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orders what keeps you awake at night? many a reason that could effect any human. i thought master of chaos on all jazeera, we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter what we've been using kind of for that matter to you, it's the largest war in europe since world war 2 is president putin 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, blonde, or the west neglected. ukraine receives a room on a just the uta ah,
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tens of thousands homeless and millions in desperate need. the un appeals for a $1000000000.00 for victims of the of quakes in tacky. ah, hello, i'm mary. i'm demising in london. you're watching al jazeera, also coming up this our agenda fonda all sonia for quite kate syria, especially in the north west where the disaster has been compounded by he is a whole, they have been displaced several times. and now they're displeased again the head of russia state back wagner, group claims most goes military bureaucracy for slow gains in the east of ukraine. and we have a special port from nigeria where the bushed introduction of new bank notes could disrupt elections later this month. aah!
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lo and welcome to the program. well, the u. n. has appealed for a 1000000000 dollar is to cover immediate humanitarian needs and takia following last week's earthquake. that's on top of the $400000000.00 appeal for quake affected regions in syria. that the relief effort has been delayed by a lasting legacy of civil war opposition held areas in serious north west of only seen a trickle of a delivered so far and medical facilities are on the brink of collapse. in the turkish province of cam on marsh. a teenage girl was pulled alive from the rubble 10 days after the initial quake, but such rescues of becoming increasingly ran now. thousands of survivors living in makeshift camps with limited basic facilities raising fears of disease. more than 42000 people are now known to have died, but authorities have not yet announced the number of people still missing. so we have a team of correspondence covering the story. stephanie decker is in the turkish province
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of ghazi and up as i beg, is in adam. and we begin though with this report from are so soda in gender as in syria, this people are the residence of gender. as in northwest syria. they're been heath hart 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
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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 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 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 there 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
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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 to me, there's a way 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. yes. how about his daughter? the doctor says she's also dead. and he asked 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
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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 aid is significantly important because it's winter and particularly durance tied to the night time. it's freezing, cold, and every single drop of the 8 can help them to survive. while aid is starting to reach survivors in serious rabble held areas, there's been criticism about how long it's taken to negotiate the opening of border crossings. the world health organization says that it's particularly concerned about people in the north west of the country, the medical facilities. they're already fragile from years of war and close to collapse. st. honda reports on this now. here in northwest syria, medical staff have little choice but to use damaged incubators. last week's
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earthquakes and southern turkey, hr hit. the sweet and heart medical facilities in this opposition controlled enclave were already weak. do 2 years of war and the lack of funds. there are now close to collapse. now that it won't be allow them that we have always face shortages, but this is not new. but now many incubators are damage, as well as other equipment that we need to treat the children welding. many children were affected by the powerful earthquakes. well, rush up was among those who survived, but he's still in shock in yeah, i was asleep when it happened. roof collapsed, my brother and i were club under lumber for 3 days before they brought us to hospital. international agencies say they are facing a catastrophic situation in the north, where a 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
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significant there, but services are available and people are able to access them. unlike in the north west where it says people have been through hell. some was there, william during the 1st 2 days in hospital, i didn't receive any treatment. 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 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. it has long been working with a shortage of funds and with many describe a forgotten conflict. the earthquakes destroyed already crumbling infrastructure.
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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 years of war, santa hood, or l shakita. and while search cruise continue to dig through the ruins, we are still hearing stories of survival which are miraculous at this stage. over a week after the earthquake, as you mentioned, it got him on marsh. a 17 year old girl was pulled alive from under the debris. she'd been trapped there for 10 days, while several people have been found alive on wednesday and took here. the number of rescues has been really decreasing significantly. this is something that is becoming very rare at this point. so let's now speak to marina barrack church. she joins us live from the southern turkish city of a donna tell us about the challenges authorities are facing therein and making sure
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people have the life assistance and supplies that they need here. and i don't know, we have 1500 people, mostly from medinah and mostly from collapse buildings or damage to buildings. but they are very much afraid to go back to sleep in their apartments even though some said that they could. but they are afraid or because of the aftershocks challenges are cold and the sanitation for example, div plants are on the cold concrete. they have some a mattresses that they got from a fired bird. they say nights are very cold during days or weather is getting better, so it's a little bit easier during days. birds a nice are very difficult. they say i sprang her a few hours today. oh,
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with these people i talked to some women and they say that sanitary issue is the biggest issue. they are very much afraid of illness. they said that they have only 2 functional toilets for all of them, and that they are very dirty. they are a constant, the constantly disinfect their hands and they've heard about a viral infection, stomach infection, that is o cruising good from the cities or from the seat is closer to the eye for center. for example, one of our colleagues from belgrade had this a virus and ended up in this dinah hospital for 2 days. so this a sanitary problem is definitely one of the most, a biggest challenges for authorities here. and of course, is to make sure that these people here is the. com and the essay is safe and healthy because they are not going to be here for just the for a few weeks, sir, with both the sometime more. i like you very much marina,
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out of church there in the southern tucker city of a donna all away from that. the towns in the cities there at small rural parts of tac here that have been completely flattened. or as a result of these are of quite stephanie deca traveled to one village called chuck mark. this is in the province of ghazi, and to have where people are determined to rebuild their homes as soon as they can . their 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. 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 hot. john, it made me lose my mind from one incredibly,
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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 was 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 tells us they thought it was the last day of the world. kedusha mother earlier shown that i never felt an earthquake like this before. nobody else. i asked either 1st there
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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, and south eastern tit, kia with a hill and i to washington when president cab ride, when speaking about there's funds to lee since the aerial objects impacted in us as various scientific research. i want to be clear, we don't have any evidence that there has been a sudden increase in number of objects in the sky. we're now just seeing more of them. partially because the steps we've taken to increase our radars and narrow our
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radars. and we have to keep adapting our approach to a delay to dealing with these challenges. that's why i've directed my team to come back to me was sharper rules for how we will deal with these unidentified objects moving forward. distinguishing distinguish between those that are likely to pose safety, security risk that necessitate action, and those that do not. but make no mistake. if any object presents a threat to the safety security, the american people, i will take it down. i'll be sharing with congress these classified policy parameters when they are completed and the remain classified. so we don't give our road map to our enemies to try to evade our defenses. going forward. these parameters will guide what actions will take while responding to unmanned and unidentified aerial objects. we're gonna keep adapting them as the challenges evolve if it evolves. in addition, we dr. director, my master's crew advisor, lead
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a government wide effort to make sure we're positioned to deal safely and effectively with the objects in our air space. first, we will establish a better inventory of on man airborne objects in space above the united states air space and make sure that inventory is accessible and up to date. second, will implement further measures to improve our capacity to detect on man objective objects in our airspace. 3rd, will update the rules and regulations for launching and maintaining unmanned objects in the skies above the united states of america. and 4th. now my secretary state will lead an effort to help us stablish our global global common global norms in this largely unregulated space. these steps will lead to safer and more secure skies for our air travelers our military, our scientists, and for people on the ground as well. that's my job. as president,
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commander in chief, as the events of the previous days have shown, always act to protect the interest of the american people and security, the american people. since i came to office, we've developed the ability to identify track and study high altitude surveillance balloons connected with chinese military. when one of the sy, altitude surveillance balloons entered our space over the continental united states earlier in the month, i gave the order to shoot it down. as soon as it would be safe to do so. the military advise began shooting down over land because of the sure size of it was the size of muddle school buses and opposed the risk to people on the ground. if it were shot down where people lived instead retracted closely. we analyzes capabilities and we learn more about how it operates because we knew it's past, we're able to protect sensitive sites against collection. we read it and tell them safely over water, which would not only protect civilians but also enable us to recover substantial
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components for further analysts for, for, for, for the analytics. and then we shot it down, sending a clear message, clear message. the violation of our sovereignty is unacceptable. will act to protect our country and we did. now this past friday, we put restrictions on 6 firms that directly support the people's republic liberation army. people's lib people's liberation army aerospace program that includes airships and balloons, denying them access to us technology. we briefed our diplomatic partners and our allies around the world. and we know about china's program and where the balloons have flown. some of them have also raised their generic concerns directly with china or export of liquid components of the chinese balloons payload off the ocean floor. we're analyzing them as i speak, and what we learn will strengthen our capabilities. now we're also continue to
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engage with china. as we have throughout the past 2 weeks, as i've said since the beginning of my administration, we see competition not conflict with china. we're not looking for a new cold war, but i make no apologize. i make no apologies and we will compete. and will we will responsibly manage that competition so that doesn't very conflict. this episode underscores the importance of maintaining open lines of communication between our diplomats and our military professionals. our diplomats will be engaging further and i will remain in communication with president she. i'm grateful for the work of a last several weeks. more intelligence, diplomatic and military professionals, were pro once again to be most capable in the world. and i want to thank you all i look the other thing i want to point out is that we're going to keep our eyes and the congress contemporaneous informed. all we know we learn and i expect to be
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speaking with president. she and i hope we have, we're going to get to the bottom. so i make no apologies for taking down that blunt . thank you very much. oh, i have a question. we have more people, a lot more korean war. and what's your message? well, what is the price you mr. ok? a good humor president joe biden refusing to take any questions. it pops a tone of defiance from the president. has he addressed the nation?
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i think for the well, for the 1st time following those decisions to shoot down a chinese spy balloon. and of course then there were 3 additional on identified objects that were shot down in u. s. s. space over the past few weeks. so it's become a regular occurrence and because use different these remarks, after mounting pressure from both democrats and republicans in congress, i was correspond kimberly al kit joins us live noun, congress, men and women saying that the american people deserve to know exactly what the administration has learned about the spy balloon and whether the other floating objects might have been related to the, the chinese surveillance program. what did we, what did you make of biden's remarks there? well, what we've learned is that the american people were looking for answers is a very simple was the united states under threat and the u. s. president,
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very much reassuring the american public that that was not the case as the national security advisor had previously told the american public that in the case, particularly of those aerial objects that followed the downing of the chinese spy balloon. it's believed that they were benign or commercial in nature. now you heard the president, they're talking about the recovery effort, hampered somewhat by a harsh weather conditions, but that is still ongoing and a lot more will be learned. not only from the spy balloon that was a downed off the coast of the carolinas in the atlantic ocean, but also those other objects. but the purpose of this was not only to satisfy the pressure from lawmakers and capitol hill into as satisfy the, the curiosities and concerns of the american public. but it was also to make a very important announcement that was, you heard the president, they're saying that to because of better monitoring their american public is going to have to accept the reality that there will be more citing,
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such as there have been in recent weeks and as a result of that, there are going to need to be parameters put in place. and so you heard the president announcing new rules and guidelines so that there can be some distinctions made. in other words, are things that are spotted in the air that may or may not affect commercial and military air traffic, a threat or benign? ah, do they need to be shot down? or can they be allowed to, in the case of the chinese spy balloon, crossed the united states. so these are these differentiating factors that are now going to be put into a formal structure within the u. s. government clear guidelines that can be put in place. and the reason for that is that there was general confusion, particularly when the chinese i balloon was 1st spotted. in fact, we know now that it was commercial air traffic and not the military that 1st discovered this reported it and said, hey, we see something in the sky. what are we supposed to do?
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now that won't be the case. there will be clear guidelines, so that was the 1st point of this message very quickly. the 2nd point was a very tough message for china once again. already we know in light of the downing of the spy balloon, that the secretary of state antony blank and canceled his plan trip to china to send a message that this was a violation of u. s. sovereignty. now the u. s. president going a step further saying, once again, we want to compete with china. we do not want there to be any confrontation, but the u. s. will not tolerate any further sort of infringement on u. s. a sovereignty such as the chinese spy balloon incident air. once again, the future and so that was the other clear message sent by joe biden. all right, well thank you very much. kimberly hawk, it will bring you more on the us quite last week and that is asked has affected an area almost the size of percent. millions of people have been displaced,
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thousands anality in camps completely dependent on aid. i said, beg, visits, had one camp and the southern tucker city of a demon. oh, me, a moment of happiness and play amid the destruction they've written with these children now live in the captain of the yeoman in southeastern tortilla, and not being helped by volunteers. we came here to provide psychological 1st stay to the children and to help them returned to the normality of life. our i missed to make the children laugh because we say if one child laughs, the whole world laughs with more than 5000 people live here. providing food, water, and shelter for them has been a combined effort. that math is a businessman who came to help this. this is a part of our country. we know they need both physical and financial help. we came from 1200 kilometers away. we've been here for i days. we live like them. we'd like
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them. we sleep in our cars and hence among the tents that make up this camp, they burn whatever they can to keep warm in the freezing temperatures and they're grateful for the help they've received. then each week i'm a very big areas affected. a lot is needed and we need every once a bought from across the country. people are helping children are breaking their piggy banks and giving us money. some have a little money, but they buy medicine and send it to us that he shows us his tent. some have heating, some don't. he says some have mattresses. some don't across the city. another group of volunteers has opened a pharmacy. they travel from his stumble, more than 1200 kilometers away. until shouldn't. he's like galle. i took annual leave to come here. we bought some medicine ourselves. some were donated to us. this disaster has shown how people of this country are not only united in their grief,
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but also the determination to help each other rescue operations. and now shifting to cleaning up the city and attention has turned to those in need. it's a challenge that will remain for the foreseeable future, but people across the country, i helped him in the effort. as i beg i jazeera or the yeoman. so then dorothea williams place has devastated entire communities. children are the most at risk and authorities of warning, but the number of those or friend is going to keep on rising. united nations has more than 7000000 children are affected across both countries. many schools, health facilities and family centers have been completely destroyed. families have been sleeping intense on the bridges or any way they can find shelter that cases of hypothermia and respiratory infections arising among children. 8 organizations, a young people urgently need psychological support, as well as basic services including shelter watering finch. this is trula
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on top of treatment for these children, particularly those in syria who just endured so much. there's not a little boy or girl in syria who's 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 stacked, crumbling called crate in their pajamas, into the freezing cold. these mom bought the numbers. you know, so many thousands of children have died. there's so many grieving parents out there . you tap into that one story of that child who is still alive all 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 and so he can give them that psychological support, which we know takes months and months where you have to start now. you know, safe as long maintain that? yes, it's plain water, it's blankets, it's food, it's medical supplies. but psychological 1st i'd education. there's
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a lot of saving as well. what these boys and girls are going through want to take you to an area. now the president obama do before is approved a 60 day extension for people to turn in the bank notes. it's part of the plan to replace the country's currency. the nora with redesigned notes yield current. she was supposed to been replaced by saturday, but some bank failed to hand out enough money triggering widespread protests. i'm an interest springs this one out from i do agree 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 protested on the speech of nigeria angry about the shortage of new night. i know it's like relation as well as using some commercial bank to swap. the old 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
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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 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 and banks in fact, now get us one of the top 5. i'm bank campers, in the war with large population not having access to financial this 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 turned to the 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've got the money in the.

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