees who died in the earthquake in turkey are being brought home for burial. o. in syria, 5300000 people have been made homeless by the quakes. thousands are dead.

how many of them could perhaps have been saved? if international help had arrived were quickly we are now dead. thanks for nothing is written here. the effected regions belonged to 3 different spheres of influence. the kurdish autonomous areas, regions like italy that are partly under the control of islamist rebels and those under the control of the asset regime. in addition, there are external geopolitical interests that have prevented the arrival of rapid relief and the acid regime has refused to allow aid that arrives in damascus to be transported to areas that are not under its control . this is thank seeking. this has always been a war against the civilian population. the attacks were always targeted at

residential districts at hospitals, at bakeries where people were lining up to buy bread. the while as soon as assad gets control of age channels, it's never going to be used in a fair manner because he's massively attacking exactly those parts of the population and has no interest in their survival. sandy, on this earthquake, to put it very cynically, is very convenient for hamlin him out. it's killing these people without him having to bombard them. nor does he has one but young was the west has imposed sanctions on the us at regime for war crimes against his own people in syria are now calling for an end to the sanctions local back to look to saudi, to assess the economic sanctions against our country are the biggest obstacles stopping us from getting heavy equipment to syria, salanda after this devastating earthquake this natural disaster had the sanctions have to be lifted. well, as my book, the women lead heavy equipment and fire trucks with no nozzle armada that had begun

to sell alice, he got up at 4 but humanitarian aid supplies and even heavy rescue equipment are not subject to western sanctions. they could be delivered. however, there have been repeated reports that the syrian regime use past a deliveries for its own gain or held them back using them as a bargaining chip in the civil war. up to now, western governments have ruled out direct co operation with the mask us over humanitarian aid support for assad. since the quakes has come from china, iran, pakistan, and from russia, amongst others. one week after the disaster, i said, at least to prove the temporary opening of 2 more crossings between syria and

turkey for the passage of aid this at big mountains, dust guns, claudio earthquake has made it very apparent how absurd the humanitarian restrictions and north western syria are as a result of the russians veto and the un security council as allies of assad. but when it, when i say it has made it apparent that it is time to change this international practice and has knowledge and to listen to the school of international law that says that in times of extreme humanitarian suffering, it is no longer necessary to go via the security council for men or 20 humans, which i thought to be in. and then in the midst of all this suffering on february, the 8th reports hardened suspicions. that asset and turkey had bombarded kurdish areas in northern syria, hit by the quakes. dusty cakes, the fact the warring parties aren't letting their weapons rest and such circumstances is unparalleled in terms of moral repre, hence ability and cynicism in turkey, the earthquakes could also have political consequences. parliamentary and

presidential elections are scheduled for the 14th of may, even before the quake. a wind for the authoritarian president regime tie up air to want was not a done deal. now, the opposition and survivors are heaping criticism on his crisis management. after the failed coo of 2016 air to one further curved the military's power and only mobilize them 48 hours after the quakes. he's also weakened the disaster and emergency management authority, installing a theologian at its head, and he slandered and blocked help from the opposition and civil institutions. he blocked access to twitter for a while to silence critics. even though people under the rubble were using social media to send desperate appeals. so another video buff as it got moved a lot. all huge welcome trish, a few people like the syrian refugee up to rockman,

a rush in the building. he heard the voices of neighboring families that were also trapped. abdul lachman was rescued with ali ish with air to one reacted to the disaster with fury and a sense of denial. he said it was fate and that no one could be prepared for such events. he arrested critics and threatened retaliation. oh, let me look a little of him while we are trying to overcome this historical disaster. yolanda we are keeping tabs on those who aim to set our people against one another and met with fake news and falsehoods. long talkie balloon. june all day is not the time to argue with them. god, but when the day comes, we will settle our scores. death did the usher. jose is history repeating itself. it was the severe earthquake in easement in

1999 and discontent with the government at the time. and it disaster management that rapidly accelerated the rise of air to one and his party, the a k p. could these quakes now cost him his job r dawn has been in power for a long time, which means that she has all the survival skills that he has a coalition around him and that he get him back him up. so i think it, the answer is, is not straightforward. it's unclear whether the electrons will take place at all in may or as the constitution dictates by june at the latest. i don't know what he's going to do. you'll probably have to most fully elections are, but i'm just praying that the nations are held in june. so people who are

responsible for this disaster pay a price. oh, back in the village of took our staff from the turkish ministry. a family and social services have arrived. psycho social support is written on their vests. people ask them for tense, but they haven't brought anything with them. they're written follicle on young. we are there to show people that they are not alone. it doesn't matter how small and how poor a villages can play all villages and turkey will be reached out yet. it was no one until car, openly criticize as the government in front of the officials to enjoy it just makes a suggestion that we're done with there should be records kept of who has received how much aid episode on maybe some other it shouldn't just be handed out from a truck to those people who get their 1st and can carry more back home. i'm with

all the money to be by you of them better. the helpers listen politely, but they don't take any notes. then they move on to the next village. in a few days to and i will return to berlin. he says, a lot needs to change in his home country, particularly in terms of public education. as some of the cogent people need to be better informed about the dangers of earthquakes and in the villages to them. oh oh oh ah

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