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a $1000000000.00 to help her took here recover from it's worse. natural disaster in this century. ah, i'm robot this and this is all just even live from doha. also coming up, fears of floods unlock slides off to the too powerful earthquakes destroyed cities and even moved mountains at the ground give what gave way craters fell and our team stood next to one of them to give you a perspective of just how large when the earth gave way also ahead we report from one of the worst areas and serial where 8 is finally arriving. but many said the u. n. z response has been too slow. ah, b, we're going to begin in tortilla and syria where 11 days after the earthquakes,

most rescue missions are now focusing on helping survivors. rescues are rare, but they're still happening. a boy was pulled alive from under rubble of hottie and took here on friday morning. he'd been trapped for 260 hours. more than 43000 deaths have been recorded in both countries. the u. n. is appealing for $1000000000.02 pay for aid that's needed immediately by more than $5000000.00 people into care. it says it also wants $400000000.00 to help those in devastated areas of syria. the earthquake struck in the depth of winter. hundreds of thousands of people don't have shelter, food, water heaters or medical help. inter kia about $47000.00 buildings have been destroyed or damage, including schools and hospitals. me with a team of correspondence covering the disaster across impacted regions in the southeast of turkey. as well as northwestern syria. i said, begs beginning our coverage from the turkey city of color, my mother asked,

i said that was one of the epa centers, water, things like they are now. well, right now, they've been taking rebel away in trucks. this still teams working on the ground. now 248 hours after the earthquake hit the same t o girl was rescued here and $200.00 over $250.00. i was after that quick hit a 42 year old woman and was rescued. and i've just spoken to a woman who was just waiting on the side of the rubber, looking down at the team's work. and she said that she's waiting for 5 members of her family, her son, her daughter in law, and the 3 children. and the hope so the chances of finding anyone alive at this stage of very, very slim, but some people are still holding on to that hope, but efforts are shifting now are focusing elsewhere in terms of dealing with those people that have been displaced. there's millions of people that have been displaced, many building damage. now, agencies want to provide for them the food, the water, the 10th a commendation, and as you said,

the united nation has appealed for $1000000000.00. but there is considerable anger when you do speak to people here asking how could this have happened? how could buildings that we thought was secure collapse in such a way that you go forward? when every time you want to rent an apartment to ask is this building built in accordance with the regulation of talent, withstand an earthquake. but also people are still waiting. people are still standing around them when you walk through and you see the concrete and the twisted metal under. dustin yeah, you see the close? do you see the children's toys with the mattresses? i saw a photo album of a family, children, grandparents, parents. i saw pages on these people's lives. these are people's homes. and no matter how much you film, no matter how much which is from a drone, we show you, it's difficult. we cannot capture the extent. and the impact of this greg, especially on this city, is being very,

very considerable. even the buildings are standing, are cracked and damaged pieces. enough people cannot return to these. and this is a test that this government faces. now, not only does it have to rebuild, it's going to have going to have to demolish many buildings and start from scratch . and thus the task at face is, and that's why the united nations and, and this country itself is appealing for aid. i said, thank you very much indeed, doug's asset beg oh, are we going to stay in carmel mirage? and as i said, we're saying rebuilding efforts are expected to begin within weeks. but architects, as well as local people, are blaming unmodified buildings for the high deaf toll into a kia, nearly all holmes that collapsed at the epicenter were built before new safety regulations came in. bernard smith reports in the 1st 10 to 15 seconds of the earthquake. the dozens of apartment buildings here collapse. those inside had no chance. they were built before 1999. but here,

every one survived. they were built after 1999. that was when an earlier quake into a kia prompted a strengthening of building regulations. eunice catch mars a local architect, says 90 percent of the buildings that collapsed in carmel marsh, who were built before the new standards were introduced. whose gunners are mine is on their hurts to seal this destruction. but i am angry to this could easily have been avoided. i've lost family members every once affected by this is been proved once again that what matters his science mathematics will never fail. even with such a massive earthquake, only 2 percent of the new buildings collapsed. eunice is low rise, office is the style of building. he says he wanted to see built here. it's more integrated into the earth. he says so more able to withstand. shaking and swaying. 3 years ago unison his colleagues held a meeting with officials to warn of the dangers of an earthquake. the chamber of architects urged the local council to evacuate all this area,

demolish and rebuild again to new standards. but it would have meant up routing, thousands and thousands of people and hundreds of businesses there was never done. then the will, the 10s of thousands of amnesty is given by the government to people who build new structures that failed to meet the latest standards. instead of fine was paid, which just in 2018 and the ministry of environment more than $4000000000.00. so the okay, we are here because we're facing immense pain here. jamil as does she met. she says, he's a building auditor. so many variables can affect the strength of a construction. he says right down to how a trainee builder mixes the concrete banana you can most and take you to bottom it . there's no one reason why a building collapses. it could have been the type of soil of fault in the construction plan of the engineering, the workmanship or something external. we have many buildings badly damaged by other falling building us there need to be technical inspections and only then can

we take the steps necessary for a safe future. turkey as president reggie ty, 3rd one says he wants the 1st new homes to be ready within a year. the architects in this town want them to be built to survive the next way. bernard smith, al jazeera kara mom rush in se took care of people fear flooding could make things worse. stephanie decker reports can close to the china is like here when the earthquake hit, it didn't only decimate cities, towns, and villages. but it also moved mountains. a massive landslide happened here, which caused huge rocks to crumble down the mountain blocking off this main road. now, work is underway. we're being told time is of the essence here because there is a river on the other side of this and also the snow. the heavy snow fall on this mountain is melting, causing pressure, and the water levels to rise. the villagers are extremely concerned that this could

break and that water could come down the mountain. so time as we are told is of the essence. that's why this work is happening and it's happening false. it is a dangerous area, but certainly the power of the quake can be seen across the entire south east affected regions in the on tap, the ground give what gave way, creatures foul, and the panorama that overlooks the city. our team stood next to one of them to give you a perspective of just how large when the earth gave way, and also the contact. the ancient castle of causal that has lived for 2000 years withstanding invasions withstanding wars has also crumbled. so it's not only the cities, the towns, the villages that need to be rebuilt, reconstructed it is also the infrastructure that has been hugely affected. and the ancient monuments, all of which have been effected by this devastating quake. stephanie decker 0 in

the mountains, outside of his lawyer and south eastern turkey costume and, and cut out where most of the 8 efforts took care of being coordinated. she's joining us from the headquarters of the turkish disaster management agency. and i'm bring this up to date with, with what's been going on. i love international aid is literally pouring over to care right now as all organizations, old friend in neighboring countries and alliance members that turkey is a member of i sending they had financial and a physical support. it's a turkey, as you also mentioned earlier, united the united nations pledged a 1000000000 dollars in funds and to help the 5200000 people who are affected by the earthquake in this region. besides that, i, we know that you ration countries are increasing. they have fonts for to to care special azar bay, john georgia. they have announced their uh,

funds being increased and that they are sending more rescue teams into the ground a to help to, to assist of monetary and aid organizations in the field. besides that, all countries is sometimes solar, terribly sometime as an alliance. they are trying to help to can we know at the ne toya lions is going to send shelters. a cutter is sending the a cabin is the container that were used during the world cup to turkey. we are talking about $10000.00 containers being sell thousands of tenths are being deployed to the area. and of course, the united nations funding is going to be used not only for these accommodation things, but also for food, the food security in the region, because this is a long term drawn and to care will need this or these aids, these rescue to use for a while in order to rehabilitate the aero map sent am politics and diplomacy invariably play a role when it comes to situations like this. how is this affecting turkey is

relations with its neighboring countries along as well? today i was actually preparing for and general election and a presidential election that was officially scheduled for june 18. but the turkish president was keen to move it to may 14 because of some local reasons and some a calendar reasons. and a besides that for the last couple of years, the relations have been tense with neighboring countries like greece, turkey and greece were nearly at the brink of war because of they are a, they are conflict over 12 violence in the agency. the ill, a natural gas exploration in the eastern mediterranean and there and many other things. also because of the refugee in flux, through turkey and to europe. on the other hand, tricky and armenia had pence relations especially after the cutter bar war in late 2012 to one. but armenia opened a home italian age corridor is with israel,

for instance. took it had very intense her relations with israel, especially after an 8 a vessel, a heir, which was called as a garza flotilla and tried to help the palestinians and added the domestic relations were minimized. but it forces greece was one of the 1st countries who offered support to turkey and greece. foreign minister was one of the 1st high profile diplomats that was it, it took here with his turkish counterpart, he visited the earthquake hits regions. israel frances was here with more than 700 rescue workers or with the doctors, and they established a 1st field hospital in the region. they were here with medicine, blood, and everything. and as i said, our mania opened its borders for humanitarian aid corridor. so a be heard agrees from ministers saying yesterday that the earthquake may create an opportunity in for 2 neighbors to redefine the bilateral relations and to redefine

turkey is over the 10th relations with the european union. this is expected, but how long it will last is unknown. for now, said, of course you're only talking to us from ankara will health worker so many earthquake survivors are suffering from post traumatic stress and panic attacks are correspond. natasha name's been speaking to psychologists in m. takia. we follow to clinical psychologist around today there with the turkish red crescent and they're trying to help people begin to make sense of this collective trauma that is going to be felt across the southern turkey. the clinical psychologist say during a disaster like this, their 1st priority is to help restore a sense of safety. make sure that people have shelter. there is still a critical shortage of shelter in southern tortilla. sometimes it's giving people a blanket or a hot cup of coffee and then it's settling in and just listening. we watched the

clinical psychologists offer hugs pats on the backs. they often play with children, as for children were told they're being overlooked. and that's not uncommon in a situation like this that they've experienced, seen and heard things that no child should have to experience. and the clinical psychologist says, if they don't get the mental health services they need, that could emerge as a bigger problem as they grow a you should be working with the colleagues from here, from this field in use of the, you know, shoot me jury chair emotions with them, you know, you both share your emotions and bullets worked together. so it means basically the so sites of ill work in avi will. rick aiden started to arrive in northern syria after the reopening of border crossing is being handed out in a makeshift counseling rebel held areas in the province of aleppo. entire communities were forced to leave their homes. there. activists and emergency teams of criticize the slow response to the disaster museum lower lives since day one.

our teams have been keen of responding to how people, especially in the displacement camps that were created quickly to show to them. again, we've distributed a number of aid kits. we've also made sure to provide water and items for sanitation and hygiene. or us was out has been to the northern city in town of genders. there are thousands and thousands of people that they have lost their houses or relative their bid ones. now they are here waiting for aid for food, food, 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. notice union 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 the 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. 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 aid 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. clear vision, it is christ that a demons such has been lit up to one of the victims of the earthquakes into kia and syria. the nations flies were projected on to the famous statue in hills high above the city. the projection included a message calling on people to pray for those affected by the disaster. still ahead on al jazeera, we're going to tell you why politicians from around the world are meeting in japan and condemnation of security forces in peru by amnesty international after weeks of unrest. ah

hello, we got some really wet weather heading towards the philippines over the next couple of days in the clutches storms here for the south though the heaviest rain across the southeast asia has been into papua new guinea will than a 130 millimeters of rain here. in the space of 24 hours, still some sharp showers just around this part of the world. and further north you see that wet weather just started to push its way to central areas of the philippines. northern parts of the philippines seed some very heavy rain possibility of some but localized flooding. fast fighting, said he, not out of the question. as we go on through sunday. we'll see some wet weather too, went to where vietnam, much of indo china is dry scattering a shower across malaysia and then plenty of showers there across a good part of indonesia, some of the showers joining up with the wet weather that we have across northern parts of australia, particularly towards the gulf, a carpenter, it stays very disturbed. here for the south is seen some very high temperatures into the southeast melvin touched 40 degrees celsius for the 1st time in 3 years on

friday afternoon. cooling off now though, temperatures of around $23.00 celsius for sat day as at west or whether further north up around the northern parts of queensland, pushing across into the interior. dry for much of australia. lottie dry now for new zealand. ah, the scores of afghans has fled their homeland since the taliban take over in a specialty parker court. 101 east. all is to women. determined to build new lives far from home. on al jazeera. ah al jazeera, with blue

. ah your child is it a reminder of our top stories? this are 11 days off to to us ladies devastated to kids syria. more than 43000 people are not unknown to have died. but a boy was pulled from under rubble and haughty and took here on friday morning. we've been chopped for 260 hours. the u. n is appealed for $1000000000.02 pay for 8 . it says is needed immediately by more than 5000000 people who took care. it also wants $400000000.00 for people and devastated areas in syria. aid starting to reach rebel how there is a northern syria after the re opening of a border crossing activists and emergency teams are criticized with the slow

response to the disaster. the head of russia's private military company wagner group is blaming what he calls moscow's monstrous bureaucracy. for hampering its performance, if any pre gozine says it could take months to capture the eastern time of bar quote. when intense fighting has taken place for weeks, cave has committed significant resources to holding on to the mining area. it doesn't have much strategic value, but capturing it would be a symbolic victim. russia, with 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 moved by the new year if we had not been hindered by monstrous military bureaucracy and obstacles created on a daily basis. so more money is from the oil and united services institute, and he says, it's not the 1st time magazine has it criticized rushes, military leadership. why only that 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, chicago, and 8th 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 stepped back after sent back. so i think that this is totally aligned with his public persona over the course of the past 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 loot. obviously, was that increasingly important for the russian campaign? because the 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 a stalemate that blad ukrainian forces. i result from the death of ukrainian territorial defense forces or elite cor, 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. politicians from around the world are

meeting in japan to discuss what they see as a growing threat from china on the agenda or concerns about beijing's approach to taiwan. rob bride reports from their base is in taiwan fighter jets take to the skies as part of an exercise in readiness for wall plains coming from mainland china. incursions by china's air force doubled in 2022 with beijing determined to unite with what it regards as a renegade break away province. for taiwan, president, sighing. when these threats are a reminder of why her government is keeping its distance from the mainland, as she restated in her luna new year message, i hope that hopefully the military steadfast in holding their posts defending our national security in our common homeland with all their might yet her vice president and the man widely expected to succeed her when taiwan, alexa, a new president in a year's time,

holds similarly defiant views. will i mean in song or that we say sing the threat from china in the future? our new mission is to protect taiwan, promote democracy, peace and prosperity. in that quest, taiwan can count on the might of its ally the united states. a strike group led by the aircraft carrier limits, is the latest deployment to the disputed waters of the south and east china seas. and sailing through the sensitive tie, one straight, which china regards as a highly provocative act tie one's increasing geopolitical importance. underpinned by its global high tech business, cloud has raised the stakes in this potential flash point. china's president sheet in ping having secured an unprecedented extension to his time in office, seems to have made unification with taiwan. his legacy mission, the and who shall you got both sides of the taiwan strait belong to one china,

which is the fact with clear historical evidence in legal basis. taiwan has never been a state, nor will it become one. ty, one's very existence as a thriving democratic de facto state is an affront that china struggles to live with. rob mcbride, al jazeera, the president of colonial and venezuela, and have signed a deal on the border between the 2 countries. the agreement gets import duties and dozens of factory goods trade between the 2 nations has fallen drastically in 2015 . it improved last year after columbia is 1st leftist president, gustavo petro was elected. both sides recently opened border bridges for the 1st time in 7 years. the search has begun to find the success of scotland for the minister. nicholas sturgeon, sturgeon resigned on wednesday after more than 8 years and the job. the scottish national parties meeting to discuss the rules for the leadership race shock resignation prompted calls for the party to postpone a conference,

and at reviving its push for independence. when we challenge isn't golf and capital with laura the scottish national party, is it something across res with to difficult decision to make the 1st course? who's going to replace nicholas dash and big boots to fill? the 2nd is what's the path the strategy going to be to move independence forward. the problem for the s and p is that the supreme court in november shut the door on a 2nd referendum without the express it go ahead from the u. k. government, which the u. k. government is not going to give because it says that the 1st independence referendum in 2014, which the independence movement last was a once in a lifetime events. so nicholas sturgeon's response to that was to say, okay, what we're going to do then is we're going to make the next general election that they facto independence referendum. the issue with that is not all popular with much of her party who think that it's too divisive and what go down well with the electorate. so much of the senior people in the party want to wait for

a new leader to be chosen. who can then take a new strategy forward? for we talent out to sara, edinburgh. lisa sank all have far tear gas to dispose supporters of main opposition leader osmond. sancho sancho was forcibly removed from his car after repeating in a court in the capital darker. he was attending hearings in a defamation case against him. sancho supporters say the legal action and other allegations and attempts to discredit him. i had a presidential elections next year. i me is to amnesty international has issued a preliminary reports on alleged human rights violations carried out during weeks of protests in peru, it accused the security forces of falling indiscriminately at demonstrators. nearly 60 people have been killed since december 1 former president petal castille was forced from office on a sanchez reports from lima. oh, when you're now the ankle was killed in december 15 near the airport in the city of

air quotes. the ann, this family says they have no doubt he'd been gone down by the army who'd open fire on protesters that afternoon. we and another was among 10 people killed the question for his wife. ruth is who was in command. he another to order them who gave the order to kill and repress a peaceful march. amnesty international says most of the victims in more than 2 months of turmoil, were killed by security forces, who unlawfully fired lethal weapons, and used other less lethal ones indiscriminately. they're cracked down on protesters, no single that we're not only facing serious human rights violations, sped crimes, under international law. there's 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,

were pression and 80 percent were killed in indigenous populated areas show of contempt against indigenous peruvians. it says savvy or law rights have been violated because we are peasants. dina, below i t has said we are terrorists, look 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. what is your last president the novel and what demit, 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. i am a scientist i just seen delima, ah.