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talk about the store, restock matter on al jazeera, russia's war in ukraine has dominated well need for the past 12 months. devastating to those in the line of fire or directly impacted. it has strengthened global alliances and deepened divisions with far reaching effects on the lives of millions of people. well, white in a week heard 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, if i should, josh is here. we return to a remote village in turkey. i cut off by 2 powerful earthquakes where aid groups of
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struggle to deliver battle supplies. wherever you look, the earthquake has left its mark on the landscape on houses and of course on people's minds. ah, come carry johnston. this is al jazeera live from do also coming up, rescue efforts wind down in turkey, a 2 week south. the tremors that have killed more than 46000 people there and in syria as a war in ukraine. it is, it's one year mark you foreign ministers gathering brussels to discuss peace and security. and ukraine war prompts of thousands of pregnant women to leave russia to give birth in argentina. ah, no. it's been 2 weeks since too powerful earthquakes hit southern her chair,
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northern syria. devastating both countries. within 46000 people have been confirmed dead, and tens of thousands of buildings have been flattened while rescue efforts had been cooled off in order the affected turkish provinces accept the 2 hardest hit. carmen rush and her tie and aid convoy from doctors that borders has entered north western syria where millions have been left homeless. the u. n. has been criticized for its slow response and delivering a to serious, most affected areas. and the world health organization says 26000000 people in both countries, desperately need help. or some of those people live in remote villages that can now only be reached by air. sunny zaden has gone back to a with lou to speak to survivors a days after he brought his life coverage of the 1st military aid been lifted into the village. mountains, snow and freezing wind. the road to old lew has little comfort to offer. it's long winding and climbed tiring lea,
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i'm not sure to row to total devastation should look like. but the scenes along the way give plenty of ideas. the villages 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, a military on taking them off where 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 and emotionally, ha moment because i want to get out to those we. so we've now come back to the village by road to find those answers. as soon as we arrive, we find out lu in morning as if are 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,
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the earthquake has left its mark on the landscape on houses. and of course on people's minds. authority say they're going to start reconstruction efforts in a matter of weeks. or clearly it's going to be a long process. i assume st for elephant baton cache time is in short supply. we caught a glimpse of baton the day we flew in on a helicopter. we tracked him down to hear his story. made him. oh gosh it, what do i do? where shall i go? ah, well, yes, my blood pressure is rising. i an ill, de leon? amber distractor was my right hand. it's gone her li, i build this house. i invested in this house. it's all on them, but i'm 8 years old senior bo bear. don't you? for the elderly couple live alone in a tent supplied by the authorities for her home and her sense of
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security lie crushed outside. it's difficult to imagine the terror people felt as 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. poplar necessity, i heard a terrible sounds like an explosion yet i fell off my beds and it went thorn. i watched them. there was a lot of dust and 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 just so they just, we just need a little more grains and water and give it sheila lesson priorities are delivering food tents and on this day. firewood to a moment of relief for fun,
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for the kids much harder to deliver on the back of a truck, though the blades of our helicopter did the trick a few days earlier on writing to look down these while waving out on that day, we couldn't do more than exchange away from the window almera 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 o' clock took here. u. s. secretary state antony banker and has been meeting a turkish foreign minister and have lived to troubleshoot in ankara. he says, the us will support turkey as it recovers from the quakes. united states is here to support you in your time of need, and we will be by your side for as long as it takes to recover and to rebuild. yesterday, as my 1st stop on this trip, i visited angelica air base, which, as you know,
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is the hub of the united states efforts to support the disaster response. i. with the foreign minister with my food, i had the opportunity to fly over high tide province to look at some of the devastation firsthand. and as i said yesterday it's, it's hard to put into words or decision by turkish emergency services to call an end to almost all a search and rescue efforts is even people to confront the sheer scale of their loss. bernard smith has been talking to some of them in the city of kentucky. there's no expectation now that this kick is rescue team will find any one alive under the rubble of these apartments in on takia. what they're trying to do is at least give relatives a body to barry. ma'am, at glass last 5 members of his family, needs him on good. it has been 14 days. i'm waiting for my aunt dead or alive, but what matters is we get it from here so we can bury her and give her a place under the soil. memory aunt is classified as missing amidst the constantly
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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 and expectations of the survivors takes its toll on the more than 35000 turkish and foreign rescue was working here. what courage a lot. we have psychologists in our team offering support or to help us get over stress and oppression. 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. but the government wants to somehow to start rebuilding as soon as possible. at least 345000 apartment 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
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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. bernard smith, al jazeera and takia graham forces or fortifying their physicians in the eastern city of sylvester. anticipating a potential rush and offensive cave believes severe ask could be next in line. if russia takes a fisa contested town aback, mood about $1500.00 civilians still remain in the city. meanwhile, russia news agencies say one person was killed and 11 injured in shelling of don. the exc might ukrainian forces. at least 40 rockets were fired in the attack even
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yet could prosecutor's building and the library were reportedly hit. well, you foreign ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss the war ukraine. diplomatic editor james bays is and joins us live now. james, it's almost one year on from the anniversary of the start of the what will be the thrust of talks between foreign ministers in brussels today while they're going to be, i think taking stock where they are as we approach that important one year anniversary, which takes place on friday, it's interesting that we had been told that ukrainian foreign minister was going to be here for. ready this meeting he, it seems, was canceled him not being given any reasons at this stage for the cancellation of that, but they will still be discussing all the issues as they do. this is a regular beating around the world, but as it's been the case now. ready for almost a year ukraine, very much top of the agenda. there's certainly a push from some of the countries here to supply even more. ready one of the issues
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i think that's of concern is the rearmament of ukraine, the ammunition and particularly the artillery shells we heard from the high representative european union just before the meeting. joseph morale, who spoke to us reporters said this, give me an important meetings as the next 24 hours with foreign minister labor of ukraine, with nato and the you that's going to take place at nato headquarters to discuss that specific problem. trying to get as much resupply of the vital weaponry. for example, artillery shells. the word is that ukraine is using artillery shells faster than they could be manufactured. and that obviously is of concern to those countries that all ukraine's allies. the other thing that's slightly of concern here today follows comments from the us secretary of state antony blinking. he said media interviews that he was now concerned that china was about to change its position that had given non legal assistance to russia, but not actual weaponry. and he was worried that china was going to actually start
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supplying weaponry to russia in this conflict. while mr. burrell, when he spoke about that, said that would be a game changer, would cross a red line for the european union. but he said he spoke in the last few days of the munich security conference that just finished. he spoke to y e, who is the top foreign policy. official of china expressed his concern about any chinese weapons going to russia. and why he says, assured him that that is not going to happen, but i can tell you other foreign ministers here i spoke to about that issue. the potential issue of chinese weapons. very, very concerned about that prospect. change base that with that update in brussels, thank you for that. more than 5000 pregnant russian women have travel to argentina in recent months. and this week doesn't law are on the way, like just arrivals. we're all in the final weeks of pregnancy. it's believe the war will. ukraine is prompting them to seek argentinian citizenship for the unborn
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children to raise about as more money. will your cobra arrived in argentina last december? she's from russia, but decided to leave her country because of the war in ukraine. i cried. 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 style unit may see or in september funding. in september, last year, we noticed, meanwhile, being recruited and there was a risk, my husband could be forced to join the army. so he 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 and we send 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 oregon time, their family, 10 o'clock life is something that is appealing to russia and was hoping to get
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another passport. a russian passport is far more limited internationally than an argentine one and authority. if you 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 noticed some tickets only had reservation and no return ticket. so we had to check whether they were speaking why they were coming. some of the women were thank you 2 weeks pregnant and wouldn't give up properties and for coming, which wanted the alarm to the immigration officer. michael van, set up a service to assist people from russia who want to move towards in 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
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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. when i, because when i didn't tina for 30 say 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, who say they have come to when a fight is to make it their home. they sell and defeat it when a fight is and as part of our special coverage marking a year into the ukraine wall or environment at a target clerk who be exploring how it's been a major setback in the fight against climate change. tuning later on monday at $1130.00 gmc, i said i had here and i was there in north korea $52.00 more projectile just days off the military, long range ballistic missile. but france ends. it's
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a military mission in the foster amongst off the west african nations that it would defend itself against andrews. ah, ah. again the activity rein why is in southeast asia is tend to be down. this line from the philippine south was much of the philippines that looked dryer as the rains going northwards, but the bigger shower still roughly on that line. so the way, see and certainly fax you 7 sumatra and into java and that's true in australia as well. plenty of uninstalled, this is the last 12 hours or so. it is more thunderstorms in the west and they grow in the afternoon in new south wales and parts of creased. that'll be repeated. and not attempts back a bit. it's still pretty hot in places, at least up to 36, melbourne's down to 22 and purse and you're on the 31. mark is on its way up. by
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the time we get to wednesday, an obvious line of thunderstorms is running through sidney and it's $38.00 in adelaide. and 30 in melbourne. you've recovered australia to zealand, cross the test, and see that active interest. and we follow that what christ church temperature got 30 on tuesday. this is a cold front bringing significant rain to that western side of south island. cold fronts tend to bring temperature down. yep. the case you down to 20 and christ church is the right intensifies with some snow on the tops of the mountains. part time you get to thursday 10 to 15. ah, with, from the al jazeera london broadcast center to people in thoughtful conversation. the story of the world is that the global site develop the global gulf and continues to do that with no host and no limitations. the corporation,
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if it were he, a man would act like a psychopath. part one of as your baba. and i said, raymond, we have to reduce our consumption here, but we also need economic justice for workers. studio, p unscripted on al jazeera. ah ah, he watching out a reminder of our main store is this a you foreign ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss the war in ukraine, looking at how they can provide more ammunition to achieve ukraine is using ammunition faster than it can be manufactured, rescue efforts into kia a winding down 2 weeks off, the devastating quakes turkish emergency services are quoting an end to almost all
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the search and rescue efforts. within 46000 people have been killed into kit and syria. an 8 convoy from doctors without borders has entered northwestern syria, which is also affected by the way that's left millions. from this world health organization says 26000000 people in both countries, desperately need monitoring. 8 the body of go ne, in football star kristin, not sue has a rod and a crop a day off. it was discovered in southern takia, the 31 rogue had been missing for nearly 2 weeks, or 2, the collapse of his apartment building in her tie during the quakes, tributes poor then from all over the world for the former premier lee claire, who joined turkish club trustful last year has been terrible. damage to turkey is cultural heritage. people in on takia vowing to rebuild many religious buildings were destroyed as a fashion the name of course. now it's the 2nd sunday
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since the earthquake. the antonia protestant church is resuming services. but the pastor now balances the top. what used to be the wrought iron gate about with bible in hand tell you. busy we walk 5 minutes, a log deserted street to find the greek orthodox church. we stop rare passer by to ask where it's gone. and the b b l. news are 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 turkey. a, it's a city, celebrated for its diversity. were the because this, there is brotherhood here, not discrimination. we all live together. here are churches here,
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a mosque is here and they're all next to each other as 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. i is now tilting precariously because i was i be she, 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 like this one within a year introduce regulations for reconstruction and provide financial assistance to
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private building owners. you not the case, give unto kill, return to its diverse community until in days we will return and continue to preserve the cultural fun, takyo and it is customizable. them people here are put to mention that an takia has been decimated by multiple earthquake since the 2nd century. each time it was rebuilt, they say history will repeat itself. natasha named el jazeera untucked. yeah. turkey, a volunteer from syria's white helmet has been digging to find the earthquake survivors with his bare hands in order has that story for us now. for years mohammed he has, he dug people out of collapse buildings after bombing raids by the serial armed forces and the russian allies. on february 6, he woke up to a different disaster, a powerful earthquake whose epicenter was across the border and southern turkey,
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levelled neighborhoods across the opposition, controlled northwest of syria. he pulled bodies from rubble and saved others. but bahama tells us how a story of hope can quickly turn into tragedy. from the saddle properly, we saw a child's hair and the rebel. we wanted to reach her. why don't we use our hand to remove the breeze until we found her with her mother and was holding or they're both dead and open. there's also a dead man close to them. then my colleague heard a faint voice under the bodies. there was a child crying, she was saying, i'm here in the law that the voice was of 9 year old and war. she was still alive more than 40 hours since the initial earthquake civil defense volunteers use their hands to dig because they didn't have sophisticated equipment to reach survivors quickly. and with us, when we heard the voice, we were overwhelmed with joy, especially since we're only removing bodies. i spoke to her for almost 2 hours
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alone. her father, mike mohammed was also hopeful that at least one member of his family was still alive. he wasn't in his village when the earthquake struck people in this corner of syria. no tragedy all too well. it's home to millions who are no strangers to death, destruction and displacement. g at the moment that when i arrived there on tuesday night, i saw a building on the ground and my whole family was under the rubble until i heard the faint voice of unwell when i heard her at so much hoping that change when they told me she didn't survive, i find where i was still breathing. when mohammed removed her from the debris, i took a ha, ha ha, ha b. one of them. they tried to save her life, but the 9 year old didn't make it to a hospital. in russia, but given i still remember how scared she was and how she cried. i tried to keep
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her calm, but she kept holding my hand asked me not to let the roof crush her husband. mohammed had to give her lifeless body wrapped in a blanket to her father. since that day he says he can still feel the touch of unwise hand than a hood. her ashes, eda, auto ebony is now north korea has fired to project towels what it calls up multiple rocket launcher, state media report. the weapon system is capable of hitting an air base. that's home to south korea's f 35 stealth fighter jets south korea and japan. say the projectiles were short range, ballistic missiles, young young, tested and intercontinental ballistic missile on saturday. could really you has more now from beijing. they drink says it's washing the situation very closely. it considers the korean peninsula, its own backyard. and it's one of the few countries that has a good relationship with north korea and even has influence over kil, yeah. now when it came to this issue, china said that its position had not changed,
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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 aging. 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, beating, downplayed this action and simply called it military exercises. and beijing also said that it's important to consider the context of the situation at the crux and the context was very clear which is indicating that full aging. it does not blame north korea entirely for raising, for reasons tensions in the region. and that it believe that south korea and the united states also must vest some responsibility. french troops on leaving volcano facet france was given a one month deadline to withdraw from the west african nation in january. as relation deteriorated, the troops had been deployed to fight against cradling groups because hawkers covering the story from the this was a small but solemn ceremony, marking
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a big moment in history for burkina faso, the french flag was brought down in a ceremony in a camp outside the capital one could do in the presence of the chief of staff, but also the commander of the french forces. lieutenant colonel lucretia, the $200.00 to $400.00 men, will be re deployed to the car synagogue right here, but also to our because they were in charge with neutralizing leaders of arm grouped linked to iceland al qaeda operating in this a health according to diplomats. i've spoken to this is a victory for russia while, well, because the leadership of became foss, so is looking for greater ties with russia and less ties with the west. there were st protest a couple of months ago against the french military prince president, to the call for a different relationship with france, a former colonial power. so this marks the end of the chapter and it comes at a time where there's another attack in the country, a people killed in the north in the region of tito. nicholas hawk al jazeera de car,
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senegal. a number of israeli settlers has called dru pulls in the last 30 years, more than 700000 israel is now living in illegal sacraments in the occupied west bank. thus, according to the pace. now organisation palestinian sates crossing their land and resources. neither abraham reports. ham adams hat is one of only f u, palestinian bedouins left in the modern jet area in the occupied west bank. their lifestyle depends on hurting livestock, but it's now under threat. over the last several years is really settlers have begun, establishing hurting, and farming outposts. formerly hat. that means half of the lands available for grazing are now off limits, soccer, palestinian shepherds, c. settlers often attack them, and their flocks were dormer. below. they want us out of these lands,
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they don't want any better when here. if someone protects me in my livestock, we won't leave, will be reassured, of peace activists come to help us to expose israel. those settlers are crazy people on the loose. this is an israeli policy. let's is that some of those who attack his family come from settlement out both like this one. it's been expanding into more palestinian lands since that was established in 2004 palestinians they, they've gotten used to the cycle. the more violent settlers exercise, the faster they get pushed off of their lance, all his sentiments together of earth opposed to cruel jericho. jericho worn the content of the north drew. atticus has been monitoring supplement expansion for more than 2 decades. worked with a road there wasn't, his research shows how those outposts are used to take more palestinian lands. he says the way they spread out is not random. 77 subtler farming outposts have been established in the occupied west bank. 66 of them during the last decade,
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although they are not recognized by these really government, they receive funds and services from governmental bodies. grazing has played an important role in determining their location at cost. so the farming outposts are used to controlled palestinian lands that built up settlements cannot most of deserve settlers which harmed, willing and visible they belong to the most extreme and most violent terms sector with israel sonus. in order to establish such an outpost, you need to be willing to use a lot of to exercise. allow violent and postilion policy, and herders are not going to live or learn. the leslie are frightened. 40 families are now in this area. that's down from 75 just over a decade ago. many were forced to give up their better when lifestyle altogether. those who remain fear it's only a matter of time. neither but him al jazeera, the occupied west bank.
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