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hello, i'm nick clark. this is it is a life and go home coming up the next 60 minutes. turkish authorities crying down on building contracts and says anger grows over. why so many apartment blocks fell during the last week's earthquakes. i'm natasha in a live in or is in, in her ty prob, it's not one person died, not one building collapsed yet people here are angry and scared. coming up, i'll tell you why. and we report from one of the worst hid areas in syria where 8 is finally arriving. but many say the u. n. 's response has been too slow. also ahead parts of new zealand still under water of the cycling gabrielle struck it's nor finally because fort max united's american owners said a soft deadline of $22.00 gmc, for bidders to submit proposals to by the club. ah,

m. all right, we begin. this is in turkey where dozens of building detractors are under investigation following last week's earthquakes, architects, a thousands of old blocks collapsed because they were not strengthened at the epicenter, nearly all those went down were built before new regulations came in. we have a team of correspondents covering the disaster across impacted regions in the southeast of turkey as well as northwest and syria. first, let's have this report from bernard smith in carmen marsh. in the 1st 10 to 15 seconds of the earthquake, the dozens of apartment buildings here collapsed. 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, inter kia, prompted a strengthening of building regulations unit 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 as good as our minds on the hertz to seal this destruction, but i am angry to this could easily have been avoided. i've lost family members. everyone's affected by this is been proved once again that what matters is 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, with tens 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 dealing with 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 must and take me to part of it . there's no one reason why a building collapses. it could have been the type of soil a fault in the construction plan or 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. we'll do turkey as president reggie typo on, says he wants the 1st new homes to be ready within a year. the architects in this town woman to be built to survive the next week.

bernard smith, al jazeera carol, ma marsh. let's cross now to natasha. good name, who joins live now from ers and natasha. tell us about how urs in has coped with the earthquakes. the ursa n is in northern had tie. there's a population of about 43000 people. not one person died in the earthquake, not one building collapsed, but people here are still angry and scared. that's because there are, there are damage buildings. we've seen people living outside intense and they say they're too scared to go inside. they're not sure if the buildings are structurally sound, they're angry because they say this impression of resign as having fared quite well after the earthquake is preventing aid from getting here. there are a number of factors that would explain why ours on has been minimally touched by the earthquake in a province that has been devastated. bear in mind, this province has lost at least 14000 people,

or is on is about 101000 kilometers from the epicenter of this earthquake. and it's about 40 kilometers west from a fault line. in between the fault line is a mountain and that mountain says experts likely created a barrier. in addition, it's at a higher see level and a lot of the buildings are constructed on bedrock, harder ground that is more willing or better able to withstand the swaying that occurs during an earthquake. on like say, the city of and taca, which we've spent a lot of time in which has been leveled the are buildings, are being constructed on sand and clay, which is obviously more vulnerable. the experts have said, though, that there's also a long standing issue across the southern region, which has been devastated by the earthquake of the use of shoddy construction material. and as you heard in my colleague story lacks enforcement of earthquake

engineering standards and building codes here in the city. the mayor has said that not just in his administration, but in previous administrations there's been a strict adherence to ensuring that there are that the contractors comply. he says this is a small town. the contractors are building in the town that they live in. there is now a national reckoning if you will, about what's happening with regard to shoddy construction, and lacks enforcement of building codes according to experts, exacerbating the damage and the death toll from this earthquake. and now the government is on the defense president ur to one has said that 98 percent of the $48000.00 buildings that collapse were built prior to 1999. there is a national probe investigations in the city of malott the out today on more than a dozen people were arrested. there are dozens of people wanted in connection with violation of building codes. this, there's also

a lot of anger because in 2018 people were granted zoning amnesty, which means you could avoid complying with building codes in exchange for a fine. so now there is as, as we're hearing so much hard 8 people saying that lives were lost as a result of government policies and contractors, irresponsibility. but here in the town overs on we're really seeing typical scenes of life. i saw people working out at a gym, withdrawing money from an atm, eating at a bakery. and that is why resign has now become a safe refuge for the many people who've had to flee their homes in areas. much more devastated here in a tie province, and it also explains why people who are saying, please don't neglect us. we do need aid. and some of those people right now are staying by the way, this displaced in schools or being. busy accommodated by relatives. natasha.

thanks very much for that to natasha. the name reporting there. from what i read. location of relative normality. and let's take this on of gonna much john as a geophysical engineer and an advisor to the chamber of geophysical engine is a turkey joined us. live from stumbles. thank you for joining us here. so much to discuss about this, we have limited time. but let's start with the builders themselves. they be accused of using cheap materials and skirting building codes to expedite projects into, to fatten their own profits. do you agree with that? usually? so what about the would you say then therefore that it is solely down to them, or is there some other responsibility to where she responsibilities sucks with the minister of the construction and the right amount and, but he doesn't feel in a responsibility for that. and he didn't resign. so he is

so promise you that. but he will do for teachers constructions, another thing and doing it rises. but his is c, k, p were to do that in nuts and other team use the local municipalities because when the ministry oh, the construction defines how a larger cities local municipality design, how to make the settlement initiative. and later now if there's, if phoenician done, the constructors come and they build the building. can i just jump in that isn't just what is the process that building goes up and then does it?

should a government official then come in and sign it off a safe as earthquake safe to team is we had to to recent building new building regulations for safety and they're really up to date in terms of scientific level and really perfect. but but the thing is there is no control is there will be room and statements which are giving in the regulations. it is one deficiency in that regulation. and so it started like in new relation in 2007, but it ended up disaster in 2020 it. it

is indeed here to a region the above 50 percent of the buildings are built before 2001 right at the old building. actually, and then the dns is also the initial food issue or communication producers to any one person of the cultural ok. can i just come on to this issue of amnesty because she's been issued to those contractors who have broken the regulations, but then if they pay a fine, the building doesn't have to be adjusted, it just stays up. and this is the government, billions of dollars. we were harry, what do you make of that? the, the peach, the amnesty for every election.

and that is one of the deficiency. and then people know that there will be if they make if they make lo, building construction, they are sure that there will be an amnesty when the election comes. so, and they never, they, well the, the, all the experience, the amnesty always periodically comes that for you know, 2 or 3 until specially in the stumble. and there are, and rural building had been distributed all in the city or in the country as well. ok, therefore all the, all the building the earthquakes are really disaster. you've seen turkey,

it will be same in the future as well. ok, so we're going to have to leave it there. i do appreciate your expertise and your time. thanks very much indeed for joining her on out of good. thank you. well, 11 days after the earthquakes may rescue missions and now focused on helping survivors rescue the rare but they're still happening. and boy, for example, was pilled alive from under reveling in turkey. on friday morning, he'd been trapped for 11 days more than 43000 deaths have been recorded in both countries. let's turn to, i said, beg, who's in kind of mind my rush. i said in the middle, the destruction municipal facilities, of course not the schools have been hits such a focus of normal life children as really were standing in the playground of the school. this building is still standing, although many around have been damaged or destroyed right now. some of the people, the work because the rescue workers pretty they using it for their friday praise.

the government has said that education has been suspended in the schools until the 1st of march, then they will start to resume it once again, depending on those districts and the school school buses school basis. as long as those issues have been resolved. now across the 10 provinces is roughly 4000000 students and 200000 teachers. now all of these people have been affected, but currently this will, that we're starting to get has been used by age because they've been distributing water and food. and other things have was many people have gone back to the caps and they using this as a base. now here and my rush, there is considerable destruction. and there was the 17 year old girl pulled from the rebel 248 hours after. that's a great hit and the 42 year old woman over $250.00, i was after earthquakes. now some people are still holding onto hope, but there has been considerable destruction and a difference on now turning to how do you provide for those people that being made homeless, that they and they can go back to their homes,

even if the building off standing in considerable destruction, so the government's going to have to demolish lots of building and start rebuilding construction. that. that is the major challenge here. all right, i said thanks for that as it beg reporting. let's bring in roy robert. sure. he's the chief of education at units of turkey office joins us now from ankara via skype . roy, say this issue of schooling 1st. do we know the numbers of children whose education has been severely disrupted already stopped halted because of earthquakes and tech k. yes. so we do in the most impacted areas. there's around about 4000000 children at the moment and not in school. and she naturally schooling has stopped, but we'll start again next week for the rest of the country. but in those areas, as your correspondent just said, there will be a gradual reopening of schools as in when the schools are in

a situation where they can accommodate them. bearing in mind that the national ministry of education is part of its response, provided access to families using a school buildings dormitories teacher training centers as temporary accommodation units. notice we now need to get children back into school. there's also the issue of the many, many schools that have being in the destroyed or cedar since severely damaged. and that requires some alternative means to be put in place 10 preschool shelters mobile classrooms. doubling up a shift to schools will run to shifts a day in some areas to accommodate the learning needs. it sounds a bit glib. doesn't have to say kid to be in school at a time like this, but it is important as not nice for the mental recovery. absolutely. oh yeah, that was the point. oh, it made. i mean, obviously learning is important and i think it's important not to underestimate the lifetime impacts of not being in school, particularly coming back a t as

a disruption from cove it. but also schools play a really important support for children. it's an opportunity for them to socialize, to discuss and engage in what they've been, they've been experiencing. i'm one of the things to unicef will be doing. will be working with the ministry to make sure that psycho social support is also delivered a, in the school in the school environment, working with in many thousands of a school counselors that have skills in that, in that respect for 1000000 children, you're going to need a lot, a lot of temporary learning spaces and i guess then it's a question of a prioritizing funding, isn't it? because there's also an awful lot of other things that lead funds as well. he, i, you will, you are seeing that the, the flash appeal is being launched. the look, the ask is $4000000000.00 is a huge amount of money education. last within that is it in itself

a significant amount. i think be hugely dependent on the generosity of the turkish people and people from around the globe to respond. and we will do our very best as unicef to try and meet the need as best we possibly can. working with our partners working with the government. but it's really, you know, it is really a terrible situation. the pictures that you're screening and as we're talking it, it just speaks to really utter devastation in those most affected areas. and it is a moment for us to come together globally to do our very best to help children and not just in education, but across the needs are that they're facing. yes, indeed. right. 11 final question. if we were looking at this, this concept of schooling and how important is it, tell us more about that from the point of view of their mental health as to how it aides their recovery. i mean, the children are,

you know, they're sounding boards, they need other people to express themselves to have an opportunity to explore what they've experience and you know, what we're talking about is experiences of death and destruction and loss that's probably beyond beyond most people's imagination. but children also resilient, but they need to be supported is somebody that needs to be properly facilitated with professional expertise. a school is part of that process, but it's not just about school is about families. it's about a community services. it's in our professional psycho social mental health professionals playing a role in that. but we know the evidence tells us that the school is an important place. it creates a stability, it creates a socializing environment. and if this careful facilitation can help children reconcile with what are really difficult in traumatic experiences,

rubashaw appreciate that. thanks very much indeed that roach, ortho and you so much. ok. country chief of education. now 8 is reaching northern syria are for border crossing was reopened. it's being handout in a makeshift camp and rebel held there is in the province of a leper and todd communities were forced to leave their homes. activists and emergency teams have criticized the slow response to the disaster. mazili on the lower lid since day one. our teams have been keener responding to help our people, especially in the displacement camps that were created quickly to shelter them. again, we've distributed a number of aid kits. we've also made sure to provide water and items for sanitation and hygiene. and then let's say now from myrtle 3rd r, who's been to the northern sir in town of gin to this there are thousands and thousands of people that they have lost their houses or relative. they're big ones . now they're here waiting for aid for food, for warm clothes, for heaters,

and for the medicines. so it has been days that they were waiting for these aid. there sat there angry, and they say the feel that the international community has forgotten them. north west unit has been bombed a heavily by the regime, over the course of a decade. they already lost a lot. they had been displaced several times and now they're 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 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 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 eat, is significantly important because it's winter and particularly durance tied to deny time it's freezing, cold. and every single drop of the 8 can help them to survive. ah, now world leaders in senior defense officials, a medium music for the annual security conference. the summit will focus mainly on the war in ukraine. let's cross to our tip traumatic editor james base who's in

munich, and james focus as a say on immediate support ukraine and look into the future to, i guess yes, absolutely. nick. it was, in fact, a year ago, the munich security conference was the last big international event that happened before the invasion of ukraine. a year ago, all the leaders here were urging the russian president vladimir putin not to go ahead as their intelligence suggested he would like me to launch the invasion. but of course that invasion started with normal, almost the one year anniversary. let's take stock of where we are right now. stephan live and joins me. he's the former prime minister of suite, and you're now the chair of the stock home international piece research institute, which is not in the world as slippery one year on. tell me what your view is of where the war stands right now, because from the reports of the death that we're getting, the eastern front in ukraine seems rather like the western front and what we'll

want. yeah, and it's the 1st need to remind ourselves what will really is war is about death is about pain. all these bombings or houses of hospitals and schools raping a women, kidnapping children, that is what war is about. so that is why we have to do everything to prevent war, but this is such a clear violation of international law. you've served at the top table, the european union. you know how all this works. are you surprised by the resolve of the european nations and the nato nations? your country is not yet a member of nation of nato. they're all saying that with ukraine for as long as it takes. and then the question i have for you is the real calendar going to be set, not in europe, but in america. and is that just a window until 2024. ready and the next us election really, the 2nd question is very hard to, to, to answer. but the 1st one,

i think we should also acknowledge now that the countries are really come together . we are united european union, united states, nato. and that is the crucial thing, because this is existential for all the other countries in europe that russia is not allowed to do this. we have to show, no, you cannot reach international law, european security order. the un charter that's not an alternative. so. so i think the important thing here is to show russia the surround the world. this is not acceptable that we will fight it, but it's existential for putin as well. yeah. he's thinking that if i win this war, i might not stay in office. so we ultimately talking the ultimate in game of this is regime change in mosque mirror of is it would, would game from a, another regime. but that's not up to us to,

to decide. so we have the situation right now and still yes, it's existential for booting as well. but we have to show that in order to make sure that we can, can stay with international or decent relationship between countries. we have to stand up for, for security order and international law. we're going to hear a lot of important players talking here in the mean security conference. many though would say this is a bit of a talk fast, but also, you know, from your time business gets done here as well. and i think one thing that's interesting is we have the u. s. vice president, but also the u. s. secretary state and the chinese foreign minister, both here in munich at the same time, after all the tension over taiwan shooting down of a spy balloon. how important could a meeting be between the us and china this week? well, i would say very important. it is always important, not least in difficult times to keep contact, keep the dialogue ongoing. so if there's a possibility for those to to get those dates to meet, that would be

a good thing. yes stuff. i love the former prime minister of sweden and the chair of slippery. thank you for joining us here on out. just are james. thanks that james. based there in munich. thank you. still here now, does there condemnation of security forces in peru by amnesty international after weeks of unrest. we got bought in 15 minutes. also 2 of your biggest clubs play out a thriller in the u. ripley. ah. hello. we had the 1st name storm of the european winter season, now sweeping across northern parts of the u. k. this so little area of low pressure

here that is storm auto bringing some very strong winds damaging winds across scotland, northeast and parts of england. it will move free pretty quickly, grassy taking his wet weather, windy weather as wintry weather to across scandinavia added that. well, we have got a fair bit of warmth in place across much of europe, and we will see warmer weather. we can lose these blues across at east side of europe, gradually, just filtering in and just notice down towards the se, ankara, getting into double figures. by sunday we could touch 12 degrees celsius. so please to say temperature is just nothing up across the southeast corner of europe. certainly across the earthquakes. i know that's a wild weather from also sweeping through some very strong winds. avalanche risk increasing across norway. there a snow comes into norway pushes across into northern parts of sweden. we are going to see at very a windy weather, grassy make its way through the baltic states as some cloud and rain on that one further south. it is generally try but a fair bit of sunshine. that's the case as we go on through saturday. but further

north, you will see that when she weather continued to push its way for the east, ah ah, ah serious delicacy, days with one month leading the country through us, present us out as lost legitimacy. he needs to step down. how has he retained control through over a decade of war? we examine the global power games of president bashar al assad. we believe assad

simply carrying out iranian orders. what keeps you awake at night? many a reason that could effect any human thought master of chaos on all jazeera oh, i have a good watching out their own mind about tough stories and dozens of building contract kentucky on the investigation following last week's quick critics. a greed and widespread oversight cause the collapse of thousands of older 11 days after to craig's devastated turkey and syria. more than 43000 people in mound. those who have died. but a boy was pulled from out of the bubble in turkey on friday morning. he's been

trapped for more than 11 days. the un has appealed for $1000000000.02 pay for aid. it says is needed immediately by more than 5000000 people in turkey. it also wants $400000000.00 of people in devastated areas in syria. now in se tech a, people for flooding could make things worse. stephanie dec reports from close to the town of le, 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 the 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 gauzy 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 goes beyond temps . ancient castle, a 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. let's cross live now to ankara. we can join our correspondence in the casino, who's there in the capitol, where most of the a t f. it's being coordinated joins. it's from the headquarters of the turkish, a disaster agency center just brings up to date, if you would with what's going on the well, the crisis center inside the disaster management agency is still operating with working groups from all ministries or of the turkish authorities. and i also international aid organizations, a, have some representatives upstairs in the crisis room. they are trying to coordinate and delegate the aid and rescue workers being deployed to the areas are of course, international aid still pours on over trickier. as many countries tried to show solidarity air with air trickier and the victims of the earthquake and the

survivors, of course we have the united nations pledging $1000000000.00 in funding to us is 5200000 people of the earthquake. it's area as your asian countries decided to increase their funding, and the number of the rescue workers that they're sending to turkey, including azerbaijan and georgia. of course, we have the nato ally in sending a shelters tens and other necessary supplies to the, to the earthquake to areas we how katara sending $10000.00 a containers for accommodation. all those are earthquakes, survivors in the region. a besides international aid or the international rescue workers that are coming every day, and the ones of course will complete their mission. they returned back to their countries. at true kia has conducted a donation campaign 2 nights ago. are all turkish media outlets and air media outlets in northern cyprus and as our fe jain joined destination campaign. and a bill is of a turkish, clear as were collected by the turkish civilians,

business men, bankers, just regular citizens. they all donated at these am and this money to create this fund to assist to the earthquake affected people of the region. how is this affecting turkeys relations with neighboring countries center? well since took is preparing for an election, which is officially scheduled for june 18, but turkish president wants to pull it a little bit to earlier time, which is may 14th at the atmosphere. the in the turkish politics was tense inside. of course, in the last 2 years to kia has had very, very tense relations with it's a western neighbor, greece over the 2 islands in the agency over the all exploration activities in the eastern mediterranean and some other extra topics. a besides suki had tense relations with our many, especially after to care or cont, earth to care,

assisted azerbaijan during the kara by war and the relations between encore and tell of you have been tense for more than 10 years. after 2 cares sent the garza flotilla to ascend, aid to the palestinians without informing the is rider authorities of the plum attic and relations were nearly minimized. but during this earthquake, this natural disaster, which is deemed as the worst natural disaster, oh, the century, for instance, greece was one of the 1st countries to offer it helped to, to gain. it's happened back in 1999 to a when true care was hit by the murmur. earthquake, air, which was a bo 7 point it to magnitude and air. tens of thousands of people lost their lives . grace sent its rescue teams, and it was the greek foreign minister who came to turkey. he was the 1st stop diplomat to visit church on the other side. armina opened, that's a border crossing for him. it's adrian 8 corridor and is right over there was one

of the 1st countries were deployed rescue workers to turkey. more than 700 people were here. and they were the 1st one to establish to build a field hospital in the earthquake hit area. so looking at this p. m, people or countries that their voices grew sent to kia, was almost at the brink of her war air, who named each other as foyers became friends in short, solidarity and grease. a prime minister, we just talk as, as spoke to one of the national tv outlets last night. and he said that the earthquake may create an opportunity to redefine the bilateral relations between athens and on kara. and between the relations between encore and european union, and due to due to some of the policies of the ruling party and the tension between greece and the relations with the ear was also tens. are certain things that i said sitting particularly the in and cra, thank you. let's move on to other news. now news, england, where at least at 9 people had known to have died after cycling. gabriel struck

it's no time. please say more than 4000 people have lost contact since it hit 5 days ago. about 10000 people were forced to leave their homes in the countries was flooding disaster in decades among the dead or an infant. and a firefighter who was with a very heavy heart last night that we received the news that a little why fi, florida, craig stevens, who was rescued in the early as of tuesday from the midwife landslide, but no longer be with us. craig died in the hospital last night, surrounded by his loved ones, after fighting valiantly to the politicians from around the world and meeting in japan to discuss what they see as a growing threat from china on the agenda. concerned about pages approach to taiwan and robert, right? from their bases in taiwan. fighter jets take to the skies as part of an exercise in readiness for wool plains coming from mainland china. incursions by china is air

force doubled in 2022 with beijing determined to unite with what it regards as a renegade break away problems for ty, ones, president saying when these threats our reminder of why her government is keeping its distance from the mainland, as she restated in her luna new year message with the military steadfast in holding the post defending our national security in our common homeland with all their might. her vice president and the man widely expected to succeed her when taiwan, alexa, new president, in a year's time, holds similarly defiant views. when i minutes on board that we facing the threat from china in the future on you, mission is to protect taiwan, promote democracy, peace and prosperity. in not quest taiwan can count on the might of its allies,

united states, a strike group lead by the aircraft carrier limit, 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 is a highly provocative act tie one's increasing geopolitical importance. underpinned by its global, high tech business, clamped, has raised the stakes in this potential flashpoint. china's president sheet in pain having secured and unprecedented extension to his time in office seems to have made unification with taiwan. his legacy mission, the i'm sure you got both sides of the taiwan strait belong to one china, which is the fact with clear historical evidence and legal basis. taiwan has never been a state, nor will it become one time 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 columbia and venezuela have met on the border between the 2 countries to sign the trade deal. the agreement lifts, import duties on dozens of manufactured goods. trade between the 2 nations is fallen drastically since 2015 and improve last year of the columbia 1st left us president because of a petri, was elected by sides recently opened board of bridges for the 1st time. in 7 years . amnesty international has issued a preliminary report on alleged human rights violations carried out during weeks of protest and prove it uses security forces of foreign indiscriminately demonstrators . nearly 60 people have been killed since december when former president petro costio, was forced from office marana sanchez reports. now from lima, wendy, none of the ankle was killed on december 15th at the airport in the city of fire, quoting the ann, this family says they had 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 other to order than i'm 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, their crack down on protesters, no single that we are 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 show of contempt against indigenous peruvians. it says savvy, all our rights have been violated because we are peasants. dina,

below i t has said we are terrorists vandals, human rights lawyers representing victim 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 level. if you're not, proceed in the novel, not demit, amnesty presented tips on wednesday. she says the judiciary is investigating the cases and they're waiting for its findings. but amnesty says they're worried because the authorities have not guaranteed to refrain from quelling future protests to the excessive use of force. like in a sentence, i just don't mean at least 2 people are being killed in guinea during an anti government protest. demonstrated through stones and blood ready to the capital, cannot great political rallies aren't banned by guineas military grooves who took part in a coup in 2021 war and conflict in some african countries as displace millions of

people. many have fled to refugee camps and neighboring chad, but they're finding very little work and inadequate infrastructure to support them now as well as more as if its own internal conflict and poverty weren't enough shot house for some years, become a place of refute to many flea and was the neighboring country tribal classes in calhoun drove fatima hatton to the refugee camp west chub. if we can't go back to our village, we have seen many corpses here. some of the people were killed in front of our eyes . we can't go back. she isn't about $100000.00, come on in refugees. in chub, nearly 10000 of them are here in the color body camp. but chad hosts dozens of similar camps with refugees from the central african republic dot for nigeria and elsewhere. and this is a part of a white,

a phenomenon across central and eastern africa. ongoing conflicts have created millions of refugees and displaced people in somalia. each o p a kenya, wanda boone de, editor, you saw them, and the democratic republic of congo. last year, the united nations estimated the number of refugees and forcibly displaced persons in africa, had reached 36000000. c was d e d plus he would if he, the reason behind these refugees and displaced, people are well known. and it is mainly the lack of peace and quiet existence for africa to go forward them to achieve progress. you must establish peace here at the color body. agencies are trying to help in different ways, including small agricultural projects. wet refugees can grow their own food. the camps provide temporary shelter, but they're struggling when it comes to as a basic requirements that are fuji's. no, they don't have a long term future chat for now. they say they feel thankful for the safety that

enjoying and can only hope for peace to prevail in their countries. so they can return home home at 50 off a police in senegal, her fatigue as to despair supporters of the main opposition needa on moment sancho sancho was forcibly removed from his car after paring and in the court in the capital decker. he was attending hearings in the defamation case, against the supporters say the legal action and the allegations are attempts to discredit him ahead of his presidential election next year. one of the world's most ambitious agricultural schemes is in decline. the project in sudan was once considered the country's bread basket and a major source of food for other countries, but it suffered from a lack of modern tools and equipment and investment. now the government is hoping to turn that around, but morgan reports from 0 state. this tractor is essential for hated unworthy farm . here incidence just the estate. he says he inherited it from his father and he

uses it to dick and mouth to irrigate his crops or till the soil. but he says that machinery is thought old. it's not as efficient as it used to be. id i did. if you had other machines i've had some equipment for 20 years in some has been with me for 25 and they are. we actually use equipment that has been refurbished and we can't afford to buy new equipment and if something breaks or we welded done and there's no investment in the project to afford modern equipment. good either. hey, there is farm is part of the 0 agricultural project. it's the 2200000 acre agricultural scheme. that's one of the largest of its type in the world. it was established nearly a century ago and was once regarded as the bread basket of sudan. crops like circum cotton and weeds were harvested, not just for local consumption, but also for export. now only about half of the land is being farmed, the surf of to remove the input for harvests is not always affordable to farmers

and the seeds on to a waste. the bashing of the land is there. the water for irrigation is there, but there is need to rehabilitate the facilities of the project. more than a 130000 farmers work on the project that's managed by the government. but farmers say that government hasn't invested enough. most of the machinery around here has been in use for years. farmer say a failure to modernize the dizzier esteem has led to a decline in production of crops in the country. for example, 75 percent of the country suite was once harvested here. now most is imported, other crops have also been affected, affecting market prices and reducing the availability of food in the country. the world food program says a 3rd of to dance 4 to 3000000 people don't have enough food. partly because they can't afford it. the organisation says investing in agriculture, in places like 0 projects will help the country and others. but for dance,

political crisis may deter investment. the fertile land that you see behind me projects like this, well, you can not only be sued in, you can help be the whole world. and so that's why we're here. we've got to resolve some of the issues, a sudan, so we move forward, bring and private sector investors, investors that will work with small holder farmers, maximize harvest yield production, and we solve food security around the world. hayden says he hopes to see more investment in the project that would help him not only get more than equipment and increase production, but also grow enough crops. so that to 0 project than once again, export food from to damn. he will morgan august 0 to 0 state not the search to find a success of scotland. first minister nicholas sturgeon is underway, study resigned on wednesday after more than 8 years. and the job there is not resignation prompted calls for the party to postpone a conference aimed at reviving it's pushed for independence. rory challenges in scotland capital and has more the scottish national party. is it something of

across race with too difficult decision to make? the 1st course who's going to replace nicholas dash and big boots to fill. the 2nd is, was the party 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, ok, what we're going to do then is we're going to make the next general election that de facto independence referendum. the issue with that is, it's 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 lead to be chosen. who can then take

a new strategy forward for we talent out to 0. edinburgh is still ahead here. now does it go support coming up, take over, tool heats up, find out who all the bid is looking to make man united. great. again, details coming ah. with

a full oh a all right, let's get onto this board and bid is interested in taking ever mentioned to them. they have less than 12 hours to submit the proposals to be to soft deadlines set by the clubs, america known as the glazer family, reportedly want nearly $6000000000.00 for the club,

which is valued at around 3 and a half 1000000 on the new york stock. exchange that's i couldn't malcolm blazer, who died 9 years ago, had taken full control of united back in 2005. but shortly after that he handed the running club to his children due to his deteriorating health. so who could buy united? here are some of the candidates said jim radcliff is publicly expressed interest. he's estimated to be worth more than $7000000000.00 and owns that chemical company in the us. a consortium of country investors are expected to make a bid with it cut sports investments officials assisting their preparations. according to reports i kiss i of course, they own python as your man. there also reports that private groups in saudi arabia could make a bid. the country's public investment fund already owned 80 percent of new castle united. we've been speaking to simon chadwick, who's a professor sport and geopolitical economy. and he explains why taking of united provides more than just financial benefits to invest. united is now come to

a pivotal moments. i think it's come to a poor pivotal moment for 2 reasons. the 1st one is it's very clear that the glazes and, and possibly u. s. private equity. investors in general do not have the resources to be able to compete with the, the, the, the golf clubs and, and i'm thinking particularly here of manchester city are signs you're mile. but the 2nd thing is, is if united is going to grow it's revenues even further, it needs a new stadium. and so if the glazes are going to take the club any further, they're going to have to make some very, very serious and significant investments in stadium infrastructure. but i also think in terms of investment in the playing squad. and so i think at this moment in time, it looks like they want to cash out various tremendous soft power. no interested in the premier league in manchester, united specifically. but what's really crucial as well, i think is, is to, is to focus on manchester. i think as a city because as we seen through blue

w ownership of manchester city, the investors from the gulf region have really used the club as a means through which to embed themselves through economic and political factors within the city. and so. busy of urban renewal, along with residential accommodation has been built by the government which has got to that position through the football club. so i think we will see the same thing potentially if we've, we've got saudi arabian, or catherine owners at manchester, united. there will be a broader context possibly linked to local investment opportunities. and a key detail of this, i think, is, is the, the british government post bracks. it has just recently announced that the river that runs from, from the atlantic pass liverpool all the way to to sulphur pretty much manchester united doorstep will become a free port. so for those people who are familiar with, for example, the bell alley free port due by that's what the british government is essentially

trying to create between liverpool, manchester. and so this potentially offers some interesting opportunities for, for golf investors. because freeport, bring with the economic and political advantages. simon chadwick. well, my united were involved in a very exciting game on thursday. they drew against spanish johns barcelona in the year. i believe all the girls came in the 2nd half. in the 1st letter of the tale. hi, marcus alonzo. he opened the scoring bos, alona, and marcus rash with excellent form, then continued his at 22nd building season level. the game is running cross regimen and going from you. but you know, i think could not hold onto the lead as rafino shot its way to the final school. second leg at old trafford next thursday. and let golden auster has given abi salzburg, one mill advantage in that time with the re renews aroma team. nicholas elder with

the decisive header in the event since were denied a home when by not of from little bit cancelled out the italians isley with the game ending. one piece that is now and cause a golf has failed in her bed to reach the semi finals of the category. and the number 4 seat was not taught by veronica could have meant over the russian will now face world one english one pick in the last for a day after saving 2 match points in a 3 2nd victory. jelena of the franco jessica, who got a much easier match number to see beating her dad in straight sets that remain at clark or madison coming up now. ah.

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