then to change the a business plane, this was very naive decisions that have played our future is just pure evil. i don't know what to say. the coils big lies on. i'm just gonna tough times the man tough question. what exactly are you asking for you? what troops on the ground, the rigorous debate we challenge, conventional wisdom and demand the truth up front with me. mark lamb on hill on al jazeera ah ah, mass burials, inter kia and syria. as the death toll from twin earthquake surpasses at 21000. at some relief in northern syria, the 1st un aide con voice crosses from to care. ah,

hello there i'm starcy, attain this is al 0 live from door ha. also coming more people on the move and eastern democratic republic of congo has m. $23.00 rebels closing on a town close to the regional capital and freedom for more than $200.00 political prisoners. nicaragua, government releases its jailed critics and sends them to the u. s. ah, well, it's now been 4 days since the 1st powerful earthquake struck to kia and syria, and hope is rapidly waning. as each hour passes, the death toll climes and the chance of finding more survivors beneath the rubble of thousands of homes and businesses fades. but total number of dead has now exceeded $21000.00. and for the 1st time there is since the quakes are you and aid

convoy has passed through the bubble, how a crossing into serious rebel held areas. russel sir begins our coverage from carmen mirage. the epicenter of the 2nd earthquake 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 on this robin 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, safe with life here. this turkish m. c. m. 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 ins. all awkward that i got shall 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 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 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 about among the residents 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. carmen marsh with 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, rush,

southern turkey salon. i will goslin is the deputy director of partnership development for atlantic relief. he's also in common madison. he says this particular concern for the children who survived this 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, all government agencies are taking care of matters like this. this is trusted that it's 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 low over 15 meters in height. that's him to keep 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 had multiple displacements. there are children who all the generation of suffering that children who, being 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 specially to psycho social workers. we also have programming for syria that's been going on since the offset of the crisis. well, as we mentioned earlier, 6 trucks carrying aid suppliers from the united nations have moved to one of the main border crossings from to kia into northern syria. it's the fast convoys reach, rebel held areas office area since these devastating earthquakes, mom and vall hadn't the 1st you and trucks loaded with 8 supplies left for celia

through the babel. how are 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, 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. 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 stuff 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 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 al epo, hundreds of residential buildings not survived more than a decade of april embodiment of 2nd to the f. quick. those that still stand are

being inspected. some people have been evacuated from their homes for safety harbor . second number halloween, 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's up of 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. harlot, as fools, brought the body of his 5 year old niece to sneeze, to be taken to celia for burial. she and her father died after being trapped for 3 days under rabble in the border town of kitty han. as owes scribbled her name on the body bag 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. hum adviser adviser. meanwhile, sorry, as authorities have opened and dan, fearing an after shouts container jed, but that's led to flooding downstream and caused another down to collapse. how does your correspondent to have al caliph visited some of the affected areas in any province? either he could have looked at any thought on a little so that you know you, her, this is the closest point we could reach me at the east and down the co labs because of the, our serial. good luck on the flood of the river after the earthquake pushed water towards the eastern body of 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 what of the river destroyed more than 20 houses are flooded, mailed and settled families in these houses left during the night. this village, like all other towns and villages, horses displays camp on the syrian turkish border. the display sleep in discount. i've also left 2 other count and higher areas are all over the history. people of

this region has managed to use waters of the assay river or the benefit, but this time the earthquake was more powerful than them and led watered up the river to invade the houses. slavery kind of al jazeera when bel, that it blew before it live. to other news now and $23.00 rebels, an eastern democratic republic of congo are reportedly close to taking a key strategic town, 8 months into their latest offensive against the government. then out just outside sa came on, the main east, west highway connecting the country is 2nd bigger city goma with the capital kinshasa. nothing where reports now from the end to highway midway between soccer and gama. people here are terrified of the n 23 armed group when it's fine as a tank army positions near the town of soccer. thousands of the people living there fled him. be a visa, let me have you got to my i'm of it. we saw that m 23 appearing and

a woman was shot. every body is leaving the area and running away. why? by m 20 three's widely understood to be a proxy of neighboring wonder democratic republic of congo. his army says it's fighting bewanda and soldiers. no wonder denies backing the group. more than half a 1000000 people have fled em 20 three's advance. in the last 8 months the people here walking to the nearby provincial capital of coma which m. 23 has nearly surrounded. this wooden skid. ciocca, due to common means of transport in the villages and the hills around you for carrying agricultural produce and stacks of minerals down into the town. but 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 and 20 three's advance. 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 . heavy weapons arrived to help the fight. rwanda says congos, using foreign mercenaries, hunger says its highest 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 exalts hillary, the residence of soccer, a left wandering, if it's safe to go home. and if, when and 23 will attack again, malcolm web al jazeera, berlin, go democratic republic of congo. russia is foreign minister. so gayla,

rob hasn't met sudanese leaders, and cartoon. the talks focused on improving cooperation between the 2 countries. earlier, la grove was also in molly and and mar atanya. moscow is trying to strengthen ties with african nations. have a morgan has worn out 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 su, dance previous transitional government to build a naval base along its our eastern coast, as well as a desire to invest. now we heard from b, o foreign minister, 30 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 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 so downs 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 and growing, growing closer to each other and still had here on out as in i, in south africa opposition. party members disrupt the president stage of the nation address plus a home this newman. he was the man behind the music of generations. that bacharach dias, aged 94. ah,

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 of 2 tornadoes wrapped in amongst a system called a nasty area of low pressure swirling away here across the plains, easing up towards the mid west and all making its way farther eastward. say we'll see a little bit of snider into 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 pours on this system. sinking a little further south, which as we go on 3 sat day in still noticed some pretty heavy rain over towards a georgia 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,

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lou ah, hello. they are watching al jazeera and i'm the star 0 here and our home that's remind you of our top stories. the total number of dead in the earthquakes that struck turkey and syria has now exceeded 21000 rescue teams are in a race against time to find more survivors and rubble. meanwhile, though, the fast una trucks have managed to cross from tokyo into northern syria, they're delivering relief supplies to rebel held the areas of the country, but has only one border crossing authorized by the un so far. thousands of residents of flood the town of sa came eastern democratic republic of congo,

fearing it was about to be captured by m $23.00 rebels. now if the army uses the town, viashi's 2nd biggest city government would be cut off from the capital kinshasa or survivors are still being pulled from the rubble for days after those at quakes. and to ken syria, the rescue teams are in a race against time. bernard smith reports from iskander on an hut, a province where the search is on for signs of life, admits the devastation. ah, 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 hot i in south eastern turkey, survive as a desperate for something to show that a loved 1 may still be alive. with the buildings of pancake in

seconds. as a chance someone has been tossed into a gap. maddened. demit has been a rescue with a 7 years and owns a construction company. is him what we need to take advantage of the 1st 72 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 it 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. the scanner and 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 and my cousin and my brother in law, i've been here. we've been waiting for 3 days today. they rescued a girl and her mother. yesterday they found the bodies of 3 people. l pena's 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 did it in the biggest challenge for us

as 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 was not. the rescue is no, the time is now running out to find any more survivors. there is so much death here and on a scale, i think people still find in comprehensible that people really think that any hope there is even this long after the initial earthquake. and that is why here again hoping from mine a miracle. but that wasn't, there are perhaps thousands of times when rescue was hopes rise, only to be dashed again. but the search was vive, as 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 his camera to the war in ukraine now, and the president has received a standing ovation at european parliament. rodney zalinski thanked leaders for their support over the war with russia and diplomatic editor james bass reports and

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. way. nobliss, i am like we are moving closer to the european union will, did ukraine will be a member of the european union shall claim it is winning will be a member of the european union rattled when a usual you are so usual, shaw, what am i right 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. but that evening when he, that hilary guns, ammunition at modern tags at long range, missiles, 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 bays al jazeera brussels. now the nicaraguan government, unexpectedly friend honest, all its political prisoners on thursday. following the release, they were put on a plane and flown to the united states. the nicaraguan judiciary says they went traitors who being deported. shabba pansy has been the friends and family of the release prisoners gather the washington's dulles airport to greet them. they and those who landed in the us express a surprise, what happened? i knew we were obviously not told that we were going to be freed. we realize it

when they gave us our clothes at night and took us to another cell and they took us in some buses without knowing where we were going. among the prisoners, those who led the 2018 protests against the government and those with connections to end. jose received us funding accused returning to over through president daniel tega. the opposition of the us have maintained that these with civil society figures attempting democratic change through the ballot box following the release. we'll take a said they'd been know deal with the u. s. one, the, you know, when they came to ask what our interest was, we said none, let them take them. that's all it was not about negotiating. we're not asking for sanctions to be lifted. we're not asking for anything in return. it is a matter of honor, dignity, patriotism, and for them to take their mercenaries away. the u. s. state of public also said this was a huge natural decision by the nicaraguan government, over at it. it was also the product of concerted american diplomacy and that the channels of communication were open between the 2 countries. the action opens the

door to discussion of other matters. 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 nicaraguans. it's not clear yet whether they tones may lead the members of the nicaraguan government and will take it at his family or under sanction by the u. s. government shamperdeen. see al jazeera washington hostile africa as president, so or on the person has used his annual state of the nation speech to, to care a state of national disaster and an attempt to deal with chronic electricity shortages. and now i mean, as you can see, the earlier members of the opposition party, the economic freedom fighters disrupted the session before being escorted out by security. pressure has been mounting around the appraiser to provide a solution. a south africans face hours of daily outages for me to mila has been out from cape town. so many south africans have lost faith in the government and

the president's ability to deal with that electricity crisis, the state of the economy, the state of infrastructure, a number of issues that they want dealt with in a more adequate to manner and renewables are criticized the state of the nation for the cost, it has of taxpayers and then really not delivering on many of those promises. one thing the president did mention was the appointment of a, an electricity minister specifically with in his office to deal with the electricity crisis where they're ongoing blackouts. in fact, that were sent over the last 18 months. they began 16 years ago. and i think millions of africans wouldn't have imagined that they would get this bad. and that's one of the issues that the opposition party, the economic freedom fighters, raised issue with a bit earlier or when they disrupted proceedings are saying that enough hadn't been done. and that's one of the key things the president should be dealing with at this point. he did declare a state of a disaster and that essentially will allow the government to boss,

track procurement processes, provide some level of support to a variety of businesses from, from of food businesses to those dealing with purchasing and distributing solar panels now spans parliament has approved a controversial animal well fellow, it's designed to make the treatment of both domestic animals and wild animals in captivity, more humane. but the legislation has been criticized by animal rights groups after allays amendment excluded hunting dogs from its protection. san diego has been oh, after much discussion and dissent, spain's animal well fellow gets the green light when he came up with, am i going to break the lease anyhow? the law is the 1st of its kind in spain to guarantee the rights of animals under the new legislation. pet shops will become a thing of the past. and dog owners will have to undergo training at this doc, shelter in southern spain. stove look after greyhounds that have been abandoned

often that oddly injured for the people who work a, it is a labor of love. but them, you know, they say falls far short of guaranteeing full protections for all animals within them. and then on, recently we were hit by a big st water. suddenly there was an amendment where hunting animals, among other animals, such as work animals would not be covered by this law is a huge step backwards. because this law has really been made for these types of animals. the ones that are not controlled at the health level, the bills already exposed divisions between the countryside and the city. spain's ruling socialists traditionally have had strong support in rural districts, but when they dropped the bill last year, it caused an outcry angering many in those areas. fearful of pushing voters towards right wing parties. they submitted a last minute amendment in december, that excluded hunting dogs and other animals involved in traditional hunting activities that people involved in those pursuit say, hunting in spain generates more than $5000000000.00

a year in economic activity. and that the law would still effectively legislated out of existence. are you in the figure? it boon does it? there's a series of points that go against or sports or for example, the obligation to sterilize or new to animals. my dogs have been bred for 30 years in yellow, my heart raised their grandmother's. great grandmother's house. i thought there dalton, exceptional technology a no. what are we supposed to do? can you tell them how much of it? oh wow. that the weekend thousands marched in madrid, calling the law to be toughened up. we're going to get to the guy. i believe animals should not be exploited. my animals have to be free and happy, and greyhounds and all hunting animals have to be sleeping on a sofa. those over the law would increase fines for animal, a beast to more than $200000.00 and impose a possible 2 year jail sentence for the most serious cases. for those and opposing sides of the debate, it's further entrenched the divide between the 2. so the guy,

yeah, go out to 0. now that bacharach the legendary composer behind, i say, a little prayer and walk on by has died at the age of 94. hulu. house is madison burns. the thumb, rice, and performer, rose 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's singing the song and i, i couldn't ask for more remarkable assistance in bringing the songs to life than birds. orchestration, sons, john applying. he gives a lot of suit.