oh mm ah ah ah, this is dw news alive from berlin. one month after an earthquake brought disaster to turkey and syria. millions of people are still affected. we report from near it live in northwestern syria, where thousands are too traumatized and afraid to return to the damage filtering step once they're also coming up on the shell. signs at the battle for bach mote is

not yet over. ukraine's military says it wants to strengthen the embattled cities defenses, even as russian forces tightened their grip on surrounding areas. and a massive blaze leaves thousands of ro hang on muslims without shelter. in cox's bazaar southern bangladesh, we'll hear about how it'll affect life in the world and the biggest refugee camp. ah. hello, i'm clare richardson. thank you so much for joining us. it is exactly one month since a massive earthquake hit southern turkey and northwestern syria. more than 50000 people were killed in the worst natural disaster in modern turkish history. now the earthquakes epicenter was near at the turkish city of gods. yon tap that is close to the syrian border that millions of people have been affected, left injured,

homeless, or lacking basic facilities. encore, a declared a 3 month state of emergency for the 10 provinces that were most affected. the government also arrested contractors suspected of shoddy building. it may have vastly increased the death toll. now in north western syria, years of war have made the situation harder to evaluate the cities of aleppo and it lab were among those badly het and powerful after shock. in the following weeks triggered new fierce dw mohammed avi fire reports now from it led at nightfall. the 44 year old m r i ead fills his car with blankets and drives to the outskirts of it live far away from the city's crumbling residential buildings. he spends the night here with the sun since the 2nd earthquake struck northwestern, syria and turkey. hundreds of families are afraid to sleep in their own homes,

for fear of being trapped inside. if they collapse all the deserted eliza after all the earthquakes, my son and i are traumatized and one that you didn't, he didn't it. we don't dare stay at home because it's not safe. there was he and we haven't bought a tent. the intense cost between $2400.00 on it. and we can't afford wanted her to have decided to stay here with her. i 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. a son, a relief organization based in germany,

says the challenges are numerous. a hum animal caught the law, the most crucial obstacle to expanding refugee camps during that to accommodate the enormous number of people displaced by the earthquakes were sunny is that the communities were not ready to build such facilities and lockers. and there's the challenge of providing enough tense. danye wynn, adapt. i 2nd earthquake because a little more, even more people abandoned their homes that are to fall on that because of the trauma they experience shall be in the shop or in the 1st one of his other a well near the city of id live will khaled 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 after the 1st earthquake. we receive 22 families who lost their homes of sunny joanna. and after the 2nd one, rollin many mo, came here because they were afraid to stay in their buildings over this will. although, as you can see,

tom is difficult to meet their needs up homeless martha. for thousands of syrians, the choices between living on the streets, or living in fear. for more or less bringing massive dell a longer a spokesperson for the i f r. c. the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies. welcome. thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us on this important issue. i'd like to start with the situation in syria. this is a country ravaged by years of war, where the quakes have been described as a disaster on top of a disaster or one month on have all survivors there in receiving help. well, good afternoon and thanks for giving me 1st when we called the humanitarian store, where you quickly spoke about in more than a decade of work. but then that is also copied. and then there's a huge economic crisis. and then our year quaker needs are still enormous. we said since the beginning that these will be

a great team worth where every agency everybody needs to go. it's all part. but then it will last long is not something that we were sort of in a couple of weeks on ones, but it's something that we're seeing in our timeline of, of years because needs a huge and them where we go ahead to the more we sheet for the sense that mental health, it's really one of their top priorities. so are there still people there in northwestern syria who have not yet received any kind of help? when of course are there and there are differences in the area of northwest and syria in terms of access in terms of challenges on the ground. so what they can say is that does them as a t, we were through there a lot by and there was president in most of the all the news of the country then that idea that even before they quaker, the huge challenging demo boxes and these,

why in the last 4 weeks, we're eating every time or see what the wall divide is on the ground to give safer . and i mean, that have access to your mind and i want to come back to something you touched on just a moment ago. your organization has been sounding the alarm on another aspect of this disaster, namely emotional trauma and the long term mental health challenges. do you think those are being addressed sufficiently sufficiently? you know, as i said, the needs are so big that no one can really addressing that sufficient way i would say in both countries that we can see from our, from what we listen from. what people in the field. well as the expert that mental health and mental is critical. i mean that you want to quickly pointing out underlined that people are afraid to go back out afraid when things are. and we know by experience with best mentality since the beginning and in a sustainable way, not just in short them long because these are the kind of rooms that i mean you can

not see. but unfortunately we can't stay with people for a long time. i want to look just briefly here at the government response in turkey . the president there has acknowledged shortcomings in his government's initial disaster response. do you think there are lessons to be learned here or was it just not possible to be ready for a disaster of this scale? well, i think that the no one can be really prepared to such a large scale disaster that year and syria went through. i mean i, i can give you an example i'm italian and unfortunately also my company sprawl to national disaster. after every egg wake frustration of people was there. and also to find that the emergency response had some issues. so i think that every company can learn from the pastor in google, but the example such big, immense scale these ask that it's very difficult to have our fuller emergency response. thank you so much for joining us with that update that is too much longer

with the international federation of red cross and red crescent society. thank you . let's go to the war in ukraine now, and ukrainian military leaders are determined to hang on to the embattled town of bock mote, according to a statement by presidency lensky office. the news comes amid growing signs of a rift between the russian mercenary group, wagner and the kremlin. wagner, chief, you have any provisions, as his representative has been denied access to russia's military headquarters in ukraine. it comes after proposed and released a message warning that his troops were running out of ammunition and buck merged despite moscow promising new supplies last month for go to said the lack of ammunition risks to collapse out, rushes front lines near the city so we can speak now to d, w, he's russia analyst, roman, gone to ranko roman. first we got reports that ukrainian troops may have started withdrawing from bach mote. now keeps as a to doubling down there. can you tell us what's behind this?

well, we've heard from the president lens, his office that there was a meeting today with ukrainian war cabinet. and during that meeting president. ready explicitly asked the cranial commander of the ukrainian army generals, lose me. the commander of the ground forces, general c a ski, he asked what to do in baltimore, and both reportedly supported the idea to keep fighting and trying to hold baltimore. and this is an obvious sign to show solidarity because there were reports and allegedly generally was arguing to leave the city to pull back to maybe save the credit reserves. or as president savanski is reportedly for continuation of fighting and trying to keep more because of its political and strategic importance for ukraine. so a clear sign from you. but on the other hand, we still have reports that some,

at least partially crane and forces were ordered to withdraw from mood. and we also hear from russian sources that they continue fighting and they, they claim to control about 40 percent of the city. now we're also hearing this as we get reports and a deepening rift between rushes military, and want to put this closest allies, magnor chief, a promotion who had said his representative has been denied access to the russian army headquarters and ukraine. why should we make of this? well, it's one more sign. i would say that there is the rift, it's not, you know, we heard similar reports before and mr. precaution, just a few days ago. ready was also very frustrated saying that he was not getting enough ammunition that he had problems to recruit new fighters in russian prisons. and, well, we've seen in the past months that he has been able to humiliate the russian army,

showing that he's private army. so to say is able to fight better than the regular army. and he was also very, very critical of the russian generals over the russian military command, including defense minister had of a headquarters. so there is a definitely for some in the russian army. mr. gordon has become 2 influential and it could be, it could be in the interpretation that they are trying to maybe push him back a little and to gain regain interests they had before. and if that is the case, how might this read impact russians ability to carry out it's spring offensive? well, in this moment or the wagner group seems to be moving forward. and it's probably in a position to, to capture one big city which is more. and this would be,

this would make regarding even more influential that has been before and he has the q is the russian army. and a few months ago. ready trying to steal his victory in the smaller town of soda, which is a neighbor, you know, so we can expect attention to you between regoza and the russian army to rise. thank you so much for that. that is our analyst. many katrinka really appreciate your time is always say in ukraine, and it's estimated that a year of war has shrunk. the embattled countries economy by half as russian attacks devastate energy infrastructure, disrupt production, and block ports. but work does still go on despite the attacks. dw nick connelly has met with people in the new pro region who are keeping ukraine's metals industry going, despite the airstrikes. ah,

it's a sound that means one thing. time to head for safety on the ground. no matter how many times you've heard, it never stopped being unnerving when will began seeking shelter, also might stopping work. the urine and production of this metal plant continues regardless. thanks to this improvise set up a little more than a few computers and internet connection people down here and keep the machines running up above. their boss shows us his emergency supplies. if needed, he tells us they could survive on these provisions for days or even weeks through so far, this talk hasn't been hit with russian troops still less than a 100 kilometers away. the risks are real, lea be rented, this is war and no one can possibly know what will happen. tomorrow's a good. we can't afford not to be prepared. a decision is a boss. i pray will never need any of this with others. but other ukrainian companies have been less fortunate to russian missiles a few days apart it this production site to the new pro,

killing 2 people at the 1st strike not come on the weekend. that figure would likely have been far higher. it's lottery. i to lottery's a real can can time can come any time at any place. it any house at any facility. my 1st time here i sold the pictures. they did a one to come because i remember the equipment. i remember how much effort to spent making all this and that's russian. russian world is came to my plant that how it looks like we visited another vicious loves factories. it's still going, but it's struggling with the effects of russian attacks when you cranes power system. yes, that the power bill dog. when we have a, we'll get warm months went through the rug and alert. i turned off all the electricity and that happens on reneged. we never

ever happens. we will lose rome. dissolve them years in a one minute. the material inside, they cannot lose the temperature with the freight and the brain generates is made all the difference. workers canal prevent uncontrolled shutdowns, buying time to buy pin natural gas that stabilizes the temperature until means electricity returns. where before they would lose days of production every time the power went off. now it's down to a much of ours. the power is the only problem they're dealing with here. ukrainian firms operating against all the odds, are increasingly finding that many customers in europe don't want to work with them . they're afraid that will prevent the ukrainian supplies from delivering more. i will guide them that everything was i didn't know that we're fighting everybody fighting late. my job is

to make sure that the vendors are working. it will get exhilarated. i can help, i can buy with them. but not every business can roll with the punches like this one . that slope tells us that at least a quarter of his competitors have already got out of business. and the bankruptcies keep coming from the resilience on show, ukraine's economy is still in free for leaving this country. and it's all me ever more dependent on international support. i'm very pleased to welcome timothy miller von off the president of the keep school of economics and an advisor to the zalinski government. he served as ukraine's former minister of economic development, trade and agriculture from 2019 to 20. 20. thanks so much for speaking with us. our correspondence report there highlighted the resilience of ukrainians, working under near impossible conditions in one metal factory. but the economy has

by some estimates, trunk by a half in your view, what is most urgently needed to set things back on track. thank you. yeah, i just want to correct the things that i found by today that the economy is in free fall to finish their or but that's not true. the economy is not in free fall. if we look at the dynamics, month to month, it has the delight actually sometime around the summer and then later attack started on the critical infrastructure on the tolbert. so several months kit and then did. there was a continued deterioration. but before i got the actual estimate of the 50 percent, but the 30 percent, the national bank of ukraine recently issued it, you are correct. absolutely. on the structural rhythms, debt ukrainian company its manufacturing works on the almost impossible condition. and to answer your question. sure. quickly what needs to. busy the lives of the a, this top of the war course b, is that missing? international support. and of course we need to work on the barbara agreed on the

infrastructure that the company is comp sufficient electricity. otherwise they can use template. okay, so we have an ukranian economy facing major challenges, a recent report from your institution. they keep school of economics, put the total damage to infrastructure at almost a $138000000000.00. that is a staggering some. where are we seeing most of that damage? most of the damages actually come into the residential housing, 5 to 7 percent of all housing in the country have been destroyed. of course, it has not been done uniformly in the east of ukrainian northern. there isn't this out of the fight and has taken place. that's what the damage is in some towns have destroyed, have been completely destroyed actually. but the 2nd one is infrastructure related to logistic, the road and to electricity. that's what with the major damage and they've to recovered that. what we need to do is to focus on that trip, as i mentioned before,

but also logistics on the roads on bridges. one connections on very how and we know over the last month, russia has been repeatedly attacking critical infrastructure in ukraine. how much longer do you think factories like the one that are corresponding visited can keep up production under these circumstances? very roughly speaking, we can or shoot separate the areas in those which are close to the front line and which up further away. those which up further away they appear to be better protected and also it appears that. busy over the last weeks, the russian that, that have moved mostly to those cities and towns which are close to the front lines . they continue that back throughout the ukraine. but the damage is mostly done in the closer to the area where the front line. so give you a factory, all factory is in the front line, then you know they're getting disrupted daily or weekly goes, you know,

land in their factory. this is awful and it's very difficult to rate them the same deep, near impossible condition. so the answer there is better era, different, more weapons to the defense effort and stopping the rock, denied the russian ability to at that, it would talk around the country more generally. that basically helping with truck from acres with barbara generators. so they have electricity. and if manpower an issue, we have some 8000000 ukrainians having left the country, tens of thousands of people wounded or killed. what kind of challenges do you think that this might posed for reconstruction in ukraine? actually, i'm afraid the numbers will be in hundreds of thousands of the deal and when the boards over because i don't think we'll have what we have all the data yet. and if you think about my loan in the spring last year, the sense of 1000 there. so i think you are correct with points and now them delayed reports, but i don't like to use the economic jargon. are labor force and people did the

humans in a family, brother, the 3rd husband, wife, children they of course a lot of people have been killed. a lot of people are traumatized. people have been born that in the day that many people left the country going, there is a problem with, sorry, labor for it would talk about economy and it is very, very difficult to find people to feel positions. and i think a lot of businesses which are active, which are working on a sole and complain the very difficult to find people that will be at jo and after the war. timothy no sign of president of the keith school of economics. i want to thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us on d w. nist let you take a look now at some of the other news making headlines around the world. a court in bella, ruth has sent his exiled opposition. leader svetlana took an oscar to 15 years in prison for treason. she was forced to flee belarus and 2020 after mass protest

broke out. when alexander lucas. shank. oh, claim to have won a disputed presidential election of appeal in estonia center. right. prime minister high a palace has one an election dominated by you were in ukraine. she is one of keeps most outspoken supporters and is that to remain in office despite an economic crisis. her party $137.00 out of a $101.00 seats. but in collis on track to meet another coalition skirmishes of broken out in the georgian parliament over a controversial new bill, aimed a cracking down on what the ruling party calls for an agency. critics fear the government will adopt a law muddled on a similar one in russia. protesters also gathered outside parliament in an effort to block proceedings. while a massive fire has destroyed makeshift accommodation at the world's biggest refugee camp, more than 2000 shelters, half burned down at cox's bazaar in bangladesh,

where there were no reports of deaths or injuries. the facility houses hundreds of thousands of ro hangin muslims who fled persecution in neighbouring yet mar. for 3 hours, a massive fire burned through section of cut tupelo. 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. i was like, you know, 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. yeah. now i have 7 children

when the fire broke out to be a part of it, i couldn't find them. i went to search for them, but i couldn't find them all here. i don't, i don't work out when i returned home on what things were burned in your do alone, and i haven't if nothing left for them with your good as i go to the rowing are mostly muslim minority who fled a brutal crack down in me a mar, duct began in 2016, attempt to send them back. have failed. after meeting fierce resistance, you an agencies called me and mars persecution of the ro hanger, 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 a to the rowing your refugees who are already brisk. if malnutrition, a devastating blow, especially for the estimated 12000 people who lost her homes in the fire.

let's change gears and get some sports news now and. and england's premier league. liverpool thrash, manchester united. set the knell to record their biggest ever victory over their rivals. most la scored to of liverpool goals becoming the clubs, record premier leaks or in the process. 6 of liverpool, 7 goals came in a dominant 2nd half. it was majesty night. it's worse defeat to any team since 1931 . so unsurprisingly, the 2 coaches were in very different moods after the game. let's hear from both. starting with liver pulls, juergen, club, free, grizzled top perform um, really top performance from the start. i thought the way we saw the game was really special, as well as best for a long, long, long, long, long, long time we will thereby aggressive, but we played football. we were carmen the right moment. super lively, super activity result is quite obvious. it's unprofessional. i don't think it's

it's, i don't think it's mrs. united so with really bad and poor. you're watching da da. the news from berlin here is a reminder of our top story before we got a month after a devastating earthquake hit turkey and syria, more than 2000000 people are still displaced. the un has called for access by all 8 parties to syria. and the criticism at the outset regime was abusing humanitarian aid for political purposes. as he was update at this hour. i'm play richardson in maryland. thank you so much for watching. ah, with

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