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you're watching the news. our life from headquarters in ohio obligate coming up in the next 60 minutes. the more buildings collapse, trapping people after 2 new earthquakes hit southern turkey. at least 6 people are dead. 9 san jose than live from some sort of kia where the late, despite the only intensify the plea for health and places like the tremors were also felt. a neighboring theory where more than 130 people have been injured. in other news, russian president vladimir putin says he'll continue with his operation in ukraine and accuses nato escalating the conflict and the head of russia. wagner group accuses moscow defense, ministry of destroying his mercenary organization. i'm devin, ashwin bought a huge game in the european champions. later with livable up against how does
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around madrid in a repeat of last season's final. ah, in welcome to the news, our people enter t and syria are once again scared and shaken to more powerful. earthquakes have rock both countries 2 weeks after a devastating tremors killed more than 47000 people. so the center of monday night stronger magnitude 6.4 quake was here. the city of untouched buildings that were already weakened have now collapse, killing at least 6 people and parents are left consoling their terrified children. that again in northwest syria, people fled buildings. as the shaking began, the white helmet volunteer group reported more than $130.00 injury. let's go straight to sammy say done in summons. for more, sammy yeah, let me start 1st of all,
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darian by giving everyone an update on what happened with those search and rescue operations that were going on overnight in at least 3 buildings. the minister of interior showed up at one of them. we understood 6 people were trapped under the rubble. this was all of them. the 6 people of course, who died in the earthquake, how sadly 3 of those people were located, but they will hold out. their bodies were located. we're not alive. and they were pulled out, we're still waiting for confirmation award and what happened to the rest of those people? there's been a lot of aftershocks after that official say, 90 after shocks and they're talking about distributing money. they said that 335000 families have received 10000 leer. is each they're trying to get people back on their feet trying to get people some aid. because at this time, people are in desperate need. 28 more buildings at least have collapsed than last nights. earthquake,
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according to the official figures that have come out so far. talk about collapse buildings and then ask our cameraman now out her galler, belma sinners. if we can walk down, let me show you what we, what we mean. we talk about more buildings collapsing, buildings collapsing, which were already weakened in the 1st earthquake. well this is it. this building behind me here. i've spoken to people. it's one of several buildings in this neighborhood which were standing in they had survived the 1st and 2nd earthquakes. but when last night's earthquakes happened, this building collapsed. as you can see, families now trying to get their belongings out of here because previously they thought the buildings were relatively safe enough to leave their stuff in there. they don't obviously don't feel this is anywhere near safe enough any more. they're trying to take their stuff out and they're trying to figure out what to do next and, and where to go. let me update you on what the official fig is,
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are for the strengths of the last earthquake and after shock. because there's been a lot of numbers and information bantered around on social media, but officially they're talking about a magnitude 6 point for any occasion that she is clearly distressed. she's saying she's saying that it's it's, her house is finished out of her as of beside the avalanche. she's, she's very upset. she sang, her house is finished. thank you. and, and this is a scene that is playing out right across turkey right now, in some of the very distress places, the latest earthquake was just re igniting people's fears. and people's tensions as assoc bay explains now wow, 3 more victims to add to the 10s of thousands of people who have already lost their
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lives. 04 men were trapped inside this building. only one made it out to life that come to salvage what they could of their belongings when the earthquake hit. the 3rd in the space of 2 weeks, their family members waiting, hoping that relatives would be brought out to life. instead they saw the loved ones code out in body bags. rescue workers had been winding down their operations. when the earthquake struck under me blow, we were planning to go back to our homes. this earthquake has extended the process . we never left the rescue operation. we continued our fight, did our best to pull out people a life elsewhere building that had survived to earthquakes and 7 dirtier now gone. her la la. somewhere in hattie province. a car dash cam captures the moment every day.
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oh god, god, i saw a woman screams. the earth trembled. all the buildings and hat i have collapsed. they are dead. and that the airport panic as the quake hit in little screens on the use a politicians tv interview from an aide distribution center interrupted. have you received that july? the unit apr i'm older. i'm like now for families already traumatized disbelief. the terror has come again. oh, the audio? yes. we were very scared. we thought the ground would tear apart. a nation rocked just 2 weeks after twin earthquakes appended the lives of millions, killing tens of thousands and destroying countless homes. it was really shaky. you know, we oddly stood up. it was very difficult. you know, you know, it was going to happen. the, the were expecting that. so right now,
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so we are expecting more. so everybody should be, you know, more prepared about this. this is the moment the quake struck a left point in rebel held north and syria. ha more misery for people suffering severe shortages in food medicine and housing on top of a decade old civil families are already sleeping on the streets. in freezing conditions. beckoned turkey hetero messes. people are chucked under the rubber people poured into the streets another night in the cold, as a sense of fear prevailed. there been thousands of aftershocks and this latest earthquake has people asking where they can go to be safe. i thought vague a da 0 patty southern dorothea. the acme center last night. so quite wasn't far from here, was in a place called deaf. now we've got rob mcbride standing by live there. how much
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damage is apparent that the last life event? that's right. this editor of dusty, it's on the edge of the city of van takia. one of the most heavily devastated cities is throughout this earthquake zone. and tuesday morning, after these quakes of that happened in the darkness of monday night, people have been coming back to see what further devastation has befallen this part of the city and this one street in particular, if we can move around, this is one of the buildings that was actually destroyed in monday nights, quake. it was already badly damaged from the quake crate 2 weeks ago. but it was still standing. this was a 5 store rebuilding like the buildings either side of it and people had actually come back in to the building to try to get that. but actually this happened that around a local time on monday evening and people were inside when this earthquake struck me. this is from where the 3 bodies had to be recovered. as we've been going
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through tuesday. here we've been speaking to neighbors, people who come back to this building, one man who returned here an hour or so ago with his wife who is in tears to see what is actually befall and building. now he was actually rescued from the rubble after an hour in the original earthquakes. 2 weeks ago he knew he said it was dangerous to come back here and he came back around a week after the earthquake. so a week back from now, because he said he wanted to retrieve important documents, important possessions that he did that they managed to get them out, but he said he knew at the time that it was dangerous. we spoke to another neighbor, the owner of an apartment here who had planned to come back with his car on tuesday morning and take possessions out of here. the building is now connie owens, another apartment over here, which again has also been badly damaged. city's the walk down the street, we've been talking to the soldiers who have been here for the past week or so
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a tuesday. this disaster zone has quick as be gently changed its appearance once more or buildings, which had already been damaged, but were still standing up, have been further dilapidated, further pushed over onto their sides. and the part of the soldiers tell us that there are many more plots here that are now just rubble. that until monday night had been buildings still standing. but now have gone. just making sure this is going on. all right, so thanks so much for mcbride. there got a bit of a commotion going on here, but it's a good commotion. can i ask alper to zoom in there? if we can, you can see on the back of that truck, be authorities where we can't see it. now i have to wait for this sir van to move alpha. maybe we can move down a bit and try and get a shot of that truck from this side all day. we've been standing here. and if there's one thing that people have been consistently coming
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to us and asking us for, it's been tense. and thankfully, as we were standing here, we just saw this trunk pull up with hands to the authorities that are trying to get hence here, which is it. that is really a good thing because people come out to you when you're standing here and they ask you, can you help us? they see a tv camera and they start asking you for help. and the one thing like i said, was there goes my, i feared, pick them up for a 2nd. the one thing that people have consistently said is we need tense. here is the lady i spoke to earlier. moreover, oh, not been counted often. sure. when couldn't sack lunch it? this is casper and she was just talking to me a moment ago. and she said, i want to show you our situation, your law. so she was at the time of last night's earthquake. she had gone back into her home because she said it was cold. she wanted to warm up a bit. she wanted to cook some food, but then the 2nd earthquake,
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thee well now this, the 3rd earthquake struck. and at that moment, they all ran out and they sleep their sleeping outdoors. now in these makeshift tents, but they're not ready tents, as you can see them more like greenhouses they've been used using to grow their food. and this is where they are now. i'm just going to ask her to explain a little bit leash law yet for let's say add a toilet, plus lazy, get attorney, but now said as latin. i said i led to and he said that i let me finish. she saying that there are 77 families living here. we need help. we need toilets. irma lab is she a, kelsey hagen, murphy, lips murphy. then so we are egg or dr. mana, but an adult boy just dunphy at aiken saw, but then a defer nana. okay. so they need heating, they need some food, they needs clothes, thing clearly need a lot of help. shes till lunch of to say jada dirt. pamela ban here,
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m m hand man vasquez said, not that not had nasa mcmillan holiday, but disney afternoon in am. am if a bill of now so she is still need some help in getting those tenses. a lot of requests for tents here. so people quite tense and stressed. 5 bird sadly come you're my she could have friends and home as she uncertain marnie. humph basha. oh, so she said for 15 days they've been sleeping out at night times in here. it's clearly a very little sub blood study near dora elaine la jolla. oh my yeah, my joy eden up the fellow. no, no ladner. ladders argued late. they need not the fellow madmen do muddle. so she's saying we need proper tents because when it rains, the rainwater goes straight through and the kids get, wait. this is alyssa curry off the in charlotte, in shallow more to tests and isn't allowed. oh, clearly this is a very difficult situation and the question, some of the questions on people's minds here when you talk them is when is this gonna end? and maybe this is a good time for us to try and bring in our geologist. we have an expert joining us
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professors, yard and chuck, and he's from the stumble technical university. good to have you with us, sir. first of all, what happened last night is this considered an earthquake or just another after shock, because it was serious enough to scare people and do damage here. ah, or thank you for having me. it says separate ok. that happened on the south western combination. also the, the 1st magnitude, 7.8 book greg. it's either branch on, in fact, default branches out into 22 segments. one going down to syria and spine. and this is called the death chief. all the other one is turning ashford into the mediterranean and running off shore sacrifice. it's called the
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cypress faults are so the last night are very happened on the age of this cypress she sold, which was the level of stress was increased by the, the, the main, the magnet break in february 6th. so the me knew that the, the likelihood of happening on that fall was right. because of did the 1st off ok. a lot of people want to know what point can we safely say that these earthquakes are going to stop or at least not be so life threatening? is there a point as a scientist, as a geologist, that you can point to and say make it through until this week this month?
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our fault and we don't have any pool or any sign or in all the approval calculation or metal the legit to do that after shocks and maybe some other like least the one that's happened yesterday may happen. you know, not only in this area but also to the north like my life. yeah. and as you start area falls on beach trace was increased as a result of these 2 massive affects. so a normal h in bonds, maybe a year or so to see the end of this crisis, some huge crisis and it's, it's not over yet. it is a huge crisis indeed. and
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a lot of statements also kill 18 by geologist by experts talking about the next big earthquake in a stumble or in a donna, can you shed any light on how accurate or some of these predictions? how worried should people be about, 1st of all, these 2 massive rod craig's and also show her nor effect save her own loopholes in the sea or murmur. correcting is stumble and surrounding cities, but larger. yes indeed, may take place in the vicinity of the earth area. now, i mean se, then charging is north of argona malati. start off on takia, you know and sacrifice
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or i thank you so much for talking to us. well, of course, we must remember that it's not only turkey that's suffering the effects of last night's earthquake, as the professor mentioned that the effects were felt far away in several countries, but as particularly across the border in syria, there have been reports there as st holder reports now of people sustaining injuries. 11 year old mohammed is still in pain. a 2 weeks after he was pulled from the rubble of his collapse home in northwest syria. he's among the thousands of victims of the earthquakes that had their epa centers and neighboring turkey could answer them up a bill giving appropriate medical care to such patients is complicated because we need proper supplies and we don't have anything. the entered survivors are many more than 10000 across syria. the majority, at least $8000.00 are here and the opposition controlled northwest were health
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facilities are already under strain. due to 12 years of war giving is an indicator care appropriate physical care for such patients is something which is complicated because you need everything. and the problem is you don't have anything. and some hospitals, shortage in goals. they could not find goes to, to, to give, to put on the wounds for the patients. i hope the donations will come to the area. aid and doctors have entered northwest syria. but there's been a lack of an international disaster response. hospitals are overwhelmed and they lack the means to deal with complex cases. this emergency means patients with chronic illnesses like kidney failure, are not receiving the necessary treatment or not. and i need 3 dallas to sessions a week now they've given me to because didn't have enough equipment and he would all the cases from the earthquake. our situation is very bad here and northwest
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syria. we could die because of the lack of care. many victims suffer from crush injuries which could lead to kidney failure. that's why there is the demand for dialysis wise. so i will remove from the bubble after 7 hours and as a foot feed is injuries, i need kidney dialysis, but it's not available all the time. i can't stand on my own feet when the been, it's not his only pain on the cost of over the moral i left my home, anela, for 8 years ago after we were bombed, it was only 8 months ago that i bought a new house. now it's gone, but his greatest loss is his wife and 3 children who all died in the ruins of their new home. then over there, elsie 0. all right, we can now join osama hussein. he's the coordinator of an end geo that specializes in health and international solidarity. it's called math programs and that's based in syria. thank you so much for joining us. first of all,
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what sort of damage has this done? the last thanks. earthquake to the already very drastic health condition and situation bear that people were facing in syria. yeah, actually the situation is already ended up taking and the last one yesterday that happened made up kind of 2 and 4 for the people who already had that from. i think i can say to him, i think there might be t as for the trauma. so you can see yesterday we have a 90 pool injury. i wouldn't know despite the fact that the what's the point for so the people run about the weight. and so the where our housing and the where most of the people we have already outside
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because they already have from the previous or the. so yesterday i wasn't a day. and so the people in my, i know when freshly and without clothes actually i. so most of them people are really eating the tuition. so in addition to the huge impacts of the previous ethics as well. so people became more, more and more, have a btn to so much to ation. so in addition to the gaps in and everything from if i, food and, and vacation now we're talking about something more specialized to me, maybe priority for medical vision or mental health psycho social support.
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in a situation like this though, that you're describing as people have to repeatedly run out of their hands, run out into the cold maybe spend the night in the cold. is that increasing the risk of the spread of of flu of cold of disease? yes, sure, sure. as, as i mentioned, the people went out thinking without getting loans enough to be out and spent most of the night outside. and many families went outside without coverage without children actually many families that they had the car in baycove ending and under the tense shelters. what about they can find yet leaving. busy their homes and things already either partially affected or the last or they are frightened,
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as i mentioned. also they have to be insight indoors or i thank you so much for talking to us. we can continue to talk to a little bit about the situation here. we have now joining us owners apologize. he's one of the residents here of this area who lives through the earthquake of last night. my husband became a melody, had the thir ish ishamley, saddler camps. phil. phil has the 3rd and bad ha. all just asked him what happened yesterday, what he experienced when lam skinner jumble bit. oh, tournament i shy in or to learner? we're constantly den norma has similar bizarre le fini, a mean his r o leash, continental bateman shotwell ada camacho will be a jumble bit. okay, here he's saying they were next to the house. having did a similar story here from people who are starting to feel a little bit safer after 2 weeks. they wanted to get stuff from the home. they
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wanted to be close it for home, for heating or whatever. and then they said the earthquake hit and they were terrified. learn a little bit that was only jam master fema model and a guy, oh sure saddle a chain had him or law hobbled mondanca or but the little bell corner. oh well i'm just sort of garage august 7th here mark and was there any? and he's telling us that his house was not damaged after the 1st earthquake. but now it's, it's collapsed. for when, when had battle layla when, when betrothed, we're loving, why jamante any a from what? the outcome film. hi am i just asked him what? where is he going to sleep tonight? what is his conditions? or lamar alpha, and in let him that you are jo, shit, they any moles of had to her the fire mom, the fix i i and a low dashava shortage or lamb l. mccray, m r. then actually l hin and now one of a sudden bed mac and none of them, the pro,
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not got the rod, no, not la, defy on our for the but the was not behind it. i can halle and colors. monica been on the prem, chacandra zealand stovall north. he was explaining that we need help, we need better tents. we need heating. we need food. now that these last nights earthquake has came in, its severely damaged, even more homes, the things the little things that we used to be able to rely on to go in our homes and get we can't rely on that any more. if it rains, have gotten no shelter, a tool above our heads. so this is a common story. sadly that we hear from people here. we did see, we have to say, i can still see now another truck has showed up with aid. so let's hope the authorities clearly making an effort to try and get aid into these people. but when we arrive, we've heard this all morning from people saying, can you help us? we need serious help doreen ah,
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let's move on to other news and the russian president vladimir putin has blamed western allies for starting the war in ukraine during his annual state of the nation address. he says that russia wanted peace, but the west had other ideas that i knew was evaluating. i would like to repeat that they started this war and we use all of our strength to stop it. you those who planted new attack in don bass with hans john yet can live and they were going to strike crimea next. and we knew about it you more and knew about their plans fit in, keep they now say it openly, but we knew their plans anyway. it doesn't like we defend our country and our political leadership. then let's bring in a sama bon jovi, join as for moscow. so the president is still speaking osama, but so far, what's been the take away message? well, the, the biggest line has been we will win at all costs. this has a combative, ave, a very defiant russian president, a year after his last address when his forces went into green,
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a short operation which is spanned for over year. and now he's speaking to not just his own audience, but to an international audience as well. first, using his time to lay out the inevitability of war. why did russia go to war? it wasn't a russia's fault. according to him, it was forced into dignity, these defensive positions because of what was happening in the west saying there was a failure of democracy where russia was pushing towards agreement since 2014 with the mense format. but it didn't work out because the rest had other plans. so laying out the foundations of fly rushman to war and then seeing it book continue at all costs. and then towards the latter half of his speech has been talking about socio economic issues. so wide ranging a speech, a wide range and address, hundreds of people gathered hair, dozens of screens. now across russia, in all time zones and all major cities are broadcasting. this is live a from the russian president as he takes his nation into account into confidence.
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and recount how russia has fed in the last one year, where, according to him, the whole world united to defeat russia. and they had plans to take russia to bow down and beg for money. they would put economic sanctions in russia. and according to him, russia has feared rel, any more important b, it is going to continue. he says about weapons that are being supplied to ukraine, that the longer range weapons that are supplied to ukraine and the deeper they will have to go to take them out. so not a speech where it shows that there is any sign of backing out of the war, any sign of slowing down, but a defined russian president thing it will do. he will do all it takes to continue to achieve what he believes is rightfully russian defense assignments are there. thank you so much for that report from moscow. let's get reaction from the ukraine and capital key. that's her as a master, avi is joining us from and there's already been reaction from ukrainian officials, whether they have to say well,
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the government here and ukraine is likely to see this speech about is predictable as the rainy winter, whether they're having and keep today. really nothing different in the narrative being put forth by the russian leader. nothing really has changed since the invasion last year and created leaders are likely to say that the russian government continues to use the same old buzzword, the same old political policy points. they're basically reading from the same playbook. ukraine, on the other hand, is playing a different game entirely. in the last year. they have pivoted hard towards the west. they are at the table with the e. u. they are the table with nato. they are at the table with their strongest western allies, the moment the united states. and what they are likely to say is that no matter what happens in the conflict going forward, this pivot to the west is going to remain unchanged. probably something that the russian president vladimir putin did not expect to see
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a year into his war on ukraine. but that is the case. now ukrainian say that they are politically socially, economically tied to europe tied to their western allies. and that is likely to remain the case, no matter what happens on the battlefields on the eastern front or elsewhere that pivot to the west is something that is likely to and change going forward. thank you. so my name is rob a reporting from keys. joining us here on site is not one calon. he is the director of policy analysis of the arab center for research and policy studies. welcome to al jazeera, so would put in is in fact, still speaking at his annual address, but what his message be geared towards an international or domestic audience. i think 1st of all, it's hard to justify his war by saying it was a war of necessity. he had no other option but to go into ukraine in order to eliminate what he called existing her threat to, to russia. and for him also, he's thing to both free the war as, as
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a question of life and death. so he will not be accepting defeat, no matter how long it takes, no matter how much it costs. so he's there for the long haul. as, as he, as he said, i think he's tried also to convey to that, to his domestic audience. and that he's not isolated that the west is not the world . there are many other hours with the in the what china, the central asian republics and other countries in africa and in asia. and he would be trying actually to extend bridges with all these would all be smaller. and that the sanction sections are not working also against against russian, russian economy. and he is, you know, because everybody in russia now consent about, especially now that europe has managed to find other alternatives to the russian oil and gas. solar shop must be considered now or some right question. because it
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must be concerned about the future prospects of economy, which totally depends on the revenues of gas and oil. okay, but what he's, he's also said that there's really no sign of him backing down. right. and as we approached our one year anniversary of the warn you create and if you, we a few days time, in fact, what, what do you think is going to happen going forward? i think he must have discovered maybe even, even in a very early stage of this war, the limits of shut off. because as we said before, this whole decision was based on miscalculations by russia. he overestimated the power of the russian military. he underestimated the power of the ukrainian military. he underestimated his old of the western countries to stand up against russia. and t are also miscalculated.
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the ability of europe to find alternatives to ration in energy. so putting that all together, i think he had the luck to see to the russian, people about why this war has taken so long time. why this war has cost. it's so much money. why this? what has cost as so many lives? because we all know that tens of thousands of russians, troops have been killed during this whole, this whole year. so i think he has to do a lot of convincing during this, this speech. especially, he's facing a skeptical audience. people are talking now. this whole operation maybe shouldn't have lost this long one year. no. okay, thank you so much for that. not an hour long come on. well, the us president is in poland after monday's unannounced visit to ukraine. joe biden is due to meet with the polish president, andre, do the and top central european officials later on tuesday is expected to discuss
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the possibility of permanently stationing american troops in poland. his visit come days ahead of that anniversary of russia's invasion of ukraine. and also ukraine's foreign minister is in brussels and he's needing nato and your leader as well. get more on that meeting with james days. he's at the fanatic editor and he's joining us from brussels. so what should we be looking out for james? well that meeting is taking place and has been taking place here. in fact, just behind me in the, in the room there. that's where the foreign minister to be true labor and the foreign policy. chief, joseph burrell, all the nato. sec, generalist. been speaking to them too. and i think they're preparing for a press conference, which is coming up soon, where they will speak to reporters. now they will obviously, i think we'll address the words of president to know, be honest about what president putin had to say. i don't think there were any major
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development so far in the speech that in any way alter the course of the war. and in fact, my reading of the speech so far is that perhaps it's mainly aimed at, at an international audience. and it's worth telling you in new york, at the end of the week on friday, they're supposed to be a vote in the un general assembly. now i think you will be hoping that some of the countries in the un general assembly, some of the 193 un members, will perhaps not keep that support when there is a vote, as they have done pretty much on ukraine, on the western side and, and i think he knows that although there is unity among the nations of iran a year ago on condemning the war and things, a breach of the un charter that when it comes to when the war should end, whether there should be negotiations. this disagreement, for example, i spoke in the last couple of days to pakistan, foreign minister who says that position hasn't changed the war needs to and now negotiations now should happen after
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a c spot. so that's very different from the western position, which is that they need to support ukraine. they need to remove russia 1st before there's any sort of diplomacy. the focus of the meeting that's going on here is about ammunition. ukraine is very worried and i think its allies very worried that it's using a lot of ammunition, particularly artillery shells and western factories can keep up. so i think you'll be looking very closely at the issue of re here. ok, james. thank you so much for monica. for reporting from brussel, while the head of russia's wagner group has accused the russian defense minister of destroying his mercenary organization, he says they're not giving his fighters enough, munitions. so let's take a closer look at the wagner group, the private paramilitary force was established in 2014 after moscow annex crimea. it was founded by the russian business, man, you have any prison was close to the president's latimer boots. and the wagner's group recently recruited russian prisoners to fight and ukraine,
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promising them freedom if they survive. it's also active in parts of the middle east and west africa, including countries like molly on berkeley and file. so we can get more on this with like say more of you have, he's a russia specialist and associate professor of national security institute studies a university in perth, australia. he's joining us live on scott from there. welcome to al jazeera. so what do you make of the comments made by the head of russia? wagner group effectively saying that the russian establishment is trying to the store, destroy the group, and depriving his fighters off munitions. oh, thank you, let me start by simply making a couple of observations. first, all we need to understand that the wagner group is not an ordinary private security company. it's effectively a sharp little army or a private army that has ever i took components that you can only be found in regular forces, such as havior, jewelry, common aircraft, not just missionaries who are fighting for
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a minute. and that explains the whole kind of a situation that you've gained regard him as you identify the end of the group. and the fact that the leader of the group is, is sort of complaining about. so he's effectively accusing russian ministry of defense of not providing there are, there are jewelry elements of the walking, a group with much needed them. you need to. and so we're talking about heavy artillery here and that comes up the week. so kim, pretty much figured age and that it was the wagner group that was responsible for a lot of success. a, you're in rushes offense, you've been done by that. it was the bargaining girl that took on and major in, in, in, in my leg relations. are you working in is, i mean, why would this information be made public now? especially seeing that the wagner group does have direct ties to the russian states . why are these cracks appearing at publicly more recently?
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well i, i think it's because of the time in all of these statements. i mean, they, as i said, you know, 4 weeks, a brake origin was cree desires, in the, the russian minister of defense for legal play. the she, for lack of effectiveness and phrasing. he is, he is wagner group. clearly it's also happening in the time when, when, when the gramlin is readjust in the strategy and your brain. and pre gordon obviously wants a major slice of this cake. effectively. he wants to, to some extent, and it may sound to be the absurd on one hand, don't last minute. monopolize rushes, aberrations in your grade by simply saying, i want it all. my horses proved to be more effective than russian regulus. as a result, gave me what i needed, and i, and i think this sort of open power condos. so than one on one hand, the breed decide russian general is russian general. stop. on the other hand, he demands more and more resources also by pulling his personal strings. so what we think the answers from the recent station with this?
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well, the reaction has breathed a pretty much been very neutral because the spokesman for the gramlin that effectively saying, wow, this is, this is for these 2 part is to sort out they, they're not making that big fuss about of these effected this bri gordon, who is making a lot of us about this, and i think it's also part of, of, of, of some sort of the way i'm going to say popularity build up. but certainly, something that you want to use as almost like a political leverage to blackmail russian minister of defense by using the popular kind of send him. and because he has been very fact you've been using social media, been been very vocal, especially op rushes up the rushes fair. listen, the 2nd part of last year. so he's very briefly of them let me and has an easy one final question. so, so what impact if any, will these disagreements and this latest disagreement tab on the ground and ukraine? we have 30 seconds. i don't think it's lawyer much when the fact because the wagner
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will probably get what they want, if not from russia, but so they from countries like north korea, possibly on china now. oh, okay, great. thank you so much. and thanks for speaking to time, alex, i'm more of you have, we appreciate you speaking to us from australia. thank you. now as part of our week long, special theories on the far reaching consequences of the war in ukraine on tuesday, we'll explain how the war is accelerating and global food traces. so make sure you tune in these times on at o, 230 gmc on wednesday as well turning to sedan and senior military commander mohammed haven't done. the gallo says that he regrets last year as military takeover, which paid the way for the return of people loyal to the former government wish up . but when i saw young men and women of the glorious december revolution, i did not hesitate to stand with them against the injustice of the regime as tyrant and corruption. i wanted to build sudan. the most recent mistake was october 25,
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coo at unfortunately, became a getaway for the return of the former regime. i sincerely want to leave political power and handed over to a transitional civilian authority. rescue teams in brazil are continuing to search for a dozens of people who are missing after floods and landslides around so polo at least 40 people have died in the extreme. whether monica danica report themselves about yell lion, she still was brother lived here. he has little hope of finding him alive. i shook him. you should is what all called you must be buried somewhere here. my sister in law, my babies were rescued from the rubble by the neighbors. but my brother said behind and was frog by the mud avalanche that destroyed their home. she was brother is one of 40 that died in lethal land slights in the sea site town of some sebastian, 200 kilometers from brazil's largest city so boldly. so sebastian was the
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epicenter of devastating floods. after $600.00 millimeters of rain fell in 24 hours . dozens of people remained missing. a family living in this house was lucky, a 62 year old man, his daughter, and 2 grand children, aged 10 and 15. they fled as soon as they heard the mud slide and the budget cation being torn down the hill, and they made it just in time. before this tree crashed into their house, brazil's president easy, nice, who lose their super visited the disaster area on monday. as rest who operations continued, it sometimes nature surprises us, but many times we challenge nature. we have to think of safe places to rebuild houses for the people of south sebastian. with new luxury means says it's time the government admitted the tragedies like these could be avoided. now, major settlement of the people blame us for putting our lives at risk by building
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our houses on the hills and unsafe places. but we have no other options grants in the city are high. and the only way we can afford a roof over our heads and put food on the table as by building our own shacks. and we don't have cheap housing. good mula escaped the landside with her husband and one month old baby. like many of the 2000 people who lost their homes or forced to leave. she took refuge in the nearby church. he should be like in asia. the church and thousands of volunteers were fast to help gathering close water and food for the flood victims. we have $300.00 people that are expecting more to come and will soon run out of space. while some neighbors are helping the rescue teams, other offer encouragement with songs and pray for the rain to stop monica and not give all jazeera some say by shall brazil to the u. s. and frustrations are still simmering in a small ohio town where a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed earlier this month,
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new health clinics are being set up for people despite assurances by local officials that there is no health risk. my cana has more drone footage from the sight of the train crash, wreckage is being cleared from the scene, but residents fear the impact on the environment is less visible. the anger was clear at a recent town hall meeting with many insisting that they were being lied to by authorities who maintain that is no health risk. oh the c e. o. of the train company, norfolk southern, visited the town to meet with some residents, leaving many less than satisfied with what they heard. it's a terrible acts of it. it falls on your shoulders, it's your train. but the c o. l ensure declined to answer specific questions about
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clean up concerns for being completely transparent, completely collaborative with the ohio he pianos, and transportation secretary, pete put a judge, has made public a letter he sent to shaw calling for accountability, writing the people of east palestine cannot be forgotten, nor can their pain be simply considered. the cost of doing business and questions are being raised in congress. a senate committee is calling on rail companies to provide information on safety and the transportation of hazardous material. a move that for the residence of east palestine, ohio comes far too late. my cannot al jazeera the chinese government says the prophecy market is improving after a new survey revealed sales of houses and 16 cities rose for the 3rd straight week . but china's real estate crisis is far from over. katrina, you has more from beijing this book in downtown aging, was designed to project
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a modern image of china, surrounded by cafes, shops and offices. a 2 bedroom apartment here once cost upwards of $1000000.00. but in recent years, prices have dropped, may or either yearly, we haven't made much profit this past 3 years or more new houses. and many people think there will be more customers. but that isn't the case. the reality is the vector see rate is relatively high, and the sale rate is low. every one these waiting and watching the chinese government says property prices will recover this year, but generally isn't convinced. he says the sector suffered because of the panoramic . but that hasn't been the only problem. in 2021 agent cracked down on debt ridden real estate developers. with the aim of preventing a market double. the measures sparked a liquidity crisis, which left many buildings unfinished and thousands of buyers in the lurch.
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authorities are now scrambling to prop up the industry, which contributes about a quarter of tried his g, d p. the government intention was to bring down the leverage nor to kill the market since the measures were taken in such a hasty manner and it was so strict, then the market was in the wars the recession since 900 ninety's. and in addition to that, there was covert restriction. so the overall sentiment over the market was just become way more pessimistic than the market. then the government intended to intend to see in december aging ended almost 3 years of harsh, 0 corporate policies. it also east lending restrictions for property developers, lowered mortgage rates and ended housing ownership caps in some cities. the consumer confidence remains lower in big cities like beijing, the cost of an apartment is typically much more than one young person can afford.
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so parents and often even grandparents pull their entire life savings to help y one . but in recent years, many families have held off choosing instead to keep their money in the bank. analysts expect property prices to stock declining this year, but say it may take years for the sector to fully recover for didn't only the big challenge is reversing people's mindsets. he says many believe investing property just isn't as profitable as it used to be. katrina you out a 0 beating still had on the out. is there a news our the sports is is coming up and we up tennis action in the country open hitting a hard fought when for and to move me up. it's ah ah
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ah ah, how are we going for the sportsman's hers drama? thank you. during that there's a little lock foster game in the away for champions league on tuesday as liverpool take on a rail madrid in a rematch of last season's idle. besides face each other in the last 16 at this time around liverpool manager, yoga and pop recently re watched the one no final loss in paris and said, it was torture. that defeat stretched his teams at windows run against my out to 6 matches. liverpool are home for the 1st, like we need to be to super games, to be honest, to get through, but i have no problem with that because if you play your best, you don't have the chance. grandmother it doesn't have to play the best and still
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have a chance, and that's the, that's a difference. and that's a pretty special, but i can't wait as for the holders around madrid that 8 points behind leaders, barcelona in the spanish lakes. so the 14th time when, as a once again looking at to europe's biggest club competition as their best opportunity to lift some major silvo this season. little mosque was it. i think where we are today read with a better chance to we were this time last year or at least in terms of other people's expectations where we were last year. they didn't expect madrid to win at the other champions. we game on tuesday, seas and nap lay away at your equity champions. frankfurt italians have never made it past the round of 16. the full monopoly are aside in great form. that 15 points clear at the top of syria. that coach was showing of his skills and training and it sounds like he's pretty excited for the match later. unless you are the way i feel like it's christmas eve and i'm getting ready to leave some cookies out for the rain days. for me, it's always a celebration putting in the champions league,
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but let's see if we do enough to open our presence, the oper spewed until you finish. when does is napoli don't play like in the italian teams. and for me, that's also one of the reasons why they're so for a have they play with the most intensity by some distance. they're aggressive with the bull and counter price with incredible intensity. right here in cas, all some of the world cup stadiums played host games in the asian champions. they've lost 60000 mamma stadium. iranian team fill out who the reach the quarter finals banks is an old fool defending by saudi arabian satisfy. please, captain has on as already getting the goal to send his team in to the last 8 for the 1st time in the history. and they want to get another saudi side. i'll hill our final rating company about the re, one at our new stadium or the senior happening. and cats are also hosting tennis this week, and the murray pulled off another come back when the time championed inside hall
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saved at 3 much point before the lorenzo stonegate one bill faced the alexander the next one over in due by defending champion julaine also panko faced little resistance, reaching the 2nd round, flat fee and was up against the cranes kathrina. once i didn't count that was too much, one little fun out of the bank. i was sick one day the governments of more than 30 countries have called on the international olympic committee to ban russian and better russian athletes summit, the ongoing war in ukraine. the united states, berson, i'm posts of the next games france are among those to release a statement following a summit earlier this month, the, the continues to look for a way for russians and better russians to compete as neutral at the paris at 2024 lympics ukraine has threatened to boycott if that happens to the bay now in good news for fans of the milwaukee bucks best. alma yaneth unto the compo,
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induces risk last week against the chicago bulls, but tests have revealed that he's avoided serious damage. he could miss some game, will be able to return once spawning and payments aside the bucks a half again behind the boston celtics. and the race for the eastern conference is bothered now to the sea, for golly and a salad on a hell of a way to be saved for the winnipeg. get enough for one victory over the new york ranges that in context, the average is around $25.00 per games, but he's still while short of the record held by one not to say 70 shots back in 1991. the call back will be the team now known as the colorado launch, england's rock museum being training for game that still might not happen later this week. a set to take on my own in the 6 nations on saturday, but the wild plaza, threatening to strike and we caught the game and caught a pay dispute england a 3rd of the 2 rounds. while the bottom india have qualified for the semi finals of
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the women's t 20 it well up in south africa that thanks to a win and a rain affected match against ireland in that final group game. in the opposed at a $155.00 to $6.00 in that 20 overs rain stop the irish in their tracks and they fell 5 run shorts. india joint england in qualifying from group 2. and that was what was bought from me. i'll have an update later during okay, we'll see later gemma, thank you so much and thanks for watching them is our on al jazeera kiri johnston's back in just a moment to how much more off a day's news and all the latest headlines. thanks for watching bye. bye for now. i'm with
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a, with a unique here endangered bio diversity lies in the heart of one of ecuador tropical john goals. there was a lot of misinformation about the animals that we have here. and now the parabola is becoming by others of conservation in their communities. out there, a journey deep into the rain forest to follow a scientist until teams effort to save the flora and fauna. so precious in the region. women make science,
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ecuador hidden treasure on al jazeera. this is the image of hong kong that cancels visitors bustling glamorous city. but underground a different reality appears. official figures released in november show the number of people experiencing homelessness is the highest in a decade and is shop rise in the number if women experiencing housing insecurity. that report also said there's need for better services and more funds for fostering accommodation as the situation westerns. it's the middle of winter here in hong kong, and the temperature often drops below 10 degrees at night. people in this underpass are preparing for another nice exposed to freezing conditions. ah, homes destroyed at large, shattered again a 2nd wave of earthquakes rattles southern to.
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