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neighboring syrians, already displaced by war with hospitals struggling to cope. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera, alive from dell, are also coming up tens of thousands of health care workers walk off the job in england and the biggest of a strike action of its kind. and a conservation crisis will tell you about the numbers of animals and plants in the united states, but are at risk of extinction. ah, a major rescue operation is continuing into the night across southern turkey and pots of northern syria. the 2 path on earthquakes hit the region early on monday. the 1st was one of the largest ever recorded in tuck here. at least 3800 people in

killed and thousands injured them. casala begins are coverage from a stumble. oh, this was the moment, the 2nd powerful earthquake struck southern turkey, yet this concret apartment block in mulatto. not able to withstand the earth's violent tremors. many had already fled their homes, fearing what might happen. ah, is it the miniature car him on? mirage is at the epicenter of the disaster. here 2 children are old from the rubble of a collapse building. oh, no parents in the sleep. oh, well, just shut the 1st week's track while they were sleeping. oh, the 2nd came a few hours later as rescue team scramble to find survivors from the 1st. with

there were scenes of distraction across at least 10 cities in southeastern anatolia . hundreds of people were killed and thousands of homes destroyed. my nephew, 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 my family. of course we were so shock initially allowed to put a bit of it 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, reson dredge at a parent on said the government was doing all it could to deal with the situation. due to law look work 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 the clear, the level for alarm. that means international assistance is necessary, given the affected area is so large and millions of people need help and their need is even more acute because it is winter and they're facing cold temperatures, snow and rain. ah, 2 kia sits on top of major seismic fault lines. 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 al jazeera stumble. well, al jazeera correspondence. omar al herani is following the rescue operations in

gaussian tip. no, no, no, no, no fi. if you ever have moved around garcia's tip and there have been a number of buildings that collapsed. we have been hearing people trapped under durable and calling for help. as we have mentioned, a large number of buildings collapse because of the earthquake that had sort of turkey. and especially gaussian tip from where we broke up such pictures, showing victims being pulled out from underneath a collapse building. i let me out here a producer offered l. hattie, this sheltering with his family in gaussian tap and gave us this update earlier since the earth creek. and 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 than 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 calls just waiting in the line in front of the gas station. they want to

fill up the 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, 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 one 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 fronting 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 house coming toward our areas as we don't have much destroyed, then damage is 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 earth. i'm from our side, like you can see many people just need more food, more blankets, more people start on line 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 the that it's too cold, like i'm talking to you and i'm shaking it really too cold outside. well, across the border in neighboring syria, the quake struck the cities of aleppo, hammer, and la takia, at least 1400 people have been killed there. the quakers piled misery on millions of display syrians, many are still living and make shift camps after 11 years of civil war, santa, how to report 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. 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 or 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 completes 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. that 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 bomb big and the best time that we were suffering from the pen, demik covey, and after and after. now the medical stick to can not handle all of those insurance,

they 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 started 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. eda failed and must have been langley as 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 ward. and now, nature is even making it harder on us in our poor for example, we have already $4040.00 builders, have collapsed, and numerous buildings are suffered to be a structural damage and made to collapse my gloves. in a 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 collapse talk 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 home is and we have a situation that is not easy for up to and for infrastructure the, 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 for people across turkey or have been donating emergency supplies for survivors. entre 0 is racial said our report from an 8 center in istanbul. what items are being dropped off? so early in the morning, the mon style at york is stumble as called on people to bring the essentials that are most needed in the south and cities of turkey. where did 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 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 10 cities. it is quite a wide geography that this earthquake is, is, is carbon. and also there's already stumble is not only a city that is organ, this event what activities or setting up there's a that centers in menace. it is monster pallet. these 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 thousands of people are now homeless in the streets and really they need these 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. well,

the european union and the united states are among those sending international aid to turkey and syria after the turkish government appeal for help. nearly 20 search and rescue teams, including firefighters and humanitarian aid groups, are being sent from the u. russia is also sending rescue workers to both countries, and israel says it's ready to send emergency health to syria. what would be rare, cooperation between the warring neighbors time for a short break here not 0. when we come back is ready, forces kill 5 is to me. and during the latest rain in a refugee camp journey, a continue to battle. blazes that have killed dozens of mormons. ah hello. they was got in east asia. we've got some unusually wet weather,

affecting southern areas of japan from the area of low pressure. it is working its way further east, but it's likely to drench. can you shoe and pull across into more southern areas of han shoe 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 high dose stretching down into those 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, it's a largely quiet picture for much of india, that western wind wintery weather has shifted its way for the east bringing the snow, flurries and wet weather to the likes of nepal,

as well as baton. from where to where the 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 ah ah ah ah ah

ah ah welcome back. a quick remind about top stories here. this our rescue operations are underway across southern turkey and parts of northern syria off the too powerful earthquakes hit the region early on monday. at least 2920 young people have died into heat. meanwhile, in syria, the quite strong cities of aleppo, hama, i'm lucky, at least 1400 people up and kill them. the quake is pol misery. millions of display serums, still, living in makeshift camps after 11 years of civil war. well, problems the buildings collapsed in turkey and serious there was earthquakes, hit, i hunt for new, lose the associate head of civil engineering at purdue university and joins us live from west lafayette, in indiana. i am good to have you with us. so look, i mean, some of the videos we've seen quite extraordinary,

seemingly modern apartment buildings in turkey, just collapsing into their foundations. how does that happen so easily? i mean, it's clear that many of these buildings just weren't strong enough in the 1st place . oh, well, 1st of all of the ground motions, we have seen aria and the upper end of the spectrum we have seen before. so these are this of their strong shaping and multiple earthquakes as far as they are, the buildings go. yes. some of this, all the buildings particularly they are concerning their collapses based on what we see that the type of collapse on this needs to be verified in the field. but we think that there are certain that the drift levels, the distortion levels are excessive, but some of failure most of these so called pancake failure modes indicate that there might be some detailing issue. they may be some great or structured items. yeah, we, we understand that there are building codes in turkey that even pre date,

the 999 earthquake. but presumably though, it's extremely difficult to police to enforce the building regulation that people just build cheaply to minimize costs down a well that one of the issues is the yes, there is a construction. so what your design is not necessarily gets billed, but there's also the concern that it's very you, when you have a complex code, it's difficult to check compliance. so you have to have some simple threshold, some simple limits, and some simple code that fits a few pages handful of pages. the codes in turkey are advanced, as, as, as good as perhaps in the united states. or, you know, i would say. but the, at the end, what's failed is what experiences? earthquake you, you pointed out the ground motion is a key factor in how destructive earthquakes can be. what are the challenges then the engineers like yourself faith in making buildings earthquake,

prove especially oh, the ones that went up very quickly in the sixties and seventies. that's correct. those. those are particularly one mobile. there are so called bristol, they cannot take multiple cycles of large deformations without losing their integrity. so existing buildings is a challenge to retrofit them or to upgrade them, but it can be done. it's expensive sometimes. but as far as the new buildings go, it's not that really expensive. you know, it costs maybe a few percent to the total cost of the building. depending on what it is you for. to make them able to take earthquake demands. you make it, you should make them stiff, so that the distortions are not excessive. so you pro, you saved the structure, say the property, if you will. and you have to make sure that it can take large de formation if, if it has to without falling apart. so at the end, the building will be standing and you'll be saving lives. i am just just a final thought from you. i mean, what lessons can we learn from countries like new zealand and japan that have made

significant progress in designing was just an infrastructure, like bridges and buildings that can withstand very powerful earthquakes. what are they doing right? well, i might also add that cheerly perhaps to the countries that you listed certain the japan and chile, for example, have larger quakes failure regularly. so a natural that they are building stiff structures. they use a lot of structural law. so in turkey and elsewhere very quick are possible, you should use structural walls to large amount and i can give some percent numbers if, if you, if you're interested to really minimize the distortion. and if you just, if you minimize the distortion, your building will be safe and you'll be making a tight that's, that's the thing you. there's no reason to play a gamble with nature. i had a really good to get your thoughts on your analysis. thank you very much indeed for talking to our to 0. thank you. thank you so much. let's move on to some of the

news now. israeli forces appealed at least 5 palestinians during a raid in jericho in the occupied west bank. israel says 2 of the individuals killed were involved in an attack late last month. the abraham report. number 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 say palestinian fighters change fire with his really forces to them? blood is all that's left here. after these really took bodies with them down side. it was a very difficult situation. often israeli forces shot at us and at another ambulance and prevented us from helping the wounded. it was only hours later the time these would informed at least 5. alas, simeon 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 sons. israel has a policy of withholding buddies of palestinians accuses of killing is really feel

the model rich. 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 really for to say 2 of those killed carried out a gun attack near an illegal really supplement. more than a week ago, although no one was injured in the shooting, it was who was behind it that were these releases. and you armed group called the alphabet brigade cleaned responsibility as a result is really forces imposed and 9 dave locate on jericho on saturday and his really rate failed to arrest and suspects but lead to a gun fight. we're 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 demolition, and land confiscations. last year,

more young palestinians joined quite in groups in jeannine and nablus in the north of the west bank. well now that's also happening in jericho. decent ball. so just more than half of palestinian support, the army struggle against israel, the highest number into decades. many here said that's not surprising for you on society that feels left behind by its leaders and the world while having to face off and increasingly violent israeli military occupation need that, but him and just ita the occupied westbank. chilly continues to battle. the deadliest wildfires on record which have now killed at least $26.00 people. 800 homes have been destroyed and more than a 1000 people injured in the blazes, which have been burning since thursday. i ain't waivers complicating efforts to extinguish the flames. 11 people have been detained in connection with the fires. a latin america editor nicea newman is in santa ana,

but many people have fled. there are fires all around that are still out of control both here and the b o. b o region and to the north in, 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. there are many, many more people that live 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 on blankets on their property, trying to at least preserve the tins that were on their roofs if nothing else which

they believe they might be able to recycle. england faced its largest have a 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 rises, but strikes and wales and scotland were called off after improved pay offers. there, but in bob reports 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 on a cardiac unit here for him. it's all about staffing levels. for me, it was never about money. it was 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 hard for national health service bosses in our aging. the u. k. government to

reopen pay talks for the current year for england. the devotion scottish governments have done 9 payments work as a rejected claims, then not attending urgent cases on strike dense saying that leaving picket lines to do so. we have more spoken to the government for the past month. we have oh spoken to the government and wheels and the government in scotland. well making progress in negotiations, wills and scholars. and that's why we'll more and shrink to wilson's golden today. which might be the biggest, and i just strike so far, but it 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 any chest workers . she's currently waiting for an ultrasound and also needs a hip replacement, but backs and strikes even if they delay her treatment sometimes is painful, sometimes a good bye. so a feeling can wait,

thought i won't be able to like for the operation forever. it will get worse, and now i'm love it. i'm frightened. again, that won't be me. no, she's left the wagon in h. s. left to do the operation. for now, it's a stand off adding to the record waiting lists and growing public hungary for the state of the national health service. the teen baba al jazeera brighton in southern england's now 40 percent of animals in the u. s. and more than a 3rd of plants are at risk of extinction. that's the stock warning from north american scientists who say the biodiversity that remains must be protected now before it's lost forever. alan fisher reports, there 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. 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 with 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 are at risk of extinction. part of what so important there is you have data that crosses 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 phoned 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, 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. 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, ah, type a quick check of the headlines here on al jazeera rescue. operations are under way .