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where 8 groups have struggled to deliver but supplies. wherever you look, the earthquake has left its mark on the landscape on houses and of course on people's minds. ah, i'm carry johnston. this is al jazeera live from day, also coming up, rescue efforts to wind down into a kia to week soft. the tremors that have killed more than 46000 people there and in syria on north korea, 5 to more projectiles. just days often launching a long range ballistic missile. ah, and it's been 2 weeks since 2 powerful earthquakes hit something to care and northern syria. devastating both countries or than the 46000 people have been confirmed dead, and 10 thousands of buildings have been flattened while rescue efforts have been
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called often all the affected turkish provinces. except the 2 hardest hit carmano rash and had tie and aid convoy from doctors without borders as entered north, western syria where millions have been left homeless. where the un has been criticized for its slow response and delivering aid to serious most affected areas in the world. health organization says 26000000 people in both countries desperately need help. we have a team of correspondence covering the disaster across impacted regions. sally's aiden has gone back to a root lou to speak to survivors a days after. he brought us live coverage of the 1st military aid being lifted into the village. mountains, snow and freezing wind. the road told so has little comfort to offer. it's long winding and climbed tiring lea. i'm not sure to row to total devastation should look like. but the scenes along the way give plenty of ideas for villages
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nestled on a mountain peak, and se him to a kia, it's a hard place to reach by road. a few days ago, we briefly visited the village on board, a military helicopter sent to deliver aid military on taking the money where one of the village people soon appeared. but we were asked to stay on the helicopter and not delay the mission. we left with many unanswered questions, really in the most of the ha moment because i want to get out to vote. so we've now come back to the village my road to find those answers. as soon as we arrive, we find o t lou in morning. noisy for going out is receiving condolences after losing her daughter and 3 grandchildren earlier stick and we were terrified we couldn't escape . i fell down the stairs. it was shaking so badly that wherever you look, the earthquake has left its mark on the landscape on houses. and of course on
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people's minds. authorities say they're going to start reconstruction efforts in a matter of weeks or clearly it's going to be a long process. i seem same for elephant, but parlor cash. time is in short supply. we caught a glimpse of bottle the day we flew in on a helicopter. we tracked him down to hear his story. m o h dash it. what do i do? where shall i go? ah, well yes, my blood pressure is rising. i n l a d r amber distractor was my right hand. it's gone her li, i build this house. i invested in this house. it's all gone. i'm 8 years old. senior barbara dora jeffery, the elderly couple live alone in a tent supplied by the authorities. her home and her sense of security lie crushed outside. it's difficult to imagine the terror people felt as
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their homes came crashing down. unless you mohammed shaheen, the 16 year old miraculously survived not only the earthquake, but 2 days trapped in the rubble of his own home. papa, monsieur, i heard a terrible sounds like an explosion yet i fell off my beds and it went thorn. i asked them, there was a lot of dust in. there was a concrete block on me as i could not feel my feet from the cold. and i thought i was going to die. memories like that, a hard to a raise from your mind. this is a teenager who dreams of a little piece of mind and a little more food in his tent. it yes sir. they just, we just needs a little more grains and water and give it sheila love them. priorities are delivering food tents and on this day, firewood to a moment of relief for fun, for the kids much harder to deliver on the back of a truck, though, the blades of our helicopter did the trick
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a few days earlier. it's heartbreaking. the lockdown of these kids while waving out on that day we couldn't do more than exchange away from the window amara was but to day we exchange hugs on the same spot. a smile, a laugh, and a little light brightens up the horizon. sammy's a than al jazeera oh, close to a kia or nearly 4000000 syrians have fled to turkey, or since the civil war broke out in their home country 12 years ago. now the devastating earthquakes have killed thousands of them and displaced many more missiles said ar is at a camp in as he untapped province, which is housing. many of the victims this tense city in his lawyer is now home to hundreds of serious families. if to some them is a mother of 4 who has to find a way to provide for her children. her mother who lived in law, he as well died in the earthquakes. i do not doubt had i got out of the horror we
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went free is beyond words. in my 27 years of lat have never seen something like this. it was rainy a snowy. when the earthquake started, we were panicking. we barely could leave the house. we got some blankets for the kids to keep them warm. when millions of nearly 4000000 seating refugees living in turkey, bought into provost walker's young tip. many of those west cape to sit in steuben war have spent more than 4 years in refugee camps in turkey, yet some of them later built modest homes as some ranted them out. but many are now back where they started, more than a decade of civil war has killed or displeased many syrians, millions of their fa, trickier looking for safety. it wasn't easy to begin a new life. now though it could have taken what they built here in the years since, and they would how to start from scratch. this is what is left off if the psalms father's house there with them was trapped under the robber for hours. when he was
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pulled out, he joined rescuers to save his wife, and that was the letter i am waiting for the situation to calm down. i don't know what to do yet. i might go back to syria. i can't handle the life have any more. i wish there wasn't warn sylvia. i had 3000 citrus trees there. i would go back if it wasn't for war, according to the syrian justice center in the stumble, more serious died in the earthquakes here in turkey than in syria itself. in the past 2 weeks humbled by these have been sent back to syria from g beggars, a border crossing to be buried in their home country. and thousands of syrians have crossed the border to attend the funerals of their relatives. while hubby is one of them now that i flew under on going to syria to perform my final duty for my sister, she died of the earthquake for her 2 children also died. i don't want her husband to mourn alone. but for those who survive, like many in distant city, the future remains uncertain. chris, who said that all jazeera,
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the sly garcia's pip seldom took yet. i came howled. he is the doctors without borders. head of mission for syria. he says more supplies are needed to match the scale of the humanitarian crisis. this one vote was or arranged outside the united nation cross border mechanism regarding the need since that source, or even what to do 14 trucks use it to remain a drop in an ascent of needs. when we compare the situation with a key, because we're based into a key and we'll provide support in say, syria zahn mit mit smith malls, the support coming injuries and syria. and we're still waiting on the international community to provide adequate and the necessary support to the syrian population in northwest syria. before us worked. many organizations were providing
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support for these different crossings back now or what we see that are necessary and to require your support to quote the needs router or smith or not. i'm not to talk today. so as a result, in a big effort to bring it inside syria, you did to the people in your similar to, to cope with us needs. and for us, it's urgent and then necessary supply needed for a series to bring an additional convoy of trucks with medical supplies. o u. s. secretary of state is in turkey where he's been meeting the turkish foreign minister. let's go to san casale, who's in ankara, where the meeting has been taken place search, and then what have the secretary of state on the foreign minister had to say in their address to the media which has just finished well,
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actually this is the 1st official visits paid by you a secretary of state antonette lincoln, since he resumed office 2 years ago. and yesterday he visited the earthquake. it's areas with his turkish counterpart, mileage shoshone. and today, they held bilateral meetings, inter delegations, meeting in a blink and is expected to also be received by the turkish president. and now they are leaving a presidential a whole where the press conference happened. but today's agenda was mostly about by leach relations and add the, the regional issues that 2 countries to a longstanding allies are cooperating. don't a, onto the blink. and the suggested that his. com for his mouth pledging $1000000000.00 extra. and then a, he mentioned that the united states is that it standing with its long standing ally to kid. and, but of course, there are other issues that they have discussed like the war in ukraine. like the developments in syria and a true kid. a coalition request for f,
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16 jet, those 2 keyboards, russian missile defense system in 2019 a anchor was kicked out of an ex f. 35 fighter jack project, which to care was a strong partner of. so now to kid is trying to buy f 60 is about the u. s. congress. it hasn't approved it yet. turkeys foreign minister mentioned about these, but it both top diplomats on the line they a corporation will last. then of course, they have discussed the nato a bit. ford is sweden and finland. and 2 kids said they are evaluating the process for to, nor to countries as separate they, but they showed solidarity and support to, to can to then cross all you live for us there. thank. he's a decision by a turkish emergency services to call an end to nearly all the search and rescue efforts is leaving people to confront the sheer scale of their loss. when it smith
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has been talking to some of them in the city of and takia, there is no expectation now that this kick is rescue team will find any one alive under the rubble of these apartments in attack. what they're trying to do is at least give relatives a body to bury memory glare. last 5 members of his family needs him on good. it has been 14 days. i'm waiting for my aunt dead or alive. what matters is we get it from here. so we can bury her and give her a place under the soil limits and is classified as missing amidst the constantly updating statistics on the 10s of thousands of dead or injured or homeless. there's one number, the turkish government can't provide. it doesn't know how many people are still missing. the scale of the disaster expectations of the survivors takes its toll on the more than 35000 turkish and foreign rescue was working here. auto july. we
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have psychologists in our team offering support to help us get over stress and depression. i've never seen an earthquake like this in my whole life, and you have to shut down your emotions. when you do the job in attack, your survivors have access to food medicines and tense sticks. but the government wants somehow to start rebuilding as soon as possible. at least 345000 upon buildings have been destroyed according to the turkish government. of course, every one of them, somebody's home. and now the search and rescue operation has effectively ended. the task of demolishing and rebuilding is beginning. it may prove impossible to calculate exactly how many people are missing or dead. following the earthquakes here. but in some places they know every balloon here represents the life of a child that lived in this apartment building. furnished smith al jazeera and takia . and there's been severe damage to turkey is
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a cultural heritage. people in and talk here are promising to rebuild. many religious buildings were destroyed as natasha, her name reports. it's the 2nd sunday since the earthquake. the antarctic protestant church is resuming services. but the pastor now balances the top. what used to be the wrought iron gate? pon about with bible in hand valued. busy we walk 5 minutes, a log deserted street to find the greek orthodox church. we stop a rare passer by to ask where it's gone. and the hobby b l. new jar mosque believe to be built in the 7th century was one of the oldest in the country. now in ruins. on takia, known as antioch in ancient times was one of the biggest jewels of the roman empire in modern ter kiya, it's a city,
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celebrated for its diversity were the because of this, there is brotherhood here, not discrimination. we all live together. here are churches here, a mosque is here, they're all next to each other. we are one nation, one fist. it's duchess religious history. that's been lost. a ties house of parliament built before the area became part of turkey, is now tilting precariously brooklyn i was i be shaken. it's impossible to describe. seems such a beautiful city like this in ruins. i hope will return to our good old days. this is a beautiful city and i love it so much and i'm not going to leave the minister of culture and tourism says on takia and had tie province or a mosaic, a place where historically and until to day adherence of the 3 monotheistic religions found a home to worship the government is promising to rebuild damaged heritage. sites
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like this one within a year introduce regulations for reconstruction and provide financial assistance to private building owners. you not the case? get on. thank you. i will return to its diverse community until in days we will return and continue to preserve the cultural fun, takyo discussion. one of them people here are quit to mention that and takia has been decimated by multiple earthquake since the 2nd century. each time it was rebuilt, they say history will repeat itself. natasha name al jazeera and tuck. yeah, turkey. so i head on out there, argentina has become a popular destination for thousands of pregnant russian women since moscow invasion of ukraine. ah.
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with wind storm otto is blown through poland, causing some damage, snapping trees, the still windy weather in eastern, particularly northern europe. so it's a turn of scotland and probably no way to get that windy weather during monday. the snow ahead of it all, and that's aligned to the baltic states and again into poland and there's more snow being generated across the black sea. so by time you get to late monday, probably into tuesday, at least the northern half of the maintenance part of turkey is going to see more snow fall on the other side of mediterranean, where it's been so warm recently, particularly in france and increasing clad in a few showers in portugal bay will tend to bring temperatures down a little bit, but it's still relatively warm this time of the year for the bulk of europe and the picture on to you to confirm that with the windy and wet ish weather still in eastern europe snow passing through east in ukraine and towards the south of russia
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. and we've seen rain and snow in morocco, that's more or less gall, no few showers left and the amazon still blowing. dustin salmon to most of the sa help the store in southern africa, where has been flooding in south africa. there are still thunderstorms still to come, but there tend to be eclipse. what's happening further east this tropical cyclone freddy's just heading from brutus to was madagascar. ah, in a notorious waterside community, why kim's and sucks will one theater director ventures to stage a play. they're called me miss is the ad. to empower the women, that old man sitting right there with and redefine their status in society. missy, that nigerian women walk on water, witness on al jazeera. ah
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ah, they're watching out here. reminder of our top stores this south rescue efforts into a kia, a winding down 2 weeks after the devastating earthquakes, turkish emergency services according an end to almost all search and rescue efforts . on 46000 people have been killed in turkey and syria. and aid to convoy from doctors without borders has entered northwestern syria, which is also affected by the quake that's left millions homeless. the world health organization says 26000000 people in both countries, desperately need to be monitoring 8. the other news now north korea has 52 project
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house market called a multiple rocket launch. it will state media report, their weapons system is capable of hitting an airbase and his home to south korea is f. 35, still fighter jets, south korea and japan say the projectiles. a short range, ballistic missiles, young young testament, intercontinental ballistic missile on saturday because i just couldn't get out of it since last year. north korea has repeatedly launch missiles in quick succession, significantly increasing tensions north korea series of actions threatened to the peace and security of japan, the region and international community, and are absolutely unacceptable. but china's a foreign ministry says it has concerns about the developments on the korean peninsula, but it says its position has not changed. beijing is north korea's largest trading partner, long time ally for that sir. get more from katrina. you who's in beijing for us now . katrina, bring us up to speed of china's reaction to us. while
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they doing says it's mostly the situation very closely. it considers the korean peninsula, its own backyard as one of the few countries that has a good relationship with north korea and even has influence overcome yan. now when it came to this issue, china said that it's position had not changed, that it will continue to promote dialogue in order to maintain peace and stability in the region and avoid confrontation. now what's important is what we didn't hear from beijing. we didn't hear any sort of condemnation of this action like we did here from japan, south korea, and the united nations. in fact, baiting downplayed this action and simply called it military exercises. and baiting also said that it's important to consider the context of this situation at the crux and the context was very clear which is indicating that fold aging. it does not blame north korea entirely for raising, for raising tensions in the region. and that it believes that earth south korea and
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the united states also must bear some responsibility. okay. yeah. which in a you in beijing forest there. thank you. let speak to andre langkow. now he's a north korea scholar and professor at cook min the universe in. so he joins us live from there. welcome to the program. so how big a message do you think this is designed to be to america and its allies in the region? are unclear not by cheek you to be because most guardians, as you want them by the stigma cell testing last year, and they keep launching and you messiah every few weeks or few months since january are quite and now as it is you're there and kiss and we can be pretty sure they will do it, they will keep doing it for the foreseeable future. so every few months, or maybe a few weeks, we're going to hear about another bodies to commit style law. on the,
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the rage miss i launched and turkey bought recent launch of to technical massage is probably going to happen even more frequently. last year, vans meeting few days they launched fuel doesn't section science. so is what they're doing now towards extent then do you think north korea is further developing its missile capability in terms of the technology? well, i don't have access to secret intelligence, but it's quite clear that they're walking hot and they have this classroom safety in the intercontinental ballistic missile they launched on saturday is capable of this year teaching pretty much 80 part of the united states, including york see t washington and so on. and now they are working for us on 17 messiah. we kept some technical problems that i had been a few launch. it's not always successful. and it's even
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a lot of bigger range and bigger a lot. so probably they will be able to use it is more powerful nuclear warheads and then not going to stop and frankly, and i think and spoke no scary is now from joe's advancing. it's nuclear and especially in the south. what interesting, what you say that so realistically, is there anything else conscious south korea, japan in the us can do other than repeat condemnations. you meet me unless condemnation of each probably make those kelly indeed a smile. well, this is pretty much the only thing which can be done because the un security council is paralyzed neither chain and russia. the support additional sanctions against more steady. and frankly not when you sanctions can be introduced because every seen, every kind of kind of every conceivable kinds of sanctions have been tested over resolve. limited, most getting in the economy isn't that bad shape,
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but for the north, getting in decision makers eat does not matter. is that ahead of the city dictate issue for $75.00. he has the same family, keeps power and they know how to control their people. their home, but you could be afraid of popular land risk saw yes, people are poor, but it is. they have something to eat. they used to stop not stop you more right now. saw the money they, they're using to develop their military facilities. and i, c, b is a key company and in their current strategy. ok with their on trade on coff. we appreciate your time. thank you very much. thank you. when you cranium force is falsifying their positions in the eastern city of severe disk, anticipating a potential russian offensive. he believes this could be next in line if russia takes the face, a contested town of buck moot. about 1500 civilians still remain in the city. meanwhile, russian news agencies say one person was killed and 11 injured in selling of don.
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yet squire ukrainian forces and east 40 rockets were fired in the attack on the prosecutors building and the library were reportedly hit oh, then at 5000 that pregnant that russian women have traveled to argentina in recent months. and this week, dozens more on the way. like just arrivals, we're all in the final weeks of pregnancy, is believed the war will. ukraine is prompting them to seek argentinian citizenship for their unborn children. 3 is about has more money. we're cobra. arrived in argentina last december. she's from russia, but decided to leave her country because of the war in ukraine. yeah, yeah. right. okay. she was 28 weeks pregnant when she landed him. when a fight is now she has a son, jo nel was born in january and named after argentina's football. stall unit may see or in september funding. in september last year, we noticed meanwhile being recruited and there was a risk,
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my husband could be forced to join the army. so we decided to leave. my husband trebled 1st armenia and took here while i stayed to get how children read a mighty is not the only russian was come to argentine a weekend month, thousands of russian women have come to argentina to give birth. people from russia do not need a visa to enter this country and their children born here can apply for their nationality according to our didn't time their family can. all club life is something that is appealing to russia and was hoping to get another passport. a rush and passport is far more limited internationally than an argentine one and authority of your have started to question the women on arrival. some were told that could be deported and needed legal assistance to remain in the country. we know that some tickets only had reservation and no return tickets. so we had to
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check whether they were speaking why they were coming. some of the women where they're usually weeks pregnant and wouldn't give up properties and for coming, which wanted the alarm to the immigration office. michael van has set up a service to assist people from russia who want to move towards tina. he also helps women find a doctor and hospital and get their papers in order for support of their content with the argentine passport you have more than a 170 countries open for you. and i made a table comparing the pulse board of argentina with other countries in the region. and i realize argentina is the best one and it's legal. and that's why i'm helping those who want to come here to give birth. because phenomena, i didn't enough authority say that many of those seeking citizenship for their children are exploiting argentina's laws and have no intention of staying after the passport is granted. but there are others like maria,
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who say they have come to when a site is to make it their home, as well as the see that when a cited as part of our special coverage marking your year into the ukraine will, our environment at attorney clark will be exploring how it's been a major setback in the fight against climate change. tuning later on monday at 1130 g empty. at least 36 people have been killed in flooding and landslides in brazil, the south piano region was hit hardest by the heavy rains. it takes, it, emergency has been declared for the 5 affected municipalities under storms of full costs in the coming week. the clean up cost in new zealand from psycho gabrielle is expected to reach billions of dollars. national state of emergency remains in place while people recover from the nation's most significant weather event. this century, several 1000 people are still cut off on the east coast of the north island. at least 11 people died in the storm.

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