these am malagasy migrants they move from the drought written south in such a means to survive. and as 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, whole building is collapse when 2 powerful earthquakes hit southern to kia and northern syria, killing more than 3600 people. it piles yet more misery on millions of syrians, already displaced by war with hospitals struggling to cope. northwest, sir?

yes, sir, sir. you yet needs help from every one. ah, lauren taylor, this is andre zororor lived from london. also coming up is early forces, kill 5 palestinians during the latest grave in a refugee camp near jericho. and we'll take you to ground 0 of the wildfires that have killed 26 people in chile low. it's 1 o'clock on tuesday morning and took here and syria. and the major rescue operations are continuing after 2 powerful earthquakes hit the region early on monday, killing at least 3600 people. so as manages say, it's one of the more powerful ever recorded into a kia, where at least 2300 people died. and more than $13000.00 are injured. at the

current death toll in series, approaching a 1300 with thousands more injured in a country already wrecked by 11 years of civil war hospitals, they're overwhelmed and struggling to treat the injured. adding to the problem is for the many trapped under the rubble or left homeless by the disaster. rain and temperatures falling to near freezing overnight. on the epicenter of the 1st 7 when 8 magnitude quake was near the turkish city of gaseous tab, at a depth of 17.9 kilometers, while people were asleep, it was felt as far where cyprus and lebanon the 2nd at 7 and a half made to quake hit near the town of it. he knows you in took here several hours later. cynical lou begins, are coverage. miss dumble, ah, this was the moment the 2nd powerful earthquake struck southern turkey. this concrete apartment block in mulatto. not able to withstand the earth's violent

tremors, many had already fled their homes, fearing what might happen ability . if the car him on mirage is at the epicenter of the disaster. here 2 children are old from the rubble of a collapse building. i knew parents in disbelief over just so much the 1st quick track while they were sleeping on the 2nd came a few hours later as rescue team scramble to find survivors. from the 1st there were scenes of distraction across at least 10 cities in southeastern anatolia . hundreds of people were killed and thousands of harms destroyed

my nephews under the rubble of them with his wife and kids. god willing is good years. so severely. it grew on them as the monk, when i woke up in the morning, i felt dizzy. i initially thought it was my blood pressure, but when i saw the chandelier shaking, i realize this was an earthquake. i ran outside of my family. of course, we were so shocked initially, la la la date, a bit of it in the city of atlanta at cherry picker, was used to lift a woman from an apartment building in danger of collapse in a national address, present ridge at a parent on said the government was doing all it could to deal with the situation. fuccillo liquid that it was the turkish armed forces and emergency and disaster authority have been called to the affected areas. our priority is to rescue those in need. that is, 9000 people are working now in the rescue efforts to hear the clear, 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 need is even more acute because it is winter and they're facing cold temperatures, snow and rain ha, to kia, 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. shanika solo l to 0, stumbled georgia on a miss following developments from assemble were about 20 hours into the most powerful earthquake to hit her kiya. since 1939 in that instance 30000 turks were killed. the picture is still developing here in turkey, but we know that there is devastation, and it's going to be

a miserable night for thousands of people across the swath of southeastern turkey who have been impacted by this 7.8 magnitude earthquake. 10 cities have been declared a natural disasters. we know that for airports in the south have been close to sibley aviation. a major highway between gas, e n. tap city of 2000000 people and a tie. another city that has been impacted by the earthquake has been damaged so severely. it's an passable people are going to be spending many of them a very cold and miserable night outside. the turkish government has told people not to go back inside damage buildings, but it is also told people to remain off the roads so that emergency vehicles and rescue and search folks can pass the roads and get to areas in desperate need of assistance. now, countries, 50 countries,

teams about $62.00 teams have offered assistance to a turkey a as this is that's clearly going to be desperately needed across the border in syria, the devastation is also widespread communities there were ready struggling after years of war. st holder reports from beirut. a child is told to recite to 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. 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 states 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 is complete electrical blackout. it's really catastrophic. everyone is on the streets. the buildings are either destroyed or barely holding here. how 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

sector or the north northwest project exhausted by the bomb being by the station by the g many hoss, but the many doctors were killed by the big and the best time that we were support from the band demik. go visa and after and after. now the media cast, victor cannot handle all of those engine cannot receive. all those injured people are already facing a severe storm. in 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. 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. center for their elders either failed. people have been describing the moment the earthquakes hit and the search for survivors on the look the out about. i have 4 children and my wife. we were home sleeping peacefully, be felt the quaking immediately we woke up. we live in a 4 story building on the 3rd floor. we left the building and directly towards the entrance of the house. and as we reached the entrance, it collapse totally on us. a wooden door fell on us, which saved us. my kids are here with wounds on their heads and faces or say my wife has wings. thank god we came here. we receive 1st aid building has 4 stories and no one else survived. i was reborn. thank god. there are 12 families here and no one managed to get out. they are all inside here. so fun. no one has come here to help. there is no civil defense. we have been working with our hands since 3. i

am or generally with a lawyer based in new york who has not the family in southern to keep some of him missing and she joins us now live. thank you very much for being with us. must see a very worrying time for you. have you managed to get any more news from you? of your family? i learn. thank you very much for having me. yeah, so we have been able to have contact with family, extended family. it's very scarce. so unfortunately, due to the fact that solar section is really bad and there isn't any electricity, so people aren't able to charge their phones and you under that, you think you might have some company who been caught up in it's under a missing. yeah, so my family is from the hutch i province. my mother specifically is from the army, the neighborhood in on top. yes. and we received news that that area was completely leveled up late last night. and unfortunately,

we're still trying to get in touch with some of her family members, including her cousins. and while you wait for news, i understand you been trying to re some funds to try to submit about that. yeah, i mean at this point it really is just about raising awareness. so i really do appreciate you having me on your segment and sharing your space for me to be able to do that. at this point, there is a gulf on me on my twitter that i threw up there. you know, the red cross is also having a fundraising event as well. and so i encourage anybody, even if it's just a dollar to be able to donate due to the fact that a dollar can go a long way, you can actually pay for some hot meals, a blanket, some clothes, anything to be able to provide to these people because unfortunately, due to the infrastructure and all these collapses of buildings, people are stranded outside. so even if they were able to make it out of the rubble, they really have no work. you know, and you mentioned that this, if you have little cell coverage,

i understand that power is an issue and it's very cold and it, yeah, it is. i think it was one of the coldest evenings that night last night. so as far as i know, february's the coldest month in that province. so unfortunately, a lot of people are outside in the cold. i know that, you know, several of my family members, including my grand one of my grandmothers is taking refuge in a car at this point to try and keep warm. so people are saying in their cars for hours at a time to stay warm. so that's how dire the situation is. butcher avenue, thank you very much indeed. thank you for having me. the european union in the us are among those sending international aid to, to kia and syria after the turkish government appealed for help. at least 10 search and rescue teams, including firefighters and humanitarian aid organizations. being sent from the u. russia is also sending rescue workers to both countries. and israel says it's ready

to send emergency help to syria in what would be rac corporation between the warring natives. united nations is deploying teams to quite affected areas. christmas new me has more for me un headquarters in new york. the you on ascending assessment teams to turkey, eye and syria, where humanitarian relief was already in great demand due to more than a decade of civil war. in fact, some 2700000 syrians have been dependent on you and aid coming across the border from cher kiya and the u. n. does expect that those efforts will be hampered as a result of the earthquake. but series ambassador to the un says they will not allow additional border crossings into rebel how barriers we are ready to work with all who wanted to provide syrian from insights. so axis from inside syria of that. so if anyone would like to help syria,

they can coordinate with the government and we will be ready to do so. you and says that hospitals are overwhelmed and there's a dire need for tanf and plastic sheeting, luckily thousands of non food emergency kits had been pre positioned in the area and those will be given out the secretary general tent, his condolences to syria, and promised that more help was on the way united nations is mobilizing to support the emergency response. and so let's work together in solidarity to assist all those heats by these disaster. many of whom would already and i had needs, have you meditated unite united nations has yet to release money from at central emergency response fun for the disaster. but that's likely to happen after the assessments are complete or people across tokyo have been donating emergency supplies for earthquake survivors. so central has more from an aide center and his

10 bu. so early in the morning, the most fallacy of is stumble is called on people to bring the essentials that are most needed in the south in cities of turkey, where the earthquake has he had heart of this. 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 city is. so when we are being here, we have seen thousands of people coming in and out and bring in 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 there's already stumble is not the only city that is holding these events. what activities or setting up there's

a santos in menace. it is monster. policies have joined that there is a force, and now they are delivered in that is to the cities that people are in a desperate needs 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, in the morning. but also there shall be in a very significant level of the solidarity as well. still to come, this half hour stalk scientific warning. now own extraordinary number of animal and plant species could be lost forever. ah, hello there, we've got down under in australian. it's

a hot and stormy picture. depending where you are. we have got heat wave warnings out across parts of queensland as well as western australia. perth, however, seeing the temperature down to the high twenty's, it will be picking back up fire danger out where that heat continues. thunderstorms effect in queensland, we could see some flooding where that rain falls. heavier. we've also got a circulation that's pulling across the coral sea. it's not effective, not expected to make landfill, but it will chuck them wet and windy weather at coastal areas. now the southeast corner has been rather cool places like melbourne, if we have a look at the 3 day, the temperature picking up through to thursday and it looks rather settled. settled is the word when it comes to the south island in new zealand. just a bit of rain creeping in the western and southern areas, but christ church $29.00 degrees celsius. a lot of heat coming through here. temperature, dove down. however, by the time we get to wednesday, it's farther north that we are seeing those 2nd conditions continue as well. welcome relief falkland, and we'll move to southeast asia,

some very heavy rain to come for southern areas of indonesia, we can see some flooding across java as the rain intensifies, much more mild for indo china. awe inspiring stories from around the world. i thought we did the out of human life capture. if it's a fast one, this deal like that presentation of what i want people to remember me by ground breaking true from award winning filmmakers. witness honor g 0. ah

ah, reminder the top stories here analogy 0. a major rescue operation is underway across much of southern took here and northern syria. after 2 powerful earthquakes hit the region early on monday, at least $3600.00 a dead. the quakes were amongst the most powerful, ever recorded in tokyo. at least 2300 people died there and another 113000 were injured as richard tire ad one as declared 7 days of morning. in syria, the death toll is closing in on the 1300 hospitals in the water country overwhelmed, instruct, struggling to treat the 2000 injured. many people have been left homeless and an hour facing near freezing, knock temperatures out of their producer ahmed al hottie biz. in the turkey city of

garcia and tip one of the worst affected areas, he explains what he and his family went through during the earthquake. we're going through one of the heaviest earthquakes that i've ever seen. and i think turkey also seen the situation one 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 the tv 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 moment that we faced it. 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 dream and 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 with my kids in it's my mother was just sitting next by the temperature is under 0. it's undescribable. that's what we've got seen. some of the building was falling down in got down to up in the ny inc, i'm on my gosh, on channel sauce. and i've just received like a few hours ago. that's my uncle and his wife and she's 2 children. was just that i'm the one that fully part. i'm sorry. i'm like yeah. so far they couldn't get them out of there. and we are still waiting just for their buddies to be in other news is ready forces of kill at least 5 palestinians during

a raid on a refugee camp near jericho in the occupied west bank. israel's, as 2 of those killed, were involved in a gun attack that happened late last month. did abraham reports from jericho. she's been under 9 de israeli blockades since that attacked sources that are not numb counting. the deadline was impossible for palestinians near jericho in the occupied westbank in this room on the outskirts of awkward debate refugee camp. witnesses se palestinian fighters each change fire with israeli forces to the blood is all that's left here. after these released took bodies with them into them. so it was a very difficult situation. is really forces shot at asada and at another ambulance and prevented us from helping the wounded dog. it was only hours later that families would informed at least 5 i'll athenians had been killed among them, 2 brothers. while families i've opened morning houses, it's not clear when and if they'll get the chance to bury their sons. israel has

a policy of withholding buddies of palestinians. it accuses of killing his release . your feel, memorial rich, mozilla. 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 in the league. it is ready settlement more than a week ago, although no one was injured than the shooting. it was who was behind it, the tory, these release. and you armed group called the october debate brigade claims responsibility. as a result is really forces in both and 9 deb locate on jericho on saturday and israeli raised failed to earth and suspects but led to a gunfight where in this part of the west bank for years, jericho has remained 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. how's the militia and land confiscations? last year more young palestinians joined quite in groups in jeannine and nab. listen the north of the west bank. now that also happening in jericho, these and also just more than half of palestinians support the army struggle against israel, the highest number into decades. many here see that's not surprising for young society that feels left behind by its leaders and the world. while having to piece off and increasingly violent israeli military occupation the day but him al jazeera, the occupied westbank firefighters in chile continue to battle. the deadliest fires on record, which have now killed at least $26.00 people. 800 homes have been destroyed and more than a 1000 people injured and they've been raging since thursday. a searing heat wave is complicating efforts to extinguish the flames. 11 people have been detained in

connection with the fires present. gabriel bridge has declared emergencies in the worst hit regions and international assistance has started arriving. our latin america editor lucio newman is in santa juana. but many people have died. there are fires all around that are still out of control bulb here in the b o. b o region and to the north in our, in the new blue areas as well as further south. but these are the 2 worst hit areas . we've been speaking to people throughout the day who have lost their homes and who were able to flee. just barely with their lives. they say that were by the time they got the warning, they had less than 5 minutes to just grab a bag or anything they could and get out. many people did die. you were mentioning $26.00 people, but the, the death toll is expected to be much, much higher than there are many, many more people than in areas where there are no roads, no easy roads with on which to escape. so these people have been missing so far,

authorities and firefighters have not been able to reach these areas, and it's presume that at least some of them actually were not able to get out with their lives. we also hearing that there are some loot, there's looting going on around here. so some people are staying intense or in blankets on their property, trying to at least preserve the tins that were on the roofs if nothing else, which they believe they might be able to recycle of vote to being counted in ecuador constitutional referendum and local elections. the referendum was proposed by president. we are more lasso to help counter a crime wave corruption and address environmental concerns. former president rafael korea, who's an exile, is shaping up to be the likely winner. candidates from his party won the races and tito and gloria keel. the 2 most important and populous cities and the opposition approaches to reject the proposals. a senior us general responsible for bringing down a suspected chinese spine. balloon says the military may have missed previous craft

flying over american territory. us shot down the balloon on saturday afternoon flew over the country for days. general glen fun. hurk said he could not rule out, but it may have been carrying explosives. beijing says it was a civilian craft that accidentally drifted astray and accused washington of indiscriminate use of force. 40 percent of animals in the u. s. and more than a 3rd of plants are at risk of extinction. that's the start warning from north american. scientists who say the biodiversity that remains must be protected now before it's lost forever. and fisher reports that are changes to the face of america, small slow, but potentially hugely damaging nature. it's 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. new 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 are 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 fly chop 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 is 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 that 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, ah, reminded the top stories now 0, a major rescue operation is under way across much of southern to kia and northern syria after 2 powerful ass quakes hit the region early on monday.