ah ah ah ah, this is dw news why the from berlin? millions are still suffering one month after devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria. we report from near italy in northwestern, syria, where thousands are too traumatized and afraid to return to the damaged buildings that will want their home. also coming up on the show. signs of the battle for bach

moot is not yet overt. 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 fire ravages the world's largest refugee count. thousands of ro hanger, refugees are homeless after a blaze devastates the camp in cox's bazaar, bangladesh. ah, hello, i'm claire richardson. welcome to the show. it is exactly one month since a massive earthquake hit southern turkey and northwestern syria. more than 50000 people were killed in what's been considered the worst natural disaster in modern turkish history. now the earthquakes epicenter was near the turkish city of ghazi, untapped close to the syrian border. millions of people have been affected,

left injured, homeless, or lacking basic facilities on career, declared a 3 month state of emergency for the 10 provinces that were most effected. and the government also arrested contractors suspected a shoddy building that may have vastly increased the death toll. in northwestern syria, years of war have made the situation harder to evaluate the cities of aleppo and it lives were among those badly hit and a powerful after shock. in the following weeks triggered new fears, the w mohammed r. a fire reports now from lib. at night for the 44 year old am fi, ead fills his car with blankets and drives to the outskirts of a live. far away from the cities crumbling residential buildings. he spends the night here with the sun. 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. after all the earthquakes, my son and i are traumatized and we don't dare stay home because it's not safe. that was he and we haven't bought a 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 after sharks made the initial damage from the quakes even worse. many moved into tents in front of their houses or in other public places. the son of relief organization based in germany, says the challenges numerous. a hum animal caught the law,

the most crucial obstacle to expanding refugee camps during the to accommodate the enormous number of people displaced by the earthquakes was 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 luth 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. but miss villas is after the 1st earthquake, we receive $22.00 families who lost their homes of sunny donna. and after the 2nd one rollin many more came here because they were afraid to stay in their building. so unless we little by little as you can see,

tom is difficult to meet their needs up homeless mazda, for thousands of syrians. the choice is between living on the streets, or living in fear. let's get an update on the war in ukraine now. and ukrainian military leaders are determined to hang on to the embattled town of bach mote. that's according to a statement by president zalinski office. the news comes anita, growing signs of a rift between the russian mercenary group wagner and the kremlin. wagner, chief of gainey provisions, as his representative has been denied access to russia's military headquarters in ukraine go. it comes after forego released a message warning that his troops were running out of ammunition embark, wrote just by moscow, promising new supplies last month, her goat and sat at the lack of ammunition at rest. the collapse of russia's front lines here in the city. or with the wagner mercenary group, expected to continue to play a critical role in the front lines. i asked the is russia analyst, roman going to ranko how

a deepening rift between the military and promotion might impact russia for an offensive? 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 ukraine, and i'm a general lose me. the commander of the ground forces general sky, he asked what to do in baltimore, and both reportedly supported the idea to keep writing. and i'm trying to hold baltimore. and this isn't obvious starting to show solidarity because there were reports and allegedly generally was arguing to leave the city to go back to maybe save the credit reserves. where as president savanski is reportedly for continuation of fighting and trying to keep more because of its political and strategic importance for you. right?

so a clear sign from you. but on the other hand, we still have reports that some, at least part of your grade enforcers, 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 one of his closest allies, magnor chief promotion who had said his representative has been denied access to the russian army headquarters in ukraine. let me make a mess. well, it's one more sign i would say that there is this 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 new fighters in russian prisons. and, well, we've seen in the past mom,

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. a 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 it's, it's an 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 brain offensive? well, in this moment or the wagner group seems to be moving forward and is probably

in a position to, to capture one big city which is more. and this would be, this would make gotten 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 between regoza and the russian army for rise. thank you so much for that. that is our analyst. many katrinka really appreciate your time, as always, just staying in ukraine and a year of war has crippled the country's economy as russian attacks devastate energy infrastructure, disrupt production and block ports. but work just go on despite the attacks. d w's corresponding nick connelly has met with people in the new pro region who are keeping ukraine's metals industry going in the face of air strikes. 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 meant stopping work. the urine and production of this metal block 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 the russian troops still less than 100 kilometers away. the risks are real, lea be rented, this is war and no one can possibly know what will happen, tomorrow's okay to him and we can't afford not to be prepared. his vision is the boss. i pray will never need any of this with, but other ukrainian companies have been less fortunate to russian missiles

a few days apart in this production site in the 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 lotteries are broken, 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 have 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 a plant that how it looks like we visited other bitches loves factories. it still going, but it's struggling with the effects of russian attacks when you cranes power system . yet the power build on what will happen is we'll get warm months when they're in the wrong in alert. a unpredictably ever it

never happens. we will lose around the result and yours, you know, one minute. the material inside they cannot leave the temperature with them for the break, the brain generates is made all the difference. workers can now prevent uncontrolled shutdowns, buying time to buy pin natural gas that stabilizes the temperature until means electricity returns. way before they would lose days of production every time the power went off. now it's down to a matter of hours. the power isn't 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 don't know that we're inviting everybody fighting at

my job is to make sure that the vendors are working, getting salary. i can help soldiers, i can buy whitman, but not every business can role with the punches like this one bitch slap tells us that at least a quarter of his competitors have already got out of business. and the bankruptcies keep coming from the resilience and show ukraine's economy is still in free for leaving this country. and it's all me ever more dependent on international support . earlier i spoke with a timothy me, the van of president of the keep school of economics and adviser to the zalinski government. he served as ukraine's former minister of economic development, trade and agriculture from 2019 to 2020. and he told me what is most urgently needed to bolster the ukrainian economy. thank you. yeah, i just want to correct the things. it's a nice sound bite to say that the economy is in free fall to finish the report,

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 this summer and then later attack started on the critical infrastructure on the job. so several months kit and indeed there was a continued duration, but before, because the actual estimates are not at 50 percent, but the 30 percent, the national bank of ukraine recently issued it. you're correct? absolutely. on the structural rhythms, debt ukrainian, company, it's manufacturing works on the almost impossible condition. and to answer your question, sure, you, i quickly what needs to the lies of the a, the scope of the war or b, is that missing? intern? national support. and of course, we need to work when the farmer agreed on the infrastructure of the company is sufficient electricity. other words they can use template. ok, 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 damage is 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 has been. some talents have destroyed, have been completely destroyed actually. but the 2nd one is infrastructure related to logistic, to road and to electricity. that's what with the major damage and they to recover 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 months,

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 close to the area where the front line. so your 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 operate the same deep near impossible condition. so the answer there is better air defense,

more weapons to the defense effort, and stopping the rock, denied the russian ability to attack 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 point to now in the labor force, but i don't like to use the economic jargon. are labor force and people that humans in a family rather, these 3rd husbands? why children, they, of course a lot of people have been killed. a lot of people are traumatized. people have been

born that many people left the country. so indeed, 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 show and complain the very difficult to find people that will be a challenge after the war, tennessee, you know, fine 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's bring you up to speed now. it's mother world news headlines. i still did a court in bella. ruth has sentenced exiled opposition. lead us get lana to an office guy up to 15 years in prison for treason to help sky us at b conviction was quote, revenge from the belly, mercy and authorities. and she vowed to continue her activism. she was forced to flee belarus in 2020 after mass protest broke out when alexander lucas jenko claim

2 of one a disputed presidential election. estonia center right. prime minister kaya carlos has won an election dominated by the war in crane. she's one of keeps most outspoken supporters and to set to remain in office despite an economic crisis. her party $137.00 out of $101.00 seats pudding palace on track to need another coalition skirmishes of broken out in the georgian parliament over a controversial new bill aint at cracking down what the the ruling party calls foreign agents. critics fear the government will adopt a wall model on a similar one in russia. protesters also gathered outside parliament in an effort to block proceedings. a massive fire has destroyed makeshift accommodation at the world's biggest refugee camp. more than 2000 shelters have burned down a cox's bizarre in bangladesh. there are no reports of deaths or injuries. the facility houses hundreds of thousands of rank muslims who fled persecution in

neighboring, then mar. for 3 hours, a mass of fire burned through section of cut to prolong the words largest refugee settlement by the time fire fighters 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 $1000000.00 rowing refugees in bangladesh, which shelter is made of canvas and bamboo, crowded next to each other. the settlement has suffered hundreds of fires in recent years. oh, 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. yeah, now i have 7 children. when the fire broke out to be a part of it, i couldn't find them anywhere or. and i you had when i went to search for them, but i couldn't find them all here. i don't, i don't work on

a returned home on what things were burned when you do my loan and i have not. and if nothing left for them with your good as i would've, the rowing are mostly muslim minority who fled a brutal crack down in me. a mar debt began in 2016 attempt to send them back. have failed. after meeting fierce resistance, you an agencies have 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 me and more. 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. to find out more about the situation in the camp and the future prospects for ro

hang or refugees living there. i spoke to wendy mccants, the director of the norwegian refugee councils, office in bangladesh. yeah. and so as you mentioned those about 12000 people last night when less from the fire. so immediately they had to be found someone to sleep . and we're trying to get them to a lot of those people manage to speak with the same challenges and some of their friends and family. or some of the senses that camino, that, that remains something like that. and this morning then we were able to go into the account and do the assessment to find out what the damage really was. and if they still in one of the account, we're talking about comp 11. and the 3rd of the population has been affected and moved out. so as you can imagine, there's a lot of work to be done for various stakeholders working in the comes out really

trying to find the best solution that didn't bring food and water and trying to find a solution for the temporary and other temporary math that they find themselves in and we are just looking at some footage from the fire just devastating images. and some of these people have been left homeless again after fling a crackdown in myanmar almost 6 years ago. what do you think the future holds for these people? yes. and you say people move down from my mom 60 years ago, they've been in the account for that period of time. some of them being disabled ones already certify a couple of years ago, which affected some of the same people. so i'm really, really challenging situation as far as the teachers, and it's something that we grapple in income. we're trying to find information about the well calling on the axes and the stakeholders to try things and constantly doing it in the accounts which is not really looking to meet

in the loan. so we need to find a better way to look at that and get a bit more sustainable energy into the lives there. and when i get into the camps, i talk to someone and then really what's, what's happening while they're doing that needing help, every day, they want to go school, they want to be educated and have jobs and have a normal nice to pull that up. a lot of the companies will get back to the stage. it's not no notion situation. so it's better just but we're really trying to find alternatives. and i thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us about it as well. that wendy mccants from the norwegian refugee council in bangladesh. appreciate your time. well, universities have reopened in afghanistan after a winter break, but only for men. the countries telivar rulers, bard,

women from higher education last december, accusing students of violating a strict dress code. the university ban is just one of several measures imposed by the tale one aimed at erasing women from public life. back to class after the winter break. the chance to catch up with friends after time away. but the only sign of women at this private university in kabul is on the walls. and the post is encouraging female students to wear a hit job. or am i to have life here before the taliban band, women from higher education late last year. i think he was a hiring law. we didn't have any issue with our sisters having segregated classes from us. what i'll point was that even if they had to study alone, we were happy about it. last year we were segregated and they were studying who were happy about it. there was no issue with it. that's what i mean. yeah. the

ruling in december was met with protest submit wide spread global outrage with many of those taking to the streets. young women now being denied access, the higher education, such as music. but what my personal view is that if girls are not educated, half of the society will be paralyzed. so half of the society needs to come out of this paralysis. the more progress you have in a society, the better goals are also human or whatever they love, all like whatever they want to become in the future. they must continue and they must study in schools or at university wide from room. there are, can jo mccormick elsewhere? that is why the, the taliban says the decision to bol with in from university classrooms was made because dress codes and gender based religious restrictions were being ignored. the country is now among the most restrictive in the world for women's education, with a similar bond still in place for girls at secondary school. the united nation says the direct his could create a last generation,

claiming every one has the right to an education. so you are watching get of you news from berlin. here's a reminder of the top story. we're falling for you. 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 of the asset regime, abusing humanitarian aid, political as update our if you want more, you can find it on our website at t w dot com. thanks so much for watching. a with

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