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ah, i'm told mccrae this is al jazeera live from doha. you're watching, continue in coverage of the earthquakes. takia and syria rescued optis. 6 days trapped under the rubble of baby girl is pulled out alive, and the turkish city of and takyo. assigning blame for building collapses turkish authorities arrest 113 people, including properties developers. bought for many outside the rubble, the anxious wait for relatives goes on some times for some people bubbling over into frustration. i'm sammy's ada live from god. i'm on marsh, the api center of the 2nd major earthquake. also coming up. israel's government decides to step up rides on occupied territories. daddy's after a car rammed into a bus stop killing 3 people. i'm malcolm web. at

a rapidly growing camp for this place, people near the city of gama, in democratic republic of congo, people here. they fight this from the 23. our group have killed rate and mutilated in their villages. they come here in a 1000. ah, in. it's nearly a week since 2 devastating earthquake struck southern to kia and northern syria. the voices that were calling out for help from under the rubble have largely fallen silent. the number of data is staggering. more than 30000 between both countries. and that number is rising every hour. we have a team of correspondents covering this story across to kia stephanie dick is in the near the syrian border. natasha good name is and tuck here and how tie province burton and smith isn't skin that on but we begin with semi said in who is in the

cut man mateusz. yes, thank you tom. well, as you can probably hear, now silence is holding. but some times the area silence can scream louder than woods. i'm going to ask our drone operator if we can turn that drone, can we show some pictures guys, or what's going on on that side that see if we can think the drone. maybe we can get the attention. all right, let's try and get pictures of that side. what's going on there? just wait for the driver to get into position. i know you're on. you can see it now, but we need to turn that drone a little bit towards what will be on the screen,

the life that we go. what's happening there is and i should point out we are far away enough to make sure we're not going to take that drone with its noise any closer. otherwise, we wouldn't be doing this. but what's, what's happening there right now is they think that they may have a sign of life. so the people which are close to that have been told to be quiet. and they're standing by. and they're trying to pick up any signals they will just before went where they were calling out in turkish, asking people to respond to their life. right? we don't want to get any closer, but i just wanted use, i wanted to give you a feel. i want you to get a feel of the emotional rollercoaster that's going on here. incredibly, there have been some good, good news today. people were pulled out, 8 people pulled out the rubble between carmen, marsh and how time some of those people,

more than 149 hours under the rubble. those kinds of things they raise the hopes of people. the people camped out here. i'm going to ask joe if we can, maybe move the camera around. you get an idea is this is a densely populated area. there's a lot of people camping out when they hear any story about someone pulled out the rubble. of course that gets your hopes up, of course that makes you hopeful. but of course it doesn't always turn into the suttles happy ending that everybody wants. so that sometimes builds up into frustration. perhaps even anger's russell salazar now explains in this report from cut ahmad marashi. this building was once home to the families that lived here. now, many of the residents are buried under the debit. the voices, from under the rubble are fading with every passing minute. and those alive and

safe are exhausted by the tortures. wait. sometimes losing temper and control tension is running high and time is running out by these kid coming and anger rising o be probably one of the highest has saved his mother. but his younger brother is gone. well, i mean, he says he is the oldest amongst siblings and his younger brother shouldn't have died. first be the one that was due to look. we're suffering pain. i don't want any one else to experience this. many lives here have been torn apart and families chevy, or talk to say the to earth create that hid the city, released energy equivalent to death of 500 at the atomic bombs. the skate of destruction is immense. the churches disaster management authority says the duration of the 1st earthquake that he had south and turkey was 65 seconds. while

the 2nd one lasted for 45 seconds, the area was shaken severely for about 2 minutes. as a result, around 1000 buildings collapsed and nearly 6000 people died in car. i'm on my rush . those who survived are now trying to call the window to save people is shortening, and the cost of failure is too high. got too much of me. we've been working for days without stopping. i'm mentally down, but i have to stand firm and continue to work because they're relying on there has been some posted as well and hard work has gone through it. here, a 5 year old ceiling girl is being pulled out alive after 132 hours on that. the problem. a moment of celebration and the pomp of hall for those still waiting at night falls on the rubble in common marsh. this rescued dogs denise through the debbie. it detached the smell of someone below,

possibly alive. and it is time again for the steady and delicate rescue work there . so sad that i'll just 0 caught him on my dash, southern turkey. all right, unfortunately we've got to give you the sad day, the sort of update you never, never really want to have to give them a story like this. been a sudden jump in the death toll from those earthquakes to over 35000 over 35000 people. that the last word we had on injured was over 80000. so clearly that the whole continuing to rise. we've seen a bit of that here earlier and just the last show as who are going to a body pulled out so that rubble behind me, the body placed on the floor behind me, where those people are now sitting, and shrieks, it was a very emotional moment but amidst all of that,

there are still miraculous stories. incredibly, a 10 year old girl rescued off the spending. no less than a 147 hours. trent under a building and unpack yet 50. when she was one of 4 people to be pulled from the rabble on sunday, another 5 year old fried and had high province. another moment of relief in the same area when a boy and his mother pulls from the wreckage a 150 hours after the quake. well, when you have seen like this of being people being pulled from the rubble, it heightens emotions. it heightens expectations that can lead to moments of happiness. it can lead to moments of frustration and sadness and disappointment. and that has been a process for security as well, which has been evolving. we can get more on that now. with our reporter natasha her name. she joins us live from on taca.

and they were having trouble cities. i'm hearing natasha. all right, i beg your pardon natasha. let's try this again. so i was asking you about the challenge of security, especially when we've seen today this emotional rollercoaster minute of body's pulled out of the rubble. one minute they think further to my right that somebody might be alive and that imposes a very tense security situation. right. natasha absolutely . we have actually been talking to business owners, but i do want to tell people a little bit about and talk ya. it's a city that dates back to ancient times and given that lengthy history,

one has to note that the 2023 earthquake will be a very prominent no doubt entry in its history in roman times. and tasha was actually one of the largest cities. it's always been a commercial center, a bustling one at that. we are in a souk and as you can see and decimated her gold shops, clothing shops, mobile phone shops, up above. people were living in these apartment buildings. many looked inhabitable now. and it has been this way throughout the city as we visited, the commercial district, you'd have been talking to business owners. and so to one man who owns to shoot shoe store is he says on monday it was impossible for him to come and check on his business. his home had been so severely damaged,

it's now uninhabitable. he said he had his family are now living in a car, but he said on wednesday he was able to get to his door and discovered before his eyes. he said, 56 men looting his shoe store. he said he told them, please, if you need the shoes, take them, but don't steal them and re sell them. it's my livelihood. he was unable to convince them. his appeals fell on deaf ears. i want to show you the ground. this red substance is a spice, not sure which one it is. we are in the spice portion of the soup. and then here, of course, you have an older building that's been reduced to rubble in any event. but this has been told me that he knows dozens of business people who have died, hundreds of people friends place as well, who've also passed away. and so he says, i have to be grateful though to another businessman, who said it also took him

a few days to check on his store. here in the commercial district, he's been living out of his car with his family. he's wearing the same clothes he threw on when the earthquake shook him awake at 4 o'clock in the morning on monday he says when he arrived to his store, the awning was down, but the building is so structurally on that hound and it's collapsed. it's hard to imagine that anything is salvageable inside, but he said done the last 4 or 5 of him and his relatives stood guard and he's hoping that perhaps 1020 percent of the goods in that store will be salvage, though, to be honest, looking at his store, it looks like a bulldozer will eventually have to raise it. both of these men said they have always stood by the government. now they're hoping the government is going to make good on its promises to help them rebuild. both of these men love on takia. they don't want to leave one man said i just want things to go back to normal. resident

irwin has vowed to offer shelter for the next year for those affected. he has also said within a year he will try to rebuild homes. and people will be given payments of $1300.00 . he is also vowed to punish looters. anyone engage in any corruption tied to exploitation of this disaster and already 57 people have been arrested for looting . according to the justice ministry find so much natasha. when i am back fallen takia and the other tasha was talking about rebuilding. well, another of our colleagues, bernard smith, he spent the night with people in on takyo, cold live there with people trying to pick the pieces off of their lives, from the rubble of what was once that holmes the only heat, the only warmth in the city comes now, from the fires made from the debris of the homes where these people, once lived, survivors cling onto the hope that somehow their loved ones may still be alive

under the rubble. well, hasn't good tech in. that means his wife, 3 children, and mother in law, take the job. we don't need food aid. what we need is technical aid. i need my 3 kids to be rescued, even if only one of my kids survived. it will be a hope for me to continue living. otherwise there's no point to keep on living. i don't know what i'll do, who will call me dad during age street after st. district after district. it took just 2 minutes of the earthquake to cause all this destruction. it's the most devastating, quaking turkey since 1939. building regulations have come a long way since then. but enforcing them is a different matter. before the last presidential and parliamentary elections, the government grunted amnesty for building code violations. finding companies instead. now a 1000000 people are homeless and untouched and most of the city of 400000 has been destroyed. the challenge now for the government is trying to stop this catastrophe

. turning into a public health crisis, the sick with smoke and dust. there is no sanitation. people are still living on the streets and their body still under the rubble bodies. why there is such an urgent need to get people away from the disaster site and into temporary tented accommodation. there are now fewer visible rescue operations here. my, this if on fortunately, my country which i love so much, has failed there so disorganized and can't work at all, is the 6th day in every day. 2 different teams take part in the rescue. i haven't seen any officials here, neither from the government nor from the mayor's office. i don't want to say them any way. they don't come here because they know we don't want to see them, but might you? this is was left of the home. her son had made with his family with him young, hello, hello is there wouldn't be unimaginable pain of losing

a child or loved one is being felt by tens of thousands of people into a kia this week. bernard smith, al jazeera and takia, as ordered the arrest of a 113 people in connection with the clamps of some of those buildings. a property developer was one person arrested on friday as he tried to leave the country opposition. parties are accusing the government of not enforcing building regulations that's raising the issue of building regulations security as cinema cos all or explains. now in this report the hutch continued seismic theta vidal input to measure earthquakes. it is monitored process and assess in real time here at the turkish disaster management agency. turkey has had some 5 major seismic fall plants risking 71 percent of its population and 6 to 6 percent of its landscape, the largest. so those trigger to stronger earthquakes on monday,

causing death and destruction in the east. and while i speaking were shaken twice by tremors above 4.0 magnitude. this is part of life here. now, harlan, after so some blood delong videos, often shocks over $3.00 for marketing to to see the numbers are 6, will continue for much longer. though we are reevaluate in the market to not dimensions of the affected area earthquake in line with the information from our field to to go to this amazon. what we see is a much bigger disaster premium to support to the all clear for data. this means the damage structures can still collapse, while other risks like snow for a white earthquake hit areas where sly map shows all earthquakes that how occurred since monday is devastating tremors. just in 15 hours on saturday, turkey has experienced 330 earthquakes,

and the country has been jolted. 2305th the 6th time since what the turkish president called the disaster of the century, shows you might get a drug issue. but whether you're a girl or not, no need to be stunned or exaggerate by saying this is the biggest tre calling you on that. so i'm point for magnitude was approaching was area, you know, i'm paid attention. as scientists say, you can't resist nature but build earthquake resistance series, a joint responsibility of the state people and the local administration's finance casala al jazeera and clara. okay, well we'll try and do. can we come to the drone? because i'm going to have to talk a little quieter now. we can still talk, but i'm going to talk a little bit quieter. they're giving. i think you can see in the picture,

there is an orange crane where that is now. they're giving the calls of life. let's listen in. all right, i just paused for a minute to let us hear. not sure if you could hear i minutes ago. they were making the calls of life. just next to where that orange crane is. they think again that was the same spot. we open the show with where they think they night have somebody alive in the rubble. on the other side, you might be able to see these yellow boulders suspect the other side of the building where more buildings have collapsed. those yellow ball doses were actually

active and they've been highlands now. not to make too much find braces because of course they need to put audio detection equipment to try and detect any, any sign the people are still alive underneath that. this gives us a ring. this is, this is it. this is what's happening in the play fight if you get a feel for be how hence, and how nerve wracking the situation is here. especially for people, i'm gonna ask you our, if we can, can we get a shot of the people you can imagine how they feel right now these, some of these guys, well, some of them used to live in those buildings. some of them have relatives. under the rumble. very tense moments. very tense moments. indeed on maybe we should cut

away cuz of course, this is not the only place where we're having this kind of cycle, playing out stephanie decker's life sauce in your dog that's of course is the, at the center of the 1st earthquake has struck stephanie once playing out there and as a competitive well, there's not a single building or apartment, i think safe to say that remains livable. life really has stood still since the earthquake hit, so violently at 4 17 am on monday morning. what still continues. here is a rescue, and recovery operation is tens of thousands of people seeking shelter. there is a tented ah area. i don't wanna call it a city, but it's growing and set out just a couple of blocks away where people are having to now live, at least temporarily until a more permanent solution is found because they're not going to be coming back to

their homes here. any time soon, there are still a couple of buildings where people remain under the rubble. when i say people these days, it's much more believe to be bodies. however, one of the sites we spent the day at 40 bodies remained there, but they did pull a mother and a child a life from there yesterday. so there is still a glimmer of hope. certainly the rescue workers are exhausted, but they will tell you what i asked them. no, get any sleep like may be an hour or so in our vans. but we don't, you know, they're working on adrenalin, they're working on needing to find people needing to find the bodies for the families who sit day and night in the bitter cold waiting for any news. and even if it is, you know, tragically more and more bodies that are being brought up to be at least able to bury them, talking of the dead. it's been an endless stream of dead to really that we've seen since we arrived here. we went to the turkey syria border yesterday took her to cover the aid, the renewed aid that was entering serious part of the year. you and you know,

the mechanism that's been in place during the war, of course that was put on hold since the earthquake. what we actually saw that completely florida's was a constantly car, is arriving and bringing out bodybags of the dead assyrians that were killed in the earthquake. of course it was 4000000 syrians live in hattie province where you just saw natasha. good name report for incredibly hard hit, a devastating to see you count said he 50 bodies while we were there. and this is our report. we came to the border to cover the resumption of aid into northern syria. but what we saw was body bag after body bag being carried towards the border in the bag behind, clearly a small child. these are syrians who were killed in the earthquake into gear. he makes space for more, their families sending them back home to be buried. the smell of death hangs

thick in the air here within just a few hours. more than 50 bodies, at least no relative wanted to speak to us on camera. but this is a grandmother and her 2 grandchildren. a father came to bring his own children. look at them, he told us clearly in a days the youngest is 5, the other is 12. he said it looks like they are sleeping. the bodies of 4 children are in that vehicle and they're about to be put into the truck to be taken across the border. they came here to flee war and had to restart their lives all over again. many syrians decided to resettle here in how type province, which is one of the areas that's been hardest hit. the man holding the paperwork, drives them across the border into syria. he also didn't want to talk on camera. he works 20 hour days. he tells us the most syrians who fled the war will tell

you that they dream of one day finally, being able to return back home. but not like this. stephanie decker al jazeera on the turkish syrian border. while more aid is trickling into rebel held northern syria, or of course to un aid convoys crossed the bible. how a border on sunday, the zayna hold the reports, the still all the anger the un sir deal was rescued from the rubble of her home in northwest syria, which too was hit hard by mondays, earthquake and southern turkey. as the 6 year old girl recounts the horror of her experience, she still doesn't know how much she has lost, precious fella, the building swayed from one side to another and there was destruction. everywhere i heard my mother calling my father's name. i then lost consciousness and woke up at the hospital. i didn't lose any one in the quake, but i haven't seen anyone yet. had voltages her father and 3 of her siblings died.

so the name of the deal doesn't know yet. we also didn't tell her mother because we're concerned about their health. stories of survival and death are heard over and over again. the biggest natural disaster to hit the region in decades is the latest crisis for the people of syria who have experience, years of war displacement and hunger. agencies warn the worse is yet to come. there is the lack of everything and, and, and, and of course is called the winter is going on. so people the to be kept warm. we've set up a small clinics just to look afters. people's injuries. serious health care system was already struggling due to the war. the world health organization says at least 20 health facilities across the opposition controlled

northwest, including 4 hospitals, had sustained damage. and while emergency medical services have been overwhelmed with trauma, patients essential health services have been severely disrupted because to be able to be, as you can see, part of the hospital was damaged. we lacked doctors and medical supplies to deal with such a big emergency. the needs are enormous and we don't have enough resources. aid has started to flow in, but the needs are on an unprecedented scale. the united nations is coordinating its disaster response from government controlled areas where it says it is working to gain approvals from damascus for faster and more regular access to the northwest. but people there say it is too late. countless lives, they say have been lost because their appeals for help were ignored by the international community center her. oh shes ita. let me give you an update and bring up to speed with what's happening now. here just behind me,

we can hit some of the machinery sounds while the bulldoze is all in action, but some of the machinery we can hear is being started again. what does that mean for the building next door? maybe we can bring the drone in and we can try and show you now the pictures of the that very tense situation we had. maybe we still have where people are still still standing silently. they're waiting to know if anyone's alive. this is it, this is the emotional rollercoaster that we're on and camped out here. people waiting for news, you can imagine how they feel on that spot where they are now. lighting fires, a body was pulled out and placed on the ground a symbol of the painful cycle of life and death. and then life trying to re kindle itself again, all in the same spot. this is been

a very intense hour here in common rush will continue to bring you coverage of this earthquake zone right here live on al jazeera ah, to some other news. now israel says it will step up. it's rides against palestinians and occupied east jerusalem. and the west bank prime minister benjamin netanyahu made the announcement on sunday. dozens of palestinians have already been killed by israeli forces this year. the israeli army has sealed off access the hums of palestinians who had accuses of carrying out the attacks. but to go home with the appropriate answer to terror who is to strike hard and folded, leap now roots in our country. accordingly, the cabinet is meeting to day to prepare for an even broader action against those carrying out terrorism and their supporters in east jerusalem.