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[000:00:00;00] ah ah, revealing eco friendly solutions to combat threats to our planet on al jazeera ah, a 3 months state of emergency is declared in 10 turkish province is devastated by 2 powerful earthquakes. more than 5000 people have been killed in both turkey and
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syria. rescue workers are digging through rubble to find survivors and international efforts are being stepped up to how those affected with countries pledging age and emergency. ah, i'm fully betty boy. you're watching al jazeera live from doha. also ahead protest as in france, a back on the streets to say no to the government plan to reform the pension system . ah, thank you very much for joining us. so then we begin in turkey, where the president has declared a 3 month state of emergency after mondays to powerful earthquakes worship, ty, berto on says it will apply to the 10 provinces affected by the disastrous. did you mean jenny? did all i love it?
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she did in our work will continue until we have saved every life that we can in the rubble and until we are sure there is nothing else we could do further. we are mobilizing every possible operation. in many thousands of people have been transferred to each and every province to help. i'm more than 5000 people have been killed in both turkey and syria. the united nations is wanting the death toll could jump eightfold. more than 1600 people have been killed in syria in thousands more seriously injured into care. the death toll is at at least $3400.00. but large numbers remain chopped under rabble in both countries. i'll just here as mom advice has more on the devastation caused by the quakes. this is what's left of one of tortillas. most historic cities are tight. it's largely reuben's following to paul from earthquakes, and hundreds of tremors on monday. more than 1200 buildings have been destroyed. in
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the province. people spent the night sifting through rubble, looking for signs of life who loses their boot. we heard their calling out, asking for help. they are 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 other drug we 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 in the collective place. ok so much for you. ah. listening for any sign of survivors. these rescue teams in get the anti cord for complete silence. moments later,
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ladies on similar operations are being carried out in my latiere dealbreaker a dun and several other locations across tokyo. what to the scale of destruction is a challenge for us to, to several airports where put out of service by the quakes, along with some hospitals. those still operating are overcrowded. the death toll is rising, and thousands of people are injured or homeless. the neighboring syria, a similar situation. we're talking about a population that has been a struggling to get access to all the basic services or all the supply lines are going through turkey. and given the situation just across the board, the supply lines are extremely weak or to day and, and to were yesterday. so we are trying to find suppliers who manage to find ways to get her food and, and equipment across the border. the main one for you mate and 8 was closed by her
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. and we are hoping that this will or will been very soon ha, sort of a 1000. as in tokyo rescue, was in city asked to extract survivors from under collapsed buildings. cheering any lucky fight, such as this young boy in the town. and jan does was both damascus and, and kind of see the neat, international help and urgently humbug. a da 0. while international aid efforts are being stepped up thus after the turkish government appealed for help, catseye setting up 10000 mobile homes in disaster areas in turkey and syria. also sending a 120 rescue workers a field hospital and monetary in support. al jazeera, stephanie deka is on a plane carrying aid from carter to this report, reaches us from the field. and we apologize for the quality of the audio with the efforts here
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by fred international effort, in this light had the boss 100 or so a t with medical supply wanted mattresses, hardware, and it is only a band aid with a good one in affected health and now live to agitators, natasha, go name, who's at an a distribution center in the sample turkey. tell us about what's happening where you want to. tasha that this 8 fx seems to be picking up steam. 1000 volunteers here in this exhibition center are working
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round the clock and they are working with heavy hearts. they are loading boxes as we speak. clothing whites were told that people need diapers, baby my milk, baby, food diapers here, blankets. the volunteers here are loading up these boxes. all donated goods are being loaded on to semi trucks that will make the track to had tie the city of a tie has been devastated by the earthquake. these trucks will have a long track ahead of them about a half a day's drive, and we're told the roads are not good. that's because snow and cold weather continued to impact movement across the country. and particularly in the south. a short time ago, i spoke to the city of is stumble, head of social services. this effort is being led by the city of is dumble and she broke down. when i asked her how people are doing and tie what she's heard about
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the conditions there, she said it's bad. people are hungry, they are scared, they are cold and they are desperate not just in the city have had tie. but in other, the other night cities impacted across the south by this earthquake, it is going to be, she says, a massive effort. this will continue 247. she says for a month, perhaps 3 months, really a very good indicator. when you take a look at the massive scope of this, of that, i just want to show we're looking at heaters. heat is a big issue for people right now who have no shelter and electricity in some of the cities is non existent, natural gas pipelines have been damage, which means natural gas has also been disrupted. there has been a state of emergency declared in the 10 cities in the south impacted by this earthquake. those cities had already been declared disaster areas. schools and those 10 cities will be closed for the next 2 weeks president or 2 on spoke earlier
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today. and he says that the mobilization continues 31 and his government have actually been praised for its massive and with mobilization. with the state of emergency in the tenant affected cities is going to take the country right up until election or election slated for the president and also the parliament on may 14th. and this is an interesting moment because there are a couple of things happening here in the south. there is a huge population of syrian refugees, more than 3600000 syrian refugees have been absorbed by turkey. and far right parties are rising and criticizing. have been criticizing for a long time, what they see as the pope burden that syrian refugees are placing on an already shaky economy. some of these far right candidates are actually talking about quote, sending the syrian refugees back to their countries. another weak point here is the
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economy. inflation here is 80 percent. interest rates are 9 percent rent here and is stumble, have tripled over the last year, and 2 are really suffering yet. you see this massive outpouring of support for their fellow turks, but the elections and this earthquake take place at a very difficult moment economically for the country. it is estimated by the us geological survey that the damage from this $7.00 earthquake could top $1000000000.00. but this earthquake is definitely the largest natural disaster that president urban has ever faced during his presidency. he's been in office since 2002, and of course we know fully that this is already the largest disaster. turkey has seen since 939 when 30000 people died in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake the same as this one. thank you for that, natasha. go named, live there. any sample was the 8 if it picks up. so is
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a search and rescue operation. bernard smith is in one of the affected areas sham, your fun in southeast, in turkey. this is what is left of an apartment building that had mainly we're told, syrian families in it's 12 separate blocks, search still ongoing for survivors, but there's been no sign of life heroically. they stop digging and pulling away the rubble asper silence to see if there's anybody calling for help from inside the house. been there have been no calls for help, isn't in the sniffer dogs looking for signs of life as well. unfortunately, no success, but this is just a very, very small example of the massive, extraordinary humanitarian challenge facing the turkish or far it is not just in general but, but across east and southeast and turkey. it's home to some 12000000 people. the turkish government is encouraging everybody who can,
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to try and leave it doesn't want people here because of the risk of other buildings falling down because of the risk of the shocks. so it's offering $5.00 tickets for people to get on flights out of this part of turkey and over to istanbul, another cities on the western side of the country, humanitarian flights that are coming in. they will be able to take people out to want to leave this area. the government wants to be able to concentrate on the humanitarian response and trying to rescue people trapped in buildings. it doesn't want anymore buildings falling down with people inside the bodies wide. it's hoping that as many people as possible will just leave this read all across the border in neighboring syria. the government is calling for urgent help from the united nations. hundreds of families in the north had trapped under destroyed buildings. that disaster has added to misery. already faced by millions of syrians is faced by 11 years of civil war, many a living in makeshift camps. the syrian ab or red crescent says it's ready to
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deliver a despite the regimes, insistence that supplies go through it. first, man, that man the, for we in the syrian air breath question for the friendship between any of the syrian people that we worked to serve all categories of the syrian people were so ready to send immediately. and 8 convert to it live across the lines of contact. because we consider 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, which 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, with our less i'll give you an idea of just how many earthquakes and tremors have been since the magnitude 7 point. 8 quakes struck early on. monday morning, that one and the subsequent magnitude 7.5 quake on the dots in red. and as you can see they've been dozens of aftershocks since then. many have been magnitude $4.00 or stronger,
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and they're all taking place within the east anatoly in seismic fault system. l. e . i spake spoke to david rothery, who's a professor of planetary geosciences at the open university in the u. k. he says it's difficult to predict how long the aftershocks will last. they will get weaker as time goes by, it's hard to tell how quickly they will die away. i would hope that by tomorrow they'll be no more off the shocks. magnitude 5 know before or lower, but it could go on for a week. certainly, if you're close to be at the center of an individual after shop, you will still feel the grandchild. of course that's going to be alarming. so the local people, we can't predict when enough quite we'll have to, we know, be of the zones model for quakes to occurring close to the play boundary folks in particular. we know well now that the south western parts of the east on it's all in fault as move we may be concerned about the more not based in parts of that to know based of whatever original bigger quite was that hasn't moved. maybe the next
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big fights will be that, but they could be 10 years, 50 years, 100 years away. what we can do to prepare is build buildings which improperly resilience. and what's your job saying that of the damage in turkey, and some why in syria, is a 5 or 10 story apartment blocks which the wisdom of quake and every so often as one which is collapse were one of those few come out. they should have been just as resilient as the neighboring buildings that maybe they were not built so well. we know how to build buildings which we stand seismic shaking. it costs to stay in 2025 percent more, but you can't put it the way we know of grants will reoccur in this region. it could be next year. it could be 5 years time. it could be 50 or 200 us time, but we should build buildings which are more resilient or people in a turkey city of my life. thea are struggling with heavy snow fall as a wait for the government to rescue teams to reach them. hello,
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julio. calling alden though there is not been a single person here. we are under the snow without a home without anything. we can go through this. we can fast for 40 days, but still go through this. but let us recover, the embodies for the financials, shall i commit suicide. what shall i do? where can i go back to him say, or there is no one here that we are all doomed. this is the order we have in turkey . this is not what we expected from the state. no matter how big the earthquake was mobilization of all people was necessary from all of our senior meteorologists ra mckelly looks at the forecast for turkey and syria and how continued when to where they could hamper rescue efforts. and the winter storm has blown through turkey in there and the problem weather was over the next few days isn't going to be what falls out the sky temperature wise tuesday morning, didn't look too bad at all. everywhere of a freezing, a leper up to about 10, but it is still snowing in part. no,
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actually the place snowing during the morning been go in the mountains if you come a bit further. south clarion breeze is a typical store even misty where things have become quiet, but there is more snow to come. the eastern half of the rescue area, it's sunny for the most elsewhere in just about reach, double figures as well. so day times are not that bad, it's overnight, it might sink, things might turn really rather worse as it still snows all in off in d, abigail, so it doesn't elsewhere and it's clear skies it could well turn out to be the most well unpleasant weather. those are temperatures down below freezing. now that's below average. you might be surprised to hear it, but it is below average. for the most part, the sun comes out by day going all wednesday and eventually even reaches the eastern area of interest. but is the night time temperatures to watch once more, 5 by day minus 6 by night. that is, as you can see about 5 degrees below average both by day and by night. slide on al
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jazeera ah, tens of thousands of healthcare workers walk off the job in england in the biggest sentence try catch in with and understand human to the bill. bill region of south central chile, forest fires continue to be out of control and winter national health is just beginning quickly. ah, that is still like to rain fairly heavily in places like columbus, singapore central part of borneo. but the forecast, i think for the heaviest rain is going to be a bit further south for a while. java and a bit further east, west, papua and then a line that takes you up towards the southern philippines is quite active. well, in this area, at the moment, the same time there is unusually heavy rain for the time,
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the air coming through sunshine. this is the 2nd time we seen this snow where it's cold for the north. all this is movie in this general direction. the squeeze of colder air coming out again over the open water. so snow showers are like the how cardo and honshu tours at 12 degrees and in the lee of all that in the sunshine. the picture on thursday is even more in the way of wind briefly in the morning. and the snow has reached beijing light or it will be, but this is rain. second belt in a week on its way through shanghai, probably into what q she about how we get to the end of the week. now at the moment, it's benign whether to static therefore poor quality for many cities in the north of india. but the winds picked up for new delhi that should improve things about time we get to thursday, though, in the far north we got snow for afghan, the north of pakistan and the north of india again. ah
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ah, ah ah. lou ah, welcome back. a recap of our mean story this hour on al jazeera, the turkish president hesitated 3 months,
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seated emergency for the 10 provinces affected by mondays, devastating earthquakes, more than 5000 people have been killed. across jackie and syria rescue teams are searching for survivors in both countries. but freezing temperatures are complicating those efforts. some people say they haven't received any help to find missing. loved ones and international efforts have been stepped up that after the turkish government revealed for help countries including katara, taiwan, and pakistan ascending medical aid funding and search and rescue personnel. let's take a look at some of the days, avenues, mouth, and in france. the 3rd day of nationwide strikes against mentioned reforms is underway. these are life pictures from paris where as you can see, many people have gathered this week. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied against president michaels plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. let's go live to harry fawcett,
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who's in paris wars. herridge is how big are the crowds this week? well, we haven't got any procedure yet, but they are very substantial. again, as you can see, the gathering here at the last, you know, there are instructional paris people go along way both directions, up and down the road, approaching it, and they are gathering now and wanting to, to move on on march through the 3rd to younger civil march is taking place in other cities around the country just as they were in the previous 2 days with our shouldn't know which we saw more than a 1000000 people take to the streets each time this week. there's gotta be a 2nd day of action on saturday. so there is a potential perhaps slightly lower numbers here tuesday. however, this is another very wide ranging strike. it is incorporating transport severely, disrupting transport across the country, post to workers or out teaches or out energy workers. some of them decided to come out on strike of the last minute farmers union. so apply for the police union
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despite the fact. they're obviously thousands of police here in paris, not managing the situation. all of it in opposition to president macros grounds to raise the retirement age for him. and indeed, i guess for consensus and products, there is a need to reform the pension system. there is estimated by the government to be a black hole looming by 2030 and the national budget and a 14000000000 euros to something needs to be done about of the people out on strike out in protest here. say what this app and his higher taxes on the rich, more pension contributions, the companies that can afford them, are not raising that much value over time. it's not something that changes from previous weeks. harry is that the bill is actually now being debated at the national assembly. has that been going? oh, that's right. he has opposition. party ha, marshalling their forces against this bill. i have tried to get it scrapped or
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tried to put it to a referendum, but they don't seem to have the numbers to do that. inside the national assembly, the president's party is prime minister, came out with a plan on sunday to try to suggest the 20 year olds and 21 year old people who start work at that age. ready could have a year shaved off, even this new heights in retirement age, that may be enough to get the conservative republican on board. but even then, the kind of delaying tactics that the opposition parties are suggesting thousands upon thousands of amendments set to take place during this month and debate back to make it very difficult to parse none the less. so he does have president mark wrong . another option which is to force it through by presidential decree a very much made a. ringback part of his campaign, tackling this very book this year. it's something that he wants to to do and be behind as his magazine. but it's also something of a vast majority. 69 percent of people in front of him. and they just called very
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much suppose how are you? thank you for that. how are you? constant reporting their live from paris. ukrainian authorities are delaying the replacement of the defense minister as the government prepares for a russian offensive of alimentary official said, no decision on staff changes will be made this week on sunday, the head of frozen brought him zalinski his party, announced alexia, resume cove will be replaced by the head of military intelligence, the cabinet re shuffle followed a series of corruption scandals. energy giant b b has announced record profits. the british energy company recorded $27700000000.00 of earnings lifted by assertion energy prices since rushes invasion of ukraine. their figure doubled from the year prior v p also increase its quality dividend by 10 percent and announced brands to buy back to point $75000000000.00 of sock from shareholders. a united nations delegation has postponed his visit to
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account for internally the space people in democratic republic of congo because of protests. people are voicing frustrations with the government handling of the m 23 onto group. they've been making more territorial advances in the north east of darcy malcolm web reports from a camp for the displays. in blanco, people from the villages in the hills on the outskirts of the city of goma have been fleeing in their thousands to come like this one which is just on the edge of the city. thousands have been arriving every day is rapidly swelling. people put up more and more of these shelters, running away from the advance of the m. $23.00 armed group, as it proceeds towards the city of goma and $23.00 widely understood to be backed by neighboring rwanda. well, they were one that denies it. the un deputy humanitarian chief joyce m c. i was due to visit the escalating humanitarian crisis on tuesday. but on monday the city of goma was brought to
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a standstill. roads were blocked by protesters with stones and wooden barricades, and the organizers were calling for the departure of all foreign forces from congo and cooling on the government, strengthening its own armed forces and take back the territories last 2 and 23. now to chile, which is battling its deadliest wildfires on record that has killed at least $26.00 people, they've been burning since those they heat. wave is complicating efforts with english, the flames, a latin america editor to see and human re for some santa juana in the b o. b o reach enough to lay an inferno is raging across large parts of chile. these are the deadliest wildfires on record and they're destroying everything in their path and sent the who. yes, he 3 year old into our look at our school in specs which left of the property. he's lived in his entire life to me. and this is where the iron stove was, he says,
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his cap and his dog to live with everything he and his family owned with him today to the family from inside and on top of the house, the flames came, there was nothing we could do. but the escape wildfires can be fickle done is one 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,
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much further. this farmer who also lost his house, blamed chiles, powerful forest 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 in our opinion for him, where a country is very peculiar. if we don't get hit by earthquakes, we have soon armies or floods. now fires, so weak to loans have learned to be resilience. chiles 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 st aquiner chilly. at least 15 people have been killed in
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a landslide in peru, hundreds of homes in the southern, ari keep a region where damage torrential rains have been hitting the area for days. now, there are national emergency center said search and rescue efforts or ongoing authorities worn at the death toll might still rise. the funeral of pakistan's former president, prevail machine has been held in karachi, which i have died on sunday after a long illness. at the age of 79. he lived in self imposed exile in dubai. since 2016 we shall cease power in a coin. 1999 and led the country until he was forced to resign in 2008. ah. in watching al jazeera ly from de how with me for the battle, a reminder of our top stories turkish president has the k, the text present has declared a 3 month state of emergency for the 10 provinces affected by mondays. earthquakes

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