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too powerful. earthquakes have killed more than 1600 people. dozens of buildings have been flattened. this is the moment the 2nd quake struck, ma latoya, northern syria has also been effected at least a 1000 people are dead in areas where millions displaced by war are living intense in freezing conditions. we, as everyone is watching us onto your us, we need help. we did everything, everything in every, in each area. we need midst of 2. i'm 7 ashwin sports. manchester city face a possible points deduction after the premier league it's uses the club of breaking financial rules more than a 100 times. ah . hello, it's just gone 9 p. m and turkey and syria were search and rescue. teams are continuing to look for a survey of ours. asked are one of the regions most devastating disaster is in

decades. this is the seen an ad and on that's where teams are looking for any one trapped under the rubble in the freezing conditions. a powerful magnitude. 7.8, quake chick the southeastern regional pass. our check early on monday morning, destroying thousands of homes. just hours later, a 2nd one struck the southern city, oklahoma morass. more than 2600 people have died. since because of our group begins our coverage from istanbul. ah, this was the moment, the 2nd powerful earthquake struck southern turkey at this concrete apartment block in mallets, yet not able to withstand the earth's violent tremors. many had already fled their homes, fearing what might happen with me to check the conquer mom or i, she is at the epicenter of the disaster. here 2 children are old from the rubble of

a collapse building. i don't like their parents and leave us your mother. the 1st quick struck while they were sleeping. the 2nd came a few hours later as rescue team scramble to find survivors from the 1st with they were themes of destruction across at least 10 cities in southeastern anatolia . hundreds of people were killed and thousands of homes destroyed. it offered to turkish disaster directory is mobilized the rescue teams from different provinces to the effect of the region doki drift good as well. i appreciate it, no support to use gender matter. it military and many other angles also deploy

to the risk which you structure are affected regions almost had proven so in the city of atlanta, a cherry picker was used to lift a woman from an apartment building in danger of collapse in a national address, present ridge of tape, ardon said the government was doing all it could to deal with the situation through to law. look through a good aims. the turkish armed forces and emergency and disaster authority have been called to the affected areas. our priority is to rescue those in need. it is sorry, 9000 people are working now in the rescue efforts, items, turkey declared the level for alarm. that means international assistance is necessary given the affected area is so large and millions of people needs help. and their net is even. 7 more acute because it is winter and they're facing cold temperatures, snow and rain ha to care sits on top of major seismic full pines and is frequently

shaken by earthquakes. about 80000 people were killed in quakes that hit the northwest in 1999. with a history of such natural disasters, many are asking why the country wasn't better prepared and why so many buildings collapsed or bring and said am for an update. she's joining us from istanbul, light fall, as we can see behind you. how are the search and rescue operations going send him? the rescue operations are still on the way with more than $15000.00, a personnel on the ground and turkish president are gone. just tweeted that. his government announced a 7 day national the morning that will and on sunday after the some set. so this week is going to be a very difficult week for to care. and not only because the, the rescue works are still on their way. and this is a critical time,

but as time passes, even though the ministers who have spoken so far, they always on the line that the picture might be darker and the death toll is expected to rise forces. there are some areas that the rescue workers and you haven't been able to reach out the and how to i on top, get your case. southern city border with syria is also one of those areas where the access is kind of cut because the highway between hot goddamn top is sort of the out of order in way of hearing from the local that people are trying to hit the old old highways or old roads through the mountains to get access to the city. and we have no information about the death toll from ha tie so far. but the total battle is now about $1651.00,

which is expected to rise as the 1st 3 days 72 hours are the most important time at times for these kinds of earthquakes. rescue workers are working hard to get people. also those robles and evacuate the survivors from the damage buildings . but of course, since to care has announced the level of for alarms, international assistance is required. that's why, as prison on sad $4.00 to $5.00 nations have offered, they are a hub to turkey and turkish president has also spoken to his russian countered parts of them are put in and the terms many countries are sending rescue workers, medical supplies, and humanitarian aid supplies. and personnel, but what the most important thing is the carrier, if you have more carriers, enough carriers, it might be easier for the rescue workers to reach out to those areas which is

difficult to reach right now because of the weather conditions because there is no there was when there is the wind, it all the negative factors seem to be altogether during this earthquake across through can only in the eastern part, but also in the turkish capital and assemble the weather is very cold. there is when there is snow. so these are difficult hours and difficult days for true care and many are frustrated. the defense minister also said that through a vessel a ship that can approach to scan the import. the wounded people can be taken to city hospitals for treatment. but we're talking about a vast geography here. those 10 city is affected by this, that the earthquake this morning. this is a vast geography. it's a very big area, a large area that we're talking about. and we're talking about nearly 13000000

people residing in those 10 cities. so when we think about the in the scale of the station possible devastation on these areas, it frustrates everyone. and now everybody's working in full capacity. but even that full capacity seems not enough for now. thank you so much and cost welcoming for that update from stumble. let's talk about some of the international health that's been coming. blodgett, which vari, who's the european commission spokesman for crisis management on humanitarian aid. he's joining us alive from brussels. welcome to the al jazeera news hour. we appreciate your time with us. the e. u. civil protection mechanism has been activated as we understand, tell us what it is and, and how it works. indeed, good evening. we have been following the development inter can theory of the great deal of attention in the course of the day. and as i say in the early hours of the

morning, turkey activated the collection mechanism. now this means that our price management structures are being used to the, to the full here in, in brussels. and we have been in touch with all of our members to try and see who is in a position to provide assistance. until now, i can confirm that we have managed to mobilize nearly 20 search and rescue teams from 15 member states for more than half of the states have already put forward assistance, feel montenegro, chipping in, and sending a team to turkey. now these things are already on their way. some of them, for example, the hungarians, the romanians, the bulgarians have already arrived. they contribute to the rescue operations on the ground and gradually, as me going to the 9th in the morning. more and more teams will reach a turkey. now, as a 2nd step, we are trying to focus now on emergency medical teams. we have

a feel for the ready, for example, spain is ready to send the team. you can expect more and more such teams is coming in in the coming hours and days just to go back to your point on turkey, the turkey, you haven't activated this protection mechanism and not syria. why is that? this is a decision by this is a decision for government to do for governments to take the on our side, of course, we stand ready once the receive an activation request be ourselves, we cannot activate the mechanism. however, any country in the world has the possibility to do so, obviously should be received such a request in the syrian government. we will do our utmost to respond to the needs that they have identified on the ground, okay. understood. so what sort of help then is being offered to syria outside of this mechanism by the you in syria, extremely active to our humanitarian policy. in fact,

that european union and its members could collectively are of course, the largest donor of humanitarian aid for syria. since 2000 and it doesn't be channeled in more than $27.00 bit in your human per name, but just to be an example. and yearly basis. last year we provided 150000000 euro. so our human external creations, i to me significant on the ground, the conversations today with a different partner positions that we have n g o u n. and what they are doing now is to refocus their activities and orient them towards the region and the regions which have been effected by the earthquake. so de, engage in providing transportation support, but it was so shouter, a 10 and also basic hygiene items. and on top of that, of course, we are looking into the possibility of making away the additional humanitarian aid for these organizations who are on the ground to respond specifically to the needs which have arisen in the past hours. do you worry at all that the sort of the

search and rescue operation and the ongoing operations and syria will be very challenging considering that it's a country, of course that has been under not only us sanctions, but european union sanctions as well, which of crippled some of the sectors like the medical sector, for example, and its capacity to respond when you have events like these the developments that you mention, they have no impact on, on the humanitarian aid. so we have remained extremely committed over the years to providing syria with humanitarian aid. and i just cited some, some, some extremely important figures. and of course the school continue will continue to provide communitarian aid as much as we can. our are going to use our partner organizations are underground and as i said,

be looking at the possibility of providing them be even further assistance that they can bring to help. but it's needed crucially on the ground at this moment. what are you hearing from authorities in turkey, particularly since they've activated this e u civil protection mechanism? what are you hearing from authorities there on what supports they needs or may need going forward? if at the moment they are requesting 2 types of assistance from the european union on the one hand search and rescue teams, this is the reason why be focused on this type of assistance in the past hours. so we mobilize nearly 20 such teams. this means hundreds of people who are now on the way hundreds of specialist going towards 13 from the member states and as a 2nd dimension, they are also requesting us to make available emergency medical teams, which is now our focus. we already have a couple of teams and proposed by member states and we will do our utmost to get them on the ground as quickly as possible. just one final question for you, sir,

since i have you with us. i also understand that the use copernicus, satellite system has also been activated and that is to provide emergency mapping services. can you elaborate a little bit more on math? indeed, that's something that we estimated ourselves to. indeed, help the turkish authorities delineate and determine the area which has been effected by by the unfortunate event of the past hours. so we have transmitted a handful of high, high quality satellite pictures to the 33 through which will have them significantly in terms of establishing blowing, which has been affected by the are okay, thank you so much. you're very for speaking to us from brussels and giving us that update. thank you. now, people across turkey, you have been donating emergency supplies for a survivor is russell,

started our reports from an aide center and assemble where items are being dropped off. so early in the morning, the most fallacy of his stumble is called on people to bring the essentials that are most needed in the south and cities of turkey where the earthquake has he had hard us. so people responded to that cause. and now we can see that they are bringing the clothes out, the food, the diapers, and the heaters, every essentials that is very much needed in that cities. so while we are being here, we have seen thousands of people coming in and out and bringing different variety of the staff and essentials that are needed. so we're talking about pan cities. it is quite a wide geography that this earthquake is, is, is carbon. and also does already stumble is not the only a city that is holding these events. what activities or setting up there's

a that centers in menace. it is monster. policies have joined that there is a force and now they are delivered in that age to the cities that people are in a desperate need of these essentials due to the extreme conditions and also read because even in the fact that poses or people are now homeless, in the streets and really they need this help. so it is a, at a nation in the morning, but also there shall be in a very significant level of the solidarity as well. al jazeera produced her model hutton, you the sheltering with his family and gaussian tap and gave us this update earlier since the earth weekend. so now that you see like hundreds and thousands of cars just only in and out the streets, people don't know where they are. going actually like we just moved to buy some bread for the kids and we spend over them one hour just standing in the line to get

5 pieces of bread that's mean like people spanish. like what do they want to do where they want to go? they don't know. now the street that i'm standing in there is a dozen of call is just waiting in the line in front of a gas station. they want to fill up their cause and they really don't know where they want to go. but what, what they should do, nobody knows we are based right now in one of the most me and family, my mother and my father and my kids on the after shocks is make us, at least like we just like crazy like we feel it's we try to run and it's, and we feel like we try to run and it's and, but the 2nd law just earthquake. i won't call it's after trucks because it's coming like 7.8. it's similar to the 1st one. it's make us all crazy. like we start running like crazy and you can see hundreds of people inside the mosse, they just want to survive by their life. so far we couldn't see any, much of

a health coming toward our areas as we don't have much destroyed and damages building. but we've seen many heading around us, especially the electricity and the gas company, which they are just running to turn off some of the fires with 3 stop after the 2nd earthly. i'm from our side, like you can see many people just need more food, more blankets, more people start online and standing outside the street. they don't feel safe, even inside a mosque or whatever. it's like a government building. they don't feel safe. they just standing outside in the snow and it's now under that that it's too cold, like i'm talking to you and i'm shaking. it's really too cold outside. ok, so let's take a look at where the earthquakes were centered. a powerful magnitude, 7.8. quake shook the ton of prez. our chips in southern turkey year early on monday

morning. then a few hours later, a magnitude $7.00, tremors struck the town of abil stung. at least 10 turkish cities have been badly affected. the winter conditions and diamonds to the roads or making it hard for rescue teams to access some of them. and over across the border a neighboring syria, the quake struck the city of aleppo, hammer and la talk him. well, communities that had already been struggling to survive after years afore have been completely destroyed. then a hood, that reports from beirut, a child is told to recite a prayer. i le le dropped under the rubble of a collapse building. this is the human toll of a major earthquake that struck central turkey. it was felt hard in neighboring syria. hundreds of people have already lost their lives. buildings collapsed across towns and cities, and on both sides of the front lines of the war in syria. in

areas under the control of the government and those controlled by the opposition got hello, i'm desperate appeals for help from those already struggling to survive. after more than a decade of war in rebel areas, there are no state structures to deal with. such a disaster calls are growing for emergency aid as residential areas are leveled to the ground abuse because you can come in, civilian buildings have completely been destroyed due to an earthquake that hit the northwest of syria around 4 30 in the morning. the situation is dire and catastrophic. tens of buildings have fallen in the city of sel. kin, it's complete electrical blackout. it's really catastrophic. everyone is on the streets. the buildings are either destroyed or barely holding here. many of the buildings that collapse were already not structurally sound. do 2 years of war.

civil defense team say they need machinery to rescue people while the few hospitals that survive the government attacks in recent years are overwhelmed. the medical victor or the north northwest project exhausted by the bomb being by the station by the g many hosp, the many doctors were killed by the big and the best time that we were support from the pan demik covey and after and after. now the media can stick to can not handle all of those engine cannot receive. all those injured people are already facing a severe storm. and freezing temperatures and aftershocks are making their lives worth. more shelter is needed. as many families are, again, made homeless in a region where millions displaced by war live, intense powerful tremors were felt in lebanon as well. they start to just after 3

a. m, when most people were asleep and lasted for at least 42nd. i mean there was chaos. as many people evacuated their homes. damage may have been minimal here, but more tremors are feared. back in syria, the extent of the humanitarian tragedy is only becoming apparent that their elders eda failed and it must have been lia has the un resident on humanitarian coordinator in syria. he says there is urgent need for emergency supplies. its a sub situation here in sylvia. we have already a difficult and a difficult situation before 11 years of ward. and now nature is even making it harder on us in the poor. for example, we have already $4040.00 buildings have collapsed, and numerous buildings are suffered to be structural damage and made to collapse my gloves. in time. we are bare use in schools for sales. when people are homeless,

people who are only they have been homeless, maybe before many schools have collapsed so i'm no longer cannot be used. so the restriction is difficult and not only and and, and homes, but also the key and the, the coastal area, the homes ation. we have a situation that is not easy for up to him for infrastructure the, the school, the rose water is also have been missed. we live very much on the tank water, the water tanks, and many, many, many of them either need to serious repair or need to be replaced. fuel is not available. stuff is not available. hospitals, some of them got damaged in and held up and navy in other places. we need a lot of help here. while governments around the world have been quick to offer

health to turkey a, the european union has you been hearing, has this past search and rescue teams and us president joe biden authorized and immediate response. well, a team of around 160 specialists will be deployed to support rescue efforts and help those injured and displaced. joining us now live on skype from washington. d. c is a san our shop tie. he's the director of the turkish research program at the washington institute. welcome to the al jazeera news hour. so there's a massive international aid for it currently underway. the turkish president said that 45 countries that are offered to help with search and rescue operations. how unprecedented is this? do you think? quite unprecedented because this is a earthquake, a disaster of historic proportions. even considering that countries are on the mediterranean rim, such as greece, italy, turkey, historically it have large earthquakes. this is the strongest earthquake recorded in history. it's impacting a tree area,

almost 6 countries. they are impacted by dorothy calls the size of friends. the epic center of course, has been hit by after shock, some of which are more powerful than large earthquakes elsewhere, i'm afraid, unfortunately, and my condolences, the turks and syrians affected by this earthquake afraid that the devil could be in a 1000 if not tens of thousands and of course, you have winter conditions. there's a snow storm across and told the whole that makes recovery and relief efforts, especially difficult as turkey to your knowledge ever been the recipients of the scale. if international aids, no, in general, when turkey faces that disaster, it says thank you everyone, i'm ok, i can handled it this time to government. so almost minutes up there doing quake declared emergency and calls for international assistance. so it just shows that perhaps the pictures were getting or giving us a glimpse of the destruction and the unfortunate loss of life,

but that the scale could be much larger and the government is preparing for that. this is a quote on historic and unprecedented disaster. i would say impacting tens of millions of people, right. and, and when you look at countries like greece, which is also mobilizing its resources to help turkey, i mean, greece and, and turkey. you have had decades of animosity and tension due to a number of issues. but what do you make of that cooperation? oh, not only grew breeze. i think the united states that sweden with which turkey now was a row over to succession tornado. and basically, all of turkeys, nato and you allies will step in israel is likely to plug assist. then i think the united states will really kind of really demonstrate its generosity to match it superpower status as turkey's allies. so we're going to see hopefully a really massive whoring of international assistance. this can also change regional dynamic syria, in which turkey's involved in

a war against the regime. you could actually see the turkish as her government's coming to get other to make sure that the leaf efforts and relief flows across the board there. so we could see a kind of a, a, a piece or a piece of the conflict and study as well. what i want to ask you about, i think you said these are the alignment that only because i, you know, obviously. busy there are some countries in the west that, that do not recognize the, the leadership of the president by side in essence. so do you think behind the scenes there will be some diplomatic maneuvering going going on right now to get into syria, the desperately needed age. i think so, i think while sensor is in turkey, is right across the border from syria. certain cities and siblings to have been affected. some of these as include regions of very controlled by turkish back portions, but 8 has to penetrate on also, utah sod, geem controlled areas. so we're gonna see an interesting era where,

you know russians, iranian americans, israelis, tork syrians, europeans, knitter allies, and others will all try to rush assistance to those impacted. but in turkey, of course, this is quite cataclysmic, is the been larger in scale than the 1999 or quaked up, killed 18000 people. and my biggest worry is that the deaths could be a very sadly, quite high eddy been hired this time. i yeah, it's very well might be as that search and rescue operation continues it just one final thoughts from you on and domestically in turkey. i mean, this is all happening and sadly, with the pressure of an upcoming election, where politicians inter key it will really be under the spotlight to show how they deal with this disaster. won't they? absolutely. it's too early to speak about out. you know how well relief efforts are going on, but being that body on the rubble oh,

oval brought the safely get assistance that they need. now this international aspect, i think, is a bit more credit saying the update in 1999 after a massive earthquake and turkey assistance from greece, triggered than unusual there of turkish greek friendship. i think again, considering that turkish ties with you and nato country, these have been under stress for a while. this is a chance and opportunity for turkeys, allies, and friends and nato. any you to demonstrate alliance and friendship and to flow and unlimited generous aid. i think this is the best way to reset with turkey citizens. ok, thank you so much for speaking to us. and joining us from washington, d. c. my pleasure, and my condolences to everyone who suffered under the circ wake, of course. thank you so much. stella had on the al jazeera news. our we have other news coming up will be live from chile. that's where fire fighters are battling. blazes that have killed dozens of people. conservation crisis will tell you about the numbers of animals and plants in the us that are at risk of extinction.

football and morocco can the country build on its world cup success and one day was the tournament itself. that's coming up in sports with jim. ah. now and the baby impotence to the weather is turning. i think 2 was improvement. both the opposite in turkey or the eastern side of the mediterranean, where this snow storm wound up here that was all snow. so it is rain and wind all the way from the coast of north need you through the levant. it is rain and wind. and on tuesday the snow is going to be moving east was through the earthquake affected area. so this to be snow in some part of the most part, the sun is going to try and return. the exception is going to be a sample still a normally wind and snow falling,

hardly good weather. now this is tuesday's picture. this is white in it. and see what happens, the snow beyond that is going to iran down the eastern side of iraq might see. right. and i suspect because he's strengthening winds in northern sadie. so potential has sandstorms here as well. but look at the temperature down in doha 27 degrees. so it turned particularly warm in the gulf states. okay, this is the picture for wednesday and things look improving for most of turkeys. exceptional est am bull. but night time, frost is still going to be an issue. the next tory alaska, the rain is about sauce has it's going to get it's affecting in particular southern tanzania, maybe parts of malawi and the eastern side of madagascar where brain looks particularly heavy awe inspiring stories from around the world. i human life capture and it's

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ah ah. hello again. here's a reminder of the top story. this. our search and rescue efforts are underway across southern turkey year were too powerful earthquakes of killed, more than 1600 people. president bridget player early one has the clear it's 7 days of morning. war torn northern syria has also been effected the death toll. there is at least 1000 hospitals have been overwhelmed by the large numbers of injured to other world news and is really forces have killed at least 5 palestinians during your rate in jericho, in the occupied westbank. israel says 2 of the individuals killed were involved in an attack that happened late last month. but our heem reports not counting the

deadline was impossible for palestinians needed jericho in the occupied westbank in this room on the outskirts of awkward debit, a few g campus. witnesses, se palestinian fighters exchanged fire with his really forces to them. blood is all that's left here. after these really took bodies with them done side. it was a very difficult situation of israeli forces shot at us and at another ambulance and prevented us from helping the wounded. it was only hours later this time, these would informed at least 5 alas timmy had been killed among them, 2 brothers. while families are open morning houses, it's not clear when and if they'll get the chance to bury their son. israel has a policy of withholding buddies of palestinians accuses of killing is really feel motivated. what is there even a day that passes by without a massacre? what you expect our sons to do go through sweetser flowers at the israelis

impossible for is ready for to say 2 of those killed carried out a gun attack near an illegal really settlement more than a week ago. although no one was injured than the shooting. it was who was behind it that were these re lease and you armed group called the alphabet job brigade cleaned responsibility as a result is really forces in booth and 9 day blockade on jericho on saturday. and his really rates failed to utter and softly, but led to a gunfight. where in this part of the west bank for years, jerry cars remains relatively calm when it comes to act of resistance. but at the same time, it witnesses the daily struggles of being under military occupation, like supplement expansion, house the munitions and land confiscation last year, more young palestinians doing quite in groups in jeanene and mab. listen the north of the west bank. now that's also happening in jericho. decent ball suggest more

than half of palestinians support the struggle against israel, the highest number into decades. many here say that's not surprising for society that field left behind bites leaders in the world while having to piece of an increasingly violent israeli military occupation. with that but him and his eda, the occupied with bank and the body of the former pakistani president perv asthma sheriff has arrived back in karachi. he died on sunday into by where he had been living in self imposed exile since 2016 sheriff was charge in connection with the assassination of the former prime minister. benefits bhutto and sentenced to death in 2020 accord and passed on, overturned it. he was 79 years old. beijing has confirmed that a 2nd balloon flying over latin america is also chinese. it says it's an accident

involving a civilian aircraft. it comes off to the us, shut down the balloon on saturday after days of it flying over the country. katrina, you has more from beijing. china has confirmed that the 2nd balloon seems lying over latin america and the caribbean is chinese. they say it's a civilian ship used to like similar to the 1st balloon seen flying of the united states and canada. last week they said this one also deviated from its plant, called by mistake, due to limited self steering capacity. bay gene has again reiterated condemnation of the u. s. decision to shoot down the 3rd balloon holding it an over reaction. we can, the only issue when i want to emphasize is that this incident was completely accident caused by false measure. the u. s. department of defense itself has stated that the balloon will not post a military our prisoner threat to ground the person. now, the us in this to down using false in disregard of china's repeated explanations,

which is an obvious overreaction. trying to defend china now has the right to respond in kind should something similar happened over china, while china is vice foreign minister? she phone has complained to the u. s. embassy here engaging over what he says is an unnecessary for he also says that washington is undermining effort on both sides to help to stabilize the relationships which has been very broad in recent years. over a growing list and just grievance, including the status of taiwan and the south trying to see it was hoped that anthony lincoln's visit would help to improve the us china relationship. but that has now been disclosed indefinitely. preliminary results from sunday's referendum and ecuador suggests. voters have rejected a proposal to allow extra additions for drug related crimes. but many votes are still to be counted of go to sandra and pnc. he's joining us from quito with the latest. so results are trickling in alessandro.

yes, very, and look the president, the get my last i had bad on the local elections on sunday. and in particular on this constitutional referendum to try and turn around is political fortunes, bodies fed. if these projections are confirmed, it looks like a majority vote. there's decided to turn their back on the president to is already very popular. he also barely survived and impeachment vote back in june after a cost of living, protest rock that come through 4 weeks here. and also because people are angry because they feel that he hasn't been able to deal with rising crime along coastal regions where drug trafficking might have been confronting each others and each other and the government forces very difficult situation for my

last. so any governments, he is in a meeting right now with his cabinet. we also heard rumors that some ministers might resign, possible political crises shaping up here in whether s p as a result or in the confirm. so when do we expect then the sort of the full results? well, that's the question. everybody was like to have an answer for ad did the electoral counsel here say, asked people to have a patient. they said that this was of a complex both because people were voting 7 different on 7 different the paper ballots. the, the constitutional reform had 8 different long. and at times confusing a questions with the number of annex says they were also voting for

a big number of a local officials, officials of either a state institutions here all in one and one day. and that explains, in part why it has, why it's taking so long to, to get a clear results. so, but again, they are working, the results are coming in slowly. one thing that seems to be clear though, is that the real, a winner in these elections was former president rafael korea, who is in he lives in exile in the, in belgium, a because he was sentenced in absentia for bribery allegations. but his party has been very well so far in these the elections winning, for example, winning back their bye, your realty here in the capital quito, and the especially in why you kill where the left had not wins for over 30 years. okay, thank you so much on the sandra for that update from quito. international assistance

has now started arriving in parts of chile that had been ravaged by wilds fires. the fires have killed at least 24 people and destroyed hundreds of homes. strong winds and high temperatures are making it difficult for fire cruise to control the blazes. the president has declared emergencies and the worst hit regions are latin america editor, the see a new man is joining us from santa juana in chile. so how bad is it? lexia it's pretty bad, i can tell you here in santa juana and also further north where the fires are raging completely out of control. we understand that in american super tanker, that's a type of plane that can carry a huge amount of water in 3 different tanks. is on its way to newly province, which is just to the north to where we are now. and then after that is coming here to center, wanna where there are still large sectors of the far as that are out of control,

where the flames are out of control. what we've seen are people whose homes have been completely burned to the ground almost in seconds. they say in most cases, certainly the ones we spoke to were able to escape with their lives, but with nothing absolutely nothing else. others that weren't so lucky at least 24 people are dead. but i've been told by everyone i speak to that there are many, many more people that are likely did people who i'm missing right now up in the hills in the mountains that you probably can't see behind me because it's very, very, very foggy. it's actually smoke, there's a very strong haze and the smell of smoke also everywhere in the air and people don't have water. they don't have food. what i'm holding in my hand. now, this is a hose. this was the only way people used to get their water. it used to come from the andes mountains, but they've all been burnt. so they have to just wait for, for mainly generous neighbors to come by and distribute water,

the government. it's doing its best, but it says it hasn't been able to go everywhere that it's necessary to help people out. so it is one of the worst forest fires, disasters that this country has ever seen. thank you so much for that update from chile, lucy and house workers in the u. k. on the picket line for their biggest strike, yet i nurses an ambulance crew. se patients are being put at risk by understaffing. unions are demanding better pay and conditions. the governance says can't afford the pay raises. they're asking for . as in bob, our reports from brighton in southern england's will across the country. we've got ambulance workers, our nurses out on strike together for the 1st time. both of those sectors pushing for a pay rise. it is in line with inflation. now they have dismissed the idea from the

government that they are talking on pay in the unions of saying that there is room for compromise as shown in wales. and in scotland, west i should bring hold off of improved papers. the government's accused ambulance workers are putting patient lives at risk. why not communicating where? by taking industrial action in a bugs, the head of the g. b union representing those ambulance workers says that is simply a lie. you would actually safely on a slate day because our members are leaving picket lines. and we have arranged cobol to cover for people who are and it will meet a simply will to on the saudi government. a waste will so should spend less time trying to attack. i'm bones, walk us a, try to resolve the dispute. what if anything, it seems that the i'm pos is actually getting worse right now. you've got help bosses urging the government to get around the table and talk about, hey, we go here, therapist going on,

swipe in the near future and possibly junior adult tooth as well. that doesn't seem to be much sign of a breakthrough. members of frances national assembly had begun debating and controversial pension reform bill, president to minute micro wants to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. hundreds of thousands of people have joined nationwide protests against their reforms on tuesday, transport workers and teachers will be going to strike for the 3rd time this year. a 40 percent of animals in the u. s. and more than a 3rd of plants are at risk of extinction. that's the stark warning from north american fines is to say the bio diversity dot remains must be protected now before it's lost forever. allen, fisher reports that are changes to the face of america. small, slow, but potentially hugely damaging nature is also incredibly complex and we don't always know what the sort of the keystone species is that sometimes people call

them. so when you have a habitat and species start going extinct or becoming smaller in number, eventually that can cause the collapse of that habitat type. and you report from nature surf pills, 5 decades of data from more than 1000 scientists in the us and canada. and it pinpoints areas where land is unprotected and animals and plants out at risk of extinction. part of what so important there is you have data that cross the state life. and so a species might be endangered or imperiled in a certain state. but in the states around it, it's not. so what's at risk? the famous venus flight up found in the wild and only a few counties in the carolinas. half of all cacti might disappear and 200 species of tree habitat degradation and lun. conversion is also putting animals at risk and all of this can impact humans. another one of the groups of species of the report

showed this really at risk is fresh water muscles. these are not species, most people get excited about, but they play really important roles within the ecosystems. they're what filters the water and keeps it clean. if you care about going fishing with their son or your daughter, you're going to care about having clean dynamic rivers. the fish that live in those rivers depend on that, that ecosystem service that those muscles provide. the report says there are nearly 1250 plants in the critically impaneled category. the final step before they come extinct and reset to say, the government needs to step up with more money to create safety zones and protection areas before there's nothing left to protect alan fisher, i'll just either still ahead on the al jazeera news, our football club, manchester city are in trouble with the premier league. we'll explain why after the break. ah.

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ah ah. time for the sports news with jermel. thank you. during gone, has football association says it's praying of one of the national team players who's thought to be buried under the rubble after the earthquake and to kid syria christian at so you place for half high born. the tuck is soup lake is thought to be trapped after the 7.8 magnitude quake hits early monday morning. the 31 year old school, the only goal in his teams victory on sunday apps who used to play in the premier league for chelsea and the new castle, newcastle say they are praying for some positive news. meanwhile, all the sports events acrostic, you have been suspended. manchester city face

a possible points deduction after the premier league accused them of breaking financial rules more than a 100 times the league ledges the rule. breaches took place over a period of 9 seasons from 2009, 2018, and has referred the matter to an independent commission. among the accusations its claim city failed to provide accurate numbers, but it came to their revenue and how much they paid. one of the managers in 2020 city were banned from the european champions league for 2 seasons over financial will reaches. but that was an overturned by the court of arbitration for sports in a statement, the city said they were surprised by the premier actions and welcomed an independent commission review of what they called, irrefutable evidence that exists in support of the clubs position, football, finance experts, mark middling says, we must remember, the city is not being found guilty of anything. yes. and that the premier league must be careful. that's whatever punishment they do to shout, mustn't the unintended consequences. there are

a range of penalties that my jo city could get and they range from anything from a fine point. deductions lights up being kicked out of the i'm really, i think it's very unlikely that we'll see much of the city 6 or the from really my just that you on the biggest names in there. and they will have a huge georgia fans watching the premier lea globally, primarily aren't going to want to have one of the biggest names. you know, i, we side of that to, to work potentially be g viewing figures of the emily, my also the family might also be worried about what demand safety do you all kicked out so that could start, for example, steps towards the european. similarly, i'm sure the family wouldn't want map, so i don't say it's been the penalties, interest to kick much of this is the the, the so that leaves 2 penalties,

fines or point deductions. and i think we might get a possibility of both if might just city off, i'm guilty the to the club. walcott in morocco and rail address will be without some of the big stars when they enter the semi final stage about on the when a current benjamin goalkeeper tv saw and defend the military will miss wednesdays game against egypt. awfully because of injury. but they may be fit for the final if they make it through ral aiming to win the tournament for a record extending 5th time. as for the hosts, morocco's ambitions, the stage major football torments don't end with this one. the country house, the 2025 africa cup of nations. it sites at its ultimate target is to one day bring the wild couple back to africa. and the richardson reports from the bat

the. this is where world cup dreams are born. morocco is investing in foot board every level. there are hundreds of pitches like this across the country, giving young players affordable access to coaching and competitive matches. as you walk through last it is you'll see those stubblefield everywhere. wherever do the spot the, there was nothing there, the government will use it. you would just kind of feel called, i mean arabic in my life. which is which means like close to the community, me near the moroccan capital overabundance is the mohammed, the 6 academy and national center of excellence, where players age 12 and older goes to study and play football. graduates include for the morocco squad, we took part in the recent world cup coach runs the semi finals in capsule was a 1st for an african team. less feel good is another wilco record? the country has. morocco has been

a host the world cup 5 times each occasion. it has failed, meaning the country has the unwanted title of most well cut bits without success. it all began when it missed out on the 994 finals to united states by just 3 votes . and most recently, the nation failed to land. the 2026 tournaments. morocco is likely to bid for the 2030 will come, possibly in a joint effort with portugal and spain. public health. we have good stadiums and good infrastructure. barocha could organize any 2 of them and if you one proof then right now we have the world cup for a 3rd time. it's something that's good for the game in morocco and for arab and african football. so why not? why shouldn't we have the world cup here? after a hing volcano is a professor of sport and sociology, he says the national theme success and the countries ambitions are host. the world cup can have an impact far beyond the football pitch. give

a push to our country. that doesn't mean that like, oh no, it's like the wither of ost. everything would change will be okay. we'll be happy and local the rich country. no. but things can be really moving to a better better way. the work kept was like an opportunity to say that we could really do something. we could really become an influence and a good country and sport and other sectors. but you should really work with them. some good news could be heading morocco's way in the next few days. the, the decision expected on whether it's been successful and it's bit to host a 2025 cup of nations africa's biggest international football tournaments. and the richardson al jazeera robots. and that is always bought for now i will have another update later during ok. drama. thank you so much for the time being. before we go, we will just show you the live pictures from the becket. that is in turkey,

the aftermath of the course to powerful earthquakes that have hits both turkey, as well as syria, the latest death toll we have is at least 2600 people have been killed. the death toll is expected to rise. so once again, that is the life picture from sir kia, where a rescue teams are still searching for people who are trapped under the rubble. we will hand you over to our teams in london, lauren taylors with you in just a moment, with many more updates. ah, ah ah, debating the issues of the day, the 5 largest polluters of the world are in india,

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