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ah, until mccrae, this is l 0. live from doha. also coming up, the president of ecuador accepts to fate. after early results show, voters have rejected his referendum and china lifts a ban on 2 groups traveling abroad after 3 years of cove at 19 restrictions. ah. rescue operations continue across southern to kia and parts of northern syria. after 2 powerful earthquakes hit the region early on monday. well than 5000 people have been killed across the 2 countries. the world health organization is wanting. the death toll could rise 8 fault or the region of high tie is in southern ticket is one of the worst affected. more than 1200 buildings have been destroyed in the
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province. people spent monday night sifting through bravo, looking for any signs of life, either loses their bu, we heard their calling out, asking for help. they 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 god heard voices. our children are in bed. 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 on which a sudden caserta joins us from a sample where she is monitoring developments in more than 24 hours on the extent of the devastation is pretty clear to everyone. now the focus of course are still on the search and rescue if it's but there are many issues that hampering those. if it's unfair. yes,
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definitely the climate the access there are the main problems challenging the rescue work because right now the weather as it's now in many of the provinces that were hit by the yesterday's that the earthquake. there is a ports have been shut down since yesterday, and the highways have been destroyed have been damaged. that's why axis was not possible. but as for the turkish vice president said a couple of minutes ago today, it is much easier for them to access a specialist through a carrier to bring the necessary it teams and necessary supplies to the areas like hawkeye. and the among that were, those cities were not able to be reached out yesterday, and he updated the numbers into, yeah, he said that the number of the bad reach to 3419. and he said, nearly 4000 rusk rescue workers from 14 different countries are also
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working with the turkish rescue workers on the grounds. so this is a time for collaboration. this is a time for solar verity and for a 2 year. and it's friendly. neighborly come through, then this is how they are handling the rescue works, but despite the support, there are still some extra needs in terms of the human resource, the number of the rescue workers and supplies to be brought to this area. so obviously a lot of international aid is being sent or has already been sent to, to kia. how are they going to be able to get to those affected areas? because many ports and roads have already been cut off every day. yes, this has been the biggest challenge since yesterday, but the vice president said that today is the weather is more suitable for air
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carriers to lend to close by cities. and this is how they are handling it. and in the early hours of the morning, is stumble, governor announced that 7 to one a flight to call from stumble, a port to the close by a port in the region to a post that are still functioning. and except for that, after they land in the area or from the nearby available cities, the logistics are provided through long vehicles that brings the necessary equipment supplies and food to the region. but of course, we are told by the authorities that more than 3 hundreds, a to 1000 people have to spend the night in the shelter of dormitories and universities provided by the ministry of sports and ministry of education. and there are still many people left on their do robles under. there are trapped as so
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a more is needed. but as per the officials say, it is easier today compared to yesterday about the weather conditions in cities like of the i'm and my last yeah. is a difficult today there's have a snow and it is expected to continue for a couple of more days during the week. so there are still challenges ahead and as i said, more is needed for accommodation, all of the survivors for the food. and of course, a blood donations are also important and this is underlined by the n g o. most of the time, do we know if the, the military has been deployed or if they will be deployed? and if not, why not? yes, the military is deployed, especially to a hot tie and goes down to turkish military and the gender maria, which is which functions under the interior ministry. they are deployed to the area,
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but there is no state of emergency now. so far, some people as some experts on the line that there is a, the government alcaraz should analysis, state of emergency and it should be military, it who is controlling these areas as there is danger because of damage buildings and of course, they're always risk when so many buildings are a collapse or there are thieves. ah, so they are making the necessary warnings for these, but there is no state of emergency for now. but the military is on the ground in some of the cities, like what i, which was not in much accessible yesterday due to the airport that has been shut down there and due to the main highway that has been at damage and add that hasn't been in use since yesterday. okay. and m casino lou, thank you very much. uh for that update or from a stand bowl. who karen cynic is the head of the turkish rid crisen. he says that
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doing all they can to help all roads affected from earthquake and heavily into conditions smo conditions. so we are trying to reach out every effective regional sub region focus rifka in society as a local nation society. it will be looking out 2000 and stuff, 210 some blankets and how those basic when i tell them assistance items out here or to respond as soon as possible and as much as possible. and. busy the deploy kitchens to the effective provinces, we have 10 provinces and 3 of them have effected alternatives. have
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declared this as a level for low cost for international assistance and it will be like all. busy domestic capacity shelters, search and rescue, full health care complexity to the epic region, but we need some others assistance. an attack you now to some lie as pictures other to coming in to our newsroom from high tie in southern to a kia that is a drone pictures. it really just show this scale of the devastation and how the damage suffered by some of these apartment buildings. absolutely devastating. and you can see there, a number of people are still pecking through the rubble. still looking for survivors trying to find any one, any signs of life under all of that rubble. now, the head of the world health organization has said that they are especially
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concerned about some areas of turkey and in syria as well. we're that had absolutely no information come through other damage. mapping is, is one way to understand where we, where they need to focus their attention or where to send aid and their search and rescue teams at to try and help those that still a cut off by the earthquake now that the turkish vice president a short time ago also said that we that conditions in the area and making it very difficult to get to aid to some of these places as well. and there are these, these live pictures from high type really showing the scale of the damage and, and just how huge other cleanup operation is going to be well across the border and neighboring syria, the government is calling for urgent help from the united nations. at least 1600 people are were killed there in the earthquakes. hundreds of families in the north
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tramped under destroyed buildings. the disaster has added to misery already faced by millions of syrians displaced by 11 years of civil war. many are living in makeshift camps. la criminal is the regional director for the middle east with mercy cor. he says it's a challenge getting aid into syria. well, the situation, another pretty similar up. the one in turkey last yesterday was very difficult for everybody to communications were very spotty. so we had a hard time reaching our staff. most of them had the house damaged and of course it is happening to a population that is lovely misplaced, and has been very difficult situations. for the past 10 years. we're talking about a population that has been struggling to get access to all the basic services. all the supply lines are going through turkey. and even the situation just across the
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board of the supply lines are extremely weak today. and we're just to this, we are trying to find suppliers who could manage to find ways to get food and, and equipments across the border. the main one for you mentioned it was close by the hour and we're hoping that this will we have been very soon. we immediately started to we said the areas where we already are with the nike a camps. but we also very aware that the camps on, initially the most affected because the people who are living in house is extremely touched by the way. so we are now assisting another $136.00 communities in the same area for this plenty still ahead on al jazeera, including understand human and the bill. bill region of south central chile with forest fires continue to be out of control and winter. national health is just beginning to trickle in
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awe. that the focus on heavy rain recently in southeast asia has been maybe the sas to philippines, bornea, and peninsula malaysia. i think we can re address that now and they will cease. so be some focus there, but i think it's more likely now in java or a bit further east west. papua, you'll notice is whether heavy is rain is looking like big, which means flash funding. still a potential not gone from either borneo open in your malays yet. she is not quite as heavy in the forecast. likewise in australia, the showers around queens and are still going to be there. but we got rather enhanced into the spinning things. one of the coal, c, one names is tropical not quite cyclic tropical depression. freddy will stay off shore, but the fact is they are tall, indicates the weather is getting more active. that will be what i'm sure that makes landfall and next week is so that further south is warmer. but in melbourne,
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the onshore breeze means rather disappointingly, sharon place like sydney maybe can brett not too bad, but they're all the same. this has not been named could be turning into a significant tropical spinner of some sorts that comes from the coral sea. but it's still largely affecting only small island at the moment. in new zealand that was spelled he was so much enjoy is on its way out by wednesday back dime at or below normal, slightly cooler on thursday. the inspiring stories from around the world. i guess the human life capture. and it's a vast one. this feel like that presentation of what i want people to remember me by. groundbreaking, from award winning filmmakers. witness on
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a jetta. lou. ah, you're watching al jazeera reminder about top stories. the salad. more than 5000 people have been killed across to kia and syria after 2 worth quite hit early on monday, the world health organization warms the death toll could rise. 8 fault rescue operations are ongoing across the 2 countries that are being hampered by freezing temperatures. in some parts of turkey, people say that received no help to find missing loved ones. and several countries are assisting took here and syria, the european union,
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and the u. s. have deployed search and rescue teams. russia pakistan, south korea and kata. i'm also sending units to help with chile is battling as deadliest wildfires on record that have killed at least 26 people. the funds have been burning since thursday. a hate wife is complicating efforts to extinguish the flames. a latin american, it's l o. c and human reports from santa juana and the b o. b origin of chili 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. in santa who yeah, he threw your old into our look at rascal inspects what's left of the property. he's lived in his entire life that is in willowbrook in this is where the iron stove was. he says he's cat and his dog got burnt alive with everything he and his family owned. he lived up in the day to the other people for the family from inside
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and on top of the house, the flames came. there was nothing we could do but to escape. wildfires can be fickle. donna's 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 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, blamed chiles. powerful forestry companies who planted eucalyptus and pine trees
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all over the region. you don't really know where you live, eagle, their 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, did it off anyway, where our country is very peculiar. if we don't get hit by earthquakes, we have seen armies or floods and 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 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, at least 15 people have been killed in a landslide and peru, hundreds of homes in the southern r. equip a region were damaged. torrential rains have been hitting the area for dies,
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peruse, national emergency center, said search and rescue. if it's are ongoing and authorities warn the death toll might still rise. they could dorians have rejected the reforms presented in sundays referendum called by the governing president kim law. so admitted the defeat and his popularity is currently down to 20 percent. and many boxes saw the vote as a referendum on his leadership. lesandra 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 wait 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. is that
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a majority of ecuadorian sterns dear 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 insecurity. crisis, some voters believed him. i voted yes because i believe that these reforms 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 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 youth feel help. there is so much crime and we can't live in peace anymore. the referendum also called for the extradition of citizens,
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linked to organized crime. and the rise in violence also crept into the election campaign to let this mayoral candidates were killed before the pulls opened. some had to vote under extreme security measures. something equity had never with miss before. oh, india, and the real winner of the night was former left his president rafael korea. he 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 lather up. i'll as it it as an even less united imperfect but the right last across the board at national level. the conservative sexual pot in particular is left with fair if he provinces, while we see the left and in particular progressive movements,
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lack careers and the indigenous party rising by it. it leaves the government in a much more unfavourable scenario valley, 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 am bid, as se akita. ukrainian authorities are delaying the replacement of the defense minister as the government prepared for a russian offensive. parliamentary, official cit, no decisions on staff changes will be made this week. on sunday, the head of president followed amir zalinski, his party announced alexi, risen. accost will be replaced by the head of military intelligence. the cabinet re shuffle followed a series of corruption scandals. a 3rd day of a nationwide strikes and major demonstrations against pension reforms and france are expected in the coming hours. hundreds of thousands of people have really
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against presidente menu microns plans to raise the retirement age. from 62 to 64, members of the national assembly met on monday to debates the bill england to feist its largest, if a strike by health workers on monday with tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers walking out and an escalating pay dispute. the government says it can't afford pay rises in line with inflation, but strikes and while some scotland were called off to improve, to pay off as there is a embargo reports from brighton. ah, on the picket line and getting plenty of support from passing motorists, nurses and ambulance workers on strike together for the 1st time pushing for a pay rise in line with inflation. jason, jeffrey worked in a cardiac unit here for him. it's all about staffing levels. for me, it was never about money is about delivering care and making sure that i can make
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a difference to somebody's life. even if it's one person, we just want to be able to provide that care that i sent out to enough study really hopeful national health service policies in our aging. the u. k. government to reopen pay talks for the current year for england. like the devolved welsh and scottish governments have done, and ambulance work as a rejected claims. they're not attending urgent cases on strike days saying they're leaving picket lines to do so. we are more spoken to the government for the past month. we have oh, spoken to the government and willows and the government in scotland. we are making progress in negotiations, wills and scotland. and that's why we all know and shrink from wilson stolen today . ways might be the biggest and i just strike so far, but it certainly not the last a while we striking workers say they are pushing for a fair pay rise. they say they're also doing it for the sake of their patients. patients like laurel, a retired counselor who's seen the effect of increased amount on n h s. workers. she's currently waiting for an ultrasound and also needs
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a hip replacement, but back to the strikes even if they delay her treatment sometimes is painful, sometimes a good day. bye bye. so i feel it can wait, but i won't be able to like for the operations. it will get worse, and now i'm lonely. it's. i'm frightened. again, that won't be me knows he's left the wifi in an h. s. left to do the operation. for now, it's a stand off adding to the record waiting lists and growing public kangaroo with the state of the national health service. the team, bob al jazeera brighton in southern england. of all the british police officer said to be sentenced this week for a series of offences including ripe. he committed across 2 decades with london's metropolitan police, david carrick admitted to the crimes while working in the force. hundreds of officers being investigated in british politicians are describing the police force
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as rife with institution line fixes them. so new guy has more they all the 1st port of call for law enforcement and prevention of crime in the you case capital with unique responsibilities and challenges. it. a crisis of competence has overshadowed london, metropolitan police. some $800.00 police officers are being investigated for sexual domestic abuse. revelations of criminals within its ranks, including wayne cousins who abducted raped and murdered sarah ever odd. as she was walking home nearly 2 years ago, and david carrick, who admitted to dozens of rapes and sexual offences against 12 women across 2 decades have shaken faith in the force. policing in the u. k. relies on the public consent and trust, but that trust has been in decline over the past few years, especially when it comes to issues of violence against women and girls. and the
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continuing disclosure of members of the 40 been found guilty of such crimes. only exposing how deep the problem runs. reports of sexual offences and domestic abuse have increased yet. convictions are out. historic lows, receipts of appalling attitudes, of, of disbelief and blame the, you know, sometimes when a report to us and, and that's, that obviously causes many to pull out of of pursuing allegations. so we're not just talking about here about police officer pub traces, which is obviously, you know, absolutely, you know, should never happen, but also talking about in it at leasing, which is not giving confidence. when supper jama reported to police, she had been raped and abused by her uncle. the response she says was one of disbelief when i wanted to show them fresh marks i had on my body. i set her like this is where he lost it to me. he then my back,
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i wanted to know he did. she said to me, how did she know he did? it? said didn't miss he. and then that was very, it was very sad me. oh, storing trust will be a massive undertaking. and in the wake of the characterize an overhaul of the you case, entire police culture may be just one step to restoring some measure of faith in the force sonic. i angle out a 0 london the world is producing more single use plastic waste than ever before. despite rise and consumer awareness and tougher world wide regulations, when you research by them and to ru foundation has found the world generated 137000000 metric tons of single use plastic in 2021. some 7000000 metric tons more than and 2019. and it says the crisis will get significantly worse with the
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amount being produced, expected to rise another 17000000 by 2027. it found recycling isn't scaling up fast enough to deal with the sheer amount of plastic that is being produced for the reports is plastic, produces and making little progress and tackling the problem. and it's called for a fundamentally different approach. willoughby peek is from the green alliance. she says, recycling alone isn't tackling the mountains of single use plastic globally. unwilling, there is commitments that have been made me u. k. announce where to improve. so hang and improve collection of plastic. i think the real problem that this report i like is that funded mentally. we're using our too much plastic as well as other materials. and if you just look at, prevent dealing with things once waste has been created, you're not going to get to the root cause is that the throw away society that we're living in? it is a global problem. it's not just the u. k, that's tinkering around the edge of it is. it is globally that we're not getting to the heart of the problem by instituting systems of review by making it as easy as
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possible for people to know up for a single year, plastic or anything, but rather to embrace a refill revolution and to and to not need this throw away living that we've become so reliance on, but that's damaging on it to such a great extent. i think that the one that really got it right yet, but there is a promise in the making in the human environment program has said that it's going to create by this year at rest resolution. that's going to be legally binding for all the member states to end plastic pollution. and so they're going to be looking at the full life cycle of plastics that are not going to be thinking about how we recycle what's made. they're going to be thinking about how do we ensure that we don't make more than we need and that we address all of the patients of using too much plastic. ah.
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