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you're watching al jazeera live from doha with me for the back table also ahead. the turkish president assessor fs is the damage as the visits areas that have been devastated by the earthquakes. the struggle to get help into syria region, already damaged by years of war and not in used ukraine surprises and makes an appeal for more military support as the appears in person before the british. ah, more than 11800 people have been killed in turkey and syria in one of the worst earthquake disasters this century. in turkey alone, more than 9000 people are dead. rescue teams are working round the clock 3 days after. the 2 powerful quakes struck the reach and present dodo on is promising help for survivors. miss eleger overdone, on the 1st day, we experienced some issues,
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but then on the 2nd day to day, the situation is under control. control will never allow our citizens to be left on the streets with our moscow people not give the provocateurs an opportunity and only pay attention to the statements coming from the disaster management. all 30 today is the time of unity on solidarity health al jazeera, stephanie decker from guys yon tap in turkey, with more honest search and rescue operations around 80 people were told as so trapped under this building. but rescue workers have told us that they haven't heard any more sounds any more voices since last night is a huge rescue operation happening here. it is the 3rd day we are being told to move out of this area because a lot of these buildings that still stand around here are structurally damages concerns that they could come down. you can see cracks, and some of these buildings are actually going to demolish one of them later today
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. because of how dangerous they are. a lot of volunteers here, which is came from another location as well. where also we were told it was no longer a rescue operation. it was a recovery operation. we saw one, the body being pulled from the robbery rubble. it was a father. his daughter was there sobbing. ah, incredibly, heartbreaking scenes. sorry there's smoke coming because it's so cold a lot of the, the volunteers and a lot of the residents who are coming back waiting, hoping still that perhaps someone will still be taking a lie from this rubble. they've created fires, burning anything they can find to keep themselves warm. so that's another issue. the cold proving extremely, extremely difficult. also, when it comes to finding anyone alive at this stage, and not far from gaseous tab lies shanley, orfa algiers, bernard smith has more on the rescue operation. say, a very, very small piece of good news. one machine we offer today. a 4 year old boy was
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pulled alive from the rubble of this apartment building behind me in the early hours of wednesday morning from 47 hours after about building collapsed. very sadly, his mother's body has been recovered. am i still looking for the body of his father, but you'll notice that all around this won't collapsed building all the other buildings are still standing. you regulations came into forcing if you have to 2007, making sure that buildings were earthquake, safe on all of these buildings, locals. tell us we're built after 2007. that includes the building that has collapsed. but what's the difference is with the building that is collapsed we're told is there was a supermarket underneath. and it was been a common practice for supermarkets to expand the space in the cellar area to remove the pillars of the building. this was a practice discovered from a previous earthquake, some 2 and a half years ago where many of the buildings collapsed. shops in the basement of
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the building had removed, supporting pillars to give them more space. and people here say this was the case with this building, and that's why it's the only one that collapsed, where everyone else is around it. all the other buildings around it are still standing at a sample is the entry point for the back of the international. how that's coming in to take here from there, his name castillo. according to office on figures, there are more than 5000 for rescue workers who are on the ground right now. working in port the nation with the turkish rescue team. and there are 100000 turkish personnel on the ground, including more than 7000 turkish troops who are trying to search and rescue all those civilians traps on their those rubble. and of course, the donations are continuing is the civilians are turkey. citizens,
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regular citizens are trying to do their best by donating to official agencies through 30 shreds. kristen and other related bodies, or every municipality, every local governors office, they are organizing some a distribution and in coordination with the main authorities in us. so that's a coordinated well coordinates as a supply medical supply of supply can reach to the region hits by the 7.8, magnitude earthquake on monday. we're talking about 10 city is affected wider earthquake, which means it's 13 and a half 1000000 turkish people as citizens who are affected by this earthquake. this is a big catch. this is a difficult task for the turkish authorities to be able to enough and reach out why themselves. that's why international aid is coming cross the border in syria. rescuers face a logistical nightmare aid efforts have been held up as rebel has areas cannot be
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reached. that situation is made worse by years of the war and i finished learning the whole destructive earthquake has done the lot. we cannot deny the difficulties and we cannot deny how harsh the situation is. the situation is still bad and the weather has effected the rescue. operations of the un says damage, roads, lack of equipment and severe winter conditions, are hampering efforts to find survivors in syria rescue as a struggling to reach some of the voice have areas rather than say the response from the authorities has been slow in a harder has our report from a source may i get a laugh is 10 years old. she survived mondays, earthquake. others are still being pulled out from under the rubble of collapse, buildings across syrian cities and towns. but many didn't survive until y'all was calling to maintain a laugh, tells rescuers that her siblings and mother are dead under their destroyed house.
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among us in the opposition controlled northwest of syria, the civil defense members are working on their own without the specialized equipment needed to deal with a disaster of the scale. the mean mostly has been. i've been waiting for news of my father, my mother, brother, sister, and her phone. i talked to them and had the voices. work is too slow. rescue workers are appealing for international assistance, but the opposition controlled region is one of the hardest places to reach in syria . it's been blockaded by government forces and their allies during the course of the war, and the only lifeline has been help sent over crossings from their kia through what is now also the worst hit part of that country. the devastation and cities like i'm popular and gussy and it makes it difficult for 8 to be brought through. the united
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nations says roads leading to be about how us have been damaged or closed. it's the only crossing that can be used according to a un resolution. with the backing of russia, the syrian government has ensured all aid goes through the mosque us, and its insisting they should continue now to as it struggles with a disaster. but critic say they don't trust serious authorities. i don't think any of the syrians refuse or mind or reject that the assad, regina receive aid. it's just that we know for sure. he is never, never going to give the people that are in need. any kind of aid, while some friendly countries have been sending a directly to damascus, much of the international community is avoiding dealing with a government sanctioned for war crimes against its own people. long accused of using aid as a weapon of war. it's now seen as politicizing, a catastrophe, blaming western sanctions for worsening the situation. a lot of the aeroplane cargo
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aeroplane refused to land on syrian air force because of the american and european sanctions. american and e officials insist sanctions don't affect humanitarian aid and say it will continue to be provided in all parts of syria, but not through the aside regime. they say most of the damage has been in the opposition controlled north, where some aid has started to trickle in. but rescue or say, it's not enough. then they're elisha theater. they wrote a un official se deliveries of critical cross border aid from to key to northern syria could resume on thursday. the united nations has been discussing, the humanitarian responds to the earthquakes last spring. and christian salome, who's at the u. n. forest. tell us about what's been said during this briefing, which i understand was on syria initially it, it,
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it was, it was on syria and it is a very difficult situation there. the united nations was struggling to get much needed aid into the region before the earthquake struck. the north west was hit hardest by the quake, and this is an area that is under opposition control. it's an active conflict zone . and the un by international law works at the discretion of the government in the country, syria insist that all aid go through them. a be delivered cross line across the front line of this conflict through their auspices. and one exception to that however, has been authorized by the security council. one cross border point of a delivery is allowed under international law from turkey into syria, which the un can use. so the un says now with needs even greater, they were struggling to meet those needs with that one border crossing in the cross
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line deliveries because of complications to current cross line. they're trying to ramp up their services. but they say cross line is more difficult. here's what the regional coordinator had to say. having the cross line missions is something very complex, even before the, even before the earthquake. it needed multiple levels of coordination between different parties, security, humanitarian, n, g o. so it's not a straightforward, it's not a straightforward operation. add to that. it's a military active zone where we had to operate in a military zone. so it's not easy. we try our best. we as most of us said, yes, the us has the, the willingness and the ability to do this. just to put it in perspective in the prior to the earthquake, the un had 9 cross line, excuse me,
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9 cross line deliveries from within syria in the last 8 months compared 250-2600 cross border deliveries i in a month. so the, the scale is very different and the amount of ramping up that they're going to have to do to get aid into this area is considerable, as we just heard and the needs are great. there's a search and rescue efforts are still ongoing. food and medical supplies are needed . cold weather survival gear is needed. the good news is that cross border route is reopening and trucks are preparing to head into the the northwest region and also to plane loads from the w h o world health organization are also ready to bring much needed supplies into the country, but a very difficult situation there. 8 on the ground that the united nations is trying to navigate. chris in, thank you for that. christians, let me live for a stay at the united nations. let's take a look at some of the days i've been used now,
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and ukraine's president voted me zalinski has addressed the british parliament in person. he is on a visit to the u. k. his 2nd trip of rod. since a thought of the russian invasion, almost a year ago, britain is one of ukraine's biggest military baca zelinski called on allies provides ukraine with modern phase to help defeat rush. already achieved. remarkable results and we must make every effort to turn our achievements into the foam decent of the future, global, secure during security architecture, the walls, the wall needs your leadership, britain just as it needs you. great im braimer when the full scale, amazing began, all we together with uber is m and united states and other
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and eyes formed it through coalition of france. al jazeera john hall has more on the pheasants from london. pretty quite extraordinary scenes as president zelinski walked into the hall to address both houses of parliament rising to their feet and absolutely rapturous applause and welcome sort of a rock star. welcome. he rewarded them with the sort of rhetoric that we've become used to from president zalinski in his speech. we will always overcome evil. he said, we know freedom will when we know russia will lose, but it quickly became clear that he was here with a much deeper purpose. his purpose, not just to ask for continuing support and to remind them of the perils of waning support among ukraine's allies. but to ask for more beyond the artillery systems and the tanks that have recently been given,
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he wants combat aircraft. he believes that will change the tide in the war. now, among the allies, there is reticence about this request to supply aircraft because many of them believe that rather than when the war it will need to potentially be retrievable escalation and they are worried about that. but as he continued his visit, some sign perhaps of optimism for president zalinski in a statement by the british government, which is seen at the prime minister saying he would in hon said expand training efforts of ukrainian recruits to include training pilots to be able to use what were described as nato standard planes, that is by no means all the way to saying will give you the planes, but it is a step in that direction. john hall in london, their investigators say there is convincing evidence. russian president vladimir 14 supplied the miss our system used to shoot down a malaysia airline strain in 2014 and made 17 was down over eastern ukraine. all
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298 people on board were killed. earlier this year, a dutch court convicted 2 russians and a ukrainian rebel for their roles in the crash, but investigator, see there'll be no more prosecutions. russia has always denied involvement. still ahead on the program jobs coming back. pride is coming back. yes, present, joe biden delivers a combative state of the union address will have reactions in washington and has it assumes a trained di reyland in ohio sends toxic chemicals into the air leading 2000 people unable to return home. ah hello there. it's a largely settled picture for much of south asia. we are going to see things change
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thanks to disturbance moving its way across. i've got to stop bringing some heavy rain possible funder storms and some snow to northern areas of pakistan and india. we have got some warnings out for those sandstorms with possible lightning across the northern areas of india. but for new delhi, the skies remain clear. however, the quality remains unhealthy. we could see that change as some strong winds pick up in the days ahead. temperatures across more central parts of india, sitting towards the mid thirty's down in the south. largely why unsettled with just a few showers coming in for sri lanka and we had to east asia. things are going to turn wecks us, certainly for southern areas of japan as some unusual wet and wintery weather works its way further east into shanghai. going to see some snow likely in beijing on thursday that wintry weather skirting its way across the korean peninsula, blasting into horseshoe and hawkeye. though we could see some heavy snow here in the days had suddenly looking very wet, that the temperature in tokyo dipping down to 5 degrees celsius on friday. so it is
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certainly going to feel a lot colder. that's not the case with so double digits. 10 degrees celsius on friday. ah. debating the issues of the day, the 5 largest polluters of the world are in india, jump into the street. they made their money on coal. they made their money on field, convincing those folks. no, we need to go. green is very, very difficult. giving all of voice we chose to do because we wanted to escape war and violence. when you humanize this narrative, you allow people to really understand the reality and break down misconceptions. the street on al jazeera lou
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ah, watching al jazeera alive from doha reminder of our top story. this our rescue as in turkey and syria, are continuing to search for survivors under the rubble of collapse building. after mondays earthquakes, they are struggling with harsh winter conditions and the scale of disaster. almost 12000 people have done made a turkish president has visited some of the hottest hits areas where ship type i don't wanna miss. they were competence with the initial response. he says people will be off at hotels, come on accommodation and no one will be left in the colds. a 3 year old boy has been rescued in caught a mom rush, the city that was yet the center of the 2nd earthquake in turkey on monday. or if con was pulled from under the rubble after being buried for 43 hours. now on to are the news and the u. s. u s. president joe biden has delivered his state of
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the union address, urging congress to work with him, where the republicans are in control of the house of representatives. biden called for unity, and took credit for improving the economy and white house correspondent, kimberly hawkeye reports with his approval rating. still, among some of the lowest of his presidency, joe biden delivered his 2nd state of the union address. and despite still soaring, high inflation, biding declared backbone his nations drawn to millions tuned in to watch by then who used to speech to highlight what he sees as his successes of the past 2 years. not employment rate is a 3.4 percent of 50 year low air record on a foreigner with black hispanic workers. we've already created your help, a 100000 good pay manufacturing jobs. the fastest grows and for a year for this state of the union was different from biden's. last,
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this time the democratic president spoke to a divided congress, as he made the case for raising america's debt ceiling and protecting social programs from spending cuts. he was challenged by republican lawmakers. armies congress driving. 0, one gratis unfazed by the criticism might and sought to bridge washington's political divide, turning to his opponents and use in the speech to negotiate with them directly a stand up for seniors. oh, but in also honored terry nichols, the 29 year old man beaten by memphis police officers. as nichols, mother and stepfather looked on biting, urged congress to invest more in police training. something good must come from this. codifying women's rights to an abortion was another priority. make no mistake about congress passes
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a national band. i will veto it. o 5 is speech focused mainly on domestic policy. once again, underscored america's support for ukraine. following the downing of a chinese spy blue. after across the united states, he issued this warning. as we made clear squeak of china threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country. and we did that. republicans had their own bottles from out of control inflation in violent crime to the dangerous border crisis and threat from china biden and the democrats had failed. he, president biden used his address to reflect on his accomplishments and lay his agenda for another term. and office is been widely reported, the biden senior aides preparing for the president to announce his re election bid sometime later this month. kimberly, how can al jazeera capital health as being in alan fischer in washington d. c. allen,
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tell us more about how the president speech was received and what we learned from it. as far as his next plans are going to what will end oh, we certainly learn the, even though congress is divided with the republicans in charge of the house and the democrats in the senate. the joe biden thinks there's still room for bipartisan agreement on things that both parties can agree about. improving mental health training for police is also talking about dealing with the fentenol crisis. and also making sure that the, the try to eradicate all kinds of cancer. those are grounds that he thinks that they can work together. and he's talked about how they work together in the past, even when at the, the republicans where in the minority in the house and the managed to push through the infrastructure bill. they also managed to pass the inflation reduction act, which kept the cost of some prescription drugs. so he thinks there's room there. the problem, of course, is that we saw last night. there are a number of republicans is simply, don't want to work with a democratic president,
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sadly, less than 2 years away from a presidential election. they don't want to give him any political went. and we also saw that joe biden is essentially preparing for another run at the presidency . we had them say several times. let us finish the job that is going to be campaign slogan. and he's out on the road over the next couple of days selling his state of the union speech to the american public. he's just left for wisconsin. he's heading there to talk about how he is managed to create good peeing union jobs in places that will be important and the next presidential election. and then on thursday is heading to tampa and florida to talk about infrastructure and how important it was for the united states to invest there. and nobody knows he's got a problem. many people don't feel the benefits of all the acts that he's passed in the last couple of years. so by using the phrase, let's finish the job. he's saying look, things will get better. it's just going to take a little bit of time and he wants to by that time. but if you look at the opinion
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polls, it's an uphill struggle is languishing around the 40s. that's not the sort of figure that you want. if you've got an idea of running for the presidency and he needs to convince the american people he's in charge, he's in control, they can make their lives better to get that number up. alan, thank you very much. alan fish alive at the white house in washington and say in the u. s. investigators say a 40 relax or cause. a derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals incident happened in the state ohio on friday. no injuries were reported, but a small town has been evacuated. al jazeera is hydro, castro is not too far from the accident. site. officials say this was the last resort. unable to safely remove the derail train cars carrying toxins, and fearing and explosion at any moment, emergency crews decided on a controlled burn tuesday. ohio's governor had warned every one living within one and a half kilometers to evacuate. merging every one in this area.
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actually ordering them to leave staying could have meant skin birds, long damage or even death. vinyl chloride material used in plastics is linked to cancer foss. gene was used as a biological weapon in world war one. the rail operator, norfolk southern said tuesday is controlled release of the chemicals from the derailment was a success, and residents are no longer in immediate danger. yeah, the low phrase there ran a big black horse as water fell log. i'm seriously believe in the evacuation order covers more than 2000 residents. some people staying overnight at a shelter run by the red cross. the ohio national guard and state police are manning. why he that every entrance into town? well, within the containment zone, workers and have math suit will labor for about
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a week to clear the derailment. government scientists say that the air quality currently is safe to breathe, though it is anyone's guess when people will be allowed to return to their home. yesterday i had to go home to pick up prescriptions from the creek by my house. had a very, very strong chemical smell to it. i went in my house, it was worse. the environmental protection agency is monitoring the air and water quality and will continue to study the disasters possible long term impact. heidi joe castro al jazeera new palestine, ohio. a un delegation has canceled it straight to camp for internally displaced people in democratic republic of congo. there were a force postponed the visit because of protests. people have been voicing their frustrations with the government handling of the m 23 armed court. malcolm web has more from the eastern city of coma. a convoy of un peacekeepers on
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tuesday evening was passing through the can you routine or come for this place? people. it was stopped by an angry crowd who eventually ended up setting fire to that convoy peacekeepers fight in the air. well, they, the un says they fight in the air to disperse that crowd. we know that 2 people, residents of the camp of died, the reports that others have also been injured. now, right now we have another come that comes to the north of the city. government, we're to come to the west and i'm going to stand aside who can take a look around. this is now home for thousands of people who've arrived all in the mostly in the last few days. this campus at least doubled in size. since we 1st came here a few days ago, there fleeing from recent advances by m. 23. been fighting with government forces.
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just a few kilometers here, close to the town of san jose, and $23.00 widely understood to be backed by neighboring. we're wonder it's fighters carry rwandan equipment. everyone the denies backing the group. it's growing rapidly stronger since his rebellion resumed, since it's operations resumed just over a year ago. that was brought it close now to the, to the town, to talk a which is about 10 kilometers over there. and the new arrivals telling, very harrowing stories of events that they say happened within the last week and 23 fighters have, according to the testimony of the people in the camp, have been rounding up civilians in the villages killing some with machetes, shooting some dead. aah! flew again, i'm fully battle with the top stories on ologist.
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