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syria we report from inside the country on was some victims from last week's earthquakes, feel ferguson and the major task to rebuild thousands of homes reduced to rubble with a remote village. and to kiya that's been completely flattened. ah, until mccrae, this is al jazeera, alive from doha, also coming up divisions in russia. the head of the wagner missed and re groups is a monstrous bureaucracy. is slowing its military fs, anger and chaos and nigeria of a lack of new bank notes. the government extends a deadline to turn an old ones ah, to the united nations this morning. the death tolan syria from last week's earthquakes is likely to rise even further. the release,
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if it has been disrupted by the politics of the country's civil war, no aid convoys have crossed from damascus controlled territory into rebel held areas. only some has come through the ball with to clear. the un has appealed for nearly $400000000.00 to cover the supply of aid for the next 3 months. maricel sorta went to the syrian town of genders. this people are the residence of generous in northwest syria. they have 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
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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 field at the international community has forgotten them. they said they was, is not hurt. many of the relatives have stayed on the robles for these 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 were, syria 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
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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 died while the blood was coming out of his his mouth and the father had to witness that and just 2 meters 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 dad. and he asked about his son,
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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, is significantly important because it's winter and particularly drink tied to the night time. it's freezing, cold, and every single drop of the 8 can help them to survive. who medical facilities already fragile. after years of war in syria and now close to collapse. so holler has more. here in northwest celia medical south have little choice but to use damaged incubators. last week's earthquakes and southern 3rd year hit this region 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. not 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's still in shock. i was asleep when it happened for lapse. my brother and i will 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 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 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 can i look our situation? it is cold, our children no longer go to school. we lost our home. there are no toilets 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. janelle only island libyan we moved to italy 3 years ago when we knew the building was not structurally
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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, l shahita, away from the towns and cities, small villages and turkey. i have been flattened. stephanie deca traveled to chalk mark in the province of garcia's 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, burn tree up, up willows, 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 and was enough. we were terrified the earthquake threw me. it was very hard. it made me lose my mind, my mummy. incredibly. no one lost their lives here. but just as large parts of so
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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 with, with which it split the earth. yes. used to be 5 meters deep, but emergency services have filled it back and check mark this village are 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 asked either, 1st there was a terrifying sound. we felt
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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, checkmark village in south eastern to kia and credible rescues are still being reported. though efforts are winding down. a teenage girl has been pulled from beneath the rubble in the caravan marsh. she had been stuck there for 10 days, flavio so leo 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 levels of the structures. so what is it's important,
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today's, and shooting oxes to the most vulnerable and to reach populations, extending korea, the capacity to treat as you say, before, all the emergency and drama trauma cases at the same time. and it's showing that they have a critic of mental m psychosocial support. 2 doors in neat with double choice, provided that shipped as well. medicines and supplies to say, to treat macapp with all those. when did that incorporate access to emergency and then trauma care, as well as the surgical interventions. there's been the possibility to to move to say the, the materials. there's been our d g actually back welcome. they will be to move supplies and, and personnel in the, in the new attempt to scale up the provision of the services. so we are here,
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we talk about element of get ability going ability. and they need clearly off the scale ability. so scale up those, those services. so i think we are the stage now to increase the response to the next level. they reestablish their routine health services becoming basically the next step of the response, the showing that those they are the exhausted basically, for example, for non communicable diseases in any other condition and access to those services. nato secretary general jen stilton burgess and to care to discuss its role and providing support after the earthquakes. he's held a media briefing with the turkish foreign minister and cur, and explained how nato members responded the day off the earthquake. nate, those this also response center issued an immediate request for assistance to all nathan laws and partners. since then, thousands of emergency response personnel have been deployed to tokyo to support
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the reef efforts, including with search and rescue teams, firefighters, medical personnel, and seismic experts, ah, the head of the wagner mercenary group fighting alongside the russian military in ukraine, is blaming authorities in moscow the slow progress and the war. give guinea priggish and told reporters that russia struggled to capture more territory as being fueled by monstrous bureaucracy. he added, it could take months to capture the ukrainian town of buck mote, pretty close from among the confusion. the advance is proceeding slower than what we want. why is the advance not fast enough? i think we could have taken control of back moot by the new year if we had not been hindered by monstrous military bureaucracy and obstacles created on a daily basis. a samuel of romani as an associate fellow at the royal united
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services institute. he says it's not the 1st time priggish and has criticized rushes, military leadership. while he was very surprising that promotion would lash out at the military bureaucracy in this manner. he's been launching a shadow conflict against the defense minister survey shows you and dates 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 rushes 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 kind of 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. and on the ask, as well as access to railways and logistics, and even though pre goshen is try to frame and reframe brushes, goals as not necessarily being to capturing the city, but creating
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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. the still ahead on al jazeera, it won't cause poet, pablo never, it is death. soon after the coo and chilly nearly 50 years ago, and a special investigation opens up more questions. and we'll take a look at the swedish high school where the students are targeting olympic 6 ah, rushes war, immune crane has dominated, well, he's for the past 12 months. devastating for those in the line of fire or directly impact, and it has strength and global alliances and deepened divisions with
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ah, he watching l. just a reminder about top stories, the salad health services in northwest syria close to collapse. hospitals were already struggling to provide care after years of war. delva, unable to cope with the scale of injuries from the earthquakes, affairs a growing that diseases, my spirit 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 not carroll mom mirage. she survived for almost 250 hours after the earthquakes. his protest is in lebanon, have attacked banks as the local currency hit a record low,
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a mob of about 50 people, sit fires, and brand sect facilities, and by root, pulsing road closures across the city. the lebanese pound is trading at about $80000.00 to the dollar. it boils i had $60000.00 at the start of the month. and jerry, as president, 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. the nada. with redesigned ones. the old currency was supposed to have been replaced by saturday, but some banks failed to hand out enough money triggering widespread protests. an address has more from my to grew in nigeria. president obama bahati speak interpreted widely, a different attempt to start a pool room writers. over the past few days. we've seen angry protest just on the speech of nigeria angry about the shortage of new night. i noticed like relation as well as the refusal of some commercial bank to swap the old car is when you watch,
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at least in social media, we've seen one bank. that's why i buy angry customers who say the officials in the bank of refuse to open up their bank, offer services to them to exchange their current says, now over the last few months when this currency swap thing came into effect. we've seen a lot of disruption to the economy. the economy is dependent on the informal sector, 65 percent of the economy is run by this particular sector. and this is a country wide 40 percent of the population. if bank in fact now get us one of the top 5, i'm bank campus 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 the legal tender they 501000 not . no, we don't accept at, at the central bank offices across the country. i even have that any customer
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taking huge amount of money to that buy, to swap for the new car. it would have to explain how he got the money and the people in new zealand grappling with the aftermath of a devastating cycle. and that killed 5 people clean up in recovery if it's underway and has been. and hawkes bay on the north island cycle. and gabriel cause catastrophic flooding land slides and damaged homes. on monday, more than 3000 people were displaced. the government says to dissolve the countries worst in decades. events are being held this week in north korea to mark the birth date of former leader kim jong il. his death in 2012 leads to kim jong and taking over well now the recent parents of kim's daughter has fueled speculation about a possible future succession. while mcbride reports from sol, kim du, a was 1st introduced to the world accompanying her father, kim jung, and as a miss lawrence last november. but it was this appearance that
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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 females to be linked to power. kim junglin sister, jo john came to prominence during the summit, diplomacy of recent years taped 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, give joan and had to learn how to lead state affairs very quickly and went through a difficult period building his power base. this week,
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the birthdate of kim jong il is being marked just one of many anniversaries in a national calendar dominated by the one kim 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 founder 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. her detroit succession, the physical likeness of the current leader, to the young, kim il sung, is said to have cemented the grandson's home on power. just as the similarity with his daughter now seemingly helps confirm her position as heir apparent mcbride al
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jazeera. so a u. s. court has sentenced a man to life without parole for killing 10 people last year in a racially motivated mess, shooting 19 year old peyton, grindin targeted african americans at a supermarket and buffalo in the state of new york. it was one of the worst in a series of mass shootings that lead to increased calls for more gun controls. forensic experts have concluded the chilean poet and nobel laureate pablo nevada, died of poisoning nearly 50 years ago. a family member says high levels of toxin had been administered to him. the router was officially declared to have died from prostate cancer. teresa by reports he was t less most renowned offer. and over laurie, it was love poems. i know no round 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. but his nephew,
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drawing for the days he said to prove the official stories false. he says his uncle was killed for political reasons. could i help me? this said the warm, 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. when presidents, hallowed as emily was forced out of office by right wing members of the military, lead by dictate or album, filipino j. the presidential palace was bombarded by 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. right? latavia, a mythical public, rudo was ready to go an exile after the crew. the dictatorship had already killed
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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 chilion judge ordered the exhumation of nato, that remains following claims by 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 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
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a mystery that has haunted she left for decades. billus i will and jessia the world championships and by a thorn, a combination of cross country skiing and rifle marksmanship are taking place in germany, but the sport has its roots. in scandinavia, the north of sweden even has high schools dedicated to buy a phone where students are able to combine their studies with dreams of world and olympic, glory, pull, race reports. these youngsters in the north of sweden being taught to be the winter sports of the future. this is just an average morning lesson at their high school in austin, one of many in sweden, the time to give it students by academic and athletic success. in this case in the sport by offline, it's very important because you can train on the morning and then you can focus on school on the afternoon flyer in between to be in the olympic games and the word temperature. i am in the 3 the championships. i have heard become
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a battalion our line starting to climb to me, but they are a long way to go. the students have the swedish national team for company as they train their cross country skiing and rifle shooting before returning to classes in spanish or law at young clumsy nauseum. high school west where they can also get their ski shopping by their fellow students next day. expect to sharpening their skills in one of the most uniquely demanding winter sports. now one of the challenges with white one is after a long bursting spring on skis, the athlete then needs to slow down their pulse. and i breath enough to make 5 very accurate shots with a rifle. otherwise, all the effort is for nothing. how did i day of the other end of the powerful and skill spectrum sweden is doing very well. thanks to olympic champions, sebastian, some your son of the earth, better sisters,
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elvira and hannah, who won gold at the world championships in germany on wednesday. it means by off on clubs like tool us, the biggest in sweden. now have a waiting list for youngsters wanting to join the oh, the really he'll be. oh it, it's very strenuous. that's why i love it and not have conditioning. my f one has its roots in norwegian mobile infantry regiments, later adopted by finland during the winter war against russia some 84 years ago. those military use is all very much in the past here. but learning from tradition means that the medals keep on coming back to scandinavia, horace out his era as to send sweden. well, that's all from may till mccrae for now. the news continues here on al jazeera, after inside story, which is coming up next. ah ah
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hello, the weather's looking a little cool and breezy across the middle east at the moment. certainly across the arabian peninsula, down toward sir, the gulf temperatures here and dough hard around 23 celsius, a little bit of a shemelle to setting in here. that it doesn't sound suddenly somebody to watch out for chance or some wet weather, just on the other side of the waters there into a round pushing up towards some stubby weather, up toward sir good parts of afghanistan. we've had some snow problems recently in turkmenistan that is set to continue brightest guys to come back in behind noticed temperatures here in doha, struggling to get to 20 celsius. so it will been a little fresher, over the next few days name while temperature is on the rise. acrostic here, northern parts of syria, just around the year quake. so lossy, clear skies. good deal of sunshine overnight. frost, not quite as intense as we go on through the coming days. i am pleased to say b. c had temperatures trying to push up to was double figures here. so that son of
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improvement in the weather dry across a good part of northern africa. but i, which was a north west, we have got some rather heavy rain spilling and across morocco snow over the atlas mount since then, the wet weather will say, pushing its way into that western side of algeria. south of that, hamilton lifting dust and sand. ah, african stories from african perspective? short documentaries, from african filmmaking. from ivory coast, just she last year from chauffeur group one the bus with was would you use you less if i'm still a new thing found and south africa? tina i would change and show me that i'm actually tracking and fire with africa direct out.
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