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. okay. johnston misses out. is there a life and also coming up more people on the move in eastern democratic republic of congo is m. 23 rebels closing on a town that close to the regional capital? a standing ovation for ukraine's president as he takes his push for more weapons to the european parliament. ah, it's nearly 4 days now since the 1st powerful earthquake struck took here and syria and hope is rapidly winding. as each hour passed, as the death tow climbs and the chance of finding more survivors beneath the rubble of thousands of homes and businesses fades, a total number of dead has exceeded $21000.00. and for the 1st time since the

quakes un 8 convoy has passed through the bub how, how a crossing into serious rebel held areas are still said are, begins, are coverage format, caravan marsh. the epicenter of the 2nd earthquake, good zahida has been waiting here for more than 80 hours, hoping to find her loved was her son, daughter in law and grandchild, are still on this robin reports on there so that people know my pain. my dear ones are burning under this rubble. the studio family has 6 relatives in the same collapsed building. they fill out the civil war and came to caught among much to begin a new, safer life here. this turkish m ceiling. families are nauseous in the same pain. people are trying to call unless they are relying on aid and sleeping in cars as

the off the shocks continue. oh, i'll awkward that. i got shall save us. we are now refugees. she says, death and life are intertwined. here, as survivors are for why the food, the dead bodies keep arriving. this was one of the largest stadiums in common rush . it has now been turned into tense city. for those who survived that houses $3000.00 people around 15 in each tent, donna and her family moved in this tent at their goal. she says she and her 3 children had to survive the sub 0 temperatures for 2 days. when her home was heavily damaged. some of her relatives also died in the disaster. grande's alaska. young. we are safe as much as attend, can defend us. kids a cold at night. i have the 3 year old son shot. he is scared as soon as the tent

shakes and runs towards me asking, is it happening again? let em the residence here are served food and warm clothes, but at night the weather is extremely kona. they say they struggle to stay warm, especially the children. i as the sun sets above his phone. oh, her son has been pulled out from under the rubble. but he's not alive. but i'm on marsh. really? it's nearly 2000000 population was one of the most developed cities in church here . now the city center is mostly destroyed and many lives here have been torn apart . it will take these weeks even months to find all the victims and years to rebuild . but the impact will be felt longer still, as men of his faces are gone forever. restaurants out of that, i'll just iraq, carmen marsh, southern turkey sala,

apple gossum is the deputy director of partner development for islamic relief. he's also in the carmen rush. he says there's particular concern for children who survive. the disaster. lot of the the, the health care was because took care of them on the 1st nights we have to understand the context. you have to understand a lot of the families know each other. a lot of the people are very close with each other. we also know that all. busy the people who are unfortunate the passing. busy the details are recorded and government officials, organizations that all government agencies are taking care of matters like this. this is trusted that the the level of scale of damage is unbelievable. i mean, yesterday, visiting very close to the api center i was, i was looking at piles of rubble, the over 15 meters in height. that's into in theory, that was already

a humanitarian crisis that's been going on for 12 years. a couple of months ago we were responding to the color outbreak. there are people who've had multiple displacements. there are children who all the generation of suffering that children who've been born in war or born as refugees and born into difficulty. so it's a, it's a, it's a major concern for agencies like ourselves. we have an extensive open sponsorship program. we have extensive programs that support the psycho social elements for the children, providing education for them. and also having them work with, especially a psycho social workers. we also have programming for syria that's been going on since the offset of the crisis. hotels across to kia have been throwing open their doors to those left homeless by the earthquakes. but turkish government is working to find tempe shelter for them. from gabby and stephanie decker, now reports this is the living tragedy.

more than 300000 people in government shelters, and many more sleep elsewhere. thus were people view. we lost our homes with our neighbors. this is very, very difficult for the people. people are helping each other. this man collected milk from farmers in his come here to hand it out for free over there to put in a bit. we will be bringing seats and pastries to we are doing this by ourselves. by our own will. this is the long term problem, tons and tons and tons of thousands of people homeless across this region. these people are standing in line to that hand out a you're, you're the money. i don't know just a dish with the computer i we get interrupted. he says, we don't have any issues here. everything is super, everything is great. we were intimidated and harassed by a number of men in order to leave. determined to make sure there was no negative

coverage. the government, it seems. turkeys. disaster management agency is coordinating both local and international teams from this center and goes yon tap. it is a major task. the turkish president arrived in the city on thursday as part of his visit to the disaster zone. so vicky jo below jack along. i'll talk this bit, the village there, while the damage assessment is underway in this transition moment, will provide $530.00 and financial aid to our citizens ought to be nearer. and with this financial aid, you want at least to alleviate their problems. a little bit. oh, does anyone hear my voice? he shouts. they still haven't given up hope they may find more survivors against all the odds. 3 people were pulled alive from beneath the shattered building on thursday. some much needed good news in a region of tragedy. stephanie decker, al jazeera, gassy, and tap. as we mentioned earlier,

6 trucks occurring aid supplies from united nations have moved through one of the main border crossings from turkey into northern syria. ma'am at val has more. the 1st you and plucks, loaded with 8 supplies left for celia through the bible hoa crossing on thursday. they're destined for residence level health areas. the supplies can't come soon enough. why? honestly, it is the 1st response after this earthquake of the convoy consists of 6 trucks loaded with sanitary materials in 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. what city in white helmets say the shipments are not enough because they contain only a regular aide and not tailored to the disaster. that's a desperate need for that equipment here. it live where rescue workers use their

bare hands. along with the few tools they have to dig through. mountains of concrete and twisted metal for survivors. thousands of people have lost their loved ones, as well as their homes. in italy, been elsewhere across enough, is from syria, an air of despair and helplessness is taken over the sophie law. we still have hundreds of families trapped under the rubble, including 16 of my own cousins, along with their wives and children. we can see what we know of the bodies of our relatives right under these roofs. where there is nothing we can do to collect them and at least bury them. civil defense teams are doing their best, but we need modern machinery to remove the debris. medical workers are also calling for help. oh no, we're dealing with quite a lot of dead bodies and injured people. we send the bodies to cilla moon and the wounded to sal keen for treatment. we provide emergency care for the wounded, but we have a huge deficit in medicines and other essential medical equipment. in the city of

olive po, hundreds of residential buildings that survived more than a decade of air bombardment of light come to the f quick. those that still stand are being inspected. some people have been evacuated from their homes for safety harbor. second number ha, green. this is where we live in that building over there. around $415.00, a powerful earthquake hit a fire. we managed to get out with the children to put them on when we got out, we saw this building collapsed before our eyes, vertically. we were evacuated for safety reasons because we share a wall with the building that collapsed at the border with turkey, truckloads of bodies of refugees who fled syria are being taken back. highly cause food brought to the body of his 5 general niece, the snake, to be taken to celia for burial. she and her father died off to being trapped for 3 days on the rabble. in the bought a town of kitty con, i suppose,

scribbled her name on the body back and asked her to pass his greetings to the rest of the family members who died in the quick. they had left celia fleeing death at the hands of the city, an army, but they couldn't escape it in turkey, um, advice, i'll just yell, go to shows. if it shalala is an emergency coordinator with the international organization for migration, he says the u. n is doubling donald efforts to provide assistance that people are in dire needs because there are, we'd like to mention as well that it's not only the earthquake that are to worth getting that is the idea. in addition that the region was hit by a severe snowstorm which increased the level of complexity of intervening and the level of severity that the people are living in that not to mention that this is already a conflict on and those people are usually depending on him and that in assistance, the assistance that we try to do is to provide people with the minimum items and

essentials that they need to survive, which are mainly mattresses, blankets, aquiline. so they can make some, some small shelters, jenkins, and hygiene kids. so these are the main and the initiator emergency like saving assistance that we provide on an emergency is so many organizations and rescuers not already on site prior to how to put that out there. but he, moville and su of people. and this will be also backed up by our intervention while providing all the necessity emergency la saving assistance from the us from today onwards to albany is now emmett. $23.00 rebels in the eastern democratic republic of congo reported a close to taking a key strategic town 8 months into the latest offensive against the government. just outside soccer on the main, the east west highway connecting the country's 2nd biggest city goma with a capital kinshasa. welcome web reports from the end to highway midway between the

socket and good people here are terrified of the n 23 and group. when his fight is attacked on the physicians near the town of saki, thousands of the people living there fled can be, i think it may have. if it's mon i'm of it's, we saw the m $23.00 appear and, and a woman was shot. every body is leaving the area and running away. and 20 three's widely understood to be a proxy of neighboring wonder democratic republic of congo. army says it's fighting with london soldiers. wonder denies backing the group. more than half a 1000000 people have fled em 20 threes advance in the last 8 months. the people here walking to the near by provincial capital of coma, which n 23 has nearly surrounded. this wouldn't just took a day with the common means of transport in the villages in the hills around you for carrying agricultural produce and stacks of mineral down into the town with

today being used by this boy carry whatever he could grab as the thing is, how many people here say they don't understand why the government hasn't done more to support its forces and stop him. 20 three's advance. almost as rebels just appeared and the village and we heard the gunfire, and bowman's people started leaving and running away. even the soldiers were also running away with us progress down the road in coma. sim, fleeing soldiers were rounded up by military police and sent back to the front line . heavier weapons arrived to help the fight. rwanda says congos, using foreign mercenaries, hunger says it's hired form of french soldiers as military instructors. the army says it repelled the attack and forced its enemy back up into the hills.

still within the range of its r tillery, the residence of soccer, a left wandering. if it's safe to go home, and if, when i am 23 will attack again, malcolm web al jazeera, berlin, go democratic republic of congo. more than 220 political prisoners have been released from jail in nicaragua and flown to the united states. u. s. secretary states anthony been constructed, opens doors to further dialogue between the 2 countries. nicaragua and judiciary, said the prisoners were traitors who were being deported 1st. and daniel ortega had detained dozens of opponents to his government in recent years, including several people who intended to run against him in 2021 presidential election by the prisoners arrived to the airport in washington, d. c. a short while ago, with friends and family were eagerly waiting for them at the rivals gate. nicaragua was government has announced plans to introduce laws that will allow them to be

stripped of their citizenship. the release of these individuals by the government of nicaragua, marks a constructive step for the dressing human rights abuses in that country. this action opens the door to discussion of other matters of mutual concern. united states remains committed to a dialogue with the government of rug will amuse and other matters and will continue to support the nicaraguan. still a heads. heron al jazeera o in south africa, opposition party members disrupt the in battle. presidents state of the nation address. ah hello, welcome to look at the international forecast. we have seen severe storms are moving

across a deep south of the u. s. one to tornadoes, wrapped in amongst his sister. quite a nasty area of low pressure swirling away he across the plains, easing up towards the mid west and all making its way farther eastward sable c or a little bit of snow going to that eastern side of canada. more very heavy rain linking right down, cross east, the cbl clearing through as he go on 3 friday. but still some lie. be down. pause on this system, sinking a little further south, which as we go on, 3, sat down still noticed some pretty heavy right over to ward sir, ga, northern part of florida. at this station you can follow that same line of cloud and right across the gulf of mexico. there we go. there it is still bring some heavy showers across the deep south at the moment. sinking further south was, as we go on through friday, i will say turning increased the wet across that eastern side of mexico parting down across the yoke competence less, am rudy heavy rain into southern mexico, pushing towards guatemala. actually up at the shows that we have just round the western side of central america for the caribbean itself. it is generally fine and

dry looking good here over the next couple of days, a greater antilles. seeing a large share of the sunshine, but a few showers but east. ah. oh. lou

ah, the watching i'll just hear armando about top stores now the south, the total number of dead and the earthquakes that struck to care and syria is exceeded $21000.00 rescue teams are in a race against time to find more survivors. the bubble, the 1st u. n. a trucks have managed to cross from turkey or into northern syria and delivering it relief supplies to rebel health areas. also, there's only one who the crossing authorized by the us of the thousands of residents have fled, the tanis saki in eastern democratic republic of congo faring. it was about to be captured by m $23.00 rebels. if the army news is the town d r c, 2nd biggest city gama would be cut off from the capital. kinshasa

or survivors are still being pulled from the rubble for days after the earthquakes in turkey and syria rescue teams now in a race against time. but at smith reports from his condron in her type province, for the search is on for signs of life amidst the devastation. when the whistle blows, hopes rise. there are at least 21000 rescue personnel still looking and listening for signs of life among the ruins of the villages, towns and cities of hut i in southeast and turkey survive as a desperate for something to show that a loved 1 may still be alive were buildings of pancake in seconds. there's a chance some one has been tossed into a gap. maddening de mercy has been a rescue for 7 years and owns a construction company. is in a little area. we need to take advantage of the 1st of these 2 hours to rescue

people alive. unfortunately, people don't know what to do when earthquakes happen. they don't know what to look for in a house before they purchase one. is that durable? how is it built? if you buy 30 to 40 year old houses with renovated facades, this is what is going to happen to them. is scantrons port is on fire, swathes of the city without electricity running water and sanitation. 4 days after the quakes hit the city, tens of thousands and now homeless. i, my cousin and my brother in law of in here, we've been waiting for 3 days today, they rescued a girl and her mother. yesterday they found the bodies of 3 people. our pain is great. i can't express it enough. they'll sleep to night. in one of the thousands of tents, the turkish government has shipped in office didn't you? the biggest challenge for us is relatives of the victims. we need to tell them what we are doing while we are carrying out the rescue operation. they want to interfere and do things. we are unable to control the rescue area. the rescue is no,

the time is now running out to find any more survivors varies. so much death here and on a scale, i think people still find incomprehensible that people really cling to any hope. there is even this long after the initial earthquake, and that is why here again, they're hoping for a minor miracle. but there wasn't, there are perhaps thousands of times when rescue was hopes rise, only to be dashed again. but the search for survivors hasn't been called off yet when there is still part of this country waiting for the 1st rescue teams to arrive . bernard smith, al jazeera, is candor but un secretary general, antonia natasha says his aid chief at martin griffith's visits turkey answered this weekend. he'll assess what's needed there to see how the united nations can help. this is the moments of units. it's of the moment. so to politicize or to divide, but it is obvious that so we need massive supports. and so i would be, of course,

very happy if the city council could reach a consensus to allow for her mort crossings to be used as we needs also to increase our capacity to deliver on cross line operations into it leap from earn the, the muscles, ukraine's president has received a standing ovation at the european parliament for him as the lensky thank to leaders for their support over the war with russia on diplomatic editor, james bay's reports now from brussels. on the 3rd stage of his brief surprise, european tour after trips to london and paris president zalinski flew with the french president, emanuel mackerel to brussels in the capital of european union. he was again repeating the same message. thanks for all your help. but ukraine still needs more slow graham, i told the pac session of the european parliament that ukraine's home in the future

is as part of europe. wayne nobliss, i am like we are moving closer to the european union. mo, did ukraine will be a member of the european union shall crane, but his winning will be a member of the european union battled when a usual you are so usual, shaw, but i am a guy after standing ovations in the parliament, a short drive away, he was again greeted with applause by the leaders of all the used 27 nations. when he sat down with them, he laid out his specific requests list. but that evening we need artillery guns, ammunition area, modern tanks at long range may files of modern aircraft, which are at a news conference president zalinski wouldn't detail the responses he's received to his wishlist, but he says the conversations have been constructive. he also stressed the time is critical with a new russian offensive expected in the coming weeks. james spies al jazeera, brussels rushes foreign minister selling a lover of

a has met sidney's leaders in her tune. the talks focused on improving cooperation between the 2 countries. oliver of was in marley and martina moscow is trying to strengthen ties with african nations in light of sanctions over the ukraine war. heber morgan has more from the sudanese capital. 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 our eastern coast, as well as a desire to invest. now we heard from the 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 for that. and what 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, forced to dance 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 angland growing closer to each other. south africa's president, serial rather poser, has used his annual state to nation speech to declare a state of national disaster in an attempt to deal with chronic electricity shortages. ah. but earlier members of the opposition party economic freedom fighters disrupt at the session before being escorted out by security pressure husband mounting on the

ropers or to provide a solution a south africans to face ours of daily outages. we know that without a reliable supply of electricity, businesses cannot grow. assembly lines cannot run. crops cannot be irrigated and basic services are interrupted. households and our supermarket and shops are unable to keep food. fresh water supply is often disrupted. traffic lights do not work. streets are not littered night peruse. largest workers union is protesting against the president denot boulevard to his government, if also called an indefinite strike. a move not made in 20 years. they've been violent protests in peru since early december, when pedro castillo was ousted as president. after trying to dissolve congress, nearly 60 people have died in the protests. united states says it will consider

taking action against companies connected to the flight of a chinese balloon that entered the country's air space. last week, washington says it's confident the manufacturer of the blue and has a direct relationship with the chinese military. the balloon was shot down over the east coast of the u. s. and has caused a political standoff between the 2 countries, chile and the president. gabriel burridge has ordered the evening at curfews in 3 regions of the country. as wildfires continued to rage and includes the r, hannah, and via, via regions where i put a resistance groups are believed to be setting fires to forests. the curfew aims to prevent thieves from stealing from properties affected by the fires. so far. 24 people have died. burt bacharach the legendary composer behind i say, a little prayer and walk on by has died at the age of 94. ah,

her house is not in this new songwriter performer, wrote and scored 73 top 40 songs over 7 decades. his melodies were brought to life by some of the most influential musicians of the last century, including aretha franklin, elvis presley, frank sinatra, and the beatles. bacharach 18 grammys and 3 oscars over his illustrious career, conquering the pop charts, as well as scoring films and broadway productions. i'm the, i'm the one who singing the song and i have, i couldn't ask for more remarkable assistance in bringing the songs to life than birds orchestration and his piano playing. and it gives a lot of sort of support. and it shows me the way to go and give me the, you know, the where, where to place the emphasis in the song. ah

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