in february on d. w. he couldn't make it to the funeral in time sitting in front of his mother's freshly dug grave in the turkish village of tocar twinge, i shall haine still can't believe what has happened. his mother was among the 10s of thousands of people whose lives were claimed by the severe quakes and the turkish syrian border region. ah, this was once the family's home on dalton optimizon up. there was the kitchen. this is i use that and that's what's left of the roof on and, and all the house slid in that direction, listings are good. then the walls burst apart on donna when stephen they get that's what it looks like now. well, so zito falls on sadly, my mother died here. it's golden. no one of his aunts was also buried under the rubble. to enjoy is a student in the german capital, berlin on chaplain telephone after take home. i got a call from my cousin does okay. then in what he said, your mother was very badly injured. copeland, i was an earthquake, it was very severe of them. so all you have to get to turkey immediately looked these feelings on the situation. you can't put it into words. an earthquake is the turkish syrian border region at 417 local time on the morning of the 6th, the february 2023. it's epicenter was located in the turkish province of car. i'm on my dash on a measuring 7.8 on the richter scale. it was one of the strongest quakes to hit the region in the last 900 to 1000 years. got torn out of their sleep. people fled their homes. in some areas, the temperatures were below freezing. a natural disaster on a devastating scale. thousands of buildings were destroyed across an area of 100000 square kilometers in south eastern turkey and north western syria. in turkey alone, more than 100000 buildings collapsed or were severely damaged. the start of a race against time. mm. the chances of surviving longer than 72 to 100 hours trapped under rubble are extremely slim. hope dwindles with every passing minute. ah. the same morning, the region was rocked by a 2nd quake of 7.6, magnitude this time. in the critical 48 hours after the disaster, the turkish state and the disaster and emergency management authority, f, a, d, were unable to cope. not even the armed forces were mobilized to rescue people trapped beneath the rebel. heartbreaking images were beamed across the world. like that of major attention in the southern turkish city of common mirage. clinging to the hand of his dead daughter aramark. she was 15. the w h o estimates 26000000 people in turkey and syria have been affected. were trying to save people from the rubble, but we made help when the rest was come, they say they can't hear any one. but we heard someone calling this morning. the rescue, let's just say, if we can't hear any one, we can't help. and then at least we'll do. the experts believed that the earthquakes could have claimed the lives of up to 80000 people in the 2 countries ah, hundreds of eighteens from on around the world. set off for turkey, even a team from ukraine, with 87 search and rescue workers, trained dogs and special equipment. a moving gesture of solidarity from a war torn country under attack from russia. hello and time and again, small miracles, 1011, and even 12 days after the quakes rescue teams continue to pull survivors out of the rubble of young children and babies were also among those rescued from the ruins in syria, the disaster hit people already beleaguered. after almost 12 years of war and who were already dependent on humanitarian aid before the quakes. but in the badly affected areas such as italy, province, which is not under the control of president bashar assad. health did not arrive for days, no rescue teams, no medication, nothing but here to there were small miracles. a baby born during the earthquake. the rescue was cut the umbilical cord. the baby girl's entire family is dead. in the hospital, they called her idea arabic for miracle. now she has a new family. they've named her after after her dead mother. the ground has been torn apart by the quakes. this is one of the most earthquake prone regions in the world. it sits at the crossroads of continental tectonic plates. the arabian plate is pushing northwards into the eurasian plate, forcing the anatolia and plate wedged between them to move 2 centimeters westwards . each year. the pressure builds over years and then it suddenly released in the form of an earthquake. in this case, the jolt caused the plates to shift some 6 meters. the region hit by the most recent disaster is not the only area in turkey vulnerable to quakes. the majority of its population lives defact to under constant threat. the danger is particularly high in the area, around is stumble. for decades, geologists have been warning of the risk of an earthquake of magnitude 7 or above, after $99.00. okay, there are some pros to calculations that indicated and okay. a larger okay, more than mom's decision would probably ask, tried she stumble area my my region with the polar until flood 6 to 2 percent within the next 30 years. and it's already or 24 years for many experts. it's not a case of if, but rather when the next earthquake will strike, the consequences would likely be even more devastating than they've been in southeastern turkey. that talking about like 50000 buildings, house in very bad shape. imagine half of them being, you know, collapse numbers will be an incredible back until car, which was close to the epicenter. neighbors managed to free 3 trapped children. professional rescue teams never made it to the village. is my telephone. i would like to show you another house or 2 neighbors died. their phone tocar only has a 100 inhabitants. 6 residents died in the disaster, including 2 enjoys mother. the people here are poor, south eastern turkey is one of the most deprived parts of the country. the villagers had never considered earthquake resilient construction before. but now to enjoy his father, who wasn't home on the night of the disaster, realizes just how shoddy the building materials were them it, i'm ok, so we'll look at the steel that's been used in a book. what is then bars were meant to support these load bearing columns. the j budget mar that we only learned the hard way. who's on her name and i'll you, young live, miss. ha, yep. well this house should have been inspected by the authorities. i've been into i thing from now on the buildings in the village as well should be more closely monitored. that's what protested than miss as far from the cities that have been hit, the hardest, the people of tucker are still largely going it alone. days after the quakes, the international aid and rescue efforts are focused on the big urban areas. a car sent by turkey's bar association has come to the village. the volunteers are giving out food and sanitary products from the trigger dollars. you're looking for going from village to village. we're distributing the items that people need right now. we're trying to help us best we can and buquet here. jeanette, m b e d. i saw this wrong people here need tense chub if you will, middle dome of gun. but we don't have any shot the they'll give it most people until car still don't dare to return to their homes. all the authorities have sent one single tent. the hope is that at least the elderly will be protected at night. the temperatures drop below freezing under the sha hanes and their neighbors will be staying in a store room for the time being together with their livestock. so how will things continue in the village? are they suspect changes? do they plan to build new homes differently from now on that top? oh, just build one story high in the future at clack. in the past, your height, your thought tundra is father already has plans to build a new home page. begin. nothing, of course, if i can afford it somehow, every one would like to build a house for their children. is that, but it will have to be sturdily built this time. and unfortunately, that's expensive. again, with good construction materials and a solid foundation. i know that's all i'm almost yet if you how many people's lives would have been spared. if these buildings had been earthquake, proof turkey does have very strict seismic building codes. enforcement is another matter. i do on a war that major construction infrastructure projects, government projects to a close circle of people, close associates from his own circle from the construction sector. so these are companies at basically embarked on a building scree ah, building infrastructure and building homes in n in earthquake hot spots without following proper building coats as pre election sweeteners am estes were repeatedly granted for buildings that didn't meet the standards. hundreds of thousands of buildings were legalized that way, including in the disastrous own public money for earthquake resilient buildings was diverted elsewhere. and despite warnings from geologists, critical infrastructure projects such as hospitals in the airport and her tie were erected right on top of tectonic fault lines. developers are being arrested, but government and administrative officials have not been held to account so far. most shockingly, the writing was on the wall. for months. geologists had been warning of a severe quake in the region. the president's office was also informed the new and, and this was, of course reported in saxon papers and also in on the government called the joseph, or starchy, i did loss of investigations along this folder. and of course, these all were report good as to time, but of course yeah, it's up to the politicians to good necessary measurements. madame alfonso da, and they just ignore her. ah, the letters are written to report it in syria on the other side of the border. this north western province is rebel territory and is not under the control of the us at regime. even at the best of times, the people here are largely cut off from the outside world. at 1st too, they found themselves on their own international search and rescue teams with specialist equipment and humanitarian aid. didn't get here for days. they dug through the rubble with just their hands with the white helmets who have organized civil defense in the areas not controlled by the asset regime during the war. rescued survivors from the rubble up to 3 days after the quake. lettuce i hope the humanitarian organizations can just help us remove the debris and just equipment and medical help. that's all probably the engine didas near the turkish border. the destruction was particularly severe. la la, la, la jolla, my brother and his younger son are still under the rubble. we're not able to get them out. we don't know what to do, how come through danville if there had been support yesterday. maybe we could have saved them off also. i saw them. i saw blood running out of my brother's nose moved . his son was in his arms. we rescued his daughter, but then it got dark. on day 7 after the quake, the white helmets ended their search. without the necessary equipment, they had been unable to pull out any survivors from day for the survivors are still waiting for aid. derek dave donna walking with our situation is very bad. there is no help. we need tents, we need food, we need drink. we just left with what we had on the look at us. we have no shoes. people have lent us clothes for had been our lawn for 9 years now. there has only been one single border crossing between syria and turkey. open for humanitarian, a deliveries to the opposition held area. bob, a house, according to a un security council resolution. it's the only place where cross border aid is allowed to pass. but the disaster has partly destroyed surrounding roads. and with its security council, vito russia can close the border at any time. a 1st convoy of 6 trucks passed through bub aha to northern syria on february 9th. but these trucks had been waiting here before the quakes and were only carrying blankets, detergent and diapers. there are few hospitals in eclip, many were destroyed by bombing carried out by the asset regime and its ally russia that also killed health workers. now the medics are doing what they can, but they are unable to save all the injured lot of thought accurately. if there is a large number of patients, why it's beyond our capacity. despite that we are doing our very best all about them without the the patients have multiple injuries and need a range of specialists in this hospital that we need across the board support. including surgical and medical supplies themselves and arthur, i believe almost 3000000 people fled here from other parts syria during the war. now they have lost loved ones and their homes. once more. 90 percent of them were already reliant on humanitarian aid. before the quakes seen, i was shorter, i knew i knew so far. we've ended up on the street and more. i'd rather be dead. faith would be better for me that there are no tense ma'am. there's nothing more clear about the situation is very bad. it would have been better for me to die with my children are now jojo molded. went over they wait in vain for help, but hundreds of dead are being transported over the border. syrian refugees who died in the earthquake in turkey are being brought home for burial o in syria. 5.3000000 people have been made homeless by the quakes. thousands are dead. how many of them could perhaps have been saved? if international help had arrived were quickly we are now dead. thanks for nothing is written here. these elected regions belonged to 3 different spheres of influence. the kurdish autonomous areas, regions like italy that are partly under the control of islamist rebels. and those under the control of the asset regime. in addition, there are external geopolitical interests that have prevented the arrival of rapid relief. and the acid regime has refused to allow aid that arrives in damascus to be transported to areas that are not under its control . thank seeking this has always been a war against the civilian population. the attacks were always targeted at residential districts and hospitals at bakeries where people were lining up to buy bread. so by the, as soon as the song gets control of age channels, it's never going to be used in a fair manner because he's massively attacking exactly those parts of the population and has no interest in their survival. sandy, on this earthquake, to put it very cynically. is very convenient for hamlin, m. o. it's killing these people without him having to bombard them to ignore that one but young was the west has imposed sanctions on the asset regime for war crimes against its own people. some in syria are now calling for an end to the sanctions. local bud isadine to assess the economic sanctions against our country are the biggest obstacles stopping us from getting heavy equipment to syria off to this devastating earthquake. this natural disaster that the sanctions have to be lifted. well as multiple w, we need heavy equipment that will fly and fire trucks with the nozzle armada that had begun to sell ality out at fault. but humanitarian aid supplies and even heavy rescue equipment are not subject to western sanctions. they could be delivered. however, there have been repeated reports that the syrian regime used passed a deliveries for its own gain or held them back using them as a bargaining chip in the civil war. up to now, western governments have ruled out direct co operation with the mask us over humanitarian aid support for assad. since the quakes has come from china, iran, pakistan, and from russia, amongst others. one week after the disaster, i said, at least to prove the temporary opening of 2 more crossings between syria and turkey for the passage of aid. this at the mountains, does guns, claudio earthquake has made it very apparent how absurd the humanitarian research sions and northwestern syria are as a result of the russians veto and the un security council as allies of assad. but when it, when i say it is made, it apparent that it is time to change this international practice and has the knowledge and to listen to the school of international law that says that in times of extreme humanitarian suffering, it is no longer necessary to go via the security council for mr. reynolds, brenda, she runs, which i've got to be in. and then in the midst of all this suffering on february, the 8th reports hardened suspicions that assert and turkey had bombarded kurdish areas in northern syria. hit by the quakes. dusty cakes, the facts, the warring parties, aren't letting their weapons rest in such circumstances is unparalleled in terms of moral reprimands ability and cynicism. in turkey, the earthquakes could also have political consequences. parliamentary and presidential elections are scheduled for the 14th of may even before the quake a when for the authoritarian president regime tie up air to want was not a done deal. now the opposition and survivors are heaping criticism on his crisis management. after the failed crew of 2016 air to one further curb, the military's power and only mobilize them 48 hours after the quakes. he's also weakened the disaster and emergency management authority, installing a theologian at its head, and he slandered and blocked help from the opposition and civil institutions. he blocked access to twitter for a while to silence critics. even though people under the rubble were using social media to send desperate appeals. so another video buff as it got moved, la knowledge, medical tricia, fin. people like the syrian refugee up to a rockman, a raj in the building. he heard the voices of neighboring families that were also trapped. abdur rahman was rescued by ish, moving from atlanta air to one reacted to the disaster with fury and a sense of denial. he said it was fate and that no one could be prepared for such events. he arrested critics and threatened retaliation. it very little a little while we are trying to overcome this historical disaster, john yona, we are keeping tabs on those who am to set our people against one another and met with fake news and falsehood. second long talkie video, june all day is not the time to argue with them going together, but when the day comes we will settle our scores. death did the usher, jose is history repeating itself. it was the severe earthquake in easement in 1999 and discontent. with the government at the time and it disaster management that rapidly accelerated the rise of air to one and his party, the a k p. could these quakes now cost him, his job are due on his been in power for a long time. which means that he has all the survival skills that he has a coalition around him, and that he get him back him up. so i'm, i think it, the answer is, is not straightforward. it's unclear whether the electrons will take place at all in may or as the constitution dictates by june at the latest. i don't know what he's going to do. you probably have to most fully elections are, but i'm just praying that donations are held in june. so people who are responsible for this disaster pay a price. oh, back in the village of took our staff from the turkish ministry. a family and social services have arrived. psycho social support is written on their vests. people ask them for tense, but they haven't brought anything with them. they're written all come on young. we are there to show people that they are not alone. it doesn't matter how small and how poor a villages can say all villages and turkey will be reached out yet. it was no one until car, openly criticize as the government in front of the officials to enjoy it just makes a suggestion that we're done with them from here. little there should be records kept of who has received how much aid episode on maybe some of them. it shouldn't just be handed out from a truck to those people who get their 1st and can carry more back home. i'm up with all the money to be by you of them better. the helpers listen politely, but they don't take any notes. then they move on to the next village. in a few days to and i will return to berlin. he says a lot needs to change in his home country, particularly in terms of public education. as some of the cogent people need to be better informed about the dangers of earthquakes and in the villages to them. oh oh oh ah oh we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah, romantic corner chat. hot spot for food channel and some great cultural memorials to brood. d w, travel off we go. d i'm getting ahead using tech as our documentary series founders valley. it's africa and meet the founders, empowering their continent through digital innovation and transforming work health and living conditions in their country and inspiring the world with their ideas. founders valley africa watch now on d dugan documentary ah, this week on world stories indonesian fights against climate polluters. a dispute over brown bears in poland. but 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