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desperate for health. earthquake victims and washington syria say they've been forgotten. we report from one of the worst areas they have been displaced several times and now they are displaced again. the united nations launch as a 1000000000 dollar appeal to help to key a combat is worse to natural disaster. ah, how often is the problem? this is al jazeera alive from door ha. also coming up. the head of russia, stay back to wagner. group blames moscow's military bureaucracy for slow gains in the east of ukraine. and outrage and controversy. why the israeli military has uprooted more than a 1000 all of trees of occupied palestinian land. ah, now we began in turkey and sylvia rescue efforts. so winding up

off last week's devastating earthquake. the un has appealed for $1000000000.00 to cover immediate humanitarian needs and to a kia that's on top of the $400000000.00 appeal for quake affected regents in syria . the relief effort there been delayed by the lost legacy of civil war opposition. how areas and serious northwest have only seen a trickle of age delivered so far, more than $42000.00 people and now known to have died across both countries. we have a team of correspondence covering the disaster and takia selim casteel news in the capital anchor. but it smith is and kind of my mirage and asset bag is an are the a man across the border. and sylvia vessel said that is engine badass. this people are the residence of gender, us in north west, 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 they feel that the international community has forgotten them. they said they was, is not hurt. many of the relatives have stayed onto the robles for days and days. didn't have more than more than the cubans 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 not 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 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 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. yes. how about his daughter? the doctor says she's also dad. and he asked about his son a doctor, so i told him he's also dad. 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 was sorry, his president,

bashar, alas. and since the road ahead is difficult, well, nathan was you or what will face in the upcoming months and years in terms of social challenges? land economic challenges is no less important than what we faced in these 1st few days. while oldest started to relate survivors and sorry, as rebel how areas, there's been criticism or the how long it's taken to negotiate the opening of border crossings. frontier kia medical facilities that are already fragile from years of war, a close to collapse. zayna other reports here in northwest syria, medical staff have little choice but to use damaged incubators. last week's earthquakes and southern turkey hit this region. hart medical facilities in this opposition controlled enclave were already weak. do 2 years of war and the lack of funds there. now close to collapse, although if you allow them that we have always faced shortages,

but this is not new. but now many incubators are damaged as well as other equipment that we need to treat the children welding. many children were affected by the powerful earthquakes. well, russia was among those who survived, but he's still in shock. i was asleep when it happened, beloved collapse, 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 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 north west where it says people have been through hell. some was there were the only 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 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 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. 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. what we had no choice. now engineers told us that we can return to our home a lot of them now we are homeless. the challenge now is to care for the living,

who've already endured 12 years of war. santa hunter, l. shakita. the united nations has lost 1000000000 dollar appeal to help more than 5000000 people and took here funding from the p on the resources will allow aid organization to swiftly wrap up their operations to support government lead response efforts in areas including food security protection, education water and shelter. martin griffith the under secretary, john for humanitarian affairs, who was in the country last week said the people of turkey. i have experience unspeakable heartache. and we must stand with them in their darkest hour and ensure they receive the support they need. now nato secretary general hands dalton burgers and took care to discuss the organisations rolled and providing support. after the earthquakes, he held a media briefing with turkish foreign minister leverage of the solar non coulda and explained how nate remembers responded. the day off to the earthquake,

nato's de sauls to response center issued an immediate request for assistance to all naval ours on partners. since then, thousands of emergency response personnel have been deployed to, to kia, to support the reef efforts, including with search and rescue teams, firefighters, medical personnel, and seismic experts. selim casino has moore from ankara. he was here to express his condolences and show the solidarity of the nato alliance with true care, the 2nd largest, the army, it within the alliance, and ah, secretary general mention that odd there will be an international donors conference in march. also, we heard that e u countries are also supporting a n working gone as to the owners conference to help add to the victims of the

earthquake that have that shook to kia and as syria. and 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 10s are being carried by ale 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. now the disaster has effected an area almost the size of britain. millions of people have been displaced in thousands now, living in camps completely dependent on aid asset base visitor camp in the southern tucker city of idea. mon, i a moment of happiness and pay amid the destruction they witnessed.

these children now live in the captain of the yeoman in southeastern, to tear and being helped by volunteers. we came here to provide psychological 1st day to the children and to help them returned to the normality of ly. our aim is to make the children laugh because we say if one child laughs, the whole world laugh more than 5000 people live here. providing food, water and shelter for them has been a combined effort. madman is a business man who came to help me. remember, 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 8 days. we live like them. we like them. we sleep in our cars and tents. among the tents that make up this camp, they burn wherever they can to keep warm in the freezing temperatures. and they're grateful for the help they've received. that which we call my very big areas

affected a lot is needed. we need every once a bought from across the country. people are helping us. children are breaking their piggybacks and giving us money. some have a little money, but they buy medicine and send it to us. he shows us his tent. some have heating from don't. he says some have mattress this some don't. across the city. another group of volunteers has opened a pharmacy. they travel from stumble, more than 1200 kilometers away. until shouldn't i took any leave to come here. we bought some medicine ourselves. some are donated dog. this disaster has shown how people of this country are not only united in their grief, but also the determination to help each other rescue operations. and thus shifting to cleaning up the city and potentially turn to those in need. it's a challenge that will remain for the foreseeable future,

but people across the country, i hope in the effort, as i big i da 0 or the human so than that appear. now while some search cruise continue to dig through the ruins, we are still hearing miraculous stories of survival and car. carmen met ash a 17 year old girls pulled alive from beneath the rabble. she'd been trapped for 10 days, while several people were found alive in turkey. on thursday, the number of rescues has decreased significantly, or bernice smith as in common mirage where people are blaming lacks construction norms for exacerbating the disaster. those behind the rubble behind me is the remains of apartment blocks that just crumbled within an architect tells us 10 to 15 seconds of the quake started meeting those and the people inside had no chance a toll, but across the street. amidst the rubble, there are other apartment buildings like that. one of the behind me that as you can see, still standing now is going to have to be pulled down eventually. but the point is

it stayed up long enough that the people inside it were able to escape and nobody was killed by the differences. the buildings that collapse were built before 999. and that one and others like it were built after 999, when there was another major quake in turkey, which prompted the introduction of new rules and regulations strengthening the building was compounded the damage on the death and destruction is that even buildings built after $999.00, many of them were granted ominous days. if they failed to come up to scratch, this was often done before elections instead of having to build a building, building the buildings up to standard. people paid a fine and that was paid to the ministry of environment instead of having to build, bring the buildings up to standard architects. we've been speaking to here. they said what they wanted to do that building behind me is the architects union office . it's low rise and what they wanted to do, they told the council about 3 years before this,

they want to knock down. they said all the pre $999.00 buildings should be destroyed and rebuilt to new, a low rise standards. when the building is low, arise is more integrated with the ground. and then we're totally more able to withstand the shaking in the oscillation. the quake causes but these buildings weren't evacuated, it means moving thousands and thousands of people or hundreds of buildings and hundreds of businesses. so the buildings were left as they were. and the collapse, as i say, very, very quickly, chamber of architect is angry and frustrated because they say this death and destruction was easily avoided. still ahead on the bulletin, the night steed strongly opposes these unilateral measures. the biden administration condemns israel's decision to expand and leave of settlements occupied less back plus thousands of elderly people in china, protests and cuts against cuts to the medical benefits.

ah. hello the weather. sloshy dry across a good part of east asia at the moment. that must be garry of high pressure keeping things settled, 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 when she went 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 into the korean peninsula, just 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 beijing 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 or vietnam, maybe some shares into another northern parts of tied. i joining up with an area of cloud that we have just around the and them and see much of india is hot and dry temperatures in ma'am by at around 38 degrees by saturday afternoon. ah, a

ah ah ah, who watching out here with me it is the parent of a reminder of our stories this hello. the un has appealed for $1000000000.00 to cover immediate humanitarian needs inter kia following last week's earthquakes. they also need $400000000.00 for quake affected regions. and sylvia were the relief effort as being severely disrupted by more than a decade old civil war. when some 42000 people are now known to have died in the 2

countries, authorities haven't yet been out the number of missing people. but there are still some incredible stories of survival in kind of mon mirage. a 17 year old girl has been rescued after 10 days under the rubble. ah! now the head of the russian states backed wagner mercenary group, is blaming what he calls moscow's monstrous bureaucracy for slow military gains. guinea pig was in, says it could take months to capture the eastern ukrainian town of buck more which has seen intense fighting in recent weeks as capture would be made to symbolic. when for russia, though, the town holds little strategic value, i'll samuel romani as an associate fellow at the royal united services institute. and he says it's not the 1st time ferguson has criticized russia's military leadership wildly. that's 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 sort of a show you a days back to the war in syria dispatch 2016 as really escalated over the past year with him going public is the owner of the water group and rushes. military having said 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 group 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 and on the ask, as well as access to railways and logistics. and even though promotion is try to frame and refrain, brushes, goals as not necessarily being capturing the city, but creating a stalemate that blad ukrainian forces result from the death of ukrainian territorial defense forces or a leak or that kid, that narrative is not really that convincing because russia wants victories and

dine asking promotions, just not delivering them as losing heavy casualties in the process. now, amnesty international has issued a preliminary report on human rights violations. and through the weeks of protests that have brought the country, maybe 60 people have been killed in protest, sends deena boulevard, they took office in december marianna sanchez reports from lima window. none of the one who was killed on december 15th at the airport in the city of culture and beyond this, emily says they have no doubt. he'd been gone down by the army who'd open fire on protesters that afternoon. we do not know was among 10 people killed the question for his wife. ruth is who was in command, came out of us out of them who gave the order to kill and repress a peaceful march. i'm this international says most of the victims in more than 2 months of turmoil, were killed by security forces, unlawfully fired lethal weapons and used other leslie full once indiscriminately.

they're cracked down on protesters, no single that we're not only facing serious human rights violations, but crimes under international law that has been widespread attacks against civilians which implies individualized criminal responsibility. including those at the highest level who have allowed violations to continue. a preliminary report says at least 48 people died by state repression and 80 percent were killed in indigenous populated areas. a show of contempt against indigenous peruvians. it says savvy, all our rights have been violated because we are peasants. dinner below i t has said we are terrorists vandals, human rights lawyers representing victims say in addition, there's a pattern in the killings in different regions, mainly khaki. it could be that these are not individual cases, but political decisions turned into orders to the armed forces and police. and for that reason we can see an escalation and their actions and a denial of responsibility laportia law for us it in the novel. what the mit

amnesty representatives on wednesday, she says the judiciary is investigating the cases and they're waiting for its findings. but amnesty says they're worried because authorities have not guaranteed they will refrain from quelling future protests with excessive use of force. but in the santas, i'll just send an email. now you as president jo biden's, his 3 unidentified objects shot down by fighter jets earlier this month. didn't appear to have been use vis, eyeing, and will likely use for benign purposes. a white house correspondent kimberly halgert has more under pressure from lawmakers. u. s. president joe biden spoke for the 1st time about those incidents involving the unidentified aerial objects. not only the chinese spy balloon, the military downed off the coast of the carolinas, but also those other 3 objects that were downed over alaska, canada, as well as lake huron. the president saying there's no evidence of

a sudden increase in those objects. still, viewers, president laying our parameters or rules to deal with these objects in the future. in other words, so that they can be identified and determined whether or not they should be shot down or if they should be allowed to float across the united states. and whether or not the threats to civilian or military aircraft are indeed a valid or whether or not they are benign. now, in the case of these most recent 3, an identified aerial objects, the president says they are benign. however, when it comes to the chinese spy balloon, there is still some debris that is being retrieved and in the case of all of the objects, in some cases, weather is hampering those efforts. now, when it comes to the chinese spy balloon incident, the u. s. president says he will be speaking to china's president, she in his words, to get to the bottom of this. what he does say though, is that the u. s. will continue to engage with china. what the united states wants

. he says is competition, not conflict. that's why us diplomats will continue conversations with china in order to further that relationship. now the u. s. has condemned israel's decision to expand and legal settlements and occupied westbank. we are deeply dismayed by israelis announcement that they will advance thousands of new settlements and retroactively legalized 9 outposts in the west bank that were that were until now illegal under is really law. the united states strongly opposes these unilateral measures which, which exacerbates tension, harm trust between the 2 parties and undermine the geographic viability of the 2 states which solution. during this, his recent trip to israel secretary blinking was clear that all parties should refrain from actions that heightened tensions and take us further away from peace.

not as rarely troops of clear olive trees planted by israeli settlers on palestinian than the trees had been there for 15 years. saw a higher report from shiloh and the occupied westbank. freshly dug out soil and more than a 1000 olive trees were removed by the israeli forces here on occupied palestinian land 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, he 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 for the police here to remove these 3. 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 westbank. 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 within 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 will likely to see thousands more israelis protesting against it. now sal's and of retired people in the chinese cities of wu,

han and daddy and has protested against the plan to come their medical benefits. katrina, you the ports from bay jane. 1000 retired men and women stand at the gates of hon. thompson park dead demonstrating against changes to their provinces. health insurance policy, facing off with police, one man chanted down with 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 muslim world congress. and now finally, our citizens have woken up, says the man filming this video, it's the 2nd port has 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 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 sure of 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 governments are 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.