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trapped in the rubble for days and still alive. the astonishing rescue of a child and his mother and took care as hoped fades for more survivors. a syrian man mourned the death of the 3 of his children while being thankful that to others survived. we're going to be alive and east him democratic republic of congo. where am $23.00 fighters are closing in on a highway towards drama plus but back of act, one of pop music's greatest composers as died at the age of $94.00. ah, it's been more than 4 days since a popular craig's head, southern turkey and northern soviet, nearly 22000 people have been reported dead despite freezing conditions, rescuers of finding more survivors. a young boy and his mother were fined, alive, under the rubble. indeed, makia searched teams or working relentlessly,

but chances of finding more people alive off fading by the hour. even a team of correspondents across took him send him costello's in the capital ankara . stephanie decker is in no doggy near the city in boredom. vessel settles in common mulash, the epicenter of the disaster. let's go to vessel 1st. tell us about what the latest is they wrestle well at tragedy is by now unfolding here. so buildings off of the author, buildings blocks off their building, blocks have collapsed here, nearly a 1000 buildings. and then it left houses of people, death in this city, and just in front of one of that collapsed building. and you can see that steel, the rescue air force are continuing the rescue. teams did that. the heavy lifting machinery is all their vehicles. they are joined by the military as well. now, as it is there, that had the state of emergency, now that the turkish military also is involved now in the,

in the rescue air force. and they are digging and digging, trying to get the bodies out from under the rebels. and just a little i go a couple of minutes ago of where you can see the soldiers. they took out a new body, but unfortunately he was not alive. and then he has been put into a black bag and taken to the ambulance. so and with him just the last 3 hours here, there has been at least 7 that bodies that has been taken out from under this. robert, as i said, this is just one of the scenes in this city. but there are times of the other scenes similar to this one. and from time to time, you will see that the rescue teams here are quoting for silence, asking people to silence and asking the cars to just turn off. because they hope to hear some with this or the think that they heard some voices and people here before or just the rescue teams year. they're going to a complete silence and trying to listening, deliverables hoping to have

a voice coming from under the rubble. but then minutes later, the work restarts and you can see that the pain on the family's faces is once again there. you can see the pain of the world on their faces. it has been days now the 5th day, they are waiting around anxiously and surround, hoping that they will have they, they loved ones, bodies live or dad back. however, it is a tragedy that's on for them and their pain is really now prolonged. i met some of them 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 the people know my pain. my dear ones are burning under this rubble. the serial

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 now sharing 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 lock list that i got shall save us. we are now refugees. she says, death and life are intertwined. here, as survivors are per why that food, the dead bodies keep arriving. this was one of the largest stadiums in common marsh . it has now been turned into tents city for those who survived 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 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 a 3 year old son shot. he is scared as soon as the tent shakes and runs towards me asking, is it happening again? let him the residence here are served food and warm clothes, but at night the weather is extremely coin. they say they struggle to stay warm, especially the children. i as the sun sets above his phone. ah, her son has been pulled out from under the rubble. but he's not alive. well in this city, wherever you turn, you see this story is similar to zeit as one. it is

a story aim that is sheer by hunger is all families here. so i just have now the families sitting over there and they're nice. it's just, yeah, i do believe that this, this bravo, another man who's coming from the that the town is done in caught him on mother's property. she said that his brother is on the w 9, his son. but he came here because his sister is also under a collapse building and he said, i just came here to get her body axes that can give her a proper burial. so it is a pain shared everywhere here. and in this city, it has been this, it has, he had fight quick twice in 9 hours. the 1st one was 7.8, and the 2nd one was 7.5. meg. as a result, nearly a housing buildings have collapsed here. and now nearly around to the air on 6000 people have died here, but the families are here anxiously waiting for days and days and still having hope

that they might hear from the relatives from dear did wines. but no, as it is the 5th day, the hopes here are fading posada and cut them on marsh and row. so thank you very much deed we're going to go to stephanie decker in the town of no doggy and d. as in tech province. we are russell's telling us about the efforts that are being made, and in that cut him on mirage to try and find play people under the rubble, the rescue efforts where you are continuing, as well as efforts to try to find shelter for survivors. yes, it is very difficult to describe the destruction we were actually on our way to another city about 40 kilometers from here. and as we were driving at the devastation along the road, houses collapse, collapsed, collapsed, cut up. so we just stopped in a village where we are, you can see rest is not rescue actually recovery efforts happening behind me. they've been happening since we arrived. actually, earlier we were talking to

a gentleman who was saying he was waiting for his daughter and his grand daughter. and before we came on our just behind us, we saw 2 bodies being carried out in black bags. and the 2nd bag was a very small one. and the same gentleman that we were talking to walking behind, incredibly upset. so they have found his daughter, his granddaughter, and taking the weight. unfortunately, this is what you're seeing now. the rescue workers working very hard to recover around 30 bodies that are still believed to be under, under the rubble of these buildings. and this is, you know, as you heard from resume you're hearing from me. it is indescribable. how much there is this going on? and how many people are waiting to recover the body so that i think that death toll is going to arrive. because going to rise on the other side of that, you will have those that are displaced, that are homeless, that have lost their homes, with buildings or structurally unsafe. and that number is pushing into 400000 and

nothing major long term challenge. and we went to meet some of them who are sleeping in the government facilities. this is the living tragedy. more than 300000 people in government shelters, and many more sleep elsewhere. thus with people here, we love our homes, we love 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 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 gus yon tap. it is a major task the turkish president arrived in the city on thursday as part of his visit to the disastrous own. so vic, yep. hello, jack along. hasn't this been dead nearly dead while the damage assessment is underway in this transition moment, will provide $530.00 and financial aid to our citizens all been there. and with this financial aid, we 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 to lie beneath the shattered building on thursday. some much needed good news in a region of tragedy. well, no good news here. certainly they're not expecting to find any survivors. we were actually talking to one of the volunteers who's working on this building. i asked him what, how do they operate? you say, well, we work room by room. we kind of know where the kitchen is, the earthquake struck around 4, 17 in the morning. several would have been in the bedroom. so this is how they start to work. and as you can see, it's a very slow process behind me. what they do is, once they have identified where a body is, they constantly hold the blankets around the area to offer some dignity. they will tell us to journalists, you know, whenever they think that what he's going to come to turn off the camera because they're trying to maintain the dignity of the families, the dignity of the dead, in their very last moments there. but again, the families here, they're not, they're not leaving. they're waiting to retrieve their bodies to be able to bury

them. but again, anyone who speak to here it's very difficult to comprehend the devastation because families have been lost in their entirety. this is what makes it even more tragic. are we talking to one moment who were saying, you know, she lost 4 of her brothers to her cousins and her mother and all the children of her brother's in one building that collapse just here. so, and that's just one story out of tens of thousands, stephanie decker talking to us from no value. thank you very much and he stuff we're going to go to send him quasi aldo. she's joining us from the turkish governments relief coordination center in the capital ankara. we just heard from stephanie decker there about how she and her team had been intimidated by men who were determined to show that everything was absolutely fine. it was all being dealt with. i was the government reacting to criticisms of the way that it has responded to this earthquakes. hey rob, yesterday again, we were here in the turkish disaster management agency and we had

a chance to speak to one of the agency, air disaster management agency officials. and he said, yes, there are some places that we weren't able to reach out to. we couldn't go to some of the places where aware of that. and the turkish present also accepted this on air. but of course, we're hearing lots of stories from a, from the field as our reporters have been explaining since the beginning of this earthquake. and we are also listening to people that we can reach out to a talk on the phone a. but apparently it also seems as not very possible to reach everywhere because the, our father, the disaster management agency representative, it told us that the area left the earthquake affected is more than 100000 square kilometers and. and according to the environment ministry, the in have a, there are 13 and a half 1000000 inhabitants in this area,

which means those millions are directly affected. and one was to pick people. everybody has some one trapped under those rebels. at least one person a from that area. so this is a difficult task, will we? sometimes we calculate, we do mathematics with our friends here. ah, this is a very tough job and there are more than 120000 search and rescue teams on the ground. these are the turkish rescue teams and so find nearly 7000 international rescue. tombs have arrived and they have been in the, in the field, and trying to rescue those people trapped on the doubles and they are going to be more coming. and ever they more international aid and more international, a search and rescue choose are arriving and trickier to contribute on the search and rescue operation. but at the impact of this earthquake is massive as the seismologists and the geology experts say it. this is like at the disaster of the century and turkish president also use this

a definition for this earthquake. and that's why this area this, these 10 cities affected by the earthquake are announced as the state of emergency . according to the bill approved yesterday by the parliament for 3 months, these areas aren't going to be in the state of emergency. the military is on the ground in most of the cities. but of course, these are not enough. and people are people criticized the government. people criticize the urban ization because we heard a turkey as in monmouth and organisation ministers saying that it is the old buildings that collapse because to care on paper a has a very strong regulation about a risk assessment as it has a history of earthquakes and a in 199899 and a big earthquake happened in my murder region and that costs more than 17000 lives . and just in 4 days this earthquake cost more than this at, that's why true kia,

impose the new regulation, introduce new laws. but apparently those new laws didn't work because we are hearing from our, if friends on the ground, especially in places like what i on top. yeah. and ga santa that these are also the new buildings that collapsed. so it, there is a lack of auditing, apparently, and i probably the government will also hold those people accountable. this is what we hope all those bureaucrats me to spell it to members a building those urban areas. those cities own the fault minds that this is another thing and also the, the sit there is something called the construction amnesty that the governments have been in applying since 19 sixty's in this country. this by this country is an earthquake, so on. so there are so many things to discuss, but currently the government is focused on bringing aid to those areas, coordinating the international aid and saving more people, as many people as possible rob center. thank you very much. indeed, that cinema,

cultural to talking to reserve from ankara, lost the border in northern syria and 6 trucks. carrying aid from the united nations have arrived. it's the 1st con voice reached rebels held areas in the country since the earthquakes, but as in hot reports, much more help is needed. lives lost, shattered by mondays, earthquakes, northwest, syria's humanitarian crisis, made worse. the region was hit just as hard as cities across southern turkey. but here the people devastated by over a decade of war. wait for help. already. millions live intense. the quake has made tens of thousands more homeless. but it's a whole 90 bits of our family and living in this team. we lost our homes, we need everything. clothes, food, the children are always hungry. we have nothing to keep warm and rescue teams have been working non stop with little resources and alone as hopes of finding survivors

fade. they say they have been abandoned by the international community to face the worst disaster they have encountered requests for heavy machinery never came on thursday. the un acknowledged search and rescue operations covered 5 percent of the devastated sites. while we last 27 members of our family into quick 7 bodies have still not been to the civil defense needs help. the cross border aid operation from turkey, a resumed on thursday after it was disrupted partly to damage the infrastructure on both sides of the border. but the un was criticized for providing what many said were insignificant supplies. it says more assistance is coming. agencies however, say politics is getting in the way of using more direct and effective routes. are report laid out several concrete ways that that could happen. opening additional cross border routes from turkey,

opening up cross line channels from other parts of syria, including the north east towards the rocky border or the south. obviously there would need to be a lot of guarantees of non interference that the government would need to accept in order for that channel to work and then an air bridge. government areas to are in a dire situation. un agencies which operate there are promising to scale up response across the country. but to cross the front lines they need approval from damascus, which has been accused of using access as a political pressure. and to use more border crossings will require a un resolution because of the objection of the syrian government and it's russian ally. so what we need is to scale up existing type of response that existed priority of quake. and mean the question of cross playing a cross bodies would almost have a moot point in many ways because what we need is somebody that works. medical

support is needed to an already crumbling infrastructure. the crisis deepens, in this war torn land center holder, elisha's yada yada, not a country representative of the u. n. f. p. a. that's united nations population find in syria. he's joining us from a level. so thank you very much indeed for being with us. can you give us an idea of what your organization's focus is? you know, the, i talk to the, you're going to me is forming immediate un after that i 1000000 population. and also the number of meeting at the 1500000. a. we have 90000 women who are expected to be 30000 will be

delivering room and be coming and that he was very difficult when responding from this number in a very, very limited. the resources that you on is happening is the way you started going, the commodities that supporting the facility will respond to the as well as providing some of that and send it to the not head of the woman who i'm sending out to 100 days more than the 1000 why 100 even receive demand is fusion. 5 is indeed kind of pretty small. we seem

to be talking immediately who are doing anything to be involved with that we have kind of coordinated that can be formed. so just very briefly, unfortunately, the, the line that we have to you is breaking up very slightly. but just very briefly, we've been hearing a lot about how difficult it is to get aid and supplies into northern this area you're on the united nations organization. do you have what you need to be able to cope or are you at the mercy of the restrictions and the limitations that all of the other agencies are at? i'm a cheeky, and we have a we were able to manage the hours.

oh all the days that are for almost a month when you speak about obviously we are having problems with the line or to a lab there. as you can imagine, in a situation like this, there's a lot of demand that's being placed on our bandwidth and air time and so on from emergency services as well, and rescuers and, and obviously people trying to send text messages to the rescuers, particularly of course, as we've been hearing over the last couple of days if they are actually trapped under the rubble. so it's perhaps no surprise that we are going to lose a line or like that no emergency crews have of course been battling extreme weather over the last 48 hours or whether presenter, everton foxes, joining us now to tell us more about what's going to come the cold weather in many

ways is absolutely crucial to what is happening, both into care and in syria. yeah, that's right, robert said bitterly cold and i'm afraid there's no sign of it said warming up any time soon. we have seen from the pictures, lots of sunshine, but with those clear skies, it means that it turns very cold over night. what little heat there is radiates away pretty quickly. you can see from the broader picture bits and pieces, the cloud across northern parts of europe, but largely dry across. so central air is not because got a big area of high pressure, large tongue of high pressure, right? the way out of france using our tools as southeastern corner, right the way across there into to kia. so we also have the light winds and that adds to those overnight frosts for the time bear this sort of temperatures we're looking at. those temperatures will struggle to get anywhere near double figures as we go on through the next few days. but of course it's the over night temperatures that are giving major problems. and as i said, there is no significant sign of that changing any time soon. so this is the friday night, you can see getting well below freezing minus for

a possibility minus 5 for some over the high radicals. a good deal colder. you go through the next few nights and this very little change, staying below freezing as we go into the overnight period, and it will remain cold, right, the way to next week and beyond. i suspect by day, no, great sir, improvement here as well. so friday, noon, 7th and 8th day to see just around the quake. so little more cloud there into our central and northern parts of syria might get a spot or 2 of rain, possibly some snow, sleet and snow, mixed in with that. not too much, but there's always the possibility of that, but you can see those clearest guys right across to care as we go through the remainder of friday, friday night. that's the situation there. again, another clear nights, more of the same coming through as we go on into sas day, a possibility of some more of those, the wintry shower. so we say right, and slee coming into, we're serious to go one through the course of sas day, but essentially not a lot. and we're looking at it,

staying dry as we go on through the next few days, right on through the weekend. and no significant sign of that change involved right through next week. you're everton. thank you very much indeed. okay, people around the world are holding prayers for the victims of mondays. earthquakes come out, hyder is in pakistan's capital islamabad. there had been an appeal that all the congregation and barrister day should include the papers of to the care and syria who are suffering from the devastating disaster. now, the bugger on a prime minister was regular hor airport to see off a plane, lord of applied also to share military drawn support across our landing and budgets on our to take their supply budget on their donating. now dokie is one of those country that was one of the 1st responders. when buggers dawn was hit by a devastating earthquake in 2005 and which about 100000 people. died

there joe, case of gosh, he bade some of the infrastructure there and they've always been dead for a board budget on whenever there's been a calamity. showed up august on a prime minister saying that the people of budget on are ready to help board and, and people over there and there are of need. now, a budget on the military had already tried a contender and which includes no shame off medical doctor for dog and rescue came out, appeared across the country to help the people all go to kia and city center ends up being established across the country. so that people can donate generously the rushes launched a wave of miss ayla tax across the clean several energy facilities and other

critical infrastructure. a sense of being hit. we're going to cross his english, avi, who's joining us live now from keith as in what more do we know about what's been going on? well, this was certainly a shocking early morning wave of attacks. what the ukrainian government has done is sound the all clear for now the combat sort hayes, the government here is saying are over for now. but this was a dramatic morning for ukraine. we had attacks coming in, strikes coming in from air land and sea, including cruise missiles from worships aircraft bombing runs, as well as s 300 surface to surface mobile units, firing from land kamikaze drones hitting targets all over the country. dozens at a time. now let's give you a sense of exactly what happened. what happened. this is what we know so far here in keys in the capital, a missile was intercepted and shot down

a house and some cars were damaged from falling debris, but so far, no reports of casualties. in odessa, we are hearing that 13 missiles were shot down after being intercepted by ukrainian air defenses. and in car key, where one official described this morning's garage is one of the worst that they've seen since invasion day about a year ago. there were at least 8 injuries and critical infrastructure, a high voltage power facility was hit, as well as a public park throughout this of this wave of strikes today, it seems that they were targeting specifically the civilian power grid. once again, trying to knock out as much power as they could, and they managed to do quite a bit of damage hitting high voltage facilities in the, in the south, in the east and the west of the country knocking out power in a number of cities and the government is still the energy company is still trying to get a handle on exactly how bad the situation is now on already

a beleaguered civilian power grid. we can tell you that explosions and strikes have effected the citizen. the death of car key poll tava new pro nikolai of new pro and creve re. and despite the fact that the all clear has been sounded for now, the defense ministry, while the air sire and alarms were still ongoing, had said that at least 100 missiles may be targeting places in ukraine today. and they continue to tell people that they should expect more and more strikes of this kind as the anniversary of one year of war with russia approaches xanda solving and keep saying, thank you. stella had an al jazeera, we're going to be in rebel held syria, to speak to a doctor who's been treating earthquake survivors. freedom for more than $200.00 political prisoners. nicaragua, government releases dissidence and sends them to the united states. ah.

hello the weather sludgy dry across a good part of europe. now pretty much a clear skies for many but more can up towards a north west. as you'll see in small cloud there i went to war. scandinavia, pushing a further east was quite brisk winds as well as you can see from the at the tightly packed. i suppose. we have got a nasty little area of low pressure still swelling away in the mediterranean. that causes the problems around southern parts whitley over to was molten, far north of africa to but in between there's our area of high pressure and that's what's keeping it law. she try and settle if a little cloudy at ties with some early morning mr. for particular cause northern parts of a year up as it went to weather coming into our west of scotland. some snow there in norway into west sweden. we have got some very wet and windy weather still in place there, across a central part of the mediterranean. that will ease out of the way. as we go on through the we can dry over towards the southeast to care does stay dry. it does

stay cold, i'm afraid we are going to see tab, which is struggling to get anywhere near freezing. once again, over the next few days, the similar temperature to, to western russia minus one the top temperature there in our moscow. wet weather, then across central parts of the med, also bringing some very heavy rain into to near northern parts of libya and still very wet for western sahara. ah ah, ah .

when the news breaks, when people need to be heard and the story told, it's incredible that more people were injured or killed. this is eve on the ukrainian capital with exclusive interviews and in depth reports. and i did a lot more than $2000000000.00 that that might, could have addressed. nigeria is going by diversity in widespread public. al jazeera has teens on the ground to bring you more award winning documentary and light lunch router fee. oh ah, watching i just need a reminder of our top stories. this are more than 4 days have passed since 2

powerful earthquakes had took here and sylvia almost 22000 people have been reported. deb turkish rescue teams continued to dig through the rubble searching for survivors often by hand freezing temperatures and snow. have you slowing down the roberts and 6 trucks carrying aid from the united nations have arrived in northern syria. it's the 1st convoy to reach rebel held areas in the country since the earthquakes. auto jolla double hardtop is the dean of medical college ad lepper university. and he's been telling us about the pressure of the rescue. and medical teams are under the see the end do teams and rising again go the victims and of the building destroyed by the quick and until now

and then on 500 and then and, and judy each 701 teams for hundreds being completely collapsed roy has been more than 1900 tele collapse. that means that and, and now i was in of city and many more than 100000 obscene. and now i leave houses in that are in the car one another 3. can you tell us the kind of injuries that people have suffered when they've been caught underneath the rubble? yes ma'am. that when did, you know, will died with the one hour to hour because the shock of the car to get rid of me

being so we we have multiple approx channels might enjoy the insufficiency function of somebody. but the box for that, most of the boys in this bag with that destroyed bending will die. if we save him cookie, hundreds of people in democratic republic of congo have fled their homes as m $23.00 fighters closed in in the eastern town of saki mccarthy's army and the m. 23 armed group of been fighting in the area since monday. the towns on the main road which connects the country 2nd biggest city. busy gama with the capital can shut down well, despite billions of dollars being spent on one of the largest un peacekeeping

missions in the world, m 25 years have continued to attack villages and sees territory. now, group emerged more than a decade ago. it's mainly based in the province of north keybo, which is rich in natural resources. and leadership is made up of members of the tipsy ethnic group. they say one of their aims is to fight groups funded by hotels who fled through wanda after the genocide in 1994 and 23 merged with a congress army under 2009 p still but in 2012 and said the agreement hadn't been upheld and they broke away. more than a 120 other on groups operate in the region. as good morning marco my, have a saki mock him. what's the latest on the fighting? where am 23? the group you were just talking about is widely understood to be back by neighboring rwanda, as it was 10 years ago, was the group c, n d p that came before it. and our cd that came before that and 23 fights has carry

rwandan military equipment. rwandan soldiers have been photographed with them or they were lumber, denies backing the group. now here in the town of saw k, i was on thursday that the population thousands of people fled on the main road connecting here to the provincial capital of goma. if m $23.00 was to take saw k, this town going would be effectively encircled, but commonly government forces repelled that attack. i'm going to stand aside so we can just take a look around at the sound. now there's some sense of normalcy. some people have come back, there's a market here which is normally packed full of traitors, bustling full of life. only a few of the traders here now there quite a lot of soldiers around as well. i'm from where we standing reside in the last few minutes. what sounds like bombs landing heavy explosion to the sound. the rocket

firing, we did see on thursday trucks carrying rocket launches, blowing into the colonies. army heading towards the front of the army, says that they've pushed and $33.00 about 10 kilometers up into the hill in that direction. malcolm, thank you very much. indeed. as morgan webb, in sucking pakistan has agreed to the conditions laid down by the international monetary fund to valleys. $1100000000.00 and funding that's according to the countries finance minister and following 10 days of talks aimed at releasing the funds. shocked are also says the pad has been delayed because of routine procedures that stalled the process. in december. i m f, funding, critical to pakistan, struggling economy afloat was just getting in july got willing, we will try to complete the i m f program for the 2nd time in pakistan's history with the same spirit problems we have completed this process. keeping in view, the sovereign commitment eval montgomery, and you can go in government has released nearly all its political prisoners,

put in a plane to the united states. they could go in judiciary says they were quote, traitors who were being deported. sure how the towns he has more friends and family of the release prisoners gathered washington's dulles airport to greet them. they and those who landed in the us express surprise of what had happened and you knew that 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 and jos received us funding accused of attempting to overthrow president daniel tega. the opposition of the us 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, 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 us state department also said this was a huge natural decision by the nicaraguan government, over at it. it was also the product of concerted american deploy. lucy and the channels of communication were open between the 2 countries. the action opens the door to discussion of other matters and mutual concern. united states remains committed to a dialogue with the government of rug will amuse and other matters and will continue to support and the rug when it's not clear yet. where does they told may lead the members of the nicaraguan government and will take it at his family or on the sanction by the u. s. government? she ever chancey al jazeera washington and i didn't. state says it'll consider taking action against companies connected to the flight of a chinese balloon that entered the country's aerospace last week. washington dc says confident the manufacturer of the balloon has

a direct relationship with the chinese manager. balloon was shot down over the east coast of the us, and it's called a political standoff. was when jordan has more from washington dc. 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 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 use regarding the challenges presented by the p r c. the state department isn't saying which other countries, chinese balloons have, ugh, crossed in recent times. but the u. s. says that it is consulting with its allies and partners about the best way to confront bay ging about it, spying activities. certainly one thing that net price wouldn't leave off the table on thursday is the possibility of more sanctions against the chinese government.

peruse lawyers, workers unions protesting against president dina, but walters government called for an indefinite strike that had been violent protests and bruised since early december. when pedal kasteel was ousted as president after trying to dissolve congress in his 60 people have died in the protests. marina sanchez reports on the streets of lima. well, it's another night of protest here in the capital of the country. there's been protest throughout the day and other cities of the country, especially in the south, but now police royal police are pushing. this is the strategy. police has had every single day for weeks now. they push protesters and then circle the area, not allowing people to move out. and that's when they start throwing the tear gas. there are thousands of police officer fees on motor bikes. are the ones who are going around this year. the police is going forward to push the protesters back

under another group of officers. here they are not royal police, but they're here to support the royal police in front of them. protest i have tried to reach congress like every time they protest and police does not allow them. people are very angry with congressman because they have not approved god to bring forward elections. they have shelves at least 4 proposals last week, and they only have until the end of friday to reconsider that they may vote again to bring elections in 2023, but it's unlikely that they will get 66 votes needed just to open the debate again, and you're not getting it and they don't want to leave. they want to stay and continue causing mayhem in our country. and we need them all to leave or anybody my lawyer, the congressmen have betrayed the country. they are elected by the people, but they have betrayed us by not supporting the population. they do not support what we are demanding with so many people did in 2 months of political turmoil.

many people here say there is not a chance that a negotiation will be a way out of this crisis to lean. president obama has ordered evening curfews in 3 regions of the country as wildfires continued to rage against the regions or kenya and bill bill for my poor che resident resistance groups. i believe to be setting fires to forests. a curfew aims to prevent thieves from stealing properties affected by the fires. so far, 24 people have died. south africa's presidents declared at national disaster in an attempt to deal with chronic electricity shortages, settle, ram of jose made the announcement during his annual state of the nation speech before parliament and thursday, members of the opposition party, the economic freedom fighters disrupted the session south africans face hours 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 supermarkets and shops are unable to keep food. fresh water supply is often disrupted. traffic lights do not work. streets are not late at night. farmer, the miller has more 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 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 many south 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, 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 a, from a food businesses to those dealing with purchasing and distributing solar panels to chinese astronauts have completed a space walk outside china's new space station. chung gong on thursday is the 1st space walks and the completion of the space station and may so called a talk with arch installed cameras and other equipment outside the station during

the 7 hour long mission shown. so 15 crew was sent an orbit, she didn't remember, and is expected return to earth in may. still ahead on al jazeera, we're going to get a sneak peak of what's in store at the largest auto show in the united states. ah with

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a glimpse of upcoming models. john hendrick got a sneak preview of what's in store. i. the post pandemic iraq auto industry is back and it's transformed more than the new 2024 models. wow . what a sensation away 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 certainly warrant 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 one. 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 a nintendo entertainment center. in some e v's that aren't cars at all. one of the things that makes a car show different from a 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 chicago legend, a composer burt bacharach as died at the age of 90. 4 of his home in los angeles is careers find more than 7 decades, and it gave the world of music a vast trove memorable songs typify the mid 20th century era. bob reynolds reports, [000:00:00;00] i the influence of burt bacharach on popular music is almost impossible to measure together with long time song writing partner hal david. he wrote dozens and dozens of hits for scores of performers in the 19 sixties and seventies.

ah, they distilled a kind of sexy, sophisticated cocktail party vibe that stood in sharp contrast to the rock and roll of the beatles and the rolling stones. i back racks. collaborations with dion warwick produced many hits. oh, i one 0 i bacharach song one less bell to answer performed by the 5th

dimensions marilyn mc, who is arguably one of the greatest torch songs of all time. sometimes bacharach songs teetered on the verge of sacker and sentimentality, but never crossed the line. dismay me, i am to p. o jobs all n o he bacharach and david wrote sound tracks for movies, notably butch cassidy and the sundance kid in 1969. b j. thomas sang raindrops. keep falling on my head. they keep bowling, they're heavy. i bacharach won the oscar for best original score. his songs also won tony and grammy awards. bacharach married more times, including to actress angie dickinson walked oh.

he continued to perform at the piano well into his later years. he will be remembered for as long as his lush romantic works float on the breeze of moonlit nights. ah, elizabeth's going to be here in a couple of minutes with more on all these stories. i'm robinson. stay with us if you can. goodbye. ah ah, with

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