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killing 3 and injuring more than $200.00. ah. and i won money inside this is out there lie from day or so. coming up. the u. s. president makes a surprise visit to ukraine just days before the 1st anniversary of russia's invasion, one year later, key stanish and ukraine sans democracy stairs. and brazil's president tools, a popular resort region, ravaged by floods and land slides that have killed at least 40. ah, we begin in southern takia where new magnitude, 6.4 earthquake has struck just
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a few hours ago. so far, 3 people have died more than 200 or injured laura con against our coverage. ah, a building that had survived to earthquakes and southern turkey now gone along a co dash cam capture at the moment. oh, yeah, go through there. oh god, god, i saw a woman's screams, the earth trembled. all the buildings in her ty have collapse. they are dead. ha ha! and at the airport to panic, as the quick hit ah little skin, somebody abuse a politicians tv interview from an aged distribution center in ruptured. have you said that john? linda uniday from older alike now for families already traumatized disbelief.
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the terror has come again on the audio jack burden, we were very scared. we thought the ground would tear apart a nation rocks just 2 weeks after twin earthquake appended the lives of millions, killing tens of thousands and destroying countless homes. it was very shaky. you know, we hardly filled up, it was very difficult, you know, you know, it was going to happen. we were expecting that. so. right now, so we are expecting more. so everybody should be, you know, more prepared about this. this is the movement. quake struck a lot who rebel held golden syria more misery for people still suffering severe shortages in food medicine and housing on top of a decade old to the duration in syria. i mean, it's horrible in north toddy ball this area, even before that,
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rick now is suffering more and more all those people in fact, who have been directly affected or even those people who have been in the epic did are living very severe in condition back in turkey, the ties man says people are trapped under the rubble while others poured into the streets another night in the cold. nor home al jazeera out there is semi don has more from the city of atlanta in turkey. well, it's been sadly a repetition of this terrible cycle of fear. reports of collapse is going on around the country and other places. now we're getting reports of people being in the rubble and tie, the mayor said, there are people that are full of some people having been injured it's. it's
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a terrifying grief play when you go out and talk to people in a word there afraid here in a donna, i'll tell you what the life is up. there was no building collapses so far, no reports of anyone having been injured so far. but a lot of people are scared, we got it, we were driving on the highway from no dog, the at the center of the 1st earthquake that heads towards the donna. when this happened, we got out, we saw the speak with people, and a lot of people are simply afraid they felt the buildings shake and it puts people back into the 3 play once again of the nightmare that they, they've been living. let's see if we can find anyone action law center figure said look, williamson ok. busy so i'm going to ask him a few questions. i couldn't tell when couldn't well. ok, so he's he said he was working when to come up. ok,
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so he was working in a restaurant when the earthquake, it has had stated that you will last year and he had to run out of the building. he was afraid until we had bought layla has voted on it when he says he so afraid she couldn't do it and he feel afraid he thinks he's going to stay out tonight. he doesn't want to go back in doors. he's really worried about them. this is to answer your question, this is the story we hear from people when we bump into people in the 3, are you stop how on the street and you say what happened? they say tara panic. we're going through this again. so hopefully, you know, it's, it's, it's still quite a strong earthquakes. i'm going to see if we can come in here because there was a gentleman i was talking to earlier. hopefully he's still around you know,
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people have gone through this again. hopefully there hasn't been a lot of damage, but it, it does a lot of psychological impact on people because people are afraid. but i think here we are. this is jan who were talking earlier. we do can we are now live. so john, you own this building, right? yes. and you're staying here with your family? yes. why? because you have a you could be at home or somewhere else. right? yes, i have. my old home is one flats which has to be here because we've pilled us. we should be here for support workers or make them feel more comfortable and also our guests to feel more comfortable. and we trust our building where you hear about what was an hour and something ago when they ask, why did you feel the earthquake? i've felt 3 of the earthquakes that we had here.
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7.47.2, and the last one was 3. the last one officially is 5.86.64 for 6 months for quite an un office of 5 point. i know you were here. i was. what did you feel you were in our rooms? all are all the guess we're in our fever in our rooms. but we really feel comfortable because if you of a, the main principles of the construction technology, you don't need to worry about anything and you confident that this building can with and i'm a engineer, my architect is way to 340. we make this building with everything the parts before starting to building. we make our grounds more stronger. so you feel you've taken the right precautions to make this place?
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yes, i said point town john, here with his family. so that's how i guess, you know, his, his wife and it's all right for, for us i did ask beforehand, this wasn't a complete surprise. so thank you so much for holding. we hope everything goes. we wish we could meet with any other reason, but we are hosting you here because of the earthquake. thank you. i hope all the best for you and your guests and your family. thank you so much. and as you can see, there's a lot of, lot of people hanging around here, we've been speaking to other people earlier and ask them what their plans are. a lot of people about a lot of people are obviously afraid. hopeful that who knows how many more after shocks or how many more earthquakes are coming? that's kind of the question. but some people's mind when we talk to them of the us 6, you say left turkey a just hours before the latest quake, anthony lincoln assured his turkish counterpart beverage over surely that
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washington would fully support the recovery efforts to them because he has more from ankara this is the 1st official visit by us secretary of state antony blinking to took here since he took office 2 years ago. he arrived here on sunday nearly 2 weeks after devastating earthquakes to southern true care and northern syria. blink him says, washington is ready to help uncle for as long as it takes stressing the fact rebuilding in this region will require a lot of time and effort. nato's expansion is also on the agenda. finland, sweden have already taken concrete steps to fulfill the commitments they made under the trilateral memorandum of agreement that they signed with tricky on the margins of the nato summit in madrid. we welcome and appreciate those steps. i think they're quite significant. the u. s. center kit don't agree on ever issue. while giving a green light for finland to join nato on current beliefs suite a needs to do more
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to kids, their defense cap ability is another issue for the nato allies to discuss, especially after anchored a purchase. watch a massage systems in 2019 f one out to probably be me. you get this on doing that. we're going. we discuss the latest situation regarding our f. 16 request at the meeting today at the us ministration. strongly supports our plea and we thank them for this. we hope they will make an official notification to the u. s. congress on this matter as soon as possible. and it is in the interest of both parties to complete this process promptly. choice all assess ciocca is not in favor of conditional sales of the f sixty's and has asked for the return of the $1400000000.00 on car paid for the f $35.00 fighter jet program to kia was, you know, late really remote from it turkish american relations, i've been swaying for some time now. the fight left washington immediate relief
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response to on car shows, the relationship is still strong and the nato still need to care. however, there are so many issues to overcome. americans support for white puget. kurdish fighters in syria is one of them. turkish officials have designated the group as a terrorist organization and say the u. s. corporation is a great mistake. while washington insists the y p g is quit shell for its fight against thyself. seen am casala al jazeera and kyra cave stands, ukraine stands and democracy stands. that was a message for me as president j biden, as he made an unannounced trip to the craning capital. just days before the 1st anniversary of the conflicts charles trafford has the support of the days of speculation. no doubt, weeks of planning us president joe biden arrived in the ukrainian capital keep.
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nearly a year to the day, russia invaded the white house. it had been basic communication with moscow just before the visit to ensure what it called the conflict taishan. to avoid a miscalculation that could lead to open conflict between the 2 nuclear powers. ah, an air raid siren wailed across the city. as the 2 men walked near saint michael's cathedral, not uncommon with world leaders have visited keith since the war began. you as president, describe the night of the invasion when he called the ukrainian leader zalinski. he admitted he had feared russia could quickly take control of all of ukraine that dark night. one year ago. the world were lonely at the time bracing for the fall cave. seemed like a lot longer ago than
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a year. but think back that year. perhaps even the end of ukraine, you know, one year later, keith stands and ukraine says, democracy stays, the american stand with you and the world stands with you. widen announced an additional half a $1000000000.00 in usaid, but there was no mention of new advanced weaponry such as long range missiles. the zalinski says his forces need ukrainian presidents stress again. there will be no peace until ukraine liberates all its territory. a promise that is among many military analysts and some of ukraine's allies, increasingly unrealistic as the vast cost of this war and its global effects continues to grow, or is malia condition oblivion. that was film. but it was the conversation that indeed brings closer our joints victory in this war. so we can and we must ensure
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that 2023 becomes the year of victory, which i want to underline that this unprovoked and criminal russian war against ukraine. and then tied democratic world much and with the liberation of ukrainian land from russian occupation, and with solid guarantees of long term security for our country. europe an anti world with you as president 1st visit to ukraine almost exactly a year since russia's invasion is rich in symbolism and a clear message to moscow. for biden's, zalinski and many of ukraine's backers, maintaining unified support comes at a vital time before expected intensification of fighting, the so called spring offensive child stratford al jazeera keith lee as president, has now arrived in poland, travelling by train from ukraine. his surprise visit to a country in the grips of all was a major undertaking. alan fish explains from whistle as president joe biden went
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for dinner in washington, dc. late on saturday, final plans were being laid for his trip to keep the decision to go was taken on friday. the arrangements had been discussed over several months with the template was established last year when the secretary of state and the defense secretary visited ukraine. over night, train, small entourage, blacked out windows. the white house kept a tight lid on the news, even issuing biden's schedule for how you would spend monday in washington in the cross, even as he was travelling half a world away. the america stands with you. and the world stands with you. keys has captured a part of my heart. i must say. it's not unusual for presidents to make trips to conflict zones. rock obama did it in afghanistan, donald trump, iraq. but both times the u. s. controlled the air space. ah, that's what made biden's trip more dangerous. that's why the white house told the
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russians just hours before to avoid any mishaps which could spark a bigger problem on the ground. the security had to be unbelievable by the ukrainians. because the u. s. doesn't have a military presence in ukraine, and so you've got air defense security to worry about you got these possible elements on the ground. and it required that the shutting down a sent you a key of to traffic off of for a couple of hours. ah, when he traveled to poland last year, president biden was reportedly keen to cross the border, but was overruled by his secret service. the people who protect him this time with more notice, we could make it work. security will be ramped up here when joe biden makes a major address to mock the 1st anniversary of the ukraine war. but no matter what he says, what will be remembered more than the speech is the visit that came before it. alan fisher, al jazeera warsaw on his part of our special coverage,
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mocking again into the crane war on barn edson a clock will be exploring how it's set back the fight against climate change. tuning here now to 0 at 230 g m t. she still ahead on out thousands of his riley's protest outside parliament, us stop spacing, the government's bonds to weaken the palace of pacific. ah, now washington dc represents the east coast as being about 6 degrees bowman of average, a minneapolis for about 6 degrees, more or less below average. so there is still a contrast and winter certainly in the upper midwest in canada, and certainly coming in to the west, the pacific side. so was we see snow go through here to stay on the low side. and
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briefly you might see bit of rain in d. c. it is looking rather more wintry with a cold north wind snow down to low levels and not just washington northern california, then central california. and that system keeps going further, south kill the bulk of snow will be up in the mountains, but it's going to be a cold wind anyway. and you're going to feel, but you're back in winter was in contrast, so warm in the southeast. and then this area here will be particularly stormy. chicago may be getting some pretty nasty thunderstorms, with the breeze lightning to some degree. the rather dull or wet weather on the coast to nicaragua is easy, often spots about in panama, costa rica, rather mostly, generally fine was well she shout around the heavier shes been for the south in brazil, se brazil. this is in south palo state, but that sherry stuff is moving a bit away from south password porter, allegra nevertheless, expect big dam pause for another 24 hours, particularly in land. ah,
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welcome back to watching out as a reminder of our top stories as our new magnitude, 6.4 earthquake has struck turkeys. hattie province at least 3 people have been killed. another 213 injured in the latest earthquake. this monday is 47000 people and now known to have died since the earthquakes on february 6th, more than 41000 when taking nearly 6000 in syria in both the rebel and regime held areas of the country. and you, as president joe biden has promised to stand with ukraine for as long as it takes during an unannounced visit to the capital keith, he pledged $500000000.00 of additional milk she ate, and father sections against russia. at least 40 people have been killed off the torrential rain triggered flooding and landslides, the coastal areas in brazil, south east. on monday, brazil's president louise in last year, lila da silva flew over back. delirious and tar neighborhoods have been submerged
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on the water and hundreds of people in this place. she stopped on me. morbid usa, we are sending several trucks with supplies, food coats, mattresses, mineral water, and cleaning materials from sao paulo, to here to provide humanitarian assistance. but as far so i saw the 1st trying to support it is for the evicted and homeless people. monica yanna cave is in the south sebastian town. one of the worst had areas in brazil were standing in the patio of a church. this is the place where thousands of volunteers have been gathering since sunday. here's where they're bringing all the supplies, water mattresses, food clothes, for all the people that have been forced out of their homes, some 2000 people were forced to leave because they are in danger. 36 have died already when 600 millimeters of rainfall fell on sunday. that
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is the same amount of water that was expected to fall in one whole month. and this produced land sites on both sides of this church. and also further down. now there's some 40 people that are still missing. we were following the fire men were trying to find the bodies of a man that disappeared on one side of this church and a whole family. on the other side of this church, president wheezy, now to let us you were over flu. the area today, he says that our one of the problems is that people have been building houses in risky places on the mountain. not only in this region, but another regions of brazil also which, where there have been land slides are some worse than these in the past years. now people here say that the reason that they build these house is an unsafe places because they have nowhere else to go. there isn't enough housing cheap housing. so
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the government has been promising that they will build a housing for these people, so they will not incur in the same danger that they have so far are some are we're still expecting here more people to arrive at this church because they're leaving areas of danger. and people here, what they're most worried is that the rain does not return that for good weather. they're praying for good weather because the weather has been very unstable. thousands of people gathered outside israel's parliament in west jerusalem earlier to protest against the government's judiciary forms class. it is holding its 1st reading of the controversial amendment to overhaul the countries legal system. evan weeks of rallies denouncing the netanyahu government's proposals to weaken the powers of the supreme court,
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which critics say are anti democratic. or the 1st proposal gives israel's parliament the power to override supreme court decisions with a simple majority, that's just $61.00 out of $120.00 votes. the 2nd proposal takes away the supreme court's authority to review israel's basic laws which functions as the country's constitution. their forms will also change how supreme court justices selected, giving the government far more sway on selecting judges for the bench. so congress has more from the purchased in west jerusalem. tens of thousands have for the 7 wing outside of the show on the, against the new cars and trying to bring in. and we have many people across section by from the young to be old mother. the babies teaches people for not like the fact that are all here because they say that this recall time on the across the can we have one protest say, hey, why, what, what,
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what brings you here? put a mark, gets on my kindly, i don't have any way. why is it your, what is it that you with her phone, will be no one will protect our human rights and we know what you mean. like i'm side, i'm coming out of. i have no idea. oh, well my country is going and you cuz i have no i have, i feel like i need to do something. i can do nothing. i'm what would you like the current government to do there? obviously going through several rounds of both to bring in this new district. what would you like the happen? what do you hope from this process you will be able to gain? i hope that because they shouldn't be able to communicate between them, but something needs to change but they can not can go there will be no one to what that does. this is the thing that many of the processes are concerned about,
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that these reforms on potentially give the branding of the brain. the supreme court designed to strike down a decision that's being made by going to come in and change. they can also through a simple majority a unhappy that the coalition in one general election, he is also called to be no civil disobedience. kristen continued to come here when wrenching from the u. s. which is really government to put the brakes on the readings on this boat. it's only to destroy reform. and also the president himself is ready,
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president has cooled all sizes that come together to be able to negotiate, to be able to put support on changes to the judicial system. whether that's going to happen, we'll have to see because so far off to weeks of protest, protests is on not seeing any changes and they feel that they cause the not being meanwhile, the you on security council has issued a formal statement expressing deep concern and dismay with israel's announcement last week, the expansion of illegal settlements the occupied west bank. it says such settlements impeded piece security council held a special meeting on monday to discuss the issue as pensions continue to escalate between israelis and palestinians. she pretends he has more from the un over the weekend. one source called frantic negotiations, took place between a raft of us diplomats and the israelis and palestinians, and the u. e. in order to get to come to some sort of deal to only have
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a presidential statement. so this isn't legally binding as a un security council. resolution would be and actually the original un security council resolution that was drafted called israel to immediately and completely cease all supplement activities and the occupied palestinian territory. it reaffirms the illegality of settlement construction that would be legally binding, although, as we know, israel isn't, isn't one to, to take legally binding un security council resolutions as the as legally binding. but instead the u. s. than went into these frantic negotiations in order to prevent a un security council resolution which it might have had to veto because of its unwavering support for israel and sydney, jo biden's unwavering support for benjamin netanyahu. and the reason for that was the u. s. really ones the focus this week to be on russia and ukraine. and later on this week they'll be un general assembly resolution that the, the us will be introducing, which will be condemning russia is illegal innovation of ukraine. a little bit of
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football news. now robert levin dorski scored his 1st goal at the new camp since october to help barcelona was stored at 8 point lead the top of lie lager. barker were up again struggling cadets and after some great play by foreign taurus, the home side went ahead through said g roberto late in the 1st half. it was still time for 2nd before half time, just dusky, making it to now, which is how it finished. arsole owner have won their past 7 li games are not on beat, an ac matches in competition. when all he killed, the monster knew a shorter than an uncle. her we were lucky not to concede. i think they at least deserved one goal. often we're doing a lot of things well, but we haven't won anything yet. we're in a very good position leading by 8 points, but the still allotted games to be played, but we are happy. yes. so she ah,

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