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awe. hello, there, i'm to start the attain. this is out here at live from dar ha, also coming ukrainian president, lloyd me as lensky, 6 more weapons. and a surprise visit to france and britain plus i'm to see a newman in santiago, chile, and what you see here is a smoky sky line caused by forest fires that are moving in this direction from south central ginny. ah, well, the death toll continues to rise in the wilds deadliest earthquake in more than a decade. 3 days after the disaster, flattened thousands of buildings in southwest to kia and the northern syria. more than $15000.00 people are now known to have died across both countries, and aid is pouring in from around the wild. stephanie deck and begins our coverage
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not from gaussian tech on took years border with syria. it's been more than 3 days since everything changed. and faint coles that offered such hope, have gone silent. been out the building collapsed in the 1st 10 seconds to 22 people were leaving there. our father and one cousin of steele dead. and the 6 year old who was our neighbor, we are waiting for them if the hope they will bring them out. but not like this. their worst fear come, true. a father, god, a home gone, everything worth living for, gone his family inconsolable. one of tens of thousands living a similar unimaginable help of his last rescue workers and told us that as of last night, they no longer heard any voices. and he sounds coming from underneath the rubble.
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this is now a recovery operation. no longer a rescue on 3 bodies remain underneath his building, but we're being told, getting to them under all of this is going to take another building here around 80 . people remain missing. all we saw were more dead bodies pulled from the rubble. relatives and friends come to watch in agony. the apartments and people they came to visit. nothing is recognizable any more. or friends is he heard her, she has a children learn the but if you don't have any hope more because it's towards that. yes. so, but we are here. she tells me she now sleeps in her car with her 2 children and recalls when the quake hit. oh, it was just like a warm voice, strong voice and the shaking. the aftershocks keep coming. there is
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a serious danger. the buildings can collapse as time goes on, the prospect of finding anyone alive under these crushing layers of concrete fates . and suddenly a sound of hope. and in silence that hope only grows. they think they heard a sound. some people believe it's a small girl. but the silence doesn't last for the moment. that hope is lost. stephanie decker al jazeera, gassy aunt up. i'll not far from garcia's tap lies shania, far exhausted rescue as they're got a boost though when they pulled a 4 year old boy from the collapse building. people are also asking my some buildings that were supposed to be quite fresh, didn't withstand these trenice. ben smith reports now from sat shania for
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there's a chance, some one might be alive. so these rescuers must work carefully. but quickly, volunteers help clear the debris about 40 people lived in these apartments in the center generally offer in southeast and turkey belongings recovered from the rubble and neatly piled up in case there are survivors to reclaim, fall should you know, i just live here in the next building, i walk my wife up when the earthquake hits went outside and from this market. at 425, this building collapsed. i saw it with my own eyes. my wife fainted. 47 hours later, a 4 year old boy was pulled out a line. had fallen into a supermarket on the ground floor and said he survived and biscuits and water the digging goes on until every now and then work stops. and a coal goes out. does anyone hear my voice? they shout? no look, this time calling someone alive out of the rubble so long after the initial earthquake,
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you have to imagine that gives the rescue teams a renewed sense of hope. what does the hours drag by those lucky brakes are going to be harder to come by. but many people are asking why this building collapsed when those around it didn't, all were built after 2007 resident said, that's when new laws came in, making quite proof structures mandatory arshella taylor than that. then it hit us from wall to wall. as we were leaving the building, it hit us again on the stairs. thank god we are alive. but this building had already collapsed while upon the resident save the supporting pillars of a ground floor. supermarket had been removed to create more floor space after north quaking october 2020. a judge accused a supermarket chain of doing this, but prosecutor say it was impossible to prove any evidence was lost in the deborah bernard smith al jazeera jennifer se in turkey. i'll take his president by supply that owen has acknowledged shortcomings in his government's response,
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but in to sit would have been impossible to prepare for such a disaster. missouri. littler overdone on the 1st day and we experienced some issues, 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. what i am asking are people not to give the provocateurs an opportunity and only pay attention to the statements coming from the disaster management or $30.00 to days, the time of unity are solidarity. while meanwhile, twitter has been restricted across takia following on line criticism. if the governance response to the disaster ankara says the platform was being used to spread disinclination, something fake accounts that critics say. the restrictions were only hamper efforts to get aid to people. natasha game reports now from a stumble, opposition figures, non governmental organizations and academics are blasting. this parent restriction one person tweeted, he's an opposition figure on a day when communication saves lives. how can there be restrictions?
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what kind of ineptitude bear in mind that turks have been using twitter to try to locate their loved ones? the government has not responded directly to this allegation, but since i arrived on monday, the government has been banging the following drum saying, do not rely on quote, propaganda or misinformation on social media. only turn to official government sources. well, trust his chief executive, ill on mosque has tweeted about those restrictions and to k. he now says that the company has been informed by the turkish government. the access to the platform will be re enabled, shorter, across the border and syria. people will already struggling after years of war and the aftermath of these as quakes getting assistance to them is exceptionally challenging. let's take a closer look at the aid situation that these, the quake affected areas of syria, parts of it outside the control of the government. now because of this,
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there are concerns that aid won't make it to some rebel held areas, making the situation even more complicated. roads around the by about how a crossing of also been damaged, filling the only way to access rebel held areas from outside syria to k is now working on opening to more border crossings with syria to enable the flow of humanitarian aid than a 100 reports sewers may not want to 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 wanted to maintain a laugh, tells rescuers that her siblings and mother are dead under. they're destroyed. how funny. she was in the opposition controlled northwest of syria. the civil defense members are working on their own without the specialized equipment needed to deal
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with a disaster of the scale. the mean must be 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 to rescue workers are appealing for international assistance, but the opposition controlled region is one of the hardest places to reach and 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 pucker and ghazi, and it makes it difficult for 8 to be brought through. the united nations says roads leading to be able, how i 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 damascus and it's insisting
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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 says 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 aeroplane refused to land on syrian air force because of the american and european sanctions. american and you officials insist sanctions
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don't affect humanitarian aid and say it will continue to be provided in all parts of syria, but not through the 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 that they're elisha theater. they wrote the ah haul ukraine's president vladimir lansky is in the french capital, paris. he is met with french president emmanuel mack run on the german chancellor left schultz for talks at the essay palace. the ukrainian leader has called on both countries to deliver attack jets and heavy weaponry as soon as possible on ali on wednesday it's lance. he was also in the u. k for his 1st visit since the war began nearly a year ago. anna, in a speech to both houses of parliament, he said that victory over russia would change the wild. joan hall for points
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resident zalinski arrived in the ancient westminster hall to a rapturous welcome. oh, how susie probably told the feed for the water and leaders sub vehicle her to formal with his private who stood winston churchill. the united kingdom is marching with us towards the most. i think the most important victory of our live time. it will be a victory, or were the wary idea of the war. after we win together, any aggressor doesn't matter, big or small will know what a weeds him if he attacks international order. beyond his gratitude for britain support, lensky was here to deliver a singular request. these appeals for combat aircraft inscribed on a ukrainian to find the helmet. we have freedom, it said,
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give us wings to protect you. and i have to you. and the wall was simple and yet most important wars combat aircraft for ukraine wings for freedom, right? there's no denying the ukrainian president's popularity nor the rousing support for his cause. but allies who only recently agreed to give tanks to ukraine. worry now that providing fighter jets may be an escalation to far entering downing street earlier to the unusual applause of the staff. the president lensky carried a message that was all too clear. if you want us to win this war, give us what we need to do it. president ukraine message, no doubt, reiterated at buckingham palace, where he met king charles the 3rd grade to be the same. and
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a message repeated to ukrainian troops being trained by british forces on the plains of southwest england. in response, prime minister re, she soon accept the supply of combat aircraft, was part of an ongoing conversation. and that a 1st step would be expanding britton's training program to include teaching ukrainian pilots. how to fly nato's standard jets. that is a significant step that president zelinski will use to press other allies. joe hall al jazeera london. oh, stella had here on out of their anger on the streets of columbia as thousands of she lincoln's protest, new government tax mission and google's new ai pallet chat thought makes a very public and sense isn't state one that ahead ah
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hello. and they say we have got some choir to whether to come across to care through syria, just around the quakes out bands of cloud make in the way further east was still want to snow flurries coming back in. also around the caucuses. but as far as the quakes out is concerned, it should be largely dry light winds. it is staying cold. having said that, and certainly we are looking at widespread overnight, frost temperatures running around 5 or 6 celsius below the average of that will be the issue over the coming day, snowy weather, making its way across northern pass oberon, more snow coming to northern parts of afghanistan, as well, temperatures and kabul struggling to reach 2 degrees celsius in the heat. the day we have got light winds. meanwhile, across the arabian peninsula, improving conditions here in doha was putting light temperatures around 21 degrees celsius. now the winds picking up around the mediterranean central parts of the med, over the next few days. so some live. the storms around malta, shanicea,
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northern areas of libya, sing, rash of showers, longest bells, the bright algeria, to looking very unsettled, over the coming days. very unsettled to across that eastern side or southern africa . more big showers coming through here. we'll see some live the storms gathering into most and big all the way up into a good part of tanzania. ah, depleting the issues of the day, the 5 largest polluters that the world or in india jump into the street. they made their money on call. they made their money on the field, convincing those folks. no, we need to go. green is very, very difficult, giving all a voice we chose to do because we wanted to escape warren violence. when you humanize this narrative, you allow people to really understand the reality and break down misconceptions. lou street on al jazeera
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ah ah ah ha, you're watching al jazeera. i'm this dorothy. hey, here in doha, that's for monday about top stories. the death toll from monday's earthquakes, inter kia and syria has passed. 15000 rescue operations are still ongoing. turkish president worship drive out on has acknowledged shortcomings, and has governments response but insists it would have been impossible to prepare to stop to dissolve. full access to theresa has been restricted across tricky a following on line criticism of the government's response to the disaster and growth as the platform was being used to spread dis information, while critic say the restrictions what? comp efforts to get aid to people. ukraine's president brought him,
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his lensky has met with french president, emanuel macro, and the german chancellor, left sholtes and paris. shortly after a visit to the u. k. the ukrainian leader has called for the delivery of attack jets and heavy weaponry as soon as possible. well, nato secretary general yann's dalton back has been visiting washington dc to discuss support for ukraine with the u. s. secretary of state anthony of lincoln, rosalind jordan has the main reason of course, for the meeting between antony blank and and young salton berg was the ongoing war between russia and ukraine. the nato secretary general said that it was incumbent upon countries not just belonging to nato, but world wide, to stand up and to stand by cave side because of the historical threat that could be posed if russia were to prevail. this is young, stolen berg, the nato secretary general. if putin wins, it would be a tragedy for ukraine. but it will also be dangerous for all laws. it will send
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a clear message, not just to wooten, but also to older authoritarian regimes. that when they use force, they can achieve their goals. that will make the world more dangerous on all levels . more vulnerable, begging is watching closely and learning lessons that may influence its future decisions. so what happens in europe to day could happen in asia to moral ukrainian officials are now pressuring the west for in particular the united states to provide the ukrainian air force with f. 16 fighter jets, the president followed amir zalinski argues this is critical to helping the ukrainian military defend their country and eventually prevail in the war. however, antony blinkin said that so far the u. s. is view is that f sixteens aren't
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required for ukraine, but that the u. s. and other countries are committed to giving ukraine what it needs in order to win in this war. now, a special nigerian human rights panel is investigating reports from the reuters news agency, which claim the nigerian amin masika children, and man a secret abortion program during its battle against armed groups. and your military has denied the reports. reuters spoke to dozens of witnesses and reported back in december to the military abortion program involve termination at least 10000 pregnancies amongst women and girls. and another report sizing witness. accounts royce has said the ami oser deliberately killed children under a presumption that they were or would become terrorists. the national human rights commission has launched a 7 member panel to investigate these reports, but the agency can't prosecute human rights violations. and activists also say it lacks funding. well, asya g go is the direction behind the scenes national in nigeria. and she says,
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there are many challenges that this panel will face in it's investigation. the biggest challenge that it nationalized commission has is that he has to rely on the the, the president and the relevant authorities in order for them to act on their reports . the 2nd challenge is the fact that they cannot on their own publicly release this report. it's really about the executive power to ensure that civilian oversight of military don't promptly and efficiency in the past. this has not happened and believe this is what has led to the cycle of community that we have seen across the country. the president itself, set up the presidential panel in 2017 dependent, concluded it's find in submitted a report where is yet to be made publicly available, and no officers to the best of our knowledge as been successfully prosecuted or if,
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when dismissed. and so this creates this culture that military l. touchable and it's sad because it just continues this very as that those route to just use for the survivors and their families. i think this is a real good opportunity for the nigerian government to actually put action to its words. this time around i have is such a huge number of women impacted by this allegation, means that the must get to the root of it. now thousands of sri lankan workers took to the streets on wednesday to protest new tax laws. the measures have reduced people's incomes at a time that they're struggling to make ends need. and i'll find as reports from colombia, angry, frustrated, and hopeless. these people say the government is not listening. dozens of workers from the state and private sectors. they'll demonstrations in colombo,
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on wednesday. among them, doctors, engineers, porton oil refinery workers and bankers. 2 they see unfair taxes have pushed them to bring that vision is a part of a, you know, been paying over texas throughout the day. so the problem is when you bring up what tax policy it should, it should reflect, what do you mean pension and what will be the outcome of the fact that the money to be expended wisely put up or done. once i did what we count, these are things are happening, mismanagement corruption, the pandemic that followed devastating bomb attacks in 2019 and unsustainable debt as push lanka into an economic til spin in the year up to august 2022. 6 the ruby lost nearly 45 percent of its value. public angle with shortages of basics and known cues for goods and services resulted in the resignation of president got of
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a raja parker in july last year. he's prime minister now president runner vicar missing, delivered his policy speech of the reopening of parliament. on wednesday. he stressed the need for economic reform. marapoo. thank god no willoughby. governments should be to direct the private sector to his business and stay in the background. the government should only get involved in regulatory activity, public amenities, and maintaining law and order. liquor missing a said he's ready to take unpopular decisions for the benefit of the country. he listed changes to laws and regulations and told the house that if people could india, the hardships for another 5 to 6 months, a solution could soon be found. that on the streets protested, dismissed his promises, his fairy dills. that's a description vicar. seeing her use to describe ledgers made by those. he said words struck in the country towards 40 people,
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expecting any sign of relief in president ronald vicar missing his policy address were disappointed. he repeated cause of people to endure steri. d and cut back, but many are angry and said they're struggling to survive amid high inflation. tax increases and high interest rates, low fernandez, odors era, colombo or google's parent company alphabet last billions of dollars and market value. it's shares dived 8 percent. investors were not happy when they saw google's ad for its i powered search assistant bod, a chat, but gave incorrect information. when asked about the james web telescope, bud mentioned that this telescope was the 1st to take pictures of extra planets when in fact it was rather the v l t telescope. google has been trying to catch up with microsoft and the chat, but market. well, earlier was spoke to andrew maynard, he is the director of the future of being human initiative that arizona state university. he says that the future of a, i will depend on healthy competition between the companies developing this
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technology. firms like google, microsoft and others should be thinking about the social responsibility here. this is a powerful technology, but as you've seen, it can also really sort of undermine our understanding of the world. so rather than thinking about who is 1st across the line in terms of making the money, they should be thinking about the social consequences. first and foremost, it's certainly a big issue around who controls or who controls the message, not only the technology, but also what the technology feeds you. and the danger is if you have one company this controlling the narrative, the information that comes out. and especially one company does in control of how they actually train these faults. it's going to be very hard to tell, not only what's trend false, but also how this technology is, maybe nothing society in one way or another. this is why it's important to get this right, but also have multiple players in the field hand. if we get it right. this could be transformative. this could be as big as the printing press or the invention of the
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web processor, or any one of a number of other things. it could change the way we live on life, do things, and a productive no heat waves, enchiladas south central region is threatening to fan forest fires. there the blazes have killed thousands of people and left thousands more homeless in just over a week. the fires have destroyed more than 3000 square kilometers and now smoke had spread. as far as the capitol, who seen human has more from santiago, day in night, firefighters are struggling to combat forest and bush fires in south central chile . a stifling heat wave and strong winds are driving flames north and south destroying with thousands of homes, schools, and crops. this isn't the 1st time for english cannot have eyes. really said good, don't belong to wall fires in 2011, burned my house, all my trees, everything i was left with my arms crossed i now i don't want to go through the same again. that is why i'm here in case something happens so far. different,
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at least $24.00 confirmed deaths scores are missing, which is why the government is warning people to heat evacuation notices immediately. we have ordered last december where you are active fires come advanced, 27 kilometers an hour and people can't escape on foot. fast enough in the fire arrives. it's impossible to see the lights that they don't evacuate in an approaching fashion synthesis edgar worse yet. many people live in remote areas where mo bile phone coverage has been interrupted and we're firefight whose can't reach them to warn them to leave the fort too late. chiles calls for help are being met over night, a team of columbia and fire fighters, specializing and forest fires, arrived to join hundreds from mexico, spain and brazil. but the fires are still spreading out of control, sending smoke in all directions, which you would normally see here is
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a bright summer's day. but the winds are pushing the smoke from south central chile, north towards the capital santiago authorities, a warning people not to exercise outdoors and to keep the windows closed. to prevent the smoke and ash from getting in their holes. people who've lost their homes to the fire are asking this art is to declare a night curfew to prevent thieves from taking the little they have left for rebuilding. so far the flames have not reached town to cities, but the fear is that the fires could spread quickly to densely populated areas like near the mud in valparaiso, where the destruction would be incalculable. to see a newman al jazeera santiago, ah, hello there. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the death toll from mondays at craig and to kian.

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