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to listen to light as i'd reaches syria, we report from inside the country and how some victims from last week's earthquakes fail forgotten. the major task to rebuild thousands of homes reduced to rubble were in a remote village and took here that's been completely flattened. ah, i'm tell mccrae, this is hell just they are alive from doha. also coming up divisions and russia, the head of the wagner mercenary group, says a monstrous bureaucracy. his slowing. it's military, if it anger and chaos, and nigeria of a lack of new bank notes. the government extends a deadline to turn an old ones ah, in the united nations is warning the death toll in syria from last week's earthquakes is likely to rise even further. the relief if it has been

disrupted by the politics of the countries civil war? no, i'd, convoys have cross from damascus controlled territory into rebel held areas. the union has appealed for nearly $400000000.00 to cover the supply of i'd for the next 3 months. we'll wrestle said i went to the syrian town of the genders. this people are the residence of gender us in northwest syria. they're been hit hard by the earthquake and now they're here and trying to get the aid. they said that aid is too little and too late. however, it's still very much precious for them because any drop off the aid can help them to survive this winter. you can see that there are thousands and thousands of people that they have lost their houses or relative there did ones. now they are here waiting for aid for food, for warm clothes, for heaters,

and for the medicines. so it has been days that they were waiting for these aid. there sat there angry, and they say the feel that the international community has forgotten them. they said they was, is not hurt. many of the relatives have stayed on the robles for days and days didn't have more than more than equipments to, to pull them out. very rudimentary equipments, even sometimes with their bad hands. they needed to, they had to get their beloved ones out of the rebels here. so note was celia has been bombed heavily by the regime over the course of a decade. they already lost a lot. they had been displaced several times and now they are displaced again. so just a little ago, i was talking to a young man who has lost his family. he said that when the earthquake hit him hit

his house. he had to hold his son 6 years old son next to him for 24 hours. and that boy, his son, by while the blood was coming out of his his mouth and the father had to witness that. and just to me, there's away his and his other son who was 8 years old. he has called several times that i am dying help. and he said that it was quite a painful moment for him that he couldn't help his daughter as well, has died. and now his father, his, his, his wife, is just disabled. another man told me and his historian, he has lost his family as well. he said that when he arrived to the hospital, he was in comma. and when you wake up, we, when he woke up, he asked the doctor about his wife, the doctor said, she's dead. he has habit his daughter. the doctor says she's also dead. and he has about his son. the doctor saw told him,

he's all should that. so these are the shared stories here that are, that are really painful and the tragedy is still unfolding here and the kids many of them, they still do not know how much they have lost. many of them are now without the parents. so that's why, particularly now the international eat a significantly important because it's winter and particularly during to tide that the night time it's freezing, cold. and every single drop of the 8 can help them to survive. medical facilities already fragile after years of war in syria and now close to collapse. so hotter has more here in northwest celia medical south have little choice, but to use damaged incubators. last week's earthquakes and southern turkey here 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. not allow them. we have always faced shortages, but this is not new. but now many incubators damaged as well as other equipment that we need to treat the children. many children were affected by the powerful earthquakes where a rush up was among those who survived, but he's still in shock getting. i was asleep when it happened for laps my brother and i were clap under rubber for 3 days before they brought us to hospital. international agency 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 from us now, william during the 1st 2 days in hospital, i didn't receive any treatment. if there were no doctors 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 awaiting 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. 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 gentle only allan lebanon. we moved to italy 3 years ago when we knew the building was not structurally sound. what we had no other choice. now

engineers 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. santa footer, l. shahita away from the towns and cities. small villages and turkey had been flattened. stephanie dick had traveled to chalk, mark in the province of gassy, on tip. 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. he says, he can't believe he made it out alive. battery up up willow samba, 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. john, it made me lose my mind from one incredibly, i 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, we built 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 was 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. teacher, show them err, yashira, 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 neverending, 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 mock village in south eastern to kia and credible rescues are still being reported. though. if it's are winding down. a teenage girl has been pulled from beneath the rubble and kara, mom rush. she had been stuck there for 10 days. flavio sillier is the global network leader for emergency medical teams at the world health organization. he explains what's involved in the next stage of recovery efforts, the significant level of the structures. so what it's,

it's important today's ensuring access to the most notable and to reach populations, extending korea to capacity to the treats as i say before, all the emergency and drama trauma cases. at the same time, it is showing that they have a critic of mental m, psychosocial support. 2 doors in neat with double choice, provided that shipped us where magazines and supplies and to say to treat the care with all those. when did that incorporate access to emergency and then trauma care, as well as the surgical interventions. there's been the push ability to to move in to say they're the materials. there's been about the g actually back welcome. they will see be to move supplies and, and personnel in the attempt to scale up the provision of the services. so we are here, we talk about current ability and they need clearly obvious capability. so scale up

those, those services. so i think we are the stage now to increase the response to the next level. they reestablish the routine health services becoming basically the, the next step of the response, the showing that those they are the exacerbation for example, for non communicable diseases in any other condition. and access to those services, nato secretary general jens dolphin burgess and to care to discuss its role in providing support after the earthquakes. he's held. a media briefing with the turkish foreign minister in ankara and explained how nato members responders the day off the earthquake nato's. this also responds center issued an immediate request for assistance to all new laws 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 on seismic experts, cinema cassandra has more from ankara. he was here to express his condolences and showed the solidarity of the nato alliance with true care. the 2nd largest, the army, it within the alliance. and ah, secretary general mentioned that odd, there will be an international donors conference in march. also, we heard earlier that e u countries are also supporting a n working gone as to donors conference to help add to the victims of the earthquake that have that shook to kia. and as syria, he mentioned that a 1000 tens of thousands of shelters are being provided for the people in the earthquake areas along with tents. and, oh, the tents are being carried by

a carriers which is a very important element in delivering the 8th. this my to kia has, 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 a, even as so many carriers are not enough. still ahead on al jazeera, thousands of elderly people in china, protest against cancer to the medical benefits and outrage and controversy. why be israeli military has uprooted more than a 1000 all of trees from occupied palestinian lands. ah, with hello the weather, slightly dry across a good part of east asia at the moment that must be garry of high pressure,

gaping things settled, keeping it sunny. could see a little bit of wet weather just coming through as you make away 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 one or 2 shares into that western side of japan, maybe a little, but a winfrey weather in to northern areas of china. push on for friday into our sas day. we're looking at that cloud thickening up spilling across the east. china see the yellow sea, heavier rain coming in to the korean peninsula. chance some snow there to 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, 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 another northern parts of thailand joining up with an area

of cloud that we have just around the and am and see much of india is hot and dry temperatures in ma'am by around $38.00 degrees by saturday afternoon. awe inspiring stories from around the world. it's coming up. now remember we want that? we thought we did not want human life capture. if it's a boss to one. this feel like that presentation of what i want people to remember me by. from breaking foods from award winning filmmakers. witness on a jesse eda lou .

ah! you're watching l just there. a reminder of our top stories, the salad health services in northwest syria close to collapse. hospitals were already struggling to provide care after years of war. now the unable to cope with the scale of injuries from the earthquakes will fears it. growing that diseases may spread and syria, as people struggle to survive low temperatures. the world health organization says it's concerned about the condition of health facilities in the region. and a 17 year old girl has been pulled alive from under rubble and carmen mirage. she survived for almost 250 hours after the earthquakes hes

the head of the wagner masonry group, fighting alongside the russian military and ukraine is blaming all thirties in moscow for slow progress in the war. give guinea, you progression told reporters that russia's struggle to capture more territory is being fueled by a monstrous bureaucracy. he added, it could take months to capture the ukrainian town of buck mort, progresses from among the advances preceding, slower than what we want. why is the advance not fast enough? i think we could have taken control of back moved by the new year if we had not been hindered by monstrous military bureaucracy and obstacles created on a daily basis. a samuel romani is an associate fellow at the royal united services institute. he says it's not the 1st time priggish and has criticized rushes, military leadership, loyalty. that's very surprising that promotion with lash out at the military bureaucracy in this manner. he's been launching a shadow conflict against the defense minister survey shows you a days back to the war in syria dispatch 2016 and really escalated over the past

year with him going public is the owner of the water grip and russia military having stepped back after sent back. so i think that this is totally aligned with his public persona. over the course of the last few years, the water grip assembled an army of 50000 troops, 40000 prisoners, and 10000 mercenaries. and all they have to show for its been cited. heavy casualties is the takeover of soda and back food. obviously was that increasingly important for the russian campaign because it gave them a critical victory finance as well as access to railways and logistics. and even though pre goes in to try to frame and reframe brushes, goals as not necessarily being to capturing the city, but creating a stalemate that glad you creating forces. i result from the death of ukrainian turtle defense forces are a lead core. that kid, that narrative is not really that convincing, because russia wants victories and dynamics can promotions just not delivering them as losing heavy casualties in the process. thousands of retired people in the chinese cities of wu, han and dolly on have protested against a plan to come to medical benefits. many local governments are short of funds

partly because of covered 19 restrictions. katrina, you reports from pleasure. thousands of retired men and women stand at the gates of one's junction park. they're demonstrating against changes to their 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 normally any more thought issue. now finally, our citizens have woken up, says the man filming this video, it's the 2nd protest to take place and who hunt 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 horns 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 population. 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. 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 14 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 susan pink, and the government is under pressure to con, any public discontent over its health policies? katrina, you are the 0 aging nigerian president, smu, hama, who do. abraham curry has approved a 60 day extension for people to turn an old bank notes. it's part of a plan to replace the country's currency. neither with redesigned once the old currency was supposed to have been replaced by saturday. some things failed to hand out enough money, because a malagon is a political analyst. he says, the situation is fueling a sense of anger against the government. it's been

a terrible experience in the country. you know, most people really want to get the money from the bank facing terrible situation. but you can see what we've been complaining about, you know, we, we don't obviously, we're buy resorted to destroy bank because the feels that the government is not helping them to get their own money. and you know, the cost trends and the situation the so, but to the extent of people trying to see what they can do because they didn't know what to do to get to the bank to start bonded banks and doing all kinds of negativity. all because i imagine the country we're by, we are free with money. we spend money to where we want. then all the sudden we have been informed that because we want to redesign our currencies,

that we will be able to access to our money and more people comply. they take the money to the bank, but they can't get the new currency. so it's a, it's a weight r g. a good idea is rarely salters have removed more than 1000 olive trees planted by settlers on occupied palestinian land following a high court order, a harder report from the occupied west bank. it's caused a lot of controversy. freshly dug up soil and more than a 1000 olive trees are removed by the israeli forces here on occupied palestinian lands in the west bank under israeli high court ruling. because all of the olive trees that were planted here were planted by israeli settlers illegally. now this olive grove here has caused absolute outrage, the removal of these trees amongst the right wing politicians within the israeli

coalition government. but this situation here highlights simmering tensions within the government that have been bubbling underneath the surface for the last few weeks. you have the national security minister, it's something i've been given who is accused the defense minister of bringing in border police here to remove these trees. something he says comes on the have your restriction. so the conversation here now is about who controls what, especially when it comes to occupied west. thank you also have the finance minister smart church that has also told the finance minister he can quit his job because it's up to him to decide what happened with in the west bank in terms of the expansion of illegal settlements. we're seeing a coalition government here that is rapidly fast tracking measures to make these illegal settlements bigger and as fast as they possibly can. all of this just days before judicial reform plans are being voted on on monday reforms that many israeli

said is a threat to democracy. it would potentially give the government the upper hand over the supreme court. now that vote is going to happen on monday and we're likely to see thousands more israelis protesting against it. the search to find her successor for scotlands 1st minister nicholas sturgeon has begun. surgeon resigned on wednesday after more than 8 years and the job. the scottish national party is meeting to discuss the rules for the leadership race. the shock resignation has also prompted calls for the party to postpone a conference aimed at reviving its push for independence. of we're challenge is in scotlands capital with more i think the s n p at the moment is at a crossroads with to tricky and links decisions that it has to make. the 1st of course, is who is going to replace nicholas stature at a dominance politician, someone who has left will leave very big shoes to fill. the seconds is what's the

country's, what's the party's strategy going to be? what the f n p strategy for moving toward a goal of independence. now there is going to be a meeting of the executive of the s and p later on tonight to make sure of all the rules for choosing sturgeon successor. but they're all growing kohl's within the party to postpone that special conference that was supposed to be held later in march. to choose that strategy for independence. the problem for the s and p basically is that the u. k. supreme court in november shut the door on a 2nd referendum without the explicit go ahead of the u. k. governments that now that 1st referendum in 2014, which the independence movement last was supposed to be a once in a lifetime event inside the u. k government isn't very minded to draw, it's a 2nd one. so students response that was to say look ok, what we're going to do is we're going to make the next general election,

a kind of de facto independence referendum. the problem big of that was not very popular with much of a party who thought it was a bit too divisive and wouldn't go down well with the electorate. so, defeating at the moment, among many of the senior members of the s n p is to lead a new leader, choose the new strategy for independence going forward. events are being held this week in north korea to mark the birth date of former leader kim jong il, his death in 2012 lead to kim jong and taking over. now, the recent appearance of kim's daughter has field speculation about a possible future succession from mcbride reports from song kim du a was 1st introduced to the world accompanying her father, kim jong, and a miss lawrence last november. but it was this appearance as a military parade in pyongyang last week that has further fuel speculations about her being groomed as

a future leader. kim's beloved daughter says the commentator who later describes her as the respected daughter, unusual perhaps in such a patriarchal society, do a is the 2nd female to be linked to power. kim junglin sister, jo john came to prominence during the summer diplomacy of recent years. tift as a possible successor in the event of her brother's demise. by introducing his daughter now and list say came could be trying to avoid his own experience of having power thrust upon him. when the health of his father, kim jung, il suddenly declined, can join you after 2008 gives young and had to learn how to lead state affairs very quickly and went through a difficult period building his power base. this week, the birth date of kim jung il is being marked just one of many anniversaries in a national calendar,

dominated by the one came family such as her read the 3 hierarchy. now 3 generations old and seemingly preparing for a 4th is unheard of in the communist world. but it came into being more by chance than by design. north korea's founder chemo soon came to power after world war 2, as one of a group of leaders that he has to sweep away to ultimately establish the kim family, dentistry, on carbon. unlike other social, the systems after removing his opponent, there was no 1st to stop this heritage re succession. the physical likeness of the current leader to the young, kim il sung, is said to have cemented the grandson's whole on power. just as the similarity with his daughter now seemingly helps confirm her position as heir apparent but but bride al jazeera sole ah.