ah, why does it keep happening and what can be done to stop it? this is not the price i want my daughter and all the daughters to pay, that's not the country i want witness said miss cdn for me is very simply a question of power on al jazeera. bold and i'm told stories from asia and the pacific on al jazeera ah election day in nigeria votes the heading to the poles to decide who will be the next president of africa's most populous nation. ah, plugs the whole rama watching. i was there like my headquarters here in denver, also coming up families torn apart by if quakes, inter kia and syria will tell you about the challenge of reuniting last babies with

their loved ones. and tennessee, a whole several opposition politicians in pre trial detention. it was being described as the biggest crack down since president ice i. e took power and we report from the philippines were cheap imports, advising transport, cost forcing farmers to dump their produce. ah welcome to the program. voting is underway, nigeria, they what seen us the most unpredictable election in decades more than 93000000 people are registered to vote for a new president and members of parliament on saturday. and would address reports now from lagos. like millions of nigerians cross time voter fighting my one, our local is worried about the high cost of living and having experienced violence during elections in the past. he's also wanted about what might happen after this

vote on you. it's a fast sometimes on their banking, on the selection. i mean if this, if this was wrong, that means that we don't have a see enough on through them. you then nothing else can come and gone. dr. wally, get. the election process was marked by and they started, they got us in many parts of the country. and with more than 6000000 people expected to vote in this battle, ground stage of lagos, securities type, of he should say, secure to officious hop, been deployed on the ground at sea. and in there, i 1x5ww boxes. and he said to begin with a case legacy police chief warned against anyone provoking in rest who hadn't,

if i you, we will, will let you will apprehend you. i will bring you to justice in the interests of our national security and democratic heritage. 018 presidential candidates are running and saturdays presidential election on the 3 are seen as having a realistic chance of winning also up for election, a hundreds of seats in parliament. but whoever wins the presidency will have a tough task ahead. dealing with a struggling economy. insecurity and high cost of living. well, i mean, they just joins us now live from lay golf and with a lot of stay for the candidates, every vote counts and how long we got now until the voting process ends. well basically, so how the voting was supposed off ended an hour ago,

but because of the delays we've seen in big part of today, the voting continues. in this part, you can appoint station if i step out of the frame. now you can see a lot of people queued up here and apart from these ones that are more people who are seated in this particular pavilion and another one over there. meanwhile, official security officials like the economic and financial crimes commission, are here in numbers to check made the influence of money in voting. so this is happening simultaneously and almost all falling stations around lagos, and it's expected to go on until when the final vote is now when they're finishing the voting process. yeah, we really don't know at the moment, it depends on how far or how long all these people we see over there. when i finally finish to cast their bundles officially, like we said,

the voting it's supposed to. and at 13 g m. p. but because of the number of people who are here and of course, because of the incidents we had on the day where voting material arrived, late in several states, pulling the units or pulling stations across the state. and many other parts of nigeria, this voting process is expectedly continuing until probably the next one or 2 hours . now the case in point, if i move out to frame, now you are looking at the ballot boxes over that 3 of them sitting on a table. the plus one over there, the right one month presidential for the presidential candidates, and that's not the only vote that's happening today. we have 2 other ballot boxes. the black one is 84 senatorial candidates on the green, one for members of house of representatives. these electrons are also holding some alternatively, as the presidential election itself. now,

the focus is more on that red box simply because the international community and local ca, nigeria are watching closely to see who emerges today as the president of this country. who are they going to walk with and who is going to walk for them? that is crucial in this particular election. and right now there are 3 leading contenders for the sit. are the former governor of lego state, or is the representative of the governing party bowl? i imaginable. he was the governor of this state for 8 good years. and then there is a 2 club worker, the former vice president of nigeria who is also running his sick presidential race since the return of democracy in $1009.00 to $9.00. and then there is a 3rd force peter or b r. former governor of a number of states who serve the state for ages is also running on the platform of the labor party. and these are the city wide expected to make waves. however,

there is another individual who is playing a critical role and who could definitely be the king maker in the end. if this voting process goes into a 2nd round, rob your motorcycle, got enough candlestick for ages, a senator and also for my minister of defense. he has a life following in his own state, a neighboring state. and if he succeeds in taking the votes from the mainstream political parties, this could possibly force the election to go into our 2nd run already the independent national electoral commission. the electoral empire, empire is saying that it's been getting ready for any eventually. jen is ready prepared for a 2nd round if that case is what we get in the at the end of the day. oh, continue to monitor the voting day with you as and when it ends. emmett, a dresser force in lagos. thank you. the

china's proposed plan to end the war and ukraine is set to be discussed in beijing in the next few weeks. french president manuel my call says that he'll travel. the april phone says it's important to put pressure on russia to avoid escalation in ukraine on the battle. russian president, alexander lucas shanker, and i said he'll be visiting beijing in the coming days. china and valerie saw russia strategic partners last year, minsk allowed the kremlin to use his territory to launch attacks on ukraine. and ukraine's presence as he too would also like to meet the chinese ve the cheating. paying to discuss a piece proposal table by beijing. china released, it's planned to peace between russia and ukraine on friday, and that followed talks between top chinese diplomat y and z and present vladimir putin. beijing is calling for an end to western sanctions on russia. ukraine says the proposal is a positive time. whereas i've said yes, 1st of all i planned to meet changing, paying and believe this will be beneficial for countries and for security in the world, we have a large trade turnover with china. the issue is not only the war,

the issue that we are states that are interested in maintaining economic relations . i really want to believe that china will not supply weapons to russia. and this is very important to me. this is a priority cuz i me, jamie shea isn't associate fellow chances house. he says beijing's relationship with moscow means that could play an important role. novice li if you're going to be a successful peacemaker or mediator, you need to have the ear of the belligerent signed. of course, china certainly has the ear of moscow. we've had several high level contracts in recent days between china and russia. yang yankee, the chinese senior counsel for foreign affairs was in, of course, most go just a couple of days ago. so the chinese are certainly got lots of leverage if they wish to use them to influence moscow. and so push it towards withdrawing his forces from ukraine and moving in the direction of a viable page. and it takes 2 to tango,

right? and that means that the chinese also have got to have credibility with president zelinski of ukraine who has not met the presidency. there's been very little contact between trying new china and ukraine, so that part of the positive is missing. and the plan is going to have some credibility with the west as well. so it's a good stop, but it's not yet a peace plan. it's a series of principles. and there's a mix of good and bad if china wants to be involved. and that can be a way of persuading the chinese to be more even handed less automatically supportive of moscow, and certainly to refrain from supplying weapons to russia. lethal weapons, which is what everybody's fearing at the moment, then that's only to be encouraged. the chinese could have a good role to play a, but if they are determined to be the peacemaker and not, not just to sign up to the russian script, lock, stock, and barrel. ah, in the desk told them devastating escalates into kia and syria has now

supposed to 50000 rescues in northern syria, continued to dig through the rubble of buildings destroyed 2 weeks ago it has been slow to reach the region in opposition held areas. many families are searching by hand for the bodies of missing relatives. we were removing rock after rock and finding nothing underneath. people under the country screaming, get us out, get us out. but we'd come up with empty hands, but we're not allowed to know how many people spent 2 or 3 days under the rebel. some for days, nothing was working for the hands alone. when's enough? we lost children. i lost my brother and his children and my cousins, and they're 25 people with claims separate as many children from their parents, social service staff into kias. a many families have been reunited. but more than $100.00 babies have been identified less still under the care of the state. so they

can simply report snow from the turkish capital ankara. people here called us baby, a survivor pulled from under rubble. knife was brought to the childcare complex from a donna just a week ago. like all these babies, earthquakes that had 10 cities in south west and took year on february 6 separated knave from his parents. until they are reunited with their families. they are cared for by child development officers will be delivered with them. we may not be their mothers, but we are doing our best and self confidence and contact is very important for children under the age of 2. they've already been through a lot. i'm just trying to ease their loan initiative. social services say 1353 children out of nearly 1900. have been reunited with their families. but 106 haven't yet been identified. by entering children's national id numbers

on the minute through a page, families are able to search for the last children. since 30 quakes happens, there has been a huge demand among turkey citizens to either adopt these babies or foster other than children who been orphaned. but officials say they will be the thing under government protection. some, all these babies have no names other than what the nurses call them. this baby girl's name tech says, 7 days old. i live in olive oil while we learn whether or not these children have families in the hospital. then in line with child protection laws, we keep them safe here after obtaining the necessary permits. then we follow any clue that may come from their city. we have no room for uncertainty. there is no way someone can come in and just claim a child on the counselor while we were filming. we weren't told a men claiming to be nice. father was undergoing a dna test overseen by public prosecutors orphans who survived. the earthquakes

have also been transferred to this complex in and cut out thumb have already started going to school in this new city. trying to pick up as best as they can from where they left off scene and car solar l to 0 on credit joined by trees about she's in common rush into kia it was empty center. one of the earthquakes on it suffered a lot of damage and, and theresa, it does seem that the clara begins, that it's a very big player where you are well, that's correct and you can see what this part of the city looks like right now. a heavy equipment working right here, clearing the rub off, trying to clean up this part of the city that was devastated by the earthquake. hundreds of buildings were destroyed during the earthquake. andy after shop. that happens in this part of the country, the rubber, the rubber, but also the dust that you can see here is the norm. as we've seen. there's lots of

concern about what to do with a rubber. we've been seeing dozens and dozens of trucks that are picking up the rubble and taking it to other parts of the city. but there's also a concern about what to do with the united nations is estimated that over $200000000.00 tons of rabble, we have to be cleared for many parts of the country. there's a debate about what to do with it. if you put it into perspective, it's about a 100 square kilometers of that would cover that type of an area because of the rubble. but while this is ongoing, in this part of to a kia, we're also seeing families were coming to this place to kick up some of their belongings. we just met a woman, for example, who had lost her mother and her brother, picking up some fixtures, reminders of her families. so wherever you look right now, there's lots of rubber, lots of dust also, but also lots of loss. and of course the government to talking about rebuilding a duck couldn't come soon enough. well,

that's correct. we're building is our priority right now for the turkish government after facing lots of criticism about the handling of the aftermath of this earth wake. also about facing lots of prism or the lack in a way of accountability, of the lack of respect for certain construction span. there's many buildings that fell after doing this earthquake. we're new and as we're supposed to be earthquake resistant, that that did not happen. so there's been lots of investigations, lots of detention related to that. the government is saying that they will build $400000.00 buildings in homes in the next, in the next 2 year. they're also saying that over $70000.00 houses will also will be billed. so the un, however, is saying that 1500000 people have been left homeless. that around 500000 new homes need to be built in best part of the country better wherever you go. in this part of photo acadia, you're seeing people living in tend to living in camps coping with everything they

have lost. we have seen people outside refugee camps who were, who have not been allowed in sight bose. and because of the number of people that are living, that bit, they are right now of the capacity that those camps have. so, you know there's lots of concern then, as i said before, you know, the country is struggling. whatever is coming next is an enormous challenge. but right now there's lots and lots of people. hundreds of thousands of them are coping with tracy for saying, carmen rush, thank you. you're still ahead here on our reserve from the shaw to the revolution. filmmakers use the bell and film festival to tell a story about lice in the wrong. ah ah

hello, it's nice and quiet across japan at the moment and we will see that choir to weather eventually spilling over to ward search japan we have got a little speclink of shower class, this. no showers girls that drifting in from the a relative a warm what is the i see of to pan a brisk, cool wind there. so some snow there on sunday for western passive honju into hawkeye there, but it clears through. please to say as we go on into monday, brightest guys come back in tokyo, around 30 degrees celsius bright guys there, across the grand potential. across much of china, marty settle, maybe one or 2 showers, answer eastern areas of taiwan, sunshine, and showers. meanwhile, across southeast asia, as per usual, heavier showers will be down towards borneo some live. he shows their cross southern parts of indonesia. in particular, java could see some very heavy rain southern parts of the martyr tooth. catching a few showers, you might catch a shower or 2 inches fall anchor over the next day or so. but for much of south asia, once dry and sunny pretty much sums it up. that heat still in place across that western side of india into much of a pakistani can see

a few showers western disturb just making its way out of afghanistan into the foothills of the himalayas. and they may well be of snow certainly over the higher ground. but for the most part, it's fine, dry and sunny. ah ah, ah ah ah ah

ah, look like you're watching. i deserve lisa. whoa robin. a reminder of all top stories voting is underway, wants being described as nigeria is most unpredictable presidential unparliamentary election in decades. more than 93000000 people registered to vote for new president, as well as members of the national assembly. the death toll from devastating earthquakes to kiya and syria has not passed. 50000 rescues in northern syria, continued to dig through the rubble of buildings destroyed more than 2 weeks ago. and ukraine's president said that he would like to meet china as needed to discuss a peace plan table by beijing. the calls for 2 western sanctions of moscow. ukraine is asking china not to supply weapons to russia. the people in several cities around the world have been protesting against the war in ukraine,

steadfast. it has more from berlin. this raley here in the land was heavily controversial. and heavily debated in the days leading up to this because this is not the rally, like we've seen in the last couple of days against puttin against russia urgent put in to stop the war and urging russia to leave ukraine. this rally is addressed at the german government, asking the german government to stop sending weapons to ukraine and to urge the government to start pushing for negotiations for peace negotiations because he organizes, they are from the political left. but i also joined by a scientist by musicians, by artist valley people from all walks of life. they have released this manifest with which has been already signed by more than 600000 people by now. and they say, we don't want any more weapons. we are worried about an escalation, we are worried about the nuclear war possibly. and they say at the end of this war,

there will be negotiations anyway. so why not start now? but this has led to controversy because the organizers and the people attending this rally are now being accused of a borrowing for put into the mines to the point that even the vice chancellor here in germany has released the video statement. saying that this rally is wrong and that we the country shoots continue to support ukraine with happened with weapons. we know that germany, of course has been sending heavy weapons like also tanks. they have decided to send lap or to tanks. so this is now the turn out, thousands of people are here, are now saying no to that. to this, there is no holding several of the most prominent opposition. politicians in pre trial detention cause each or a lot of she is the latest opponent of peasant. i say to be detained. several government critics of interested in the past month presence i dissolved parliament in 2021 elections in december were boycotted by the opposition to a q side of

a power grab america lula is advisor to the former tennessee and how speaker and also a former minister of youth and sport, he says, the rest that linked to the low turn out in the recent election. my understanding is that this is an obvious or retaliation from my side to his failure in the last elections less than 10 percent of it in his population participated. so in order for him to cover for such a big failure, he needed to create a devil. so that the population will keep following this story to cover up to such a failure. today there was a demonstration in dubai, usually did the, the journalist arguments trading and we are expecting more people to get to the street and to the mystery. yes, we do expect more prosecution mora mora, mora power more violence from they say it. but i do think that 10 years of freedom

and democracy which is enabling the tradition society to keep defending them freedoms. i don't think that i said what he is doing with sort of issues of the country. he would need to focus on the real no mac slices, but anybody knows that without democracy there. oh, there is no democracy and there is no economic. i mean, to spend it at least 3 people have died as a major winter storm ranges across the united states. more than to me to the snow is forecast. so parts of california los angeles got its 1st blizzard ward in 30 years. the store looked power to nearly a 1000000 homes and businesses, also for the close of major roads and cancellation of hundreds of flights. the death toll from recent floods, the men sides in southeast, in brazil has risen to at least 54 people. the more but whether as pub me morbid weather is forecast rescuers all searching the dozens of people living in south

hollow state and that's after a month's worth of rain fell in 24 hours in the highest one day rainfall ever recorded in brazil. not the government is warning people not to travel to the area tropical cycling. freddy has done towards his being called dangerous amounts of rain on by some bake. and i said to widespread flooding since it made landfall on friday. hundreds of thousands of people had prepared for strong winds and possible landslides. the storm earlier devastated the island of madagascar displacing thousands and killing at least 7 people. the farmers in the philippine se cheaper imports and rising transport costs of forcing them to dump the projects. but some people reform to group on social media to prevent math fall below reports. now from a low cost to in the northern philippines. common sense that ferdinand republic came close to throwing away collie flowers. he's grown since october, although the floor it's are safe to eat the leaves are infested by white flies.

ferdinand says business men aren't likely to buy them money or not, but the plants in this condition. we often just want to give up on them. because this is how it's how costly will just end up losing money. but ferdinand found help a facebook group of about 38000 members and growing is sending rescue trucks to farmers who have difficulty selling their produce. an idea that started when ethan andy estrada saw tons of vegetables rotting away during pandemic locked outs. over all, there's a lot of distribution gaps. i farmers bringing them to don't worry care the buyers are not there at that moment. and so there's really a lot of disconnect on the system and even if the buyers are there, they don't be the right price for it in and says the same is happening with onions . prices rose to as high as $12.00 a kilo in december. but would imports now flooding markets, they've dropped the cost of growing his un, harvested audience is way above their market value. it might have been on,

but i've been on programming graders would see they have by that in the storage. so they can only by low, but if you want the cell, he'll just have the cell low for it in an would have face to same problem. what is called the flowers, if it wasn't for de striders and their non profit group, rural rising, coming to the rescue and buying them at a fair price. one of the reasons vegetables and other farm products have become so expensive is because they're past from one trader, so another before they reach markets. well, these vegetables are going straight to manila, and many have been pre ordered through facebook at below retail prices. one truck, 3 tons of cali flowers in a few 100 kilograms of onions. small amounts, but these so called vegetable rescuer, said they're making a difference. one farmer and one community at a time. barnaby low al jazeera, he lockwitzer northern philippines. though life inside iran is the major theme at the shows berlin film festival filmmakers looked at what happened before and after

the islamic revolution of us examined how the state deals with political prisoners commonly came reports of berlin. obviously they got a little lamb pull to the side of life in iran, the few in the wider world have seen the experience of prisoners in jails. there is one of the main features of 2 films at the belly, nala, both made by the same director, in which he tries to explore the psychological effect of interrogation on the questioner and to the questioned. miss rand tom adon believes prisoners in his country are still suffering to this day. it has it for my main objective is for the interrogators to actually see themselves so that it could be a mirror for them to be able to do. so. the throttles of the iranian people are a key theme at this year's berlin. allah, one film exam is the history of protest in iraq draws a parallel with what has been happening into f. ron in recent pines, another explorer, the 198th war with iraq. and the effect this had on

a generation of children exposed to the violence set in the city of about done through animation. the film, the siren shows us the world through the eyes of 11 year old, omit the innocence of a game of football is shattered by the arrival of the iraqi rockets, which will eventually raise the city. we follow omit struggle to survive is me chip is the sense of struggle is a key element of the works of the films director separate a fussy oh, this was the common ground of our struggle, which has been there since 1979 and and so you're aware of the fact that women right away after the revolution, the so called resolution, the kid, not one hind act, while ha, they took to the streets to, to, to resist against the manito veil. with the tankless look there. we see these events in the film between the revolutions,

which is also showing at the belly knowledge, drawing on archive of the situation in iran, but also in romania which saw its own revolution. 10 years later, we view life as women at the time did in both countries, us fast forward, 44 years. and it's at this festival in the german capital that several prominent iranian women have been making their case hard to say are on, are fighting with their are if it's their weapon, ours is a way on so, and i know that all the art with 3 and making these really until that happens, these women say their fight will go all dominant, came al jazeera berlin. ah you, what you all deserve means the whole robert, reminder of our top stories voting is underway. what's being described as nigeria most unpredictable presidential and parliamentary elections. and decades.