heavy falls to the likes of she nidia, coastal areas of libya. the wind also dominates the countries like guinea as well as nigeria, the wet or whether we have to head further south. however, some heavy falls to come sticky across the south, east area, southern areas of mozambique as well as madagascar with some pretty ferocious thunderstorms, effecting eastern areas of south africa. and creeping into la sushi. and the time we get to thursday that she weather update. ah, ah, emergency cruise and took here and serious struggle to cope as the number of people did and mondays earthquake crosses 8600. ah,

i'm tell mccrae, this is al jazeera live from doha. we have extensive coverage of the earthquakes, including a 3 year old, alive after nearly 2 days under the rubble. miraculous rescues give hope of finding more survivors. homes destroyed and out on the cold survivors hope aid pouring in from across the world will reach them soon. jobs are coming back prior to coming back and joe biden highlights his policies to revive the economy and a combat of state of the union. a truce ah, hundreds of thousands of people and is quite devastated to kia and syria waking up, clinging, to hope some of their loved ones are still alive. risky workers are digging through piles of debris to find survivors. as 8 workers struggle to co with the scale of

the disaster, more than $80600.00 people and now confirmed did the stories of miraculous mer rescues are continuing to come in a 3 year old boy was rescued and carroll ma marsh are of con. was pulled out of the rubble after 43 hours. bristle soda has more from the city. that was the epicenter of the disaster. it's hard to imagine any one could survive this. but despite the odds of women is found alive. here in common marsh, many lives had been torn apart. many all the lives had been lost altogether. oh, did we not, are you? how much on the other belongs on. as her old buildings here are claps completely destroyed. there is no trace left during no standing buildings. we had been waiting

here since yesterday with help has just arrived. unfortunately, they were late probably because the scale of the disaster is immerse. this is hutton, near the syrian border. apartment block after apartment block has collapsed. it will take these weeks even months to find all the victims. and without the heavy lifting machinery there is little residents can do to help muscle to collin, us, grabel al smoother as words sticking to my throat crying is no longer a remedy. we expect professional help, we expect to see a professional job. we are not professional. as you see, we are diving in the rubble completely blind. susanna my shudder. i some of those trapped how left voice messages calling for help. hello, the tangled mouthful and complaint. in ga santa rescuers court for complete

silence. they are listening for any sign of survivors. international rescue teams are arriving. here. german and turkish teams pool a 66 year old to safety before law therapy for them. however, when home did go out, we couldn't use heavy equipment because the rebel was so unstable and we were afraid that the entire building had collapsed. it really required manual word. we had to remove piece by piece of possible. and that work continues into the night. as families shelter out into this city was the epicenter of the earthquake that affected over 215000000 people, inter kia, nearly a 1000 buildings have collapsed here. there are tons of people on their vis. rabo,

some of them still alive, waiting to be rescued. restroom said the algebra caught him on march. we have to correspondence covering the story from south east and took here. let's go 1st to stephanie deca. she joins us live from casi on tip and took here. and to how was the rescue operation going on there? now 3 days on is there still any hope of finding anyone alive in the rubble? well, unfortunately, where we are here and also another location that we've just returned from, it is a recovery operation. it is no longer a rescue operation around a t. r. people bodies, at this stage, the rescue workers are saying are believed to be under the rubble of this apartment . they're no longer hearing voices. we just came back from another location where we saw a body being pulled from out from the rubble. he was a father, his daughter was there, she was sobbing. are a lot of family members. are there? absolutely heartbreaking to see really one woman talked to me. she described it as

the actual earthquake her that night as a slap to wake up being out in or around in a minute and a half. and she described the buildings moving literally like this. so basically i'll let you faddie basically get him to film. this is the rubble of a large apartment block, what it looks like. there's one right next to it to the right. and to give you a sense of the scale, that's what it pretty much was identical. so this came down in an instant. people say as it started, it just collapsed upon itself. you had a few people pulled from the rubble here yesterday. ah, but now as i say, it's 3 days on. it's also bitterly cold. it's below 0. the sun is now coming out and starting to warm things somewhat, but it is extremely challenging. and just briefly, you know, the operation is going on yesterday. we arrived at garcia and up with a category 8 flight and we saw we were there for

a couple of hours. a lot of teams coming in, you had the kuwaitis taking out our heavy equipment, also, cars, vehicles. you had the categories bringing about 10000 tents for those displaced. medical teams in israeli team arrive that are gonna set up an israeli field hospital, the truck minister aircraft, it is a massive international operation. what is key now? we're in got the ant up, which is a city that is pretty accessible. a lot of the city still stands, but you have far more remote areas, difficult to get to. the roads are broken, literally broken, that need desperate help because people are trying to remove this kind of rubble with their hands. still getting to survive isn't as we know under these circumstances. it is minutes and hours that count and a thank you so much for that updated stephanie ticket for us and cassie on tip. we're going to go now to bernard smith, who is with us from shirley often takia and how are been at how are survivors the coping obviously 3 days on what are the conditions like for them

much as the sickly wasn't defected by the white patches white building fell down a bit one. what happened to the building behind me not to the small, bitter cold oil boy out of the rebel from here in the middle of the night for 7 hours after the building collapsed. sadly, also, the boy mother's body was recovered and his father is still buried in somewhere. 6 bodies have been recovered, but with 4 year old boy found alive, i was particularly interested. you are all around as a building to so founding. and yet this will building a hole and down. so why now into 2007, i've been strict regulations about building safety so that we are able to sound

quite all of these buildings were told around were built to file from different to the one with a lot low for the job, telling us that was a supermarket in the basin when they make, when they drop down the pillows. what are the supporting cell? is that the building? i'm not is why they building for down this home and they discovered 999. we know a lot of buildings, lots of pillows were removed from the supermarket shops, the basic course they'll be investigation. so that is what people litigate. believe why this a lot. i thank you so much, bennett for us and show me with her in to can in neighboring, syria crowds chanted as white helmets risky work as pulled out survivors and ribble, held invalid province in

entire family, was from one collapsed building and taken to a hospital. and people in italy, we're already struggling after years of war. rescue and relief efforts are being criticized as an adequate and hundreds of buildings have collapse them across syria . more than 2300 people have died. the you in says damage roads, a lack of equipment and tough went to conditions, a hampering efforts to find survivors. also in syria, people and gin derose found an infant alive. her mother apparently gave birth. all she was buried in the rubble of a 5 story building. the newborn was found with the umbilical cord still connected to her mother, who has since died. motels adam is oxford and syria, country director. he says syria, legs the aides took here is receiving. unlike turkey, international aid is not coming to syria at all, and destruction here is handled is being handled by the government. as we know that

governance capacity is very limited in terms of rescue with teens in terms of equipments. the ministry of health reported as of yesterday, close to 1000 people who lost their lives. 1500 injured and still many people are under durable and the government has been that capacity. i think it's very important to keep in mind that this tuition and syria, even before the earthquake was extremely dire. we're talking about 90 percent of the population living under the poverty line. 9 out of syrians cannot ready think where their next meal is coming from. so this tuition here is very dire and our teams are on the ground and a poor city and also in areas which is 2 areas that are badly impacted. and the governor, it needs that are really needs to be addressed very quickly. people need to have

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ah ah, you're watching al jazeera reminder about top stories. the salad rescue is and to kia and syria continue looking for survivors through heaps of rubble of collapse, buildings harsh winter conditions. and the scale of the disaster is posing a huge challenge. with an 8600 people have died since the to, with quite struck on monday. a 3 year old boy was rescued in kara, mom mirage. the city is to key. is it the center of the disaster? or if con was pulled out of the rubble up to 43 hours. and an entire family was pulled from a collapse building in neighboring syria. the un says damaged roads,

a lack of equipment, and the, with a hampering efforts to fund survivors across, sorry, at more than 2300 people may have dies. a son of casino to joins us now live from inside his sample. if what we're aid is pouring in from several parts of the world and cinema one thing to get i to was sample, but it's quite another to get it to the worst affected regions. many of them still cut off. how is progress going? well, tom, the international aid 1st come say sambal a report. and then from here they moved to the earthquake area as to the available a ports that the planes can land. but here where i am sending inside a some later port is the area specifically dedicated for the volunteers. the rescue were willing to rescue workers and doctors who are willing to go and help the effective earthquake areas. for instance, right behind me,

you're going to see the crowd. these are people turkish people who are volunteering for rescue operations that are under under way in the earthquake hit areas and is didn't, and they come here. they 1st contact the turkish disaster management agency representative . they registers and then they wait for the next available light that can take them to the quick area. here, of course there is a waiting by them because those people, some of them have arrived very in the very early hours of this morning. and they are impatient to go and help to those a wounded and trapped people on the level buildings. because when you speak to them, they say that they have experience in the previous earthquakes sense each hour. that passes is something negative, that's why they would like to immediately go and help those people in need in those

10 cities, which means at least 13.5 turkish people in and, and that's all yeah. okay. thank you so much. send them that send them cuz the only for us at a sample impuls with you as president joe biden has given his 2nd state of the union address to congress. it came as if i say one of the worst approval writings for a president in the 2nd year of a turn in his speech, been highlighted, slowing inflation called for unity and save the country, remains unbroken in the wake of the cove. at 19 pandemic, he stressed the positives on the economy and the strength of american democracy. 2 years ago, the economy is really our stand here to night. after we've created was the help of many people in this room. 12000000 new jobs, more jobs created to years. any pressures created for years because if you are

in 2 years ago, democracy faces greatest threats and civil war. and today though, bruised our democracy remains unbowed and unbroken. white house correspondent, kimberly hill kit has more from capitol hill. the president seem to be exceptionally confident in this speech. it was heavy on the domestic, pretty light on the foreign policy. this time around president was really making a case, almost this was a defacto pitch to the american public for another 4 years in the white house. the president use this as an opportunity to tout his successes, but he sees in the past couple of years, namely that he believes that he's achieved some historic low unemployment rates. in fact, the numbers do show that the lowest unemployment rate and a half century that the president is still challenged with high at inflation. and so he certainly is making a prescription,

and he made that case in his speech of how he believes he can combat that. but certainly one of the sort of strongest moments for the president came and some of the things that he's promised to do for americans, particularly when it comes to combating gun violence in the united states. the president said that he would work very hard to do something that he did as a us senator. and that is he called on congress to ban assault weapons in the united states, really confront gun violence in the united states. so that was something that seemed very important to the president and also the other big, important issue for the president that he brought up in his speech was the issue of abortion democratic strategist and misha cross said, joe barton's address demonstrated, not only the highlights of his work, but also his talent as a negotiator. for anyone he wasn't aware of his achievements, he went down the list from chips to infrastructure to historic investments in

health care and reducing the cost of promo suitable drug particularly insolence. making sure that america gets back on track with competitiveness in terms of the efforts and student loan reduction everything the need to be hit on he hit on in this speech. i think in addition to really showcasing his prowess as a leader as a, as a former legislator, as someone who understand that room very well in getting republicans essentially to commit to not gutting social security, to not getting retirement to make sure that these things are taken very seriously to make sure that medicare isn't on the topping blocks. these are things that really matter to the american people. and i think that president biden fully understood that. and he wold a very, very strong tapestry of his efforts in the democratic parties efforts and ensuring that america gets back on track, especially post pandemic shilling. because president has given a parliamentary interest saying its economy is expected to grow again from the end of the year. but presidents rental work from

a single says people need to accept higher taxes. so the country can exit the bankruptcy by 2026. strikes are expected across your lincoln and responses. people face fuel and food shortages, as well as daily power cuts. let's now go live to nelson and is in colombo and what's the reaction been to his speech? especially as he is asking people to tolerate more pain as he tries to turn the economy around. well, the reaction is as expected, there's a lot of anger and frustration from among the majority of sri lankan today, earlier we had present run a vicar missing a saying he was not looking for popularity that he was ready to take tough decisions that were needed to set the economy a back on its feet. again, he did mention a couple of things he talked about bringing in new laws to curb corruption, as one of the conditions laid down by the i m f. he did talk about other things, are not just a fiscal policy,

corruption and things like that which would make the deaconate me more resilient. but the civic, i just show you is the reaction to the general approach of the government. this crowd that all trade union members the crowd in the middle of the road and with a big banner that says, i do away with the unfair tax act immediately. and that is essentially the rallying cry. we have here among us of bankers. we have engineers, we have people from a multiple of trade unions, a rainbow cross section of about 40 plus trade unions that are here and what they see. in fact, they've got black banners. some of them, if you can essentially transport them out among the crowd, as you can see, just one behind me here that says yes to reason about tact and nor to unfair tax. the gentleman sporting a black had been saying, no unfair tax, and this is essentially what union se,

because in the bid to collect this much needed revenue to bring sherlock out of its economic crisis. the government has gone on a major part of a sprit, if one can call it that some people have described it as that are pushed on by the i m f to meet certain conditions. one of them is taxation and come the beginning of january, or even just a week ago when people received their pay slips. some of them found up to 25 to 35 percent of their salaries had been wiped out in terms of taxation at, at a time when people are struggling to put food on the table. pay for medicine for transport, for fuel. you know, all of a sudden having one quarter of their salaries being taken off for tax is not something that they welcome, especially because they say there's no transparency as to how the government is actually using that money. okay, thank you for that update. as michelle fernandez for us and colombo, the u. k is one of the world's richest economies,

but millions of children are growing up in poverty. the cost of living crisis has left many families and hardship researchers at the trades union congress say one in 4 households with children aren't getting enough food. leave barca reports from liverpool, life in liverpool, amidst the biggest fall in living standards on record. these full time working mothers share their stories because of it in crisis. what without mean to you? it's not that nightmare. it's ridiculous, especially when you're where you're striving to do better. and as i said, i am working on myself. i do wife hours can watch the kids are at school because i couldn't even afford chalka before the current cost of living crisis worsened by bricks. it the pandemic and war in ukraine. many people would just about managing. but soaring inflation, energy cost, food prices and wage stagnation of left working people. really, this is what it means to live in a poverty tra,

custody of her family is just still go constantly. you chasing the train and it yourself said like gas on that check. and at the end of the day, if i didn't lock that month of pregnancy, going to staff according to new research by the charity action for children. almost 2000000 children in the u. k. could be trapped in poverty and hardship because at least one parent faces a barrier to working or taking on extra work as from $440000.00 children or in poverty despite at least one parent working full time of that number, a quarter of a 1000000 are in poverty, despite living in a household with 2 parents, where both are in full time employment. like all traps, the more people are forced to struggle holding down multiple lo paid jobs 247. or perhaps they can't work because they're full time care is. the more painful the more challenging life becomes, and charities argued that the best way out of this trap is to provide more money

for children in need and to lift the current cap on social benefit. what we need the government to do is say we acknowledge that people face barriers to taking on additional work and we need to try and break down those barriers sometimes that might be higher pay. sometimes it might be supporting people in to work where they are able, but sometimes it saying we acknowledge you can work as much as you as much as you're able, as much as ever take to fix, to lift you out of poverty. and we need adequate social security benefits. the international monetary fund predicts the u. k. will be the only advanced economy of the world to contract this year. recession is on the horizon, and the government's response is a new era of financial austerity and public spending cuts. the more people need help, the less is seemingly on offer and for these working mothers, the governments message, the work always pays seems a little more than a myth. with the japanese, i shall be able to afford and enjoy a good life for at the minute will now be proud of what i'm doing. mother need

balkan al jazeera, livable are you in delegation will be visiting a careful internally displaced people in democratic republic of congo. was forced to postpone the visit by day because of protests. people are voicing frustration with a government handling of the m. 23 group. malcolm, which reports from a camp for the displaced in bilingual 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, 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. they were one, the denies it, the un deputy humanitarian chief joyce and c. i was due to visit the escalating

humanitarian crisis on tuesday. but on monday the city of goma was brought to a standstill. roads were blocked by protesters with stones and wooden barricades, and the organizes 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. well, that is all from me for now. the news continues here on al jazeera of the inside story, which is the ah hello there, let's have a look at the weather across europe and from the satellite image. things look rather unsettled, that there are still settled areas to be found, particularly across that central zone. we got high pressure in charge,

keeping things cold, but still relatively dry. and we will see more in way of sunshine once the fog and frost issues have been resolved in places like germany, as well as poland. but the stormy weather continues to plague. the mediterranean, as one system moves away from the southeast. so bringing a wintry mix to, to a kia, we are going to see things develop across the italian islands pushing their way into spain and portugal, but they will be most settled conditions coming. at the end of the week, we seen some settled conditions with more mild weather across more southern areas of england and wales. but when warnings that remain on wednesday for scotland, we are going to see things that turn wet and wintry here. and that turns into a wintry blast for norway. once again, we could see some avalanches. warnings out here, largely quiet across germany and poland, but temperatures certainly coming down minus one degrees in warsaw on thursday. for the south of this, the wet weather intensify specifically as well as coastal areas of to nicea bought

from portugal. some improvement by thursday. 15 degrees in has been ah, the african stories from african perspectives. i'm the marine biologist, a business when a short documentary from african feel major. i'm going to do this from south africa, ethiopia, and nigeria. we busy over some stuff in this class. she saw this as my, and my role africa direct on al jazeera, nationwide strikes in france of pension reforms. that's us parliament debates, whether to raise the retirement age. president betron is his government, say the choice is reform or bankruptcy. but all the proposals unfair to workers, this is inside story.