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ah, i'm roberson, and this is audra 0 live from doha, also coming up. hundreds, flee as m. 23 rebels in democratic republic of congo, target and eastern town near a provincial capital. that i should follow mercer holding towards his sedans, military leaders on the last leg of his africa trip. ah. in eastern turkey, i'm in northern city at the death toll for mondays. earthquakes continues to rise. a few minutes ago turkish president richard ty, about one announced a dramatic jump and the number of deaths in his country to 16170. that takes the overall total on both sides of the border with syria to more than $19000.00 hope is beginning to fade of finding more survivors under the rubble. but there is some

small optimism in serious rebel areas in the north. aid from the united nations has started moving through the bible hall while crossing for the 1st time since the quakes struck. why honestly, it is the 1st response after this earthquake, the convoy consists of 6 trucks loaded with sanitary materials, blankets, and other items that will be delivered to one of the organizations that operates in the liberated areas of an organization. that is a partner of the when in order to be delivered to our people need in those areas. rathermore, let's bring in bernard smith. he's in his hands around and took his mediterranean coast banner. let's talk about this age delivery. first of all. and one would imagine this is desperately needed by people in syria, but one wonders if it is going to be nearly enough. rob desperately needed aid, and as they said, the 6 trucks, it barely scratches the surface of what they need in syria. in fact,

before that 8 arrived the head of the rescue services in that part of syria, i said that there's no assistance as come yet them are waiting to see. they need heavy equipment, the sorts of heavy equipment you can see behind me here. that is what they need. they're not getting it. they. there are digging with shovels and buckets and their bands to try and pull a pipe, pull people from the rubble. now more than 4 days after the earthquake struck the problem, as it was always a case with syria is politics is getting in the way of the rescue efforts. the aid is only allowed to cross from turkey in to syria. there are no other crossings allowed to see you and mandated crossing points. turkey says if the security situation prevail is out, is stable. well, open a couple of other crossing points for the asset regime only warns aid crossing front lines. and the reason a doesn't do that at the moment is with agencies, a people are giving out a concern, the acid regime will siphon off that

a. that's why before the quake, it was crossing the border from turkey to siri, it stopped because of the quake zone. i just started again, but nothing close to what they so desperately need there off the meanwhile, of course the said the search and rescue operations of carrying on not only looking for people still under the rubble, but the trying to help survivors as well. we can see some of the operations going on behind. you'd talk us through what's happening, where you are. so in a scanner, city of a quarter of a 1000000 people, we want to show you how, where i'm standing, looked before to how it looks. now we took this off for streets view that shows you the normal life just built a few days ago, taken by the girl. girl street maps before the earthquake struck and how it looks now i'm standing on the remains of those buildings that you see in the picture. they have earlier on today managed to pull her 3 people alive out of the building behind me. that is why there is they are still clinging on to hope every now and

then work stalks around me here. a whistle is blown, the call goes out for absolute silence. because people think they may have heard somebody deep under ground in the buildings of a lot of nothing while we've been here unfortunately. but they are still clinging to their hope. the problem is they've been so much destruction and so much stress on the facilities, the turkish government can provide that if they can't get to every building quickly and we walk past areas where the fillings are just completely pancakes and if there's any chance of finding people underneath it's just taking a long time to get to them and there are places where are now again, i think we're being asked. we're actually being asked to be quiet again. so is a good opportunity just for me to hand, but you'll see all her hands going on for the. so for the moment, rob, i'll, i'll keep quiet and i'll come back to you bernard, thank you very much. and he does bernard smith reporting to us from escandone until

case mediterranean coast, where those searches are still continuing. while the turkish president has been visiting, affected areas was empty about one's called for unity after being criticized. but his government's response to the disaster rescues like this one are getting fewer in turkey or more than 16000 people have died there. many remain unaccounted for. 7 castle is joining us now from the headquarters of the disaster and emergency management authority. in ankara sent him the president. edwin had promised housing and shelter and financial support. of course, the scale of that responses has to be enormous to match the scale of the disaster. how is the government dealing with all of this? well, robert presidents are don, use the word disaster of the century. this is what the seismologists also have been saying that this earthquake, these 2 earthquakes, that happen in a same day in the same regions, a hitting a 10 cities in is there. a trickier is called as the disaster or of the century.

of course, as you said, the impact, so it is enormous. and because there have been a 13500000 people living in those areas in those cities, it means all these people's lives are directly affected. some of them died, some of them are survived. some of them left the city, some of them have been put to dormitories or, or hotels designated by the government authorities for them to have temporary accommodation. but of course an id. the id there needs to be capital. all these investments that are present ardon has been mentioning since this morning, like a, completing the in as a siri replacement of the housings in those area within one year. these are big investments. these require a lot of money as the government will need tools to compensate for this because it's a natural disaster. ok, so to care will need more to do this and this means

a much more burden on the, on the air countries budget. of course, especially thinking that considering that trickier has been going through a fragile economic period within the last $22.00 and a half years with a fragile currency depreciating against the us dollar every day. a, the, these are going to be very, very difficult task for the government to be able to complete. but of course, this is what he pledged and a true care was preparing for an election on may 14th. this would be a presidential election and the general election that would elect the deputies the a members of the parliament and present ardon still wants this election to be held on the very, at the designated time. but everything needs planning, everything needs money and everything needs investment about what we're talking about. and the search and rescue operations are, are the 1st phase of this post earthquake process. but and following that there

will be a process of normalizing life. these will be also requiring investments. so at a long period of work, a difficult task is a waiting for the turkish government. whether the ruling out quite a stays in power or another party comes to power. but everything will require more money. and this will mean more burden on the, on the government's budget. at syrians and m castillo, bring this up to dates. from anchor wrestler's got more from carmen. marashi. it was the epicenter of the disaster. nearly a 1000 of building how collapsed. he had a hundreds of people or that right behind me, you can see that. did that, did the heavy lifting machines and did the vehicles are still digging into the rebels. am trying to reach to the, the bodies there. so in the last 24 hours, unfortunately, no one has been taken out of the robles that you can see alive. but we have seen

several dozens of people that bodies were just coming out. and when they were taking out the dead bodies, they were covered in them with the, with the blankets and trying to, to, to, to, to, to, to make at least the families comfortable. because that disturbing images were very much offsetting for the families that have been waiting here for almost more than 80 hours by now. so you have seen also several bodies that were taken out from the bravo were burned because the fire also is still continuing. and the rescue teams haven't been able to met, haven't been able to manage to, to distinguish that as well. so you can see that the other buildings that are standing around are heavily damaged, very much cracked. so the, the rescue teams, he needs to be extraordinarily meticulously careful there, but still as a sad day, but time by time periodically. the work here is stopping because the rescue team needs to listen draw balls. and they're asking everybody to be, to be quite,

if there is any worse. and a sound that comes from under the, under the rebels are quite victims when using social media to reach out to emergency crews for help. it's hope that lives should be saved because of messages posted by those stuck in the rubble. mickleson sheriff reports lucille over incredible rescues and desperate searches for loved ones across turkey and syria o at quake in turkey and help syria became trending hashtags on social media. offering the world a window into efforts to find survivors. but images from previous disasters and other countries also filtered on to timelines that led the turkish government to impose temporary restrictions on twitter on wednesday. and kara said the platform was being used to spread dis information. some from fake accounts,

but critic said the restrictions hampered efforts to get crucial aid to people. as later, after a wide spread public outcry, access was restored. if you want to help personally, go to the sources of turkish emergency services and see how you can contribute financially. 7 0, twitter has also been important for those coordinating rescue efforts from within the country and outside. and it's been used to offer help and mobilize aid. little alonzo was all the better. this video of a young man trapped under deeply in the turkish town of happy went viral. his please for help find leon said, as long as we're on the other side of the border, insidious calls for support have been equally loud on social media platforms. voluntary organization, the white helms or priests, without the support of national governments. its members ask for medical aid

through communication apps and social media. in this blue, with walton, with on the album on the road from his side, syrian will remove all of the 1st room was done as well as a boarding rescue really of operations. the weitel for those of survived earthquakes and need food and shelter. and where do they find it? right? your facebook instagram. take down your name. it. social media is radically changing. disaster renew preference, only consumption. i'm justina, to other news. our democratic republic of congo am 23 fighters, are closing in the sometimes soccer, just 25 kilometers. the provincial capital goma residents have already started

seeing the time them $23.00 on group reemerge last year after the decade of inactivity. i spoke to a correspondent mock my been goldman and i started by asking him about the evacuation. thousands of people heading out to shaw came from the surrounding villages. the city governments in that direction soc, is down. they're going to stand aside so we can take a look around, talk about 10 kilo misses down the road. people from they've come from the sounds they, they can hear heavy fighting from within the town. seems the m 23. fighting with the government forces on the edge of the town right now. that was caused some fear and panic among the population. people to pick up whatever possessions they can. and they're heading towards the city of go by livestock mattresses and things that are valuable or important things that will help people to divide wherever they end up and ready. half

a 1000000 people have been displaced by this conflict. and $23.00 resumed his rebellion just over a year ago and $23.00 widely understood to be backed by neighboring. rwanda is vices use rwandan equipment. rwandan soldiers have been photographed with them. 23 . congress government says they are, in fact just fighting rwanda's army. they, rwanda denies backing them, malcolm, it must be a very frightening time for the people they are. because if i understand correctly, if they, if the study is taken, the essentially almost cuts off goma. and that makes it very understandable why people are desperately trying to, to leave the city the okay, gramma is to today's, to go on some traffic in the right because the people playing at that noise is it will essentially be surrounding the

pc darker to the 8th or one to the north and $23.00. took those 3 last yeah, this is the only road jedi remaining road and government control connect if you go to the rest of the province. so we take soccer and take the government will be completely in. so i had on all 0 solutions you claims president of the addresses in all of them during an honest visit to europe and your u. s. border plan could force more cubans to take a risky journey by seizures, street, economic hardship. ah hello,

that bitter cold conditions have been felt across central parts of asia. but for south asia, it's a largely settled picture, very warm across central parts of india, temperatures here sitting in the early to mid thirty's logic. here as we had further south, just a few showers pulling into sri lanka. but we are going to see things turn much wet as well as wintry across northern areas of pakistan and india. we have got some thunder storm warnings out in the very north. you could see lightening to as a westerly disturbance pulls its way further east away from afghanistan, where it knocked temperatures down and brought some wintry weather. instead, that will be moving its way further east and into the mountainous regions from wetter and wintry weather as well. possibly affecting the pool as well as baton. now was we move to east asia? it's a story of more winter weather for japan. you can see that blast moving its way for the east, bring some heavy snow to the likes of a kind of possibly as well pots of hon shoe and knocking temperatures down dramatically. for the likes of tokyo. behind that some improvement across the

korean peninsula. more in the way of sunshine, double digits in so on temperatures on the upper cross northern areas of china, beijing seeing 6 degrees celsius on friday, a little rise through to saturday. that weather update. ah oh oh a ah ah ah

ah ah, you're watching old is either one of our top stories this our, the 1st you and aid shipment is now arrived in syria. trucks entered the bubble hallway crossing along the turkish border into territory controlled by city as rebels. the death toll from earthquakes and took care and serial on monday has risen to more than 19300 hope is beginning to fade of finding more survivors under the rubble am 23 fighters in democratic republic of congo are closing in on the eastern town of sock, a 25 kilometers from the provincial capital gama residents are started playing the city. ukraine's president received a standing ovation at the european parliament in an address to m. p. 's voting musicians. he thank you,

leaders for their support in the war against russia. zalinski said ukraine is not only fighting for its own survival, but for the survival of europe. yahoo! see him stood obama go green, you see cable. i think all of you who helped ukraine with important supplies, weapons, ammunition, equipment, and fuel. thousands of items without which we wouldn't be able to endure this total war in one. i thank you. bye, ladies and gentlemen, jehovah and our diplomatic editor james bay, as has more from brussels, was certainly there was standing ovations from the members of the european parliament as the ukrainian leader spoke in the european parliament. it was the message, very much of thank you. message bought added into the thank you message, which we also heard earlier and his visits in london. and paris is thank you for what you've done so far. but my country needs more from you. he wasn't specific here in this speech. in the way he has been in london 24 hours ago about exactly

what those needs are, but we know that he was spite h as so we know he wants a long range missiles in addition to what's already been delivered and been promised. and of course, the most important thing that's been promised in recent weeks is those main battle tanks. that was controversial. germany had to be one over, but that is something now that is expected to be delivered in the coming months in the coming year. the other thing, of course, that the ukrainians want long term is a different relationship with the european union because long term they want to be a member of the european union. lensky said, this is our europe. these are our roots. and he said with certainty, when he said the next line, ukraine will be a member of the european union, russia, foreign ministers, meeting leaders of sudan, 2nd law for all of our talks with cities foreign minister audience for the q ali.

earlier he was in molly and multimedia bosco's trying to strengthen ties with known western nations and light of sanctions over the ukraine. was him morgan's good, more from the capital to him? one was been seen growing ties between sedan and russia over the past few years with russia expressing interest and finding a memorandum of understanding with sedans, previous transitional government, to build a naval base along its are eastern coast as well as it's in it's designed to invest now we heard from b, a foreign minister, sergey lover of earlier saying that he had agreed in talks with the deputy head of the sovereignty council. as well as the head of the sovereignty council and army chief general abdel fed there and were hon to improve relations between the countries but also to invest in trade and in the economic sector. but that has been criticized by many, ah, analysts, and many watch groups saying that russia is not in it for sedans, interest, but rather for its own interest, especially with sudan being rich in that gold. and that's russia is helping to

dance, muddle that gold. so it is benefiting more than the country. so while they have discussed issues of again, trade and bilateral relations, saying that they want to improve it. there has been a lot of criticism with regards to russia answered anglo and growing closer to each other. oliver overturned her bill, offered to her on monday for the 2nd time in 10 days. the heat upon him is program coordinator website editor of the russian international affairs council. he's joining us now from moscow. good to have you with us on all the 0. so thank you very much indeed. i want to talk to you 1st of all actually about what has not been mentioned so far, which is the involvement of the wagner armed group in and around countries in africa. there's a lot of dispute about the role that the wagner group plays and the influence that it has within africa. would you say that it is either a help or a hindrance to saga love rob when it comes to meetings like this?

well, thanks for the question. you know, i'll say this very much depends on the country which we're talking about. as you probably know, 2nd law rose to college, not only the countries that are reportedly known for the wagner presence. and the 2 actually started with the traditional rushes allies on the continent, such as south africa every 2 year, the republic of congo and so on. and these are the countries without any military, boston and presence. so i would say that, so it was more about talking about any wagner presence and about possibilities of expanding this military domain. if you take a look at the talks that were held in any african capital where lovegrove came to visit, you see that it's more about getting the some, it's done. probably the one coming in st. petersburg in july and about extending

time in the domain of economics. about technology and what's got you. so power and education because basically i do, my guess would be that russia would really like to expand it. so to say, so rather than house power presidents by training medical stuff by educating young politicians, young trainees. so it's not about the military, at least as far as i get this off power element is something of course, but china has been working very hard to do in the african continent as well and african countries. but there is no mistaking the fact that many of these countries do, are rich in several different types of resources. one would imagine that is in russia's interest to also be able to have access to those resources like golden sudan for example. i,

i won't say that getting the resources is the priority that russia places in front of itself for russian diplomacy is more about fostering russia axis in terms of technology to the african continent. so it's about supplementing the resources that the countries possess with the technology that russia has at its disposal. and the, basically what you say in terms of resources, it goes against roches position in terms of tackling the discourse of new colonialism, love roles. every point of his visit in quite in detail mentions they detrimental impact of the old colonial powers on africa saying that russia will do anything. it can not to be like them. so it's, it's more about being equal partners. i think we are now living in times

when we have forgotten that economics can be done without politics. and it can be done to the benefit of the to participate in nations. i think we are trying to, to kind of do the same thing a mid, a very, a very disturbing circumstances. indeed. very interesting. get your point of view in this nikita priming. thank you very much indeed for your time. so thank. north korea has showcased its intercontinental ballistic missiles during our massive military parade. march the 75th finding anniversary of the country's army troops rolled on the latest hardware of kim jong, owns arsenal, sizes of people and leaving cuba. as it economy gets worse, the u. s. is a favored destination, but recent tough regulations for migrant announced by washington d. c. on making that journey dangerous summer using unsafe home,

made boats to get them to america. shores et augustine has been meeting a few of them in barclay. cubans are leaving the country in record numbers last year, more than a quarter of a 1000000 fled cuba hoping to get to the united states and while mostly by plane, many others try their luck at sea. john cruise is one of them. after spending months building a boat, last month he left with a group of friends, his 2 children, and the family dog. but he was intercepted by the u. s. coast guard and sent back. crew said he wanted to leave cuba because of the economic problems, not for political reasons. lucky that my, all, i'm gonna go on with you. all the economy is never been good here. but since the pandemic things have gone 3 times, worse is also critical of the united states for it sanctions against the island nation. john and his family departed from the town of barrack o, a place where more than a 1000 other cubans had tried to leave. roger garcia has tried to make it to the u

. s. 11 times by c. he has a tattoo for every failed attempt at our hold. i and leah, my motors broken down before and i have spent days on the high seas with a bottle of water to share between 8 people. i have seen friends of mine die leah. it's genuinely hard to find people under 40 in this town who say they don't want to live right now. people are secretly making boats in the houses and in the nearby woods. over the last 12 months. hundreds of rickety vessels have departed from these shores. so many that locals have given that on a nickname, terminal 3, the biden administration recently unveiled a shift in migration policy that would allow up to $30000.00 migrants per month from cuba, haiti, nicaragua, and venezuela. to enter the u. s. and be able to work legally for up to 2 years. the u. s. embassy and havana is once again processing immigrant visas after being shuttered for 5 years. but along with the carrot,

there stick in order to qualify for the program, migrants must apply in the home countries and pass a background check. but that won't stop those unable to get a visa from trying to get the lead. what's my plan right now? as soon as i get the chance i am leaving plenty more people in this town, i equally determined to keep making the perilous voyage. at augustin al jazeera barrack over cuba, flag waters of submerged large parts of bolivia. torrential rain pounded the eastern regions of the country on monday, at least 2 people have died and more than 5000 people have been forced out of their homes. president lewis archie visited the affected areas and tuesday to assess the damage and oversee the delivery arrayed. ah, this is all to say, these are the top stories. the 1st una shipment has now arrived in syria since mondays earthquakes.