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but nobody's here to rescue them. we're finished and more misery for millions of neighboring syrians, already displaced by war with hospitals. they're struggling to cut ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera alive from to of are also coming tens of thousands of healthcare workers woke up a job in england and the biggest ever strike action of its kind that on china lifts a ban on 2 groups traveling to certain countries. those destinations are now gearing up to welcome the pacific. ah, a major rescue operation is continuing into the night across southern turkey and pots of northern syria off the too powerful earthquakes hit the region early on

monday. so i might just say it's one of the largest ever recorded in turkey. buildings are flattened in several cities. at least 2300 people have been killed and 14000 injured. the current death told in syria as over 1400, with thousands more injured in the country already wrecked by levin years of civil war hospitals. they're overwhelmed and struggling to treat the injured while adding to the problems for the many trapped on the rebel or left homeless. by the disaster, rain, snow, and temperatures falling to near freezing overnight. and em, casio, blue begins, are coverage now from the stumble. ah, this was the moment the 2nd powerful earthquake struck southern turkey. yet 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, what is it, the ability to call him

a mirage is at the epicenter of the disaster. here 2 children, i pulled from the rubble of a collapse building. oh, new parents in display dover yellow shut the 1st week's rack while they were sleeping. oh, 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 homes destroy. my nephew's hon with his wife and kids. god willing is good using her severely. it grew on them as the one. 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 my family. of course we were so shocked initially to put a bit of it in the city of other not a cherry picker was used to lift a woman from an apartment building in danger of collapse in a national address, reson dredge at a parent on said the government was doing all it could to deal with the situation to seal all the quick that it was the turkish armed forces, an emergency and disaster authority have been called to the affected areas. i'll priority is to rescue those, anita, sorry, 9000 people are working now and the rescue efforts on 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 they are 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 fault lines and is frequently shaken by earthquakes. about 18000 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. st. casala l to 0 stumble natasha game has more now also from istanbul, the government says it has rescued more than 7800 people. as you mentioned, the government continues along with rescue cruise to try to pull people out of the rubble. bear in mind, the temperatures have been skirting to almost freezing. it has been snowing or fries rating for much of the day, and as one government official said, these conditions are making things quote difficult. there is more bad weather

coming. 10 cities in the south have been declared disaster areas, and in many of those cities there is no electricity. and there is no natural gas. many of the electrical plants have been damaged and some of the natural gas pipelines have also been damaged. the government is hoping to repair those and restore electricity by wednesday unclear just how ambitious a goal that may be, because we're almost 24 hours into the $7.00 magnitude. the most powerful turkey has seen since 939, and a full picture of the devastation is only starting to emerge in the city of high population. about $1600000.00 journalists are starting to arrive on the scene and are describing scenes of massive devastation, devastation that will likely become more evident once the sun rises. for algebra, producer t is in the n to have one of the worst effected areas. he explained what he and his

family went through during the earthquakes. we 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 the, the tv is shaking, but at 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 under the table and stay there until they're gone. and i was wishing at that 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 and then i got my, my gosh, chinese fos. and i've just received like a few hours ago. that's my uncle and his wife and she's 2 children, was just dad, i'm the one of the full pod, came unplugged you so far they couldn't get them out of bed and we are still waiting for their bodies to be out full across the board and they bring syria, the clock struck the cities of a leper hammer and le takia, at least $1400.00 people had been killed there. the quakers piled misery on

millions of display syrians, many as to living and make shift camps after 11 years of civil war. and communities that had already been struggling to survive after years of war had been completely destroyed. zeena, how to report a child is told to recite to prayer, la la, la la, trapped under the rubble of the 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. yeah. the, 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. obviously you do like a circuit, carmen. 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 kin is a 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 due to years of war. civil defense team say they need machinery to rescue people while the few hospitals that survived the government attacks in recent years are overwhelmed. that mythical sector already in was or northwest. it's fraudulent. it's hosted by the bomb being

by that of station by the asserted gene. many hospitals, many doctors were killed by the palm, big, and the best time that we were suffering from the pandemic go read. and after and after now the medical sector cannot handle. all of those entered look cannot receive. all those injured people are already facing a severe storm in freezing temperatures and aftershocks are making their lives worse. more shelter is needed, as many families are, again, made homeless in a region where millions displaced by war live, intense powerful framers were felt in lebanon as well. they started just after 3 a. m, when most people were asleep and lasted for at least 40 seconds. 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 a parent center for their elders. either built, there must have been lumley, is the you and residence, and humanitarian coordinator in syria. he says there's an urgent need for emergency supplies. it's a sub situation here in syria. we have already a difficult difficult situation before 11 years of war. and now nature is even making it harder on us. in the poor, for example, we have already 4040 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 to when people homeless people who are only they have been homeless, maybe before many schools have collapsed or so i'm no longer can not 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, ition. we have a situation that is not easy for us up to end for infrastructure. the school, the roads, 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 needs to be replaced. fuel is not available. stuff is not available. hospitals, some of them got damage in and help and navy in other places we need a lot of help here. people across 30 year have been donating emergency supplies for survivors to 0 wrestles said reports, i'm an 8 center in stumble, where the items are being dropped off. so early in the morning, the mortality is stumble as cold 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 their, 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 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, someone is not on the city that is organ, these events, what activities or setting up there is a that centers in menace. it is monster. policies have joined, there is a force and now they are that even in death aids to the cities that people are in

a desperate need of these essentials due to the extreme conditions. and also we, because even in the fact that thousands of 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 this solidarity as well. last muscle to come here now does air, including firefighters in chile, back a blazes that have killed dozens, people on it. ah, informed opinions i right extremely, there is really and need to be tackled as soon as possible. frank assessments. that was a joke about him from governments that it's not in travel, nor does it go inside story. on al jazeera, a venable disease accounts 50 percent of all debts with children.

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waterloo ah, welcome back up here from out of the top stories here. this, our rescue operations are underway across southern turkey and pots of northern syria. of the 2 powerful earthquakes hit the region early on monday. at least 2003 and the people that died in turkey. in syria, the quake struck with cities of aleppo. huh. i'm la takia, at least 1400 people have been killed. they're quite because paul's misery or millions of display syrians to living in makeshift camps. after 11 years of civil war the european union and u. s. are among bo sending aid to turkey and syria after the turkish government appealed for help. nearly 20 search and rescue teams, including firefighters and humanitarian aid groups. a being sent from the u. russia is sending rescue workers to both countries, and israel says it's ready to send emergency help to syria. and what would be

a rare cooperation between the warring neighbors with united nations is also deploying teams to quake affected areas. christian salumi as more in the you and response from its headquarters in new york. the you want to funding assessment teams to, to kia 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, kia 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. inter rebel held areas. we are ready to work with all who wanted to provide syrian from insights. so axis from inside syria are fish. 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 sent 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 this disaster. many of whom were already in dyad needs. have you meditated units the united nations has yet to release money from it? central emergency response, fun for the disaster, but that's likely to happen after the assessments are complete. okay, some of the things now when you crane and authorities will delay the replacement of the defense minutes, does president vladimir lensky government braces for

a renewed russian offensive? a parliamentary official said no decisions on staff changes will be made this week . on sunday, the head of the landscape party announced that alexi resnick, of will be replaced by ukraine's head of military intelligence in the cabinet. re shuffle following corruption scandals. russia's foreign ministers heading to marley on his 1st official trip to the african nation. the visit from sergey lab rub comes a day off to molly expel the head of the you and human rights mission. rush has been looking to african nations for support as relations worse and with the west over the one ukraine. it will be lab, rob's 3rd trip to the continent. in the past 6 months. tilly continues to battle the deadliest wildfire on record which have now killed at least $26.00 people. 800 homes have been destroyed and more than a 1000 people injured. and the blazes which have been burning since thursday. the heat wave is complicating response efforts. 11 people have been detained in connection with the fires. a landslide in peru has killed at least 15 people. heavy

rainfall in the country, southern r a keeper region, was behind the damage. the roof, national emergency center said, search and rescue if it's ongoing england site, its largest ever strike by health workers. on monday, tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers walked out in an escalating pay dispute. the government says it can't afford salary arises, but strikes and wales and scotland were cooled off off to improve payoff as they're letting bober ports from brighton on the picket line and getting plenty of support from passing motorists, nurses and ambulance workers on strike together for the 1st time pushing for a pay rise in line with inflation. jason, jeffrey worked in a cardiac unit here for him. it's all about staffing levels. for me, it was never about money is about delivering care and making sure that i can make a difference to somebody's life. even if it's one person, we just want to be able to provide that care that i sent out to enough study really

hopeful national health service policies in i waging the u. k. government to reopen pay talks for the current year for england. like the devotion scottish governments have done an ambulance work as a rejected claims. they're not attending urgent cases on strike days saying they're leaving picket lines to do so. we are more spoken to the government for the past month. we have over spoken to the government and willows, and the government in scotland will make him progress in negotiation to wilson scotland. and that's why we'll know and shrink wilson stolen today. always might be the biggest and i just strike so far, but it's certainly not the last a wildly striking workers say they are pushing for a fair pay rise. they say they're also doing it for the sake of their patients. patients like laurel, a retired counselor who's seen the effect of increased amount on n h s. workers. she's currently waiting for an ultrasound and also needs a hip replacement, but backs the strikes even if they delay her treatment sometimes is painful,

sometimes a good day bye. so i feel it can wait, but i won't be able to like for the operation forever. it will get worse. and now i it's, i'm fine with the one really knows he's left the one on h. s. left to do the operation. for no, it's a stand off adding to the record waiting lists and growing public anger over the state of the national health service. the teen baba al jazeera brighton in southern england. france is national assembly met on monday to debate pension reforms before nationwide strikes there on tuesday. hundreds of thousands of people have joined protest since president manuel macro presented plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. thousands of amendments have been filed from opponents to the bill and the lead up to the parliamentary debate. china as parsley. mister the 3 year ban on tor groups traveling abroad,

but destinations are limited to just 20 countries out as there was florence. mary has more on how some nations in southeast asia are preparing to welcome back bus loads of mainland chinese tours. this is one of the 1st 2 groups to leave china. moments after van on group travel was partially lifted. on monday, the tourists flight left the southern chinese city of gong tow at 15 minutes past midnight. when i signed up, as soon as i got the news of overseas toys, i'm sure i travel with my wife and my daughter. ah, last month the government allowed chinese travel agencies to provide outbound group to us to 20 countries as part of a pilot program. countries in southeast asia was some of the most highly searched destination by chinese nationals. before the pandemic, thailand welcomed 11000000 visitors from china. it's expecting 5000000 plus year

and expects them to spend nearly $30000000000.00. we are very happy and i'm sure that the coming back up chinese would be, ah, bows up there, ty, economy significantly. because as you get that revenue from the tied to routing, the district chair above the quarter 20 percent of the g d p. so these have been true step the coming back of china or child back is the key of success of the teachers this year. in barley, indonesia, officials are hoping 2 thirds of the 1200000 chinese visitors who came to the island before the pandemic. will return of seo. the tourism ministry is planning to boost its marketing of barley as a paradise destination. and businesses are hoping for better times ahead done by net impact. it's very significant because in our shop, 80 percent of the customers are chinese and so to speak for us, especially after we closed our shop for about 3 years. on monday,

china also allowed cross board to travel to fully resume between the mainland and the special administrative regions of hong kong account changes that many hope will lead to the tourism industry in the region. 5, once again. honestly, just even the wells producing more single use plastic waste than ever before. despite rising consumer awareness and tougher worldwide regulations, new research by the mentor foundation around the world generated a 137000000 metric tons of plastic in 2021. some 7000000 tons more than 2019 and it says the crisis will get significantly worse with the amount being produced expected arrives another 17000000 tons by 2027. it found that recycling isn't scaling up fast enough to deal with a sheer amount of plastic being produced. report says produces are making little progress and tackling the problem. it's going for a fundamentally different approach. well, libby peak is from the green alliance. she says,

recycling alone isn't tackling the mountains of single used plastic globally unwilling. there is commitments that have been made new k and i swear to improve. so we're saying and improve collection of plastic. i think the real problem that this report is that funded mentally we're using our too much plastic as well as other materials. and if you just look at preventive dealing with things when waste has been created, you're not going to get the root causes of the throw away society that we're living in. it is a global problem. it's not just the u. k, that's tinkering around the edge of that is it is globally that we're not getting to the heart of the problem by instituting systems of reuse by making it as easy as possible for people to not up for a single years, plastic or anything, but rather to embrace a refill resolution and to and to not need this, throw away living that way we become so reliance on that that's damaging on it to such a great extent. i think that no one that really got it right yet, but there is

a promise in the making in the human environment program has said that it's going to create by this year at rest resolution. that's going to be legally binding for all the member states to end plastic pollution. and so they're going to be looking at the full life cycle of plastics that are not going to be thinking about how do we recycle what's made. they're going to be thinking about how do we ensure that we don't make more than we need and that we address all of the patients of using too much plastic. all it is of course, on our website, barriers on your screen, the address out to 0, dot com. that's it for me down in jordan, the news continues here now to 0 oper inside storage state. you thanks so much and i hello. they will start in east asian, we've got some unusual wet weather, affecting southern areas of japan from the area of low pressure is working its way

further east. but it's likely to drench to you shoe and pull across into more southern areas of honshu on tuesday into wednesday. it does start to move away and we'll see more in the way of snow coming back into western areas of hydro, stretching down in south western areas of han shoe. behind that high pressure has been in charge across the north of china and the korean peninsula, bringing more in the way of settled weather and sunshine for places like sol and beijing. but a mass of wet weather is set to intensify across most central areas of china, wintery weather as well. moving in from the west. and we will see that start to work its way east. over the next few days. it is going to get cooler in beijing once again to degrees celsius maximum high on thursday, with cloudy conditions. now as we move to south asia to launch a quiet picture for much of india, that western wind wintery weather has shifted its way further east, bringing the snow, flurries and wet weather to the likes of nepal, as well as baton, some wet weather creeping. once again into sri lanka,

but for coastal areas of india, the west coast on the east coast, lots of sunshine and settled conditions spreading north. ah, ah, on the side store, they once prosperous fishing village sinks beneath the mud, parliamentary elections ignite few slavery that will determine the future of this de pieces and political divided community. a microcosm reflecting the plight of a nation witness venezuela. a sinking resolution on it, just either russia's foreign minister visits african countries to shore up support versus the vault mcgrew fix firms. it's operations on the continent. so as moscow's