impacts us where events might lead from here. rigorous debate, unflinching question. up front, muslim on tail cuts through the headline to challenge conventional wisdom. nigerians vote in what's likely to be the most closely contested election in the country's history. from those that wielded to those who confronted people. in paula investigate the youth and abusive power around the world, february on a jessia ah . rescue as in turkey, a respond to its biggest earthquake in almost a century, thousands dead and many more still missing traps under rubble of the can hear everyone stuck under durable but nobody's here to rescue them. we are finished and

is more misery from millions of neighboring assyrians, already displaced by war with hospitals struggling to co ah, alarm clock. this is out 0 life. and also coming out i'm just seeing you in the bill. bill region of south central chile for forest fires continue to be out of control. and when current national health is just beginning to trickle in and the conservation crisis will tell you about the numbers of animals and plants in the united states that are at risk of extinction. ah. so as the sun rises over, southern tucked in northern syria, rescue is continue to search for survivors of 2 powerful f quakes. at least 4400 people were killed.

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 digits, a parent on said the government was doing all it could to deal with the situation to to law look, work that it was the turkish armed forces, an 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 the clear, the level for alarm. that means international assistance is necessary given the affected areas 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 ha, to kia sits on top of major seismic full fines. 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. well, let's get the very latest now from sin him who joins us from istanbul, from where she's monitoring developments and sit him 24 hours on the. the extent of the devastation is all too apparent is not the focus of course, very much on the rescue effort. exactly, exactly as when for the 1st 72 hours are very important make and we left behind 24 hours and still there are areas that the rescue teams haven't been able to reach some of them are in the rules. all of those 10 cities that have been affected by the earthquake, but city is like what i get through kids. southern city border with syria and of the i'm on one of the cities that was strongly hit by yesterday's earthquake and are in trouble because the highways are broken,

they're cracked. rescue workers weren't able to reach out properly to those places . but there are for a ports that have had that have been shut down since yesterday for civil aviation. that's making things hard. making rescue efforts to reach to the area, late and rescue teams and the government is losing time. this means civilians are losing time. the season is very important here as also you said there are cold temperatures. people are living outside according to the official information. more than 303330000 people spend the night and shelters in a university buildings or dormitory building. so people who have cars, who has some opportunity, we're able to leave these cities at these to all skirts to have a safe place. but there are hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the cities,

some of them on the rebels. and as it snow snows as it rains in some of the places i have been listening to the weather news since the morning. in some places it is minus 4, minus one is 0 temperature. and since this area is far from the see that the climate is dry, so it is much if they feel much colder than usual and people were people just took to the streets as they were shaken. some of them do not have even blankets and we are is seeing on social media that a baby at n frosted that so these are critical times are for those civilians who are waiting to be rescued. and also critical times for the rescue workers because we are hearing that even themselves the, with the rescue workers are having trouble while they're working because are some of the buildings and that are that have level dung it. when the rescue workers get

on them and a when there's an aftershock, which is still ongoing, there, there have been more than 250 after sucks is a yesterday's air quake it rescue workers also need to leave these building. so this is all about the challenge, tough times for turkey and very difficult at times for the civilians who are waiting for help or the there are at least 16000 a purse the 8 forced personnel who are in the region right now. and as for assemble governors, they said this morning as of 6 am a stumble local time. so in to want a place to call from a stumble, a port follow with thousands of a 8 personnel and a 8 wall in tears. who are about to reach to the region, it will help others, but will not be will not be enough, probably nick, or i'd cinema back with you as did de unfold. so thanks for much need for that update seen across really their monitoring, the situation from istanbul will across the border in neighboring syria,

the earthquake struck the cities of aleppo, hammer, and le chakiya. at least 1500 people have been killed. the quakers piled misery on millions of display surgeons, many still living in makeshift camps after 11 years of civil war sonata has this report. a child is told to recite a prayer. neither law 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 collapse, the cross 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. 8 hello. * 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 has 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. its really catastrophic. everyone is on the streets. the buildings are either destroyed or barely holding here. many of the buildings that collapse were already not structurally sound. do 2 years of war. civil defense team say they need machinery to rescue people while the few hospitals that survive the government attacks in recent years are overwhelmed. that medical victor or the

north northwest project exhausted by the bomb being by the station by the regime many hosp, the many doctors were killed by the big and the best time that we were support from the band demik. go visa and after 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 lebanon as well. they start to just after 3 a. m, when most people were asleep and lasted for at least 40 seconds. 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. what elma stuff has been lumley, is the u. s. residence and humanitarian coordinator and syria. and 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 our poor for example, we have already 4040 builders, have collapsed, and numerous buildings are suffered to be a 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 already they have been homeless, maybe before many cars have collapsed so i no longer cannot be used. so the restriction is difficult and not only in honda 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 and from infrastructure. the, the, 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 the series to be bare or needs to be replaced. fuel is not available. stuff is not available. hospitals, some of them got damaged in and help and navy in other places. we need a lot of help here for the european union and the united states for monday, sending international aid to turkey and syria after the turkish government appeals to help. nearly 20 search and rescue teams, including firefighters and humanitarian aid organizations have being sent from the you brush or is also sending rescue workers to both countries. and israel says it's

ready to send emergency help to syria. and what would be reg, cooperation between the board neighbors william chile continues to battle is deadliest. wildfires on record which have now killed at least $26.00 people. the blazes have been burning since thursday and the heat wave is complicated. efforts to extinguish the flames or latin america to turn it in human reports now from santa ana, and then b o, b o region of chile, an inferno is raging across large parts of chile. these are the deadliest wildfires on record, and they're destroying everything in their path. santa, who? yes. 83 year old, adore look a rascal inspector. what's left of the property? he's lived in his entire life. live up in this is where the iron stove was. he says, his cat and his dog would burnt alive with everything he and his family owned the,

the rip, ebay, to where we are into hall for suddenly from inside and on top of the house, the flames came. there was nothing we could do, but to escape. wildfires can be fickle daunted. lot of those watermelons and a few chickens that hit in 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 a prolonged drought is mostly to blame. wires are continuing to small her all over this area and in other parts of the bill, bill annually regional 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, blames chili's, powerful forestry companies who planted eucalyptus and pine trees all over the

region. you don't really know where you're living. frontier trees, suck up all the water here. there's nothing left for us and it's turned our land in turn, matchbox, still, most people who've lost everything tell us they've already dried their tears to get up anyway. we have a country is very peculiar. if we don't get hit by earthquakes, we have seen armies or floods now fires, so wait to lance, of learn to be resilience. chili's government has begun receiving assistance from its neighbors and spain to help exhausted fire fighters. 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, i still had her now desert. i could also present grammar lesson, says he's listening as early results from a national referendum. she voters have rejected his reforms.

ah the hello. they will start in the middle east and levant and it's a tail of 2 halves. we've got more settled conditions across more southern areas, but up in the north, across the levant. you can see from that cloud that nasty winter storm continues to pull its way east across turkey and knocking temperatures down dramatically there. well below the average this time of year, and there's going to be more in the way of snow for the likes of gas. the antenna near that devastating earthquake. if not that we could see some sleet as well as rain, the temperature is remaining bitterly cold over the next few days. now there has been some relief farther south of, of the likes of doha in kotob. but as that shamar wind kicks up, we are going to see the temperature did down and it remains a very windy picture. in the middle of the week, we could see some sand storms, warnings out across the north of saudi arabia and the windy conditions continue

across northern areas of africa, coastal areas of egypt as well as libya she, nidia, seen some very heavy rain in the days ahead a similar story for algeria and pots of morocco, the temperature being knocked down by the wet and windy weather across the mediterranean. for the south of this a windy but hot. picture the temperature in a buddha, stretching up near 40 degrees, it comes back down on wednesday. the wet weather can be found down in the south with some heavy falls for east and south africa. ah. the latest news as it breaks the forces are about a kilometer in that direction or military. no detail coverage. where is we'll have the palestinian calling me on the verge of collapse or decade from around the world. this prophecy responded job role of

social with not just against increasing the age of retirement, but also grants the continuing cost of living crisis. lou ah, how again you want geology 0 reminder of our top story to saw and rescue operations saw underway as we speak across southern tech in parts of room sir of to to proper of quick hit the region early on monday at least 2900 people have died in turkey on in syria. the quaker struck the cities of aleppo. huh. and the takia, at least 1500 people have been killed, that the quickest piled misery on millions of display. syrians still living in makeshift camps after 11 years of civil war are let's get more now on the united

nations response. the devastation caused by the earthquake. we can speak now to gens luca, who's the deputy spokes pressman for the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs. a join just live now from geneva. mr. luck a. so 1st up, it's clearly a very grim picture this morning. to say the least. what's your assessment of what we're dealing with and just what's required? yes, good morning. this is almost as bad as it has been colossal, the soft of that she had this area and how these, these 2 countries were little more than 24 hours into it. i just, i think in the past 12 hours. also, we have seen that this whole almost double, if not more. so this is indeed a very, very big dis off. but it's also something where the united nations has mobilized

very quickly. we do have a lot of staff actually actually general sessions working in the area. we're already there. they themselves have been affected, of course, but they are supporting the authorities who are responding as, as, as they can with the material that they have them that have been stockpiles. what is happening now is that there's very big effort going on to mobilize the additional international support that needs to get in there. in the 1st instance, to help get survivors out of out of the problem to help get the immediate life saving emergency assistance into the, into the right hands out to the people who need it. or this is something that is going to be with us for weeks to come in deep in the immediate future every minute every are absolutely critical for those buried in the rubble and still alive. but

in remote regions, it's going to be very hard to save them, is not it is going to be hard that there's no question about it. and as, as we've heard, and as we've been speaking about the, the, the climate is not with us. it comes into very difficult time with sub 0 temperatures are rainfall, snowfall, and this is a very physical operate. you need to get heavy machinery out an inch of these areas . we have, we have seen a lot of indications internationally of ostrich or we are supporting the coordination of the search and rescue teams that are, we're not trying to get into the areas where, where they, where, where they are needed. but the clock is ticking. it is a race against time. there are a few days where this a has to be the top priority to save the lives of the lives that we possibly can. and the situation in turkey, of course, is bad enough, but syria,

as we've been saying, is all the more complicated after so many years of war, tell us about the different kind of challenge that you're facing. there it is true, it is a different kind of situation very much. so because in terms of, of course it's, it's relatively easy and straightforward to get in there. in syria, it is about the matter. we know that the quote has primarily affected the northern part of, of, of syria many years. i can test this many areas on the opposition control. it is going to be a challenge to get in there. and as we have heard, this is our country has suffered 11 years of rule, infrastructure damage. roach will already in a bad situation that the health infrastructure was already dilapidated. and now this comes from talk and the health clinics and hospitals have been affected as

well. we have, over the years, of course had asian with cherry and response to the, to the, to, to the consequences of or so there are systems and mechanisms in place to do something here. now it is very important to put all politics aside. look at this as a strictly showing the syrian issue, it is about saving lives. so we are pushing all we can to support getting that into all the areas where it's needed and date and then the fact as it goes will be on the weeks and months ahead of it is a monumental challenge at thank you. so for your time and tell me about the response and just what's needed again to lock that space person for the un office, for the coordination of humanitarian offense. thank you. people in ecuador appear to have rejected reforms laid out in a referendum cooled by president grammar lesson. one aim of the vote was to tackle the country's growing problem with gang and drug violence. but many voters saw it

as a pole unless his leadership was under ramp, yet he has more now from the capital of kito. president k. yet more last so had bet on sundays, constitutional referendum and local elections to turn around is political fortunes . lucky oak, real ill domingo. what happened on sunday was a call from the people to the government know, and we are not going to evade that responsibility. but it was also to the entire political leadership and the state television. ecuadorian. people have asked us, you know, 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 name or the i will not. instead, a majority of ecuadorian sterns, they're back on him an election day voters said they were divided on the 8 questions of the referendum. that lasso said was paramount to address the country's current political and security crisis. some voters believed him in. i

voted yes because i believed that these reforms are necessary for the country. we are still a democracy in construction. but most perceived the referendum is little more than a way for lasso to try to regain initiative after proving unable to pass any reforms to a hostile congress. no, see to me. no, no, it is 11. you last saw already had more than enough time to try and help the country. they felt there are no jobs and no help for these were feel helpless. 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 rising violence also crept into the election campaign to left this mayoral candidates were killed by for the polls opened. some had to vote under extreme security measures. something equity had never witnessed before. oh, in the end,

the real winner of the night was former left his precedent or a fail career. he received the result in mexico's to rounded by his allies. candidates of his party took back the mayoralty of the capital quito at for the 1st time in 30 years, that of the country's largest city guayaquil, career lives in exile in belgium. he was sentenced in absentia to 8 years in prison in 2020 and controversial bribery allegations, leather up. i'll as it as an even less in i'll empathic book the right last across the board at national level. the conservative social pot in particular is left with fair if he provinces, while we'll see the left and in particular progressive movements, lack 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 that i'm bet i'll just see that kito the body of a former pakistani president purpose machine is a rogue back in karachi ahead of his funeral. later on tuesday, he died on sunday at the age of 79 in dubai, where he'd been living since 2016 which are off sees power and occurred in 1999 and let the country until he was forced to resign in 2840 percent of animals in the united states and more than a 3rd of plans are at risk of extinction. died as the start warning from north american scientists to say the by diversity the remains must be protected now, forced last forever unofficial as the 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 that, that habitat type. you report from nature surf pills, 5 decades of data for 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 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 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, let's have a quick look at the headlines here and.