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massive supports and across the border and syria, the united nations secretary general calls for more aid convoys to be allowed in. ah, hello, i'm elizabeth broadman. this is al 0 alive from door ha. also coming up freedom for more than 200 political prisoners. nicaragua, government release is dissidence and sends them to the u. s. plus. house is not in this new burt bacharach one of pop music's greatest composers has died at the age of 94. ah, it is now more than 4 days since the 1st powerful earthquake had turkey and syria,

at least $21000.00 people have now been reported dead. despite freezing conditions, rescue as are finding more survivors. oh, in the southern turkish province of hearty and entire family pulled out alive from the rubble and in ghazi on to have a teenage boy rescued. search teams are working relentlessly, but chances of finding more people alive are fading by the hour. and a stephanie decker reports the race is now on to find shelter for those who survived. this is the living tragedy. more than 300000 people in government shelters, and many more sleep elsewhere. thus, with people here, we lost our homes with our neighbors. this is very, very difficult, very difficult. people are helping each other. this man collected milk from farmers in his come here to hand it out for free for them to put in

a bit. we will be bringing seats and phase 3 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 high down a your job, the money i don't know just a little better yet. a dish with the gum, feel terrible 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 gus 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 vic, yep. hello, jack along. awesome. this bit the really there while the damage assessment is

underway. in this transition moment, we 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 kazi on tip was in a moment, we'll speak to cinema casino, and i'm come out that 1st let's go to vessels. and by he's in kind of mind that ash the epi sent off the disaster as a full days after the earthquake struck. what's the focus lay you? i wrestle well, i am in front of a collapsed block here. this is just one of hundreds here, nearly

a 1000 building. how collapse here and thousands are dead. so you can see that the rescue, air force is frantic here. so the rescue teams have you lived in machineries and the we're codes are still big in into the rivals and hoping to find some people dead or alive because now it has been more than 96 hours. and the hopes here are fading. so to night, through the last night, there have been dozens or bodies taken out from under lids. robles. unfortunately, none of them was alive. so and the families are here waiting anxiously that the scale of the west station is beyond imagination. this is just one of the scenes across this city that are hands off such scenes. and now we can see that the tension also is going higher and higher as that, that bodies and more and more are coming out just a little. i go in front of us,

there was a tension between our family and the rescue teams here. so, but here families, families, families, so they are having the biggest tragedies at, as the time is running out the whole or so fading a 9 i have poke, and matt, some of them 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. the portal may so that people know my pain. my dear ones are burning under this rubble. the serial family has 6 relatives in the same collapsed building. they fled to civil war and came to caught among rushed to begin a new, safer life. here. this turkish and sealing families are now shit 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. i n n a locker 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 tents city for those who survived. with 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 sub 0 temperatures for 2 days, when her home was heavily damaged. some of her relatives also died in the disaster . grande's de la, scarce 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 em. the residence here are served food and warm clothes, but at night the weather is extremely corner. 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 is not alive. ah, well zeit is, a story is repeating here. hundreds of people have almost a similar stories. so i was just talking to an old man, his name was my math here. and a little ago he just said a. he is here and anxiously waiting for her sister reached for his sister because

his sister is still longer this rubble. but on the other hand, his brother is on the rubble in another town in the province of caught him on mother. she said that he just came here. he dug his sister's body at least to give her a proposal. proper burial, so caught him on what is the worst his city here. and as of now that are more than 5, how's the people that just here and the fierce is down, his numbers, hours by ours are going to go higher and higher and absolutely hot breaking situation very so. thank you. a for the latest from caught him on maddox while let's go now to cynical ceo nish is joining us life on the turkish governments. belief coordination center that's in the capitol ankara. and as that death toll mount sent him, it is a government under pressure following criticism. that's preparedness and it's response to the quake. elizabeth, yes, there is this huge crisis center upstairs where you have ever ministry having your

representation group as a working group. they are trying to coordinate the 8th. they are trying to respond to the a help request. they are also trying to allocate the teams on the ground, including d, a military members, the soldiers on the ground as, as of yesterday late afternoon. a state of emergency is in place in those 10 city is affected by the earthquake for 3 months. this is a very difficult situation on the ground and also in the capital on cora to be able to enough and s sufis. all those needs as, as a huge population has been affected. and the government has been under pressure or with criticism, or which accused the government of not being able to reach out to the areas. and the officials are telling us they did their best. however, they are told we are talking about an area of more than one 100008 square

kilometers, and the population of 13 and a half 1000000 people. the inhabitants in those areas and as my colleagues are explaining and from the field from all those cities, there are thousands of buildings collapsed in thousands of people have been rescued . but still there. so many people under the rebels, even after 100 hours of a following the earthquake, as some allies were saved, the people are waiting in front of those rebels with a hoped at least to find the bodies of their family members. but of course, in the anchor, our capital, and there is a huge pressure on the rescue teams. but international aid is coming in to rescue it to help her the turkish authorities, world bank pledges, and the ear pledges a friend. the country is like the united states pledges funds and aids to choke here, and there are a, more than 6000 fire rescue workers helping out to 120000 local rescue workers to

help the turkish people who are, are suffering. and it consequences this us cake. thank you for that. send them that us. and of course the only from mayor a government center in ankara. thank you. now the 1st aid international aid has arrived and rebel held areas of severe 6 trucks. carrying supplies from the united nations entered one of the main border crossings from tokyo and to northern syria. muhammad van has more the 1st you and plucks, loaded with 8 supplies left for celia through the babylon. hoa crossing on thursday . the destined for residence there, but how 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 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 went elsewhere across north is from syria, an air of despair and helplessness is taken over the safe. 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 selah moon and the wounded to sulking 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 aleppo, hundreds of residential buildings not survived more than a decade of air bombardment of succumb 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 it apart. 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. hallett, i suppose, 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 oos 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, hom advisor and jesse health. now the un secretary general antonia quoterush is appealing for more border crossings to be opened to allow aiden to severe. this is the moments of unity itself, the moment 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 civic also could reach

a consensus to allow for her mod crossing soon to be used as we needs also to increase our capacity to deliver on cross line operations into it, leap from the the, the mosque and still ahead on al jazeera, we've been rebel how syria to speak to a doctor who's been treating earthquake survivors ah, examining the impact of today's headlines. this is what is the will about ensuring that lisa can continue. let count on that and setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions. i don't believe that. i think in the faith that is willing to kill international filmmakers and world class journalists, bring programs to inform and inspire you need to have a media ensuring that voices are heard on al jazeera.

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ah, watching al jazeera with me, elizabeth brought him in doha reminder of our top stories this hour. more than 4 days have passed since 2 powerful earthquakes hit to a key and syria. more than 21000 people have been reported dead. turkish rescue teams are continue to dig through the robins searching for survivors often by hand. freezing temperatures and snow have been slowing down the efforts and 6 trunks carrying aid from the united nations have arrived at newland sylvia. at the 1st calm voice reach, rebel, how areas of the country since the earthquakes now, sir ian authorities have opened a dam in the middle of the country. if you're in asked shocks, could damage it. but that led to flooding downstream, and caused another down to collapse in floods. nearby villages and zeal

correspondence, sahib alcala visited some of the affected areas in italy, province. i could look not any thought on the will 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 silly book on the flood of the river after the earthquake pushed water towards the eastern body, which collapsed quickly and the water floats towards the village houses. and you can see the scale of the disaster of this village where the earthquake can bring one 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 tor kesh border, the displaced people in this town. i've also left 2 other camp and hired 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. so he will have a fellow 0,

invest that the pool or if we live and we are joined, i by our 1st name, his, the leper area coordinator for the middle east council of churches. and he is joining us last from a leper. thank you very much. for your time, i know that you and your organization are working on the ground an epo. so tell us what the situation there is now for the people. good morning from live. oh yes, tuition is so bad for people. most of the freed the being in this street on monday and you know, all of the was no rush tuition. nobody was in the building. there was, there was, after the after dining quick, we have 1000 in the seed index. and all those that opened by your church and schools and most the tuition now is to be more bad during the day the

engineer comes to take the building and really to her hundreds of buildings cannot to be saved anymore. so they ask that people to be everything from the building and quickly make it bigger and bigger and bigger. now we are suffering for the future happens. what we will do now. mr. selling is saying that there are thousands of people on the streets. they are taking shelter as you say, in mosques and in churches and their cars. but is there enough shelter for everyone who's been effective one of the greatest needs fair, right now know for, for the beginning in the on monday there is nothing. they start to be in the, the, even without like it in the schools in the church result blanket results, anything. then from tuesday start to be bit. there was a situation yesterday, we have a lot of material, but that is

a big means now because the number is the increase, the decrease in date tuesday start decrease, but it's the date to be ingredient. and that mean we, we need a lot of material extra. we need more than food basket hygiene and milk. exactly. mean they know in the, in the so suffering from the medicine. and of course, we need to quickly paint and for the people to move from side to side, they cannot to be in this 3. nothing is clear in that country or to these. so everything is coming quickly and in a big mass. so the fuel is stopping we don't have anything to continue, but we are trying to do our best with every everyone. help us now. the program is a lot of country cannot to help us because of the season. so we need to open it.

so in the ration in the city, because already before that the country is suffered from everything. economics officially, of course, from more than 10 years of the war. and what about the treatment of survival from the earthquake? you are a doctor yourself. so what's, what are the graces needs there? know that is the biggest number that there is a huge number. busy house and a lot of building damage this school. we are more than $600.00 schools. the official yesterday 600 schools cannot continue damage. so we need to have the tape. we need to prepare. we need to grow quickly. 40 habitation, we need a lot of work in this field and rent for the other who cannot be in there and their house on other. how do we need cash quickly for the people to continue their life

with the work stop? we need to have the date in the shops, and on another hand, we need a very big amount of food basket and how buskey, because even the restaurant every walk in field of food, these is stopped already because of the week of the us military and coordinator. said sylvia, is a need of absolutely everything mr. suffers to live with. thank you very much for your time and highlighting the needs where you are in a level now move on to all the news. and hundreds of people in democratic republic of congo have fled their home off the m 23 fighters closed in on the eastern town of san k. it is on the main road connecting the country 2nd biggest city goma with a capital kinshasa, the congo, lease army, and i am 23 group have been fighting in the area since monday. the group re emerge last year after a decade in activity. more than half a 1000000 people have fled m 20 to advance. in the last 8 months,

the nicaraguan government has released nearly all of its political prisoners. they would then put on a plane to the united states that they could go in. judiciary says there were traces who are being deported, she have, or thompson has more friends and family, if the release preserves gavin washington's dulles airport to greet them. they and those who landed in the us express a surprise about happened new or new to, you know, we were obviously not told that we were going to be freed. and 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 and jos received us funding accused were telling to over through president daniel, take the opposition and the u. s have maintained that these were 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 yell 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 us state of public also said this was a huge natural decision by the nicorette government. however added, 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 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 a nicaraguan. it's so clear yet whether they tones may lead the members of the knickerbocker government and will take it at his family or under sanction by the u . s. government. she ever town. see al jazeera washington the united states as it will consider taking action against companies connected to the flight of

a chinese balloon that entered the country as the air space last week. washington says it's confident the manufacturer of the balloon has a direct relationship with the chinese military. the balloon was shot down on the east coast of the u. s. and has caused a political stand off. now peruse, largest workers union is protesting against president dina boardwalk. there's government, it's called for an indefinite strike. there were being violent protests and promotions early december when pedro castillo was also as president after trying to dissolve congress. really 60 people have died in the protests. to chinese astronauts have completed a space walk outside china's new space station town gone on thursday. it's the 1st space walks in the completion of the space station and may the so called tunnels and stored cameras and other equipment outside the station during the 7 hour long mission. now burt bacharach the legendary composer behind i say, a little prayer and walk on by has died at the age of 94.

ah, the house is not a one song writer and performer rotan scored 73 top 40 songs batting 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 back are at 18 grammy's. and 3 oscars that's from me, elizabeth peron of the news continues here after inside story ah hello. we still have one or 2 showers in the forecast for to care over the next couple of days, but that southeast corner, if you're telling a good deal quieter, we will see

a shower is getting squeezed out of the way by this large area of high pressure which is sinking its way down towards a se. one thing it does mean though, is it will stay cold, bitterly cold overnight and still cold enough by day that we have low pressure is swirling away to central parts of the med. on the other hand, that's where we see some very stormy weather. very strong wind gale force winds, little bit of snow over the high ground down towards southern parts of italy, motor seeing some pretty nasty weather. but for the most part, europeans strike a deal. a settled weather and plenty of sunshine any morning. missed them for clearing quite quickly. generally speaking, still summer wet weather, some winter, whether they're just creeping across the far western side of scotland. some snow therein to scandinavia, that all pushes across the baltic, states bright disguise, coming back him behind, just noticing when she, whether they're just moving out to germany, 3, poland, and easing i, which was at western side of russia. but south of that generally try and settled in a good deal quieter into central parts of the mediterranean. as we make our way through the weekend of the moment. at same area of low pressure bring some really

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