despair, grief and anger. next on d. w. or sports, all of our with scoring we say they were about giving up sports life every weekend on d w. ah. i believe 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 twinge, 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 hutton isn't up. there was the kitchen here. this is, i use that. and that's what's left of the roof. aunt and all the house slid in that direction, listings are gigawatts, then the walls burst apart on donna and stephen big platform. it looks like now. well, so the just falls on sadly, my mother died here in stolen. no one of his aunts was also buried under the rubble to enjoy as a student in the german capital, berlin, on shovel and telephone off to take home. i got a call from my cousin directly than him. 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. these feelings and the situation is you can't put it into words.

an earthquake is 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 car. i'm on my dash on 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. 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 maze attention in a southern turkish city of common mirage. 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 rest was 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 280000 people in the 2 countries. ah, hundreds of 8 teams 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 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. 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. 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 step in 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 ok, a larger on take more than mom's decision will probably ask, tried she stumble area, my my region or the polar until floss 6 to 2 percent within the next 30 years. and it's already, oh, thank you for your 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 rebates shape.

imagine half of them being, you know, collapse number of education will be 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 montana, and i would like to show you another house. our 2 neighbors died. their phone tocar only has a 100, inhabit 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. and i'm actually 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

busha murder, that we only learned the hard way was i'm on her name and i'll you young with miss n a. yep. will this how should have been inspected by the authorities? i've been into i thing from now on the buildings in the village as well should be more closely monitored. that's what protested than mister. you're 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 will develop. a car sent by turkey's bar association has come to the village. the volunteers are giving out food and sanitary products with curricular 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 us best we can and beauty ya, jeanette, m b, e d. i saw this wrong people here need tense chub if you will. we will go along,

but we don't have any shadow you, 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 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, they suspect changes do they plan to build new homes differently from now on? they got to just build one story high in the future at clack. in the past, i thought tundra his father already has plans to build a new home webinar symbol. of course, if i can afford it somehow in 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 love comments all on one must 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. and one awarded 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,

a building homes in n, in earthquake hot spots without following proper building coats. as pre electron 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 called the joseph or starkey, a loss of investigations along this phone. and of course, these all were report good as to time, but of course it's up to the politicians to good necessary measurements. madame alfonso, da, they just ignore her, ah, neglected well, are 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 to 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 strew the rubble with just their hands, with the white helmets who have organized civil defense in the areas not controlled by the asset regime during the war. rescued survivors from the rubble up to 3 days after the quake license. i hope the humanitarian organizations can just help us remove the debris and just equipment and medical help. that's all gotta be that the engine didas near the turkish border. the destruction was particularly severe. la la, la, la jolla, my brother and his younger son are still under the rubble. we're 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 moved, 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. the rec theodore and 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 her thought. look at us, we have no shoes. people have lent us clothes or had been our lawn for 9 years now . there has only been one single border crossing between syria and turkey. open for humanitarian, a deliveries to the opposition held area. bob, a house, 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 it, leap 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 thought it could be if there was 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. and in this hospital that we need across the board support including surgical and medical supplies themselves, are not a belief. almost 3000000 people fled here from other parts 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. and so far we've ended up on the street and more, i'd rather be dead. death would be better for me that there are no tents. bad. there's nothing more clear about the situation is very bad. it would have been

better for me to die with my children are now jojo moulded over the 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 or quickly? we are now dead. thanks for nothing is written here. these elected regions belong to 3 different spheres of influence, the kurdish,

autonomous areas, regions like it label that are partly under the control of islamist rebels and those under the control of the acid 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. so by, 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. it's very convenient for hamlin m. o. it's killing these people without him having to bombard them to ignore that one but young was

the west has imposed sanctions on the acid regime for war crimes against its own people in syria are now calling for an end to the sanctions local. but look to saudi to assess the can amik sanctions against our country are the biggest obstacles stopping us from getting heavy equipment to syria off to this devastating earthquake this natural disaster had the sanctions have to be lifted well as bathtub. yeah. when the lead heavy equipment and fire trucks with the nozzle, alma does not know began to sell ality out that far 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 used passed 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 as 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 tumor crossings between syria and turkey for the passage of aid. this at big mountains does 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, if on us that it has made it apparent that it is time to change this international practice and has the 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 horton 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 in 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 when 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. abdur rahman was rescued. abolish club, atlanta, 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. they lit very lit 11

while we are trying to overcome this historical disaster. doug, yolanda we are keeping tabs on those who am to set our people against one another and met with fake news and falsehood. second long talkie video. good all day is not the time to argue with them. guys, but when the day comes, we will settle our scores. death did the utter. jose is history repeating itself. it was the severe earthquake and is met in 1999 and discontent. with a government at the time and its disaster management that rapidly accelerated the rise of erewhon and his party, the a k p. could these quakes now cost him, his job are due on his been in power for a long time. which means that she has all these survival skills that he has

a coalition around him and that his debt can back him up. so i'm, i think if 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 both on the elections are, but i'm just praying that the elections 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 of 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 on young. we are there to show people that they are not alone. it doesn't matter how small and how poor

villages can play all villages and turkey will be reached. at least no one in tucker, openly criticize as the government in front of the officials to enjoy just makes a suggestion. i'm with them with them from here. little there should be records kept of who has received how much aid episode and then some other. it shouldn't just be handed out from a truck to those people who get their 1st. i can carry more back home. i know my with my mother my that would be by the of them little of the helpers. listen politely, but they don't take any notes. then they move on to the next village, which was in a few days, tundra 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

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