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desperate for food, water and heat. united nations is saying over $5000000.00 syrians might now be homeless because of the quakes that president assad is now allowing a deliveries to rebel held areas. ah, hello, i'm marianne, timothy and london. you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program. us reveals it shot down a high altitude object over alaska. the object was about the size of a small car, so not similar in size or shape to the high altitude surveillance, believing that was taking down off the coast of south carolina and a palestinian rams. a car into a crowded bus stop in the occupied west bank, killing 2 people, including a 6 year old. ah,

ah. oh for days off to powerful of quite hit southern takia when northern syria rescue is are still desperately trying to find survivors. they are battling freezing conditions, as all the many people have lost everything in this disaster. some of them for a 2nd time. the ones refugee agency says as many as 5300000 people have been left homeless in syria as a result of the quakes. but around move, bashar assad government is saying that it's allowing a deliveries across the front lines of the country's 12 years civil war and into rebel held areas across both countries. almost 24000 people are now known to have died. but that number is expected to keep growing as rescue work as dig through rubble in turkey or more than 20000 people have died. and more than 3 and a half 1000 people have been killed in neighboring syria. we have a team of correspondence across the country. in m. casio, glue is in the capital, ankara, or sole cider is an cat, rum on mirage. the epi center of the disaster,

bernard smith, is off the southern coast of tortilla. and sammy's a dan is in a donna, we begin fast with stephanie decker in nor doggy, near the border with syria. it's difficult to convey, even with these pictures, the extent of the damage here. building after building home after home street after street destroyed, one resident told us, north agie is no longer on the map where people remain under the rubble. the rescue operation goes on. relatives wait, day and night. they sleep here under blankets that offer little protection against the bitter cold. but as the days go on, many tell us that they have lost hope one day and goes all timber. at the moment we are expecting for more people from our family grandfather and grandmother and

granddaughter and a sister in law. when they bring them out and we will birdie them in our land. we've seen 4 bodies hold out of this building so far. 28 people remain, but all hope has been lost to find any survivors here. entire families have been wiped out in one moment. and if you drive further up the road, you're going to see the scenes being replayed again and again. the other day we are going to hell. and yet incredibly, too young children are pulled out alive by a spanish rescue team. just a few blocks away. days off to the devastating earthquake they survived under heavy concrete, in freezing temperatures. these are seen as miraculous moments these days providing a rare moment of joy for every one here. as overwhelmingly it is the dead who are emerging from their homes. blankets are used to offer them and their families, some dignity. we are all not to film as the bodies are carried past us in black

bags, there will likely be many more. stephanie decker al jazeera new tugee in south eastern takia. as her soda has worn out from caroline, my rationally epicenter of the 2nd quake. so daughter survivors are not able to get back to their homes because the off the shore still continues. and even the buildings that are standing still here, there are heavily damaged or they are cracked, so it's not safe to go back there. so the good girl told it is here. how set up a pants to the foot, $3000.00 people that get that plant that had been pro, have been per wider or not for the winter condition. so particularly during the night here it's freezing, but the weather is extremely cold, particularly for, for children. and also there is a shortage of the electricity. the connection of the internet is quite simple rather. they that the food and the shortage of the water also is another issue here

. the scale of the destruction is so much immense, that probably it will take days, weeks, and even moms to recover, to find all of the victims and may be years to rebuild the city. however, that is a harsh reality. the impact of this earthquake is going to allow the to to, to, to continue longer because the city has lost menu of its been over phases. well, babies, ill discovered alone without their families. and the aftermath of these earthquakes had been flown to the turkish capital ankara. sim cassiano visited the hospital where they are being treated. ah, this baby is 35 days old. when mondays, catastrophic earthquake, it took as eastern province of co, him on marsh. she was already in intensive care. and this one as well.

his heart beat slow down when he's asleep. 16 infants were transferred from the epicenter, include him on marsh to the capitol on ker. 2 days ago. they were all intensive care, but there hospitals were evacuated either for safety reasons, or to tweet survivors. all of them have ideas, but dear thirties, haven't been able to reach the families hustling hoops and then i'll draw more. hospital little babies, really good shape. we do ultra sounds to check them purposes. one of the babies was born at 28 weeks and the other 33. following the completion of their eye examinations, people planned their discharge. and this time the survivor was rescued from the ruins. the woman who discovered her scribbled baby oh, the rubble on her forehead, and left a note on her chest telling where she was found. 16 babies, separated from their families, were evacuated from their home town,

which now resembles a war torn city. after being rescued from the rebel, some babies were able to receive medical treatment. premature babies on the other hand, will have to remain in intensive care. they are being attended by foster mothers appointed by the ministry of family and social services. so honestly with them we will definitely keep a close eye on eye babies. these patients growth and development should be monitored at regular intervals in application of any didn't as these innocent babies fight for the lives in the i. c. u. authorities continue to search for the missing family, you know, gets older l to 0 on current or a delivery that really the important thing now, but reaching the disaster zone has been challenging because of damage, roads, and highways. but it's smith has been on a boat that is carrying a to the quite good area. bye. see, one of the biggest challenge is,

has been getting a to where it needs it, insufficient wanted. so this by boat is one of those best ways of doing it. was selling to some dock with a boat full of essentials. we've got a we've gone blanket nappies at all. so there's a lot of diesel fuel aboard diesel you of course we're having heavy lifting. the figures that are being used in the rescue this vessel, especially boat, normally would be out of this busy season, normally will be out fishing, but it's now taking this 8 equivalent of exposed to about 2 containers. so for both of sales today, i had a couple of different boards on the solemn se turkey on it just means they taking dropping off the road and they can carry a lot more long a lot more quickly and get it right to the heart of where it's needed the most devastated one of those devastation of se. meanwhile, a damn,

a northern syria has been badly damaged by the earthquakes prompting concerns about the safety of critical facilities in both syria and takia. and sammy's a dan reports, one village is on 1st hand, how concerned can quickly turn into a catastrophe. walter, the source of life is now a threat to it. and toulon, rebel held northwestern syria. monday's earthquake damaged the african dam, creating a crack that sent its waters gushing and flooding a nearby village. when you've enjoyed war and an earthquake wading through flood waters is a bitter cherry on a cake soaked in misery. marvellous mccarthyism, we survive the earthquake, but we are displaced. my family was living in a tent, but then the flooding started. now i don't know what will happen to them. the water submerged houses, swamped streets and engulfed fields. the false tranquillity barely conceals the

horror which forced an evacuation engineer comes to take the building and we discover a 100. so buildings cannot to be saved any more. so they ask the people to be everything from the building quickly. the worry doesn't stop at the syrian border. you see that may not have been any breaches in the dance here in here. but the earthquake hit zone here that hosts around 75 percent of the countries, dan, that's enough to send the official scrambling. official say they're checking around a $140.00 dams, and rest of was in the south and east of turkey like this one. se hahn in a donna say hon hasn't been affected, but others have shown us that we have examined 120 of these dams and reservoirs. we found cracks and 6 dams. however, we can safely say these cracks do not pose any danger. but those assurances haven't eased all the concerns, not only about the safety of dams,

but also about other critical facilities connected to them. the thing is done here . and there are a ashley, indeed earthquake area. there is a power plant over there and be power in ocean. and so it is very important as well. the main edge is one of the main n as is forces we don't know any is position at them. is new space near the edge or not dams in the south and east provide at least 65 percent of 2 kias electricity. many communities live along the rivers which feed those dams. but officials say their biggest fear so far is what dam breaches and potential collapses across the border and syria will mean for villages. here in tokyo, dans named pete rivers. i'm not the flow of catastrophes. sammy's aiden,

a dana tortilla. well, after more than a decade of civil war, delivering aid to syria is very complicated. now, control of the countries territory is mostly split among 4 groups. pro government forces, turkish back rebels. i ought to hurry a shot which as though the group previously known as al nursery front and kurdish forces, the earthquakes devastated areas which each of them control. 4.1000000 people in the northwest already relied on aid, but the syrian government doesn't allow many international aid groups into areas. it controls. the only roof aid into rebel held areas is by the bubble. how we're crossing on the turkish border. shim shipments need turkish approval 1st, and roads to that crossing as severely damaged the opening of war crossings. access different regions requires un security council approval, which serious ally, russia is likely to veto, but has been won. positive development with the syrian government now approving

a deliveries to rebel held areas that are outside of its control. earlier, bashar, as had said and his wife visited a hospital in a leper in his 1st report, a trip to the areas hit by the earthquake aside as accusing western governments of politicizing, the catastrophe, and the delivery of humanitarian aid. good. the worst farmer, taurus, politics over the humanitarian situation. this is wrong to give form 2 to one over and over. as long as both exist on the political situation exist to the west, but the humanitarian doesn't is not what they politicize the situation. but there is no materialism either now nor in the past. you know, the algae, they're alive from london morsel to bring you on the program, resetting relations the presence of the u. s. and brazil, holding face to face talks. and ukraine says it shot down most of russia's latest wave of missiles, but more of its power facilities. also head ah

hello, tropical cycling gabrielle is making its way towards new zealand for the early part of next week. so that does give some concern. following on from the historic flooding, seen across the north highland a recently dry weather though, across a good part of australia, some lively showers, just around the tropics, big down, paul, still in the cars here as we go through the next couple of days. central as of australia, on the hot side, 3rd and i celsius. therefore alice will be a 30 in perth and they'll be a 30 in melbourne as well. make the most of it. it doesn't last not to route 20. here as we go on into sunday, still we're showers across know the most part and you start see those showers from the year out of bands of what will be x, a tropical cyclone gabrielle. by the time we come to sunday, still some uncertainty as to the exact location of the storm by this stage. but you

can see we do expect to see further heavy rain coming into northern parts of new zealand. so the flood risk does remain a concern here, possibly seeing some flooding to enter japan over the next 24 hours or so. has some very heavy snow. recently, heavy, a snow fall in tokyo for around a year that pulls out of the way dry bright at warmer weather, coming through tokyo with temperatures at around 13 celsius. so rapid snow mel here with the possibility of that flooding by sunday. ah, i'm counting the cost, the green subsidy race accelerate. europe compete with the u. s. and the china president loosens the past ratings and demand low interest rates in brazil. but when it was last, hong kong faces the highest rates of homelessness in a decade. counting the cost on al jazeera. we don't simply focus on the politics of the conflict. if the human suffering that we report,

we brave bullet bomb and we always include the views from all sites. ah ah ah, welcome back. our top story, this our 4 days off to powerful of quakes. it's southern takia and northern syria. almost 24000 people are now confirmed dead. took his present regime typo tuan is admitted. the response has not been fast enough. meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people have been left homeless by the out quakes that facing harsh conditions and temperatures. below freezing in many areas, united nation says another $5300000.00 might be homeless in syria. and

a 2nd un, a convoy of 14 trucks has crossed into rebel held parts of syria following an initial 6 that went through on thursday. syria government is approved, cross board, a deliveries to rebel held areas a hon arafat. oh, lou is a civil engineering professor at the pi to university in the united states. he joins us live now. and so i want to ask you, then about the level of destruction we have seen with 6 to 7000 buildings estimated to been completely destroyed inside turkey, this, across 10 provinces. could anything have been done to prevent this level of destruction? a good evening. yes. unfortunately did it, the damage is enormous. it's very extensive. and as you said, that over a very wide area, particularly on the fringes of the disasters on well away from the faults on,

we should not have seen collapses. not at all because it ground motion dire over, dared not as intense as, as they are near to fulton, but rupture. so in near defaults on this earthquake produce some such intense motions that we really is that the extreme of our experience elsewhere. so. so it's an, it's a pretty damning indictment on the state of ins and for structure in the country and away in which some of these buildings have been of been constructed, that it's not just the buildings inside the, the quake zone that were destroyed. but those well beyond the affected area that has been completely flattened. what does this, what does this suggest about what might have gone wrong? because i to architects and civil engineers and raise the alarm about this for months if not years, but before this quite a place. well the 1st of all,

i mean it has to be tested on the, on the ground. what went wrong guy? some of these buildings, particularly in this high intensity zone, they may have been designed just as well as the the court acquires. so we don't know, glittered to the missouri excessive. i imagine that that was the case as far as the ones that we didn't, we shouldn't see them collapsing. clearly, there are issues with the amount of structural elements, the columns and the walls and in the instructors are, are too few, too small. the buildings couldn't take the displacement demand that the formation demands expected of them mighty earthquake. so again, did it the way they built a design and built it clearly has, has issues that needs to be reconsidered. and perhaps all the buildings in the country, they don't know the appropriate building codes and regulation. so you would perhaps

expect that they would struggle to withstand a shock on this scale. but what about the regulations in the construction codes for new buildings that have been made in recent, is all those, all those building codes being properly implemented and carried out well that the implementation or the compliance is checked. as far as i know, by local jurisdiction, municipalities, not the central government entity that used to be the one doing and a prior to 1900 eighty's the code itself. the target code itself is a modern called is as, as good as a u. s. code for example, but clearly it's has some thresholds or allows the formations that in this case appear to be fatal, particularly in taller buildings to older buildings. as you said, they have issues. there still were stories for 5 stories. so several of them will be damaged as expected, but the taller buildings, particularly,

i'm talking about more like a 10 stories are told, $1520.00 stories. they need to be design. all of them need to be designed stiffer. and so that the defamations are limited. again, if you look at the code, for example, elsewhere in the world say in chile and japan, which experience these large motions all the time. they design stiff buildings with plenty of walls, plenty of columns sidewise and a total amount of lies and their buildings are safe. no lies are very few cases of collapses if any and on, on top of that the buildings are, you can re, okay by them. so that's, that's now it calls into question, is it an engineer, supposedly economizing before you know, taking a big risk and, you know, we have to, we have to, they have to look at the code again. and in my opinion, build the buildings that have been proven order in the way to proven to be you to,

to be a successful like in chile, like in japan. all right, thank you very much. i, hon. if i know lou civil engineering there in the us, thank you for joining us. thank you. have a good evening. ah, u. s. government has confirmed that it shot down a high altitude object over the small town of dead horse, and ne and alaska come 6 days after it shot down a chinese balloon in u. s. s. base, but to no indication of that being any connection between the 2. i want house correspond, it can be how kit has the latest on this. so security spokesperson, john kirby, this a high altitude object. as the pentagon, as calling it was. 7 shot down in the last 24 hours. this was done out of an abundance of caution due to the threat to civilian aircraft. now, this was done at the order of

u. s. president. it was determined to be unmanned and as a result, it was shot down over u. s. territorial waters. the area of the north east alaska us canadian border. now, given that this has been down, the united states will begin the process of studying it. well, we're calling this an object because that's the best description we have right now . we do not know who owns it, whether it's a, whether it's state owned or, or, or corporate owned or privately owned. we just don't know. this is the 2nd time in a week that us fighter jets have doubt an object fly in u. s. air space. the latest case, of course, the chinese spy balloon that was downed in the atlantic ocean off the coast of the carolinas. it's not clear in this latest case, exactly. who owns this current object door? it's intended purpose. that's why recovery will be key so that the united states

can learn more about it all in. one of the developments in the last president joe biden is hosting his brazilian counter thought, who is in us, utilize the silver at the white house. the 2 leaders are expected to discuss climate change, the war and ukrainian brazilian democracy relations between brazil in the u. s. have been lukewarm under the rule of former president joel sanara lula says he would not petition biden's help bull snar extradited from the u. s. results. foreign ministry says a priority of the trip is to get more support for the amazon found to protect rain for us. both our nation strong democracy has been tested of late, very much customers. institutions are put in jeopardy. both united states and brazil, democracy prevail for the 2 largest democracy hemisphere, brazil, united states standard. we reject political violence and we put root value in our

democratic institutions that it is now spent tidy, jo, castro, she joins us live now from washington. so they want to focus on environmental protections and how to tackle fall right extremism to lead is here, who are aligned in a very different way compared to their predecessors. absolutely, and that's making for what is likely a war meeting happening. still behind closed doors in the oval office. and as you mentioned, these 2 leaders are uncannily similar in that both defeated. right wing candidates are predecessors and also face far right. mob tried to contest their elections. that is one reason why democracy is one of the top agenda items that the 2 are discussing, as well as their commitment to combat in climate change. trade is another issue that they see i on and that the us wants to win itself from its dependence on china, particularly for the manufacturer of computer chips. well,

leuva wants brazil to then fill that void. but there is one key point that the 2 may disagree on, and that is the war in ukraine. biden, of course, has pledged u. s. military assistance and given weapons and funding to ukraine. but lula has been hesitant to do the same from brazil. he says he doesn't want brazil's involvement whatsoever, and he has, although he has, he has criticized and denounced russia for invading ukraine. he says that ukraine should come to the negotiation table that the 2 sides should now discuss an end to this war. of course there's also that awkward topic of both narrow, still remaining a resident of the state of florida and just what will happen if he ends up facing criminal charges in brazil. all right, thank you very much. i need your castro at least 2 people, including

a 6 year old child have been killed in an attack in the occupied west bank. several others were injured. the palestinian drive around his car into people waiting at a bus stop on the outskirts of jerusalem near the illegal is ready. settlement of rum on the study road driver was then shot dead at the scene. for palaces had been arrested by these res if they can say nothing is more difficult than arriving at a scene where a child has been murdered and also a 20 year old man. i think the prime minister for adopting my policy 1st to seal the house as soon as possible. at same time i instructed the police of please check points around the driver's neighborhood and stop each car. i wanted full closure, but there's a legal issue with these measures are not enough. i want to impose that on the on terrorists. now, russia has launched a new wave of miss l strikes on energy infrastructure across ukraine. the eastern city of the region suffered its worst attack since the war began. with 17 miss el,

striking in the space of an hour present ramirez landscapes, as most of the missiles were shot down, but millions lost power in the immediate aftermath of the strife. because several energy facilities were hit by miss el strike. well, you quite a mold over saying that some of these russian missiles flew through moldova and asked space before hitting ukraine. romania says that it detected an aerial target launch from a russian ship in the black sea, which flew through ukraine, an animal dozen areas before re entering ukraine. it says the missile came within 35 kilometers of romanian as space. this comes just as moldova is going through a government collapse. resignation of the prime minister. natalia gover. liter means that the president has now named the former interior minister, dine at rochon as a replacement. he now have 15 days to form a government. government has had a turbulent 18 months in office. it's been marked by economic town while on the effects of russia's war in neighboring ukraine. now spain is offered

citizenship to 222 nicaragua and political prisoners who have freed and flown to the united states on thursday. it comes off the nicaragua. government announced that it's planning to change the law. so prisoners can be strips in their citizenship. the critics of present, daniel ortega would jail during his crack down or descent in recent years. some of those freed include 5 former presidential hopefuls who intended to run against him in the presidential election back in 20. 21 was more right. he can read about her the aftermath of those devastating earthquakes there in southern turkey, northeast in syria. ah, just a quick look at the main stories were following now and 4 days after powerful of.