that is stephanie deca with the latest from the doggie. thank you, stephanie. let's go now to sim costio. she's joining us from the turkish governments relief coordination center in the capital ankara and said m as stephanie was saying, there are still parts of the affected areas that have not received any help or aid . we know that a lot of roads are damaged, a ports have been shut down, but how was the government reacting to the criticism of its preparedness for an earthquake such as this and also to the response to it? well, there's a very huge crisis center in this building where i am standing. it's upstairs and all ministries are represented in working groups. they are trying to coordinate the aid the needs, the responses for the earthquake hit region or when we spoke to the officials here yesterday. and they explained us that a yes ed. there were some places that they couldn't have reached out to at the very 1st moment on the very 1st day, but they are doing their best. apparently. yes, there was an earthquake expected and the region, especially a ca, her

all right, then it is in to talk to stephanie deca. thank you very much, stephanie, that decker on the line there from the data base here in kata, where an 8 operation is about to leave, cut off for turkey and syria, she'll be updating us on that throughout the day here on alger sera. meanwhile, taiwan has sent 130 rescue ways, including medical personnel and search jobs. it's also donating funds and tons of a to turkey. the interior minister says ankara was one of the 1st country to help taiwan when it was shaken by an earthquake in 1999. joining us now on the news, our is l. e. s. i thought, who is the spokesman for the international rescue committee? middle east and north africa region is leih from amman in jordan. thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us. i know that some of your staff have been directly affected by these disasters. talk to us 1st about the situation in turkey . what are you hearing about it, and are you getting a better picture of what survivors need right now? yes. hi, fully. thank you for having me.

stephanie deca has more now from car marsh. of course, the overwhelming reality is that it is the dead that are being pulled from underneath their homes. but you know, these kinds of scenes when it goes quiet when they bring in the specialized teams cuz that's how it works. you'll have the volunteer is they searched through the rubble, you have some of the heavy equipment. and then when they suspect that they hear something of that there is life they call in the specialists, these are mostly either the turkish specialist or the various many, many foreign rescue teams that are here. we've got about 15 international teams in this city, which was of course, one of the epa centers, which is why it's so incredibly destroyed. new zealand prime minister says the damage caused by cycling gabrielle is the worst, and the generation a national state of emergency has been declared. the storm hit the north island, bringing high winds and torrential rain. more than $200000.00 homes are without power. some areas have been cut off by footholds

resto saddle, i'll jazeera carmen marsh, southern turkey ear. us go now. tar. correspond with stephanie deca who is in north a. stephanie, tell us exactly where you on the situation that how people coping well, we are at one of tens of thousands of sites where they are having rescue recovery because i had a bad coming to i was talking about 41 of the building here last night. incredulous as of may team, they pulled and i live in the rubble here. 32 years old for people remain fat. actually, just before we came on out, the rescue workers cool for silence the traffic stop. everyone here stopped. we went quiet. you can see there's a lot of people here that are helping we were talking to some of the rescue workers . they were telling us that they hardly sleep, they sleep in their rob in their van. and then if you look on the other side of the street, the destruction is everywhere. and we're just on one tiny part of the section other than a chair, people watch out, i'm going to take a little further on. because also looking ahead will focusing on the rescue and recovery operation. but if you look

let's go to our correspondence, stephanie deca, who is now in new day for us. stephanie, tell us more about the rescue efforts where you are. we've had these new pictures come in today, showing children being pulled out of the rubble today. it must give people hope that their friends or families could still be rescued alive. yes, is one of the rescue workers here told me when i asked him earlier, who still had hope? he said, well, you know, it's like i'm not going to be about believing in miracles. people are still emerging from the rubble, but it is very rare, actually 130 to your manager pulled out of the record just behind us. i just want to show you will so where we are, these are residential buildings that are still standing but get completely destroyed. and this is going to be a post the long term challenge when it comes to rebuilding and also housing the over hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people who need to be home. you can probably see on the left of this building close hanging people would have been drawing their clothes over at night when that

let's go live now to stephanie deca. she's in the town of mood. maggie in ghazi on tech, province and wrestlers at the epicenter. but so much of this region has been devastated. hesitant stephanie, tell us what you've been seeing. yes, unfortunately, the message here is the same. what we've been witnessing throughout the day is just death is just body's being pulled from underneath the rubble to bodies were pulled from this building. i earlier on was spoke, he probably saw what they were doing was shielding the body with blankets. and then what happens is they bring a body bag they put in the body, they carried away so to from there. and then we also had a mother and her child pulled from another building which is just there's a couple of buildings collapsing. really. everything is collapse where we are right now. and her father basically had lost his daughter and his grandchild sobbing behind them. they oscars here not to film when the bodies are carried away in respect for the dad and for the families that it is 5 days

that is san jose down bringing us the picture from new doggie is going out to stephanie deca. she's joining us live from chill, that goes who bets at the turkish syrian border and absolutely hot breaking story scenes where us stephanie forty's, of civilians who fled the war being returned from turkey. yes, we came here to cover. what is a recently renewed aid efforts across the border in to syria from where we are? and basically what we've been seeing since we arrived is an endless stream of bodies of syrians killed in the earthquake that are being handed over into trucks put in the back of trucks and taken across the board to be buried at home. i'm not sure you're playing those pictures now, but to behind me you've got that truck waiting for more to come. we've all been stunned by the fact that it's a constant stream of bodies in black bags in white shroud that they're putting onto the truck. there is one not actually lying on the ground with nothing covering him . we spoke to the official on the other side, the syrian side, and bob, who told us that around 950 syrian, have be

child that lived in this apartment. building. bernard smith, al jazeera and takia, and al jazeera stephanie deca joins us now in a donna and stephanie have been traveling through the region since these are earthquakes 2 weeks ago. and we see a plenty of images like the one in band, it's package and drone shots. but how would you describe the sheer scale of damage? i keep repeating the same thing in our stories in our lives. it. it's simply incomprehensible that you can't describe it. and even in the pictures that we've been showing you and fad, your color man has been taking taken to the sky with a drone, which really takes you really up and into people's apartment. you don't understand the scale of the devastation, don't see where it begins. you don't see where it ends. we've been to various cities, various towns, we've been to remote villages. and many of these have been, i don't want to say completely flattened, but completely destroyed either buildings or flattened there partially destroyed their structurally unsafe. and so many places like that, i province in there, come on marsh, around ga

stephanie deca has more than he took his syrian border. we came to the border to cover the resumption of aid into northern syria. but what we saw was body bag after body bag being carry towards the border in the bag behind, clearly a small child. these are syrians who were killed in the earthquake into gear. he makes space for more, their families sending them back home to be buried. the smell of death hangs thick in the air here within just a few hours. more than 50 bodies, at least no relative wanted to speak to us on camera. but this is a grandmother and her 2 grandchildren. a father came to bring his own children. look at them, he told us clearly in a days the youngest is 5, the other is 12. he said it looks like they are sleeping. the bodies of 4 children are in that vehicle and they're about to be put into the truck to be taken across the border. they came here to flee war and had to restart their lives all over again. many syrians decided to resettle here in hattie province, which is one of the areas that's been hardest hit. the man

stephanie deca traveled to charge back in the province of gushing out the destruction to the small village of chuck mac is absolute. the earthquake hasn't spared a single home here. the chief of the village takes us to what's left of his house. he says he can't believe he made it out alive, burn tree up at willow simba my wife and i were to sleep. we don't know what happened to us. how we woke up when i tried to go outside. i got injured on my head . that was enough, we were terrified the earthquake threw me. it was very hard. it made me lose my mind amore. me incredibly, no one lost their lives here. but just as large parts of so many towns and cities. this village too, will need to be completely rebuilt. in another village, further up the mountain, even the dead have been disturbed. the grave shifted as the earth cracked. if you look at the ground in the cemetery, you can see where the earthquake has disturbed all the bricks. and then over here, it has literally pushed a grave out of the ground and then leaving absolutely no doubt as to the power of mother nature, the violence with, with

stephanie deca has more now on the rescue operations in garcia and tech on tech. he is border with syria. it's been more than 3 days since everything changed and faint calls that offered such hope. have gone silent. he now did the building collapsed in the 1st 10 seconds to 22 people. they're leaving their, our father and one cousin of steele dead. in the 6 year old who was our neighbor. we are waiting for them. the hope they will bring them out. but not like this. their worst fear come true. a father, god, a home gone. everything worth living for, gone his family inconsolable. one of tens of thousands living a similar unimaginable hell of his life. rescue workers and told us that as of last night, they no longer heard any voices and he sounds coming from underneath the rubble. this is now a recovery operation, no longer a rescue on 3 bodies remain underneath his building, but we're being told, getting to them under all of this is going to take another building here around 80 . people remain missing or we saw were more dead bodies pulled from the rubble. relatives

the time of unity and solidarity al jazeera, stephanie deca has more from gazda and tap into key on a search and rescue operations around 80 people were told as so trapped under this building. but rescue workers have told us that they haven't heard any more. sounds any more voices since last night is a huge rescue operation happening here. it is the 3rd day we are being told to move out of this area because a lot of these buildings that still stand around here are structurally damages concerns that they could come down. you can see cracks, and some of these buildings are actually going to demolish one of them later today . because of how dangerous they are. a lot of volunteers here, which is came from another location as well. where also we were told it was no longer a rescue operation. it was a recovery operation. we saw one be body being pulled from the robbery rubble. it was a father. his daughter was there sobbing. ah, incredibly, heartbreaking scenes. sorry there's smoke coming because it's so cold a lot of the, the volunteers in a lot of the residents who are coming back waiting

let's go 1st to stephanie deca. she joins us live from casi on tip and took here. and to how was the rescue operation going on there? now 3 days on is there still any hope of finding anyone alive in the rubble? well, unfortunately, where we are here and also another location that we've just returned from, it is a recovery operation. it is no longer a rescue operation around a t. r. people bodies, at this stage, the rescue workers are saying are believed to be under the rubble of this apartment . they're no longer hearing voices. we just came back from another location where we saw a body being pulled from out from the rubble. he was a father, his daughter was there, she was sobbing. are a lot of family members. are there? absolutely heartbreaking to see really one woman talked to me. she described it as the actual earthquake her that night as a slap to wake up being out in or around in a minute and a half. and she described the buildings moving literally like this. so basically i'll let you faddie basically get him to film. this is the rubble of a large apartment b

now let's go to all correspond stephanie deca, who was next to the building with our rescue is taking place stephanie, that rescue going on now for about a day, i believe, which shows the challenges in getting people out alive. it is incredible, difficult work. what they're doing here, that there's a team of minors operating now you can see them standing down latham of the turkey, john, not just in our shop, with their tunneling through this shop. i basically where we believe to people, it is ready to be a mother and a child. there was a 3rd person believe to be a grandmother. they're not sure whether she is alive, but we've been told by the miners on the spanish who these are thermal imaging that they've identified for sure. 2 people alive ebony to be in a 7 story building that clap ab about 2 buildings to the back of where you see they're working. they are now tunneling from 2 angles from the side behind me, from another site to try and get to the area where they are believed to be, but it is extremely dangerous work whole. so last night we felt it in got the on them or were staying

stephanie deca has more from carmen, but ash, at the center of the 2nd quake. 2 young men were pulled out of the rubble on tuesday, but those stories of joy are becoming less and less. it is overwhelmingly the dead that are emerging from their homes while we're standing. these are apartment block, so they have been cleared. but this is as one of our colleagues described a mass graveyard. the city has become a mass graveyard. it is like this across huge areas of the city and the buildings that still stand are broken, they are structurally unsafe, their residence will never be able to go back home. so looking ahead, you have the challenge also of how to, how's, where to hows, over hundreds of thousands of people. one of the challenges here, it's not just one city that's been effected by this earthquake. it stretches across major areas of the se, certainly in this city. hit by the 2nd earthquake, it's epicenter very close to where we are at the people are devastated. i've many of them still can't believe that this is happened when you ask them what you need. many will tell you we need ou

in, in syria, bernard smith is in, is ken doran, sam is a, dan, is in no diet, but 1st stephanie deca begins are coverage with the rescue effort from the city of carmen marsh. it is physically and emotionally exhausting. sleep is brief. no one has stopped for days, but the determination of these rescue teams, both turkish and international. many of them are volunteers, is unbreakable. we have been working with a, with this a minor people from target and then they call us to coffee with our dog. and our little feet and not be mistaken, ever. they have miraculously seventies on identified life and are working to reach what's believe to be a mother and our 3 week old baby. but they have seen too much death here. i'm really sad thing and we have been talking about this way. we have got it. when we found people, their children are always in the bed and bodies have tried to reach the children that come into the their bedroom. the task of the rescue and recovery walkers is voss you can tell where the devastation begins, or where it ends. as one volunteer told me, he said it will go damage ac

stephanie deca has worn out from the doggin and se, and turkey. it's difficult to convey even with these pictures, the extent of the damage here building after building home after home street after street destroyed. one resident told us no dag, he is no longer on the map where people remain under the rubble. the rescue operation goes on. relatives wait, day and night. they sleep here under blankets that offer a little protection against the bitter cold. but as the days go on, many tell us that they have lost hope. swan the anchors ult, amber at the moment we are expecting for more people from our family grandfather and grandmother and grand daughter and a sister in law. when they bring them out and we will burn them in our land. we've seen 4 bodies hold out of this building so far. 28 people remain, but all hope has been lost to find any survivors here. entire families have been wiped out in one moment. and if you drive further up the road, you're going to see the scenes being replayed again and again. the other day we are going are helena. and ye

stephanie deca, their 1st in nor they are more aid is trickling into rebel held parts of northern syria to you. and ag convoys crossed the bub on how i border on sunday. but the ones a chief martin griffith says that the international community has failed north west syria, where people have been looking for help. that hasn't arrived. griffith says his obligation is to now correct this valley as quickly as possible. santa hodder has more on the relief efforts. so deal was rescued from the rubble of her home in northwest syria, which too was hit hard by mondays, earthquake and southern turkey. as the 6 year old girl recounts the horror of her experience, she still doesn't know how much she has lost. pressure fell out of the building, swayed from one side to another, and there was destruction. everywhere i heard my mother calling my father's name. i then lost consciousness and woke up at the hospital. i didn't lose any one in the quake, but i haven't seen any one yet. heck, feed her to get her father and 3 of her siblings. died. that even here in my past the deal doesn't know yet. we also

stephanie deca has worn out from the southeastern town of alliston, l with done the exact epicenter of that 2nd earthquake. the city resembles a ghost town. we've been driving around at streets. we haven't seen a single building. left standing, either collapsed, partially collapsed, destroyed, nothing remains livable here. a lot of its residents have left. there are not many tents here, and many residents also complained that help didn't come fast enough. el boston is nestled between snow covered mountains. it takes a long time to drive here. when you see nothing but mountains, it's also freezing. below 20 centigrade at night. we've also seen the turkish john dynamo. oh, with a cadaver dog. the rescue operation ended a long time ago here. now, it is only about recovering bodies, some of the buildings have already been marked, zoning on it saying things like empty saying damage noted. it seems that the work to rebuild this area has already begun, but at the moment, the devastation and we've been to many cities across the south east remains beyond comprehension. stephanie decker, al jaze

that's enough from stephanie deca who reports on rescue efforts from the tucker city of color. my marsh. it's physically and emotionally exhausting. sleep is brief. no one has stopped for days. but the determination of these rescue teams, both turkish and international. many of them are volunteers, is unbreakable. we have been working with this minor. if people don't get it and then they call us to compete with our dog. our local season has not be mistaken error. they have miraculously 7 days on identified life and are working to reach what's believe to be a mother and her 3 week old baby. but they have seen too much death here. and then really sad thing. we have been talking about this way to live body and we found people, their children are all within the wet and bodies had tried to reach the children that come into the their bedroom. the task of the rescue and recovery walkers is voss. you can tell where the devastation begins, or where it ends as one volunteer told me, he said it go up to damage across the south east. that makes what is already an incredibly difficult task.

stephanie deca reports from the town of al this town on the efforts to rescue them and if possible, but unite them, the owners on to be a cat, is brought in, found injured in the rubble. they died nose a broken leg. this mobile clinic in the town of l. b stand is part of a volunteer association. yes, i mean you'll ma's and in her team focus on rescuing pets from damaged buildings. they have rescued more than 70 cats and dogs. since the earthquakes hit it in cuz off much guard, we find them in the rubble. most are very scared and stressed. if they're healthy, they don't want to leave their homes on their area. the most tragic is those whose owners have died. we noticed they don't want it nice. they get depressed about one dog stop teasing for 5 days or albus down was the api center of the 2nd earthquake and southeastern tre, kia it is not recognizable now. but for those who survived and who have pets, finding them is a priority. they are part of the family. our home and the furniture are gone. what is important now? is old cocked. she's our so yasemin tries till you're the cat, minish ou

so let's go to stephanie deca, who is somewhere close to the scene in kut ahmad marashi. what are you hearing about that rescue operation of that mother and her newborn child? ah, we are at advocacy basically. it's been going on since last night. and there is obviously turkish workers here. volunteer is spanish rescue team. i just spoke to that basically they identified with thermal imagery. at least 2 people alive. they said they weren't going to speculate on who exactly they were. there are rumors that is the mother. i didn't new born my grandmother, rumors that the grandmother may not be alive what they're doing now, and we can probably fatty to show you a little bit of a fee. and this is some good news that everybody needs here. if this is going to be something that we end up seeing people being allied 7 days later. so there you could probably see the spanish rescue teams. you have obviously the local truckers workers, the medicaid come in here as well because of now the use of it pretty much confirm that you have at least 2 people alive on to the level. what they're

earthquakes and the turkish government is working to find temporary shelter for them from guardianship stephanie deca reports. this is the living tragedy. more than 300000 people in government shelters, and many more sleep elsewhere. thus were people here. we lost our homes with our neighbors. this is very, very difficult, very difficult. people are helping each other. this man collected milk from farmers and has come here to hand it out for free. they love to put in a bit. we will be bringing submits and pastries to we are doing this by ourselves, by our own will to this is the long term problem, tons and tons and tons of thousands of people homeless across this region. these people are standing in line to that handout. i'm in a, you're the money. i don't know just a little that the yet and best guy did with the good feel comfortable that we get interrupted. he says, we don't have any issues here. everything is super, everything is great. we were intimidated and harassed by a number of men in order to leave, determined to make sure there was no negative coverage. the government, it seems turkeys. di

well, stephanie deca has more now from carmel mulash, where most virus were found. the overwhelming reality is that it is the dads that are being brought out of the rubble. we've just had one body of brought out of where the work is going on. you could probably see the operation going on pretty much a recovery operation. 22 bodies. we understand remain, you do still have, so i'm hoping you could probably see those in blue. these are a chinese listening team. they keep going in and out with our equipment so they keep trying to listen. when the bulldozers now you see about 4 or 5 of them, one is starting to move again. they go silent to try and listen. we had to french search and rescue teams also come in earlier. they were looking, they'd had a call saying that someone said they heard a voice from around this area. they then entered the area. so there is still this sort of, i suppose, hope 8 days later because these specialized international teams are the ones that have the listening equipment that have the, the rescue dogs that identify life. this is something that

stephanie deca has mo, from donna, in southern techie, either buildings or flattened or partially destroyed. they're stuck to the unsafe so many places like that. i province in oklahoma, marsh, around gov, the on tab. these are areas, towns and cities where the majority 708090 percent needs to be demolished. what's still standing and then rebuilt. well, you are state department is announced that it's going to provide an additional $100000000.00 in a 2 regions in southern tech here in northern syria. they have confirmed that when you are secretary of state antony blinking arrived in the country. he's met with his turkish counterpart. they travel to some of the worst hit areas to look at the effect it's had on the region. washington has said that they would provide long to longer term help as well. just as that, those rebuilding efforts get underway. la doctors without borders, a convoys entered northwest in syria. this is a region isolated by more than a decade of civil war. the a group says an urgent increase in supplies as needed though to match the scale of the crisis their wealth. hope o

stephanie deca reports gossip. it's been more than 3 days since everything changed. and faint calls that offered such hope have gone silent. dinard, the building collapsed in the 1st 10 seconds to 22 people were leaving that our father and one cousin of steele dead. and the 6 year old who was our neighbor, we are waiting for them. if the hope they will bring them out. but not like this, their worst fear come, true. a father, god, a home gone, everything worth living for, gone his family inconsolable. one of tens of thousands living a similar unimaginable help of his life. rescue workers and told us that as of last night, they no longer heard any voices and he sounds coming from underneath the rubble. this is now a recovery operation. no longer a rescue on 3 bodies remain underneath his building. but we're being told, getting to them under all of this is going to take another building here around 80 . people remain missing or we saw were more dead bodies pulled from the rubble. relatives and friends come to watch in agony. the apartments and people they came to visit.

let's go over now, says stephanie deca, she's on the border with various stephanie, what's the situation there? well, it's a slow trickle of a truck that are finally entering syria to try and get to those much affected areas . of course, we've been focusing on rescue in recovery here in turkey. the fact that international teams arrive left right and center to help. none of that has arrived in syria. i just want to segue what is happening here. we came here to cover potential a truck. so what we've been seeing is the bodies of syrian killed in this earthquake in body bags in black bags, being handed out of trucks. that's actually behind the white one. there is, it's been constant since we've been here hunting them over, putting them onto the back of trucks and then driving into syria to be buried at home around 50. we are told have been brought over today in general. we spoke to the border crossing on the other side, but how that is the syrian side of this border around $950.00 syrian bodies of syria and killed in this earthquake had been brought across to be buried at home . of course, t

stephanie deca has more from kara mom, rush way more. survivors were found. overwhelming. reality is that it is the dads that are being brought out of the rubble. we've just had one body of a bad brought out of where the work is going on. you could probably see the operation going on pretty much a recovery operation. 22 bodies we understand remain. you do still have some hope in the sense you could probably see those in blue. these are a chinese listening team. they keep going in and out with our equipment, so they keep trying to listen. that's when the bulldozers now you see about 4 or 5 of them. one is starting to move again. they go silent to try and listen. we had to french search and rescue team also come in earlier. they were looking, they had a call saying that the, someone that said they heard a voice from around this area. they then entered the area. so there is still the sort of, i suppose, hope 8 days later, you know, the news nato defense ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss boosting support for ukraine. keith has asked for f. 16 fighter jets but allies say it wil

stephanie deca with the view there from guys young tap into kia, near the turkey syria border. now across the border in syria, the situation is extremely critical. the united nation says damage roads, lack of equipment and severe winter conditions are hampering efforts to find survivors in northwestern syria. rescue as are struggling to reach some of the worst hit areas. resident fe. the response from authorities has been slow, as in a harder has our report from beirut shirts. maggie, which i don't wanna healer, he laugh is 10 years old. she survived mondays, earthquake. others are still being pulled out from under the rubble of collapse, buildings across syrian cities and towns. but many didn't survive until y'all was wanting to maintain a laugh. tell us rescuers that her siblings and mother are dead under. they're destroyed. how funny she was in the opposition controlled northwest of syria. the civil defense members are working on their own without the specialized equipment needed to deal with a disaster of this scale. i mean mostly has been i've been waiting for news of my f