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ah, until mccrae, this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up, the president of ecuador accepts defeat to after early results show voters have rejected his referendum. and china lifts the ban on 2 groups, traveling abroad after 3 years of coven 19 restrictions. ah! rescue operations continue across southern turkey and parts of northern syria after 2 powerful earthquakes hit the region early on monday, at least 4800 people have been killed across the 2 countries. the world health organization as warning the death toll could rise 8 fault or the region of 'hate' in southern ticket is one of the worst affected, more than 1200 buildings have been destroyed in the province. people spent monday

nights sifting through rob, looking for any signs of life, either lucifer. bu we heard him there calling out, asking for help. now asked to be rescued, we cannot rescue them. how can we rescue them? nobody has come since this morning. nobody we have nobody look around. look through this. suddenly the dog heard voices, our children are in there. what can we do? the building is already partially collapsed. this is human life. what can you do when you hit calls for help? there are no emergency workers, no soldiers, nobody. this is a neglected place. well, it speaks to care him cynic, he's the head of the turkish rid chris, and he joins us by phone from common morass. you are at the epicenter of the quite can you give us a sense of what it is like then now, and the conditions that you are facing to measure quick's of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 hit the solar

system to clear on monday in the same date until we have more than 3300 people died and more than 20000 people are injured. actually, over 5500 will be totally collapsed. thousands of others also heavily dimension and almost 20000 surgeon risk commodities. response stuff that to peeled but huge area wide area and we have pretty heavy conditions. our roads affected from quick inter conditions, snow conditions. so we are trying to reach out every effected region of salvage and focus records in society as

a local nation society. it will be looking to meet out 2000 and stuff, and $200.00 vehicles. our tenants and blankets and how those basic telling assistance items. we are here to respond as soon as possible and as much as possible and be deployed to mobile kitchens to the effective provinces. we have 10 provinces, and 3 of them have effected alternatives. have declared this as a level for low cost for international systems to kit will be like all our domestic capacity shelters, search and rescue foods, healthcare capacity to the epic, the region, but we need some other systems approach. can you talk

a little bit about the damage to the infrastructure like the, the, the roads and the airports in the region and how difficult that is making it for you in your teams to get to some of these areas. have you been able to get to all of the regions affected at this point? actually, main highways. and some are a post like hot a porch effected so hot as yesterday, close to to take off last week. but he's trying to teach the match highway since up in the meantime, more to switch system natural gas piping systems, electric telecommunication lines, and. busy also, so it's really difficult to communicate,

trying to process the items, but by the 2nd base today. so i'll talk to our team. we'll be reached out to every area by our essentially didn't like you mentioned the weather. and obviously we know that that's making an already really dire situation. even even more grim can you give us an understanding of just how the freezing temperatures and the rain and the snow is affecting the search and rescue efforts. and, and i guess the survival, right, for those that are still stuck in the rubbing. yes. actually our local capacity stuff and our volunteers have been effective because of the earthquake. so we are

obliged to deploy our additional response to pro neighboring broad incidence and conditions. so, beth and having really difficult to reach the affected areas by and by our search of dispute teams from different n. busy agenda mata and i thought that these are working on these heavily heavy vent conditions. no minus degree also weather conditions. it's difficult to work here but. busy we have got a t m nation. among the fixtures are in the

world. i believe that we will. we will overcome this beach this afternoon. okay, thank you so much for your time. i know you're obviously going to be extremely busy for the days and weeks and months. a heads up that is karen. it's in the head of the turkish rid chris, and he joined us by phone from a caramel morales, which is near the if a center of one of the largest quakes soonest. i own these pictures for the next little moment or 2. they said that some of the search and rescue teams that we were just talking about. and what you see here is that they stop every few minutes to listen to see if they can hear any survivors that are still trapped under the rubble. they will come to a complete standstill and wait to see if they can hear anything from underneath the tons and tons of trouble that that have fallen and then frantically start digging

again if and when they do hear any noise from those survivors. we're going to go to send them costello, who is an example where she is monitoring developments and obviously a huge search and rescue operation and underway across such a wide region. can you just give us an idea of the international aid and assistance that has, that has been offered by, by, by some of the countries oh, well, all neighboring countries and friendly countries of true. yeah, as tricky is also a nato al. i have offered your help to, to kill since the beginning of this earthquake, more than 6 nations, or for the help we heard the united states other western countries. russia are by john georgia trying to help to kick by offering to send rescue workers of military and medical supplies for this earthquake to help the civilians

trapped in these areas. of course, these are being coordinated by the turkish authorities in on kara as everything needs to be planned, even reaching out to people giving, delivering the is everything needs to be coordinated as the area hits by the earthquake that yesterday morning is also prone to some technical problems like a for a ports have been shut down since yesterday, the highways are, some of them are this for it's so it is not easy to access these areas and we're hearing that there are some areas not only in the world, but also some centers and i haven't been able to the access by the rescue workers because of these technical reason. so this is very important then as care. i'm kind of a tricky shred, crescent director said yes to kids working in full capacity and but it is not

enough. so that's why the turkish authorities announced a level for alarm code that day, which means to kit requires international assistance. and it is also coming one by one. and some of them are already on the ground working with a turkish volunteers and turkish rescue workers. but we are more than 24 hours is behind and as each hour is critical from now on until the 7th, 7th, 7th, the 2nd hour following the earthquake. and this is why more help is needed. more carriers are needed to reach out to these areas. so sometimes when you look at the social media and when you look at the news, people accuse the government of being late and the response. but time will show us how everything is well organized or not well organized and but everybody's blaming

. the urban is ation. in the area. okay, just looking at these, these pictures, the decision risk work is still trying the hardest to find survivors in the rubble . these obviously after shops, so there's been hundreds of off to shocks. can you tell us about how that is affecting other people on the ground in these regions? actually for after shots these have very strong magnitude since yesterday, as you said, hundreds of aftershock happens from 5.0 to $6.00 magnitude which is like a separate earthquake and yesterday to kiss. so for it to earthquakes around the same magnitude. so for rescue workers getting on her, those rebels or getting over those level down buildings is also critical because as they are trying to move in doing after shocks and those damage buildings have the risk to fall down and fall apart. that's why even the lives of the rescue workers

are under a threat right now. and. 5 we are hearing that people, people in rescue workers are hearing the voices of the trapped people down below the level the collapse buildings. but these are works that meet needs, full concentration and highlands, and of course help from outside. that's why the authorities have made calls for the civilians. if they have nothing to do in the city, they should leave the city. and so that the rescue workers response groups would be able to work more comfortably. and other thing that challenges the rescue workers is the climate condition. it is winter time and they seem to care always the 1st harsh winters at the time. it is snowing, there's have a snow in milan. yeah. and of the man and in some cities, the weather condition is expected to continue throughout the week. and there is

rain. that's why it is also difficult for the rescue workers to get on those rebels . and it is, it doesn't finish, it doesn't finish. when you plot the people from on the rebels, you have to provide them shelters. this is all of a big coordination and a big organization that all of both authorities and rescue work response groups need to work together with. okay, thank you so much. that is us and them casias for us at of a sample with the latest developments. well, across the border and neighboring syria, the government is calling for urgent help from the united nations. at least 1600 people were killed in the earthquakes, then hundreds of families in the north, a trapped under destroyed buildings with a disaster has added to misery already faced by millions of syrians displaced by 11 years of civil war. many are living in my shift camps on a cabin is the regional director for the middle east with missy cool. he joins us

from beirut. thank you very much for being on al jazeera. i guess. first of all of we've heard a lot about the situation and to key a. can you just bring us up to date with the search and rescue with it's in northern syria? well the situation in melbourne say is pretty similar to the one in turkey last yesterday was very difficult for everybody communications. we have a spotty so we, we had a hard time reaching out stuff. most of them had the house damaged. and of course, this is happening to a population that he's a displaced and has been, as he said, and are very difficult situations for the past 10 years. have you even been able to get into some of the west affected areas to get information out of the with affected areas to, to i guess get as much information as you can to know. we have people and rescue teams need to go. yes. so. busy we immediately started 2 areas where we

already overreaching was that $98.00 champs. but we also very aware that the champs on the city the most affected because the people who are living in houses are extremely touch spidey stuff quick. so we all know, i said, you know, the 136 communities in the same areas of people who unfortunately had to spend the last night outside with the windows. absolutely horrible, with the rain and the snow. and obviously the 1011 years of civil war is just making the situation even more grim. can you give us a sense of what it's like for those people that are on the ground. obviously, with very little help at this point in time and in the conditions that diet facing yeah, so we have a good relation that has been a struggling to get access to all the basic services. i was mostly to provide

with a trucking, a very difficult to, to access food. the price of food has almost doubled about the past just because of the situation in ukraine. a very boring situation and most recently, at the end of last year we had another break of cobra, which now is one of our main mores because we learned that holds have been affected by your french, which a lot to, to access, kidding. watch us. so we are very worried about people reach on cobra. how do you go about getting international aid and assistance into syria into, into these affected regions and how much more difficult is that because of the situation in the country? yes, so this is a defining aspect of the situation and of course, you know,

all the supply lines are going through turkey. and given the situation just across the board of the supply lines are extremely weak today and they were yesterday. so we are trying to find suppliers managed to find ways to get food and, and equipment across the border. the main one for you mentioned it was closed by the hour and we're hoping that this will we have been very soon, but definitely that's a very major challenge of that response. ok, thank you so much for your time. we really appreciate it that are coming from missy court with us from beverage. we're going to take you back to some live pictures from it because the on tip in southern to kia as the search and rescue continues. there are obviously many, many tames picking through the rubble trying to find survivors more than 24 hours

own from the 1st of 2 major earthquakes, and hundreds and hundreds of aftershocks that have rocked the region. well, there is plenty still ahead on al jazeera, including understand human is the bill bill region. the south central chile, we're forest fires, continue to be out of control. and when can national health is just beginning to trickle in? ah, there is a winter anti soccer area of high pressure stretching across to plenty of europe. which means that all. yeah, active weather is to the south and to the north. there it is that what that usually means is it's cold and often foggy or overcast. maybe not so much now we're coming in to february. but there's a picture anyway, with temperatures in single figures,

but actually rising more to degrees per day, and someplace is still cold in the isa kogan coming out of russia, goes across. you train down across the black seat, still producing snow on the northern shores, a turkey, and that same cold air. it spreads out is producing stormy conditions to some degree in the mediterranean service, had se 1st given the conditions that we meet in the rescue area, this is about as bernard is, is going to get. we got double figures and mostly sunshine. there is still snow for the president, still windy in wet on the coast of lebanon, but in the main rescue area, at least by days, fairly benign by nighty goes frosty. once more, that leaping ahead and other day in that same stormy weather, this is wednesday gives you pretty poor weather. still across about eric from the point of view of wind. 3rd less but rain and snow coming into east and spain. also catching tunisia and northern algeria at the same time of the european plain, it's slightly warmer and still sonny with

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people have been killed across to kia and syria after 2 earthquakes hit early on monday. the world health organization warms the death toll could rise 8 falls, rescue operations out on going across the 2 countries. but that being hampered by freezing temperatures and some pants of to kia people say that received no help to find missing loved ones. several countries are assisting to kia and syria. the european union in the us have to put search and rescue teams. russia, pakistan, south korea and kata. i'm also sending units to help. chile is battling it's deadliest wildfire zone records that have killed at least $26.00 people. the fires have been burning since thursday. i hate why it is complicating efforts to extinguish the flames. a latin america editor, lucy, and human reports from santa juana in the b. o. b origin of chile and

inferno is raging across large parts of chile. these are the deadliest wild fires on record, and they're destroying everything in their path. santa, who? yes, he 3 year old, adore look a rascal inspector, what's left of the property? he's lived in his entire life, vivian, willowbrook 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 repair, to go to every other people for the family, 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 to prolong drought is mostly to blame. wires are continuing to smolder all over this area and in other parts of the bill, bill annually 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, blames chili's, powerful forestry companies who planted eucalyptus and pine trees all over the region. you don't really know where you live, e, frontier trees suck up all the water here. there's nothing left for us and it's turned our land and turn matchbox. still, most people who've lost everything tell us they've already dried their tears, did in our opinion. but anyway, i'll country is very peculiar. if we don't get hit by earthquakes, we have seen armies or floods now fires so we'd jillions of learned 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 sent the one at chinney alleys 15 people had been killed in a landslide and peru, hundreds of homes and the southern od. equip of regent were damaged to renshaw. ryans had been hitting the area for days for his national emergency census. it search and rescue if it's our ongoing and authorities warn the death toll, midas still rise. it could dorians have rejected the reforms presented in sundays referendum called by the governing president. give him a last so admitted that the fate is popularity is currently down to 20 percent. and many bushes saw the vote as a referendum on his leadership. lasandra grumpy at the has more from the capital. kito. presidents get here more last i 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 ecuadorian. 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 in the matter. instead of majority of ecuador in sterns dear back on him, an election day voters said they were divided on the 8 questions of the referendum . that latso said was paramount to address the country's current, political and security crisis. some voters believe him. i voted yes because i believe that these reforms and necessary for the country, we are still at 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 mean, last saw already had more than enough time to try and help the country that he felt there are new jobs and new help for the youth 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 rise and violence also crept into the election campaign to let this me are ok and the dates were killed before the pulls opened. some had to vote under extreme security measures. something equity had never witnessed before. oh, indiana, the real winner of the night was former left his president or a fail korea. you received the results in mexico's to rounded by his allies. candidates of his party took back the mayoralty of the capital quito,

and 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 it as an even less. and i am perfect, but the right last across the board at national level, the conservative social pot in particular is left with very few provinces. while we see the left and in particular progressive movements lack careers and the indigenous party rising by. it leaves the government in a much more unfavourable scenario rally, 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 appeared as se raquita ukrainian authorities had delaying. the

replacement of the defense minister as the government prepared for a russian offensive of parliamentary officials said no decisions on staff changes will be made this week. on sunday, the head of president for laudermill zalinski, his party announced alexey risen, cough will be replaced by the head of military intelligence. the cabinet reshuffle followed a series of corruptions scandals. the 3rd day of nationwide strikes and major demonstrations against pension reforms and france are expected in the coming hours . hundreds of thousands of people have rallied against president a manual ma crohn's plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. when members of the national assembly met on monday to debate the bill, the funeral of pakistan's former president's purpose machine is due to be held later on tuesday, rush hour of died on sunday at the age of 79. after a long illness, he lived in self imposed exile in dubai. since 2016,

the sheriff sees power nicu in 1919 iron and lead the country until he was forced to resign in 2008. he will be buried and a military simmer symmetry in karachi, pakistan tour guides and china have received approval to resume travel abroad after beijing partially lifted a 3 year ban. the country was the world's largest outbound tourism market. before the pandemic, florence louis reports on how countries are preparing to welcome back chinese tourists. this is one of the 1st 2 groups to leave china. moments after ban on group travel was partially lifted. on monday, the tourists flight left the southern chinese city of kwan don't. at 15 minutes past midnight, what i signed up as soon as i got the news of overseas toys um she, i, i travel with my wife and my daughter. ah.