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watching al jazeera alive from headquarters and del hines eddie and obligated also a heads, aid trickles into northern syria, where more than 5000000 people are homeless and desperate for help. plus he and other weekend protests in france against controversial pension reforms, will have more from paris. and it's super bowl weekend. but what's the hidden cost of the tons of guacamole fans will eat as they watch the game? ah, hello. more than 26000 people have now died after 2 powerful earthquakes hit your key and syria. on monday, search and rescue efforts continue. a family of 5 has been pulled alive from the rubble and gazette. tap a 129 hours since the disaster. on friday night, a woman was also found alive. indeed, becker,

the turkish president has been touring to destroy areas and he's promised to rebuild the cities and spring and bernard smith, birds joining us from the sub in turkey city of antique air. so it's almost a week now bernard, what are you seeing an takia where you are? what's the situation like what during it it is difficult to know where to begin. such is the oh, sometimes overwhelming scale of damage that i've seen in the last week. but here the fire you see behind me the dig, as you see behind me, ark lights on them, busy the scene all over and takia the capital of hats. a province. the air is poisonous, is thick with smoke, from people burning fires, plus all the dust from the debris and the continued drilling down and as they try and clear away the rubble. but there have still is some little pieces of ho brinley, 100 and 35th hour. now since the quake started and the 100 and 33rd hour

here and on taki, we had a 2 year old rescued from the rubble. that was a couple of hours ago and in the couple hours before that a man and a woman were rescued alive, of course, from the rubble. so they were, the search hasn't stopped. the search was a virus hasn't stopped because there is still chance that people can be found or under the rubble. this, of course also and takia close to the syria border. and ancient city formerly known as antioch, as hundreds of thousands of syrians are living here. and the government says it actually plans to reopen the airport here. within the next 24 hours, the airport runway was badly damaged. they said they about to retire, mark that anatomy essential for getting in air flights relief flights. one of the other big problems has been the roads have been choked, not with just with people trying to leave. but with. busy laurie's coming and going and with ambulance is coming and going ambulances, of course, taking the wound. it's a more secure hospitals. elsewhere in the country in those,

those of birth. laurie's full of aid, also a t people are bringing aid in and then taking them out empty because they are the need is so desperate for aid. people are still sleeping outside a week on people still huddle round fires. they just still don't have them as much as they need during so early speaking of age, bernard, we heard from the turkish president earlier on, he's promising to rebuild some areas soon. what more did he have to say or not? well we just know causes or has admitted that the were earlier failures in the initial response to the quakers. an extraordinary scale not seen in searcy. now we know the most devastating since 1939, but reggie tie bird ones that he will rebuild cities within weeks. they need to start very quickly because of the very pop, the urgent public health need for the survivors. because the sanitation networks

i've been destroyed because people haven't got homes to go to and because they've got no shelter in these freezing cold nights than it's very urgent. that some sort of rebuilding and recons reconstruction gets going as quickly as possible. 80000 people are, are in hospital injured. 1000000 people are homeless. a 1000000 people within a week, suddenly without somewhere to live. that is why the need to rebuild is very, very urgent during thank you so much. bernard smith, reporting from attack, answer key. so as we've been hearing from bernard, some rescues have been successful in spain of fading odds resources are, is following the rescue operations near the epicenter of the quakes and come on, marsh is the 5th day and the time is definitely running out. however, just a little i go, we have been able to confirm that 5 years or julian girl has been taken out of the rubble and she was alive and just an hour later,

another girl also had pulled out of out of the rebels. and she also was alive, so these are the real moments of joy to be here for the families and people around the city so much that definitely needs such good news. and of course it's given also the protocol for the families that are still waiting . however, the disaster is still on folding here, right over there. not far from wherever you are. you can see that the rescue teams have with a white blanket over there out of respect for the families, because now they are pulling and other dat body. unfortunately, in the last couple of hours, there has been several people been taken out right after each other from the same location and probably it is a family. and these are the family members. so these are the stories that are going

on here just a little ago. i have told to a woman, she says that they have buried already 111 brands and relative here, all the turkish government has announced plans to house earthquake survivors. since because of all glue has been following developments from the capital anchor, people will be taking shelters in the dormitories over provided by the government. that's. that's why universities will be closed until summer. and the dormitories that are found operate for the college students are going to be a designated for the earthquake survivors. a shelter is a big problem. as we're talking about a big, a huge number of people hears and it, it who are hurt by this devastation are most the women and children. and we had the chance to see 16 babies who were taken from carter ma mirage. the epicenter of this,

that the earthquake to the capital ankara via presidential plane and they have the identities. but in the office authorities haven't been able to contact their families. then we filmed those 16 infants in the i see a unit in the anchor as city hospital. let's watch together. this baby is 35 days on. when mondays, catastrophic earthquake. it took years eastern province of co, him on march. 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 in common marsh to the capitol on ker, 2 days ago. they were all intensive care, but their hospitals were evacuated either for safety reasons or to treat survivors . all of them have ideas,

but dear thirties haven't been able to reach their families. hustling hipson in general drama e hostel, adams, babies are in good shape. we do all to sounds with checkup purposes. one of our babies was born at 28 weeks and the other 33. following the completion of the eye examinations, we will plan where discharge. and this tiny 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 hometown, which now resembles a war torn city. after being rescued from the ruble, 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 that we will definitely keep close on i babies. these patients, growth and development should be monitored at regular intervals in outpatient as these innocent babies fight for the lives in the i. c. u. authorities continue to search for the missing family. you know cas older l to 0 on correct. across the border and rebel held northern syria, some humanitarian aid has now made its way to those who need it. stephanie decker has this update from the turkish syrian border is finally trickling into syria. on day 6, we've seen a un convoy go and this is part of the usual un agreement that they've had before. some of the international teams that have flown in here to help with the earthquake are in and are starting to help out on the ground setting up tense medical facilities. but of course, if you're talking about search and rescue,

it's already in the days are numbered and you know, it's a fight against time. but of course we are still hearing amazing news that you have people being pulled alive from the rubble. but of course, everything we've been focusing on here in terms of search and rescue operations recovery operations, the help that's being sent in hasn't reached syria at all on the same scale. so where's it's trickling in? ah, it's taking quite a while to do so. those who have survived in syria are struggling to stay alive due to the lack of aid that stephanie decker was just speaking about. xena hook has more from beirut. the search for the living has ended in northwest syria. it's now about removing the bodies trapped under the hundreds of buildings that collapsed following the earthquakes that pitted kia and syria. on monday, those who responded to the human tragedy say the world failed, the people and the opposition controlled and clave. the civil defense,

also known as white helmets, said people died because repeated requests for rescue support. teams and heavy machinery never came. i mean, i have been deeply affected by the voices we heard from under the rubble. they were crying for help. in one instance, we worked for 4 hours before were able to reach him and but it was too late. he died. destruction and devastation are not only in the opposition held areas in the north. but in heavily populated government held cities like a level hummer and latter kia as well. the united nations estimates more than 5000000 people are now homeless. when we evacuated people from all the buildings that we do, dangerous shelters have begun receiving people. and it's a new wave of displacement already. there are nearly 7000000 syrians have been displaced in their own country due to the war that began more than a decade ago. many are in the north, were 4000000, depended on aid before the earthquake destroyed more lives. on friday,

the syrian government said it will allow aid to reach areas outside its control in what appeared to be a confession linked to a deal that involved waiving some sanctions for quake relief. but so far it hasn't happened. the states opponents have long fear the consequences of so called cross line deliveries with the opposition in northwest syria is afraid of receiving cross line aid for many reasons. but primarily they're afraid of their regime. holding that lifeline against them. using it in the future to coerce them into providing political concession. a has started to come in from the bible, how a border with her kia, the only crossing authorized by the u. n. for a deliveries. the opposition says the international community should ignore objections from damascus and use more crossings to ensure the constant flow of relief supplies. already the world food program says it's running out of stocks in

the opposition and clave. we're more than 90 percent of people relied on aid before the latest disaster. santa hood, her else rosita, i mean as a spokesman and the un high commissioner for refugees regional bureau for the middle east and north africa. she says, years of conflict in syria have caused more difficulties in helping victims. most of the 8 that has been going to north west 30 in the past few years and even yesterday does not go through the regime areas or what you call the regime various areas controlled by this year and government. it goes actually from turkey and the united nations relief agencies like you and i see i had been authorized to send this humanitarian, denise items like food tans blankets, all kind of really had been authorized to do so by the security council. so that's what's happening there. is a mechanism in place that allows you to send this relief into another country from

turkey without actually that brutal off the syrian government. now it's unfortunately, the people here are stuck in a lot of politics, and that's why we call on people to put politics aside on everybody, the government, the opposition, the international community. politics needs to be set aside. we need to focus on the needs of these people on these people themselves. what, what kind of 8 do they need? how can we get them to them as soon as possible with as much 8 as possible, and as many people as possible? because many of these people live, either in far away remote areas or hard to reach areas either by this. the storm, the snow storm that had hit the region or by the earthquake that had damage some boats on by the politics. you know, syria is there's so many different areas under the authority or the control of different people. and so many different crestline. we want all these barriers to be taken away and we want to be able to reach everybody that needs help. so many of

them, and that's why the international community must step forward with a concerted effort to remove all these barriers. and with support. people need support not just today, not just next week, but the next few months. the damage is so huge that people, when need months to recover. let's move on to other rollers and the un nuclear watched chief or fail. grossi has wrapped up his trip to moscow, his hel talks of the head of russia, state nuclear firm ross at home. they discussed the situation at ukraine's upper reach a nuclear power plant. they've agreed to continue work on creating a safety is on their repeated shelling of the plant, which is now controlled by russia has raised concerns about nuclear accidents. we continue the work of the situation unfortunately, continues to be very fragile, very precarious. my ex birds for example, to day had to be rotated. a group was waiting to go into the plant

and another group to leave it. fortunately, this rotation is being delayed for the situation which is prevailing in, in the area where to day, very strong donations were been heard. all of these, all of these say to us that we cannot lose any more time. still ahead on al jazeera, the congolese army of ramps up security outside the eastern santa sack, a as rebel fighters advance ah, hello, whether it's looking pretty changeable for japan over the next couple of days. pulses of where to where the thick bands of cloud,

just squeeze in the way out of central china rolling across the east china see this next area or a cloud that gathers and that will push over towards key issue as we go on through sunday, some heavy rain, they're moving through shanghai moving through pretty quickly. it'll make its way towards the far south of ki, she was go one through sunday, $1516.00 celsius for tokyo. and osaka, do make the most of it monday. very different feeling, day wet weather, windy weather, and at times winter weather, sweeping its way through further. credentialer, northern parts of china. not too bad. central chart, parts of china looking a little unsettled over the next few days. with most sherry rain coming through here, showers to into central and southern parts of the philippines, scattering a showers there across borneo. heaviest showers will be into southern parts of india, navia jarda, java, for example. seeing some big down, pause the showers extended the way up into sumatra. not too many showers across south asia. here is largely fine and settled. of course we do have the mist and

fall of tools, northern past due deli getting up to around 25 degrees over the next couple of days . temperatures recovering in the hall with one or 2 showers for the far north pakistan. ah, oil companies, the biggest companies in the world had a very deep understanding of the climate crisis before the rest of us. and yet they did not tell anyone else. that's where the primes 40 years of denying their own scientific evidence. i thought that i could important them to change their business plan mysteries, very naive decisions that have plagued our future is just pure evil. i don't know what to say. the coils big lies on a jesse. hello, lou.

ah again the top stories on al jazeera this hour more than 26000 people have now died after 2 powerful earthquakes, hytcher kia on syria on monday, search and rescue efforts continue. the turkish president has been touring the destroyed areas and he's promised to rebuild the cities. and a 4 year old call has been called out alive from a collapse building in the southern turkey city of gaussian tap. more than a 130 hours after the tremors heads. earlier rescue team saved a family of 5. syrians are digging graves sides to burn victims of monday's earthquakes. nearly 4 and a half 1000 people have been killed there. many or waiting for news of family members still buried under colossus buildings. there been more protests in france

against proposals to increase the retirement age. take a look at the live picture from paris. thousands of people are taking part. after nearly a week of nationwide strikes, president manuel macros, pension reform plans will raise the retirement age from $62.00 to $64.00 under simmons without the protests and he has more from paris. the organize is claiming that at least half a 1000000 people have turned out here in paris. a lot of that is to do with the fact that the rail drivers have not gone on strike in this action to allow the trains to run to get people in and out. furthermore, metro workers are not striking either the subways or working at the general feeling here is boy up is determined to take on a manual micron over these reforms. there is a feeling in the lisa palace that they are going to ride out with storm, but it does appear. the storm is getting larger because this is the 4th round of

action. there are many more rounds of action planned and it will culminates. it would seem, say, cold midnight, but it will certainly have a major point in the action on march. the 7th, when the organizes and all of the unions are all together on this, that will be bringing a country to a halt with a general strike in all areas, public and private sectors. on march, the 7th, and the eastern democratic republic of congo, there has been fighting between the congo these army and m. 23 fighters and the china sack a some 20 kilometers west from the regional capital goma. it comes a day after m $23.00 fighters advance closer to sack a prompting 1000 to flee their homes. east african leaders have called for an immediate cease fire. malcolm web is in socket with the latest. we all me says it. now fi thing with m 23, about 20 kilometers m 23 widely understood to be backed by neighboring one.

congress army said it's fighting rwandan soldiers here up in the household. everyone denies backing the group now on thursday. when him $23.00 vices of tax, very close to saw k, which is just here. thousands of people as he mentioned sled along this road. and many of those playing that we spoke to said that congress soldiers had initially fled as well. that before reinforcement were brought in and the attack was repelled, are going to stand aside. so we can take a look at where we are. but there's a barrier put across the road branch of a tree and the soldiers money checking every vehicle that passes. and every soldier that passes to make sure that there are no soldiers here, leaving the front line, who on authorized to say, what happened on that day when this attack began. now if we take a look to the left of here, then the 10 has been put up outside

a police station on the hear, a military court is missing. and 7 of the soldiers, the military prosecutors, they fled country to their orders. when attacked by m. 23 the other day, and now being tried in that. cool. meanwhile, further up in these hills mines for colton, it's a mineral that used in making jet planes is in high demand. m. $23.00 fighters have controlled these mines in the past and as their frontline advance in recent months, they've got closer to these these, these valuable mines, whoever controls and stun, to make millions of dollars. it's been 3 years since sudan government ban female genital mutilation. but the united nation says the practice still happening. hipaa morgan reports from her to for he met, has been

a midwife and undermined near her too for more than 30 years. she is familiar with what her kid back holes and has used its contents many times to deliver babies. but before being bandon, put down to use similar equipment to carry out what's known as f t. m. o. you know that even though i used to carry out the practice on young girls the last time i did so was in 2008 on my next. but that hurt me too much. so i stopped. the government outlawed it, but people still asked me till this day to operate on a children. female genital mutilation has long been part of for dance culture. those who practice it believe it protects girls on their and reputation. but medical studies show that it contributes to complication during childbirth and increases chances of infection. for denise rights groups have campaigned for years against the practice and in 2020 to dance, then transitional government outlawed. it's completely the practice of female

genital mutilation. between the ages of 15 and 49 dropped from 89 percent to 86 percent in the decade leading up to the band and 31 percent in girls. a 14 or younger the children's agency unit has the band has a further decline of practice in young girls. an estimated 25 percent. with most of them happening in rural areas. that's a drop of less than 10 percent. 3 years on the figure is yet to reach 0. despite those who practice at risk and a 3 year prison sentence. muddy and daughters are some of those who were subjected to the practice, even after the band wasn't forest. she high per face, a name out of fear of legal repercussions. yolanda missouri neal slung min at if we went to the countryside for holidays and my mother in law and myself and my husband were against it, but she's older and we couldn't say no to her. you know, she promised the midwife wouldn't cut a lot for my daughter's,

but the midwife did. and i didn't find out until 3 days later thing. unicef says younger generations understand the dangers of f t. m. and that help lead to a reduction in the practice. but other challenges remain in anything. it's altogether said daniel, the midwives who continue with the practice do so because there is no supervision and the economic situation, the cost of living forces them to perform. it had the vendors, the issue of awareness of the law by the launch a campaign to raise awareness around the country that f g m is now against the law . but he says if she had known the dangers of f t m, when she used to perform the operations she'd have stopped earlier. she hopes that any awareness campaign reaches those who continue to call on her to perform f jim on their daughters. so they don't suffer the consequences. he been morgan august 0 her to the ruling can president has an argue rated a tamela cultural center. it's part of rhino we're missing,

goes outreach to the time of minority in the north, ahead of elections next month. it comes with anger, grows over an economic crisis. there been months of protests and unrest on wednesday, thousands of people took part in a demonstration against recent tax raises this site high inflation. there's been violence outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in the northwest of england. anti immigrant demonstrators fought with protest are supporting refugees. and those lead near liverpool, 3 people were arrested a world war 2 era bomb has exploded in the east coast of england. it happened as attempts were being made to diffuse it in the city of great yarmouth. no one was hurt. so its super bowl weekend and parties by fans will see tens of thousands of tons of cars crushed into guacamole. but getting them from farm to table can be a long and sometimes perilous journey. many while rapidly has more mexico's

mutual and state home to some of the most productive all the cato orchards in the world. but meet you account is also home to several criminal groups who posed a threat to the livelihood of all the cato producers, truck drivers like his susan dead. say they're not strangers to criminals on the road looking for an easy target, or they would rob our trucks to steal the fruit, and sometimes they would steal the trucks to. that is the danger on this stretch of road to curve. the problem. state police now provide escorts for trucks carrying other condos between the orchards and a shipping facility in the city of robin. while the encroachment of criminal groups is still a concern. farmers like who say if at east valencia say the situation has improved our yamato roar, and there were many robberies on the way from the orchard to the packing house. many trucks were lost in the main person effect to the producer,

because the product isn't reaches destination. police, me to, i can say they escort around, 40 trucks of abra, condos every day. but despite more police trucker said they're still the occasional highway robbery. casio, yes, one or 2 trucks have been stolen, but not daily every 80 days. yes, the theft of trucks has decreased a lot around here. in mexico, avocados are known as green gold, being one of the country's most beloved agricultural exports. and ahead of the super bowl in the united states were guacamole is considered a must have on the snack menu of ricardo production in mexico is in full swing. annually. mexico sends an estimated $3000000000.00 worth of all the condos to the us with the super bowl representing one of the most profitable weekends of the year . when will happily al jazeera ah.