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i rescue efforts in turkey, a 10 year old girl is lifted through the hole in the floor. 150 hours after the building collapsed around her construction methods come under intense scrutiny. arrest warrants are issued for more than a 100 building contract as the me hello, i'm r m i z in london, you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program. as a slowly starts the flow, the u. n. a chief admit the international community has failed northwest syria, because a new generation of writers leading way is wrong weekend or it's rich, equestrian heritage. ah,

we continue to follow the off him off of those devastating earthquakes that struck last monday. there has been a growing sense of frustration over the pace is a deliveries to the west regions in nor in syria, already scarred by years of war. with limited access routes for you and other organizations have been accused of not acting quickly enough in turkey almost a week since the quite struck survivors are still being pulled from the rubble of father and daughter rescue dahlia. but the chances of finding any want to live is becoming more remote. the total number confirmed dead now has surpassed $35000.00, but it's expected to keep on rising. as more areas cleared, almost $30000.00 of those killed are in turkey while over the border in syria. more than 5700 people and known to have died in turkey. arrests warns have also been issued for more than a 130 people in connection with the construction of buildings. that collapse. but

the government itself is also a facing scrutiny of a building codes which have not been enforced. one of those rescue survivors is this 10 year old girl. she spent almost a 150 hours trapped in the ruins of building rescue is in hot hot to pull up through a hole in the floor before emergency services could take her away for treatment. on this i shook her name is live 1st now and until i get into his hot a province. so i suppose hopes might be fading, but there are still some cases where the small children are being pulled. ally from the rubble, which is remarkable because it means i've managed to survive on the ground without food, water, and in sub 0 temperatures for nearly a week. and each of these cases is a miracle, and a huge boost in morale. not only among the rescue workers, but among turks who are desperate for some good news. retina apartment complex in,

on talk. yeah. and at one point were told about 3000 people, lived in the ruins of these buildings. in the last few days, 50 people were rescued, but one worker tells us at this point, the ground the rubble has gone silent and the odds he believes of yet another miracle rescue at this late in the post earthquake is pretty slim. search and rescue operations. however, do continue here. they continue in 8 provinces. here in the south that have been declared disaster areas to into other provinces. they have seized operations. this is a mammoth effort. 233000 people on the ground trying to help turkey out, recover, and with no electricity, very little food, no amenities. many people are still trying to evacuate, move to places that are safer,

warmer and have food. about 144000 people have been evacuated out of these disaster areas. they've been moved to. 1 hotels and university dorms, in fact here in tor kia all universities have pivoted to remote learning to accommodate the displaced. the last count was about 338000 turks have been displaced per president. irwin has vowed to provide rent for a year and to rebuild their homes within a year. he's also pledged to give families a 2 installments of payments, totaling about $1300.00. but given the scope of this disaster, 13 and a half 1000000 people impacted across an area, 500 square kilometers. and it's clear this recovery and relief effort will be very long and it will be daunting. and the so many people have been effective as you say by this, it sort of a scale of destruction that you can't really imagine,

i suppose, unless you'll, you'll that to see it. we've been hearing about much of this rescue effort being led by smaller agencies and volunteers because the government doesn't have the capacity to deal with something on this scale. but i suppose are also concerns at this increasing outrage and desperation is also affecting the security situation because i've been these arrests for looting. yes, we spend some time today in the commercial district of and takia before the earthquake. it was a city of about 200000 people, a pretty bustling commercial center, a tobacco all lives cotton except euro. and we spoke with business owners who have faced alluding, we did see throughout the commercial area of soldiers with machine guns standing guard. we'd heard stories in particular about shops with gold that were being heavily fortified to ensure that there would be no theft. but we did speak to

a few store owners, and one of them owned a shoe store to in fact. and his story was a bit heartbreaking. he said he, his home is uninhabitable, he and his family have been living in a tent and he was not able to get to his stores right away. it took until wednesday, the earthquake hit monday for him to get down to his stores and when he arrived he said a group of about 5 to 6 men were looting. and he said, look, i understand it's cold. i understand so many of us have lost everything, take what you need, but please do not steal, steal and re sell the shoes. his please fell on deaf ears and he says he lost about 7000 pairs of shoes. he and other business owners are saying now they're asking the government to please stand by them. one of the store owner says we have always supported the state. now the state needs to support us. president irwin is

a saying, as i mentioned, that he will support people with the rent and whatnot. and on the looting side, not only has there been looting, there has been a theft of aid. thousands of trucks headed to the southern provinces are full of humanitarian aid. there have been cases of that age being stolen. the ministry of justice says 57 people have been arrested. or tuan is saying, if you've looted, if you're engaged in any kind of corruption or you exploit this disaster, you will be punished. and that is why president irwin says he has declared a 3 month state of emergency in these 10 areas affected by the earthquakes. thank you very much and have a good name and bring us all the latest that from untucked him. meanwhile, in the south eastern, gassy and up, bravo, his destruction there is overwhelming as well. thousands have been displaced homes reduced to rubble. stephanie deck,

as more now from one of the west affected cities nor the yee has been frozen in time life changed here at 4 17 am that monday morning. you can just get a sense looking at these buildings. this is an entire residential area. this has been completely destroy, but you also have other parts of the city where the apartment blocks still stand, but there are so structurally unsafe and if you go through them, there is an eerie feeling here of where life has absolutely changed where its ended . you can see the balconies, you can see the incredible cracks of the building. this is why also of the army here is telling us to be very careful when we operate. because of the danger of them actually having pieces fall off. a lot of people we've been talking to saying that within seconds the entire earth shook the entire building, shook in this building were told only 2 people lost their lives,

the rest managed to get out. and then of course, we had the ongoing rescue and recovery operation incredibly and in the last 24 hours or so, they managed to pull a mother and her child from this location on one of the workers here, one of the rescue workers is a volunteer. he has 6 members of his family still left on the 2nd floor of this building. you have relatives, as we've been seeing across the southeastern region, waiting for news of their loved ones. this lady has been sitting in prayer for over an hour. and then now when we're walking through these apartment blocks, you see television screen a, chandelier. curtain still hang as incredibly difficult to convey the sense of devastation,

the sense of loss. one man we spoke to who has a shop here and also his from here said life is over in order in order it nerdy is no longer on the map. so we're very difficult to see how in an instant, everything has changed for over hundreds of thousands of people. of the city of caroline not ash was the api center of one of the earthquakes. algeria, sam is a dan, has been spending some time that he tells us about tao, the search operations had been guessing on when a body was pulled out from the rubble behind me placed on the floor immediately. well, if you could smell death in the air, you could hear the shrieks and the cries from people assumed li relatives when they were match with the reality that another victim has been claimed by these earthquakes and emotionally taxing day temperatures are now while they're crashing

. they're falling as quickly as the moods lifts and falls here. but there was some good news to day from got ahmad marashi and hat. i. 8 people pulled out of the rubble that lifts the hopes that gives people hope and we saw a bit of that. maybe we'll cut to the drone and try and give you an idea of what we're talking about. on the one side here, you've got the rubble and you've got the heavy machinery, the bulldozers which is usually brought in, at least in that spot when they pretty sure. but there's nobody left alive there on the other side and see if we can get the drone. this may take a minute to turn around. so bear with us while i let me call out to our drone operator. oh, mute lute for an oblong jim brought off from chemo. i'm just asking them if they can turn the camera around. on the drone, on that side, we have had

a different story. and with the nice thing is with the drone. well, you are able to see how really tense, distressful, and you can see the contrast in a small area on one side, babe. you know the ac stopped for the moment. on the other side, we've had a tense situation where they were calling out. they're giving the calls of life on the vat rubble, because they thought they'd found somebody alive. this is all going on in a very, you know, in a tight area, but it's packed with people, as you can see on those drone johnson. maybe if we come back to the camera here, you'll be able to see what's going on here. people are camped out. people are trying to stay warm. these are people who have lost their homes. these are people who are looking for their relatives. and it leads to frustration. will you enter

a chief? has said the international community as failed, nor than syria in the wake of monday's earthquake. martin griffith. net with the head of the white helmets. the taki package syrian border on sunday said that people in syria right, you feel abandoned to is now focused on correcting that via to you and aid convoys did cross the baba halla border on sunday night nations, as it consists of 10 sharks that a carrying tense supplies for the victims that i shall send her is following the relief efforts. said it was rescued from the rubble of her home in north syria, which too was hit hard. monday's earthquakes insulting trickier. as this 6 year old girl recalls the heart of her experience, she still doesn't know how much she has lost grocer alada, 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 any one yet. did her father and 3 of her siblings died? kevin, hey matt, that's the deal doesn't know yet. we'll so didn't tell her mother because we're concerned about their health stories or survival and death, or heard over and over again. the biggest natural disasters to hit the region in decades is the latest crisis for the people of syria who have experienced year off war displacement and hunger aid agencies warned the worst is yet to come. there is the lack of everything and her and, and, and of course it's called the winter is going on. so people need to be kept warm. and 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 to a position control northwest, including 4 hospitals, have sustained damage. and while emergency medical services have been overwhelmed with trauma, passions essential, health services have been severely disrupt it has 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 follow in, but the knees are on an unprecedented scale. united nation is coordinating is disaster response from government control areas where he says it's working to gain approvals from damascus for faster and more regular access to the northwest. but people dare say it is too late. countless lives, they say have been lost because there appeals for help were ignored by the international community. cutter has sent an 8 convoy and medical team to the north,

west syria where most internally displaced syrians leave. the golf nation says more with follow. 12 years of civil war has taken so much from syrians, 13000000 people, half of the country ought been displaced within its borders. millions choose to come to turkey to begin a new, safer life. but now the bodies of those who died in the earthquakes are being sent back to failure to be buried in their hands. country reginald said that al jazeera, vague as a border crossing her, that insult entertain them as most delightfully often a bite. but he had a tight run off inside press passing to career diplomat. ah

there, despite it being the middle of february, the weather actually doesn't much like winter for most of europe. there is cloud, clearly falling down the eastern side. and what you see these large secluded from that is where it is windy and there is some snow. but further west you go on leases area of high pressure. jenny freaking speaking during the day is sunny and relatively miles. it's frosty by night. quite true. and this, this paul, you can see it does mean you got gray sky is over germany and poland. the answer, austria and hungry threat monday and possibly tuesday, by right on the edge of europe. we'll focus on that and really be talking about eastern side of ukraine and turkey. this is where you see some snow but not very much on a fair wind. that's true. the wind is blowing down through the gym at some strength, and it has been wind and more. recently rain's been effected places like moles from the central mediterranean. but as you can see, this whole air is generally fine and has a daytime sunshine rains coming in to southern portugal, trying to get into western island. but nowhere else that unusual weather for west

africa, particularly for western sahara martini, now moved into our gere morocco. that rain has been reco breaking place, isn't it still there? and then the wind, the ha mattson is quite strong. but yet both the dust and the sand, ah, their plight emitted from history kept alive only in the family. tales of those who survived is hard to believe for people who with these damaging story of the polish women and children who enjoyed the siberian glass. and so the refuge in africa never to return again. an epic odyssey of resilience memory is our homeland. on al jazeera lou.

oh, oh. well, come back. a quick look out to our top story, this our, the number of people confirmed to have died off to mondays of quakes is now. so past 35000, though it's expected to keep rising as more areas at cleared war than a 130 arrest warrants have also been issued in connection with the construction of buildings. that collapse. but the government itself is also facing scrutiny of a building codes which would not enforce. and as the search and rescue operations continue, there are also miraculous cases of people being found on life. the latest include a 10 year old go, a told law and a father and daughter. they've managed to survive under the deb brief a week in sub 0 temperatures. you, as a chief says,

is organization has failed people in northern syria and that they all right to feel abandoned un is hoping that to open more border crossings into syria to get urgently needed. humanitarian supplies well used, hilton is the middle east in north africa program director for the international crisis group. he joins me live now. and actually on that point that we were just mentioning, there had been calls for that to, for more land crossings to be opened into syria before these quakes hit a consensus. is that the 1st 72 hours or the 1st 3 days after a dissolved flight. this is absolutely critical for saving lives and it doesn't seem as though any of the important technology or equipment, whether the diggers or sniffer dogs or fuel have made it into serious. so if and when more a does get through it for many people, it will be too late. well,

that's clearly so, but this is going to be a long term crisis, of course, of homelessness and hunger, especially in or northern syria. so the need for the crossings is, is critical. now that we used to be more on a single crossing, the united nations could use from turkey into syria. eventually through russian pressure that was reduced to a single one. at the moment, the age is not even coming sufficiently through the single one. but once that wraps up, it would, well, what would be needed? what other ones would be needed now are other crossings. but what would need to happen is for the united nations security council to pass the resolution to open more crossings for the united nations. but it's not clear that the russians would allow that. so there is a, there's going to be the likelihood of, of a real bottleneck sometime in the future from, for a coming from turkey into northern sherry. and even when those land crossing become

available for a deliveries, i suppose as an issue of whether or not they will be accessible because of the damage in the area. and whether or not they will be able to use those roads at a more, at a moment, they seemed to be usable. already, some un convoys have crossed from turkey into syria. so that is not really the problem. it's really a moment to capacity problem. there is, of course, also a coming in from the syrian regime side into the north. and that is also helpful, but it's also insufficient, not a political problems all around because i mentioned already the security council issue in terms of the international border between turkey, syria. but it's not clear at all the regime will facilitate a deliveries to it. let profits, which is controlled by the rebel group h t s which is fighting the regime in damascus. and so even,

but even if the government was to facilitate a deliveries to areas that are not under its control, would a group like h t s. allow that a to, to get through with they then prevent government aid from, from reaching people in areas that they control where i think they would be very unwise to do. so of course, they don't like it because they don't want to give any legitimacy to the regime, but people are dying. and there's going to be enormous pressure on them as on all the political actors in the, in the region to provide supports and solas for the people who are suffering so, so i don't think that they can hold a position if they're holding it though. alright, thank you very much use tell to him and federal joining us. that cheers or the former separate formulas in cars cristo duties has been elected as the

countries new president sunday's ronald style. it was a bitterly contested and close run contact, followed by an inconclusive 1st round of voting just last weekend with brandon reports. the final days of this election became an unexpected thriller. the gap between the 2 candidates narrowed, and as voters went to the polling booth, the result was too close for pundits to confidently predict. 49 year old nickos, chris dooley, this is the form of foreign minister who quit the ruling vichy party. just a month ago to run for the presidency as an independent, he positioned himself as a unifier, free from the constraints of party allegiance. but his former colleagues on the center right branded him a traitor who divided the party from a position of power. the centre right appeared to be imploding, his opponent, 66 year old undress marianna. this also ran as an independent, albeit with the backing of the left wing occult party. the acura governments

disastrous handling of the 2013 financial crisis still lingers in many voters minds . but marianna says campaign gained momentum in the final week with its focus on corruption and promised to prioritize the reunification of the whole island of cyprus would sent her i'd vc voters really support a left wing candidate, just to punish chris dooley. this. the answer was no, but the margin of victory was no landslide. the entry of the new president is a daunting list of economic and political problems. inflation had a for decade hi, last year, a 10.9 percent fish. the high cost of living provoked a rad general strike last month over paid a man's him on the us back talks between the greek speaking south of cyprus on the self declared republic in the turkish speaking, north have been frozen finale 6 years with asylum seekers. now numbering some 6 percent of the south population migration is an issue that is creating significant tensions. there has been

a sense in this election in particular. the disaffected voters were faced with choosing the least worst candidate. nickos facilities may have won the dollars, but having alienated so many of his former party colleagues now faces a real challenge to establish his authority. hope brandon, i'll just hear thousands of people without power, new zealand aside, and gabrielle wreaks havoc across the countries north island. 24, severe weather warnings have been issued throughout the country and the statement urgency is in place in oakland. schools across the city has been closed while trains, ferries, and multiple flights have been cancelled. be sure ologist the forecast wins about 230 kilometers and our storm comes 2 weeks off the record breaking floods. we tend to a very different story. years of war and instability and iraq have taken a toll on the countries rich equestrian heritage. but now there is a push to revive the industry and attract

a new generation of writers. would have lied, reports from new per, in southern iraq's for the 1st time in more than 3 decades in iraq courses compete in a long distance race. university student 40 ma has come to the ancient sumerian city of new port from the southern city of basra. and she is excited. she is one of very few female jockeys to take part. she says his emotionally connected to her 4 year old arabian thoroughbred mayor is our she, anna. we have been eagerly waiting for this competition. it had been a live stream to ride a horse until i real i said with the opening of an question, clap in my home city. i hope to participate in more competitions and represent my country brought on as i know when was the hail at the kind who i am greece. marcus, a breakthrough for equestrian sports in the country. during the us led

invasion, thousands of state own thoroughbreds were lost somewhere to killed. others neglected or stolen and smuggled abroad. for 3 decades during goren sanctions, horse racing in iraq was told. now nearly a 100 joke is representing the most iraqi provinces are able to compete in a single race. it's part of a drive by the countries main equestrian organization to grow the support and raise standards. bumper boycotted yeoman. my eerie don't. we're trying to salvage the golden times, our team of national experts have many years of experience in cove countries. despite all the hard times our country has gone through and we still have some of the best breeds in the world. i offer some pure bloodsaw kept at the federation's main facility in the capital. baghdad. here houses are voted to ensure that in top

condition to meet international standards and compete abroad. iraq used to be home to some of the finest arabian thoroughbreds. their value is judged by civil criteria, including strong physique, soft skin, white eyes, a large not thrilled to help them in hail as much as possible while racing. but above all, it's their intellect and ability to respond to commands that sets them apart. back at the race track, the iraq equestrian federation is hoping the event was revitalized this port and pharma is calling on other iraqi girls to follow her lead. i'm withdrew or algebra in the poor, southern iraq. ah.