non totally and molar the moments and peoples can actually be the stay in hotels that is being coordinated at the moments with our support. and we came to untimely this morning and as a 3 meetings made and, and tanya and the laser went to manage that as an to see day. and if we were together with all the tourism representatives and with all the hotel owners, the, they're all together. and we have a center in ontology and relevant said organizations who dis, meeting as a result of our meetings, of presidents as a, as

a present explained. we have now reached 850000, maintain 50000 beds, and 4, it's old and allocated for the victims of the earthquake. and from the to day onwards in antalya and hotel owners. and also the supports from the states. they can actually settled themselves in those places. and i, i said my when i was thank all those tourism people and then

in camera and the idea on tanya, they all work and they're all working so hot and be coordinated during the meeting . i think all the tourism representatives and they allocated the place and rooms for the apartment and dissolves victims about them all day through the business people and their hotels in a few days they will or they will open their hotels and it is all going to take a day or 2 because some of them are being refurbished and the whole days hotels are going to build open for the victims of the earthquake and the

real. so we'll also discuss the, what we can do and with other business people that urgently at the moment is harboring. and the question of harboring people entirely. and in those cities, this is going to be met to show you how those people will actually goals and travel to those places. and the are arranging buses and transportation for those people so they can actually travel to those places. and we have planned how they can actually travel and transported to those cities can

be learned and this our father and in their own towns, the disaster victims. and they should go and like i thought they should go and register themselves with those crisis centers. the cultural and the tourism ministry and other representatives and also youth and sports ministry. and they are also helping and how those people can actually register. what like i said while ago, and those people can actually stay at those hotels and then from i love the day also it was

dark. that explanation went heartwarming and be appreciate and it's much appreciated that you know, i mean the material that bitchy up also is included. i forgot about mention their names and i'm grateful to them as well. and each insider it keep john as i am done, you know, as i did present earlier from john as are by john and, and also for on foreign your, with the newest, our on al jazeera, it's just gone after 8 he 200 hours, g m t that is a turkish for a minister who's speaking from antalya in the earthquakes aftermath, giving an update on support that's been given by the state. so what he said is that

the 7 day morning period for the victims of the earthquake has now officially begun . and the government has managed to secure beds and hotels, and i'm tell you for victims of the earthquake as that is the most urgent need is in fact to harbor people. he also said that buses and transportation will be arranged for people to get to safety and to get to the hotels. and he's also encouraged people to register at crisis centers. and that is a life picture from gassy and tap at nightfall. right now. but the search and rescue operation does continue across turkey and syria as well. well, tens of thousands of search and rescue personnel are working in both countries to free survivors who are trapped under the rubble. after monday's earthquakes, more than 6300 people have been killed, thousands more are injured. the u. n. is warning the death toll could jump 8 folds and even hundreds of kilometers from the center of the 1st quake. the damage is

severe. bernard smith begins, are coverage with this reports a day after the 1st earthquake struck, thus still, hope people have survived buried in the rubble 1st quake hated for 17. on monday morning, most people would have been in bed with no time to run for cover. this was a 6 story block of flats in shan luther in south eastern turkey. rescue teams must work quickly. but carefully. there were 53 people living in 12 apartments here. 4 were pulled out alive out of us on another month after the earthquake, i called my relatives to make sure they are okay. 3 of my uncles on the phone, but one couldn't. we buried him and his wife to day. his daughter was rescued alive, but they are still 3 more people from our family in the rubble. yanna gendarmes, i think there are still 25 to 26 people under the rubble. i had 2 shops under the

building, they were all destroyed. there is nothing to do but white, whatever we have is gone. hopefully the government will help us. shall we offer is 220 kilometers from the epicenter of the 1st quake. most of the buildings in the city of more than 2000000 a still standing. but the government is worried. many thousands of structures have been dangerously weakened. this is just a small example of extraordinary humanitarian challenge facing the turkish or bar. it is now be seen as being repeated hundreds of thousands of times across this region. so severe is the crisis. the government faces that it's encouraging. as many as the 12000000 people who live in the affected area to try and get out is offering 5 dollar tickets on flight out of here to the western part of turkey and humanitarian flights that are coming in. we'll leave with people on them who want to escape the region. there is now a state of emergency in this region. present wretched type heard one says the error

will be flooded with humanitarian relief workers. along with a foreign rescue teams. they need to get here quickly because time is running out. bernard smith, al jazeera sion luther in southeast in turkey. we're crossing over to istanbul, i will bring in natasha the name. she's joining us from an exhibition center natasha. that has now been converted into an aides center. tell us what you've been seeing there. the piece there are continue. it has been non stop the 5 hours plus that we have been in this exhibition center turned to relief center. an estimated 1000 volunteers here, packing donated goods, they'll be packed on to donate are to semi trucks that are in the next room. those semi trucks will then head to the city of had tie, which has been devastated. that's more than half a day's drive from istanbul. people here understand after seeing the images and

hearing from their fellow turks, just how desperate people are, and they know that time is of the essence. i just spoke to someone from the is don bull mayor's office. the city of is stumble is organizing this massive relief effort that will go on for 24 hours a day for at least a month. and he says it's great that people are donating food clothes, blankets and heaters, but he says we need more tests and we need sleeping bags. you just heard from the vice president here in turkey, that people who have lost their homes are going to be relocated to areas where there is a sort of touristy areas for the time being. but clearly that may not be available immediately. 338000 people across the country have already been offered shelter in university dormitories, hotels except dr. yeah, and natasha this of course, all happening with the pressure of an upcoming election inter kia where politicians

will be under the spotlight to to show that they are helping to quake victims absolutely. president or to wind has declared a state of emergency for the next 3 months in the 10 southern cities where there is already a declared a disaster area. and obviously this is going to be viewed as a big test if you will. this is not only the worst natural disaster inter, since 1939. so this is the biggest natural disaster recovery and release effort that president ur tuan has had to address in his 21 years in office at the moment. he maintains unopposed, the opposition is fielding. a candidate, there are 6 coalition parties that have come together. they are expected next week to announce a candidate the economy, the economy. the economy though is going to loom. 1 large over this election,

it's worth noting that the earthquake, according to the us geological, the earthquakes, according to the u. s. geological survey, is expected to top $1000000000.00 in damage and is obviously going to have a severe economic impact in the south. it's worth mentioning that there is a significant syrian refugee population in the southern cities. they have become a lightening rod, as of late. they've been accused of causing a greater burden on the economy by far right parties. some far right figures, calling for syrians to go back home to syria. there has been a lot of criticism in the opposition of ur tuan handling of the economy early on in an attempt to try to steady the ship if you will, economically. actually reduce interest rates. other countries and economists have done the reverse, but the hope is among the opposition. that if they come to power,

they'll be able to get the economy driving again. right now though, the focus size is on the humanitarian assistance that is needed for a fellow turks, and as we're seeing today, people are coming together in a show of unity resolve. and in understanding that this effort is going to take historic proportions. okay, thank you. so much latasha for that update from istanbul. well, enter national aid effort as being stepped up cap har, setting up 10000 mobile homes and effected areas in turkey and syria, social sending 120 rescue workers, a field hospital, and she managerial assistance. stephanie decker isn't gas on tap or aid is arriving . and this report reaches us from the field. we apologize for the quality of the audio referred by july here on tuesday, we are in the south turkey, quite close to the center of the novice airport has been closed and civilian

aircraft, only me plus my lot of the base it out there. just one of many, many countries that have joined the national effort. you can see that laid off from just been a saw that just wanted also filled with a thing that we joined. medical supplies tend to set up $10000.00 for people. a medical team also had the infrastructure to help the search and best you know what, you know, their search and rescue see because important. so in the 1st few days, i'll start such a massive tragedy. you know, be able to find somebody in the family. it's very cold, so people will tell you that there is a urgency like never before i got the effort very much under way. many areas still haven't had any help. given the head of the syrian red crescent was calling for us sanctions to be lifted so that aids can freely enter the country. planes carrying aid from algeria and the united arab emirates have landed and regime controlled

areas of leper and damascus. the roots used by the un to get humanitarian assistance into the country from turkey. year have been damaged. more than 1700 people have been killed across the country. but survivors are still being found and are being pulled from the rubble in towns on the syrian turkish border. i'll just 0 so hey, bill, hello, reports from 11 to 100. 35 hours after the earthquake happened. a baby girl was pulled out alive. she was lifted from under the rubble, her eyes open and quickly taken to hospital. the rescue is also succeeded in finding a woman, and she was also taken for treatment. along with the paramedics, they are racing against time to save more people as they have to live, lay as of concrete, to reach deep down under the demolished homes. with severe shortages of equipment and resources, many volunteers and local people helping out. we know the syrian defense

organisation has a major role in the rescue operations just as its role was clear and if it's to save civilians because of russian and syrian regime a rates. but the areas hit by the earthquake in the middle of governance and northern countryside, of a level of vast. there are also some community initiatives with donations being collected from people to provide feel needed for bulldozers to lift the rebels. the families of the victims are going to hospitals to identify the injured and those pulled out a life from under the rubble here too. they are waiting to identify the girl and the woman who pulled out alive the presence of so many people here. sometimes hampers rescue operations, but everybody wants to identify and recognize the relatives. they were 130 families living and 12 buildings here. and the fate of all of them won't be known until the work to remove the rubble comes to an end. we're now joined by c vanka, dana, paula, who he is the un high commissioner for refugees representative in syria and is joining us friends in moscow. welcome to the al jazeera news. our can you give us

the, you and hcr as assessment of the situation in syria as it stands right now? well, thank you very much for having me. i have to say we're, we're not monday that magic, we're still reeling from from yesterday's earthquake. it was followed by a 2nd earthquake yesterday afternoon, and i just been getting reports of a couple of quakes in the coastal areas of talk to some one at 630 this evening and one at almost 8 pm just as i was waiting for, for this interview so really, the, the atmosphere of uncertainty of fear of traumatized individuals is it's very possible that we have a b mobilizing ourselves as quickly as possible off the news of the earthquake yesterday to try and get our stock. so it's a relief items that we've already had for the existing crisis out to persons in,

in need. i should add that the weather conditions that are prevailing at the moment are extremely dire. we happen to be in the height of winter and there's also a snow storm that is literally raging in the last 24 hours. so it's extremely challenging for us to get assistance out to people in need. how have you been navigating all of this? not only the bad winter weather, but also how do you coordinate the best response on the ground is there must be a time gap between, as you say, mobilizing your staff and stockpiles from your offices and regional offices as well . absolutely. i think everything has been exacerbated, obviously, by the weather conditions, as i said, but we also have fuel shortages, which is of course, attribute it to the global situation. we have roads that are damaged a because of the conflict of the last 12 years,

but also of course because of the of the earthquake. so we have been rallying, as i said, we have warehouses in place for the needs that were prevalent even before the earthquake. so we are currently using those stocks which are very much at hand . but those stocks must be replenished and we will need very quickly to bring bring assistance in from the region. and of course a from further afield as well from our warehouses globally. given the magnitude of this crisis at tell. 2 about how difficult it is to bring in these resources into syria. let's talk about that. the government held areas. and let's also talk about the, the pockets that are held in the northwest by, by the rebels. because we understand that the one border crossing that allows aiden from turkey and to syria is close at the moment. i wonder if you can confirm that

and tell us then how else you get aid into those areas. yes. well, i understand that the, the cross border booked ality is, is very much impeded by damage sustained by the earthquake. the road has been damaged as i understand. what we are currently doing is working with all partners, certainly within the u. n. to try and reach everyone in need, whether it's in government controlled areas or other areas. right now i can tell you that we are very much seized with the immediate concern of saving lives. ensuring that in the literally time is of the essence that a rescue workers were engaged in, in, in saving people. under the rubble are able to be identified an old out. beyond that, of course, we have to look at the shelter needs. and as i was saying earlier, let's,

let's not forget the reality and the context that we're working in. they've been 12 years of conflict. now we have had a major presence, the united nations, but also the wider monetary and community. so we have quite a significant amount of really items already in place. so what we're looking right now is to try and get those relieved relief items out to, to people in need as quickly as possible. obviously, we will have to bring in additional supplies as soon as possible. and when, when you talk about the additional supplies, i mean, obviously you just mentioned the 12 years for that syria has experience. but also, you know, syria as a country that's been under sanctions for many years as well. and while sanctions are not intended to have adverse human, humanitarian consequences for civilian populations. we see over and over and over that in fact they do. so are you seeing that we're precautions of the sanctions that have been put in place play out right now in syria?

well, i mean, i've been working here now for 2 years and i can tell you that every single serial that i have spoken to on the ground talks about how the last couple of years have in fact been the worst. and this is because of a cumulative impact of what we have be to see over the years, 12 years of conflict. but also the economic situation has, it was intrinsically linked to the lebanon economy, re cove, it. and then of course, 2 years of it as well. so the impact right now has been tripling and over and above that to have the kind of natural disaster that we saw taking place at 420 yesterday morning has really made an extremely bad situation. much, much worse, right, and millions of syrians were already reliant on humanitarian aid. as you're saying, for survival before the earth wake struck. so just what are the most urgent needs

right now, and how do you see these needs evolving in the sort of short term going forward? well, given that something like 6900000 syrians have been displaced within the country. we've actually had a number of people not having the homes to live in either living in hands or extremely weak structures, which were of course impacted very badly by the earthquake. what we have to do right now is focused on, on shelter related items. and that's one of the areas where you and hcr is, is very active in. we're looking at trying to ensure persons have a roof over their heads. whether it is an elective centers, whether it is with tense, even using plastic sheeting and then are recognizing that we are in the middle of winter. also looking at thermal blankets, sleeping mats, winter clothing,

including winter jackets, and so on. so there's a, there's a number of, of items that were really desperately trying to get out there to reach people who are really out in the coat. mr. so vanka, dana, paula, we thank you so much for your time and for speaking to us from damascus. thank you very much. plenty morehead, on the al jazeera news hour, including police are deployed as for testers in france, back on the streets to demonstrate against pension reform plans. we hear from the to block quarterback set to make history at the super bowl this week. that's coming up in sports. ah, but 1st pakistan's, former president pervis, missouri has been laid to rest. following a funeral ceremony, a convoy carrying his casket made its way through the streets of karachi towards its final resting place. massaro died on sunday at the age of 79. after

a long illness, he lived in self imposed exile in dubai. since 2016 was shut it up, seize power in a coup in 1999 and led the country until he was forced to resign. in 2008. come on . hi doris. following this story from the capital islamabad, generated by rain much sharon bar day, was broad on our special ed craft, along with a family member to the southern portion of karachi, the family had raised their d should be budded dead. they were the simple said in many, at our military area on the outskirts of garages, city. after daddy were bought it in a military graveyard. many politicians in this country of gods were de queued them for several dodging democracy, but ordered rela gotcha prayed him for the anti corruption campaign. and he started to show the real nature of bug or tiny politics. however, and dad and diversity phase, it's predictable, also

a q them of the alliance for the united states that got their country, $80000.00 lives, and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of infrastructure damage which shut off of god, what is known as a strong the data but also known for his charlotte and attitude towards the media. people of gosh and budget on have makes reactions. but the government has ensured that the funeral does not get white coverage and the local media and have mostly black out. moving on to other roles. who's now and a 3rd day of nationwide strikes against pension reforms and frances underway. these are the latest pictures of people who been gathering in paris this week, hundreds of thousands rallies against president, manuel macros plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. harry false, that has been speaking with protesters in the french capital and other very substantial turn out in the center with paris on this 3rd day of national action

against president macro plans to raise the retirement age. well, total sectors being affected, franco, very seriously. disrupt the teachers around strike work with dr. firefighters, even the police union has been represented of the crowd here. so spoke to someone who representing the farmers union as well as that he was saying that yes, there needs to be reform to the pension system. it is causing a widely black hole in the public finances good rather than raise the retirement age. instead, the money should come from those who can afford it better men sealed of it. if reform is needed, the question is, where should the money come from? is france, a country and such a bad situation that the workers have to carry all the weight of this reform? or can some money be taken from all the public aid given to the companies? this demonstration puts on the table with the question of a fear of sharing out of the well, the bill is now being debated inside the national assembly as well as being

protested against out here on the streets. opposition. parties have been trying to get it described or put to a national referendum, neither of those things likely to happen, but they're also putting forward thousands upon thousands of amendments. $20000.00 separate amendments to be debated over the course of a month. so there is another option for president of macro that is to force it through by decree. but that carries risks at a conference vote potential for either elections or the stakes are very high, but he has made this a real sense of face. it's part of his identity as a reformer to get this through. it's part of the french national identity to prize life overwork, and really value the idea of retiring and enjoying those last year. so this is a major conflict which looks like it has some time yet to run. still ahead on the al jazeera news hour, we're live in washington dc ahead of us president joe biden state of the union speech and rail mentor. its coach takes a stand against racism and spanish football laughs,

or is on the way with jama in sports. ah, have the winter storms, largely blown through turkey, but still a strong wind blowing through the g and across the eastern med polly, of the waters battering the coast of lebanon. this is just off. this is done the coronation in bay route, and that weather that sort of windy, where it was a spreads all the way down towards north need. you are the next day or so the wind be less strong. the sees therefore less power the rain still the air is still quite cold. any 5 and i'm in jordan for a high temperature by day yet the earthquake affected area. the weather is now become largely but not if you go to the east of the area was affected, it is still snowing, it is light, snow, but it is bit persistent next day. so overnight temperatures come down to frost

levels. that's the major problem, i think in this whole area, next 2 days, as for the snow, that goes into iran, a bit into turkey. the warmth, briefly shown in doha, on tuesdays come down to normal. 22 with a northerly breeze. and that's similar on thursday. if we jump south, equatorial africa still sing hot weather, but it's no longer 14, juba is come down considerably with that normally breeze. most of southern africa is now back into this cycle of big thunderstorms, particularly in south africa. ah, stores about guns have bled their homeland since the taliban take over in a special to park for $1.00 oh, $1.00 east to women. determined to build new lives far from home on al jazeera.

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hello again. the top stories on the al jazeera news, our, the deaths hold for mondays, earthquakes, inter kia and syria continues to climb. more than 6300 people had been killed across the region. survivors are still being pulled from the rubble. the turkish president has declared a 3 months state of emergency for the 10 provinces affected by monday's earthquakes . some people in the worst parts of the country say they haven't received any help to find missing. loved ones. and international aid efforts are being stepped up countries including katara, taiwan, pakistan are sending medical aid funding on search and rescue personnel. we're bringing in russell sars are now. he's joining us from car ahmad marashi. that's the city resume where the 2nd lords quake actually struck on monday. routes will tell us what you are seeing. well in we are in the city off,

marsh. it's the at the center off i did, they did the earthquakes both or at least within 9 hours. to earthquakes has hit this city, one of them was 7 foot a magnitude and the other one of the 9 hours later was $7.00, a magnitude. now we are in front of the rebels here. you can see a friend we're trying to take the sample, pull the people out on the, the robert is, is, is on the way now here. and just a couple of minutes ago, a 14 years old girl whose name, whose name was in fact, has been pulled out a by the, the rescue team here. as she was breathing, she was alive and her relatives here were waiting for hours and hours while she was being pulled out. they were cussing and cry in and also showing that excitement. and now the rescue team here, the officials here are seen that 3 or other people on, but this robles are still alive and there are but to take dam also i'll. so these

are the good news in this city because people really needs a search, good news. so it just in got in mirage in the city of carmen marsh, where the, the, which is the api center of their at court whigs. 941 buildings have caught last and then 600 people. at least 600 people are killed and now and probably hundreds other according to the officials, according that with the rescue team. 100 is, are there are still on the, the rebels and many of them probably still alive, waiting to be rescued, waiting to be saved. so here in the, i get mandy cats this week of the city. we can see that is a wrong, but that, that, that level of the destruction is beyond the imagination, is starting from the long way of a one kilometers away, and then going down all the way on either side. so it is that really this now is in the darkness, the shortage of the electricity and the food a water,

the best city is, is, is one of the, the most though looked to be in the country. and i hope being here just recently. no, it's completely a different city. it's dawn to darkness. and you can see that people are that's we're b r i, we do apologize. we lost our connection to russell, sorry, but he was giving us an update from car, a man marashi where a hopefully a, the fit 3 survivors will be found. rescue a cruise still digging through the rubble and reportedly there are 3 people who they could find alive will, will keep you up to date on that story. but we'll move on to other world news now and tell you about the u. s. president, because he will be delivering his state of the union speech later on tuesday. joe biden will address congress for the 2nd time since taking office at a moment of great scrutiny of his leadership. the president recently came under fire for his handling of an incursion of

a chinese balloon into the u. s. air space. he's also being investigated for a possible miss handling of classified documents. alan fisher's joining us in the white house, so it's a couple of hours away, al, and what should we expect joe biden to be focusing on. squall? of course, the whole idea of divided politics and america will be right there on show as joe biden is speaking because right behind him will be the republican speaker of the house. kevin mccarthy, who opposes a lot of jo biden's agenda. joe biden is going to talk about the stuff he's accomplish with bipartisan support, such as the infrastructure bill to help rebuild roads and airports here in the united states. he will talk about the bill he managed to get through with bipartisan support, which made some reductions in the way that guns can be handled in the united states . a loss to talk about the bipartisan support as well. to try and cut prescription drug prices across the united states. and he says there is a unity agenda, things that everyone can agree on. such as dealing with cancer, mental health,

the opioid addiction crisis in the united states. and making sure that the life for those of serv and the american on forces is so much better. but when you get on to the big ticket items, that's when there's a big problem between the republicans and the democrats. you'll talk about ukraine and how the united states should continue to support at the fight against russia. he will point to the united states world leadership when it comes to supporting ukraine. but there are some in the republican party who believe that the aid should start to be scaled back, if not stopped. they will talk about china and the threat and to the united states . and of course, the republicans will bring up the fact that there was a balloon from china that floated across the entire continental united states for almost a week before joe biden decided to shoot it down in the see that is a sign of weakness, even though joe biden says they get a lot of information from it, and of course these, the economy as well. now, joe biden will point to good jobs figures. the fact that the economy is taking along very nicely. but the republicans believe that the debt limit is

a huge problem, and of course america has run up against that know, and they're looking to pass a bill to extend that debt limit. and there's going to be a fight for that. joe biden would like to see a leap in his approval ratings. this is going to be his biggest television audience of the year. do that. he's got to carry a message of unity, but also say he'll confront the republicans where he needs to and hope that those figures for his approval start climbing with the election. not that far away. thank you al, and thank you so much. alan fessor reporting from the white house let's i bring in laura blessing, who's a senior fellow in the government affairs institute of georgia university. joining us from washington d. c. welcome to al jazeera. so what sort of tone do you expect joe biden to strike? i think to whedon has the opportunity to really break through the noise and take stock of where we've been, the accomplishments he's had as well as challenges that we still face. and i think he wants to be as unifying as possible, but he's really going to highlight different things from the dead ceiling to political extremism. where he's going to highlight

a subset of the american political scene and a subset of the republican party as being challenging in a way that's important. got to focus on. yeah. and that unification of me will be challenging for him to, to, to achieve own too. because of course, you have a newly divided leadership and he also have the, the new minority house speaker, kevin mccarthy. he'll be sitting right behind his left shoulder. right. quite quite the, quite the image particularly for talking about and issues like the debt ceiling, which is certainly going to highlight. what would you like to hear from him when it comes to that, that ceiling. i'm interested in what he's going to say about what his position is. they had a meeting last week, which by all reports was a pleasant meeting. but they're in 2 fundamentally different places by an administration position is that, you know, this should be a clean raise. and mccarthy is a post about, he's promised

a number of different concessions including spending cuts to his conference, of course. but those look like is not nailed down and very large variety. so some of them want to go so far as to look at and title programs. but he's trying to push and push them off of some of that, that kind of rhetoric. you can expect your biden to highlight how cuts 2 popular programs like social security and medicare, are things that are not his policy priorities and what the effects of going after that would be. how important is this particular state of the union for a president, joe biden? and how important is it for him to sort of lay out his themes ahead of free election? of course, he still hasn't announced his run for 2026, but this is an important one for him. is it not? yeah, it's an attempt to kind of get attention in the narrative and to recast for himself . i mean, he's having a difficult time with his pulling numbers and we're going into

a situation with divided government, where it's going to be very difficult to pass legislation of, of any significance. you know, he doesn't have democrats in the how senate and white house like he did for the past 2 years. and so what he's able to do legislatively is going to be severely attenuated. just like what we've seen with previous administrations when they come into this situation. and just one more for you. do you think you'll focus much on on foreign policy? i absolutely think that we're going to see him talking about ukraine and the importance of continuing to support them. he'll probably tie this up into larger themes of pushing back against authoritarianism. against political extremists, against bullies on the world stage, and highlighting a number of different things. i mean, you have 26 guests that will be seated with the 1st lady, which will include everyone from folks who of highlighted different domestic

accomplishments of his to ukrainian ambassador paul pelosi. and so i think when he's going to have a larger theme of both foreign policy, but also pushing back against extremists and bullies. ok, thank you so much for a blessing for joining us from washington. do you see now google has announced that will launch in a i driven chat, bought called burn bard. we don't know how it will perform yet, but it's closest to rival chat g b. t has been out of town for 2 months and has proven to be controversial. over in the u. s. the new york city is public school system band access to chat g p t to prevent students from cheating. while angeles and baltimore followed suit, one of the most important machine learning conferences banned its own researchers from using the bought to generate reports about machine learning. and the legal defense company that uses chat boss claimed it was going to use the system to

defend a client in court. the company then retracted the announcement, saying it had been threatened with jail time. but a judge in columbia took things further consulting in part with chat, g p, t for one of his decisions they're cycle psychologists in the u. s. were left surprised when his similar algorithm out performed humans on an important pattern recognition test on its 1st try. joining us now for more on this from silverspring, maryland is ian sher, he's the editor at large with a c. net. so what's different about this one? is it a just an upgraded version or what's going on here? yeah, i mean, a lot of what's going on here is that we're seeing that the tech industry is kind of coming into. it's next big thing, right. and a lot of this is taking data that's been created around the web and bringing it together in ways that actually can be useful. i don't know about you, but when i'm searching on google or sometimes it's competitors. i often times find

myself having to go through a lot of lists. maybe i'll click on a couple of links, searching through the website to try and find the relevant information. and it's super annoying. and so part of what this technology is capable of doing now is a lot of that kind of dreary work of dragging through the website, actually understanding what's in there and then organizing it. but the problem, of course, is that it does open up the floodgates of concerns about who owns the information, right? if you're not going to another website, who do you source? what's going on? all of these other questions start coming up and in a lot of ways, we're back at the same debates we had when wikipedia was becoming popular and all these other things about what do we trust and how should we trust? yes, so isn't that a legitimate concern the the potential spread of misinformation? absolutely. that's a concern and and in fact, over the week justice,

last week there was a kind of a thing on the internet where some of the more partisan commentators noticed that chat g p t was willing to say more negative things about donald trump than it was about joe biden. and the question of course, came up. okay, well, was it train that way? does it have an inherent bias? is it picking up on something on the internet, you know, trying to almost, and for poor advise it into a person that good about. and i think that that's part of what people are going to have to kind of wrap their head around is what is this thing supposed to be? is it supposed to help me on the internet? is it supposed to help me guide toward the stuff that i'm already looking for and deal with confirmation bias? or is it supposed to be kind of like a librarian, right? whose job is to give me the information that i want, but also steer me toward the right information. and those are all very, very tough things, all coming at a very politically questionable time in the united states. so. so just one more for

you. what do you think the future looks like for a i it well, i mean it's clear that one of the things we're going to be getting is that these artificial intelligence assistants, whether they're from microsoft, apple, amazon, google, you name them, they're all going to get a lot smarter, seeming the question will be, how these companies manage these quite these issues around how they're built. right? are they going to be able to offer answers that we can trust at what's going to happen when we ask it to tell us what one plus one is? and it says the answer is 3. because right now, one of the things were that should, that's a big challenge is that a lot of these things seem to have answers that they give, that are not correct, right? even though it says it very definitively. so making sure we can trust these things . it could be a huge, huge issue. all right, thank you so much in sir, for speaking to us from maryland. thank you. let's bring you some update on the earthquakes that struck turkey and syria. the turkish health minister is now saying

the death toll has risen to more than 5400. and that means across both turkey and syria. the total number killed now stands at $7200.00 coming up on the news hour. the sports news will have the best of the action from the n b a. that's as boston continued to fly high in the east. that's coming up with janet and i'm guilty ah ah

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some for the sports news and germans here with the latest from the club world cup. gemma f as right drain ra madrid have arrived in morocco for the tournament with coach calling on chelsea. calling for more to be done to tackle racism in spanish football. he led to the defense rails, brazilian ford of and as his junior, who has been repeatedly subjected to hate attacks since he joined madrid in 2018. most recently, on sunday, during the defeated majorca last month, an effigy of initio was hung from a bridge near the clubs, training ground before the madrid dobby, against athletic religion, and probably most ugly. it's suggested that vinicius is the problem, but the problem is, what happens around vinicius, and full stop? it's a problem in spanish football. i as a part of spanish football, think we need to solve it. some say that vinicius is to blame, but he's the victim of something i don't understand until he speaking in rabbits, wherever i will play egyptian side. alack lee, in that club well cup semi final on wednesday before that day the 1st time he final

c south american champions, flamingo and to the tournament. some familiar names alter the dad and david louise malays preparing to go up against saudi arabian side. al. hello, that much kicks off in around 10 minutes. we can now go alive to andy richardson. he's in times if or for us why that game is taking place. and that stadium behind you is going to be very noisy, said, isn't it flamingo, have a very passionate fan base just how much does this title mean to them? yes, for the south american friends generally and 9 go friends in particular, really desperate. so when this thought, let chance are resilient football and south american football to challenge the perceived supremacy of the european game plan goal, the best support team in brazil, they have the most expensive squad in history bazillion football. but it's still piled into insignificant somewhat compared to some of the european rivals. for example, the, the business model still very much about selling the best young players to europe,

for example. and it's use junior, who have been hearing about. he was sold as a 16 year old ceramic 5 years ago and a deal worth $50000000.00 alone for mangos. biggest have a deal in history that club with signing capital barbosa when they brought him back to brazil from in some atlanta, not it was worth less than $20000000.00, but it's not a club. the suffers from an inferiority complex because of the scale of the support they do have back home. they've reached a club. welcome final once before in 2019, when they last out to liverpool. but as far as a lot of the fans here are concerned, i've been talking to, they've already been will champions back in 1991 when they b. liverpool as well in the inter continental cut that was a full run out of this competition that was just between the champions of south america and europe. it's of a listen to what some of the funds, how to say funds. we made a long trip over from brazil to morocco for this game. to play here, to play against muslim berlin. because the great thing,

what about yourself? what do you, what would it mean? it's a mango could, could, when the club, well competition with me, the whole world. i mean, the most important thing that i'm going to know in my life, just one just one time. and i wasn't even, was almost one star vanessa wrong with this is the most important tournament for us is competition is the most important competition for, from in a grouping. teams doesn't though, doesn't matter about this kind of competition. because where found our odd there is competition are important for them. but for problem when brazil, diblasio disco purchases, this the best is the most the most important competition for us. let's focus on al

. hello. now, andy, how much of a threat? so will they pose to this flamingo side? can they silent stays for manga fans? we just had the well, they feel that they can they, when you know saudi arabian football really enjoying a bit of a golden moments in the sunshine, just in the last few weeks and months. they've got a well come fit in the pipeline as a country. the country is also just one of the house to 2027 age and income, because jonah and elder, of course, playing in the saudi league now as well with, with our master and al, hello, i'll be asian champions. and a lot of that squad bow scored were involved to the saudi arabian national team that played really well. this point on getting through that the group stage of the world cup. and catherine, of course, hold up that shocking when against eventual champions arch insane or in the opening group game. so 5 of 5 saudi plays in the starting lineup for tonight's game. they'll feel somewhat fortunate to be here, perhaps downhill out here because the 2022 asian cup still hasn't been finish. that

was because of the well coping capital being in november and december. so they qualify by virtue being asians, john prince from 21. they had a part of the cherry last year. the couple of them last out to chelsea and the semi finals. so that back here again, is that 3rd parents in the club, well cup in 2019, they lost in the semi finals to flamenco, so they have the chance to avenge that defeats and become just the bird asian payment history to reach the club. well, california and the as, thanks for now, we'll let you go off and enjoy the match. the mayor of comic paris, how sad it's inconceivable for russian athletes to come to the french capital for the 2024 and picks while the ukraine war is ongoing. is the change in songs from an ill, who just last month said she believed they could take part under a neutral fact to avoid depriving athletes of competition. the international olympic committee will ultimately decide who competes at next is game. sieve of all week has kicked off with opening nights in phoenix,

arizona. that's what seems make that 1st public appearance in front of fans and answer questions from the media. the chief sand eagle horseback, patrick holmes and jaden huts, while the way that they all just stays away from making history out the best black quarterbacks to start in the same super bowl. but hayden's is one of the only 3 black quarterbacks to win the vince lombardi. trophy having that the cheese to victory in 20. 20 i think about it a lot. i mean, the quarterback came before me check here is doug williams. i lay the foundation for me to be in this position and it goes across all sorts. anything about jack robinson and people that broke the color barrier and baseball. i wouldn't be standing here today if it wasn't for them. and so i think about that all the time and, and the be lucky enough to be in this position in the play. it gives another great guy like jaylen. it's a special moment big time. i said this story moment to be honest, perform and to do so many others so much inspiration or telling them that they can

do it to me. so it's a problem to the, in some impressive dunks in the game between the detroit pistons and the boston celtics. but it was the celtics celtics he came out on top thanks largely to jason tatum wrapped up 34 points, the celtics winning by 12 to stay top in the eastern conference. the milwaukee bucks are not too far behind them in 2nd place. they, they beat the portland trailblazer to extend their winning street to 8 games, broke life as a top scoring with 27 points. and the on is under the combo. picked up the 24. the bucks, winning by 19 australia's aaron finch has announced he's retiring from international crickets. the 36 year old who quit the one day game in september, bowed out as australia's a t 20 captain on tuesday, ending his career as one of the greatest limited over players for his country finch, one to well cups and scored more than 8000 runs across all formats that failed to

reach the knockout stages of the wildcat when australia hosted it last year for me to one driver, alex albany is calling for clarity from the sports governing body after it introduced a new rule banning drivers from making a political statements. speaking at the launch of williams, his car for the 2023 season album says the situation is confusing. the new regulations states drivers will be in breach if they make or display political, religious and personal statements, unless previously approved in writing by the f i. e. i do think there's been a step back in terms of where we were heading in terms of from the one we had. we thought we were doing a good job previously with the movement that we had in areas we were addressing innovations that were racing. let's see what happens in the future, but i do think we're going to have to sit down and have a table. i'd be surprised if the driver to take the role of actually meeting

themselves as individuals. we were strong and we will stand up for, for, for problems that cultural issues or, or, or whatever it may be. and that is all your sports. now. i will have action from the club well, cup semi final later under it and looking forward to it. thank you so much, jim, and thanks for watching the news. our on al jazeera, more updates on the aftermath of the earthquakes and turkey and syria coming up in just a minute. ah, mm hm. and african stories from african perspectives and the marine biologist, a vessel swim short documentaries from african kill me. i'm going to do this from

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