a co bus from stuff in this class to she saw this as my, and my old africa direct on al jazeera, tough times, the man tough question. what exactly are you asking for you? what troops on the ground, the rigorous debate we challenge conventional wisdom and demand the true approach with me, mark lamond hill. what, how does it ah 5 days on some devastating earthquakes. rescuers, inter kia, define the odds still put in survivors alive from the rubble. ah,

carrie johnston, this is al jazeera, well i from. well, also coming up, the un it says $5300000.00 syrians could be homeless due to the quakes, as the assad government agrees to without aid into rebel held, there is a damage damn, a compounds problems for village in northwestern, syria, raising concerns about the safety of other water reservoirs, us fighter jets shoot down an object of the alaskan coast, saying it posed a threat to the safety of civilian aircraft. ah, it's 5 days since powerful earthquakes hit southern took here and northern syria or than 23000 people are now confirmed dead. but there have been some signs of hope from under the rubble. a 10 day old baby was rescued by search and rescue teams after 90 hours buried in the remains of a house and some and agen took. he is a ty province,

a 15 year old girl trapped under the rubble for 99 hours was rescued in carmel rash, with emergency teams, playing her favorite song, and a 17 year old was pulled out of the wreckage and reunited with his mother and brothers. in the untapped we begin our coverage with her. so said our who's in carmen rush, the epicenter of the disaster. the race against time continues on the malik edge. their slit in caught them on my rush. ah, it has been more than a 100 hours since the massive earthquake struck here. but rescue air force are still frantic. thought must like a ways of grief, singing for her loved ones. her. oh, my niece is there 5 days without her was she says every 2nd matters in the race to save lives. i here hope is intertwined with pain. as bodies after

bodies keep arriving as either i took years, waited here for 5 days, hoping to find her 4 children alive. now, 2 of them lay lifeless on the floor next to her. the remaining 2 are still missing . height that he had la la, ma'am, may god punish those who constructed these buildings at collapse in whoever didn't spec done. families keep waiting here anxiously throughout the day and night. some of them just to get the bodies of their loved ones. zakiria by had to witness his wife and son die slowly as they remained stock under the debris. mister bag, that of allah! i was under the rebel for 5 hours. my son was screaming and saying father was dying . his mouth was full of dirt. he couldn't breathe properly. i crawled towards him and he told me, dad, i love you. he died there. now i'm waiting for his and my wife's bodies.

rescue teams are calling for silence. trying to track a waste they heard from under the rubble. they must be quick, but careful before it fades. people pray and hold the breath. i thought a moment of joy for a hopeless family and others around as rescues pull out the disabled. 35 year old chasm totter after nearly 110 hours on the robin a moment or 2, celebrated by the rescuers. michigan urges, after 5 days under the rebel, we rescued him. now we need to continue to work. this order, cousin tells of another man that was stuck next to him under the rubble and was still alive, another spark of hope and the work restored. as the sunsets, the rescuers relentlessly continued their search. several bodies were pulled out of

this rubble behind me in just the past few hours. there are still many missing people and rescuers. no, they have a short window to find them. rescue said other o jazeera, carmen marsh, southern turkey. bernard smith joined the crew of a fishing boat who been chuckling aides, one of the worst hit areas around the town of some and dag on the mediterranean coast. near turkey is border with syria. loading onto this fishing boat is food, medical supplies, nappies, cooking oil, blankets, heaters and worry and apprehension, murmured air on his heading back to summon, down his home town, flattened in the earthquake, waiting for him. he'll find his mother and 3 sisters alive, at least. but now homes get a good, i got really worried when the quake happened, but my sister told me that they were ok. then i texted my friends to make sure

they're ok, but most of them didn't respond. that's why i decided to come to my town to help the rescue operations. and i'm bringing food and medicine to my family member hopes he can still find a few people alive, but he knows time is running out. it's a 5 hour crossing, but that's still the fastest way to get to. one of the areas was hit by the quake. you know, our tool is, can carry $25.00 truckloads of a per day. so we are able to get much more aid from across turkey. and now let me know, our 1st stop is the coast guard where most of the official aid is dropped off. in the morning, survivors will be allowed to take what they need from. then on the other side of the harbor, aid is delivered to families who made specific requests from relatives here and there is nowhere to sleep. no one has got enough aid yet, so made it coming, but it is not distributed in an organized way. they got a sack of flour and several boxes of 8,

but i don't know what's in them if you're going to need to buy them from a 3rd day on what truck loaded with a poured into our town. you know, only on the 4th day that heavy duty machines arrive here going on, ma'am, at his bringing supplies of attend his family now calls home. he's reunited with one of his sisters. i feel happy and said, i see my to sit in the station. it is good for me. okay. this is the the drive into someone died from the port reveals the desperate circumstances. the survivors are in still living out of that cause. 5 days on from the initial quake. the government has not yet got tens through to this town. and this is where that aid is coming to and where it is desperately needed. more than 70 percent of the buildings in this town have been

totally destroyed. there is no electricity, and there is no sign of life. bonus smith, al jazeera semen, se in turkey. when a 2nd you, an aide, convoy of 14 trucks, is crossed into rebel held parts of syria following an initial 6 on thursday. it's you and government says it will about a deliveries to rebel held errors outside of its control. i have advice reports. this is ground 0 in the city of dublin in city lakia district. the government is in control here, but it's meas of innovation. after monday's earthquake seem as limited as those of the rebels. thousands of deaths have been reported in government held territories that there was article, so ha, a do. the ceiling minister of health cause and all you met admissions, members, agencies, foundations, federal, crescent, and other non governmental and government organizations to lend a helping hand in responding to the mentor and disaster and syria. civilian

government is ready to help to support any countries who wanted to provide the shelters, the food supply, the medications to the syrians, anywhere in syria. the needed measures, according to damascus, include the lifting of western factions and the opening of more border crossings, which is all subject to a you and security council resolution. the united states has already issued a 6 month exemption on sanctions to allow aid into effective areas. we are determined to do what we can to address the humanitarian needs of the syrian people . we've done that over the course of the 12 year civil war to the tune of billions of dollars. we do that through different process. in turkey, we had a partner in the government in syria. we have a partner in the form of the n g o z on the ground who are providing military and sports, city and state media reporting. the government has approved a delivery to rebel health areas through agencies, including the i see the city of the government and the us the syrian presidency

share with these pictures of president bush on a said and his wife visiting earthquake victims at olive pool university hospital on friday, analysts believe his real aim is to end his own political isolation. i do think he is seeking political advantage. i think he will try to leverage this disaster to the extent possible to promote the resumption over nations with other arab nations on regional nations and, and internationally, to the extent possible for the un secretary general. the priority now is to bring aid to the victims by any means. this is a moment in which every body must make very clear that note sanctions of any kind interfered with relief to the population of syria in the present moment. the fest you and shipments of aid were sent on thursday through the northern bob and how a border crossing with kit and the un says it has sent an appeal to international

donors. meanwhile, several countries are a descending aid by air. so damascus international airport. how much fun dizzier was inactive nations. refugee agency says as many as 5300000 people have been left homeless in syria as a result of the quakes situation in already war tone areas has been complicated by the devastation and that's cause problems for human response. of christian salumi now reports for the full scale of the devastation and syria is only just beginning to come to life here at un headquarters in new york. and while more 8 convoys are getting through to northwest syria and the one border crossing that goes into the hardest hit area. critics are saying it's too little to lay critics like the advocacy groups to organize this demonstration here by the u. n's own calculation,

some 5300000 syrians are likely homeless as a result of this way. the majority of them in areas the syrian government doesn't control where people have already been up, routed by years of war. you and agencies say they've been responding from day one and this very difficult environment. they've sent in food emergency medical kits and supplies for pregnant and lactating women. we are left alone once again, defending our dead body, shouting, asking for s q. it's not the sovereignty. it's not the sanction. every one who doesn't care found the shelter to hide behind and execute the navy execute . we are working as fast as we can within the political parameter within the parameters that we have to, to operated of. but i mean, as you saw the,

the cross or the cross border mechanism is now up and running again. things are going through. there was a lot of aid that was prepositioned. on friday, the u. n. released $25000000.00 and emergency assistance for syria bringing the total so far to $50000000.00. an assessment team is now on the ground, however, and needs are expected to far exceed that. a flash appeal for donations is expected early next week. a damn in northern syria has been damaged, prompting concerns about the safety of critical facilities in both syria and turkey . and as some as a down our reports, one village has learned 1st hand how concern can quickly become catastrophe. walter, the source of life is now a threat to it now to lulu rebel held northwestern syria. monday's earthquake damage the afrin dam, creating a crack that sent its waters gushing and flooding a nearby village. when you've endured war and an earthquake wading through flood

waters is a bitter cherry on a cake soaked in misery. marvellous mccarthyism. we survived the earthquake, but we're displaced. my family was living in a 10, but then the flooding started. now i don't know what will happen to them. the water submerged houses, swamp streets, and engulfed fields. the false tranquillity barely conceals the horror which forced an evacuation engineer comes to take the building and cover 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 dan here in here. but the earthquake hit zone here that hosts around 75 percent of the countries dance. 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. say

han in a donna say hon hasn't been affected, but others have shown up the up michelle. we have examined 120 of these dams and reservoirs. we found cracks and 6 dams, but 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 dense ashley, indeed earthquake area. there is a power plant over the adenine power in action and so it is very important as well for turkey. the main edge is one of the main n as you scores for we don't know any is position at them. tweet is near she. ready match or not dams,

in the south and east provide at least 65 percent of tortillas, 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. well, named for villages here in tokyo, dans named pete rivers. i'm not the flow of catastrophes. sam is a, than a dana to a kia. so the heads, heron out is in 2 people are killed in a car running attack as a bus stop in an occupied west bank. thus i'm john, 100 of chicago watershed. were this year more and more cars are plugging in. ah

hello. we've had some disruptive travel across part, sofa honshu. we've seen some very heavy snow fall in tokyo, heaviest snow for around a year. this area of low pressure will sweet through it's bringing milder. rare in so a rapid thor will occur as he go on through the weekend. 13 celsius in turkey, the potential for some localized flooding. as a result of that, it will be largely dry. i am pleased to say try to cross the korean peninsula drive for the time being debating, but some rain of snow coming in here. as we go on into sunday, a fair bit of china, rusty seeing some lively showers, longest spells of right. by that stage, down towards the south should be largely dr. hong kong. around 24 degrees celsius. lottie drive 2 across her indo china scattering a showers there into the philippines have used to which will be into central southern parts of the philippines malay, just seeing the usual tropical showers. the wet weather does look reserved across southern areas of indonesia over the next few days. so whether to some winter weather, a possibility, just around northern pakistan,

pushing across the foothills of the himalayas isn't into the more west of india, but for much of india is fine. and dry over the next couple of days we'll anchor to essentially settled and sunny and tony dryer up towards the north by the end of the weekend. ah ah ah ah ah ah

ah, you without here amanda about top stories now it's now 5 days after powerful earthquakes, hit 7 to care northern syria, almost 24000 people now confirmed dead turkish president jeff taper one has admitted the response hasn't been fast enough the 2nd you, an aid convoy of 14 trucks is costing to rebel held parts of syria following an initial 6 on thursday. the syrian government has approved across the board, a deliveries to rebel held areas. and united nations refugee agency says as many as 5300000 people have been left homeless in syria as a result of the quakes. now, u. s. officials have shot down a 2nd unauthorized high altitude objects found in the sky above the nation's

territory on friday. but it, tree officials say the object was shot down over alaska, and recovery efforts are ongoing. hydro castro has the details. public details about what u. s. official described and the object discovered over northeastern alaska remain spars. the pentagon says it was about the size of a car for unmanned and did not appear to be maneuverable. this for me was travelling at about 40000 feet, which posed a potential, a reasonable threat to civilian air traffic, and the decision was made to take it down. the decision came from president biden, as he was preparing to meet with brazil president at the white house by didn't had been criticized by republicans for waiting days to shoot down a chinese spy balloon. as it traveled across the united states last week, the administration had feared the risk of a bad landing and so waited until the balloon was over the atlantic ocean to take

it down. us official say there is no indication the object shot down over alaska on friday was related. we do not know who owns it, whether it's a, whether it's state owned or, or corporate owner, privately owned. we just don't know. the us northern command is now working to recover the object that landed on ice near the arctic circle, as the american public waits to learn what it was. heidi jo castro, al jazeera, washington o. p. j. crowley, as a former us assistant secretary of state. he also serves a spokesperson for both the white house and the pentagon. he joins us now live from alexandria, virginia, welcome to al jazeera and now is there any reason to believe that this may also have been a chinese object of some kind, or is that just to speculative with his speculative? but given what happened days ago, that will be. so let's say, you know,

one of the suspects says they try to recover this object and figure out what it was for and who set it up in the air. what does all this say about the fragility of the relationship between the u. s. and china at the moment? well, acknowledging, there are things that we don't know. let's project that, you know, if this is another chinese ariel vessel, you know, what was it doing? and it would, at least at one level, suggest some kind of sloppiness by, you know, basing, you know, given how the 1st balloon incident totally disrupted, you know, what is a very consequential no global relationship. one might think you would take care to make sure you were not, you know, back experiencing a 2nd episode immediately afterwards. as we say, we don't know what this one was yet, but the u. s. along with other countries, presumably they have their own surveillance vehicles. do these things sometimes get

blown off course i mean, obviously, balloons, in some cases are subject to the vagaries of the winds. in the, in the case of the 1st balloon, it appeared to have some kind of maneuverability, which is why it lingered over us territory for, for a day. so i think in this case, you're, the president, i think, politically decided that he couldn't afford to have another object, you know, truck traversing across the continental united states. and it's often the case, isn't it diplomatically that in public, it all looks quite confrontational, but behind the scenes, there is communication. has that changed? now, do you think between the us and china? well, i do think that this underscores how difficult both countries are having in managing this relationship the, the president of the united states and china they met in bali in november. they

pledged to, to try to work harder to manage a relationship and it gets knocked off track, you know, by now one balloon and possibly a 2nd object. this is a consequential relationship and the 2 countries are still trying to figure out how to get along c j currently. we'll leave it there. we appreciate your time. thank you very much. indeed. you're welcome. kerry. well, 2 people have been killed in a car robbing attack. now the illegal is really supplement of remotes in occupied westbank. it's just across the green line that close to occupies east jerusalem. so that reports is the latest in a series of attacks carried out against israeli settlers. this time a palestinian man slammed his car into a crowded bus stop in romano and illegal israeli jewish settlement near occupied easter gruesome. there had been 2 people announced of those victims. one of them is a 6 year old child. i want to emphasize that the attack with on civilians and the

police will not stand for this type of terror on our civilian. the 2nd victim was recently married 20 year old student. several of those injured will hospitalized the assailant 31 year old. palestinian has been cut aka from occupied east. jerusalem was killed on the spot by an off duty police officer within minutes. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu ordered more forces on the streets, has he in time, has since been sealed ready for demolition in line with the false tracks measures onto the new right wing government. national security minister, been given, rushed to the scene, assuring his supporters of a hard line crack down some soldiers from them. it's denise kelly, i 1st of all thank the prime minister for adopting my policy to seal the house immediately. i also instructed the police to set up checkpoints around a so we're going to stop and check every vehicle. so i wanted to set

a full blockade, but there is a legal question around this so we will discuss it. but there was no room for discussion for those living in her scenes neighborhood, i saw a or israel security forces rated it's immediately arresting. several people including has seen wife harvest indians in the occupied territory, have called israel's home rates and demolitions collective punishment, much of which is prohibited under international law. but israel says it's the only way to deter others from future attacks. a policy that doesn't seem to be working, but well. this is the 3rd attack carried out by palestinians against israelis in just 2 weeks. the 1st one being outside the synagogue, where 7 people were killed. the ultra orthodox jewish community says that it very much feels targeted and you can see just behind me there. they've been offering their prayers at the place where this attack happened. is re defense minister alv galant has since imposed financial sanctions on 87 palestinians from occupied east ru slim and ordered the seizure of funds given by the palestinian authority to

families of prisoners in israeli jails, accused of terrorism. oh, at least $43.00 palestinians have been killed since the start of the year. and with the death toll rising on both sides every day, they're off base. the violence is likely to continue sort of hide at al jazeera, remarked me, occupied eastern slim. russia has launched a wave of may saw the attacks across ukraine. will these images from the region of parisha showed the destruction in the area? several energy facilities and other buildings were reportedly hit. russia has been targeting civil and infrastructure causing blackouts around ukraine. spain has offered citizenship to 222 nicaraguan, the political prisoners who are freed and flown to united states on thursday. it comes off to nicaragua. has government announced that its planning to change the law so that the former prisoners can be stripped to their citizenship. the critics of president daniel ortega were jailed during his crackdown descent in recent years

. those freed included 5 former presidential hopefuls who intended to run against him the 2021 presidential election. well, 2023 may be remembered as the year that electric vehicles go mainstream, at least in north america. thousands of new e v models will be available, but it's the choice from companies like the big 3 u. s. car manufacturers that are turning heads. so henderson has been to the chicago auto show to check out the options the era of the gas guzzler is nearly over. this is just an interesting industry where it is kind of like the moment between horse drawn carriage and roughly 30 new electric vehicles are coming out in the next year. some being introduced to the public at the chicago auto show, the largest in the us, the year that we're going to start seeing from electric vehicles being sold in segments that americans in particular want to buy things like inexpensive

crossovers, things like pickup trucks. and we're going to see some inexpensive electric vehicles as well later on this year that really start bringing that electric vehicle to the masses. there plug in trucks like the 2023 ford, maverick priced for a broad market. it just over $20000.00. 100 is expanding its offerings of electric, s u v. 's and sedans like the new 2024. i onyx 6 that can recharge nearly as fast as gasoline models take to fill are trying to make an experience a charge and be like pumping gas in terms of the time stamp that that takes in your life. so those ultrafast chargers are coming online, more and more throughout the united states. joining classic movies such as the chevy, volt, or high end sports cars, like the 2024 corvette e re hybrid. there are also the concept cars previews of cars, not yet on the road, like the ram 1500 revolution battery electric truck. when it comes to plug in cars,

the u. s. lags other countries about 5 percent of new car sales compared to 80 percent in norway. but with government incentives that is changing. california aims to ban sales of new carbon based cars and light trucks. by 2035 electric vehicles are becoming more and more mainstream and manufacturers say in the coming years, there will be a wider variety of styles and prices. as the new models roll out, the old ones are getting phased dec dodge is offering its last call on 7 models, including its petrol powered challenger and charger muscle cars to be replaced by electric versions. one more sign that the future is electric. john henderson, al jazeera chicago. ah it watching out his hair. these are the main stories now. it's now 5 days off to powerful earthquakes hit sudden took here in northern syria.