these malagasy migrants they move from the drought written self in such a means to survive. and their story is the interface between climate change and biodiversity laws. the arrival of the migrants is adding to the precious on fish, dogs and marine by diversity, already stretched by over fishing. and this is going to happen all over the world. is impacts like sea level rise, cause people to move further and further in learn pretty normal pressure on environmental resources for people fleeing the impacts of global warming. it's survival at all costs. ah, until mccrae, this is al jazeera live from doha, with breaking news coverage. more than 600 people are fed did after a powerful earthquake shakes the south eastern region of takia and northern syria. many of those killed were in serious search and rescue if it's are under wifi and

hospitals. treating the injured are overwhelmed. 3 minutes where very, very, very old, full and terrific. and very difficult for, for on one ah, well than 500 people have been killed across to kia and syria after a magnitude 7.8. earthquake struck the south east in the region of pisec. it's severely affected, at least 10 alba cities across to kia across the border and syria. the quake struck the cities of aleppo, hama, and lots of kia. e call. soon sharif begins our coverage. ah, the scene that followed a powerful north clay rescue workers crumbling cross ponds did re trying to reach survivors. real creation harder

this is for level is asked years. they are not by the offer turkish disaster or to the g. there it means an international or is after international level disaster to quit smoking remote areas. an eastern turkey, harder to access at the best of times. but early rescue efforts are also been hindered by bad weather and cars. calling for international help with more than 10 cities affected neighboring severe has also been hit hard casualties. a mounting, the regions of an epo hammer and luckier among the worst affected that he is usually you do like you should get a job in civilian buildings have completely been destroyed due to an earthquake that hit the north west of syria around 4 30 in the morning the situation is dire and catastrophic. tens of buildings have fallen in the city of sel. kinda rockland

is complete electrical blackout. it's really catastrophic. every one is on the streets. the buildings are either destroyed or barely holding. here. the quake was felt throughout the eastern mediterranean, including lebanon, cypress palestine, israel, and as far as egypt, turkey sits on top of major seismic fault lines and is frequently shaken by of quakes. some 80000 people were killed and quakes that hit the northwest in 1999 on a cold, some sheriff al jazeera turkey, his vice president says the government is in contact with several countries to receive help. old buildings that are hosting hospitals have been effected. we are doing our best in order to give assistance to the people we have provide the tents and camps already in the nearby area. rescue operations have already started and we are in contact with every concerned party in this regard. we have also received

information of so many countries that are ready to help. we have requested medical supplies and medical equipments. while for more on this on joined by cinema casino, whose monitoring developments from istanbul. some can just give us a bit of an update on the weather conditions in the affected areas. i understand that this been a huge storm thats rolled through their sub 0 temperatures. slate rain. i mean, how is that impacting the search and rescue if it's at the moment wells turkey has been under snow and other have a rain for the last couple of days. and true kids in the region always suffers. have a snow, especially during the season, but for instance, how di, true kid, southern city border with syria recede. so yesterday it is a mediterranean, as city it doesn't, it doesn't snow in talk about yesterday. it's snow then it is one of the cities

that has been harshly hit by this 7.8, magnitude, earthquake and on social media through our friends we are hearing very that stories . so many buildings have collapse in god. then again, there is snow since the morning. we have been speaking to people and they're saying that they're telling us that they are thing outside in their cars, or people who do not have cars. at 1st they stayed outside under the snow and then some of them were, some of them went to big buildings like more than other places to be safe. but since some of the infrastructure is also hit in those cities like and gods dance up and call her mom or are natural gas pipelines have been damaged and it may take a couple of days to repair them. as for the turkish officials as sub just 2 hours ago, this is going to be a very difficult time for the civilians who,

who have been affected by this great earthquake at the hit is to care this morning . along with the epicenter area, call her mom or i suppose are there are 10 other cities that have been directly affected by this earthquake. when i spoke to people in the morning, if from aides that they were to, they were explaining the situation, explaining the effect of this earthquake as if they, the city they are living in was the epa center. it is because the depth of the earthquake for bye was than 8 kilometer is deep and it was very close to the surface. that's why it tends to tease in the area innocent turkey, which means also a very why geography, by the way, was affected very harshly. by this, by this earthquake to kids for on to earthquakes the, this is why we have been telling since the morning it has experience so many earthquakes throughout its history. in 1999, there was a very biggest stumble,

earthquake and that's coats. the law lives of thousands. we have is mer earthquake less than 2 years ago and earthquake in ela. again, one of the cities that was hit by this morning's earthquake. but this time it comes in the middle of winter everywhere, snow or rain and it's very cold. it is very difficult for the civilians to take care of themselves as so many buildings have collapsed. and under these conditions, a people are not able to get inside their houses because the aftershocks are still continuing. we have seen on social media collapse of a building during an aftershock. so each aftershock means if a damages, if a building is damaged in an after shop, it can level down. it can go down like a pancake. so and always stay for those civilians. for now in this region, despite the new buildings that have been built after 9999 in the new earthquake

regulation at the old buildings are still danger. we have seen god them the historical gods ounce up castle. a big part of it collapse. we have seen in my last year one of the major hotels collapsing and 2 hospitals in the hotel and it's candor and they have collapsed and these are critical buildings because these places can hold people if they're safe on their, these kinds of circumstances. but if the weather conditions the climate is making is very difficult for rescue workers and the civilians to go through the situation that it seems like to be the biggest challenge for everyone. i sent him casale, a mess of job ahead for the search and rescue teams. thank you so much. but we're going to go to, as i know how to, who joins us live from by roots now. and i know you've been speaking to your context in syria, which has also been really badly affected. just go to an update through from the

syrian american medical society saying that hospitals there have been a completely overwhelmed can you just give us a sense of how bad and how wide spread the impact of this quite has been in syria. yes, the state of emergency has been declared and a number of areas are disaster zones. a number of provinces were affected buildings collapse in it live in a level in huh. and lots of key. some areas under the control of the opposition, other areas under the control of the government. and many of these buildings that these are weak structures of years of war, especially in the north of the country. air strikes, artillery bombardment, videos that have emerged on social media really show these buildings just collapsing, one after another and rescue workers are struggling to say people trapped

underneath the bubble. we understand hundreds of families are still trapped under the rubble initial. the initial human toll in government areas, according to the syrian state media, nearly 240 people and then the opposition controlled north. according to this civil defense, nearly 150 people already dead hospital. you mentioned hospital is yes, they're overwhelmed because there are just not enough hospitals, especially in the north during the course of the war of the syrian government and their allies, targeted hospitals, health clinics. this is just not enough doctor's and so there are appeals cries for help if you like, as well as calls for international assistance in the north as well as in government controlled areas. because this area is a cash strapped space where the economy has all but, but collapse, we understand the president is also going to hold an emergency meeting to see what can be done to, to deal with this with this national disaster and zanna. we know that

international help from the u. s. and in the u. u is already been pledged to, to kia in the form of search and rescue teams. what about syria? obviously it's in desperate need of search and rescue teams as well as medical assistance. but things are much more complicated, aren't they in terms of getting international light into the regions that really desperately native yes, syria, the guns may have largely fallen silent, but this is a country still divided by front lines and government controlled areas. united nations operates the number of ages to operate on the ground. i'm assuming that it will be relatively easy for them to fly in equipment to land at damascus, airports. but then you have the north of the country under the control of the opposition. that is bordering turkey in the past, one of its main beneficiaries or the country that really has been providing help to

the opposition has been through kia and now turkey is, is in crisis. it needs international assistance. and every time the united nations or other international humanitarian organizations try to bring britain aids through other borders apart from those controlled by the states that they have to. they have to go to the un security council because cross border age renewal is always resisted by the allies of the government. so how is it gonna reach at the opposite control north? will they have to fly into turkey and then cross into the north of the country? so this is not going to be easy. and of course the weather conditions. as you can see behind me, there's a, there's a severe storm hitting hitting the region and it's cold and many people have lost their homes. they are out in the open. and already the north of syria is home for millions of people who live in towns. so this is an emergency that's not going to be easy to deal with. ok, thank you so much for that that it says and hold it for us. in beirut. we're going

to go to wrestle suit, who is in a stand bull, and this is quite, obviously comes in the shadow of elections like this. you questions already being raised about the government's handling of this? can you just give us a bit more of an idea of how the elections could be affected by this? this message is earthquake. while the cat has come in a very delicate size in terms of both weather and also for the conditions that the unfolding and the cancer. so on may 14, the said, the country's going to hold election gender elections, which is going to determine which part your the coalition is going to form the majority of the problem. and also we're going to be the next president for the future. that's why it's important for the goldman and also for the opposition for

the government. definitely. it's a huge challenge. it was quite unexpected. and regarding the magnitude and also the areas that did this quick is covered and it's a real challenge for the government and about 10 cities. some of them are vital, a major cities that the population is over 1000000. so in that sense, the government needs to succeed here and the failure could be really cause president one and his government. so because the economy and the company is already depend on, you can as not being well definitely the price is going higher and higher, the nation daniel inflation is around $80.00 person. and so in that sense, for the government handling these guys, this is quite important. but for the position for the opportunity, because in less than 3 months, the company is going to hold the election board to decide about who goods for them

are just in the parliament and also is going to be that the president. so another important aspect of the earthquake is that the many cities that have witnesses has been effected by this earthquake or the condition rigidity cities. so the curtis wars are going to be determined in terms of determining who is going to be for the roughly have around 13 percent of the overall work, which is quite significant when it comes to the status. so there is already a challenge to present that. one of these goldman seen the curtis aside in the cur, the cities insult the focus for the accomplice. so and regarding that, considering the fact that the many of cities, major cities that have been affected by the earthquake, it's another for the government. so the government sees that they have mobilized all the news on the campus. is that the same pass. so 3 years,

particularly off the 1999 for the great was also 7.4 magnitude that happened in the city of cojet, which is very much close to some both author death check has been formed rules mo, several be in the, in the parliament that he told us, due to the government to renew several districts and we left the old building and any new building to be to be called thrust. it has to have the a quick path, but there's no because the criticism here in turkey, i guess the government is that the government did not abide by that rules. and many here are seen that because of that, that now the data is that much high. and the last building, the number of the collect building is quite significant here from other handy or positions here, as i said, some contributor for the opposition, of course, to build, build on. however,

the leaders of the physician parties today from right after you start that they have to have believe the sweetness and see. and that's today says not to day that we really go on the government, but rather to call tony. they all come together to join hands and call the need for all together. but one of the important aspect is going to be for the, for the government is going to be how to handle the aftermath. so the weather conditions in the country are extreme. now, by the beginning of this week called wave of the country, the sultan cities that had been affect your order by the earthquake are now really having pub conditions, the weather, the weather, the temperature 0. so in that sense, when the government will be able to wait at least midship houses to those who have been affected by the work way, whether they will have proper access to the house system will not. that's also going to be quite a determined defect in the upcoming election. okay,

thank you so much. that is russell, set up for us and assemble. we'll el producer armored alec, etc, joins me now on the phone from the on tape one of the worst affected regions. first of all, it is good to have you with us and to hear that you, you are safe and hopefully unharmed. can you just give us a sense of what it is like the now on the ground and the hours since the 1st big mess of earthquake? yes, i will explain to you what's the going. the group says for 12, at midnight, we're going through one of the heaviest earthquakes that i've ever seen. and i think turkey also seen that the situation was on describable. i mean, like, you don't know what is going on and you can feel that some of there's weeks that i have been witnessed before. it was like, you feel that the windows you feel that the tv is shaking,

but this fine. i felt that the wall is shaking the building, the whole building was shaking. it was like it's, it's massive like at the moments that we faced, that i couldn't think of anything just to put my kids on the table and stay there until they're gone. and i was wishing that's moment to be a dream. i didn't want it to be like a truly what's happening. that's what we've seen. i just wanted to be a dreamer. start to pray at that time to be a dream. but it wasn't. after the quick, just finish for a 2nd, we just picked what we can get and we moved outside and you can see the small tense that i had with me that's i put my kids in. it's my mother was just sitting mixed by the temperature is under 0, it's undescribable. that's what we've got seen. some of the building was falling down in godaddy and then i got my,

my gosh on channel fos. and i've just received like a few hours ago. that's my uncle and his wife and she's 2 children's was just that i'm the one of the pulling part. can i park you so far? they couldn't get them out of there and we are still waiting for their buddies to be out watching some miserable seeing some of the images coming through from gas in tip and in the other regions that have been affected a just absolutely horrible and it's, it's amazing to see some of these brave search and rescue teams going through the rubble, especially with the aftershocks that have been continuing. can you give us a sense of what it is like because of some survivors of previous earth quakes described the aftershocks just as bad? not because of the magnitude, because of the psychological impact that it has on people that have survived the

initial initial earthquake. how would it be like we were you are exactly as you said, the aftershocks. it's similar to the same 1st one. and after we left since 412 until now we are just standing outside in the cold until the some of the mosque was open, their doors for people to be welcomed and sit inside in warm condition. many other people don't feel safe to be inside any building that you can see the whole streets are filled with cars and people sitting inside it. i mean, they be the aftershocks in each 10 to 5 minutes. not you can feel it. sometimes it's coming so heavy that you can see, like some of the items inside the mosque is shaking. the kids is start screaming, the, even the big an elderly people start screaming like it's,

it's undescribable. i cannot, i cannot tell you that i come film even. they don't allow anyone to film because of this horrible situation. but it's like it's just like a dream and we wish that we go out of that dream. we will just be wake up and how your family doing my family actually that we are trying to make the kids feeling it's, it's kind of a game that's because they don't understand it. and this is the 1st time they are what's missing kind of a week. and they keep asking like why we're not going home. why we're not staying at home. it's called outside. let's go home. we want to go back home. and we went just put a few minutes to the home to get some clothes and change the like what clothes this . and we felt like some of the parts of the building start falling internally. and then we decided, no, we need to go back outside like it's not safe here. and even the security government at risk society,

they start sending messages through the phone saying that it's not safe to teach homes go outside to the public locations or to the most. so the kids is like trying to understand what's happening. we the elder people's, like the young people, like we don't know for who we need to have a fear on like the kids or told her cells or dollar parents. we don't know like when it's happen again, what we should do. that's what i can tell you. okay, well thank you so much for your time. and our thoughts are with you and your family in the, in the hours and the days and weeks here. thank you. that is alma al katina. what about produces with al jazeera, from gussy on tip? one of the worst affected regions of us who are just joining us. let's recap this breaking news story. more than 500 people have been killed across to kia and syria after magnitude 7.8. earthquake has to keep reporting more than 280 deaths as

daybreak rescue is a searching for survivors or the dis, tolan, syria really stands at 230. the trim lasted a minutes, causing hundreds of buildings to collapse cyprus, and live and on. so felt the earthquake or the white house has reacted to the quite national security advisor james sullivan says the us is profoundly concerned. adding washington stands ready to provide assistance. he said that president biden has directed us aid in other federal government partners to assist response options to help those affected will be us will continue to monitor the situation and coordination with the government of to kia the 2 other news now and ukraine's president says he expects a major russian offensive in the coming weeks. and his nightly address on sunday

volota miss lensky said moscow is increasing pressure on several fronts. ahead of the 1st anniversary of the war on february the 24th, with a battle full control of the eastern city of buck, mood has been intensifying with russia deploying more troops, design bathroom reports from the capitol cave, ukrainian soldiers defending buck boot, enter the fray, knowing they are out numbered, and more russian fighters are on the way. but what is the major flash point on the eastern front right now? ukraine's president has promised he won't let the city fall without a fight. but believe me or zelinski may also be preparing his people for a worst case scenario. that is the sort of, she knew, the who in the course of 346 days of this war, i often had to say that destination of the front was stuff and that the situation was becoming tougher. each it is once again,

that kind of key there. ukraine's army says a gun down as many as 200 russian mercenaries from the wagner group in a recent attack. but russian forces are gaining ground as they push to surround the city. the worry for keep, now russia could be close to successfully cutting off the main highway into the city. currently ukraine's main supply line that could be a decisive moment in the battle for buckman. russian missiles are also hitting more civilian targets along the eastern front airstrikes in car keith hit a university and a residential block. recently there was a strong blast and everything happened so quickly. we were saved by the furniture that fell on us because of that we are alive. she's only lived in car keith, a few months homeless and displaced for a 2nd time. during this war. the siege of buck,

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