then use great when people need to be heard and the story told, it's incredible what more people, what injured or killed this is. mary's eve on the ukrainian capital with exclusive interviews and in depth reports, i did a much more than $2000000000.00 that might could have addressed. nigeria is going by the deficit. and widespread al jazeera has teens on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries. and live loves ah, to rescue as in turkey, respond to its biggest earthquake in almost a century with thousands dead and many more still missing, trapped under rubble. i can hear every one stuck under trouble, but nobody is here to rescue them. we have finished. i more misery from millions of

neighboring syrians, already displaced by war with hospitals struggling to con. ah, hello mcclark. this is al jazeera life from dough also coming. i'm just seeing you in, in the beale beal region of south central chile where forest fires continue to be out of control. and when current national health is just beginning to trickle in cross china lifts, a ban on 2 groups traveling to certain countries after a cape, induced to 3 years suspension. ah, so as dawn breaks, a major rescue operation continues across southern turkey and parts of northern syria off to to profit earthquakes, hit the region on monday. at least 2900 people have been killed. 14000 injured in

turkey, seismology say it's one of the largest ever recorded that buildings were flattened in several cities. the current death toll in syria is more than 1400, with thousands more seeking medical help. this in the country already wrecked by 11 years of civil war, hospitals are overwhelmed adding to the problems for the many trapped under the rubble left homeless by the disaster. rain, snow in temperatures falling to near freezing overnight. sim procedure begins our coverage now from a 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 fed their homes, fearing what might happen with

the miniature count him. a mirage is at the epicenter of the disaster. here 2 children are old from the rubble of a collapse building. oh, new parents in display? no, uh yellow. so like the 1st quick strike 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 nephews under the rubble of them with his wife and kids. god willing is good years. so severely. it grew on them as the mom. 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 run outside of my family. of course we were so shocked initially a lot. 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, present ridge 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 and emergency and disaster authority have been called to the affected areas. our 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 areas 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. huh. to 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 l to 0 stumble without 0. corresponding to irma al herani is following the rescue operations in gunter at an unknown api. if you ever have moved around ca santa and there have been a number of buildings that collapsed, we have been hearing people trapped under durham, bulls and calling for help. as we have mentioned, a large number of buildings collapsed because of the earthquake that had certain turkey, especially garcia's tip from where we broke up such pictures, showing victims being pulled out from underneath the collapse building. i left natasha. your name has warner. 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 her ty, population about 1600000 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 well across the border. neighboring syria, the quake struck the cities of a leper. huh. and the talk here, at least 1440 people have been killed. the quake has piled misery. on millions of display syrians, many still living in makeshift camps after 11 years of civil war, said to us, 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 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 is 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 survive the government attacks in recent years are overwhelmed. that medical sector already in north or northwest, it's fraudulent, it's hosted by the bomb being by that of station by the assert, jim many hospitals, many doctors were killed by the palm, big and the best time that we were suffering from the pandemic covina. and after and after now or the medical sector cannot handle, all of those entered the cannot receive. all of 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 tremors 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 apparent. santa, for their elders, either built or latino from l. mustafah bend lumley. his a resident, you and resident and humanitarian cord matron, sir, he says as an urgent need for emergency supplies. it's a sub situation here in syria will have already a difficult difficult situation before 11 years of war. and now, nature is even making it harder on us. in our poor for example,

we have already 4040 builders, have collapsed, and new buildings are suffered to be structural damage and made to collapse my gloves. in a time. we are barely use in schools for sales to when people are homeless, people who are already and 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 us up to in 1st 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 need to be replaced. fuel is not available, stuff is not available. hospitals,

some of them got damaged in and hung up and navy in other places. we need a lot of help here where people across turkey had been denouncing emergency supplies, the survivors, russell said our reports from an 8th center understandable. well, 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 they're 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 dad's 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 their 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 only a city that is organ, these events, what activities or setting up there's a that centers in many cities. monster pal, at 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 need of these essentials due to the extreme conditions. and also we of course, 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 with the european union and the united states, or among those sending international aid to turkey and syria. after the turkish government appeals help, maybe 20 search and rescue teams, including firefighters and humanitarian aid organizations are being sent from you.

russia is also sending rescue workers to both countries. israel says it's ready to send emergency helped to syria. and what would be rare cooperation between the warring neighbors i had an air for new lu is the associate head of civil engineering at poder university and explains why many buildings may have collapsed . the grad motions we have seen are on the upper end of the spectrum we have seen before. so these are, this is a very strong shaking and multiple earthquakes as far as the, the buildings go. yes, some of the color 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 fields. but we think that the, the certainly the drift levels, the distortion that was excessive, but some of failure most of these so called pancake failure, most indicate that there might be some detailing issue. they may be some brittle

structural elements. one of the issues is the yes, there's a construction, so what your design is not necessarily get spilled. but there's also the concern that it's very lucky 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 yeah, at the end what's built is what experiences earthquake sorta had here. now deserved i could was president grammar lesson says he's listening to any results from national referendum. sure voters have rejected his reforms. ah

hello there. there was some welcome relief to start the week across eastern areas of the us and canada as we look to north america. that's after the bitterly cold blast of air pulled its way further off towards the north east. much clear skies along that east coast with a lot of warmth flooding back in to cities like washington dc. but we have got another area of low pressure that's bringing some very heavy snow to eastern parts of canada, trickling across the great lakes, turning into west a weather and as it trailed down towards a deep south, we are going to see a rash of severe storms break out suddenly as we get into the mid week places like texas, behind that much clear opera, wintery blast blows its way across the north of the rockies. chaos guys and sunshine, stretching down across california towards that southwest corner. we find that in the north of mexico, as we move to central america, things are going to get wet to. however, across the north east, from that rush of storms pulling across the deep south. we will see some heavier rain here and mix of scattered showers across much of nicaragua,

honduras costa rica, and panama the caribbean. seeing more in the way of sunshine for wet a weather. we have to head to south america. we've got that trail rushing off towards easton areas of brazil bringing severe thunderstorms with a warning out for heavy rain. ah. from the al jazeera london rural car center to people in thoughtful conversation, people use the lowest get agreement. they describe the outsider with no host, no limitations. the difference between a migrant and refugee is purely a choice. when you are a refugee, you are forced to flee part one of as my con and has that i had what has happened a lot in the west is that culture and food is separated studio b unscripted on out his era. lou

ah, but again you watching out 0 remind about top stories and rescue operations are under way across southern turkey and parts of northern syria of the 2 powerful earthquakes hit the region early on monday. at least 2900 people have died in turkey. in syria, the crate struck the cities will epo hammer in the takia. at least 1440 people to be killed. the quake is paula misery, on millions of display, syrians still living in makeshift camps after 11 years of civil war. now people in ecuador patriot rejected reforms laid out in a referendum called by the president grammar lesser what aim of the vote was to tackle the country's growing problem with the gang and drug violence. but many

voters saw it as a poland lasses leadership. this underground piazza is mona, from the capital of quito. presidents get yet more or less have bet on sundays, constitutional referendum and local elections to turn around is fully to go fortune local real ill, domingo. what happened on sunday was a call from the people to the government, and we are not going to evade that responsibility. but it was also to the entire political leadership and the state didn't ecuador in people have asked us, asked all the parties and groups to stop fighting amongst ourselves and to get to work a lot to solve the urgent and concrete problems of our people came on the matter, instead of majority of ecuadorian sterns dear back on him, an election day voters said they were divided on the 8 questions of the referendum . that latter said was paramount to address the country's current,

political and security crisis. some vote, there's believed him in. i voted yes because i believe that these reforms and necessary for the country, we are still democracy in construction. but most perceived the referendum is little more than a way for last to try to regain initiative after proving unable to pass any reforms through our hostile congress. no, no, no, no. i last saw already had more than enough time to try and help the country that he felt their new jobs and new help for the fuel helpers. there is so much crime and we can't live in peace anymore. the referendum also called for the extradition of citizens, linked to organized crime. and the rise in violence also crept into the election campaign to let this mayoral candidates were killed before the polls opened. some had to vote under extreme security measures. something equity had never witnessed before. india and the real winner of the night was former left, his president,

fail korea. you received the results. mexico, surrounded by his allies, candidates, have its party, took back the mayoralty of the capital quito, and for the 1st time in 30 years, that of the country's largest city while you're kill, career lives in exile in belgium. he was sentenced in absentia to 8 years in prison in 2020 and controversial. bribery allegations lather up. i'll as it as a new illness, and i'll impress the right last across the board at national level. the conservative social pot in particular is left with very few provinces, while we'll see the left and in particular progressive movements that careers and the indigenous party rising by. it leaves the government in a much more unfavorable scenario relative, but it's still yet not the last leaves last so it little to no space to my new or he already barely survived that impeachment both back in june, following weeks of protest, their rock,

the country and raising doubts now that he will be able to remain in office for the 2 years left in his administration. allison ramp it, i'll just see that kito chilly continues to battle as deadly as wildfires on record, which have now killed at least 26 people. the blazes have been burning since thursday, and a heat wave is complicating efforts to extinguish the flames. are lots of america return. lucio newman reports now from santa ana in the bay. beer region of actually an inferno is raging across large parts of chile. these are the deadliest wild fires on record, and they're destroying everything in their path. in santa who yeah, 83 year old into our look at rascal inspects what's left of the property. he's lived in his entire life with him, a little thinner. this is where the iron stove was, he says is cat and his dog would burnt alive with everything. he and his family owned the, the repair to the,

to the we haven't people but suddenly from inside and on top of the house, the flames came. there was nothing we could do, but the escape. wildfires can be fickle daunted. lot of those watermelons and a few chickens that hidden the vegetable patch survived, but not his 2 neighbors who were engulfed by flames when they tried to escape. scores of people are still missing in the nearby hills. many presumed dead. these satellite images demonstrate how much the fires have spread since friday. a little cocktail of extreme heat, strong winds, and to prolong drought is mostly to blame. wires are continuing to smolder all over this area and in other parts of the bill. bill and you blew region of south central chile. and if the winds pick up as far as you seem to believe they will, it will spread much, much further. this farmer who also lost his house, blamed chiles. powerful forestry companies who planted eucalyptus and pine trees

all over the region. you will have done really lower your living frontier trees, suck up all the water here. there's nothing left for us and it's turned our land into a matchbox. still, most people who've lost everything tell us they've already dried their tears. didn't our opinion for him where our country is very peculiar. if we don't get hit by earthquakes, we have seen armies or floods enough. i was so weak jillions of learned to be resilience. chili's government has begun receiving assistance from its neighbors and spain to help exhausted firefighters. as we see more new fires emerging from the nearby hills, it's obvious that help can't come fast enough. to see a newman al jazeera center, one at chilly landslide and peru has killed at least 15 people have rainfall in the countries southern to keep a region was behind the dummy proof. national emergency sentence at such and rescue

efforts are ongoing. ukrainian authorities will delay the replacement of the defense minister has president vladimir lensky government, braces for 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 alex e nick off will be replaced by ukraine's head of military intelligence in a cabinet re shuffle following corruption allegations. russia foreign minister, his heading to molly, on his 1st official trip to the african nation, the visit from se leverage comes a day after molly expelled the head of the un human rights mission. russia has been looking to african nations for supporters relations deteriorate with the west of the war. ukraine health care workers in england, there are on the picket line for the biggest strike, yet is an ambulance cruise. so patient is being put at risk by understanding. unions are demanding better pay conditions. majoring has

partially lifted a 3 year ban on 2 groups, traveling abroad. china. it used to be the world's largest outbound tourism market . before current of ours had st. louis has more on how some nations, in se asia preparing to welcome back buses, tourists. hi. this is one of the 1st to our groups to leave china. moments after ban on group travel was partially lifted. on monday, the tourists flight left the southern chinese city of gong tow at 15 minutes past midnight. what i signed up as soon as i got the news of overseas toys, i'm sure i chopper 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 this year and expects them to spend nearly $30000000000.00. we are very happy and i'm sure that the coming back of chinese would be, ah, bows up there, ty, economy significantly because as you get the revenue from the tides routing the district chair above a quarter 20 percent of the g d p. so i think it's been true step the coming back of china or charlie's back is the key of success of the teachers in 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 down i'll shop for about 3 years. on monday, china also allowed cross boarded travel to fully resume between the mainland and the special administrative regions of hong kong and macau changes that many hope lead to the tourism industry in the region thriving once again flying louis just now 40 percent of animals in the united states and more than a 3rd of plants are at risk of extinction. that is the stock warning from north american scientists. you say the by diversity that remains must not be protected before it's last forever. unofficial houses 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. 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 search 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 flight 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 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 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, so this is out there are, these are the top stories and rescue operations are under way across southern turkey and parts in.