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on carrie johnson. this is al jazeera la from dough are also coming up a standing ovation for ukraine's president, as he takes his push from all weapons to the european parliament and freedom for more than 200 political prisoners. the corridors government releases its jailed critics and sends them to the u. s. ah, it's nearly 4 days since the 1st powerful earthquake struck turkey and syria and hope is rapidly waning. as each hour passes the death toll climes and a chance of finding more survivors beneath the rubble of thousands of homes and businesses fades, the total number of dead has exceeded $21000.00. and the 1st time since the quakes,

the un aid convoy has passed through the bub how, how a crossing into serious rebel held areas are. so soda begins are coverage from caravan marsh epicenter of the 2nd death quake that 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 under this rubble reports on there so that people know my pain, my dear ones are burning under this rubble. this syria family has 6 relatives in the same collapsed building. they fill out the civil war and came to caught among rush to begin a new, safer life here. this turkish m ceiling families are now shit in the same pain. people are trying to call a lung. they are relying on aid and sleeping in cars as the off the shocks continue

. i n n a lock looked at. i gotcha save us. we are now refugees, she says. death and life are intertwined. here, as survivors are per why the food, the dead bodies keep arriving. this was one of the largest stadiums in common rush . it has now been turned into tents city for those who survived anger that houses $3000.00 people around 15 in each tent. oh donna and her family moved in this tent a day ago. 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. he is scared as soon as the tent shakes and runs towards

me asking, is it happening again? let him. the residents here are served food and warm clothes, but at night the weather is extremely caught. 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 robin. but he is not allowing her mom mirage really is 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. reginald said that i'll g 0, carmen marsh, southern trickier. but as we mentioned earlier,

6 trucks carrying 8 supplies from united nations have moved through one of the main border crossings from tech here into northern syria is a 1st convoy to reach rebel held areas of syria since the devastating earthquakes mohammed val has more. the 1st you and plucks, loaded with 8 supplies left for syria through the babel hoa crossing on thursday. they're destined for residence level health areas. the supplies can't come soon enough. why our list? it is the 1st response. after this earthquake, 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 and white helmets say the shipments are not enough because they contain only a regular aide and not tailored to the disaster. now,

so 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, band elsewhere across enough is from syria, an air of despair and helplessness is taken over this. if you hear me hello la, 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 at 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 selah 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 al epo, hundreds of residential buildings not 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, a powerful earthquake. it'll be managed to get out with the children's up with them . 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. hallett as fools brought the body of his 5 year old niece. this name to be taken to celia for burial. she and her father died after

being trapped for 3 days under rabble in the bought the town of kitty han. as owes 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 syrian army, but they couldn't escape it in turkey. hm. advice, alicio or serious authorities have opened a damn, fearing after shots could damage it, but that's led to flooding downstream and caused another down to collapse out of their correspondent. so have alpha laugh visited that some of the affected areas in italy, province had the accountable or not, not any thought on that was so that you know, you, her, this is the closest point we could reach me at the east and down the collapse because of the our silver clock on the flood of the river after the earthquake pushed water towards the eastern body, which collapsed quickly and the water flowed towards the village houses. and you can see the scale of the disaster, this village where the earthquake can bring water of the river,

destroyed more than 20 houses on flooded, mailed and settled families in these houses left during the night. this village, like all other towns and villages, horses at his leis camp on the syrian turkish border. the displaced beetle in this cal, i've also left 2 other camp and higher areas are all over the history. people of this region has managed to use waters of the us, the river or the benefit. but this time the earthquake was more powerful than them and led water of the river to invade the houses. so able kind of fell jazeera when felt that it blew. if we live, david miller band is the president and ceo of the international rescue committee. he says the situation in syria antar kia is at a critical point. the message from the $400.00 plus international rescue committee staff on the ground. who are morning to colleagues, by the way, who were killed in the earthquake on monday. the message from them is that there

are desperate needs and of course, the 1st priority is to bring people out of the rubble. but as that becomes less and less likely to save, life is vital to attack the threats to life that come from the freezing cold, from the lack of medicines to address illness and to treat injury from the lack of blankets. not the humanitarian essentials, but also to address the cash needs of some people who been left with virtually nothing as a result of this falling tragedy. we are working in the north west of syria, which is a rebel held area to an active conflict zone. $150.00 civilians were killed last year during fighting that were bombing raids in january from the syrian government and it's russian supporters. so our approach is very simple. we're a neutral humanitarian organization. we work with the local authorities in the north west of the country. we can't rely on what are called cross line deliveries

of a that means cross conflict line from the damascus held areas through into the north west of the country. so we have to rely on the cross border crossings, which come from north south that come from turkey. the ukraine's president has received a standing ovation european parliament for the measure lensky. thank to leaders for their support over the war with russia. and if not to get a to james base reports from brussels. on the 3rd stage of his brief surprise european tor, 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, who told the pac session of the european parliament that ukraine's home in the

future is as part of europe. wayne knowledge, i am as we are moving closer to the european union. mo, did ukraine will be a member of the european union, shall claim with his winning will be a member of the european union, the latter. when a usual you are so usual, shaw, when i am a guide. after standing ovations in the parliament, a short drive away, he was again greeted with applause by the leaders of all the use 27 nations. when he sat down with them, he laid out his specific requests list for that evening. we need artillery guns that ammunition maybe a modern taxes, long range, missiles of modern aircraft, which at a news conference presidents lensky wouldn't detail, responses he's received to his wishlist. but he says the conversations have been constructive. he also stressed that time is critical with the new russian offensive expected in the coming weeks. james spies al jazeera brussels rushers,

foreign minister, seroquel of ralph, as that met sudanese leaders in khartoum. the talks focused on improving corporation between the 2 countries. earlier, however of it was in marley and martina. moscow is trying to strengthen ties with african nations. he but morgan has more from that sudanese capital. one was been seen growing ties between sedan and russia over the past a few years with russia expressing interest and finding a memorandum of understanding with sedans, previous transitional government, to build a naval base along it's our 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. and $23.00 rebels in the eastern democratic republic of congo are reported close to taking a key strategic town. 8 months into the latest offensive against the government. there just outside soccer on the main east west highway connect in the countries 2nd biggest city goma with a capital kinshasa. welcome web reports from the end to highway midway between soccer and good. people here are terrified of the n 23 armed group. when his fighters attacked army positions near the town of saki,

thousands of the people living there fled, can be as good as if that's the name of it. we saw that m 23 appearing and a woman was shot. everybody is leaving the area and running away. and 20 threes widely understood to be a proxy of neighboring wonder democratic republic of congo. his army says it's fighting with london soldiers. the lender 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 m. 23 has nearly surrounded. this wouldn't ciocca due to common means of transport in the villages in the hills around you for carrying agricultural produce and stacks of minerals down into the town. but today, being used by this boy, carrie,

whatever 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. 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. congress says it's hired form of french soldiers as military instructors. the army says it repelled the attack and forced his enemy back up into the hills. still within the range of its artillery, the residence of saki left wondering if it's safe to go home. and if,

when i am 23, we'll attack again. malcolm web al jazeera, blanco, democratic republic of congress, still to come hair on al jazeera. we get a sneak peak of what's in store at the largest auto show in the us. ah hello, we've got some more stuff in the forecasts for japan over the next couple of days. we have got some all the cold air in place. that presence of area of high pressure . i was at eastern side of china. normally winds coming back came behind and then just noticed this where the system here just pulling out of the south of china, developing area of low pressure here. moderate coming in. when that malware just pushing into that cold air, we will see heavy rain,

32 significant snowfall as we go through friday. face to say it's a short lived thing. take it goes from for sale to some friday to around 13 degrees . as we go on, a da sashay brightest guys coming back behind any snow, we'll have fallen. we'll quickly melt then. now she's heavy showers. continue across central and southern parts of china. as we go on through the weekend, could scattering a showers meanwhile, across a southeast asia, the heavier showers begin to indonesia and pick down polls coming through here. but southern part of the philippine season lives, showers. so what to when to northern parts of bornea, and also looking a little unsettled, i once again across the malay peninsula, not to unsettled meanwhile, across much of south asia, we do have a line of cloud and writes the snow just around the foothills of the himalayas some wet weather western disturb is spilling out of north pakistan into india. ah ah

ah. oh no. ah, the watching out as a reminder about top stories now the total number of dead in the earthquake steps struck turkey and syria has exceeded $21000.00 rescue. teams are in

a race against time to find more survivors in the rubble the 1st year and a trucks have managed to cross from turkey or into northern syria. they're delivering relief supplies to revel held areas of 70, but there's only one border crossing authorized by the u. n. so far, oh tara, across, took here have been throwing open their doors to those left homeless. spider earthquakes or turkish government is working to find tempe, shelter for them from a cuz he ends up stephanie decker has more. this is the living tragedy. more than 300000 people in government shelters, and many more sleep elsewhere. thus were people here. we lost our homes, we love 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 phase $32.00. 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 get hired out of him. ha ha, that it became a you're the money. i don't know just a little better yet. and that guy did with the gun feel comfortable that 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 victor. yup. hello, jack along. hasn't this been dead nearly dead while the damage assessment is underway? in this transition moment,

we will provide $530.00 and financial aid to our citizens all been there. and with this financial aid, he 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, on top of thousands of volunteers, have turned out in istanbul to help prepare relief supplies to be transported to turkey is disaster hits cities. as i said, the name is there, if you can believe it since monday, the city of istanbul says 7000 volunteers have come here to this convention center turned relief center to pitch in. there has been such an interest in helping

their fellow turks in the southern 10 cities that people have been lining up outside and waiting for hours until they've been allowed inside, where they can be used effectively. the applause you're hearing is that this door is about to close, meaning another semi truck headed to the city of high tide with supplies is almost ready to hit the road. these people have been told that they know it's only a matter of time before another earthquake hits the city of is stumble, one did hit in 1999. magnitude 7.4 killed more than 18000 people. so they know at some point this help we may be needed for themselves and they're saying that's why wanting to help and not feel hopeless is all they can do right now. there is also been a global outpouring of support for turkey. 95 countries have offered assistance as we speak more than 6400 workers representing 56 countries are already on the ground

in southern turkey. pitching in and that type of assistance is not going to just be needed in the coming days and weeks. the head of this operation here has said that they expect to be in this convention center for the next 3 to 4 months. so really the question becomes, how do you keep the momentum going? the energy going and the attention focused on the 13 and a half 1000000 people who have been devastated by this earthquake are these earthquakes. the nicaraguan government, unexpectedly freed almost all its political prisoners on thursday or following the release, they were put on a plane and flown to the united states. nicaraguan judiciary states. they were traitors who were being deported. she had, per tonchee, has more the friends and family of the release prisoners gathered a washington's dulles airport to greet them. because i made

a b o. i'm sure. there were days when i lost her, but my father was always optimistic. my whole family was optimistic. my mother was, she never lost her. among the released those who led the 2018 protests against the government, and those were the next few years received foreign funding accuse of attempting to overthrow president daniel taylor. the opposition and the u. s. a lane tain, though, that these were the civil society figures attempting democratic chains at the end of 2021, or take a had hinted at this outcome. those who are in prison, they are the of the yankee imperialist way. they should be taken there to the u. s, because they are not nicaraguans. they stop being nicaraguans a while ago. they don't have a homeland for it's spelt the us state department said that while this was a unilateral decision by the nicaraguan government, it was also the product of concession american diplomacy. and the channels of communication were open between the 2 countries in 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. it's not clear yet where this de tunes may lead their members of the nicaraguan government and will take it as his family are under sanction by the u. s. government shampoo town. see al jazeera washington . united states says that all consider taking action against companies connected to the flights of a chinese balloon, but entered the country's s base last week. when washington says it's confident the manufacturer of the balloon has a direct relationship with the chinese military. britain was shot down over the east coast of the us. and of course, a political standoff between the 2 countries was in jordan has more from washington d. c. on thursday, the u. s. state department released what it called declassified information related to it. surveillance of the chinese spy balloon, which it shot down over the coast of south carolina on saturday. us officials are

now on the defensive, trying to explain why they allowed this craft to cross u. s. air space for so many days. but the state department spokesperson, net price told reporters on thursday that it's not the u. s. that has anything to defend. it's the chinese government because it was engaging in what the u. s. is calling active surveillance. it's not surprising to hear them issue these types of denials. they're in a very difficult spot, but they're in a difficult spot because they placed themselves there. and they decided to take this action against the united states. they've decided i to leverage this program against dozens of countries around the world. i wouldn't say that we're seeking or organize at formal coalition of countries that have been subjected to this specific program. what i would say is we have as part of our diplomatic

blocking and tackling since really day. one of this administration's sought to have a convergence of views regarding the challenges presented by the p r c. the state department isn't saying which other countries, chinese bullets have, ugh, crossed in recent times. but the us says that it is consulting with its allies and partners about the best way to confront beijing about its spying activities. certainly one thing that ned price wouldn't leave off the table on thursday is the possibility of more sanctions against the chinese government. now, after 2 years of poor sales during the pandemic, u. s. com makers of gearing up for stronger showing in 2023. the chicago auto show is offering a glimpse of upcoming models. so hendrick got a sneak preview of what's in store. ah, the post pandemic era auto industry is back and it's transformed more than the new

2024 models. wow. what is it the way the start rewarding, the chicago auto show the largest in the u. s. rebs. back to life after 2 years of smaller shows and outdoor tracks were finally back to our pre kobe levels, with 2 halls here. we've got almost all the manufacturers returning. there's a lot more cars on the show floor. there's really cool things like airplanes on the show floor as well. the pandemic put kinks in the parts supply chain reduced inventories and drove the cost of used cars to record prices. now inventories are up and prices. well, maybe not. all. prices are down. dealerships are adjusting to a new pare down era with smaller lots and bigger online orders and a widely expected increase in sales. the demand for new cars, the demand actually get in them and actually, ah, kicks and tires. test drives never really went away. people always did still want to buy cars during the pandemic buy. they could, should be warned. any available now, but that production starting to come back. now the sales are starting to come back

. auto shows are starting to come back as well. the show is one part show room, one part celebration with planes trains and especially automobiles, along with a once again, festive environment, even contacts, sports of return sort of this year. starz include the new corvette, e ray, the all electric version of the classic american muscle car, one of a broad array of electric cars. a toyota highlander that doubles as an in tendo entertainment center. in some e v's that aren't cars at all. one of the things that makes a car show different from the show room are concept vehicles. this ram 1500 revolution battery electric truck might not come out for years. but it's pretty cool. after a couple uphill years, automakers are looking for a smooth ride. this year john henderson al jazeera, she.