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schools and universities damaged in turkey and syria, how millions of students would be affected by lawsuits. ah, and i'm mccloud, this is out 0 life. doha, also coming up turkish authorities cried down on building contractors as anger grow . so, but why so many apartment blocks collapse during last week. so and we report from one of the worsted areas in syria where aid is finally arriving. but many say the u . s. response has been too slow. also had parts of new zealand still on the water motorcycle. gabrielle struck no 5 ah dash. so we begin insulting turkey when nearly 4000000 children and quite affected areas are facing major disruption to that education. also and universities
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remain closed. many have been damaged while others have been turned into shelters. the un is appealing for $1000000000.02 pay for aid that's needed immediately in turkey. it's also trying to establish temporary learning centers. it says it also wants $400000000.00 for those in effected areas in syria. the earthquake struck in the middle of winter. hundreds of thousands of people do not have shelter. food, water heaters or medical health. in turkey, about 47000 buildings have been destroyed or damaged, including schools and hospitals. dozens of building contracts as a now under investigation. we got a team of correspondence covering the disaster right across impacted regions in the southeast of turkey, as well as northwestern syria. but let's cross now to examine said anne, who joined us from a donna and sent me things free much now moving on air from the rescue operation to thinking about how to help them millions of displaced from these earthquakes, especially children in some
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places. yes, naked many places. of course, you know, in some places they're still going on. it's really depends on how badly damaged each place was. but in general, yeah, a lot of the focus has to now start gradually shifting more and how not only how do you get people out the rubble and how do you get them house. but how do you take care of the nations needs going forward? a big chunk of which has been impacted by the earthquake and you know what? it's difficult sometimes to separate the 2. let me explain to you why visually now i'm going to go out to our camera mantis zoom into the building behind me. now this neighborhood is a good example of how into connected all of those needs. really are we talking about earthquakes, so voluble, and housing and schools, you know, the basic important infrastructures of a city like schools that building clearly doesn't need
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a lot of explanation. you can see it has been sliced one part of it, just slice like a slice of cake taken out. taken out of it. very sadly. people's homes are left exposed while those people have been have to have been evacuated. and even the people in the buildings which look relatively relatively ok, they've had to be evacuated as well. they've got some mind the damage and also that building prevents a threat to all the others around it. so where do all these people then go? because you're talking about a big chunk of a neighborhood now that needs housing. well, they've been put into housing in places like the building that's a little further to my right, which is a school. so you can see how disruptive this earthquake is proving and how it one thing impacts together. now, some of the schools are housing displaced, families from areas of destruction like that behind me. then the schools that go to
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figure out as well, how do they keep things going? so the government taking a number of measures that sango naturally will extend the mid term holidays. but if you're in an earthquake zone, and we're going to figure out what to do for your kids by march, the 1st that was the lakers commitment that came out of the government a few hours ago. but in the meantime, don't worry if you are outside or able to get outside of the earthquakes. you can register your kids in other schools. if you're a university student, they're going to move towards online. we're all remember the online life that we enjoyed during 2020. so we've got a bit of practice, but that will kids are going to go university to studying online and by the distance or something of a hybrid of it. now i have had an interesting day the other day when i was walking around one of these damaged neighborhoods and they came across a young man whose cruise his name started chatting, i said, are you
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a student by any chance? and he said yes. and why? amazement, he speaks really good english as well. so i told him it's meant to be made. you have to join me here. so he's here now joining us on the, on the show. nice to have you with us. so it's cool. thanks. it's nice to be here. the speaker. yeah. well we want to understand 1st of all, what this earthquake has done to your life because you're one of the residents in this area. right. so this earthquake has impacted your, your home. so yeah. the earth earthquake was really hard because we didn't expect it as whole. like no one sold us hope like thankfully, our house was not damaged or mostly but was still were really scared. and we had room lee of our houses, which is where we live, where they grew. so you're not at home any more. ah, i got back home yesterday. now they told us that it's safe. they didn't check it before. now go back to our routine, but it's kind of hard to live your life in this way because you know,
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i walk around the street and all i see is robles and buildings collapsed. it's not an easy sign that emotionally to see. i can, i can definitely attest to that and then you're a student as well. so you're studying glory to university. are you going? does this mean you're not going back to class now because your studying what's considered a theoretical subject. yeah, fortunately, our car only did like the dentists and the, the medicine students came back go back to school cuz they had lab less like laboratory lessons, but i don't have such things. so the government tells me that i have to do some online studying cares. our dorms are now filled, wits people who are affected by earthquakes. so that means obviously a lot of the students that were reliant on living in the dorms can't come closer to the universities to resume their studies. and they got a study from distance, right. exactly, cuz when the dorms are full, the only way you can resit likely the only academy accommodation you can find in
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a city is a private dorms or a housing. so if you don't have the money to rent a house, or even if you don't have the money to rent a private dorm, they are fortunately, account stainless city. now, i want it done to your mood. are you able to study online even this? technically you've got internet in the computer and so on. it's a bit hard to study in these conditions. like, yeah, i am safe, but thankfully, i am safe. there are much worse people than me. by yet still i have some friends who are under rubble. i have some friends that have died, so it's kind of past that and trying to study it's hard study easy. oh, we're very sorry to hear that. ok. and i hope things get better and we hope the best for your friends as well. thank you so much for talking to us. thank you. but as you can see, it's quite an, in the connected series of tragedies here that you surviving an earthquake worrying about your friends having to change your home. and then on top of while you're dealing and processing, all of that, you're also got to think about your studies a lot for people to process
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a lot for the authorities to handle to nick. yeah. incredibly difficult times at sammy, thanks for that, sammy said, and they're in a dyna. let's go to. i said break now in the heart head area of carmen marsh for more on how students are coping with a disaster. a mr. destruction in this city. this school is remarkably still standing. now, there's no lessons going on here. that's because the government has suspended education until the 1st of march. now across the 10 provinces is around 4000000 students, and 200000 teachers are primary and secondary level. now the government says education will resume after the 1st of march, but that depends on the districts and school by school basis, because some of the buildings are damaged and they have to be inspected before students can be returned. now this building now is being used for emerging emergency relief efforts to help those that are left behind on there is no one left to go to school. a lot of people have died only a few people are left to there's an e,
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j to at least the schools are being used for a good purpose. now, education has been suspended and it will badly affect us. but i am sure the state will do what's necessary for our education. the hadn't got food, water, blankets and clothes, but not only to the people that are left behind, but also the rescue workers, the relief workers, and the police who have been working tirelessly throughout this crisis now asked, rescue efforts begin to wind down. the government will be looking at how they can get vital humanitarian aid to those people left behind. and because the destruction is so vast and because so many buildings have been damaged, they're using schools like this one that are still standing. no education is taking place inside, but they're using it as a humana tarion hub. and that's what the government will be doing in terms of looking at buildings are still standing that they can use to get vital to monitoring 8 to those people that are left behind, that don't have homes, are completely dependent upon the state and age organizations to get by i said
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vague, i'll just either carmen rush, southern dorothea, or roy robert sure is the chief of education at units of turkey office and says that makes shift schools can be a source of both education and emotional support for children impacted by the earthquakes. in the most impacted areas, there's around about 4000000 children at the moment and not in school. and she naturally schooling a stop, but we'll start again next week for the rest of the country. but in those areas, it 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 you now need to get children back into school. there's also the issue of the many,
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many schools that have being either destroyed or cedric since severely damaged. and that requires some alternative means to be put in place 10 preschool shelters mo classrooms. doubling up a shift says schools will run to shifts a day in some areas that accommodate the learning needs. i think it's important not to underestimate the lifetime impacts of not being in school, particularly coming back of 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 in the school in the school environment. rebuilding efforts are expected to begin within weeks barking techs, as well as local people, a blaming unmodified buildings for the high death told in turkey, bernard smith reports now from carmen. rush in the 1st
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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. whose gunners are mine is 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,
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it's more integrated into the earth. he says so more able to withstand shaking and swaying. 3 years ago, eunice and 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 uprooting thousands and thousands of people in 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. totally. okay. really because we're facing immense pain here. jamil is 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 build a mix is the concrete banana you can must and take me to pot. hm. it's,
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there's no one reason why a building collapses. it could have been the type of soil a fault in the construction plan and the engineering, the workmanship or something external. we have many buildings badly damaged by other falling buildings. there need to be technical inspections and only then can we take the steps necessary for a safe future, hulu. 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 karima marsh, despite the widespread devastation, not all cities of suffer the same faces natasha, good name reports now from urban were in the city of hers on, in her tie province, a province that has been devastated by the earthquake, 14000 people in the province have died, but here in urs on population, about 43000 people. not a single person died, not a single building collapsed. and will have my photographer ali show you that on
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these apartment buildings i am standing in front of. you can see the potted plants unmoved. lots of scenes, typical city scenes. we're seeing in this town in contrast to the devastated areas we've been in the last several days. the major sign of damage is this earth, this, this mosque in the city center. now there are a couple of factors contributing to the fact that the city fared rather well in the earthquake. the 1st off is where it is geographically situated. it is a about a 119 kilometers away from the epicenter of the earthquake income and marsh. it is also a 40 kilometers to the west. there is a fault line, but in between the fault line, there is a mountain, an expert say that that mountain has likely acted as a barrier in the city. also, the soil there is the city is at a higher sea level and there is bedrock buildings are being constructed on bedrock
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which are apparently better able to withstand the swaying motion of buildings that occurs during an earthquake. unlike a city say, such as an takia which has been levelled, which was built on sand and clay, which is quite vulnerable. well, aid is reaching nolan, syria, off to the reopening of a border crossing. it's been developed him make in a mixture of camp and ripple held areas in the province of a leper and todd communities were forced to leave their homes, wrists and emergency teams criticize the slow response to the disaster. mazili on lower loses since day one. our teens 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 to lead. i still have here an out there, a supply chain problems, labor shortages and war. we look at just how quickly bianca cultural industry is to
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adapt to change. ah, ah hello, we've got some where to where the make gets way towards to pan over the next couple days where some outbreaks of bus snow but it's going to be rather mile. so i think it'll settle in any way, shape or form. we got high pressure in charge, so that's trying to keep things settled, but fairbetter cloud to spinning out of that eastern side of china. so she went to whether grazing south korea, pushing across that western side of japan as we go through, sat stay other side of the mountains, 14 celsius in tokyo, saturdays a fine day, sundays, not a fine day. we got some wet weather coming through here. temperatures do actually pick up, so it's not too bad, but you can see pharaoh wintery mex just tumbling across a good part of the country. brightest guys come back in behind,
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tabulate in beijing will recover to around 10 degrees celsius. and by this time, much of china is drive a little cloudy down towards the south. now we got thickening cloud just making his way towards the philippines, and that will bring some really heavy showers to central and northern parts. as we go through the next couple of days, we'll see some big down. pause in to manila as we go on through were sat, stay as the rain set sent across a good part of loose on not to rush right in the forecast across south asia at present. but i think it's all about the heat. temperature is running 7 or 8 celsius course at western side of india, and plenty of heat to, for pakistan. ah, ah, ah,
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ah, ah lou ah, and again, you're watching out 0. 1 of our top stories are in turkey, the education of nearly 4000000 children. the earthquake affected areas is facing major disruption. schools and universities are closed with many dimension, others tended to shelters dozens of building contracts as in turkey, under investigation following last week's earthquakes. critics, a greed and a lack of government oversight caused the collapse of thousands of older pop aide
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is starting to reach rebel held areas in northern syria of the reopening of border crossing activist, emergency teams criticizes flu response to the disaster. in other news, world leaders the btn germany to discuss global security policies. the main topic at the munich security conference will of course, be russia's invasion of ukraine. the conflict has led to a change in policies including commitments, to increase weapon deliveries, to keep him see the french president live right now. to michael. and in the last hour, ukraine's president of robbins lensky, he delivered a video message to leaders gathered at the conference lives to liberates ukraine and europe. because when the russian weapon should at us, it is already pointed at our neighbors. may europe be this subject of compromise? no, we have to liberate from russians aggressive potential potential every international
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institution and every fear of the world economy. because, because only only then there will be a chance for freedom to pass through our border further to the east. within our, from our diplomats give it to a james base who is immunity? can, has more on so lensky speech this address exactly one year on was very important. pretty similar language as we've seen. progressive skin is recent speeches, for example, when he spoke recently in london, in paris and brussels messages to the international community to do more making the point. what is lacking here is speed. he keeps asking for things. it started with non lethal assistance that the west was giving it moved to heavy weapons then to artillery and now tanks. and now he's calling to fight to jazz with everything he asked for a long period of delay discussion. and eventually,
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the west gives him what he wants, but he would like to see the delivery of weapons speeded up, much, much more. ukraine will stay the top issue, i think, during this years munich, security conference. but it's not just what discussed here in terms of a sort of talk fast. it's also active diplomacy that sometimes takes place. on these occasions, the us delegation, represented by vice president common harris bought the us secretary of state entity blinking. it's going to be here to as is the top 4 policy official of china, y m e, the state counsellor. when ye give it all attention over taiwan and more recently, over the chinese balloon shot down over north american space. there is the possibility of discussions between those 2, which of course is something to watch very closely. and new zealand, at least 9 people who have died off the cycle and gabrielle a stuck, it's north island. police say more than 4000 people have lost contact since it hit
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5 days ago. about 10000 were forced to leave their homes. it is the country's worst flooding disaster in decades among the dead or an infant and a fire fighter. who was with a very heavy heart last night that we received the news that l needed. 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 and hospital last night, surrounded by his loved ones. after fighting valiantly to the u. s. president joe biden says 3 identified objects shot done by 5 to judge eli this month. do not seem to be use for spying. he said to us, we'll put together a more detailed list of object flying over u. s. s. space. we don't yet know exactly what these 3 objects were, but nothing, nothing right now suggest they were related to chinese fire balloon program, or that there were surveillance vehicles from other any other countries. it tells
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us communities current assessment, is that these 3 objects for most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions, studying whether or conducting other scientific research. politicians from around the world to meet in japan to discuss what they see as a growing threat from china on the agenda. concerns about beijing's approach to taiwan from brian has this report from the base is in taiwan, fight 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 providence. for ty, one's 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 at the football with the military
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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, when in song or that we facing the threat from china in the future, our new mission is to protect taiwan, promote democracy, peace and prosperity. in night 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,
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she didn't 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 e 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, at least 2 people have been killed in gimme jury, an anti government protest demonstrators through stones and blood roads. and the capital cannot great. political rallies are banned by guineas military rulers who took part in the queue in 2021 place. in senegal, her far tear gas to disperse supporters of main opposition leader of man. sancho sancho was forcibly removed from his car after appearing in a court in the capital darker. he was attending harrington
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a defamation case against him. sancho support to say the legal action and other allegations or attempts to discredit him ahead of a presidential elections next year. the agriculture industry has been hit hard by supply chain problems, labor shortages and disruptions caused by russia's war, ukraine has resulted in high food prices and less profits. now, farmers and scientists exploring ways on how to quickly adapt to change. reynolds reports down to laurie in california, tens of thousands of farm and non farming families alike, visit the ag expo every year to check out the latest farm technology trade information and line up to chow down on huge gut busting stake sandwiches. farmers are accustomed to changes in weather and markets and prepare for them as best they can says, 3rd generation allman farmer, aubrey bettencourt awesome,
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a popular farm podcast her and head of the almond alliance trade organization. at the end of the day, at the farmer's ultimate goal is to provide a safe and healthy and reliable product to the consumer. that's what their goal and, and drive an entire mission and purposes. but some events come with little chance to prepare an event that most farmers could not have anticipated began just about a year ago when russia invaded ukraine. that instantly pushed up the price of fertilizer. russia is the world's largest supplier of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium fertilizer. with nearly one 3rd of all, world production, ukraine and bell ruse are also large scale producers almost 60 percent or more of the global supplies from that region. instantly the price of that product went up everywhere in the world, and it became the most expensive year in farming anywhere in the united states. farmers of staple grains like wheat and corn, also called maze,
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are heavily dependent on those fertilizers. you look at corn and wheat, specifically the 2 categories have been hit the most by the russia, ukraine war. and those are even yes, perfect star. those are even more important fertilizers, 35 percent of the cash fossil producing those. the result, higher food prices and less profit for farmers to the farmer sometimes can't pass the costs on to the consumer. they have to eat the cost of that rise in the fertilizer cost. the agriculture industry and its scientific partners are usually quick to adapt. change whether it be new consumer demands, new technology or supply challenges. already, scientists in california are working on trapping nitrogen for fertilizer. from earth's atmosphere itself, rob reynolds al jazeera to larry california. ah, so this.

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