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getting violate remote parts of turkey and devastated by earthquakes, al jazeera, joins the military on a challenging mission. everybody is hopeful when we get back, we'll find valuable alive, able to help unload and get to help the people who needed them. hello, almond is the problem, and this is al jazeera life from dog ha. also coming up. the w h o says its biggest concerns are about northwest sylvia. when many earthquake survivors said they have been abandoned by the world and off to serving ha, a scotland 1st minister with nicholas sturgeon announces her resignation. ah, no. will begin with the race to get aid to remote areas and turkey are
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cut off by 2 passel earthquakes. it's been 10 days since the quakes toppled. tens of thousands of buildings across to kia and syria. the death toll for both countries stands at more than $41000.00. it's a figure that's rising by the day. we have a team of correspondence covering the disasters cyliam concealed who was in the turkish capital ankara. stephanie deka is in go chandry. natasha. her name is in hot i but we begin with sammy's, aidan, he's been on board a helicopter that's been delivering aid to a remote area of our the a mom province. a busy military control room received requests for help from aries, more numerous than the pen to write more down the motor decides to send the helicopters carry a belt to ashanna. so la, it's one of the many earthquake villages high up in the mountains of a remote part of southern kia. in no time the trough is ready,
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the aid is loaded all drinks food and clothes amongst other things. so while journey or one hour, 10 minutes, the pilot says everybody is hopeful. when we get back, we'll still find survivors. people alive, able to help unload this self and get help to the people who need it. the most soon, the mountains appear, the temperature drops and every peak is covered in snow. this does not look like an easy place to lose, even if you haven't suffered devastating earthquake. i've been landing, it looks like all the com, all the very see it all down. but again, we're on the ground now. the military on taking them off with the people
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where what happens to the villages? what happens to the people living here we all people have made it a shaking in a dream. taking the book a we desperately wanted to get out and ask the villages what they've experienced. whether there are still people trapped under the rubble and how they've survived. but beyond the asked us to stay on the chopper and we didn't want to get in the way of saving lives. i wrote a generating file, rosie, you know, that is ready and emotionally, mom moma because i want to get out to those people like b o looks like a grandfather and so many young children. well, we have to go. we have to go. it's heartbreaking. look down and see these kids that
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we fly all waving out of this you, i should have a going to i was going to say what the situation do they go home? well, i'm not sure how much of a home they have left. it was a difficult flight back. thinking of those left on the top of mountains, sit on the ground, we witness the cycle of loading aid and deliver them from again, thermal of nature may have conspired against people, earthquake zones. but the aid effort has let sunlight through the very dark clouds on the horizon. semi's ada drelick air base to a kia and stephanie decker brings us this report from the village of golf chat. today we showed you just the devastation in the remote villages. we're now going to show you what it's actually done to the earth that were in a cemetery. and you can see that the earthquake even disturbed the dead. and then in the ground,
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you see where the earth broke. when that immense magnitude earthquake hit in this area, you even have a fresh grave here to we were being told by the villagers that this line actually killed the sister of a man who lives in that house further down. this is the gray. fatty is going to show you those. this is a newly newly buried of course. part of so many people over 41000 people that have lost their lives in this devastating earthquake. but looking at the ground really gives you a sense of just the power. i mean, and of course we don't need any more in the sense of we really showed you the devastation of what it's done to the buildings. but the way this ground has been lifted, you can see here as well. and then you see this massive crevice crater that they have started to fill out where the earth literally just split apart. and so this gives you a sense of just the enormity the, the did, the power of mother nature that has caused such destruction. i mean we,
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when we were in the village in our last life, just before we went on air, there was an aftershock and we've been feeling the aftershocks or every day and every night. but we were standing on the village ground. yeah. and it literally shook, and you could hear the sound, and this is a very light compared to, you know, the 7.8 and 7.6 earthquakes that caused such a devastation. so this just gives you a sense of just how violent that was. that circus president reggie thought that the once as the government will begin building new homes for survivors. by the end of the month, it promised to stop the $30000.00 houses and to complete all projects from the 10 affected cities in the south within a year. but for now, so i was trying to find any shelter they can sell m caulsey under reports from the turkish capital ankara. these machines haven't stopped since to earthquakes struck turkish southern cities. neither have
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these employees at this turkish ret crescent factory ever day 500 tents are san here and delivered to survivors in the region. millions of them urgent. the need shelter, long to get them there. little bit in this earth wake affected 10 cities. that's why our capacity functions are different. this time we always had long shifts while producing for previous earthquake regions were overwhelmed. working selflessly, it's winter and it's cold. and these devastated cities people's needs are acute to meet the demand, all tend manufacturers in the country have been mobilized. the turkish ret crescent is a major contributor to the room of it was only the broncos looking to our tents were created specifically for earthquake in winter conditions. family tents are 16 and half square meters in size. all of the are resistant to water,
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fire and mildew. chosen blankets, food, medical supplies, containers and mobile toilets are also urgently needed. the purpose, preston has asked people in our psychopathic areas to bear with him for years so he can build them new homes. that as recovery efforts turn into accommodating survivors who don't even have temporary shelters, the 2 earthquakes impacted the lives of more than 13000000 people. displacing at least half of them president reject. bardon is promising new homes within a year. but with turkey are facing one of its worst earthquake disasters. 8 organizations are likely to face a longer mission scene. am k solo else's era on cutter? the massive aid and recovery efforts are continuing across the southern takia wrestles there that has this report from the city of, of the amazon,
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which is also his home town. life has come to a halt in the torture city of the arman since the earthquake struck last week and nothing symbolizes that more than this clocked over a landmark of the city. the clock stopped when the question, the region, like many others here job this there has sent his family members to stumble because of the devastation. law. no natural gas, no electricity, no water, nothing for food. we rely entirely on the aid disputed in the 10th city. more than 1000 buildings have collapsed here and around 10000 people lost their lives. those who survived are now struggling. only 25 percent of the city has water off. the pipes were heavily damaged. it will pay days if not weeks to repair them. 60 percent of residents are living without electricity, none are getting natural gas. this was the largest stadium in or the amana. it has
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now been turned into a tense city. that's home to more than 5000 people touches environment and urban planning minister, murat groom, told al jazeera that the government will provide people with more shelter and promised tom's will be quickly rebuilt. electric is now some parts of the city are provided with electricity and water. we are repairing the infrastructure of the city. now, thank you for natural gas. the process of damage assessment is continuing. once we fix the pipes, public buildings such as hospitals, the schools and buildings, there's a slightly damaged will be our priority to provide gas. we will rebuild the homes within a year. did he go much? business here has also been disrupted, and must shops have either collapsed or, or heavily damaged. this is what is left of his results shop. shooting that lucy, we have lost everything. whatever we had in the shop is gone. we don't know how we will resume our business again, but at least my family is alive. according to some reports,
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the earthquakes have already caused turkey more than $80000000000.00 in losses or 10 percent of its cross domestic product. in our, the among the scale of destruction is immerse and the displacement of survivors is becoming a humanitarian crisis. rescuers here or not, he had a fever worse as from under the rubble, they are gradually shifting from finding buddies to clear in the debris and for white in the essential goods as services to tens of thousands who have survived this from said that audio 0 or the amana southern tortilla and millions, assyrians, and also been affected by the disaster. and most of the death and been recorded in battle held areas where aid has been slow to arrive. mohammed val has more variable held city in tone of gender is, is close to the border with 4 key it for 12 years. it survive a barrel pumps and artillery shells launched by the ceiling army button f quake
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level. most of it in seconds. more than a week has passed since 2 quakes struck the surgeon and people he said there is no find any help is on its way they're struggling to survive on their own. busy young circle desperately need tense. i can stand the cold. no problem. i can sleep anyway, no problem. but they a woman, children, an engine who we took out from the rubble lawn care. i just dropped my kids off at the hospital. a whole body is all blue both because i guess nobody tokyo has sent help to people. he caught in civil war. but the queen have disrupted that and worse and now suffering. you won't be generous from the 1st day. we had around 3900 families who reflected without any shelter. we had 270 buildings that were completely destroy around a 1000 buildings and not suitable for you. we have 3900 families who have no
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shelter. last week, the united nation started sending 82 syria for border crossings with after the syrian government announced it with cooperate. and shortly after its representative visit to the effected area level, the trauma of the people we spoke to was visible. and this is a trauma which the world needs to heal. and the reason we're here is because we want to raise money for the brave organizations which are helping these people of aleppo, these people of syria, other humanitarian agencies and countries in the region half sent 8 shipments by air to damascus international airport. but quick survivors in opposition held areas in the northwest. se none have reached them. then we'll still have the full, we want our voice to reach the whole world. but where's the?
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there are hundreds of people who still need tenants, and they don't even have somewhere to sit, find a solution. whereas this 8 coming from, let's see, the 8 is never going to come here. when we saw that nearly 3000000 people who've been displaced within syria live in the northwest, many have been forced to move repeatedly because of the war of weeks have left tens of thousands homeless yet again. and the desperate, keen shelter food medical care and clean water to drink. $1500.00, you know, ankara and damascus have agreed to temporarily relocate syrian refugees living in earthquake hit areas of to kia. i'll do 0 as well. some has more from the bab and hello order crossing. how to go? not sure if you had more than 600 syrians have arrived at the jewelry goose crossing into kia, opposite of serious bob all have a crossing. according to the immigration of this year,
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there are $400.00 syrian families undertook his sight, waiting to cross. that's about 1600 people. $600.00 have already cross the border into serial on wednesday. those a lot to return had a temporary protection cart granted by the turkish authorities and were living in earthquake effected areas into kia. the decision to allow the return was the result of turkey searing coordination to reduce the burden on those families. and on the turkish organizations in those areas, they can only remain in syria for 6 months. the tourneys talk about large number of syrians on the turkey side. and we cannot see for sure whether they will come today or not. still ahead on the bulletin. now, i will tell you why many colombians are protesting against government plans to reform the health care system. and we look at why there's been no real snow full of
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new york this winter. 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 crimes 40 years of denying their own scientific evidence. i thought that i could important them to change their business plan. this was very naive decisions that have claimed our future. it's just pure evil. i don't know what to say. big oil's big lies ought to on a just, you know, a
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lou ah, watching al jazeera with me, elizabeth bronman doha reminder of our top stories. the sour. it's been 10 days since to devastating earthquakes hit to a kia and syria. the turkish military has been flying in march needed 8 areas that were cut off by the quakes. the world health organization says its biggest concerns are about northwest syria, where many earthquake survivors say they've been abandoned by the world. now
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hundreds of families whose homes were destroyed by the earthquake in northwestern. sylvia a trying to survive on the streets, many say their becoming ill as temperatures plunged below 0 degrees. laura con reports this little boy with too young to understand how last week earthquake will shape his life. he simply wants with mother. oh humble. ah, it's bitterly cold. engender eith. a town in the rebel house district of afrin, in one of the areas was hit by the earthquake in northwestern, syria. these people were forced on to the streets of the homes were destroyed. conditions are harsh and resources short. i am besotted zed. i was asleep when the earthquake happened. the war collapsed on me and i broke my arm and leg. and now
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i'm here in the cold. i am at a loss for words. my fiance complacency, there are to few tents for the number of people here in there. about 3 families pretend about 200 people are out in the open. if you can see it with your own eyes in the cold is killing us, would do the hunger and the sickness i am. i am a woman with diabetes. for some it's a struggle to speak. this is what the town looks like now. lives shattered everything they know destroyed, the united nations of calling it a crisis of colossal proportions that affected more than 9000000 people in syria. and they desperately need help before the quake aid for more than 4000000 people was delivered to just one crossing theory as president has agreed to open to more from turkey. ah, but people here feel forgotten and say they should be
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a priority. now and i'm in la la la, i've been sleeping on the ground. it's now 7 days of sleeping for my children are getting sick from the cold. i can't imagine as tuition worse, danvers wonderful pain and suffering may not be new to many who have endured years of war. but it's one of the biggest tragedies that's befallen them. and now they're just trying to find neural con al jazeera, looking at some other news down, at least one person is dead, 3 others are injured in a shooting at a shopping mall. in the u. s. state of texas. it happened in the city of el paso, but he say they have one suspect in custody. they are looking for another individual. they say it's possibly linked to the shooting, but he's having residence to avoid the area as there's still an active scene. now scotlands longer serve him 1st minister,
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nicholas sturgeon has resigned. she was the 1st female leader of the country as a devolved government and will remain in office until the scottish national party. alexa successor, where we challenge reports clouds have been gathering for nicholas sturgeon. but when the storm broke, few were expecting it a morning of leaks followed by confirmation at a hastily arranged media briefing. today i am an insane my intention to stay as 1st minister, a leader of my party. i have asked the national secretary of the s n p to begin the process of waiting a new party leader. and i will remain in office until my successor is easily elected. explaining her decision, she spoke of the mental and physical impact of 8 years in a relentless job and staring scotland towards independence would get fresh impetus with a new captain at the helm, the decision was and she insisted because of the current received by nor it will be
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tempting to see such this decision is not a reaction to short temperatures. of course that are difficult issues confronting the government, just know when's that ever naught? the keys, the popular mood shifted against nicholas sturgeon recently, after she pushed a bell that would make it easier for people to change their legal facts. it became a full blown controversy when a double rapist who done this was moved to a women's prison. and her main course, the 2nd scottish independence referendum was smashed in november by supreme court ruling that, that can't be won without westman says, unlikely assent. so nicholas sturgeon favorite telling the next general election into a de facto referendum on independence disquiet within the past. he about how much farther forward came to strategy would actually pick the party in the independence movement. so i think that will probably end up being the issue that defines the
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leadership contest. and it will be interesting to see if there are differences. nicholas dash and worked with 5 different u. k prime ministers through that have political dominance, north of the border, seemed unassailable. shall leave big boots to fail. and the questions about the future of scotland, independence movement, rory helen's house, his era there's been no fierce fighting in east in ukraine as russian forces continued to attack ukrainian positions. and the don yet gradient, while people were injured when an apartment building was damaged by chalet. earlier russia said its troops had broken through 2 fortified lines of ukrainian defences on the east and fight in the hands. now thousands of passengers worldwide have had their flights cancelled order late after a technical failure at german airline. lufthansa, more than $200.00 flights, were cancelled at frankfurt airport duty checking in boarding problems. the company says engineering works on
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a railway line mistakenly cut him under of cables. the id system failure comes 2 days ahead of plans strikes at 7 german airports. and that's expected to lead to major disruptions as would leaders gather for the munich security conference. thousands of people have taken to the streets and made to cities across colombia and upon in opposition to the left us government of president, gustavo petro. it comes just a day after petro presented a controversial health reform proposal. i listened to ramp. yeti reports from ball gotta no more paid through, is the slogan, demonstrators repeated over and over as they marched through downtown bo gotta protesting against the social and economic reforms proposed by columbus 1st sever left. his president policies, gustavo pedro says, will fix decades of injustice. indian equality, but that opposers argue will only worsen columbia's plight. name. oh,
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we oppose reform that would destroy our health system pretending that it doesn't work when it does a president who wants to give the help money to mares and governors all to satisfy his populace ideas. the march called by the right wing, democratic center party of former president alberto dba. we're the largest organized by the opposition since petro took office in august. and they came just a day after supporters of the government took to the streets to support the reforms among them. a controversial health bill that with and private management of health funds while promising to increase coverage in axis. it can be our reform bill that will now start with promises to be a torturous approval process in congress, where it will likely face changes your focus on these rallies. are a message for petro, the streets of speaking up, saying that the reforms he wants to impose on us will not pass. and that congress have to listen to us as well. the government's opponents defined themselves as
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patriots in saviors of a country. they fear could slide away from democracy. some clue that don't tread them me. flag used by donald trump's supporters in the us confrontation came along the route when the most radical protesters met petra supporters and they were further sanctioned. that's the demonstration arrived here in san folk last, i believe, i swear to face off against a group of less indigenous teachers from the cow cow region in south west columbia . we're here to protest against the current health system in columbia thick and city. maybe you processed this class with the police as he tried to enter the office of the mayor. the pits are supporter either smashed the copy of the piece sculpture, every known colombian painter fitness, the botero created in response to the 2016 piece process with 5 rebels.
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but despite these incidents, both the government and opposition rallies have been largely peaceful, considered by many to be a good sign in a country long defined by political violence, and still learning to negotiate its differences. peacefully. allison, the and the al jazeera book now towards visiting new york city, hoping to experience when to wonderland might be disappointed. there's no snow and temperatures a balmy, but that says nearby regents have been seeing records know for gabriel elizondo reports from new york. on a recent february day in central park and new york city, you'd never had guessed it was right smack in the middle of winter. look around, people are dressed like it's spring or summer. wait, hold on shorts and a t shirt in central park in winter. where is the snow? new york city average is around 75 centimeters of snow every winter. so far this
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year, only about one centimeter has fallen. i do this. no, i like snow in winter. so i mean, this is not normal winter. i feel so overdressed right now, and that's probably because i am. it's really too warm to be wearing these gloves. i certainly don't need this scarfs that probably don't even need to be wearing this jacket right now, but it's out of habit because it's mid february and it's supposed to be cold. but it's not temperatures on this day, nearly 18 degrees celsius. 15 degrees above the average temperatures this time of year, rather beautiful outside right now. look at this sunshine. crazy right love. if you ever seen new york in february like never, never before. the northeast of the united states has seen all sorts of weather records this winter. in buffalo, about 600 kilometers from new york city,
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they saw more snow in december than any other winter in the past. 50 years in boston saw record low temperatures in early february, down to negative 35 degrees celsius with wind chill, which i experienced 1st hand rock and on my fingertips. through the glass meteorologist say the extreme temperatures are caused in part by a weather pattern known as la nina. but also something else may change. as you know, the is warming, our winters are warming, and all weather now is taking place in an atmosphere of the spot. a mentally church, it's warmer. it's more moist, and our weather is all current and that changed atmosphere. a new reality perhaps with new yorkers 1st enjoying the warm weather but now beginning to.
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