in the news at excitement from across the glided hill in south america as methinks to match my rodonna ambros, they'll look to and a 20 you wait for trophy. join us for the welcome count, down on out his era. ah, a deadly earthquake devastate southern afghanistan, at least 280 people have been killed. ah, on sammy's a dan, this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up historic flooding in india or bangladesh forces millions from their homes rescue team struggle to reach those in need. this is, this is

a tragic purity. us election officials reveal how supporters event president donald trump threatened them to overturn the results of the 2020 vote. ah, armed one indigenous protested. dies in ecuador as anti government demonstrations take of violent turn. ah, now we begin with breaking news out of afghanistan. the interior ministry now says at least 280 people have been killed in the magnitude 5.9 earthquake. it rocks the southeast of the country in the early hours of wednesday morning. buildings have been destroyed. hundreds of people are injured. the quake happened about 44 kilometers from the city of host, near particular province. the tremors could be felt in neighboring pakistan and

iran. let's go to journalist latifah, he's in cobble. so 1st of all, officials have been saying they expect the death toll to rise further, whether the numbers stand now were still $280.00 killed and hundreds injured and they are right that the whole is going to increase unfortunately, because we're talking about a very early morning quake, when people were still in their homes, many were probably still sleeping and we're talking about homes that aren't necessarily built to a standard to withstand earthquakes. and to, to, you know, really be built of any kind of a code. so that the death whole is very likely high and also getting to the people is going to be difficult. you know, as you said, it's about 40 kilometers from the main city. we don't know necessarily the conditions of the road. we don't know how many cars can get there, how quickly they can get there. you know,

how many people have already been able to go to the hospital. so unfortunately, this is something that's common when you're, when you're talking about an event like this in a remote part of a country like a lot of fun. all right, i'll rescue teams. have they be able to reach people? do we have a situation where we fear people are trapped in the rubble? what's the situation on the ground there? the situation is that the government is sending helicopters, they're sending teams. they're asking for local agencies to get involved. to pull people out of the rubble, we know that, you know, at least a 100 homes have already been destroyed. so when you have homes destroyed, you will have people stuck in the rubble. you will have people, you know, rushing off to try and get to hospitals. ah, hospitals will be overcrowded, trying to deal with the, the intake. so as of right now the information is, is still trickling. and because as we said, it is at the very remote part of the area, but given sort of the conditions over all these are things that are very common. and this is why officials keep saying that that,

that the dead death dead in injured rate will continue to rise ra username. situations like this, some form of heavy equipment or special equipment is needed to reach people out. doesn't understand, have that kind of a clue. so they, they are sending helicopters and we know that they have that the equipment again, this is the thing, is that in, in the past, when the government responded to natural disasters, they often relied on foreign agencies on, on other ah, countries to intervene. and you know, responding to natural disasters has been a major issue for this country, even back during the republic because it takes a lot of organization and takes a lot of equipment. a lot of things that necessarily they may not always have or that just getting to again, just getting to those areas. i is often quite difficult just getting the equipment there can also set back the relief efforts. you know, we saw this when there was avalanches and snow storms and in the northern province

of pine cheddar, took them several days to just clear the main road to be able to get aid and trucks and things like that into the province. when i go really challenging situation, thanks for updating us on it. now bangladesh sent troops to help millions of people trapped by flood waters in the northeast. it's the worst flooding in the region in more than a century. this time via chandry reports from select, the government is struggling to get drinking water and food to those in need. shook her ali is a livestock farmer for lost his home in the flood. he and his family have been living on the side of the road for almost a week now without any kind of help to get those out and go and see the condition of our home. what is the point of talking about it? it is only law who can provide. he is the one who gives and who takes away

where the bag is waiting for a government assistant on the outskirts of the city of cylinder after killing for hours. she is beginning to lose hope. i. there is no order on my chest deep sitting here waiting, burly for hours, and so far we received nothing. forces have rescued or evacuated, more than a 100000 people from 2 of the worsted districts in the northeast. many others are still stranded in remote rural areas. this is one of the many school in shown. i'm gone young, fill a region that has been used as make shelter for those villages were effected by the flood. most of the people took shelter on their own. now they're in desperate need for food and fresh water. even residents in urban areas with better drainage systems aren't effective. funny, i'm going to, you know, we've never seen floods like this in a lifetime. our home has water after the hit 20. now we've no running water and electricity with now using rain water used to use like if they want to come during

our visit to the area prime minister check us, say, future building developments should take into account the number of natural disasters that bangladesh experiences. many of this people are still recovering from the last month pre monsoon flash floods. dow home to take shelter here. there's no food or fresh water. it would help if we got some relief from the government so we can get by for the poor, rural farmers who have lost everything. it will take months if not years to rebuild their homes. they need all the system they can get. but help is yet to come. now, a neighboring india, dozens of people have died in flooding and land slides, and some states soldiers have been deployed to get supplies to areas that are cut off. tens of thousands of people have already been moved to safety, but many are still stranded. pop natal is in spots out in the badly hit the wrong district and joins us live from there. so is help now reaching some of those

stranded people. well the situation is quite dire. there's incessant rain fall over the on the hitting side of a psalm, and that's causing rivers down stream to swell and cause new rounds of flooding. and that is complicating relief and rescue effort. so a lot of people have had to look out for themselves. i mean, we're coming to you from an embankment and as you can see on my right, that is a makeshift camp and people are living here. and that is a scene we've seen across the state. people here are villagers, they've come from a nearby place that is now almost completely under water. and as you can see, that is actually a field that is covered with water. and those are the makeshift rafts that people here are using to go back and forth to get supplies and food beer, say they haven't really received much food and relief and are looking out for themselves. we've seen them chopping wood,

they're making fire so they can cook. and there's a lot of concerned about potential diseases that these floods could bring. so people here say they sent that children away to relatives homes that have not been impacted by the flood. but what be really picked up during the course of our reporting is a lot of anxiety amongst people. you know, these people are farmers, like most people in the state. and they said that these floods have coincided with sewing season. and whatever little crop they have is now, as you just saw, completely under water. so they don't know when they'll be able to make a living next. not to kill floods are an annual affair in a song, and the ecology and economy of the state need some level of flooding. but resident said they haven't seen this kind of flooding in many years. this is the 2nd major round of flooding they've seen this year. the 1st was back in may, that was caused by heavier and earlier than usual, pre monsoon showers are so officials be spoke to at the time. also said they were

gearing up and talking up for another route that we are in the middle of right now . but there are many challenges. the military has been called in. we've been on rescue boats and seen how they're saving people. but a lot of people are not really willing to leave their homes. they, they don't want to leave their fields. they don't know when they're going to be back. and when they start rebuilding the lives across the state, the number of people affected by these floods is rising. it's now crossed 5 and a half 1000000 people. and over the last 24 hours, 7, most people have died. so they got a lot more flooding than usual. what is going to happen to people who are going to be displaced for longer than usual? well, that is the big question, and that is what they're anxious about. or there are relief cams more than 1600 camps have been set up across the state. and they are housing more than 250000

people. but most people have basically been left to do what you can see here. and because the situation is really changing authorities and people are really struggling, i mean, just a few, a kilometer down this embankment was actually reached a yesterday and a relief camp was swept away. so people have had to move and set up a whole more set up caps on a national highway that is also now a submerged in water. and i will leave it there. thanks so much of natal. pakistan's government says progress has been made and talks with the international monetary fund to revive the countries bailout program. it's expecting a $6000000000.00 financial lifeline to be extended. pakistan has been on the brink of an economic crisis. foreign exchange reserves are drawing up and its currency recalled. lows savvy crown prince mohammed ben solomon is due to visit turkey for the 1st time since the 2018 murder of john mister amount. how shall

jesus stumble relations between the 2 countries have been tense since the killing, but regional and financial challenges forced anchor andrea to repair the ties brussels out of the reports. in what many see the biggest step yet in repair and strained relations between turkey and saudi arabia. count pres mohammed miss al, man is set to visit uncle michelle uncle today. we will meet him in our presidential palace and we are going to conduct bilateral meeting still. and we'll find a chance to discuss how to improve turkish and saudi relations to higher level in the upcoming future. nations between the 2 muslim countries have been strange since turkey support the popular movements linked to muslim brotherhood. after the arabs being in 2011, saudi arabia, united arab emirates, and egypt saw the movement as a threat to the balance of power in the region. a blockade of major church ally caught her by its got neighbors in 2017 further pushed the 2 countries apart,

but it was the killing or saudi journalist jamica shook tea in the kingdoms consulate in a stumble in october, 2018. that firmly shut down their ties. at the time, at one said the order to carry out destination came from the highest level of saudi government. although he has never blamed the saudi companies. slight. actually turkey also launched a case against want to see saudi suspects for the alice involvement in the killing . saudi arabia responded by forklift and turkish import, putting pressure on 32nd button last here. saudi arabia, united arab emirates, egypt, and bahrain lifted the embargo on cutter haven way for anchorage the conciliation with the gulf states. over the past year, uncle has embarked on a diplomatic push to reset relations with these regional countries, uncut and kato, have since held several high level meetings to restore relations after more than 7 years of strain pies. in february lesson add one visit to the arab emirates for the

1st time in nearly a decade. white in march is ready to present. isaac isaac, came to turkey in the highest level meeting in 14 years, seen it in a tow in relations. after years of turbulence. in apples and the stumble court halted a trail in essentially off 26 hours the suspects and transferred the case to react . having to wait for a meeting between the turkish and south, the leaders say month, our law flew to viet after months of a force to mankind. now in turkey with inflation exceed the 70 percent and an economy crisis just a year before the election. i've got a hope to is the economy pressure by signing a curious love the with yet, and secure saw the investment in the country in return facing increasing challenges from iran, and it's proxies in the region. so the idea is seeking to acquire turkeys by dr. thrones, which gained international acclaim after the widespread use in libya, syria, now go knock out about and now you play. and so the company's wizard will signal

whether his aspirations will be achieved. russell said that i'll jazeera uncut. oh, stella hadn't al jazeera, an abject salia. that's how the police response to the last month's school shooting and texas has been described. we'll have more on that. and a surprising admission from former colombian rebels had at peace tribunal. ah ha, we got a very different look to the weather to what we saw of just a week ago. we've got some wet and windy weather and much cooler by the welcome rain coming into parts of spain. porch go, and it is across france. not quite welcome in places because it will be rather heavy not too bad up towards the northwest high pressure. they're still into germany. follow this line of where to weather this line of kara,

coal from that season. some rather heavy rain in across the baltic states into that east. the side of europe. dry skies come back in behind. but in the tail end of that, we'll see some wet weather there just around austria. pushing down was hungry, switzerland, and there you go. some pockets of rather heavy rain there in 2 parts of france, foundry showers up towards northwest could cause some localized flooding. further north into the british charles into the island of ireland. it's generally fine and dry. at least for much of wednesday. we will see a fine dry weather here as we go on into thursday as well as a one or 2 shout sliding across channel 26 celsius. therefore, london 20 myself is therefore berlin. the skies opened up nicely across north western parts with central areas. bakovich was france, spain, and portugal. we'll see some wet weather once again. northern parts of africa generally try one or 2 showers into northern areas of algeria. still some very heavy showers gross west africa, including molly ah

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interior ministry says at least 280 people have been killed and a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in the southeast. buildings have been destroyed and hundreds of people are injured. bangladesh and india have deployed troops to help millions of people trapped by flogged waters. 100000 people have been evacuated in bangladesh, is north east, and tens of thousands have been moved to safety in india's a. some states our congressional panel in washington is heard house state election officials were pressured by then president donald trump, to overturn the results of the 2020 vote. it was the 4th hearing of the house committees investigation into last year's attack on capitol hill, high to jo castro, forts, weeks before the january 6th riot at the u. s. capital far right. protesters. some who would later turn violent in washington illegally occupied the state capitol building in arizona. joe biden won the swing states,

but donald trump and his supporters refused to accept defeat. tramps, attorney rudy giuliani called arizona's republican house speaker, demanding help to overturn the results he would say aren't we all republicans here? i said look, you are asking me to do something that is child or to my oath. trump also lost in the swing state of georgia, he himself called the states top election official republican brad rapids, burger. i just want to buy a $11780.00 low, which is one more that we have. what i knew was that we didn't have any votes to find very good. robins burger testified that he and his family suffered harassment from, from supporters include sexually explicit messages to his wife and someone breaking in to his daughter in law's home. and i think sometimes moments required you to stand up and just take the shots. we just followed along,

we followed the constitution. and at the end of the day president trump came up short. trump also turned up the pressure on to every day americans, mother and daughter election workers in georgia. falsely accusing them of counting fake ballots. we have at least $18000.00 that's on pay. we had him counted very regularly. 80000 having to do with the roommate. freeman that he's a vote scammer of professional vogue, scammer and hustler. do you know how it feels to have the president of the united states that target you the president of the united way? it's supposed to represent every american not to target one. but he targeted me an investigation has cleared both women of wrongdoing and widespread voting fraud was never found in any state or democracy held because

courageous people like those you heard from today, put their oath to the constitution above their loyalty to one man or to one party the system held but barely, and the question remains, will it hold again, even before tuesday's hearing began, trump hosted on his website, that his phone call pressuring georgia secretary of state to find notes was quote, perfect. he called the january 6th committee, crazy democrats. and again, falsely alleged that the election was stolen. heidi joe castro al jazeera washington across party bill that would toughen gun laws in the u. s. has cleared its 1st hurdle in the senate members voted in favor of considering the legislation . it's an initial step towards passing what would be the 1st major gun legislation in decades, but it falls far short of the sweeping changes demanded by gun control campaigners

. i received tens of thousands of calls and letters and e mails with a singular messer. do something, do something, not do nothing, but do something. texans are disgusted and outraged by what happened at rob elementary. and they want congress to take appropriate action to prevent the loss or more it also lives. there was something different in the eyes of these families. as they once again had to contemplate the idea that our schools are no longer safe places that are supermarkets are no longer safe spaces. but they also were contemplating the idea that congress was so caught up in its own politics. so addicted to backing into our own corners that we

wouldn't be able to do anything meaningful. the thanks. his school, where a gunman killed 19 children and 2 teachers last month is due to be demolished. the mayor of he validate made the announcement after a senior state official called the place responds to the shooting an object failure . my camera has more from washington d. c. else on the passenger side, flanked by posterboard, showing a timeline of the shooting. the condemnation of the states top lawman was absolute . one error, 14 minutes in 8 seconds. that's how long the children waited and the teachers waited. rooms $111.00 to be rescued. while they waited, the commander waited for radio and rivals, waited for shields. they waited for swat. lastly, he waited for a key that was never needed. according to the time line,

the gunman entered the school around 11 33 am and here's the door. it took some 18 minutes before the police entered the classroom and killed the 18 year old. the screen grab from a security camera shows arm police in a school corridor all just minutes after the killer entered. 3 minutes after the $700.00 west building. there were a sufficient number of armed officers warring body army to isolate, distract and neutralize the subject. the only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from any room, 111, and 112 was yon seen commander who decided to place the lives of officers for the lives of children. again to the command on the ground with peter redondo. the school district's chief of police. he's been giving evidence this week behind closed doors, but neither he nor his lawyers have publicly responded to the latest criticism of

his lack of action. and at the school board meeting monday and the parents of the dead and the survivors demanded police accountability. it's more angry that they're trying to cover up a lot of things in china holding back from speaking. also just that they should have just gone in and done their job basically they just didn't do. their job is not expect. and another parent talks about the impact on her daughter who survived . they were asking her questions, how she thought about that. she just started breaking down because she don't really want to talk about. it's like she lived through it and she don't want to relive and she is afraid to just get it. it might happen as yet. this be no public criticism in the special committee of a law that allowed an 18 year old to buy and a 15 assault rifle. 3 years before he could legally buy a beer in the eyes of many who lost loved ones. the law as much as police inaction should also be held accountable. my kind of era washington. now

a jury in california has found back to bill cosby liable for sexually abusing and under age girl, the $975.00. the court ordered cars the to pay the victim half a $1000000.00 in damages. the 84 year old denied the charges. it comes nearly a year after his release from prison. when the sexual assault conviction the state of pennsylvania was thrown out, the e. u is urging ethiopia government to lift restrictions on fuel supplies to the northern to region. the block is warning shows choose a crippling. the distribution of emergency supplies. the 18 month conflict into gray is killed. thousands of people left more than 9000000 in need of food aid. more needs to be done. much of the blockade still remains. there is no need to leave the restrictions,

especially on the provision of fuel on cash and sections. and so can, is in president chi psi, it is confirmed, the new constitution will not in try and slam as the religion of the state. the draft taxed aims to over hold the political, legal, and economic systems. a referendum is planned for next month, cited dissolved parliament and assumed executive powers last year, triggering widespread protests and accusations of a qu, shot laugh at the school. the next constitution of to new z. a won't mention a state with islam as it's religion that have belonging to which has islam has its religion. the oma and the states, a 2 different things. security forces in ecuador, a fire to gas, an indigenous protest is marching in the capital quito. it's the

9th day of mass time to government demonstrations to being staged in defiance of the curfew. protest is demanding lower prices for fuel and food and an end to mining on indigenous land. at least one demonstrator has been killed and 3 are reported to be in critical condition. manner. apollo is following developments from mexico city. a state of emergency remains in effect, in ecuador. in fact, the country's president geared more also has extended that state of emergency to include fixed provinces of ecuador, and that state of emergency will last for a total of 30 days. the goal here, or the strategy by the ecuadorian government, is to contain these protests that have really begin begun to get out of hand. they've been growing for more than a week. now the government has taken a hard line against demands by demonstrators many who are protesting or indigenous activists or different people from different part of the country. who are the who are saying that the fuel prices are absolutely way too high to completing over

higher costs of food over inflation over worsening poverty, lead to the cobra 1900 pandemic. now these demonstrations were primarily organized by canada, which is a group of different indigenous communities from all across a quote, but have since been joined by other activists including students, demonstrators. again, what prices of fuel to go down of food to go down and it remains unclear whether not the government is going to budge on any or all of these of these demands. former leaders of armed groups in columbia have admitted deb, responsible for crimes. the revolutionary armed forces of columbia, known as fog have been fighting the government since the 900 sixty's commanders of described, kidnapping, thousands of civilians for ransom and holding politicians hostage on the road with pain in our souls. we come to this audience to acknowledge the and we stand before you acknowledging that in the name of revolutionary ideas. we committed these

crimes against humanity and war crimes committee was just pretty minute. there was a kiddo, this is what i do want to tell you to tell us the truth forgiveness. we have forgiven half of this, but it does not mean we don't need justice and we demand justice and justice begins with a joke. 3 people have been taken to hospital in miami after a passenger jet caught fire during the emergency landing plane crash landed on the runway at miami international airport. when the landing gear failed, the aircraft was arriving from the dominican republic with a 126 people. on board ah, let's take you through some of our headlines here now to sierra now afghan stanz interior ministry says at least 280 people have been killed in a magnitude 5.