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shake inby 7.9 magnitude earthquake with tremors felt, in bang will aer. hello, and, this is the . world news, desperate to leave he'd theo pea a and to reach europe and, we were present when families, and the volcano has now reached the capital.
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so a magnitude 7.9 earthquake has struck, in nap pal, and the quake is about the capital, and these are the first pictures we are getting through, from their reports of buildings collapsing and, you can see them, and people sifting through the rubble, fearing people would be trapped. and, tremors felt in india and bangladesh. so these are the type of pictures that we have, and huge levels of devastation and temples have been destroyed and, 7.5 earthquake, and then they upgraded it. let's start with, serena,
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tell us about what happened. and how you felt the earthquake. and it was shaking and, the camera fell on the ground and as we looked out and people had accidents on the main road, and, it was out of control and back in the city, the main city, we saw roads cracked and people huddled in, and crying, and scared and, i was walking up the road to where i am and the temple was moving, and i just walked past it, and, it is in rubbles, and there's nothing left and, there are those, that are alive and we're been hearing lots of reports of
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people being taken to the hospital and, it is not sure. is this the type of thing that, they are prepared for. i'm looking at a lot of these pictures and it looks like they have just fall especially over. do they have experience in dealing with earthquakes? there has been a lot of conservation about it. and, serious preparedness has not been there and some of the hospitals, have just reached it, and such as it happened. and but but around here, i don't think they are comfortable inside the building, in the next
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days. yes, stay with me for a second, as we look at these latest pictures, coming through and unfiltered, coming straight to us, and we are seeing now people being treated in street, and, several people in the hospital beds. being treated here. this looks quite extraordinary and they come out of nowhere and with a huge force of 7.9 magnitude. can we just hold on a second with me, and can we have a look at the i-pad and, i want to show the viewers in addition to these pictures, and some of the stills and look at this, the roads, pretty much breaking through there. and just take you through some of the over pictures and we saw this earlier and buildings just straight up collapsing there and, if i can find the
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picture after temple, and, they have been tweeting pictures of this temple and the tower and the latest picture i'm seeing, is this sort of thing here, completely broke down, and just those sharp things, left around, what was a huge tower there. can you still hear me on the line there? yes, i can hear you. and, 1936, and, it was rebuilt after the last earthquake and, a lot of the temples, that, they are ali built, and, you can see that. and, so, these, the thing is, this is every hundred years it flattens the city, and not
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as much as they are. yeah okay, we'll talk to you later and get an update with you and, i want to go around the region, and the bangladesh capital. what did you feel there? well we were about to start filming, for a story that we're doing, when the cameraman, he thought he was having a dizzy spell, and he saw everything was shaking, and he tried to fix his posture and he was worried that he was getting sick, and then he stopped working. that's when all our phones started ringing and people were calling each other and they were worried. and, tremors were felt, but nothing so strong. how long did you feel it for
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about 20 seconds where we were and people are reporting over a minute as well. and, then, it's away from the epicenter and, even all the way from here, another 20, 50 kill lop met tors away. and, now telling us, and tell me again and just to give our viewers an idea, how often you get earthquakes? and the like in this part of the world? every few months, there are tremors that are felt, and usually, very, very lightly. and shaking. and there is a constand worry about what can happen,.
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because, it does lie close to the fault line, and there is a huge amount of anxiety over what can happen, and it's significant, which has an eppy center and, they are in india or in china. but, the cities building codes are strong and that there are a number of buildings that don't follow it, and urban planning authority does look into it, and they are highly vulnerable. and it doesn't have a good mecialgy access situation. and. worry that if something did happen it could be very bad
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which is why rushing out of there, about 100 workers were injured. okay,. stay on the line with me, i might come back to you shortly. and you now i have an idea. this earthquake, which was felt, where he was. and, we'll show you the epicenter, and exactly where these other regions are and these are the first pictures we're getting through from kaatman too and, bring it up, and, nap pal and, it was felt, pretty much in between kaatman do and what car take, and i believe, these first pictures are there. and, further away, in india and bangladesh as well, and, we have
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seen these pictures, and huge levels of deaf vats station. 7.9 earthquake. it is considered the base for earthquakes around the world, telling us the magnitude and size. 7.9. and, you have it, on social media, and bring you all latest pictures when we get them, and speak to our correspondents, and they are devastating and fear of loss of life will be enormous. more on that later and we'll bring to you the lightest in the my grant crisis, it rescued, 928 people in two separate operations as europe continues to stroll. and we got coverage from around
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the area, in sicily, where many are being held after being rescued, and also the ceeft guard's patrol, in lib we a and we'll talk to them, where most of these my grant starts and we'll start in e theo pea a,00 treads of people risk, it to reach your ron. catherine has our report. almost every here, five young men killed, and he ises last week. and they were headed had to europe, and the plan was to cross the sea to italy and three of them tbreu up, and join their families. and they are inconsolable, and, their pain hard to describe. and, they were looking for a better life, and bestfriends
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are desperate to leave those say, that life is difficult staying here, is not an option. these are some of the childhood friends that saw him two months ago and, they hope to leave, and even as they grove they have not abandoned the plan. i know it is dangerous and it is better than being here. my life will be better. he never got to his destination, and, the libyan border and smugglers agree on a payment. i don'tthey don't care about anyone, they care about money. e they open pea a has one of the fastest growing economies
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and, it is poor and, many are unemployed. and, it's a mentality, rather than positive verity to leave- this mine set of going to dream land, and another destination, with plenty of opportunities, has been a triefing factor. but, in the neighborhood, the vigil goes on, and each as some of the young people dream of plans to leave the country no matter what. so a place like that, they will head to lib we a mail and we don't see this live, off the coast there and tell us more about what you have been seeing and, what you have been doing with the coast guard. well, we have sailed and yesterday, and sunset, and throughout the night, the coast
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guard have been patrolling the area and about 600 kilomet tors and it's a huge area, and they have been going not only, trying to find these my grants, from this area, and trying to find middle men because often from what we understood, you have skippers, who take the my grnts on their draft or fisher boat to a certain point in the sea, and then, under some pretext, and they loaf them right there. so what we do, the search for these boat says becoming more and more difficult, because the smugglers, and the people who work with the smugglers are adapting to the tactics, and they found both, what happens they teach one my grant how to
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steer the boat, in ex change for a free passage and off they go all together, and that's something, that i heard from some my frants, who have been taken back, and all along and by the the coast guard and there was no one who knew how to steer it tell me about your experience when this earthquake struck. and, standing, on top of the rubble and monument, and where the country used to climb and
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when it collapsed saturday, it will be climbed by many people, they say about 200 people have taken tickets to climb it, and you don't know how many were on it. and, there are scores of people, and, civilians trying to low indicate their bodies in the rubble and hike wise, many, many historic monument zones and, various temples, and all have come down, and, it is not at all possible to say how many, but i can tell you that it was 7.7 richter and it went on forever. so even if you there to be one jolt, and it was a continuous wave, and right now it is a feel of desperation on top of the rubble, and she to
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watch the people, trying to save things, from under the rubble and, this is what they did, because, it is somewhere and, of course, all over the hills and, we don't know about the plains, and all over the hills, and many areas whole villages have come down, and that's very likely, and you hope not too many cak wallties. and,. we're seeing so many pictures here of everyone just pitching in, and trying to lift up rubble and save anybody. and what about emergency services have they been able to get to some of these areas? i think, in the city, and yes, you don't know what's going on in the villages, and i that i think, there is an ambulance siren going on, and bodies, are
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being rushed to hospital, and what i can tell you many things and on top of the rubble and on the winds, and, the direction is south and southeast, and southeast and going downside, and, there is this massive combination of new we are buildings made of cement and others for filler buildings and, they have not fallen at all. and what i would hope, i hope, that when i go in, and we get that and hope that the numbers are not as devastating as rubble could indicate, and one can only hope and pray. , thank you so much for that lel first hand account of
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what was happening. just, look at the i-pad and, what he was talking about was the tower and, you see that's what -- that is what it looked like, and you can see, if i zoom in a little bit, the building that he was talking about, which are still standing, and then if i just come out of this you will see what it is looking like now. that's all that's left of that town, and that's what he was saying, he was amongst that rubble. and, you will see zoom in again here and around the bottom there, and, you can see what sort of look like spikes. and this is them, now. and that's this stump here in the middle. and all of it, and 200 people would have taken tickets to go up the tower and could not say
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how many are up there and, we could say up to 200 people could be in and around that area of that tower coming down. and keeping an eye on the social media, and we'll bring you more pictures as we find them. just want to deal with some other news as well,. toe go, and the president is the clear favorite to win another term, with his family ruling for 48 years already. and we'll get the latest, and the capital, and what has the turnout been like? we know who the winner is going to be. well there's been a steady stream of voters, where we are and, this is the polling station, where the main opposition candidate is expected to vote later this morning and people are very kean, to
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identify their picture and name, and, which particular booth they are supposed to go. as you mentioned 48 years in power and this is the issue in africa, right now, how long should a leader stay in power? and there are no limits, and so, he is within his right to go for a third term. but when you look in the region, and, at the block, and the african union and this is something that people are talking about. and we saw a situation, last year when the president had to be forced out of office by popular protest because he tried to go for a third term and this is something that took the region by surprise, and everybody is watching what is going to happen here. there was in toe go, but that was abolished by the father,
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back in 1992. how is the poll being monitored and checked? yes, we have the e.u., and african union and, we have an observation group from lib we a and, so for the local observers this is a unique election, because they will get the opportunity to be able to compare their -- they set up a system where they are checking results and they can compare with what they have, with the official result, and it is going to be a way to flag up any discrepancies, which they haven't been able to do. thanks. we'll talk to her again. the war in wrem men and forces loyal are pushing their way into more areas into the
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south. rebels trying to gain more ground and this is a district, and on friday, i thought they urged them to end fighting, and government officials say there's 28 people that were killed in the south. indonesia, wants to tighten its laws, and if the new man's are approved, the government can cancel citizenship, and many fear it might have the opposite effect. he left his village to study in egypt two years ago and 18 year old never came back, he died as the first known suicider abroad and fighting for isis. and lived in the same
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village who were executed. and they went to their boarding school. since he was 15 years-old he wanted to dais a martyr, and i asked him to come back and, he said this is what he really wanted and i was shocked what he did. was this his solution? did he really dare to do this. he is one of around 200, who have joined isis. the daughter of this shop owner and their sister, and law and they were arrested and sen home. she doesn't want to be interviewed, and many, after rowcruitters spent time teaching isis policies and, the main fish harbor. and some were there and here at the market, and the appeal of isis on a new generation, and a government
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crackdown, and maybe something productive? a so-called deradicalsation program and has yet to start and meantime po these are making arrests, and the government has announced measures to stop the support. oh, the law, in the future because, so far the terrorist love it, and does not allow us to do that. so, what we do, to what we do, and to cancel their passport and, some fear it can lead to more radical will asation. it's fine to have a law but the police are doing a pretty effective job using the laws
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that they have, to arrest people who have been involved in violence and, i don't think very many would like to see a lot coming back, reminding them of the old days. an example of community work is a program at the former boarding school, of the suicide brother. and some say he started to start, and counter violent teachings. i think, what has to be done is, if you only use hard power, and this can lead to more violence. attacks have decreased and now, the greatest threat will be when those who were inexperienced return home with new kill, and. memorial services are being
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health in turkey to commemorate the bloodiest battle, and britain prince charles and turkish troops repelled a attack and more than 130,000 people were killed. and this is about being remembered in australia and new zealand and, more than 100,000 people gathered at the war memorial, in australia. and the you will have cano, is still puffing out ash and smoke, and more pump are evacuating their homes, and the ashes also arrived in the capital, and met locals, living in the shadow, to see how they were affected. like a sleeping giant and it reminds chile that 42 years
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is just a cat nap in the life after active volcano. it erupted late wednesday. now, many of the 4,000 residents, are forced to evacuate were allowed to return to the red zone, to check on their homes and clear roads and roofs as best they could. i came to remove the ash from the roof so it won't collapse, we are nervous and we don't know when we can return home. a state of ernmyy, lee mains in effect. and, the volume taken no is very unstable. and it is. what i mean, it could be larger lava flows, that could put people's lives at risk. as it continues to betch
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ash, near argentina where air traffic is disrupted. and they gave them food and water, and find their pets. these cows are sitting in what were lush green pastures, and now, they and other livestocking beer evaluated. there are at least 600 animals, that we need to take elsewhere, because there is too much ash. most of this ash feels like a collection of little stones, as you can see and everything here is covered in it. but the worst part isn't trying to clear this all away, it's the uncertainty, about whether, it will go back to sleep or many it erupt again at anytime,. and that's something experts
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tell us, only the volume cane no, nos for sure. and that volcano, and the latest and we'll hearing about it, in nap pal and you'll find all of that, >> i'm michael shure this is talk to al jazeera our guest this week, julian bond, long time veteran of the civil rights movement. >> 50 years from now julian bond, where do you imagine when you close your eyes race relations will be in the country? >> i'm not really sure. where i hope they'll be is people will be saying, "well, we've come forward more than i thought we would." i hope we-- somebody will be saying that. and if they say that that'll be okay with me. >> so that'll be a hundred years from selma.