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nor into this is al jazeera life in london, was coming up a miracle in northern syria. the baby born under the rubble of a collapse building, the only member of her family to survive. the struggle to get aid into syria, a region already burdened by years of bloody conflict. that is also triggers a global humanitarian response rescue teams and life saving supplies deployed from around the world. ah hello for the 2nd night in a row, hundreds of thousands of people across to kia and syria trying to sleep wherever they can find refuge. government shelters shopping centers, mosques sporting stadiums, anywhere safe and out of the cold after mondays. devastating earthquakes, turkish president, rich of tie up at one is declared to disasters own for 10 regions and impose the state of emergency that will last 3 months. will the 7200 people and i'll confirm

dead at these 5400 into kia, another 1700 in syria. and those numbers are just the beginning. thousands more still missing. but 8000 people have been rescued and they may be others still alive, buried in the bricks and concrete that once housed them. they survived the earthquakes, but now face new dangers as they went to be rescued below 0 temperatures, snow ice, and the real threat of hypothermia. teams from around the world are heading to the region in the hope of finding and rescuing those survivors before they to become statistics. and i just numbers to be added to a growing death toll which was had a as in caramel marsh. the epicenter of the 2nd of monday's earthquakes. he said this update have we are, has just ascending on the bubbles off the collapse building, some of the collapse building some of the hundreds in this city. and right behind me here. you can see that there is a frantic,

a force still on the way the rescue teams from the that the authority off the disaster doubt. they are trying to get some people out of his robles, 3 of them are still alive, just a little i go to a 14 years old girl whose name was a pack. she has been pulled out by the rescue team out of here that the robles and she was still alive, exhausted. while the rest routine was taking her out. despite the in depth exhausted an old more than 40 hours beneath this robles, she just said that please say my father as well because her father was in next to her and then her mother was waiting for her after 40 hours. so she, for the 1st time, so her, our daughter just being taken out of the robles and it was

a manifestation of the happiness. however, now the rescue teams are trying to save her father as well. that the teams, the officials here see that he is alive so they can hear his voice and also says her father, there are 2 other young persons as well. gonna know whether they're feeling of me as other 2 other young persons as well. they are sending the message out, making voices trying to make the voice heard by the rescue team here. and so 3 people are alive under the is a good rubble and waiting to be rescued. so i asked the rescue team, how long will it take before, at least they need a 3 hours? these are live scenes now from karen and marsh into kia, where set the set of said i was reporting from the crews are still working into the night. turkish president of type one says emergency teams are doing everything they can to rescue victims. do mean guinea speed,

all i learned 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. and many thousands of people have been transferred to each and every province to help with even hundreds of kilometers from the epicenter of the 1st quake. the damage is severe bonus smith's report from the city of shall new for in southeastern, to kia 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 lucifer, in southeast and 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 at 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 wait, 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 authorities. now the scene is 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 and offering 5 dollar tickets on flight out of hair 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 her quickly. because time is running out, bernard smith, al jazeera, shan luther in southeast, in turkey. several dramatic rescues have been reported as survivors pulled from the rubble. people in the small syrian town of gender race next to the turkish border discovered a crying infant. her mother apparently gave birth to her while buried in the rubble of a 5 story building. a new ball was found with her medical cord still connected to her mother, who since died. the baby was the only member of her family to survive. serious for

messaging european nations to send his country aid saying sanctions an excuse not to things. carrying aid from algeria and united arab emirates, landed in regime controlled areas of a leper and damascus. the route used by the un to get humanitarian assistance into the country from to kia, have been damaged. the head of the city in red crescent is also called for us sanction lifted. so that aid can feed into the country. even a nation's high commissioner for refugees, representative in syria, is as many as play survive as a traumatized by what they've experienced. i have to say we're not. we're still really from, from yesterday earthquake. it was followed by a 2nd earthquake yesterday afternoon and i've 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. so really the,

the atmosphere of uncertainty here traumatized individuals is very powerful. we have b, mobilizing ourselves as quickly as possible up the news of the earthquake yesterday to try and get our stock so relief items that we already had for the existing crisis out to persons 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. dozens of countries are sending aid to, to kia and syria. it includes offers of money, firefighters, and especially rescue workers. at least 20 countries,

all country blocks of sending rescue specialists. thank you. the u. k, the e u. israel, japan, august on and cutter. there are many non governmental organizations accepting donations, including the turkish red, crescent, assyrian red crescent, save the children, doctors without borders. and the international rescue committee. despite international generosity, their major obstacles to getting the aide in, they include damaged infrastructure, such as roads and hospitals, contested territory, particularly in water and syria. and of course, the constant threat of further tremors natasha. her name is as an aide, coordination center in the assemble 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 right now though, the focus on 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. ah,

to you as president joe biden will deliver his 2nd state of the union address in a matter of hours, a speech you will use to highlight his achievements and such as agenda had of next year's presidential campaign is not starting that race in the best position according to the approval ratings, the average result from 5 polls were nice in the past week show his approvals around the low 40 percent mark on his dis, approvals in the fifty's, but inflation is at its lowest rate in a year. unemployment is at a half century low and fears of recession easing. arden still faces some serious challenges through the need to lift the statutory debt limit, which could caused the u. s. to default on its bills. also rising interest rates are helping put homes out of reach for many. and last week's balloon saga has shown relations with china. a still fraud source to our white house correspondent, kimberly how kids are kimberly, what can we expect? oh, the can expect from the u. s. president is that he's really going to kind of make

this almost done defacto bid, if you will, for another 4 years in the white house. this is an opportunity for him to make his case to the american people. he's going to have a captive audience. and so this is really his chance to lay out his priorities, and so he'll not only be highlighting what he sees as the successes of the past couple of years, but also the priorities for the future. he'll be calling on congress to spend money on what he sees is some top priorities, spending money on cancer research, mental health, tackling the opioid crisis in the united states, and also combating the high suicide rate for veterans as well. we can get a bit of a glimpse of the president's priorities when it comes to the guest list of the 1st lady, dr. jill bite. and we'll have a number of key guests we already know because that's been released that one of her guests will be the parents of tyree nichols. you'll remember that that very graphic

videotape that was released of the of tyree nichols being beaten by the memphis police department. his step father as well as his mother will be in the audience. we also know that the ukraine ambassador to the united states will be in the audiences while highlighting the not only the commitment of the united states to ukraine, but sort of that ongoing support and as well. the activists, as well as singer bono, will be one of the 1st lady's guests as well, highlighting the importance that the u. s. president believes in sort of the ongoing fight against poverty. so these are to some of the priorities that the president will be laying out. but again, this is of president that's going to be dealing with a republican controlled house of representatives, all of this cost money. so expect that that's going to be some of the pushback that he's going to be encountering. still he'll be laying out this agenda. of course, we're going to be carrying this all live here and al jazeera. that's all gonna be starting off in a little more than 3 hours time. gimme how good. thank you very much indeed. senate

democratic leader chuck she murray. describe the situation with china as tense after the united states shot down what it called a chinese surveillance balloon. over the weekend. the u. s. navy is where east images of the balloon being recovered from the sea of south carolina. schumer's republicans and democrats needed to come together to quote, condemned china for what it did, and have a unified front in dealing with the chinese communist party. the situation called secretary of state antony lincoln to postpone his trip to beijing. still to come this half hour for the 3rd time, hundreds of thousands will not work in france imperious over plans to raise the retirement age po of this poem display a rare chance to see must all will from ears, paintings in single exhibition. ah

hello. they will start in australia and there's a lot going on thanks to 2 systems that are developing. one of those is affecting the northwest tropical fi clone. freddy, it's not expected to make landfill, but it's going to bring some pretty rough seas and strong winds to coastal areas of western australia. we've also got a developing system pulling off the coast of queens and is going to move its way further south. it could bring some very windy weather and rough seas as well, slowly working its way towards new zealand north island. still the thunderstorms are there for much of queens in the heat as well. and the heat dominates the story . roth, western parts of australia, the temperature in perth, picking up once again into the early thirties. some warmth as well to be found for the southeast corner rain through to sidney, and we will see that temperature pickup as we end the week $29.00 degrees celsius on friday, mostly sunny. now we mostly settled across the south island in new zealand.

temperatures have been up in christ church, but a cold front has blown through dropping temperatures down over the next few days. we will see things turn a little bit more rainy on that eastern area for oakland, though dry skies through to the weekend. and as we move to southeast asia, the heavy rain continues to affect southern areas of indonesia, with heavy falls for the thunder islands to ah, african stories from african perspectives. i'm a marine biologist, a swim, shoot documentaries from african feel. maybe i'm going to do from south africa, ethiopia, and nigeria. we've been to go over some stuff in this classroom. she saw this as my, and my whole body africa direct on al jazeera lou

. ah, and one of the top stories you're now to 0. for them, 7200 people are now confirmed dead across to kia and syria. after monday's earthquake disaster to he is president, has declared a disaster zone for 10 regions, and opposed a state of emergency the last 3 months. serious foreign ministers urged european countries to send his country aimed off to the earthquakes despite western sanctions. 8 organizations say a di humanitarian crisis is emerging in a country already wrecked by 12 years of civil war. tens of thousands of search and rescue personnel working into kia and syria to free survivors,

still trapped under rubble. teams from around the world are heading to the region in the hope of finding and saving more people's british dashed. amir is a laser officer with the acute search and rescue association. he's in a donna to keith. i spoke to malaria. this earthquake is unique in 2 aspects. one of them is that there have been several 100 aftershocks over a very short period of time. and all was significant magnitudes, and that just compounds devastation in terms of, if there are damaged buildings that were able to keep people alive afterwards. if people went back into those buildings and app, the shocks would, would further collapse those buildings, the social rescue window, a statistically speaking how most survivors will be able to will be pulled out from under the rubble in a, in a maxim period of 7 to 10 days if my memory serves me correctly so far, the record of finding a survivor on the rebel,

it was 10 or 11 days and afterwards because these people have to survive, they have to be hydrated or suffocated on the rubble. so usually what $7.00 to $10.00 days is the time period when there is the highest chance of survivors still remaining alive on the rubble for the rescuers to be able to extricate them alive. from his experience, the 3rd day of nationwide strikes against pension reforms. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied across the country to pose plans by president minute my home to raise the retirement age. from 62 to 64. symbols of the national assembly meant on monday to debate. the bill focused on former president perez missouri has been buried in his home city of karachi, 2 days after his death in self imposed exile in dubai. at the age of 1779, the sheriff was taken to his final resting place in a convoy through the streets of karachi. he was buried with full military protocol

at the army graveyard. but the current prime minister and president did not attend . for sheriff seized power in a qu in 999 and let the country until he was forced to resign in 2008 russian foreign minister say lever off is in molly with the aim of improving economic and defense ties between the countries. molly has spent years fighting on groups linked to iceland, al qaeda, and is looking for new military help. after relations with a un peacekeeping force rapidly deteriorated. hundreds of fighters linked to the russian. wagner group, already in molly's because hack has more isolated by the west. but not here. russia's foreign minister sergey lover off receives a warm welcome in molly's capital, obama co greeted by abdulla jobs. the country's foreign minister. the 2 countries are seeking greater cooperation with molly wanting help combatting arm groups linked to iceland al qaeda bushland. go do much littlewood last year and the start

of this year, cooperation in military and military technical areas, was given a new page in their development. a large consignment of russian aviation technology was sent thanks to which molly's army was able to conduct successful operations against the terrorists who remain active on my territory. the marine army hired hundreds of russian fighters from the wagner group in december 2021 to regain control of last territory. one is been unhappy with the decade long presence of the largest and most expensive un peacekeeping operation. 5000 french soldiers left last year as relations with paris deteriorated, but the violence has continued, millions have been forced from their homes. one will have to admit how brothers that we left behind our suffering enormously chicken they want to flee, but the humanitarian situation is deteriorated. when people are so scared because there is no one out there to protect from on fight as a rule in areas where the state is absence,

own independent human rights experts have accused russian mercenaries and 1000000 forces of possible war crimes and crimes against humanity. following a briefing at the un security council last week, molly, throughout the un peacekeeping mission, human rights chief, accusing him of bias. over the last year. the country has expelled several international diplomats, accusing them of meddling in the countries affairs. now it's seeking better ties with moscow seen as a foe to the west, but not to many countries in west africa. la roeser is it to the region comes at a time when russia appears increasingly isolated in the west, but for countries in so hell here, russia appears to be a better alternative to frowns to former colonial power, whose forces have so far failed to bring stability and peace to the region, but at what cost russia wants access to. molly's minerals and molly needs greater military cooperation access to wheat and fertilizer. molly is increasingly isolated

. it sees russia as a partner, as it faces a mounting security and humanitarian crisis. nicholas hawk al jazeera. at least 15 people have been killed in landslides caused by heavy rains in southern peru. the army has been deployed to help with rescue operations. the death toll in the era keeper region is expected to rise. o miracle song sharif report. o. a lifetime's belongings gone in seconds. oh. c 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 though. yeah, i thought must the middle familiars long because there were over

a 1000 affected families. we can say that the houses of 90 percent of afflicted families were completely destroyed by the 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 further, but it is a very cold. there are no houses. this is a complete disaster and we've got corpses scattered everywhere, dead. where? oh, many people are still missing. officials in the city of r a keeper are asking the national government to declare a state of emergency the army has been deployed to help

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 has now faces a natural disaster who may consume sharif punches. these are emergency crews in the us state of ohio, still draining and burning off toxic chemicals from a rail crash 3 days ago. the still no timescale for when evacuated residents will be allowed home. a train with a 150 freight cars derailed on friday, setting up a massive fire that forced evacuation of 2000 residents. 20 of the tank cars were carrying toxic and potentially explosive chemicals, which needs to be removed safely. a $1.00 can be 2 exclusions and is in place around the sites. the former police officer in london will serve at least 30 years

in jail for sex offences. after being handed 36 life sentences, david carrick pleaded guilty to 49 charges relating to 12 different victims between 232020, including multiple rapes. it makes him on a person's most prolific sex offenders. carrick worked in the elite unit for london metropolitan police, but protected politicians and diplomats, and used his position to intimidate his victims into sign and energy. giant b. p is reported record annual profits for 2022. the british energy company recorded $27700000000.00 in earnings, boosted by a surge and energy prices. since russia is invasion of ukraine figured doubled from the previous year. all the energy firms have seen similar rises. b, p is also announced. it's scaling back plans to reduce the amount of oil and gas it produces by 2030. think it needs to meet current lawns or nearly 350 years. after his death, the dutch painter, you 100 premier,

is about to attract hundreds of thousands of visitors to a gallery and amsterdam. dozens of his paintings have been brought together from around the world for new exhibition. that person had a previous she may have been an imaginary figure, but she's become one of the world's most famous faces. the girl with a pearl earring was created by johan as for mir and the dutch city of delphi, around 1665. and she's captured people's attention ever since. with amir paint never becomes packed when you look at his paintings. and also when you look at the girl was a pearl, you can never see paint. you see a woman looking at you. and there's a lot of mystery around it with an average of 2 paintings a year for may or may have not been prolific. but all his work has made an impact, a master of light and color, he use techniques experts are still trying to understand to day for me as he 1st

swung, who painted blue shadows at incredible. so we have a lot of paintings here in this circ submission. we could see this and also you are the 1st one to make shadows and the phase corinne. this is so special that makes also this parent is subjective. will that you hear your laughter? see this, sir, sparkling breath there in the foreground of the spirit. labor who studied for me for many years believed the master learned his techniques. from looking into a camera obscura, a dark box in which objects are reflected through a small beam of light, little stories, perfectly captured and frozen in time for centuries ago, and are all coming together here for the 1st time. in the next museum, their serene stillness draft, few as into 17th century lives. but this, by using modern techniques to unraveled a thought behind farmers work, one layer and a time, the master himself remains a mystery. or could it be him? there some speculation that this could be his only south portrait and tradition of

other masters fainted looking at their audience. but it's only a guess. the master also called the sphinx of delphi, because of his obscurity, did not leave much personal history. by scanning for mirrors, paintings, anna caitler and her team got a unique glimpse into how they were created. this is a way to look over his shoulder and away when his painting. so we know which materials he used and we know how he started his composition and how he ended up. and of course, we will never totally understand him. as a true perfectionist, he made a lot of changes before he decided on his final compositions resulting and paintings that 350 years after his death. at the age of 43, are still speaking to us. steadfast on al jazeera in amsterdam. ah.