for less because all these things and more in the new season of the pot come make sure to tune and wherever you get your pot path and join the conversation because you know it love matters ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, a month after the turkey syria earthquake, millions still affected. we report from near it live in north western syria where thousands of people are displaced to traumatized and fearful to return to damage. buildings. also on the program. a huge fire leaves thousands of ringo muslims

without possessions and shelter. at the world's largest refugee camp in southern bangladesh. ah, mannequins, mckinnon. welcome to the program. it's exactly one month since a massive earthquake hit southern turkey and northwestern syria. more than 50000 people were killed at the quakes epicenter was near the turkish city of gaussian tab, close to the syrian border. the cities of aleppo and it live were among those badly hit and a powerful off to shock in the following weeks triggered new says t w's. mohammed al refi reports now from the city of ed lip.

at night for the 44 year old, ama feed fills his car with blankets and drives to the outskirts of a lid far away from the city's crumbling residential buildings. he spends the night here with his son since the 2nd earthquake struck northwest in syria and turkey. hundreds of families are afraid to sleep in their own homes for fear of being trapped inside. if they collapse, as you said, after all the earthquakes, my son and i are traumatized, we don't dest home because it's not safe. that was he, and we haven't bought the tenant tense costs between $2400.00. and we can't afford wanted to have decided to stay here. medina, horning the earthquakes that struck northern syria and killed almost 6000 people also destroyed thousands of structures. after the 2nd quake,

nearly 200000 people were displaced. families abandoned their homes as aftershocks made the initial damage from the quakes, even worse. many moved into tents in front of their houses or in other public places. he son of relief organization based in germany, says the challenges are numerous. minimal caught the most crucial obstacle to expanding refugee camps to accommodate the enormous number of people displaced by the earthquakes. sunny is that the communities were not ready to build such facilities. lucky and as the challenge of providing enough tense, donnelly, with that i 2nd earthquake academic level, even more people abandoned their homes that are to fall on that because of the trauma, they experienced chevy dealer shovel in the 1st one of his other a well near the city of it live will homage with carney offered shelter on his farm

and swimming facility to people who have lost their homes or to families who are afraid that buildings will collapse on them than this villas. as after the 1st earthquake, we received 20 families who lost their homes of sunny donna and after the 2nd one, latham many more came here because they were afraid to stay in their building sort of. and this will, although, as you can see um is difficult to meet their needs. september's, martha for thousands of syrians, the choice is between living on the streets or living in fear. and he works as the turkey assistant country director for the aide organization care. i often, if aide is now reaching all, if there's any get is coming in coming in at some, some scale now. but you know, there are always going to be people who are the last to receive assistance, especially in craig as big as this across

a letter from kentucky across the whole northern syria. i think in turkey we're talking about close to 170000 buildings are either collapsed or also damaged or no longer habitable. we're talking about the 2700000 people who become displaced, left the 11 provinces, and we're talking about tens of thousands of people in the north west of syria as well, and the dental as well above 50000. and so i think in those circumstances where there is just so much devastation and there is so much need. and then that way can be people who are, who don't receive ages ago as quickly as being desirable. but it is coming in and is going up the authorities doing as much as they possibly can . the agencies who also affected, unfortunately in this way too many of them were based in the city of high tide on takia in south se turkey. they were also affected,

losing staff members and offices, and so on. and that made the response, i think more challenging that the scale is still very difficult to get. you know, get one's head around. it has been a month now since the earthquakes. what are the challenges, obviously, numerous, but what are the biggest challenges right now me, i think the biggest challenge is, is the scale and the dispersement. so certainly in turkey, i think it's a question of you know, making sure that everyone has basic items that they at least have a tent that they have items to, to sleeping clothes, to wear. things to cook with, especially is still the tail end of winter here, so it is still quite cold. and there was absolutely freezing a month ago when the right track is about minus 7 at the time. so there was a big rush to provide basic shows or items, basic basic items for now to keep warm food, hot meals, and so on. so these are these items,

emergency items are still very much in need. there's also, i think now i need to think about what happens in the, in the medium term beyond tanks. and this sort of distribution. because it's very difficult to live in tents for more than more than a few, a few months really. so what happens between now the emergency phase and when reconstruction occurs and what's the, what's the intervening phase and the recovery phase, i guess you could call it. and that's where i think thinking in the it's interesting to return, i think it's all the more difficult in northwest syria because of course we're dealing with a situation of protracted conflict. so dealing in a situation where the earthquake was on top of 10 years of displacement, we have, you know, more than 1700000 people living in spontaneously settled displacement sites across the northwest as a color outbreak. many of those people living in old 12800000 people, living in old tents,

and most of those people are children. and so the earthquake comes on top of this already existing humanitarian catastrophe. and i think that makes the response all the more difficult and demanding in that context. that was thomas banfield from the aid agency care. now a massive fire has destroyed makeshift accommodation at the wealth, largest refugee camp. more than 2000 shelters of burn down at coaxes bizarre in bangladesh, but there were no reports of death. so injuries. the facility houses hundreds of thousands of ringa muslims who fled persecution in neighbouring at me and mall. for 3 hours, a mass of fire burned through section of cut to follow the words largest refugee settlement by the time firefighters and volunteers were able to put it out to blaze had destroyed around 2000 shelters, as well as dozens of mosques and schools. the camps here are home to most of the, nearly 1000000 rowing refugees in bangladesh,

which shelters made of canvas and bamboo, crowded next to each other. the settlement has suffered hundreds of fires in recent years. a fact, you know what? i had taken my mother to see the doctor. when i came back, everything was on file. we couldn't save any of our belongings. the rowing a are mostly muslim minority who fled a brutal cracked down in me. a mar debt began in 2016 attempts to send them back, have failed. after meeting fierce resistance un agencies of called me a mars prosecution of the rowing a genocide and ethnic cleansing. while staying in the refugee camps may be safer than returning to man mar, it's still full of risks. and not just from fires. days ago, he funding shortfall forced to world food program to reduce aid to the rowing refugees who are already at risk of malnutrition. a devastating blow,

especially for the estimated 12000 people who lost her homes in the fire. ah, we're going to take a look now at some of the other news making headlines around the world. authorities in pakistan say at least 9 police officers have been killed in a suicide bombing in the country. southwestern baluchistan province reports indicate officers war on a routine patrol. when the bomber approached them on a motorcycle, no one has yet claimed responsibility. south korea's government announced a plan to end a long running dispute with japan. it's proposing that a south korean fund compensate victims of forced labor during japanese rule of the korean peninsula. japan has argued for years that the issue was settled with compensation payments. it made back in 1965 estonia center, right, prime minister, kayak, how us as one, an electron dominated by the war in ukraine. she's one of keith's most outspoken

supporters and is now set to remain in office despite an economic crisis at home. her party $137.00 out of $101.00 seats, but in careless on track to lead another coalition. russia says its defense minister, sagacious for who has visited mario paul in easton ukraine. the ministry says he met with senior commanders during his trip and awarded medals to military personnel, the city and the done, yet screech, and was captured by russian forces last year. after a month's long siege. china has announced that it will be boosting its military spending and the coming years to counter what it describes as escalating threats from a book abroad. the move was announced at the national people's congress, a rubber stamp parliament, which is currently meeting in beijing. official said the country's military budget would increase by 7.2 percent. china's current military budget is around

$225000000000.00 us dollars. that's only about a quarter of that of the united states. china's military activities are being watched with concern by taiwan, which are earlier warned if the need to be on high alert the china entering areas close to its territory. i also journalist fabi unclear mom who's in beijing. if there would be any response to this warning by the chinese government. yeah, probably today, later during the press conference of the foreign ministry, but definitely not as part of the national people's congress because the agenda has been set very for long time. and this is not really how the congress works. it doesn't have much room for am day to day replies, but i think the tie wants defense ministers. the statement is quite relevant because it comes at a time during which china's military is sending almost on a daily basis fighter jets who reach close to taiwan, who are regularly entre tie,

once air defense identification zone. that is not ty, once a space, but it's kind of a buffer zone between taiwan and china. and i think the fia in taiwan is it a china bitter to re will, you know, tests its limits and basically sent its fighter jets a further and further and closer to the island. and taiwan has already been mentioned during this chinese communist party. congress has a net, can you, can you tell us what was said yesterday prime in a certainly could she and gave a one hour speech and he also mentioned how one i would say the rhetoric with what was rather subdued. it was softer than last year. and he repeated china's official stance that it opposes am taiwan independence and that it promotes, quote unquote, peaceful reunification. and a compared to last year he made, for example, her very m a stern warning against foreign interference. this he did not repeat this year, so i would say it is rather softer in tone. ok, softer but the,

the chinese communist parties. leadership as we said, has as an announced, this increase in military spending as more than 7 percent this year. so can you give us a sense of how big this increase actually is and, and what message is that sending yes, it's a very complex issue because um, 1st of all, it's not surprising. and usually i'm, china's military goals are laid out in 5 year plan. so, and we could already expect an increase around 7 percent, and that is quite a lot. but on the other hand, it doesn't factor in inflation, which then and if you look at it, the actual increase is not that high as it might seem. but i think the real issue here said a china system and especially the military has become increasingly opaque and are there are a lot of resources that the chinese government will allocate towards that military that don't show up in any official statistics. and that makes it really very heart am for observers to really assess the strength of china's ability. that's really not easy in k for then. thanks so much as far as fetch my reporting from beijing.

this is dw news from berlin and his her reminder of our top story. a month after a devastating earthquake hit turkey and syria will, than to 1000000 people are still displaced. the un has cooled the access by all 8 parties to syria, amid criticism, but the outside regime was abusing humanitarian aid for political will we have time for coming up next doc film investigates israel, secret service agency, most of that the state you for that if you can i minute mckinnon? thank you so much for watching the w ah, linda blue, what people have to say matters to us. mm hm.