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a national aid if it's are being stepped up to help those affected with countries pledging eyes and teams to assist. ah, until mccrae, this is al jazeera alive from doha. also coming up. i'm just seeing you in the bill bill 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, ah, rescue operations are ongoing and took here and syria after 2 powerful earthquakes hit the region on monday. will that 5000 people have been killed across both countries? at least 3400 and to keep and more than 1600 and syria tames have been working

around the clock trying to find survivors. freezing conditions are complicating those efforts in the region of what i in southern took here. people spent the night looking for loved ones. hello shem, sunday legit. and it's very important that we keep these roads open so that transportation can be provided on time. disaster fighting vehicles and our team can quickly carry out the work in the field. we especially want to warn our citizens who do not have a job in the disaster area, not to use these roads and not to go to the area. oh, let's go live to ben at smith now. he joins us from shanley, ofa, and southeast and took here. learned. can you explain the, the extent of the devastation where you are and what you've been able to find out and see since you've arrived there. ringback will now be high. oh, wow. they say you g an unknown

number, missy in san mary. about 200 moments its center quite fine. yeah. not sure. hold on something erotic, it seems like there at the star level period period of silence. shout. it sent him the dog. sounds like a horse. so no son. she. she very, very delicate operation. always some trouble. and then they hear again lots. ok, thank you so much. that is at bernard smith for us and se, and to kia. we're going to take you to live pictures. now we're search and rescue teams. picking through the rubble, looking for survivors, gassy on tip,

which is about a 150 kilometers away from where burnett was speaking to us from. we're now going to go to us and, and casio lou who joined us from stan bowl, where she is monitoring a development. now, a lot of the provinces that have been really badly affected. don't have electricity and many don't have water. and you know, must be chaos. i mentioned a lot of people are desperately trying to find information about their loved ones. can you just bring us up to date with how other search and rescue operation is going is going on at this point in time. as the area affected by this that the earthquake is a large air. the says this is making things possible to reach out the loved ones and to reach out to people, to rescue them. in social media, everybody's sharing the messages of people who have below the ones in these areas

appear. messages of people who cannot reach to their i have family members and these messages are being circulated in order to reach out to the response groups and air rescue teams. a current, they, at least 16000 personnel is on the ground to, oh, help those people trapped on their to robles of the a collapse buildings. and it will help those people who are left outside among those 16000 people. and nearly 144000 of them are a foreign rescue. teams are coming from 14 different countries who offered turkey help. they are here on the ground to work with the air, turkish counterparts. air to a rescue. the people who are trapped inside or however the rescue operations are facing some risks at 1st because of the weather conditions as or the weather is very air. the there are cold temperatures in the region because of when

a winter and because of some technical issues like the ape, some of the airports being shut down, some of the highways air being air damaged air. those rods are not, are not able to be used by the ne organizations and the age groups to bring the necessary supplies to the area. but the turkish officials announced in the last one hour that the main highway between other and gas and tip to major cities to very large cities of the region that have been affected by the earthquake is open now air. but despite the efforts of the government, as by the extra air forces from the earth friendly counter is, is still the numbers of the rescue teams. it do not seem to be enough for now because i have been nearly $6000.00 buildings have collapsed, then at least $11000.00 buildings are reported to be damaged

a which means in the coming hours in the coming days, they will need more forces on the ground air to go under day or collapsed buildings, air to, to take out a people and back to life. and we also understand that the parts of a port are on fire in the city of high ty, is that correct? and there is a fire in escandone port as the earthquake happened yesterday in the port as some of the a containers a moved away an error because of gas and oil. it got on fire. and since yesterday, air the officials are they rescued him. the fire fighters are trying to put out this fire, but as far as it is reported at the air, the port or the, the place where the container has got a fire still continues. okay, and do we understand her how the hospitals are coping in southeast inter kia?

they completely overwhelmed at this point in time? definitely, definitely. also some of the hospitals are have collapsed. they level down, especially in hot i. yesterday it was reported that a one hospital. it went down in haiti and one hospital went down and escandone. and today we heard that as 2nd hospital is highly damaged in the hotel and hot. i is turkey, southern it's a city, it's border with syria and sent air. yesterday. there was no access to the city for the rescue groups, a because the airport runway air was damaged and the main highway was damaged. today. they are able to access the area. we are seeing reports are that agenda. murray, and coastal guard units. if they're all tied to the interior minister there on the ground, helping to rescue people are but the hospitals are overwhelmed. that's why many of the patients are being brought to her hospitals,

especially close by garza on tab. and the hospital situation is one of the, a critical issues around a hot eye area because at some reports suggest that there is a big air damage in the city. and some of the districts are totally went down. and that's why they are the defense ministry also offered to help saying that one of the military vessels air could reach to the course, then it take thee a patience of people and to the hospitals in my sin. okay, we'll have to leave it there. thank you. so much edison casias for us on a stand bowl who is monitoring developments from there. thank you. la. crossed 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. them hundreds of families in the north, a trapped under destroyed buildings. the disaster has added to misery already faced by millions of syrians displaced by 11 years of civil war, many

a living and makeshift camps. the syrian arab rib writ crisen says it's ready to deliver. i, despite the regime insistence that supplies go through at 1st man, not man enough, what we in the syrian arab right question. never differentiate between any of the syrian people here. we work to serve all categories of the steering people were so ready to send immediately. and ain't convert to it live across the lines of contact . because we consider him to be our people despite the fact that we have nothing to do with the armed groups, there was the parties agree. we will immediately be ready to send a convoy of humanitarian aid. we appeal to united nations to accept this. and by the way, we are need to express our appreciation to the united nations in all of his offices in this regard and with honor, kim and 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 phase pretty similar to the one in turkey last yesterday was very difficult

for everybody to communications. we have a party so we had a hard time reaching out stuff. most of them had the house damaged and of course it is happening to population that is lovely misplaced, and has been very difficult situations for the past 10 years. we're looking with a population that has been struggling to get access to all the basic services. all the supply lines are going through turkey and even distribution just across the water. 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 had the areas where we already operating with the $98.00 camps. but

we also very aware that the chemist on that initially the most affected because the people who are living in house is extremely touched by this week. so we are now assisting another $136.00 communities in the same area as an international id. if it is being stepped up, that after the turkish government appealed for help, cutter is sitting up $10000.00 mobile homes in the affected areas and to kia and syria. it's also sending 120 rescue workers, a field hospital, and humanitarian assistance. was stephanie deka is on board a plane carrying aid from counter to, to kia this report, reaches us from the field. so we apologize for the quality of the audio a turkey our, that effort here. my international effort,

a flight for 100 or so with the medical supply wanted mattresses, hardware a band aid with a one in taiwan has sent 150 rescue is including medical personnel and search dogs. it's also done, i think, funds and tons of age to, to care. the interior minister says, and korea was one of the 1st countries to help taiwan when it was shaken by, by nist quake in 1999. pasano announced it will have daddy flights with

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you're watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories. the salad, the search continues 5th of august and to kia and syria after 2 earthquakes on monday. but freezing temperature is a complicated goes. if it's in some places people say they haven't received any help to find missing. loved ones. more than 5000 people have been killed across the 2 countries, at least 3400 and to kia. and more than 1600 and syria. and international aid, if it is being stepped up, that's out to the turkish government, appealed for help. countries including kata taiwan and pakistan ascending medical aid funding, as well as search and rescue personnel. chilly is battling its deadliest wildfires on record that have killed at least 26 people that been burning since thursday. now i hate why this complicating efforts to extinguish the flames, how latin america edited lucy and human reports from santa juana and the b o. b

origin of chilly 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 into our look at rascal inspects what's left of the property he's lived in his entire life. vivian will arrive in. this is where the iron stove was, he says, his cat and his dog were burnt alive with everything he and his family owned delivered 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 on his lot of those watermelons and a few chickens that hid 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 beale 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 in turn, matchbox. still, most people have lost everything. tell us. they've already dried their tears. did in our opinion. boy, our 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 resilient

. chillies 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 and land slides caused by heavy rains and southern peru. the army has been deployed to the ard, equip a region to help with rescue operations. the number of dead is expected to rise. when we call soon sharif reports o, a lifetime's belongings gone in seconds. oh, oh. where this landslide improves sudden i keep my regions swept away. everything

in its part villages who moved up hill could only watch as hundreds of their homes were washed to this other foam. the middle familiars, diagnostic us. there are over a 1000 affected families. we can say that the houses of 90 percent of afflicted families were completely destroyed by the yesterday. ah, some people were unable to escape some bodies have been retrieved from the day bri. many, i believe to be minus 4 villages were the hardest hit. the in an area called nicholas valko cell. they're twin continuously for several days. they go through it as a very cold. there are no houses. this is a complete disaster. we've got corpses scattered everywhere. they're dead. where? oh, many people are still missing. officials in the city of or

a keeper asking the national government to declare a state of emergency. the army has been deployed to health, southern regions like our a keeper. what a starting point for major protest. after the arrest and dismissal in december of then preston, pedro castillo, as well as a political crisis, and a slowing economy pedal now faces a natural disaster who may consume sharif under sierra. the 3rd day of nationwide strikes against pension reforms and frances underway. but these are the latest pictures of people gathering in marseilles. this week. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied against president manuel mac hans plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, members of the national assembly met on monday to debate the bill. england faced

its largest if a strike by health workers on monday with tens of thousands of nurses, an ambulance workers walking out and an escalating pay dispute. the government's his account afford pay rises in line with inflation, but strikes and wiles in scotland for cooled off after improved payoff as then the team barber reports from brighten, 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 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 heartful national health service policies. and i waging the u. k. government to reopen pay talks for the current year for england. like the devotion scottish

governments have done an ambulance work as a rejected claims. they're not attending urgent cases or strike dens 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 negotiation to wilson, scotland. and that's why we'll know and shaken wilson stolen today. always might be the biggest and i just strike so far, but it certainly not the laws and why 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 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 operation forever. it will get worse,

and now i'm mommy it's, i'm frightened, the thinking that will be me knows he's left the way in an h. s. left to do the operation for no, it's a stand off. adding to the record waiting lists and growing public anger over the state of national health service. the dean barber al jazeera brighton in southern england ukrainian authority to delaying the replacement of the defense minister as the government repairs for a russian offensive. a parliamentary official said no decisions on staff changes will be made this week. on sunday, the head of president val autumn, is zalinski, his party announced alexi risen, a coffer will be replaced by the head of military intelligence. the cabinet re shuffle follows a series of corruptions. scandals will energy giant b p has announced record profits. the british energy company recorded $27700000000.00 of earnings lifted by

a surgeon energy prices since russia's invasion of ukraine. the figure doubled from the year prior. b. p also increased its quarterly dividend by 10 percent and announced plans to buy back to point $75000000000.00 of stock from shareholders. the funeral of pakistan's former presidents have asthma sheriff is due to be held later on tuesday. sheriff died on sunday at the age of 79. after a long illness, he lived an self imposed exile in dubai since 2016 who sheriff seized power in a coup in 1999 and led the country until he was forced to resign in 2000 to night. he will be buried in a military symmetry in karachi. pakistan to god's in 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 gong tow. at 15 minutes past midnight. when i signed up, as soon as i got the news of overseas toys, i'm sure i travel 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 researched destination by chinese nationals. before the pandemic, thailand welcomed 11000000 visitors from china. it's expecting 5000000 plus year and expects them to spend nearly $30000000000.00. we are very happy and i'm sure that the coming back up chinese would be, ah, bows up there, ty,

economy significantly because as you get that revenue from the time to really mentorship chair of, of quarter 20 percent of the g d p. so these, you can prove that the coming back of china or chinese back is the key of success of the teachers 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 cost miss our chinese. and so to speak for us, especially after we closed our 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

will lead to the tourism. industry in the region thriving once again. lastly, algebra will. it's returned to our top story. we've been covering this our rescue operations and continuing across southern to kia and parts of northern syria after 2 earthquakes hits early on monday. well then 5000 people have been killed across the region. the w h o warns the death toll could rise 8 falls. well, that's all for me. the news continues after inside story, which is up next. ah was general movement in east asia of all the weather coming from the southwest and moving in this just this direction, which means with squeezing out the extreme cold, the still sits in eastern siberia,

but was crazy. that allowed to tip down over the far north of japan's or returned to sto, shells, maybe for parts of hong shoe and her card and a bit of a drop in temperature maybe. but for the most part it's cloudy. rain coming through china, snow on the nolan flag, which means the temperature beijing will come down to 0 where it should be going to be snow here. this is significant, right? a little bit early in the year for significant rank coming through china hitting shanghai again. this the 2nd post probably also it will head towards q shoe. the day after down india things are quiet, persistent, missed on the coast of tumbled louder. and yes, a qualities are still a problem in the northern plain, but the winds picked up to improve things. to some degree the, any significant rain looks like big for this. i have a line from sumatra towards sri lanka is going south. so even here, rains not flat, so could the still snow showers in the poll and incoming system? i'm taking you ahead to thursday now, but look at this significant snow or rain in afghanistan through pakistan and

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