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ah, ukraine, the seeds of whom on a judah watches war in ukraine has dominated. well, he's for the past 12 months. devastating for those in the line of fire or directly impacted. it has strengthened global alliances and deepened divisions with far reaching effects on the lives of millions of people. well, white in a week had special coverage. al jazeera explores every aspect of the conflict, the human, the political, and the economic, and the possibilities of resolution. ukraine war one year on, on out there. ah,
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getting vitally to remote parts of turkey are devastated by earthquakes. al jazeera joined the military or challenging mission. everybody's oh, we get that fine. we'll dive. able to help unload. help with rahman you're watching out there alive. my headquarters here in doha also coming up the w h chose as its biggest concerns are about northwestern syria, where many earthquake survivors say they beat abandoned by the world. and a relentless assault by russia in the de next region, as nato discussed, is ramping up support for ukraine. ah, a welcome to try go. we begin with the rise to get
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a to remote areas of turkey or cut off by 2 powerful earthquakes. it's been 10 days since the quakes topple tens of thousands of buildings across the trickier syria border. and the total death toll for both countries stands at more than $41000.00 to figure this rising by the day we have a team of correspondence covering the disasters in consider is in the turkish capital anchor. stephanie deka is edna ga child data. latasha m isn't hatton, we begin with some incident who's on board a helicopter that's been delivering aid to a remote area of anti, i'm on province. a busy military control room received request for help from aries, more numerous than the pen to write them all down with the military decide to send a helicopter to carry aid out to ashanna. so it's one of the many earthquake villages high up in the mountains of a remote part of southern tortilla. in no time, the trump is ready. the aid is loaded all
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drinks food and clothes amongst other things. so while a journey or one hour, 10 minutes, the pilot says everybody is no fool. when we get back, we will still find survivors. people alive, payables that help unload this stuff and get help. the people who needed 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 think when landing looks like complex all, all the very see it all down, but again, we're on the ground now the military on taking the more what we're looking for
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where what happens to the villages? what happens to the people living here we all people have made a mistake in a dream. taking 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 survived. but the on 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 good thing is ready and emotionally hall moment because i want to get out to those people like me, looks like a grandfather in so many young children. well, we have to go. we have to go. all right, look down and see these kids that we fly all waving out of what situation are
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they going to? i was gonna say, what the situation do they go home? 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. but on the ground, we witness the cycle of loading aid and delivering duncan 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 stephanie decker brings us his report. now from the village of godaddy, 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, you see where the earth broke. when that immense magnitude earthquake hit in this
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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've already shown 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, when we were in the village in our last life, just before we went on air,
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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 your the 7.8 and 7.6 earthquakes that caused such a devastation. so this just gives you a sense of just how violent ah, that was. i think is prisoners of the other one says the government will begin building new homes. the survivors by the end of the month, he's promised to start with $30000.00 houses to collect all of the projects in the 10 affected cities in the south within a year. but for now, survivors are trying to find any shelter that they can sit in. consider report style from the turkish capital ankara. these machines haven't stopped his to earthquake struck to kiss southern cities. neither have these employees at this turkish ret crescent factory. ever day 500 tents are
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san here and delivered to survivors in the region. millions of them urgent. the need shelter, loans exempt them. their 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 selfishly, 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. so there was only 3 there. frank was looking to our tents who are created specifically for earth creek and winter conditions. family tents are 16 and half square meters in size. all of the are resistant to water, fire and mildew nicholson blankets, food medical supplies,
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containers and mobile toilets are also urgently needed. the purpose president has asked people not like affected areas to bear with them for years so he can build them new homes that have recovery efforts, turn into accommodating anyways, 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 rejected. 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 senior care solar elders. era on cutter was surveyed and recovery efforts are continuing across southern turkey, russell. so the has this report from the city of r d among which is also his home town. life has come to a halt in the churches,
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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 said his family members to stumble know because of the devastation law. no natural gas, no electricity, no water, nothing for food. we rely entirely on the a distributed in the 10 city. more than 1000 buildings have collapsed here and around 10000 people lost their lives, though so survived, are now struggling. only 25 percent of the city has water of the pipes were heavily damaged. it will take 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 now been turned into a tense city. that's home to more than 5000 people turkey's environment. an urban
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planning minister, murat groom, told al jazeera that the government will provide people with more shelter, and promised harms 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 though, for natural gas, the process of damage assessment is continuing. once we fix the pipes, public buildings such as hospitals, the schools and buildings that a slightly damaged will be our priority to provide gas. we will rebuild the homes within a year. did he go? luxury business here has also been disrupted, and must shops have either collapsed or, or heavily damaged. this is what is left of his erstwhile shop. shooting that lucy, we have lost everything. whatever we had in the shop, he's gone. we don't know how we will resume our business again, but at least my family's life. according to some reports, the earthquakes have already caused turkey more than $80000000000.00 in losses,
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or 10 percent of its cross domestic product. in our, the among the scale of destruction is immense and the displacement of survivors is becoming a humanitarian crisis. rescuers here or not, he had a fever, was his from under the rubble there gradually shifted from finding bodies to clear in the debris and for white in the essential goods as services to tens of thousands who have survived. this was there that are 0 or the amana southern turkey. the millions of syrians have been affected by the disaster, and most of the deaths have been recorded in rebel held areas where aid has been slow to arrive, ma'am, at val as well. the rebel held syrian tone of gender is, is close to the border with tucker for 12 years. it's survivor, bottled bombs and artillery shells launched by the ceiling. armed button earthquake leveled. most of it in seconds more than a week has passed since 2 quakes struck this region and people here say there is no
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sign any help is on its way. they are struggling to survive on their own little home early on 2nd, desperately need 10th. i can stand the cold, no problem. i can sleep anyway. no problem, nothing but they are women, children and injured who we took out from and the rebel. that was good care. i just dropped my kids off at the hospital, but the whole body is all blue and a lot closer. for years nobody talkie has sent help to people here caught in civil war. but the elf quakes have disrupted that, and worse and they're suffering. it will, you often get us from the 1st day we had around 3900 families who reflected without any shouter. we had 270 buildings that were completely destroyed around a 1000 buildings and not suitable for use. we have 3900 families who have no shelter. last week, the united nations started sending 82 syria through border crossings with lucky
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after the syrian government announced it with cooperate. and shortly after its representative visit to the effected area around aleppo, 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 overlap. whoa, is 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 8? and 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, 8 is never going to come here. when on the side of the nearly 3000000 people who've
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been displaced within syria live in the northwest, many have been forced to move repeatedly because of, of all the off quakes have left tens of thousands homeless yet again. and the desperate, keen shelter food, medical care and clean water to drink. 10500 anchor and damascus, have agreed to temporarily relocate syrian refugees living in a quick hit areas of to kia. i'll deserve them. some has more from bubble ha, border crossing of 90. 0, who, how much of the other mobile on more than 600 syrians have arrived at the jewelry goose crossing into kit, opposite of serious bubble hub crossing. according to the immigration of this year, there are $400.00 sirian families, undertook his site, reading to cross. that's about 1600 people. 600 have already cross the border into serial wednesday for those a lot to return had
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a temporary protection cart granted by the turkish authorities and were living in earthquake effect areas and to clear the decision to allow the return was the result of turkey steering coordination to reduce the burden on those families and the turkish organizations in those areas, they can only remain in syria for 6 months. the return is talk about large number of syrians on the turkey side, and we cannot see for sure whether they will come today or not. well, still had he all out as early. we bring a rough cheese, who's made treacherous journeys to escape persecution in muma. oh hello, there was dot in the middle east and levant from the satellite image. you can see
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where the unsettled weather continues to linger. certainly feeding a lot colder across more northern areas of the region for northern areas of turkey as well as in the east, where temperatures remain well below the average. for this time of year, a lot more settled across syria and iraq, somewhere to whether working its way south from kuwait pulling into some southern areas of iran. we are expecting some snow on the mountains here and for coastal areas of the caspian sea, but it is still a windy story. as we go into friday, there's going to be lots of lifted dust around the gulf that thanks to with shamar wind that picks up blowing its way through katara, knocking the temperature down dramatically in doha. it will, however, be a steady $32.00 degrees in do by now it's a windy story across the north of africa. we've got some wet and windy weather continued to linger across morocco, pulling into western areas of algeria and those winds can certainly be felt as far south as nigeria, but it is a much dryer picture around the gulf of guinea. it's wet, however,
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across eastern areas of southern africa, in particular for south africa where we have seen flooding, we could see more as those thunderstorms continue. thursday to friday. aah! from the al jazeera london broadcast center to people in thoughtful conversation, i can be in my culture. i can still race my worse against patriarchy with no host, and no limitations. the actually exposed to the injustice in our society's part 2 of asthma, khan and half anake hat in hospitality. we have protected these men who are by land and bully studio b unscripted on al jazeera. ah
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ah, look back, you're watching ultra 0 with me. so robin doe, reminder of all the top stories, it's been 10 days since to devastating earthquakes. it, turkey and syria. the turkish military has been flying in much ne, today to areas that were cut off by the quakes. level health organization says it's biggest concerns about northwestern syria. but many earthquakes of i'm going to say they've been abandoned by the world. the hundreds of families whose homes are destroyed by the earthquakes and northwestern syria are trying to survive on the streets. many say that they are becoming ill as temperatures plunge below 0 degrees . laura con reports. this little boy is too young to understand how last week's earthquake will shape his life. he
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simply wants his mother. oh ha ah, it's bitterly cold engine daddy's a town in the rebel how district of afrin in one of the areas was hit by the earthquake in northwestern syria. these people were forced onto the streets of their homes, were destroyed. conditions, a harsh and resources short. i am for florida zed. i was asleep when the earthquake happened. the war collapsed on me and i broke my arm and leg. and now i'm here in the cold. i am at a loss for words. my fiance can claim if you had, there are too few teens for the number of people here in there. about 3 families pretends about 200 people are out in the open. if you can see it with your own eyes and the cold is killing, as you 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.
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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 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 his tuition worse than this one doesn't . 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
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trying to find north han al jazeera. though 2 fairies had been sent from his stumble to the port of his condron in turkey as earthquake zone, one is providing shelters and health services on the other will transport survivors to other cities to recover latasha m repulse. these children are too young to know the word earthquake. they asked their parents why their house shook so violently. they want to go home, but they say they are tunes scared. disclosable, and i've tried to get this. i can logically, it affected my 5 children a lot. i could barely rescue them. all my savings is gone with good at the factory, i saved my children and that is enough for me. this theory has been converted into an emergency shelter and medical clinic. every one we met on board has been living in tents. it arrived from istanbul 2 days ago and is docked in the mediterranean
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port city of his scans or an in her tie. the mayor says, 14000 people have died across the province. the survivors feel nami, grappling with trauma, they're only just beginning to articulate, was were so go to the football, nothing is left. i don't want to live here anymore. i cannot live with disappear. you can't believe what we've seen. horrible things are. psychology is badly affected by it. there were so many sounds, everything shaking it stopped and then we ran. survivors can get psychological support on board the ship. the president of the target, red crescent, says it's providing mental health services across the region. a calls its capacity humble, compared to the immense gale of the need that they deal with on whatever god says it happens, but we are very afraid. i experienced
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a moment of death. i have nobody a little more than a week ago these earthquake survivors had beds to sleep in and hot food to eat. basic necessities most people take for granted. now they're among more than 13000000 people carrying the worst of southern ter, kias collective trauma. natasha going a old to 0 is kendra and turkey. and 2 other news now, and that's being faced funds going east in ukraine as russian forces continue to attack ukrainian positions that denotes region 12 people injured whether an apartment building was damaged by shelling earlier russia that its troops had broken through 2 fortified lines of ukrainian defences on the eastern front in the herd of nato was called on by the states to significantly increase their defense spending in order to support ukraine. sebastian has more, ah,
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nearly a year into the war, ukraine is using more ammunition than nato countries can produce tank and artillery shells are especially needed amid fears that ukraine could soon run out. nato secretary general announced you contracts with the arms industry. this is now becoming a grinding war or attrition, and the war attrition is a war o logistics on the, on the on. therefore, this is sir so crucial for our ability to ensure that ukraine wins is able to retake territory. and for this to happen, nato nations need to dig deeper into their pockets. the pledge 8 years ago to spend 2 percent of the country's annual budget on defense won't be enough to face what stall timber calls a more dangerous world to day of the global, i believe that you're spending 2 percent will not be enough. it must be the basis for everything that follows. the german government is debating that right now and
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will soon reach an agreement. last year, germany committed to an additional 100000000000 years to defend spending, but only a fraction has materialize so far. nato secretary general has called it a battle of logistics to raise to speed, a production of weapons and ammunition, both within nato and in russia. only a year ago, many countries didn't see the need to prioritize. defense spending at the war in ukraine has changed is. the challenge is now to deliver these weapons ammunitions. in time. ukraine says they need to fight off a new russian offensive. their urgent request for f. 16 fighter jets has yet to be answered. if they will start a real offensive campaign, certainly they will use aircraft or from their side, trying to stop our defense, her forces, and they will dominate in a sky. that means it's a real threat. that's why we need more sophisticated,
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modern aircraft to stop them to defeat them, to determine them. nato members are reluctant to send fighter jets fearing an escalation of the war. for now, they want to focus on making sure weapons and ammunition already promised, reaches the battlefield. steadfast and al jazeera brussels, at least one person, his dad and 3 others, are injured at a shooting of the shopping mall and the state of texas. it happened to the city of el paso. please say that they have one suspect in custody. they're looking for another individual, they say is possibly linked to the shooting at least 73 people trying to reach europe are missing. i'm presumed, dead following a shipwreck off the libyan coast. on tuesday, the migration agency says the boat was carrying 80 people when it left casa. earlier that day, 7 survivors were taken to hospital in critical condition. and increasing number of mammals writing refugees and making the dangerous journey by sea to reach southeast
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and asia. hundreds arrived in indonesia, northern, my province of ha, in recent months. jessica washington reports from jakarta. in j, northern indonesia, hundreds of her hing refugees have found shelter in a government building close to the coast safe. at last, after a dangerous journey to get to southeast asia thought and gone, love to get out of the hanover on the boat. we didn't have food, water, or medicine. we felt like we were dead already. and i heard that a child died on the boat. so i sal since he left bangladesh after around 6 years in a crowded and impoverished camp. others say they boarded the boat, thinking of their children and their, their mother. she has, she that we wanted to go to malaysia, but our boat ran out of gas and we ended up in indonesia. you know, we were searching for a place where we could find peace and give our children education. many told al
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jazeera about the joy they felt in their feet, touched the ground for the 1st time in almost a month for gerardo. did he 1st saw that a lot of energy from that? we are very grateful to the indonesian government and people will providing us with medical treatment and a safe place to stay at elac. indonesia hosts around $13000.00 refugees. they don't have any rights to employment residency or citizenship here or not. belinda. we don't want to stay here that we want to leave this place and our plan is to live freely and to attain nationality. according to the international organization for migration, more than $3000.00 for hinder, arrived in the region in 2020, to an increase of almost 300 per cent. on the previous year, this year several boats with hundreds of her hanger, people have arrived in indonesia to carter, has called on southeast asian countries to work together to address the crisis, including cooperation on rescues at the human rights group. say indonesia must lead
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the regional block to a solution as n. i should not just discussed this as an at the diploma big level, but more importantly, what comes next that we want to laugh and live together in peace. we just want a place where we can be happy. after years of trauma and uncertainty, she does says she's unsure whether such a place exist. jessica washington aren't a 0 to counter. ah, your child is there with me. so robin in doha, reminder of our top stories, it's been 10 days since to devastating earthquakes. it, turkey and syria, the turkish min.
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