current thing that matter to you. al-jazeera. turkish rescuers search for survivors after an earthquake that killed at least $27.00 people. oh and convert al this is all just there live from doha also coming up. a media's prime minister asks russia for help in the fight against azerbaijan both sides agree not to target civilians. resulting in action victory for tanzania's president but opposition groups say there was 40. detained in the u.s. and then deported to mexico the report says migrant children from other countries

are being dumped with no family to take care of them. the search for survivors has gone on through the night in the turkish city of is near after a powerful earthquake the magnitude 7 tremor under the aegean sea brought down buildings and triggered tidal waves in the coastal city as well as in parts of greece i think a live picture is coming to us now from is near in turkey at least 27 people have been killed since has the latest. rescuers search for survivors and rubble of buildings and is made turkey's 3rd biggest city the epicenter of friday afternoons shallow magnitude 7 earthquake was off the turkish cost. i have a shop on the back side i was talking with someone i felt it while we were outside the ground started to shake while i was watching our building i saw this one

collapse. many of the things collapsed injuring hundreds. and hundreds of. this man says got you are the greatest please protect us it still continues. emergency responders are traveling from a stumble to support rescue effort while residents are asked not to jam phone lines or transport links unnecessarily. i thought that the ground to chatted you cannot think or you try to do is get out everywhere was collapsing luckily our building was intact we were really panicked to manage to get out at the last minute turkey's president rejects a barge on was quick to respond to the quake shows that in the russian or the new jersey i would like to express my sympathies to the city that were exposed to the earthquake that occurred around isn't it all right to express condolences for those who lost their lives on the buildings that collapsed india now with speedy recovery for the injured the quake caused damage in many provinces in western turkey and

triggered to see stores that flooded streets near the city of is measured some damage was also reported to buildings and roads on the greek island of some us the hospital director there said some people with slight injuries have been treated we are hoping that the numbers will not be escalating and we hope to hear in the news about more people being rescued but the fact that some 20 buildings have a lot is. a big news and i'm afraid the number of casualties may rise crisscrossed by major force finds turkey is one of the world's most earthquake prone countries at these 17000 people were killed in 1999 when a large quick struck the city of is met south is stuff a stumble and around 500 troops died in durance quake which struck the eastern city of bam 9 years ago. you know live now to satan who is in is mary sin and

just tell us what's happening behind you this morning. well yes the city this city actually this district is a chaos right now since yesterday because this is the town and this is the district that has been most affected by this 7.0 magnitude earthquake i'm standing in front of reserve a apartment building which you see it right behind me still search and rescue operations are on their way you see the machines are working and. the officials official group who are doing the search and rescue operation are telling us that they are expecting around 4041 people who might have been trapped on there is trouble so the search and rescue continues to risk you those people is so far in this apartment 3 people were killed on their rubbles and 16 people were rescued

alive and according to the ministry of environment an organization 100 people have been rescued across is mere city so far this is the situation and by death of this week where i am right now is the most dramatic scene in the aftermath of this earthquake we have been seeing people they are crying because they are waiting for their family members to be rescued from under the rubble and we we know that there was a dentistry clinic on there in this building this 8 story building behind me that's why the numbers seem to be pretty high for those people who have been trapped under ok send him so a race against time to try and find more survivors then is there assistance coming from the central government messages of support coming in from across the world. well yes turkey's all search and rescue teams and medical teams are on the ground

right now with helicopters ambulances and many other teams have been dispatched from nearby cities also from istanbul and the capital unclear and since yesterday as the earthquake happened top turkish officials including the president and foreign ministry they have received calls from from from the offices i brought by the way i have to lower my voice because the search and rescue teams are calling for silence right now as they are actually waiting for a voice of a possible survivor out there there is a huge sort of. international international leaders right now many of them offered help for now turkey seems to be continuing with its all national teams which they seem to be enough to complete this operation of course if things unfold in a different way there might be some extra help ok so far this is that these are the

turkish teams that are on the ground ok so then let's just take those live pictures i know as you said rescuers have asked you to stay quiet as we can see there they are obviously listening out for any signs of life from within the building the roles of a building it has been a sort of ground 0 there in district as sin was telling us the worst hit district in istanbul a huge building we're hearing stories coming in from across the city people at work people visiting friends people and obviously their own apartments who were caught in these buildings as they just collapsed some of these buildings built pre 999 the last big earthquake to hit turkey is a sin and was telling us earlier so as i said the the rescue efforts ongoing as it stands the death toll stands at $27.00 we will bring you more on this developing story as it comes to hand. media's prime minister has off to

russia for help in its conflict with azerbaijan as there are forces have made advances toward some locations in the disputed nagorno-karabakh region after talks in geneva and the collapse of a 3rd cease fire the 2 countries have agreed to not deny britney target civilian populations both sides also agreeing to swap bodies and provide a list of prisoners of war within a week the russian ambassador to the u.n. isn't hopeful that there will be a quick political solution. is being violated despite the. involvement of the. mean spoke and the.

united. they have of this. challenge for the latest now from. the armenian side is saying this morning that the azerbaijani. is already breaking these pledges that there has been indiscriminate shelling of the central market place here in. the main city of new going to karabakh this morning the armenians are also saying the. recent days perhaps weeks. have been using white phosphorous an incendiary munition that spreads you know white hot burning material over a large area causing horrific burns to anyone who's who's caught in that they say that the areas been using that in the going to carry back and its surrounding areas

the azerbaijan side has denied that but clearly over the course of this conflict so far both sides have been doing things in the course of this war which are considered by many countries to be illegal the use of cluster munitions. mediations sort of fallen. by the azerbaijan side and they're being passed on munitions that are for them as outlined by amnesty international in the last few days. as of johnny towns such as barter as well so we'll have to see whether the use of things like this decreases but so far it doesn't seem like there is much chance that it's going to be stopped completely. police in thailand have rearrested 3 prominent leaders of the growing anti-government protests one of them when you lost consciousness when he was reported they placed in a chokehold by officer he was removed from police van and taken away in an ambulance they are accused of sedition and violating an emergency ban on public

gatherings i've since been released on a chang has more on the arrests from bangkok. as we've seen over the last 3 months these prisoners the government has said one thing and done something completely the other we saw the prime minister general prior to. this time last week saying that he wanted to reach out to the protesters he wanted there to be some kind of dialogue he wanted to form a direct line of communication with them and then we heard in the week that some of those who are under arrest would be released from the room for a man present yes the evening we saw that happen but immediately they were bundled into a police van to be taken to face new charges a nearby police station when they arrived one was unconscious the other 2 in a very agitated state it certainly appears that the police are under instruction and not to take back and so the story. mode which the government has been talking about and frankly i think the students will regard this is talk only. because one

of their key demands has been that the harassment of pro-democracy protesters stop and we've seen the key leaders being arrested released rearrested again for involvement in separate protests and i think at this stage they're aware that all of the talk coming from the government is just bluster. still ahead on al-jazeera polls open in ivory coast until opposition candidates are boycotting calling for civil disobedience. unfreezes the account of a protractor newspaper after an outcry from the president's support it's. how i got some lovely weather across a good part of southern europe at the moment largely clear skies spain and portugal doing quite nicely pushing to essential i was mostly gary of high pressure just

keeping things settled and sunny was of all western is a lot more active they say this was become known as storm making its. why across northern parts of the british isles bringing some very wet and windy weather flooding rains warnings from damaging winds across a good parts of the british isles at the moment that west of weather that windy a weather will make its way across the low countries as well as some very heavy rain also pushing towards scandinavia meanwhile down towards the southeast we got some heavy downpours there just around to remain the area i was was the black sea some showers that cool weather to into ukraine for many though it is fine and dry that is a case across much of the mediterranean and it continues that way as we go on through sunday will show us a rather black sea and all parts further north plenty of wet and windy weather not quite as wet and windy but it is still there nevertheless notice temperatures 70 or 80 degrees so on the mild side as some form of consolation meanwhile chance of what

it says showers into northern parts of libya wanted to show it to its egypt and show us there for the gulf of guinea. dissecting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic let's start with some of the on the ground realities affecting the news coverage what's the lay of the land there stripping away the spam a gripping story about presidential corruption it is real reporting it's not if you keep challenging assumptions and the official line we all decided we need to kind of i was the crew we don't want to rely on authority and. the listening post on out is the right.

you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour rescuers in turkey are searching for earthquake survivors in the city of izmir the magnitude 7 tremor under the gnc or down buildings and triggered tidal waves in turkey and greeks at least 27 people died. maybe as prime minister has asked russia for help in its conflict with azerbaijan the warring sides have agreed to not deliberately target civilian populations. and police in thailand have rearrested 3 prominent leaders of the growing anti-government protests one of them lost consciousness when he was reportedly placed in a chokehold have since been released. tanzania's electoral commission says president john mughal fully has won a 2nd term in office opposition groups have dismissed the results saying there have been widespread irregularities according to the national counter model for only 112

and a half 1000000 votes in wednesday's election while his main challenger got less than 2000000 cattan toys following this for us from nairobi catherine tell us more about these results and also about these claims of irregularities. well it doesn't really come as a surprise president michael when you were when we've been seeing from the start of the count that the president has been leading with a huge margin what however comes as a surprise is. the resolve of the parliamentary members of parliament. c.c.m. party has won a majority of those sits 25th $256.00 constituency of $264.00 the opposition only has taken 8 seats in this includes in areas that have always been considered opposition strongholds let me just give you an example

this kilimanjaro constituencies in the north of the country for 25 years since walty party began it has always that seat has always been occupied by an opposition member of parliament this time it has been taken by the ruling c.c.m. party if you speak to c.c.m. officials there will tell you that they prepared themselves well they laid their ground they did their homework but on the other hand the opposition. the opposition has been claiming that this election is a fraud they say that a lot many of their parliamentary candidates were disqualified from participating in the election because of means the reasons they say that in many parts during voting those stuffing some ballot papers were pre-marked opposition polling agents were refused from accessing. polling stations so they're going to be holding a press conference in the coming hours and we expect them to rate a rate what they've always been saying that this election is a fraud and we expect them to. go to demand from the international community not to

accept this results not to legitimize this election. ok catherine i'm interested in how tanzanians regards president michael fully given his mixed record from his 1st term. is he has 2 faces and i mean if you speak to many people to be honest in tanzania they will tell you that michael fully and his government in the last 5 years have achieved quite a lot and this is something he's been focusing on in his campaign are the things he's done he talks about you know the government we need to fight against corruption which has been and make in tanzania that thousands of kilometers of roads that have been built hospitals and health centers that have been build in sydney and stocked up with medicines schools that have been built the railway expanded and so on and these are tangible things that i think you will see when you go to tanzania but on the other side he has been accused as we've been saying

through and through he's been accused by civil society groups by opposition leaders his critics human rights organizations of being unpopular teria and in the last few years we've seen more and more restrictive restrictive laws on the media. his government has been accused of curtailing the freedoms of speech freedoms of the media as well so all these things really tainting what tons and sometimes and the thing that he the good job he's done when it comes to below development and this really puts to question this balance between development and democracy. ok thank you for that catherine sawyer following the election in tanzania from nairobi. polls have just closed in ivory coast whose motion is choose between president to understand what time and his rivals of the opposition has promised to disrupt the process raising fears of civil unrest and that interest has more. on voters' card

at the collection center. the election commission says voters have claimed less than 42 percent of the cards some say that illustrates how many people in ivory coast feel about the presidential election. in the above with. i will not go under the current circumstances because you can only go where your safety is assured i don't see such conditions in place i'd rather stay home in the run up to the vote dozens of people have been killed i mean the escalating political tensions . that in a country still recovering after months of pre-election violence in 20102011 but left about $3000.00 people dead incumbent president alassane ouattara is running for a 3rd time against an independent after 2 other candidates boycotted the election and called supporters to disrupt the polls that. are going to be good for me

i find this election a bit strange every party started campaign well then we hear of a boycott it's so confusing i think we should proceed with the vote to avoid a repeat of 2010 but i can tell you everyone is scared people haven't forgotten 2010. the literacy rate here is 47 percent an area many voters will want to see improved. with an average of 7 percent and all growth ivory coast economy is doing well and better than much of africa but many of its young people say they feel left behind. for some ready to cast their ballot they expect much from the next president. and i would like the next president to be a leader for the whole country a man who developed the country someone who will improve health care delivery and security he should also improve education because of the high level of illiteracy importantly he should provide jobs for the leaves. meeting these

expectations would be easy for a country whose revenues are tied to fluctuating commodity prices in addition people here will want to see wherever wins this election tackled the difficult task of reuniting a deeply divided country. al-jazeera. the number of early and mail in vote sin the u.s. state of texas has now surpassed the total number of votes cast there during the 2016 election or the 9000000 texans of cast early votes it's the 2nd state after hawaii to break its voting record before election day. has lifted a suspension on the account of u.s. publication the new york post and probably trump a tabloid's front page celebrated with a picture of twitter's bird logo flying out of a cage it's account was frozen after the paper published articles about democratic presidential candidate joe biden's son said it violated its hacked materials policy

which has now been changed larry magid is a tech analyst and the c.e.o. of connect safely dot org he says twitter has rules can be inconsistent. well i think twitter did make a mistake i mean look twitter has been accused of bias against conservatives and most of those accusations were plainly false what they mostly have done is taken away material which violates their terms of service in this case they had a rule about hacked materials but that rule actually doesn't make a lot of sense because it's pretty common for journalists even to report on hacked materials now if the hacker him or herself had tweeted it then clearly twitter probably should shut shut it down but the fact that some things out there were how regard less of how it's been obtained and of course there's a dispute whether it was in fact hacked at all it's still material and the post i think had a right to post it even away whether you agree with it or not shouldn't be the issue the issue is did they have a right to share that information and twitter i think made

a mistake and they realize they did and eventually back down they could ban some in from misinformation especially if it's harmful for example covert 19 misinformation or misinformation about voting that could lead someone to not vote that that would be down by twitter's policy but there's a lot on twitter that's wrong and twitter is not the arbiter of truth in every situation so the reason they did this is allegedly that happened here although they were also under a lot of pressure politically mostly from conservatives but you know there are principles at stake here and it could be next time it could be a liberal publication that publishes something that gets taken down and they need to have consistent principles and stick to them. the united states has agreed to restore sudan's sovereign immunity and it cannot be sued in american courts and return saddam will settle existing legal cases including for the $998.00 bombing of u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania khartoum has agreed to pay $335000000.00 in compensation

for the attack last week the white house removed it from the state sponsors of terror list as part of a normalization deal with israel. thousands of protesters have gathered in the polish capital warsaw to rally against a near total ban on abortions they want the government to overturn a recent court ruling car leg reports. tens of thousands of people on the streets of warsaw. and. what organizers say is the largest of 9 days of protests against a near total ban on abortions in poland the body of the boys the market i'm a woman i'm a mother i have a daughter and i think i'm here not only for myself but also for her so that she can live in better times emotions are some of the time to reach a compromise has passed women saw their rights taken away it's now they want them back despite a strong security presence and coronavirus warnings protesters ignored the government stay at home or die before visually should them do something wrong or

did not want to increase the risk of infection by letting people gather in large groups. of protest organizers were threatened with prison sentences but say they won't be deterred by conservative anti abortion rights groups or their powerful political allies the 0 is 0 so the gentleman from all the duras have the same problem as catching skee more of in ski and border they are few and much fewer than us we're more a recent constitutional court ruling further tightened poland's already strict abortion laws banning it in cases of severe fetal deformities terminations are now . only legal in cases of rape incest or if the mother's life is at risk the government backs the verdict but says it will propose a bill to once again allow terminations for what deemed a lethal fetal defects opposition politicians say that's unacceptable and fear more women will now be forced to seek illegal abortions or go abroad car or leg

al-jazeera. a rescue operation is underway in el salvador where a landslide has killed at least 9 people and as many as 30 i'm missing some locals are hoping emergency crews are using their bare hands to dig through the mud the landslide happened in a village just north of the capital of the heavy rain the night before is still not . a terrible amount of it there was a blockage with the storm that we had last night is it's a tragedy i've lost my father and my mother and brother are in hospital also neighbors have been killed. we were sleeping when suddenly we heard a roar like an earthquake my husband told me to get the kids i was able to get them out of the room where they were but when he opened the door of where he slept we saw that my daughter's house was buried. mexico says it will investigate reports the u.s. government is deporting children alone with no family to look after them the new york times says more than 200 children from central america have been expelled in

the past 8 months once in mexico most are said to have been sent to child welfare shelters. john home and has more from mexico city. this is a policy from the trumpet ministration could remain in mexico that's been controversial in place for some time and in that policy those seeking asylum in the united states instead of staying in that country what that process happens as been the case and the previous administrations they sent across the border to mexico even though they're not from this country a lot of them from central american nations that was already controversial because in a lot of cities in mexico they sent $2.00 to $1.00 a new level or led to more or less they were troubled by crime or by kidnapping in the wiggler of the we ourselves found that systematic kidnapping was taking place involving migrants so you can imagine with that situation already in place the new york times article which said that unaccompanied minors children were being sent to

these cities with. in a country that was not their own obviously cool's news from the mexican government we did have a response saying the mets can government will follow up on specific cases in which unaccompanied minors could have vented mexico in an irregular fashion so sort of confirming here that if this is happening it would be against the agreement between mets going in the united states but not confirming that it is going on our producer and part of rodriguez has also checked in with the united nations the red cross unicef and some other n.g.o.s who have all said that they don't know if this is happening or not so if this is happening as you said these would be vulnerable children being placed into cities that are really unsuitable for them even if they were with an adult and even worse if they're traveling alone in a country that is not theirs. curation is the other burn them when you see and have made their bet on who will win the u.s. presidential election that done a spider living there statue of the president into

a dumpster this is all now think donald trump's likeness in a heap of trash with a sprinkling of some of his famous tweets and then has the words done to trump polish and his trademark slogan make america great again. watching al-jazeera and these are the top stories rescue is in turkey are searching for earthquake survivors in the city of is near these are live pictures from there the bang richard 7 tremor hunt the aegean sea or down buildings and triggered tidal waves in turkey and greece at least 27 people have died since has more from izmir. a 16 year old girl was rescued just more than an hour ago or 17 hours after the earthquake is she was rescued alive and 3 people were killed.