the truth upfront with me, mark lamond hill on al jazeera, russia's war in ukraine has dominated, well, he's for the past 12 months. devastating for those in the line of fire or directly impacted. it has strengthened global alliances and deepens, divisions with far reaching effects on the lives of millions of people. well, white in a week could special coverage. al jazeera explored every aspect of the conflict, the human, the political, and the economic and the possibilities of resolution. ukraine war one here on, on out there. ah

millions made homeless ada efforts, inter kia and syria turned to supporting people, displaced by the 2 devastating earthquakes. ah, i don't know about this and this is all to see, rely from doha. also coming up. we're going to have a report from the town of al, based on the epicenter of this 2nd quake, or nearly every building has been destroyed. nothing remains livable here. a lot of its residents have left. there are not many tense here. and many residents also complained that help didn't come fast enough desperately needed a derives in sylvia. we're going to hear from families struggling to survive and the rebel held northwest conflict defense and humanitarian aid. day 2 of the munich security conference gets underway with world leaders and security officials in attendance. ah,

ah. we're going to begin inter kia and syria. both countries still recovering after last week's too devastating. earthquakes. more than 46000 people have been killed. millions more. don't have any homes any more. the turkish government says at least 84000 buildings and more than 332000 houses of either been destroyed or there to damage to be used. 14000000 people usually live in the part of took here. that's been most affected at 16 percent of the population. officials and turkey. i still don't know exactly how many people are now homeless. that the vice president says more than a 1000000 people are living in tents. the situation is even worse in syria. the u. n. estimates up the homes of up to 5300000 people there have been destroyed. we could a team of correspondence covering the disaster across southeast and turkey and northwest syria. we're going to start with stephanie decker is in the turn of elvis dunn.

elvis done the exact epicenter of that 2nd earthquake. the city resembles a ghost town. we've been driving around at streets. we haven't seen a single building, left standing either collapsed, partially collapsed, destroyed, nothing remains livable here. a lot of its residents have left. there are not many tense here, and many residents also complained that help didn't come fast enough. el boston is nestled between snow covered mountains. it takes a long time to drive here. when you see nothing but mountains, it's also freezing below 20 centigrade at night. we've also seen the turkish john dot emma with a cadaver adult. the rescue operation ended a long time ago here. now it is only about recovering bodies. some of the buildings have already been marked. zoning on it saying things like empty saying damage noted

. it seems that the work to rebuild this area has already begun, but at the moment, the devastation and we've been to many cities across the south east remains beyond comprehension. stephanie decker, al jazeera albus, done in southeastern, to kia we're going across. not another hot had region in southeastern took in natasha named joining me from the city of donna. but we've been hearing more and more about the focus on helping those who survive these earthquakes. people are waiting. there's a lot of feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. they've lost their familiarity and comfort of home. they've lost their sense of security, where i'd a tense city here in a park, in a donna and people here do say that the conditions are a little bit better than what they were initially. some have heat,

they've been given a reprieve from the cold winter weather. they've been having at least during the day at night it will get quite cold. we're already seeing a lot of fires burning. people are waiting to find out where the government will move them next. if they need emergency housing, people are waiting to find out if an inspector will come, deem their homes structurally found and they'll be able to return. when you consider that 13500000 people across southern turkey have been impacted by this disaster. you get a sense of the enormous challenge. the turkish government will face. there is no figure yet as to how many people are now homeless. as a result of the earthquake, but we do know that already the government has provided shelter to 1600000 people. they're living in university dorms, living in tents. many people we've met this week are still living in cars. some are even living outside. they haven't been able to get a tent or any kind of shelter,

and that is because there is a critical shortage of shelter in the country. the country has exhausted it's supply of tents. it is working rapidly to make war procure more. there are community or container communities in the works, but the overwhelming sense of what we're hearing from people, despite the challenges they're facing, being displaced is that they feel very lucky that they're alive, only vendor and keep it on. and if somebody we need help here as soon as possible, we want to be healed. we don't want this place to be neglected. jane took many breath. i say, you fellow the most exhausting thing for me is the people fighting. we're at a time where we need to be united, but they take every opportunity to start fights, fights for blankets fights for t. i believe this is a lesson for humanity. instead of valuing one another, they do suspect each other. that's the hardest thing about being here. oh, good. well, no. first, the job with over, after leaving my house, i stayed in mosques than i travel to another town to stay with the relative for

a few days than the government gave us tents. and we have been staying here on grief for what trouble over the government says 75000 buildings in turkey. i have been destroyed or damaged another almost mind numbing statistic. that gives you a sense of the colossal needs people will have in the coming weeks. and months the voucher can a man and anna natasha. thank you very much. indeed. when across the border in syria, aid is finally reaching its northern regions are to the reopening of a border. crossing activists and emergency teams have criticize the slow response to the disaster. russell sada, has more from genders in northwest syria. many syrians know the loss of loved ones only too well in the tone of gender as in the north west. more than a decade of civil war has already killed and displaced many. but those who have survived are now living to

a new trauma. the regions earthquakes disaster across the border into the key at rescue and aid operations are running nonstop. but here that is only silence and feelings of grief and abandonment admired booker could only watch helplessly as he saw so lovely dyed threat together under their before hours. he hugged his child and waited for help. but none arrived the heavy well admin 1st blood oozed out of my son's mouth and made his voice fighting. gradually, my daughter and other son, we just made his away. they also died. i only ask for help from god my it says no 8 can heal his wounds. he has lost what he treasured the most. his children not were syria is home to more than 4000000 people. it has been heavily bombed by the regime to walked well year long civil war. life here was already tough, and the earthquake has just added to the misery. these children were born during

celia's war. most have grown up as orphans. they have washed those around them, killed by bombs for him from the sky. the earthquakes took away what little they had left, but even in disaster, some are finding fun. in this makeshift camp is now home to many survivors. one of them is mom met sort of, he had a family and lived in a camp. it wasn't much busted home. he says he was next to his wife when the roof collapse on them. he held his wife's leg to see if she was alive. she moved it a little, a sign of life, a spark of hope. when he woke in a makeshift hospital, he discovered his entire family was dead. how little i asked about my wife? the doctor told me she is dead. my daughter is dead. my son too. they are all gone . 4 kilometers away in cover sephora. life and death are intertwined. sub has

seen lost many friends and family members during the war. now the earthquake has claimed 9 more than to shake by level. you see how many people are now in need of help, badly also lost their families. we buried our loved ones here. my can put husband lies buried next to some of their children. but she says she must stay strong. her youngest child still needs her. people who say the international community has abandoned them, but they are used to being ignored. no, though they feel anger by the absence of help. although international aid is finally arriving, they say it's too little too late, but what there is they will need to survive the winter. we had to cross the border before the day ended. we passed several checkpoints, as the san said, living behind the country where disaster after disaster overlap were so sad that i'll jazeera gender, us not where syria allowed region. we've just been hearing families and syria are facing dar conditions,

made worse by the delay in delivering aid on all herani reports, mar flynn, in the aleppo countryside. no, no. if you fall out of the, with the into free and we are inside this gym hall in the middle of a free in the aleppo countryside. this is where dozens of syrian families have taken shelter after their homes were partially or totally destroyed by the earthquake. what we've seen here can only be described as devastating, especially to children and the elderly cook and heather and mac. let's hear now from one of the survivors. i'm not sure your maneuvers, desert. we have been sheltered in this hall for 12 days, but we don't have any services. we have not received any assistance. i suffer from colon cancer and back pain. i'm sleeping on his hard surface in his fiercely cold weather. it is really tough number and what i will though we survived the earthquake, we find ourselves faced with another type of disaster. the walls of our house fell on my wife and she has been in hospital for 10 days. she doesn't have anything,

not even a mattress to sleep on. we have not received any medical 800, but i'm a father to fall. all of them are suffering from a constant. cough. some health organizations came over but could not even provide a cough medication to sit on it and he, a little garcia has a gun. it's nothing but harsh living conditions. but these families are left battle . the tragic stories can be heard wherever we go. the survivors are in need of food, shelter, and medical supplies. we've heard similar complaints in every area. we've been to have people in desperate need of help. although dozens of trucks have passed the northern border, more relief, aid is needed, so the lack of services and shortages of supplies is all we hear and see here on the ground in northwestern syria, man. yeah, i'm a hold on just the omar herani, 0, a free me a little countryside. well,

to other news now senior defense officials and war leaders are weighing in in the ukraine war during the 2nd day of the munich security conference. the war in ukraine is a focal point of interest representatives from cubes, western allies. i've been using the meeting to show solidarity with each other and with ukraine. we're going to go to our diplomatic editor james base, who's outside that conference in munich. and james, there has been no doubt a lot of discussion about how the war in ukraine is shaping the future of security in europe. but of course, also with nato as well. absolutely the war in ukraine, although all the issues of conflicts around the world are discussed are the meaning security conference for the 2nd year. last year was just days before the russian invasion. it's the center stage issue at this conference as you say, for all the countries here, particularly for the e. u. a. nato countries and talking of nato, were joined by the secretary general of nato. yet,

sultan burg 2nd general. thank you for joining us. a question i want to ask you is, when does the fighting stop in the negotiation start? and i know what you're going to say. you're going to say it's up to ukraine, but presidency lensky says he wants to retake every last inch of his country, and that would include crimea. you have advice of the top generals. they must be telling you that's not very realistic and would take years. the 1st of all, the need to remember this is, this is a war, aggression war of choice or, or where preston put decided to invade than other country and sovereign independent catholic, a nation in europe with, in national recognized borders. borders which also russia several times. however, subscribed to under under, under colonized, and therefore ukraine authorized to defend itself to defend its lands under. and this is actually right of self defense which is enshrined in the un charter and naval as i'm far as we have the right to broaden support crane. so fall that right,

so that's what we are doing and then of course does the bid ukrainians that to make that difficult decision on the conditions for a potential negotiations on what colonel terms they can accept. no one really knows what's going on inside the kremlin or inside president putin's head. but it's become pretty clear that he's finding this war existential. he fears he could mean the end of his rule, the end of his control of russia. so is what we're really talking about regime. check that slopes natal john on our agenda is to support ukraine on the prism truth and start this war. and you can end this war today by enjoying russian troops. and again, this is, this is important for nato, not only because it will be a change of div for ukrainians if a stress improves winds in ukraine. but it was with dangers for else because on the message to him. and all of the leaders is that when they use military force,

they get what they want and that will make the world more dangerous than all smartphone. and therefore this is our security interest to provide support to create one of the problems. i think if i see in the moment is the resupply of armaments to ukraine. i'm told that in terms of artillery shells, ukraine is using them faster than they can be manufactured. how much of a problem is correct? and that was actually something we shared with alice on the brother public out over the defense minister meeting earlier this week, that the current rate of expenditure of attendance shells in ukraine from the, from the training forces is hired on our current production rates. but that's exactly why we last fall started to address the show. not only depleting our stocks, which is what they've done so far, but also talk to ramp up production. and i welcome that more and more allies on all signing long term contracts with the defense industry to increase the production of

over our mission to, to replenish our stocks and also be able to continue to buy support ukraine. this becomes more and more a grinding war of attrition and award of attrition is a back logistics about get the thing that i'm an issue and the fuel the spare parts to the phone lines. so is a huge logistical foot on loss on bottles are working, hold a lot every day. obviously the attention here is on ukraine, but i'm hearing from a number of the minister and others. i've spoken to concern about moldova concern that russia is trying to destabilize moldova president's lensky himself says he's uncovered a plot. how worried are you? how worried our nato allies about moldova? we aren't concerned because we have seen a russia are responsible for. busy commercials is against the law, the energy supply, they're using that as a, as a means to try to, to, to, to,

to pressure malala. so just highlights that are those factors which are as is sometimes as in between as a image in russia and they thought they are in a vulnerable position, moldova george, on, of course, a ukraine. and that's one reason why it is important to support these countries. now, one of the reasons why you crane was able to perform the way it has in after russian nation will start, neutralize, provide that support your friend, starting in 2014. so the ukranian on and was better equipped to bet the lead that but the train that now done in 2014 and therefore more so more capable over repelling the russian effects. so if anything we should support you will dolah georgia. now, you talk about the support ukraine. presidents. lensky says, yes, thank you very much, but it's not enough. i need more. the latest thing is jet fighters and we've seen a patent. we light weapons then heavy weapons, then artillery,

now tanks. and it's the same every time you cry ask for something. you spend a long time discussing it as a great deal of delay. and germany seems to be the country that's, that's dragging his heels each time. and finally, you get what, what, what ukraine wants. president savanski has a point, doesn't he? everything is happening to slow all jeff sean's installation is unprecedented. supporter from naval awesome partners to ukraine on the president, putin told the under estimate the not on the ukrainians, but also underestimate that there is sold a commitment from natal. are some partners to provide military support to ukraine, but you're right. the type of support has evolved as the war has of old. we started with light weapons, and the tank re opens. job lens, as fingers are so air defense systems, and then light on. so then the room with inter tillery, than more advanced artillery or miss odds are high. mars and,

and advanced and defenses seems like the painters, the ne sums. and now that also position to provide a significant amount of armor, including a battle thanks. only show aircraft. well, we're not this something which is now, part of our consultations are, but i think is important to understand that this cannot only be a discussion about new platforms is also extremely important at all the platforms, the ukraine is old to have received work as they should have been an enormous amount of spare parts of fuel over ammunition and maintenance, just ensure that tillery, that they're finding the vehicles that all of the have work as they should. so. so that's a top priority from hours on final quick last question. you have had an extended term as nato secretary general. you are finally stepping down in october. do you have any hopes, given everything that you know now, not just publicly, all the intelligence you have that the crisis in ukraine could be over by that?

i'm very careful as spoke them, alter that. what i do know is that we just need to stand by ukraine. for else on the civics, you're still timber executor general of nato. thank you very much for joining us here at early unix security conference. ukraine remains center stage, all the district, not all the discussions, many discussions on many subjects here, but certainly a lot of public discussion here going on. but when you speak to the ministers and other key officials here, they say there's a lot also of stuff that's being discussed, not publicly in the corridors of the hotel behind me. there are diplomatic editor james bass in munich, and nearly a year has passed since russia launched its full scale invasion of ukraine. you can watch our special coverage of the one year anniversary of ukraine. we're starting at 1630 g m t. north korea has fired a long range, ballistic missile of the sea of its east coast japan's defense ministry,

who says the miss, i landed in his exclusive economic zone and that it was an intercontinental ballistic missile class. launch comes one day after pyongyang threatened strong action against south korea and the united states. the allies recently announced joint military drills. robin bryan has more from sol. this miss, i was launched late saturday afternoon, local time being fired from the area of soon and that's close to pyongyang. this is a place from which a previous missile launches have taken place according to the japanese authorities, and they miss our flu for 900 kilometers landing in the seas separating the korean peninsula from japan around 200 kilometers short of the island of kato, but apparently reaching altitude, an apogee of nearly 6000 kilometers before coming back down to earth, which would mean that according to japan, this was an icbm class of miss alden,

intercontinental ballistic missile. the type of missile that north korea has been testing and which has the kind of range to reach the continental united states. this is the 2nd message that north korea has fired so far this year on january 1st, it fired a short range ballistic missile. but of course, during 2022, there was an unprecedented flurry of missile activity with around 80 or so missiles being tested on fire, many of them short range, but also including several, it's thought icbm, intercontinental ballistic missiles. this has been condemned by japan and also by south korea. the national security council here has had a meeting describing this as a serious provocation. the conflict in democratic republic of congo is one of the issues being discussed at the african union summit in ethiopia. leaders have gathered for the 1st day of high level talks in out of them. earlier security guy,

just go to the israeli delegation out of the meeting room. markham web has more the understand. this was following some objections from member states who, who belief is the israel shouldn't be in the room now. this follows israel trying to seek, observe a status of the african union for around 20 years. 2 years ago, the african union commission chairman lucifer jackie granted israel that status, but then several african union member states objected to this time a year ago. it was discussed here. it was decided that a committee should look into this decision and that it should be the vote on it should be postponed to that vote still hasn't taken place to the understanding of many. here is the israel still doesn't have observers status. but the understanding the state of israel, at least according to a foreign ministry statement,

is that it does. that's why we understand that. diplomats were in the room and not for a ministry statement from israel says that they blamed south africa among other countries, for pressuring diplomats to be removed from the room. how south africa historically has shown solidarity with palestine. campaigners in south africa ly can at the state of his vows, occupation of palestine to the white minority apartheid government in south africa and south africa among the countries here, the african union still objects to israel's occupation of palestine and its observer status. here at the a julia will hold his general election next week. bonds critics have raised concerns about state governors. having too much influence on the votes. i'm going to do both from the degree the elections only days away. nigeria, the presidency and seats in parliament, being contested. but critics,

one group is having too much influence on the vote. state governors. i think a lot of anger about governance in my da actually goes to these governors because impunity of this governors the i me so all the about governance is part of the pain that my insurance i glean troy says. nigeria is returned to democracy night to night. tonight we are state governors have invoice or becomes president with full access to state funds and resources. they can choose, tended it for political office, anybody as baron to be president, of course, he will have to take root through to go from those because of the a quinn activity of the governor's anti grassroots. but critics and activists say such power wise harming democracy and governors in nigeria, and they wanted reduced limiting their powers to require amendment to the constitution and the electron look what with increasing number of governors getting

elected into a parliament that's supposed to make changes. neither is we'll have to wait longer for that to happen. summer hoping these elections will mark a turn around with women. now the frontrunner for state governor posed a big step in a male dominated society. but until then, little it's expected to change party politics and governors. in africa, most populous country. how many degrees al jazeera, my degree, hundreds of women displaced by violence and eastern democratic republic of congo. have protested in the city of goma. they're demanding an end to the fighting between the n 20 z rebel group and government, which is escalated and losing weeks. be you an estimate. the conflict has displaced over half a 1000000 people. police in bulgaria have discovered the bodies of 18 asylum seekers inside and abandon truck. they appear to have suffocated while being

transported in a secret compartment. a truck was transporting around 40 migrants from afghanistan, supplies resignation, skeletons 1st minister. nicholas sturgeon has thrown her s and p body and it's pushed for scottish independence into turmoil. the country is no waiting for its governing party to choose a replacement, and they'll have a lot of work to do if they're to keep the s and p 's dream of an independent scotland alive. rory challenge reports from edinburgh. for years, nicholas sturgeon seemed as solid as arthur's seat, the ancient volcano that towers over edinburgh. but political and geological era's both end arthur's seat stopped wrapped in 340000000 years ago. sturgeon's power disappeared with her resignation. announcements last wednesday. good morning, everyone. so the scottish national party is now looking for a new leader and a new path. they are no in a state of flux,

and the key question for them is what do you do about independence? what's the independent strategy? andy mckeever is a political analyst who watches scottish politics closely. it comes back to the decision that the u. k. supreme court made the back end of last year, where they said the scottish parliament did not have the power to hold a referendum by itself. nicholas surgeons answer to that question was what she called the defect to referendum. in other words, she boutique a national election like the general election that we expect next year. and she would turn that into a vote on independence box. many in the s n p. so this is too risky, and it looks like the tactic is now dead in the water. a special party conference where sturgeon would have argued for it has been called off for now. appetite for an imminent rerun if the 2014 referendum is falling. and recent polls suggest pro independence has become a minority view. once again, nicholas sturgeon's exit may further road support. i hope it does. why?

because i want independent. you and so what are your hopes for? who's next and what i can do, i don't know. it's come as quite a short last mistake. we'll put back the cause for independence because it's never been more than 50 percent. the doubt knows many of them will, i think, to stay in the union because we've lost the european union. we probably don't want to lose longest union in the world who have his next will have to reinvigorate the independence cause and fend off opposition, party sensing, and opportunity. the race for a new f and p leader. and the scottish 1st minister doesn't yet have a clear front runner candidates have until friday to wednesday, and then it's a 6 week contest with a members having until the end of march to make that choice.