episode of a new series reveals how you are a p and colonization removed tens of thousands of artifacts and the appeal struggle to reclaim restitution. africa stolen on episode one colonda. oh, now jazeera ah. ready ready ready ready the taliban government appeals for international aid as a powerful earthquake kills more than a 1000 people in afghanistan. ah, i'm how much am jerome? this is al jazeera alive from door, also coming up after floods the struggle to reach millions stranded by rising waters. we report from ne, bangladesh, among those trees are hidden our homes,

you can see them, but they're submerged. it's a logistic of challenge to rescue people are bring ford to these rural areas. days of anti government protests in ecuador, at least 2 people are killed in the fury over fuel prices. and south africa's president receives a report that criticizes him for not doing more to stop years of corruption. ah, the taliban government has appealed for international aid. after afghanistan was hit by its deadliest earthquake in 20 years. at least 1500 people had been killed and it's feared, hundreds are still trapped in the rubble. more than 2000 others were injured and hundreds of homes have been destroyed. the 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck in a rural mountainous area in particular, province about 46 kilometers from the city of host,

katya lopez. what are your reports of burying their dead families in afghanistan, bama district prepare the final resting place for the last one. the damage is extensive. for many, the loss is a measurable, big new, much power. it has destroyed the houses of neighbors. when we arrived there were many dead and wounded. they sent us to the hospital, and i also saw many dead body and nearby desperate families, user hands on anything they can find to search for survivors. delivering aid to affected areas as challenging. we are facing some difficulties. we custom unseasonal rain in the last few days and we know already that there are land flights that are blocking some routes. so that is certainly going to her efforts. hundreds of people are injured in particular province,

access to hospitals and medicine is limited. people in this remote region near the border with pakistan are still struggling to recover from the war in afghanistan. and now another tragedy. most agencies in international support organizations pulled out of afghanistan when the taliban to control in august last year. and economic crisis was already fueling a humanitarian catastrophe. statistics by various agencies suggest that over 60 percent of the country was people who are suffering from poverty before we came to power. so it is then compounded the difficulties and that it may need you to the sanctions and the fries and the behavior of the international communities. while the full extent of the damage is yet to be known, it's already clear that the recovery will take years. katia, low priscilla young al jazeera. why had right him deal was

a program adviser to the catholic charity koreatown, germany based in afghanistan. he says the disaster is a major test for the tama bonds government throughout again, as such areas are extremely vulnerable due to a lot of insecurities during the past 20 years. so the infrastructure to help or any sort of help, it's not easy to get there. it's deferred as part to add a bit more to that. 48 hours of rain constant rain has resulted in some flooding as well as road blockades. so it is quite a difficult area to reach to canada on what suffering greatly through the regime change and the entire dismantlement of the agent development sector. the aid and development completely shift focus to humanitarian assistance in providing food and things like that. the government agencies, whereas we have

a ministry for disaster management, that is pretty much a formality. never has been effective in anything. and just to add a bit more to this, this is the only thing which made international headline. we have for 5 years during the last month in 5 provinces, floods and lots of other disasters happening. and i've got a son at the time where newly formed islamic emeralds, they haven't been able to or haven't tested their ability to deal with a truck or a disaster of such magnitude as far islamic emerald to take a grip on this. it's a very difficult situation because it's a combatant, of sort of experience that they have running a state and dealing with

a disaster of this magnitude. we'll be testing them. relief efforts are continuing from millions cut off by flooding and ne bangladesh. dozens have been killed in hundreds of thousands forced from their homes. the un is worried about the threat of waterborne diseases. tanveer chandry reports from silhouette. 50 year old charlotte rescued 20 of his extended family members when the flash flood hid his village. about a week ago, little c. for the funny, i see the rush of water kimbler suddenly along with him events. the water was up to the neck. most of the homes got submerged and we had no place to go. so i had to bring them here one by one in a damage. dinky boat among the rescued is near her, begum shall sister her number is my elder brother who rescued me when the water almost signor to my home. we don't have anything left shire recalls the dreadful day. lassie, for you to be to know you can think about it. everything got washed away,

cooking pots, food stuck, and even all the clothing items. absolutely have nothing left anymore that we are helpless. when i mean they lost their children, why no one knows how many got droned on my and who lost their farm animals. there's no, it can't with all these things. and what happened that day and how many actually died? cilla city mirror, our if a law say is his concern about the future as things got worse than for double. and honestly speaking, we were not fully able to reach the stranded people in the affected areas. so far we have received only 30 tons of rise from the government for distribution from the city cooperation. we provided some dry, puffed, rice, and molasses. but it is very inadequate. some local media has reported data, showing government relief effort is inadequate. many volunteers and charity organizations are taking the lead in helping out flood victims and remote areas. any really good morning. this is

a personal initiative taken by me along with my friends and colleagues, were donating food items to the affected people, miles and miles of water. and as you can see, among those trees are hidden our homes, you can see them, but they're submerged. it's a logistical challenge to rescue people or bring food to their rural areas. the flood situation is improved insulin, but water has not received it in the rural areas. many are still stranded and in desperate need of fresh food and water. the us children agency ones that are on 4000000 people, including 1600000 children in bangladesh is not list, have been cut out by floods and are without fresh drinking water, putting them at risk of waterborne diseases, turnville children. i'll just be sure to check on the syllabus. at least 7 people have died in floods in india as a psalm state in the last 24 hours. 81 people have now died since the floods began

in april, and more than 5 and a half 1000000 are effected. probably metal reports from super jar and to wrong district biddy the large bunk, she and her daughter had been staying in the relief council for days. they were forced to flee when water got through a window and flooded their home. she says she got an infection from the dirty water . what did i say at them and we are facing many difficulties. i have barely slept since we moved to this relief. come, i mean we are very tense. even others are also losing their sleep. hundreds of thousands of other people have also been displaced by heavy flooding in some states in the northeast that our district is one of the was effected more than 4 and a half 1000 people. he'll are living in relief cam heavy rainfall in the his is bringing more flooding in areas like these flood waters of blocking major roads and preventing trucks bringing supplies. people here say jeff, struggling to get food and medicine authorities or distributing food and other

essential dissenter is solving 700 families. funny when we 1st received gum in relief, mathias for days after the flood be brought more from the local administration office. today we have formed a committee at the community level to distribute relief media. rescue operations are underway across the state. people are being evacuated on military boards like the but worsening flood, or hampering rescue efforts that make sure that we have some engine boats on the part of the, the sick. but those that cannot be taken here because of the water and there's no gap in digital reviews on this little highway underwater. the gap is very minimum, so we can't afford them. so we have been procuring books from other districts also . well, us all floods every year during the monsoon season, record rainfall and water releases from dams have caused widespread devastation. people who are already struggling to survive are anxious about where they will go. if water levels rise again, party metal al jazeera,

c by child in north east india. thousands of protesters have march through the capitol of ecuador kito, on the 10th day of a nationwide strike. ah ha. really good or good. indigenous demonstrators were joined by students and trade unionists to demand lower prices for fuel and food, and restrictions on mining on indigenous land. wednesday's march was largely peaceful, but at least 2 protesters have died in earlier violence. dozens of interest in our latin america editor, lucia newman is at the protest. in ecuador is capital quito. the streets are empty except for these demonstrators has no public transport. there are now shortages of fresh food because of the fact that roads are blocked by the indigenous confederation of peoples who are but on the strike. now this is their 10th day. and

as you said, there are 2, at least 2 for testers who have been confirmed deadly as a possible 3rd one. the latest was a young man to 18 years old. in the amazonian state, received a tear gas canisters through the head. they are very, very angry. they are calling now even for the resignation of the president. but really, what's happening is that behind the scenes, the leader of the confederation is trying to negotiate with the government, which as it will finally sit down, it will, it's willing now to enter into a dialogue. but the indigenous confederation says there is nothing to talk about unless they will put down their guns, that they will not negotiate with a gun to their head. which means basically lifting the state of emergency recommended in a robinson of this country. they are very belligerent or very, very well organized or knighted so far. this is a very dangerous thing for the government, which claims that the indigenous confederation is trying to do to carry out

acquitted tal against president. he had more last, always been in power for just a little under a year. now it's a huge crisis for the country. this is a, this is our people who have in the past, you've been able to bring about the downfall and 3 governments in a strike at the most. so that would give, at least in theory, the government, 5 more days for wage. some kind of an agreement with these, with the indigenous confederation, which is calling for a reduction in the price of fuel for an end to exploitation of the amazon region by the petro company's better health, to better education. there was a long list of demands 10 in all until government has not listened to them at all. and that's what's bringing about a pregnancy and paralyzed nathan of the country, and especially in the capital. still ahead on al jazeera, furious farmers, and thousands of people protests in the netherlands over the government's plans to

cut emissions and back in business after the pandemic. but there are fears a rail strike may keep some of the crowds away from glastonbury. ah, the journey has begun. the 34 world camp is on its way to catherine book. your travel package today. hello, i'm pleased to say we have got some quiet weather now across southern parts of china where we have seen that laddie. see the sir little area or a cloud here that is nudging its way further north was sympathetic area cloud to just extending over to war to power. where again, we have seen some very heavy rain just to the southwest of tokyo, 142 millimeters afraid in 24 hours. $92.00 millimeters of which fell in the space of any 6 hours. so again, some localized flooding here, flash flooding as

a result of that, but he comes and expand a very wet weather coming in across a northeast of china, pushing in across north korea, south korea, seeing some of that. where to, where was the slides further south with central parts. we'll see the rain setting in as well. tad kohler in shanghai at 31 celsius, but still plenty warm enough. here we go, west in japan, seeing somewhere whether as we go through friday, larger dry on the other side of the mount is 30 celsius, there for tokyo, in the sunshine, sunshine in showers, as per usual across, so much of south east asia, some lively showers. there into the philippines, malaysia and indonesia, where to weather up toward sir thailand and also into myanmar tied in with the the monsoon rains. of course. not quite as well as it has been to the far northeast of india and also bangladesh. but the show is there, nevertheless, cats are airway visual airline of the journey. oh, the shea come out a ward for translation and international understanding is accepting nominations for

the year 2022 from february 15th, until august, 15th this year. for more information go to w, w, w dot h t a dot q a slash e n. ah, ah ah, you are watching al jazeera, a reminder of our top stories, the south. the taliban government has appealed for international aid. after afghanistan was hit by its deadliest earthquake in 20 years, at least 1500 people have been killed in practica and opposed provinces. bangladesh,

his military has intensified its relief efforts to help millions cut off by flooding in the northeast. dozens have been killed and hundreds of thousands forced from their homes. thousands of indigenous and other protesters have marched through the capital of ecuador kito, on the 10th day of a nationwide strike. they're demanding lower prices for fuel and food. the final report on so called state capture in south africa has criticized president serial rama pasa, for not doing more to stop years of corruption. a 3 year commission looked into a string of corruption allegations under his predecessor, jacob zelma between 292018. the report found that jacob zoom was stopped any investigation into the group to family. the brothers rejection a tool gupta were arrested and due by earlier this month, accused of using their connections with zoom or to win state contract, misappropriated state assets and influence cabinet appointments. the report also

found zoom was stopped, a criminal probe into his head of state security arthur fraser for running a rogue parallel intelligence structure in the early 2, thousands. fraser has also been in the news recently for reporting a burglary in 2020, at a game form owned by sir ram of florida, involving undisclosed amounts of foreign kersey from oppose. it described the report as a potential instrument against future corruption in south africa. the report is far more than a record of widespread corruption, fraud, and abuse. it is also an instrument through which their country can work to ensure that such events such a state capture never had ever happen again. in our country. solution i do is a political analyst and the senior research associate at the institute for global dialogue. she says the latest report is

a crucial moment in south africa's history. it's actually a, quite a significant process and a quite a significant time in south africa's body politic. because if you remember this process on the state capture commission and investigation and just to capture is a process that started in 2017 and it started because of a report that was done investigative report that was done by the prior or the previous public protector advocate truly mother said, and essentially in that report she, he found that there were levels of irregularity when it came to the way in which government resources were use with malfeasance, financially, to get rarities and so forth. and in the sense, she said that there needs to be any inquiry into the state capture and that's how the process started. so 4 and a half years later, we find the at this point where we've got the,

the final volumes that have been presented to president trump for the today. and of course, what it does is that it takes us through a narrative, but also it takes us to, through the kinds of state capture that happened with whether you call whether, which was the state on entity of s come with a it was with transmit. whether it was with the state, the public for media broadcaster is a b c. but also in terms of how state capture happened. the kinds of architecture around the way in which it was put together as a framework. and of course, the infamous group to family who now the 2 brothers are facing arrests or have been arrested due to the read notice issued by interpol. so it's really a very significant moment into africa as post democratic use, a post, a part of history and democratic use st is really in peace, have voted in favor of dissolving parliament. the preliminary ballot is one of

a series that will set the stage for the countries 5th election in less than 4 years. this week members of the fractured coalition, government agreed it could not survive after just one year in office. turkey and saudi arabia say they're determined to start a new period of co operation after a visit from the saudi kingdoms defacto ruler to ankara. it's the 1st time crown prince mohammed of instead, man has been to turkey since the 2018 murder of journalists, jamal hush of g, who was killed and allegedly dismembered in the saudi consulate. in istanbul, mohammad been said, man and turkish president reggie type ardon are said to have discussed improving ease of trade between the 2 nations and saudi investment in turkish startups. russian forces are intensifying their efforts to take full control of the eastern city of severity, and that's while moscow is deployed reserve troops. keith has also sent additional

soldiers to counter them. charles stratford reports from keith ukrainians. hank flies down the street almost completely destroyed. soldiers take cover on the ground is what sounds like an artillery shell explodes close by. these men are defending the last areas of civil than it's still under their control from the slow russian violence, ammunition and supplies affairs across the river from neighboring lucy chance before bridges the connection them are destroyed. fighting has been intense here for weeks because these are the only 2 cities and they look on screeching that russia hasn't taken ukrainian reinforcements head to the front line. many of these men had never held a gun before the war started. they come from all walks of life. the government says, hundreds of ukrainian soldiers are being killed every day. there is little

verifiable information on how many russians are dying, said ice, and apparently the situation on the front line hasn't significantly changed thanks to tactical maneuvers. the queen in army is strengthening its defense of de la hans . question. that is really the toughest spot. they occupy as a pressing strongly and also ended in asked direction in the hockey region. this video was applied to the reuters news agency by russian forces. it reportedly shows pro russia separatists advancing on ukrainian positions near sivilton ask the fighter shows, western supplied military hardware including an anti tank system night vision, equipment and rifles that he says were abandoned by retreating, ukrainian forces. he says, the blurred out bodies are ukrainian soldiers, william gosh, we will continue to make inroads into their lines to fully surround them. i think if they're not idiots, they will surrender. if i don't want to surrender, they will die. the ukrainian army says russian forces have caught supply roots from

2 villages. south of lucy chanced. several them asked. the head of lou ganske military administration confirms that claim and says that russian forces have taken control of another 3 villages in the same area. there are also reports that russian forces are advancing close to the assault chemical plants inside several units where it's understood that hundreds of civilians, including women and children, or sheltering inside child stratford, al jazeera, give. the kremlin says it's working on retaliatory measures after lithuania block the transfer of some goods from mainland russia to its exclaim of colon and grad. moscow describes the situation as absolutely unacceptable. lithuania says it was required to shut the root in accordance with the e. u. sanctions imposed over russia's invasion of ukraine. kellen and grad is connected to russia by a rail link through lithuania, a member of the e u. n. nato. or gary, a coalition government has lost

a confidence vote after just 6 months in office. there's anger over the government's failure to tackle soaring inflation. reformers. prime minister carol pet cove took charge in december, promising to in corruption and the use poorest member states. most analysts say another election will result in a hung parliament. tens of thousands of farmers in the netherlands have protested against government plans to reduce nitrogen emissions. the netherlands is the 2nd largest exporter of food worldwide, but it's estimated that thousands of forms will have to choose in order for the governments emissions targets to be met. set fasten was at the demonstration in the village of strew at the heart of farming country. on their tractors farmers from all over the country headed to the little town of strew, ignoring police instructions, they block motivate, coughing, traffic, chaos. the rally was held at one of the breton farms and was the largest in sproat

that started a few years ago. among them were many young farmers who blamed a government for ruining their future like 19 year old yes bars. who wants to follow his father's footsteps and take over their families dairy farm of moments. they need the field to sever the i don't think i have a future in farming because we have to reduce our capital by 70 percent with only 80 cows. this won't be profitable. so we will have to close. not to say also farms near national parks. i hit the hardest, according to a recent government plan. ecosystems in the netherlands have been severely damaged by nitrogen pollution, and a country has failed to meet europe in standards. nearly half of these emissions are caused by animal faces produced at large scale farms and import to meet exports . the netherlands has nearly 50000 farmers keeping millions of animals. isabella, under keith, takes care of $1800.00 calves. she says farmers actions have not affected popular support mandate actually f o r phil support, fall yarboro hearse and we received

a lot of support with his protest when we were traveling. we got many thumbs up of people passing by. you feel that they really understand that we don't want to cause trouble and that this is just a cry for help. among those ramos has reached boiling, talking have been sounds enough left their farm site and they will rally well, many you realize that the bombing on an avalanche will have to change drastically. they blamed enrollment crossing out farmers for widespread nitrogen kwandusha to reduce emissions to government us allocate a 25000000000 euros to compensate farmers moved them or make farms more environmentally friendly. this now to new policy over the please literally say in the disaster. oh, great disaster renewed turn of mart renewed spaces. every needs are merged, more better bought a slower on thursday dutch parliament will debate the government plans. rama say more, protests will follow and they will sit tight for the long whole step. fasten al

jazeera in strew rail passengers in the u. k. are facing another day of disruption as talks to in the national strike failed. 40000 members working for network rail are going on a 24 hour walk out on thursday. it's the 2nd of 3 strike days this week. the dispute is overpay working conditions and job security as rail companies seek to cut costs and staffing. one of the world's biggest music festivals as well coming back, fans for the 1st time in 3 years. ah . and this year, the u. k. is glastonbury festival was also celebrating it's 50th anniversary. it was cancelled twice during the pandemic. more than 200000 people were expected to attend. patrick vernon is a cultural historian, he says, glastonbury is trying to be more culturally diverse. and westbridge is part of

the fake toby's society, especially at the last 4050 years. it's been our cultural come mean think of wimbledon. think of the ebay. well, i can't think of nothing. hold carnival in saint patrick's day. got some breeze even now when which day is possible. the fabric, obviously, obviously it's about music, but it's more just music coming up in less we have tried to do something gauge we're commune. since i've tried to help messages as well. and the themes from, from the conference over the last couple of decades to i think it's changed and i think it is, it was a very white move, not to worry about it popping over last few years and that's probably reflected in the office and performing i guess the bring that has changed the graphics. i mean it's still got a long way to go for your people. is trying to do is trying to extend

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