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mason project mm. they're pretty emblematic of the pedagogy and if they're plentiful and they're calm like this one is then you know that the system is coming back and that they feel no stress. and that's why you know, i far re wilding patagonia on al jazeera with ah, al jazeera with
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a struggle to help the 2nd engine medical facilities in know for syria, fits be close to collapse after last week. so ah mccloud, this is out there, alive from the also coming up, the major tossed to rebuild thousands of homes reduced to rubble. we report from a remote village and tuck it this be completely flat. we look at the ground in this temperature. 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. also, i had thousands of elderly people in china protest against cups to that medical, but ah, mm. mm. so in turkey and syria rescue efforts are winding
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up after last week's devastating earthquakes. but incredible rescues are still being reported. a teenage girl is being pulled from beneath rubble and carmen rush . she had been trapped for 10 days. maybe 42000 people have been killed mostly in turkey. more than 50000 buildings have been destroyed or heavily damaged. a u. s. financial firm estimates damages at $25000000000.00. we have a team in correspondence right across the region, covering the disaster. but we start with this reports with from santa holder on the situation in syria. here in northwest celia medical south have little choice, but to use damaged incubators. last week's earthquakes, and southern turkey or hit this region hard medical facilities. and this opposition controlled enclave were already weak. do 2 years of war and the lack of funds there now close to collapse. now allow them we have always face short addition, but this is not new. but now many incubate is damaged,
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as well as other equipment that we need to treat the children. many children were effected by the powerful earthquakes where russia was among those who survived, but he still in shock. i was asleep when it happened, but who laughed my brother and i were clapped under the rubber 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 northwest where it says people have been through hell so much now, william during the 1st 2 days in hospital, i didn't receive any treatment. if there were no doctors available volunteers or
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students were trying to help us aid has long been politicized. in a country divided by front lines, the international community is promising a 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 realities only getting worse. shelter and food are needed on an unprecedented scale. when can i look at our situation? it is cold, our children no longer go to school. we lost our home, there are no toys here. the u. n. is appealing for emergency funding and has long been working with a shortage of funds in what many describe a forgotten conflict. the earthquakes destroyed already crumbling infrastructure. you know, only when we moved to italy, 3 years ago, we knew the building was not structurally sound, but we had no choice. now engineers told us that we can return to our home and now we are homeless. the challenge now is to care for the living who already endured 12
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years of war. then a harder l. shakita of housing of syrian refugees were expected to leave turkey and head home temporarily. and many trying to find missing family members as well. soda has more from the border between turkey and syria. the took your city and board. there is $800.00 border crossing and not far away from here, just taking them away at the town of gender as inside syria, it is one of the worst fear. the town in 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 on the of 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
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quite late. however, through the last couple of days they have, they have stepped up the 4th to get the a to deliver the a to this much need of places. i have talked to some of the syrians, they're 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 the heaters and, and the water as well. these are the essentials in this much needed places. so i have talked to one of the ceiling rescuers here. he said that particularly during the 1st 3 days, they were just working with the rudimentary accoutrements. and they didn't have any digger what ask away to what a heavy lift and machinery they were almost working with, their bare hands. and they said if they had more than the treatments, they probably will be able able to save powers and thousands of the that the lives here. however, that is the situation in, in, in syria. so these areas northwest of syria have had been,
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had been born heavily borne 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 cracked. 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 taken that also from them. so disaster of their disaster for syrian and why we were the crew of the campbell crossing. the border here have seen hundreds of the city and families that are trying to pass the border to go inside syria and to find the relative or to to, to join their funerals. the syrians, how me tricky home for them. so over the last decade and now they had been hit by the heard creek and inside syria they have houses of the relatives. they have lost humbles of their beloved ones. now they are trying to pass the border and to join
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their funerals or to meet up. those who survived are let's get the latest out of anti kn. natasha name is there and natasha more than a week on and people are still struggling with the shock of this disaster on tapia here in the province, if a die has been very badly hit and there is devastation across the province, 14000 people have died. so it gives you an understanding of what people are coping with. we are here in a tense city, a kind of a makeshift 10 city that has sprung up in this city. park. families who have been displaced are now sort of settling in, if you can call it that. and mental health is a big issue. the turkish red crescent says that in the coming weeks, months and perhaps years, there will be an enormous need across the south of turkey for mental health
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services. remember that more than 13000000 people have been affected by this earthquake. their trauma is myriad loss of loved ones. perhaps they were injured loss of homes and loss of livelihoods. we followed to clinical psychologists around today who are talking with earthquake survivors. they're part of a team of 12 clinical psychologists who've been brought in from other areas across the country to try to help people grappling with stress anxiety. we heard one man say that i am looking for any opportunity. ready to be hopeful, but i am not, i see a future with no hope. and there is a lot of hopelessness among people and also a lot of asking, what is the government going to do to help me? but these critical psychologists are here to help with 1st, immediate needs, try to restore a sense of safety. people still feel very triggered. if
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a chair shakes up, they are, children are having nightmares. they're afraid actually to go inside even though it might be warmer because they're worried that the house is going to shake again and elderly people in particular. many of them don't have any loved ones left. they have chronic conditions that haven't been treated. so these clinical psychologist are offering often just listening, putting a pad on the back hugs, playing games with children. if you don't work with these children for the future, they will be facing me to personality disorders. and also because they can be dissociated, they can be any thing because if they are not listening, if they are not understood or the future, i'm indebted doing really huge problem. there is a concern about people developing t t s d in the coming months. and although they're not going to tell you this,
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but people who are on the ground offering mental health support are also facing very challenging circumstances, spending days in a car, not showering, so they to will feel a kind of trauma. all of this part of what i would call a collective trauma facing southern turkey as a result of this earthquake. natasha, thanks for that. and natasha named matthew went away from the towns and cities. small villages and turkey had been flattened. stephanie deca traveled to charge back in the province of gushing out the destruction to the small village of chuck mac 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. he says he can't believe he made it out alive, burn tree up at willow simba 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 threw me. it was very hard. it made me lose my
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mind amore. me 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, further up the mountain, even the dead have been disturbed. the grave shifted as the earth cracked. if you look at the ground in the 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 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 and checkmark, this village tells us they thought it was the last day of the world. kedusha mar them earlier shown that i never fell an earthquake like this before. nobody else. i
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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, and south eastern to kia nato secretary general johnston burgers in turkey to discuss its role in providing support after the earthquakes. he seldom media briefing with the turkish foreign minister method castillo in ankara. and explained how nato members responded that they offered a earthquake. nato's des source to response center,
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issued an immediate request for assistance to all naval allies and partners. since then, thousands of emergency response personnel has been deployed to, to kia, to support the reef efforts, including with search and rescue teams, firefighters, medical personnel, and seismic experts and sim costello with an anchor with more on stilton bugs visit . he was here to express his condolences and so 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, they will be an international donors 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 add to the victims of the earthquake that have that
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shook to kia. and as syria, he mentioned that a 1000 tens of thousands of shelters are being provided for other people in the earthquake areas along with tense and oh, the tense are being carried by ale carriers, which is a very important element in delivering the 8th, despite to kia 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. as to the head here now, sir, i'm to entail. so nigeria over lack of new bunkers, the government extends a deadline to turn in old ones. plus i'm rob rentals at the world agriculture expo into larry, california. we'll show you how new technologies are revolutionizing farming, to help feed a hungry plan. ah,
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ah. hello the weather slasher dry across a good part of east asia at the moment. that nice big area of high pressure, gaping things settle keeping it sunny. could see a little bit of wet weather just coming through as we make our way through the next couple of days is a flabby area of high pressure, so it will steadily lose its influences. we make our way through the weekend, wanted to shout into that western side of japan, maybe a little bit of winfrey weather into northern areas of china. push on for friday into our sas day. we're looking at that cloud thickening, up spilling across the china sea. the yellow sea, heavier rain coming into the korean peninsula, chance some snow that the northern parts of north korea japan are getting up to 15 . 16 celsius. not too bad at all. not too bad across a good part of china, but we could see a little bit of snow just coming into basing on saturday in the form of shower snow,
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rain showers, making their way towards the philippines over the next few days. this is certainly an area to watch and will push in as we go on through the we can good scattering a showers across much of southeast asia, little bit of work, whether they're to into vietnam, maybe some shouting to nothing. northern parts of thailand joining up with an area of cloud that we have just around the end of and see much of india is hot and dry temperatures. and ma'am, by around 38 degrees by south the afternoon. ah oh
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lou ah, let me get you. what g out 0 are my default top stories and health services in northwest syria close to collapse. hospitals work already struggling to provide care of 2 years of war. and now they're unable to cope the scale of interest from the fairs. growing that diseases may spread in syria, as people struggle to survive low temperatures, the world health organization says is concerned about the condition of health facilities in the region. a 17 year old girl is being pulled alive from under the
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rubble that huh. she survived for almost from $1.00 to $10.00 days after the earthquakes. thousands of retired people in the chinese cities who had and dahlia and protested against the plan to cut their medical benefits. many local governments of shorter funds, partly because of coven 19 restrictions. trinity reports now from beijing, thousands of retired men and women stand at the gates of futons junction park dead demons against changes to that provinces. health insurance policy, facing off with police, one man chanted down, but the reactionary government, others sang a communist protest. so the international starting this month, people here will receive about $25.00 less in medical benefits each month. that's a significant blow to those already struggling to get by missouri morrison. now finally, our citizens have workin up, says the man filming this video. it's the 2nd part has to take place and we'll
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haunt this week under a new pilot program, the government is diverting funds from personal accounts to subsidize a wide range of hospital treatments. the central chinese city was the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak. in december 2019 in 2020. the 11000000 people living here were confined to their homes and debating strict 0 corporate policy. almost 3 years of mass testing and quarantine has depleted local government budgets. china is also under pressure to show up the health care system for it's rapidly aging population. we have a shrinking population active working elation that is trying to support this massive over 65 population. and local governments are heavily in debt. they have been on cobra. it is one part of it, but there are many other parts to it too. and so local government,
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so scrambling to try to understand how to sustainably move forward. oh, this rash oh, of public defiance comes months after historic nationwide purchase that preceded bathing ending it's 0 curve. it measures internet sensors have deleted videos like these from chinese social media. and state media has called on people to be patient while they adapt to the new policy. these photos are being held weeks. the photon is top officials gather for the most important political music of the year, the national people's congress. a new leadership team will be unveiled under president, sit in ping, and the government is under pressure to con, any public discontent over its health policies? katrina, you are the 0. beijing, on the zealand and indonesian officials are negotiating with rebels for the release of pilots taken hostage and introduce his popular province services fighters say he will not be freed until indonesia acknowledges the regions independence,
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2 o'clock separate us 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 that ins 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 5 is the armed wing at the free, powerful movement and avowed to fight into their territory against freedom from
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indonesia, violence in this region around the secessionist. the independence movement has been longstanding, but we have said, in the last 18 months, locals anticipating further violence, and now being evacuated from the area, mittens was abducted sarah clark. i'll vizier or people in new zealand are grappling with the aftermath of a devastating cycling that killed 5 people. clean up and recovery efforts are underway. and guess ball and hot bay on north island cycling, gabrielle cause catastrophic flooding, landslides and damage homes. on monday, more than $3000.00 people would displace the government, says the disaster is the country's worst. in decades, nigeria is president muhammad, who bihari has approved a 60 day extension for people to turn in old bank notes. it's part of a plan to replace the country's currency. the narrow with it redesigned once. the old currency was supposed to be replaced by saturday,
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but some banks fail to hand out enough money triggering widespread protests. i would address more now from my degree in nigeria. president obama. how do you speak into printed 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 it's like relation as well as using 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, 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
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a country wide 40 percent of the population and bank in fact now get us one of the top 5. i'm bank tempers 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 or the new currency. when have to explain how we got the money in the probably at least 73 people trying to raise your permitting and presumed dead following a ship rec off the libyan coast. on tuesday, the us migration agency says the boat was carrying 80 people when it left out. earlier that day, 7 survivors would take him to hospital in christ condition. forensic experts have concluded the june per to nobel laureate pablo rudolph died of poisoning nearly 50
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years ago. family member says high levels of talks in had been administered to him . no router was officially declared to have died from prostate cancer, or isabel explains. or he was jealous, most renowned offer. and over laurie, it was love poems are known around the world. the official story says bologna to will, that died on september 23rd of 1973 of prostate cancer in a hospital in san diego. when his nephew, gone for a days, he said to prove the official stories falls. he says his uncle was killed for political reasons. could i help me? this is see at the all by little the in 2017, a panel of experts concluded that he did not die of cancer. but they found large quantities of clostridium botulinum, which is a lethal bacteria. lin, that is what his remains had when his body was exude. in september, 11th 1973 left wing precedence,
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aloida generally was forced out of office by right wing members of the military, lead by dictator. over w j. the presidential palace was bombarding my fighter jets and tanks, as in the who had been in office for almost 3 years, killed himself made order was a member of the communist party and for many his life was at risk, etc. weighed latrevia and making public rudo was ready to go. an exile after the crew, the dictatorship had already killed president salvador, a lender singer, victor harder, and the only person who could unify the opposition and the left was nevada. he had been a presidential candidate, a senator and ambassador, and the winner of the nobel prize. they couldn't leave him alive. 10 years ago at chilean judge ordered the exclamation of nearly with as remains following cleans way. the driver who set the point was injected with poison in the hospital where he was being treated samples were sent to forensic laboratories around the world. and
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in 2015, the chilean government acknowledged that a 3rd party could have been involved in his death. now the report carried out by a panel of experts has been presented to chiles, judiciary, to continue with the investigation on whether natal that was killed by chilion state agents and was also a victim of a dictatorship that killed thousands of people in the country. the result could finally help solve a mystery that has haunted sheila for decades various i will, and jessia the pandemic and russia's invasion of ukraine has effected global food supplies. farmers are being forced to adapt as that expected to face even more in the future. rob rentals reports now from the world agricultural expo in california . the expo features giant tractors and combine harvesters and multi $1000000000.00 corporations that manufacture all sorts of farming equipment. not to
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mention a full line of brush shredders. new technologies are changing how farming is done, where are really at the costs. well, the revolution in agricultural technology and that's has a lot of implications for food and food production. this tractor is fully electric, carries multiple cameras and sensors and gathers data. a fleet of them can be operated autonomously without drivers, by a single farmer acting as a controller. farmers are essentially figuring out how to feed the was growing population at a time and they have less resources. so we need to use less of these resources, but yet still produce more food than our before. so that is the challenge we all have, and that's where technology has a role to play. and technology beast formerly believe can bridge that gap. the challenge to global agriculture is immense. right now there are 8000000000 people
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on earth, 345000000 of whom are considered acutely food insecure. by mid century, the population will grow to about 10000000000. and global warming is threatening crop yields a nasa study projects. world mays production will drop nearly a quarter by 2100 due to global heating the u. s. world food organization estimates that by 2050 the world will have to increase its food production by 70 percent in order to feed an ever growing population. one way to close the gap is to farm and consume with less waste. right? now if we were to take away food waste and food losses, we would ride away increase or foot production by about 30 percent. increased production, better technology, less waste, a merger of technology and farming to feed a hungry planet. rob reynolds al jazeera.

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