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madison, this is audra 0 alive from dough hobb. also coming up warnings of disease, inter kia as tens of thousands of quake survivors live in, make shift camps without basic facilitates a key goal to rebuild thousands of homes reduced to rubble. we report from a remote village that's been completely flattened. you look at the ground in the cemetery, you can see brady earthquake had disturbed all the brick. and then over here, it has literally pushed a grave out of the ground. also ahead anger and chaos in nigeria because there isn't enough new cache. the government extends a deadline to turn in old bank notes. awe rescue efforts are winding down and relief. operations are being scaled up after
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late last week's earthquakes, into care and soviet, some remote areas until care have started to receive aid. but in syria help has been slow to arrive. that's not stopped syrian refugees and took here from trying to go back home across the region. shelter, food drinking water and health care are in short supply more than 41000 people have been killed since the quake struck last week. now we've got a team of correspondence covering the disaster, said m costello's in the turkish capital ankara os had begun. sammy zaden, not an idea among natasha. her name is in a skinned run. we're going to be hearing from them in a moment. but in northwest area, there are fears that medical facilities are close to collapse is in a hot reports. here in northwest celia medical south have little choice, but to use damaged incubators. last week's earthquakes and southern 3rd year hit the sweet and hard medical facilities. and this opposition controlled enclave were
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already weak. do 2 years of war and the lack of funds there now close to collapse. monthly allow them we have always face short addition. but this is not new. but now many incubators, the damage as well as other equipment that we need to treat the children. many children were affected by the powerful earthquakes where russia was among those who survived. but he still in shock didn't. i was asleep when it happened for laps my brother. neither clap under the library for 3 days before they brought us to hospital. international agencies say they are facing a catastrophic situation in the north, where limited access to aid has complicated efforts to handle the aftermath of the disaster. it's a different situation and government controlled areas where plain loads of supplies are being delivered to airports. the world health organization says the impact is significant there, but services are available and people are able to access them. unlike in the
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northwest where it says people have been through hell from us now, william during the 1st 2 days in hospital, i didn't receive any treatment. if there were no doctor's available volunteers or students were trying to help us aid has long been politicized. in a country divided by front lines, the international community is promising scaled up response after the syrian government approved the opening of a cor doors 4000000 people in the north relied on aid before the latest disaster. and the reality is only getting worse, shelter and food are needed on an unprecedented scale. when and i look at our situation, it is cold, our children no longer go to school. we lost our home. there are no toil is here. well, the u. n. is appealing for emergency funding, it has long been working with a shortage of funds and what many describe a forgotten conflict? the earthquakes destroyed already crumbling, infrastructure, dental only i lived and we moved to italy 3 years ago when we knew the building was
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not structurally sound, but we had no other choice. now engineers and told us that we can return to our home alarm of now we are homeless. the challenge now is to care for the living, who already endured 12 years of war, then a footer al shahita. earthquakes, survivors in syria are angry by the late arrival of aid. hundreds of families are living on the streets and many say they're becoming sick. as temperatures fall below 0 or a can reports, this little boy is too young to understand how last week earthquake will shape his life. he simply wants his mother. oh, it's specially cold engine daddy's. a town in the rebel held district of afrin in one of the areas was hit by the earthquake him northwestern syria. these people were forced on to the streets of the homes were destroyed. conditions are harsh and
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repulsive. short till now i am the thought of 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 he had, there are too few teens for the number of people here they are about 3 families pretends about 200 people are out in the open. you can see it with your own eyes and the cold is killing out 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. 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
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was delivered to just one crossing theory as president has agreed to open to more from turkey. 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 a tuition or standard 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 survive. neural con algae theorem or esl soda has more from the border between to kia and syria. to take your city on board, there is $800.00 border crossing and not far away from here, just thanking them. it is away as the town of gender as inside syria,
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it is one of the worst she had the town in the northwest, syria, more than a 1000 people have died in the earthquake and so far in the northwest or syria, there are 7800 people that dive and many of them are still missing under the rubble and 150000 people are displaced here. so gender as an italian american, as so can particularly displeases where the worst he had. and now the 8th convoys quite late. however, through the last couple of days, they have their stuff up there afford to get the a to deliver to the a to this much needed place is i have talked to some of the syrians, they are quite sad and angry. they say we have been forgotten by the international community that they didn't receive the property shipments proper aid food, and they are suffering from the lack of electricity, lack of that heaters and,
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and the water as well. these are the essentials in this much needed places. so i have talked to one of the syrian rescuers here. he said that particularly during the 1st 3 days, they were just working with the demand, 3 coup men's. and they didn't have any digger what ask away to what have lived in machinery. they were almost working with their bare hands and they said if they had more than equipment, they probably will be able to save powers and thousands of the that the lives here . however, that is the situation in, in syria. so these areas northwest of syria have had been, had been born heavily balled by the syrian regime for over to that of 12 years of the civil war. the many of how this and the towns here are already are already heavily shelled and damaged or correct. and the people, syrians, how built makeshift homes and the camps here. it wasn't too much, but still it was warm for that. however, this earthquake has pekin that also from them. so disaster of their disaster for
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syrians and why we were herbert the crew, the campbell crossing the border here we have seen hundreds of their city and families that are trying to pass the border to go inside syria and to find their relatives or to, to join their funerals, this syrians, how me tricky home for themselves over the last decade. and now they have been hit by the hurt earthquake. and inside syria, they have houses of the relatives. they have lost humbles off their beloved ones. now they are trying to pass the border and to join their funerals, or to mit up those who survived away from the towns and cities. small villages, inter care have been flattened. stephanie decker traveled a checkmark in the province of goes into the destruction to the small village of checkmark is absolute. the earthquake hasn't spared a single home here. the chief of the village takes us to what's left of his house.
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he says he can't believe he made it out alive virtually or that will as amber. my wife and i were to sleep. we don't know what happened to us. how we woke up when i tried to go outside. i got injured on my head. that was enough. we were terrified the earthquake through me. it was very hot and it made me lose my mind. my mom incredibly, no one lost their lives here. but just as large parts of so many towns and cities, this village too, will need to be completely rebuilt. in another village, farther up the mountain, even the dead have been disturbed. the grave shifted as the earth cracked. if you look at the ground in this cemetery, you can see where the earthquake has disturbed all the bricks. and then over here, it has literally pushed a grave out of the ground and then leaving absolutely no doubt as to the power
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of mother nature, the violence with, with which it split the earth. yes. used to be 5 meters deep, but emergency services have filled it back in checkmark. this villager tells us they thought it was the last day of the world. kedusha mar them. oh yosh on that i never felt an earthquake like this before. nobody else. i asked either, 1st there was a terrifying sound. we felt a huge pressure. the land kept moving. i was convinced no one was alive any more. it felt never ending. it was so strong. they tell us, help came on the 2nd day. now they sleep intense, provided by turkey's disaster agency set up inside the village. no one intends to leave here. as we finish filming a few villages are removing what they can from their broken homes, before they will be demolished. they are determined to rebuild. they tell us as soon as possible, stephanie decker, al jazeera, chuck mac village in south eastern to kia all comes to being set up and her clear
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to help people whose houses were destroyed. i said big is inside. i can bring our gym on. they have tense, some of them have heating, many of them don't, is bitterly cold here. there's a constant smell of burning in the air, not only at this camp across the city of they're burning wood, paper and plastic, but there is aid getting in. so if i can get vulcans to just show you what people are lining up to get their afternoon lunch, now they are meals provided a several times a day or 2 people head. there's water tanks that come in. there's trucks that take away the rubbish. but there, there is a fear that because of the lack of sanitation and people living so close together, that there will be a spread of disease. but at least is one thing that there is clothing there, there is food getting in. but the other daily tasks are very difficult. like what you're washing the children's clothes, washing dishes, things like that because of the cold temperatures are extremely difficult for
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people are elsewhere in the city. and they are taking away the rubble and we saw the municipality workers out on the street and cleaning up the those streets. but the. busy is a real concern about what happens next. what happens when all these people that you're seeing? her hair have stayed in the tents? when do they return to their homes? what's happened to their homes when they demolish them? when are they going to start? rebuilding president of the under said that they were rebuild it in a, in a, in a year's time or within a year. but that's still a huge chassis of bust area that has been affected. and for these people, they can't remain here for long. it's bitterly cold or, and they are stroking even though age is getting. so now the question remains for the government and the authorities. how do they get people out of these tent cities and back into homes? we'll talk is governments using fairies to provide services to people affected by the quakes. 2 of them have doctor in his concert on one is being used as
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a shelter for those with no where to go as natasha can name reports, the 2nd will take survivors to other cities. 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 do tunes scared, disclosure go let actually get this. i can logically, it affected my 5 children a lot. i could barely rescue them. all my savings is gone with because at the factory i saved my children and that is enough for me. running. this very 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. it is docked in the mediterranean port city of his skin, duran in her tie. the mayor says,
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14000 people have died across the province. the survivors feel nami grappling with trauma, their only just beginning to articulate. what will forego, mother? oh, well, 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 to get psychological support on board the ship. the president of the target, red crescent, says it's providing mental health services across the region that calls its capacity humble compared to the immense gale of the need that they deal with them. whatever god says it happens, but we are very afraid. i experienced the moment of death. i have nobody a little more than a week ago these earthquakes, survivors had beds to sleep in hot food to eat
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basic necessities. most people take for granted. now, there are, among more than 13000000 people, carrying the worst of southern tre, kias collective trauma. natasha guinea, elda 0, is scan darren, turkey, a. nato secretary general jane stole some bags into care to discuss its role in providing support after the earthquakes is how the media briefing with turkish foreign minister, maryland shall sallow in ankara, and he's explained how nato members of responded. the day off to the earthquake, nato's dissolves to response center issued an immediate request for assistance to all made laws and partners. since then, thousands of emergency response personnel have been deployed to, to kia, to support the reef efforts, including with search and rescue teams,
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firefighters, medical personnel, and seismic experts. sam costello has more from ankara. he was here to express his condolences and showed the solidarity of the nato alliance and with true care, the 2nd largest, the army, it within the alliance. and ah, secretary general mentioned that ah, there will be an international donors conference in march. also, we heard earlier that e u countries are also supporting a and working, gone as to the honors conference to help her to the victims of the earthquake that have that shook trickier. and as syria ah secretary general mentioned that odd, there will be an international bonner's conference in march. also we heard earlier that e u countries are also supporting a and working gone as such a donors conference to help her to the victims of the earthquake that have that
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shook trickier. and as syria and i, he mentioned that a 1000 tens of thousands of shelters are being provided for other people in the earthquake areas, along with $0.10 or the tense are being carried by a carriers which is a very important element in delivering the 8th, despite trickier as is the 2nd largest nato and a has a very decent inventory. ah, since there are 10 cities affected, more than 13 millions lives are directly affected by this earthquake. it even as so many carriers are not enough to still had an al jazeera new zealand pilots taken hostage in the papa region of indonesia. we're going to tell you what is captors on demanding ah, it's the largest war in europe since world war 2. this president brought in
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reclaiming what belong to russia. was natal coming to close? and what does the end game look like? an in depth look at the war in ukraine, hooton's plan or the west neglected ukraine . the seeds of whom are just the uta ah, al jazeera, with african stories from african perspective, short documentary from african filmmakers from ivory coast, just to last year from chauffeur to quad the bus, a function of listing foam and south africa. king, if i change,
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and it shows me that i'm actually tracking and fire with africa direct on al jazeera hulu. ah, we want to go to 0. a reminder of our top story is this. our syrian refugees and turkey are trying to head home after border crossings. whooping, despite the devastation in syria of to last week's earthquakes, millions fled to the neighboring country during the city of 12 use, civil war. fears are growing, the diseases may spread in syria, as people struggle to survive low temperatures. the world health organization says it's concerned about the health situation in the region. turkey is military is
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taking aid to regions caught off since the earthquakes people are in need of shelter, food, water, and clothing. while search crews continue to dig through the ruins, we're still hearing astonishing stories of survival in carmen marsh. i. 17 year old girl has been pulled alive from the bubble. she survived for 10 days after the earthquake kit. well, children are some of the most vulnerable affected by the quakes. the united nations says more than 7000000 are affected, and turkey and syria, many schools, health facilities, and family centers have been completely destroyed. it organizations say the children urgent that needs psychological support as well. as shelter, water and food. jim elder is a eunice, have spokesman, and he says it's important that children get that psychological support. this is trauma, on top of trauma for these children, particularly those in syria who just endured so much. there's not
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a little boy or girl in syria who's there 12 rhonda. the whole life has been conflict. so right now they need the full gamut of support. you know, medical supplies to hospitals. it's sergio equipment, maternity equipment. it's literally everything for children who, you know, 910 days ago escaped crumbling, cold crate in their pajamas, into the freezing cold. these mine bought the numbers, you know, so many thousands of children have died. there's so many graving parents out there . you tap into that one story of that child who is still alive will the head master . i spoke to yesterday, northwest and syria, who survived and is still trying to get children back into some sort of safe space with use it. so he can give them that psychological support, which we know takes months and months. but you have to start now. you know, safe is long, maintain that yes it's plain water, it's blankets, it's food, it's medical supplies, but psychological 1st aid education. these are life saving as well. what these boys
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and girls are going through nigeria as president mahoney. bahati has approved a 60 day extension for people to turn in old bank notes as part of a plan to replace the country's currency. now, you know, with redesigned notes, the old cover st was supposed have been replaced by saturday. some banks failed to hand out enough money triggering widespread protests. outages has more from they don't really. in nigeria, president obama, how do you speak? interpreted widely as a different attempt to start a full grown writers. over the past few days. we've seen angry protest just on the speech of nigeria angry about the shortage of new and i don't know which is like relation as well as refusing some commercial sub, to swap all kind of is when you watch, at least in social media, we've seen one bank set on fire by angry customers who say the officials in the bank of refuse to open up their bank to offer services to them to exchange their current says, now over the last few months when this currency swap,
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they came into effect. we've seen a lot of disruption to the economy. the economy is dependent on the informal sector, 60 to 65 percent of the economy is run by this particular sector. and this is a country while 40 percent of the population and bank in fact now get us one of the top 5. i'm bank campers in the world with large population not having access to financial services, financial services, offered by the bank. now the new moon, if such that only the old 200 and i don't know if legal tender they 501000 not. no, we don't accept it. at the central bank offices across the country, i even have that any customer taking huge amount of money to buy, to swap for the new currency. when have to explain how we got the money in the possibly new zealand and indonesian officials and negotiating with rebels for the release of a pilot, taken hostage in indonesia popular province,
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separate as fighters say, he won't be freed until indonesia acknowledges that regions independence, set o'clock reports, separatist rebels from the west pop or national liberation army released images of new zealand pilot, philip merton's, the group kidnapped him last tuesday. after he landed his plane in papa's remote province of duka. his 5 passengers were released burton's aircraft, which belongs to an indonesian aviation company with satellite. the indonesian police are now scouring a remote area where he was taken hostage. papa and police are working with the new zealand authorities in a bit to negotiate. he cipher lease a military of police already. we will not back down wherever they are. but the safety of a human being is more important. that's the highest low. so his safety is our priority. papa declared independence in 1961. but indonesia took control 2 years later, independence fighters of the armed wing at the free, powerful movement,
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and avowed to fight into their territory against freedom from indonesia. violence in this region around the secession is the independence movement has been longstanding, but we have to say it in the last 18 months sosa, locals anticipating further violence, and now being evacuated from the area mittens was abducted sarah clark. i'll vizier, people on new zealand are grappling with the aftermath of a devastating cycle that's killed. 5 people, clean up and recovery efforts are underway in gaithersburg and hawkes bay of north island side phone. gabrielle cause catastrophic flooding landslides, a dummies homes on monday. more than 3000 people have been forced to leave their homes. the government says the disaster is the country's worston decades. hundreds of retired people in china are protesting against major cuts to their medical benefits gathered in one and the northeastern city of dahlia. it's the latest
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unrest, and since nationwide, protests against coven 19 restrictions were held last year. provincial authorities at reducing medical expense claims by more than half a u. s. court has sentenced a man to life without parole for killing 10 people last year in a racially motivated mass shooting 19 year old peyton gander and target of african americans at a supermarket in buffalo in the state of new york. it was one of the worst in a series of mass shootings that lead to increased calls from more gun controls inside stories coming up. next, we'll be back in about 30 minutes away. ah hello, it's looking reasonably settled across the good parts of china at the moment. little more cloud, just making his way across the korean peninsula. heading over to ward said japan,
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but not too much in the way of any wet or wintry weather as we go on through the next couple of days. his weary of high pressure that is keeping it there last he settled for the time being. you see last he clear skies here, but as we go on into whether we can thickening cloud will bring outbreaks of rain over towards the korean peninsula. south chris seeing some rather wet weather. that wet weather is standing across a good part of the yellow sea. more than as japan, seeing some wintry weather, but for much of japan it will be dry and find temperatures. getting up to around 50 or 16 cells, she said not too bad at all. temperatures on the rise. meanwhile, across a good part of central is south asia over the next day or so, new delhi getting up close to 30 celsius on friday afternoon. some wet weather western disturb, just spilling out of afghanistan for northern parts of pocky, starting to see that goes on as we had way into sas that i saw, the south of this generates rise. charles of one or 2 showers just creeping the wire to watch while anchor. i think too much to speak of the wet weather will be
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across the eastern side of the country. and further north will see those temperatures new delhi, a 30 celsius. ah. but in a notorious waters, thy community what kims and sucks, will one theater director ventures to stage a play there. call me missed is the ada. to empower the women? that old man sitting right? did i and redefine their status in society? missus. m nigerian women. walk on water, witness on al jazeera days after careful earthquakes had tequila and syria. the death toll continues to rise. rescue curious of finding fuel survivors under the rubble but there is still what impact there is this disaster having.
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