saved the flora and fauna, so precious in the region. women make science. ecuador is hidden treasure on al jazeera, unmanned aerial vehicles, deadly but increasingly familiar tools on the modern battlefield with the conflict in ukraine, sparking the 1st full scale drawn war, and pointing to a coming age of artificial intelligence. some autonomy, weapons, people and power examines the ethical questions around this proliferating technology and whether it poses a dystopian threat, drones and the future of war on a jazeera, the scale of that is not shown when you see it by air is shocking. more than 70 percent of the buildings in this town have been totally destroyed, tansy, tiny room, tens of thousands of people homeless across this region. every app, it's turned into mom and i do, sir. my may not even have temporary shelters. many of my friends that we have

lost and hoped to in the future together are now gone. ah, china and russia hold high level talks in moscow almost a year on the start of the war in ukraine. ah, the whole robin, you're watching over there like more headquarters here and also coming up bulls to dick with bare hands to what's left of the homes. we meet syrian still in need of a recent earthquakes. plus, an important training route is disrupted and attention slab between focused on his phone. i'm at the bog on the border where to thousands of drugs are now branded after the closure of men. border crossing mission now is between the big names who

have destroyed this country and people who are looking for an alternative. and we meet some of the contenders looking to become nigeria next president as they make the final pictures to the voters. ah, welcome to the program nitika. yes, since russia invaded ukraine, both sides assuring up support through a series of diplomatic talks in moscow, china's top diplomat, when ye is meeting with russian foreign minister, 2nd lover of china says it stands on russia's invasion, is neutral, but it has become a key trading partner after moscow was hit with economy sanctions, this is his last stop on an 8 day international tool that included visits to france, italy hungry, and to the munich security conference. that the claim was also the folks that told between us president joe by the leaders of 9 east european countries,

the bucharest 9 as they called our meeting and was sold to discuss providing key with more weapons and aid on tuesday night by and told the crowd in the polish capital, let us sanctions imposed on russia over the wall will be maintained and expanded. he also vowed that moscow would not win in ukraine. well, continue is in beijing, but 1st let's cross over to a sub of in java in moscow. and i saw the obviously one g is in moscow and he's got a lot to discuss absolutely, in the last few minutes this meeting have started to we've heard opening statements from both the diplomats, the russian top diplomat and the chinese top diplomat. seeing that their relationship is dynamic, it's going forward. they're going to continue to expand it on the relations of mutual interest, neutral interests, and they're going to build on this partnership. so obviously this is meant to be

a rebuke to the powers who have been saying that russia has been isolated, it's standalone, and there is nobody by its side. china, obviously, which has been trying to put itself as a neutral arbiter, is standing with russia. it has really rejected those additions from american politicians that china is supplying little aid. seeing the china is only supplying what is meant to be important for moscow. and this is going to be a relationship which is going to continue forward because it's not just the military aid and military ties. it is also about business. it's about energy and neutral cooperation because of a strong reaction as well from the russian government to president biden's speech in poland. what just say what 24 hours ago? what more is moscow saying about this? with her from dmitri meant to dev poking fun at present biden's statement to ben.

he addressed the russian people, he is the deputy chairman of the russian security council, talking about how america is to blame for the ongoing war. how united states and western allies have been pumping up the war machine in ukraine against russia. he's called the biden's edition, that def russia stopped the substance invasion. the war will end as a lie saying that if russia stops short of an all out victory, russia will cease to exist, and the war can only stop if the united states and its allies stop supplying weapons to keep. so obviously, both sides are very far apart. from each other, when it comes to what the future peace plan may look like, how the war will come to an end. and this is where china is going to be important because china wants to be in the middle. china wants to put forth a so called piece plan to bring both sides together and come towards some sort of

an agreement as well. thanks so much for the update. let's say to katrina you who's in beijing and standing by katrina, china's relationship with russia has really come and a quite some scrutiny over the past 12 months. and china still continues to talk to sort of no limits, friendship that it has with russia. and that continues to raise a lot of questions, sol near and far neighbors. that's right. there seems to be a lot of damage done to trying to reputation because of its enduring relationship with russia. but we also have to look at what trying to get from its ties to moscow . firstly, it gets cheap, access to boil and gas, something that china very much needs, it gets a peaceful northern border. and thirdly, it gets a reliable friend in its quarter that shows its world views like russia. china would like to reshape the international order in one less influenced by western democracies. and that would give, trying to move the way to do what it was in the south trying to see and around tie

one, for example. so it needs russia and though it may want an end to the ukraine conflict, it does not serve beijing to have a weakened russia and a weakened putin. and so we see trying to continuing to invest in this relationship with one year visit and even possibly a visit by president. she didn't ping to russia in the spring. chinese officials have been, you might say on, on a really large and big diplomatic push globally really trying to what change the mindset of potential allies possibly. i mean, chinese people are also having meetings as we speak in indonesia and in japan. and this is all coming off the back of the balloon incident where the us shot down and a ledge by balloon over its territory. earlier this month in china is really trying to take back the narrative and put itself forward as a responsible global player. and although it's not really going to succeed in winning hearts and minds in the u. s. and in other western democracies,

western europe, for example, it does know that there are other countries who may be more ambivalent towards russia invasion of ukraine, for example, in the developing world. so it's these countries that china is trying to appeal to and to project itself to as a responsible global player and as an alternative to the united states. katrina, you in beijing. thank you. that we have a week long special series on the far reaching consequences of the ukraine war into the conflict. i'd be able to to then at $1130.00 g m t and $1630.00 jim til wednesday. and also though 230 gmc on thursday with my colleague, adrian finnegan, will be exploring the human impact of the war from keith ah, in delegates from the united nations visited so keen in

serious rebel held north to assess the damage caused by the recent quakes. the team hopes to stablish what people in the region need the most, but those struggling with the aftermath of criticize delays and receiving aid, he came to see what the knees word is used, needs in shelter in hell, i believe for fresh water sanitation. and of course, removal of debris, brussels of the met some survive isn't the worst hit syrian town of gin. dennis, these people are trying to find whatever is left in their destroyed homes. this rubble was, was up to reserve hassan's house. now he fears he may even lose dis if if he has to find the title murphy of how this other willoughby did a felony. no one helped us. not a ghost exhibitors on machines on by the state under the robber for days and we

lost so much. now i have to find a title deed to prove this was my home. the genders with a population of 18000 people was the worst he town in north mysteria from 2 or quakes struck earlier this month. the devastation is absolute. more than a 1000 buildings here had either collapsed or had been heavily damaged. hundreds of people died and thousands were injured. the survivors are now trying to carp. in this isolated rebel held area, they can only rely on international how many students here are served only one meal at day, and many receive even less. they say they don't receive enough international aid, and it is poorly organized. he not les leslie, a man has lost dozens of relatives and france. she says her family has been displaced several times. but i know it was rainy and cold. after saying 8 days on

the street, we got this tent, but it's not for winter, it's tiny. kids can't sleep during the night because of the cold. i want nothing. just the proper tent for my kids. the impact of the earthquakes left many families chattered here. their faces bad, the weight of loss and devastation. many syrians here town, they had survived the worst of the enduring to well the years of civil war and conflict. but now in the aftermath of the earthquakes, they have lost even more their homes, possessions, and sense of security. more serious here have spent years running away from the war . they are only dream, a normal life. with them a settlement to do it. we fear that the earthquake will hit again any time we just set up a tent here and are living in it. nowhere is safe. now. people here say most lives

were lost due to lack of more than rescue equipment. and now an absence of 8th food and shelter is worse than in their misery. grissman said that al jazeera jinder, us north syria. though the urine says more than 5000000 people have been left homeless in syria, london to cheer more than 1000000 are intense and temporary shelters. let's get more this from some priscilla who's in our incur for us and sit in the turkish government, is making use apparently of some of its sort of less obvious resources as an option for emergency accommodation. well, yes sir. hale, the turkish government that has been accused of being late in the relief response in the 1st 2 days of this bad the earthquake, or it has, they've had the 1st solution as at a building tense in the region. and as for what president, our dance said yesterday, it 300000 tents were built in the earthquake areas and 865000

people were living in these tents. but of course, given the a winter conditions, the weather conditions, tents are not the best way to accommodate those people. and a, our don mentioned that more than $450000.00 buildings and need to be demolished as they are heavily damaged. besides the one that have already been collapse, so there's a huge need for housing in between tents and the new buildings that are planned to be rebuilt and their, their need, their needs. another temporary solution which are the containers, those containers are not that warm or as the enduring is summer, it will be very hot inside them. but within that transition period, this is what are the earthquake survivors effective people are going to stay in that region and it is in our story this lanier will soon be a roof over

a container. it'll keep one of thousands of families warm after 2 earthquakes here . in southern trickier 2 weeks ago, nearly 9 100000 people are living in tents. 400000 in university dormitories. and more than 23000 in containers. shelter is the biggest need now for those who survive the museum wasn't. in the 1st phase, we deployed all products, we had him hand since then, we continued sent one to 5 to 30 containers in a day. the turkish government chambers of commerce and n deals are sending as many containers as they can to establish container cities in the devastated region. most is we have to remember had urine, which we will work round the clock and send 1500 containers to the field. companies are banned from exporting containers and prefabricated houses for 3 months under a presidential decory until

a state of emergency ineffective cities is ended. this factory in anchor is concentrating its production of containers on providing shelter and facilities for people in the affected areas in southern trickier. but given the difficulties they face, it is expected to take months before container cities are completed. president, reject a bardon is repeating his promise to revive all affected cities. within a year ago, we will ground break for $200000.00 houses as a beginning in march. modern ad on says more than 450000 damaged buildings in the region. need to be demolished to be reveals this me many more containers from across to kia will be needed as shelters until this major construction project can be completed. seen em, casala elders era. ankara. well, still had held al jazeera, the res defines of, i was in brazil were heavy rains,

of course, major flooding and mud slides. plus i'm gabriel's onto outside u. s. federal court in new york. where a man, once in charge of mexico's fight against drug cartels has just been found guilty of working with them. ah, there's bit of a boost in the strength of the ne monsoons driving clyde, but not very deep cloud, the south china sea and beyond. but it tends to suggest that we line up the showers now through this part of indonesia, is that so there be heavier southern sumatra? and these woods including solar y c. and that's where you might get from flash flooding. there's quite a breeze on the coast to vietnam with cloud here. otherwise things are more or less

as you might expect. the same is true for most part australia, this tips a topsy turvy summer. we've got heavy rain in the north, a frontal system going through west austria where recently it's been very hot indeed. that'll tend to knock those temperatures out. but the ac going light breeze in adelaide is giving you 40 degrees in the forecast. still 39 by the time you get to friday, you think this should change things? it's a cold front and it will add leggers down to 24. in sundry showers during saturday . been shocked to system. i say 50 degree drop, which is already happened in due season. christ church is full cost of $14.00 or 15 is about 15 below. well, i'm exaggerating, is well below where it was this, the disappointing living picture. a suddenly breeze full of cloud and rain and more worryingly may be significant rainfall. no fallen on thursday, may be on friday to ah, the african story from african perspective,

short documentary for filmmakers from his id. bad way. we were pioneers of how economists changed the way we did to be good. i'd be happy to go into a physical store, so darn ivory coast, any gun fresh farm fishing wood and the shot africa direct on al jazeera. ah ah. what about you? what channel is there with me said, hell, robin. a reminder of all top stories. china's top diplomat, one years in moscow holding high level talks with russian. foreign minister,

2nd lover of china says it stands sold the ukraine wars neutral. this is eas, last stop on an 8 day international tool. are you in delegation is visited, so keen and series rebel held north to assess the damage caused by recent earthquakes. people in the region have criticized delays, the humanitarian responders. now thousands of trucks have ground to halt at a major border crossing between pakistan and afghanistan. the total come crossing has been closed since sunday evening and gunfire was reported on monday. a provincial tele beneficial told a news agency that pakistan had not allowed sick people to cross for treatment focused on has not commented so far come, all hider has more from the border between the 2 countries. the town and of drugs on both sides of the border. these dr. i'd have better ship the items on board that drug, which i've got going to be wasted and that they're going to be at a large,

they're waiting on the roadside throughout the hybrid box. and you can imagine the meandering rogue. busy all lined up with container drugs rate drug carrying fresh fruits and vegetables. all kinds of items that i've got means are delay because there is no certainty as to when the border will open the avalon side of god, saying that budget on it, nor daddy heading to the agreement, they made budget on. on the other hand, i've taken extra steps in order to ensure that they've noise and vibration across the border, particularly after the attack on day police. compound and ridge about 100 people. and i've got now i had lead to more strangers measured on the border, but this is an emotional issue because people in the one that's on are dependent for medical treatment on the budget on the side that is that your mentor daddy, an issue. we have been told that several patients have died waiting for the medical

treatment. so the on site then deciding to cross the border. now we are told that although there were attempts to try to solve that problem to negotiations so far they've been no headway. also, she's in tennessee say they've intercepted hundreds of illegal migrants in the mediterranean sea. the national guards, as naval unit stopped 11 crossing operations and rescued. 569 people. people frequently use the coastline around tennessee to attempt legal crossings into europe. not nigeria presidential election is just days away and candidates are making the final pictures to voters. and address reports now from a future. o peter gregory o. b, a former governor of our number of state is the youngest of the front runners to be nigeria. next president. his campaign message seems to resonate with young voters who say they are tired of the politics of the world. oh,

we want to secure and unite niger. one to class from nigeria form is present cost because consumption to productive punch. a successful businessman, he broke away from the party that made him governor, and one that chose it must have presidential running mate to lead the labor parties . presidential campaign. rebel was a conquest who has a similar shift from the major parties to one that doesn't control any legislature or state then and p p candidate is a for my defense minister and was governor of niger 2nd was popular state county for 8 years. the, the election now is between the big names who have destroyed this country and people who are looking for an alternative. the 2010 to 3 election is in business as

usual. the 2 new contenders and their supporters believe they can and see the governing party just like in 2015 when they'll position one. they'll point to say they can only day by votes from the main political parties. some analysts expect that to, to force around off and with skilful negotiations when, or even decide who becomes president this is, amanda jones opposition is trying to storm a former governor of nigeria, commercial and business capital bola at table is credited with transforming league of state and restructuring its economy, the governor party flat barrow says he wants to replicate this at the national level. security economy. foreign policy. the secondary builds in relationship, given the other country assurance be levine, this sanctuary of contract. both to anyone or be are meeting the most of

a believe by some nigerians at the presidency should head south after being held by a northerner for 8 years. as photos of the former vice president at equal, booker saying, i, jonas, democracy must not be defined by a regional sentiment, a retired customs officer. mister booker is a successful businessman with interested in manufacturing in service industries. he wasn't available for interview the manifest as an ideology of all the political parties are similar, but there are at least new contenders for the presidency. which in itself could make politicians in africa, most populous country, more accountable to their voters. i'm it edris al jazeera, a butcher, 3 children have been found to live after devastating floods killed any 50 people in the southern brazilian status. apollo. the town of behold do so he also is still isolated after landslides blocked the roads. monica yena, kent reports now from the another

day digging through the mud and debris water water. another body found one of the death toll has been rising since sunday, when unusually heavy rainfall had several coastal towns just 200 kilometers away from brazil's largest city. so ball, nearly 50 people so far confirmed killed by the floods and landslides. many of them in the beach resort of bar had to say during the carnival, celebrations, 80 nielsen gomez has spent 2 days looking for his son and daughter in law with little hope of finding them alive. hey troy, most of my sons next door neighbors did not survive. their bodies were drugged down the hill. neighbors have been working alongside firemen in the army. for that he would you, paula. a volunteer fireman for the past 14 years has witnessed other major

tragedies. yackino were from a history of the strain is harder to get. so we're expecting more rain in the coming days, which means that we'll have to start from scratch, digging in the same spot again. but if the sun comes out, it won't get much better. dry mothers more difficult to clear away the complexity of these aerial images show the size of the devastation in an area visited by thousands of tourists, especially at this time of year, was to change have been concentrating their efforts on this hill. because there were many families living here. earlier this morning, dogs were sniffing the mud indicating that they would find more bodies under the mud and rubble, not by the sea. kidda lives further down the hill and has been helping to identify the bodies of her neighbors. she says these ruins were once the home of a family of 4. all were killed, including 8 year old maria, where just celebrated her birthday and had been saving coins in this tiny red

safety box to buy herself a, treat a local 2nd continental pause. i cannot find the words to describe the pain while feeling bad to say has been isolated since the floods, landslides blocked all roads, making it impossible to leave by land. their only way out is by sea. nearby towns have sent tourists and fishing boats to help many flee, but also to take much needed supplies to the thousands who have lost all and have stayed behind to search for the dozens. still missing monica in our give, i'll jazeera bardo, say brazil, mexico's former top security chief, has been convicted in the era of drug trafficking. a jury in new york found the general garcia luna guilty of accepting millions of dollars from the senate, low drug cartel, which is mexico's largest crime group. gabriel alexander has moved from new york.

it's a dramatic fall from grace for a man who has once mexico's top cop in the drug war. and the ro garcia, luna, found guilty of corruption by a jury at the federal court in brooklyn. guilty also of helping than a tories sinaloa drug cartel, beat its rivals and smuggle cocaine into the united states. the trial heard some sensational testimony like from oscar, nevertheless sia, known as a logo of the millennial cartel. he testified he paid garcia, luna, $3000000.00 in protection money at a car wash in water hotter than there was sergio vieira, owl known as a grand de from the bell. tron laver cartel he claimed in the early 2 thousands garcia luna regularly received payments of more than a $1000000.00 each stuffed in the bags at

a safe house in mexico city. the jury also her testimony. that garcia, luna, even helped cartel leader of tudor bell prime labour escape from arrayed in acapulco in 2008 garcia luna's defense team pointed out that no hard evidence of his corruption was presented and that the prosecution's case was made up of the word of quote a bunch of killers kidnappers tortures and fraudsters. but ultimately it was enough for the jury. garcia, luna is the highest ranking mexican government official to ever face trial in the united states. the fact he was brought to justice here is now raising questions south of the border. when we are looking at these trial, we're also reminding ourselves of all the work that our own mexican prosecutors have not done after the verdict was delivered. garcia, luna's wife,

seen here in the gray hat, refused to answer reporter's questions as she left the court into a waiting car representing her husband now faces at least a decade in prison when he is sentenced later, for crimes, it will serve as a damning indictment of the war and drug cartels but may do little to stem the flow of drugs into the united states. gabriel xander al jazeera new york, the family of american civil rights leader, malcolm x plans to see the ca, f b i and the new york police department. over his killing, he was assassinated 58 years ago as he prepared to make a speech in new york. 3 men were convicted of his murder, but in 2021. to exonerated, after an investigation found that law enforcement agencies withheld evidence. for years our family had fought for the true to come to light.