al jazeera, one year after russia's invasion of ukraine. what are the lessons learned? what i've learned is that in europe, we are a small continent, but we don't really know each other's history. how worried are you that if putin succeeds in ukraine will be an invasion of your country as stony as prime minister talks to wild? you see? ah, many people still in the line to kosovo? to nigeria in the most unpredictable presidential polls in decades? ah mccloud mrs. al jazeera live from the all to coming up shanicea, hold several opposition, politicians and pre trial detention,

and what's being described as the biggest crackdown since president chi side separated by the earthquake and turkey in syria. the difficult task of reuniting children with their loved ones to his paw patrol the rescue is helping to reunite quake survivors with effort up it. ah. so voting is continuing in nigeria. what seen as the most unpredictable elections in decades more than 93000000 are registered to vote for new president, members of parliament on saturday. we'll speak to i would address life shortly. but 1st, let's have his report from labels. like millions of nigerians cross time voter fatima one or local is worried about the high cost of living and having experienced violence during elections in the past. he's also worried about what might happen

after this vote on a new, it's a fast sometimes on their banking on this electron. i mean if these, if this was wrong, that means that we don't have a see enough on sure damage than nothing else can come and we can dr. wally get. the election process was marked by on the 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, security features have been deployed on the ground at c. and in there, i 15000000 business 1000000 in this

case, legacy police chief warrant against anyone provoking in breast who hadn't, if i you, we, we 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 in saturday's 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 struggling economy insecurity and high cost of living. oh, we can please. i'm at live now in late also. i'm and so we had these delays. how's that shaping up now? well basically you can see a lot of people are still on this particular cure in my go door. it's

a residential area. yeah. in part of a lake of states actually in georgia area of negro state, which is the capital of make our state on these our own people who couldn't get accredited on the, on time because of the delays to the start of voting across the state. now, all they're doing is that they're all cleared and the 1st place by 2 o'clock, all of them have been registered and have been cleared by officials. they electoral commission and they've been given numbers. and the last person is expected to vote according to the law, and that's what they're doing right away. now, what are we looking at? we're looking at delays that have subjected people to unload of hot chip under the hot sun. and right now, the voting exercise has been extended by 2 or 3 hours in such an it is here in this bowling station or pulling the unit. the delay has resulted in a 3 hour delay before this boat is expected to end. and immediately after the vote

has ended or the pointing has ended, election officials will count the vote and then come back and, and i was the votes before our representatives of the various political parties. now, 3 ballot boxes are over there. the one with the red top is for the president, the one for the black. one is for senators and the green one for members of house of representatives. now there are 3 elections holding simultaneously, and the focus is much more on the presentation and ex has been a few people are talking about members of parliament who are being elected alongside the president who will work with the president when he gets sworn in on the 29th of may this year. now those candidates, candidates, like you said in the introduction, are running for this post. but city of 4 have been identified as potential content . as for the job, i'm, these are all politicians who've been part and parcel of the night just wanted to experiment since $9.00 to $9.00 to $9.00, when the military relinquished power to civilian foster fall ball. i'm

a teacher who is governor of this particular state. he government here for ages and then they start to grow. wicker was vice president for 8 years and it is in the running for the 6th time for the post of president of nigeria. and then that is pita or b was governor for 8 years and he stated a number of states, se to nigeria, and he is riding on the platform of a party that doesn't have governors or many members of parliament of the national level. but he's got also momentum on his side because of his age. he's young of the 4 wanted to call us partners for this post the presidency. so some youths who are eager to see a younger boys or younger face running for presidency while going towards him because they feel he's a bit younger than the rest. he's 61 going to 62, while the others i the 63 and seventy's and even in the eighty's. so that's the situation right now. what we expect to see is in the next few hours falling when

and in this particular location, boats will be counted. and the winner be announced already some point of stitches of ended voting and results have been announced, a dose pulling stations before agents. these results will be correlated, therefore after the state coalition center, then the result of the presidential elections would be moved to the national level . while that we've collated along with the results of all across nigeria, before our final candidate or the winner is announced. if the winner doesn't match up to the cost of voting, we'll go into a 2nd on in tool 3 weeks. thanks very much for that. so we'll be right with you as voting. winds up in the counting and really gets on the way. thanks a lot. the plant proposed by china to end the born ukraine is set to be discussed in beijing in the next few weeks. french present. mental maxine says he will travel in early april micron says it's important to put pressure on russia to avoid any escalation

in the conflict in ukraine. the bela received president alexander lucas shanker has been out til visit beijing in the coming days. china and bell rousseau, russia strategic partners last year, mintz good. now the criminal to use his church to launch a tax on ukraine. the current president says he would also like to meet the chinese leave and she's paying to discuss a piece proposal table by painting. china released his plan for peace between russia and ukraine on friday. that follow talks between it. talk chinese diplomat. finally, president vladimir putin obliging his calling for an end to western titans on russia. ukraine says the proposal is a positive sign up se, yup. first 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. this is very important to me. this is a priority because the rest of his face, he a new round of sanctions from the european union. the book says it wants to limit the criminal ability to pay for the war. it also wants to, but russia's military from acquiring new technology or getting spare parts. united states as imposed new sanctions, including a 200 percent tariff on russian elements. washington as coordinates, huge efforts with other g 7 countries. now the death toll from devastating earthquakes and turkey and syria has passed at 50000 rescuers in northern syria, continued dick to dig through the rubble of buildings destroyed 2 weeks ago, aid has been slow to reach the region in opposition held. there is many families as searching by hand for the bodies of missy relatives i saw clocked on the elk we

were removing rock after rock and finding nothing underneath. people were under the concrete screaming get us out, get us out. but we'd come up with empty hands. there's another land on the honey. people spent 2 or 3 days under the rubble. some stayed there for 4 days. nothing was working on the hands alone and went enough. we lost children, i lost my brother and his children and my cousins and their children, 25 people. so i say no. john, by teresa boat, and she's in kind of my, my last in tech dfi center. one of the earthquakes suffered a lot of damage to raise millions of tons of rubble needs to be removed. what's happening when you when it's cold evening, 3 weeks after the earthquake struck this part of the country, still hundreds of thousands of people living in tens. not knowing exactly what is going to go on with our lives, but not parts of the city and large parts of this part of the country. looking like you can see right behind me with millions of tons of rubble to be collected. in

fact, the united nations is saying that around 400000000 tons, what happens to be picked up earlier today? we saw how dozens and dozens of trucks were picking up. the truck was this rebel and taking it to other parts of the city. and it is an issue about what the government, what authorities are going to be doing with this. robert has some concerns with environmental organizations, health concerns also because in many parts of this country in this part of the country, the use of us based off was common until several years ago. and it could be in some of the building. so there's a health concern there. the government is rushing to start the rebuilding process as soon as possible. it has come under lots of criticism about how it handled the aftermath of the course. also, lots of criticism about how many of the new buildings were completely destroyed. you in how they fell right after the earthquake. many are saying that laugh,

lack of controls where they are. however, the government, the saying that it is hoping to go wrong. 200, you know, 100000 new home in the next year. 70000, a village house says also the united nations is also bay that 500 new homes need to be billed at one point. 5000000 people have been left homeless. then again, 3 weeks after the earthquake, when you go around fifties like this, when you continue to see lots of people living intense, but also lots of people that still do not know where to go. theresa, thanks for that update. theresa by reporting the way separated many childrens, the parents social service staff in turkey say many families have been reunited, but more than 100 babies have not been identified. and they're still under the care of the state. sitting close yearly reports from the turkish capital of ankara, people here called us baby,

a survivor pulled from under rubble. knife was brought to this childcare complex from atlanta just a week ago. like all these babies, earthquakes that had 10 cities in south west and took year on february 6 separated nave from his parents until they are reunited with their families. they are cared for by child development. officers delivered them. we may not be their mothers, but we are doing our best 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 minister web page, families are able to search for they lost children. since the earth quakes happened,

there has been a huge demand among turkey citizens to either adopt these babies or foster others and children who have been orphaned. but officials say they will be staying under government protection. some, all these babies have no names other than what the nurses call them. the spaby girl's name tax as 7 days old. i live in an older pool while we learn whether or not these children have families from the hospital they tie then in line with child protection laws, we keep them safe here, after obtaining the necessary permits unit than we follow any clue that may come from their cities, so we have no room for uncertainty. there is no way someone can come in and just claim a child under cassandra, while we were filming, we were told a men claiming to be knives. father was under go and get dna test overseen by public prosecutors orphans has survived. the earthquakes have also been transferred to this complex in uncut up some 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 am casado

else's era on kyra. i still had hearing out sir of the fight to save the indigenous a young mummy people of brazil left without food or drink of water because of pollution from a legal mining who will grab the golden bear. we look at the selection on offer. this is berlin on a film festival. ah, to ukrainian filmmakers join the army to fight against russian separatists. in 2014 . they document their journey from civilians to soldiers. as the fighting intensifies the tools of their trade become weapons of war what will he, the toll for ukraine's brave hearts witness on al jazeera rocha's

war in ukraine has dominated, well, he's for the past 12 months. devastating for those in the line of fire or directly impacted. it has strengthened global alliances and deepens, divisions with far reaching effects on the lives of billions of people worldwide. in a week heard special coverage al jazeera explores every aspect of the conflict. the human, the political and the economic and the possibilities of resolution. ukraine war. one here on, on out this era, lou

ah, and again to watching out 0 reminder about top stories this hour and boating is continuing in what's been described as nigeria is most unpredictable presidential and parliamentary elections and decades. more than 93000000 people are registered to vote for new president, as well as members of the national assembly. ukraine's president says he would like to meet china is needed to discuss a peace plan table by beijing. it calls for an end to western sanctions on monster . the crane is asking china not to supply weapons to russia. the death toll from devastating earthquakes and turkey syria has now passed 50000 rescuers in northern syria, continued to dig through the rubble of buildings destroyed. more than to turkey is a nation of animal lovers. and in the aftermath of the earthquakes, early of this month, many surviving cats have been found alone in the rubble 70 deco reports from the

town of elves done on the efforts to rescue them. and if possible, reunite them with their families. on tv, a cat is brought in, found injured in the rubble they died knows a broken leg. this mobile clinic in the town of l. b stand is part of a volunteer association. yasamin yom as and, and her team focus on rescuing pets from damaged buildings. they have rescued more than 70 cats and dogs. since the earthquakes hit it and cut off much cards, we find them in the rubble. most are very scared and stressed. if they're healthy, they don't want to leave their homes and their area. the most tragic is those whose owners have died. we noticed they don't want it nice. they get depressed about one dog stop teasing for 5 days or albus down was the api center of the 2nd earthquake and southeastern, to kia. it is not recognizable now,

but for those who survived and who have pets, finding them is a priority. they are part of the family. our home and furniture are gone. what is important now? is old cat? she is ours, so yes, i mean tries till you're the cat minish. out of the rubble of their home. she is traumatized. we're told and refuses to come out. every day they come here to the top left of their homes. try your move out of the robber. they placed her, she does come with them. she has like inside is she afraid they are not successful on this day, but say they'll keep trying back at the mobile clinic. turkish forces bring in their cadaver dog. he cut his poor while searching for the many dead, and it requires stitches and newly rescued they have named him past school. he is

clearly a house dog but has no micro chip. it will be much harder to find his owners. all that we have had were unions, the owners cry, we get emotional watching, thus, every one cries, actually, the family and the dog. past school craves affection. jumping on fatty or cameron as he thought. oh my, his little face is a winner with every one. it's unlikely past school will be reunited with his family and he will now be center is stumble away from these devastated cities be put up for adoption, jani, stephanie decker al jazeera, i'll be stan southeastern to kia. but people engineers here have been protesting against what they say is an ongoing crackdown on government. critics, demonstrations commas, several of the most prominent opposition. politicians have been detained residency, so you've dissolved parliament in 2021 arm either. joe lou, liz, the advisor to the former chin is in house speaker,

and also former minister of youth and sports. and he says 0 said linked to the low turnout 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 out 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 the the story to cover up to such a failure. today there was a demonstration in dubai, usually did the yeah. the journalist argue most rating and we are expecting more people to get to the street and to the mystery. yes, we do expect more prosecution mora mora mora wrap the power more violence from they say it. but i do think that 10 years of freedom and democracy which is enabling the

10 isn't society to keep defending they 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, they're all, there is no democracy. there is no economic. i mean, to spend it is raining settlers over time palestinians in the village of buddha, in which lies at south of nobliss in the occupied west bank, a cert 2 calls on for at least 19 people have been injured off to 3 explosions. targeted the mount cameroon. race of hope. oh, it's an annual event that it takes place in the south with regional company to poor english speaking as separate as fighters had warned athletes not to participate in the race so far. nobody was claim responsibility for the attack. a police in brazil are investigating businessmen, lawyers,

and civil servants allegedly involved in trafficking gold as believe, have been illegally extracted from the indigenous young miami territory. and in the state of roy i'mma, a task force is chuckling. a humanitarian crisis caused by the needle mining on a piano. kia has a story, brushing a desperate effort to save lives in a make shift clinic in the yellow money territory. the numbers are staggering. 570 children have died during the past 4 years. victims of the onslaught of illegal mining in brazil's largest indigenous reservation, while doctors and nurses attend to the sick, the recently created task force is forcing thousands of miners out. hundreds are leaving and canoes taking all the can. and filming their flight. i somewhat doug was in by january 20000 illegal miners were occupying 5000 hector's

of protected indigenous land, polluting the waters with mercury and spreading disease. there are almost as many as the whole yen mommy population of $30000.00. i'm a lot of them are villages were surrounded by mines, says ha, sienna, mommy, we were left with no drinking water, no food, no medicine. she staying at the emergency health clinic built 2 weeks ago, and boy vista, the capital of the northern state, of what i'ma like many here, she wants to go home but does not know when dice must have dos. it will take us decades to help nature and our homeland, to recover and bologna, be safe from invaders. if the government all forties maintain their presence in our reservation. some miners who have fled, still hope to make it back into the yano my me territory. they have nowhere else to go with european. i'd go in there to help the government doesn't have the money to maintain a task force operating 247 in the region. if

a doesn't open legal minds or find an alternative way for minors to make a living, they will go back risking their lives because the need to put food on the table. but what i my has little to offer the huge statue of a minor in the center of boy vista is symbol of how much the local economy depended on gold before it's extraction was forbidden and protected territories. this small village is 40 kilometers away from the gateway to the young money indigenous territory. it has grown much over the years. partly because of the thousands of illegal miners that have in coming here to buy food supplies medicine and have made the economy of this city boom. since president was in us, let us hubert took office in january and ordered the task force to destroy the legal mines. people in his lunch, i have seen the cities commerce slowly fade away. i knew this area was filled to

the top with corn. now we are no longer renewing the stock because there's nobody to buy it god for those living in hot i'ma in the city or in the rain forest. to morrow is another battle, monica, and i give, i'll jazeera boy vista, brazil. the death toll from recent floods and landslides and southeastern brazil has risen to at least 54 people. and more bad weather is in the forecast rescue as a searching for dozens of people missing in south palestine. at least 3 people have died as a major winter storm rages across the united states. more than 2 meters of snow is full cost of parts of california has victoria jayden. b fresh snow is a rare site in lake hughes in california. the town is normally known for its blue skies, dry hilltops on warm weather. but it's a welcome change for jeremiah domingo sat. well i live where there's like no snow ever like always, snow. i've got was hail and like 1st grade and is pretty excited. rubin,

burning snow and, and then breaking them. a slow moving winter storm over california has triggered the 1st blizzard warning in 30 years. in parts of los angeles, state authorities have closed major roads, including sections of interstate 5. that's the main north south highway that connects mexico california, the pacific northwest and canada, commuters say the snow and ice is causing travel chaos. this morning we had like a foot and a foot and a half of snow. and i couldn't go to work. we live on top of the hill, so all of our, our whole entire road was, was covered in snow. california is experiencing an unusually cold and wet winter with flooding and mud slides in a state long affected by drought and wildfires. people here say they've been warned to prepare for more extreme weather in the coming days. i think that is one of the biggest concerns is we are looking at a lot of rain fall snow, the snow melts and the wind. and we worry about that my,

the slides and the flooding. since we've had it twice already, experts say powerful winter storms mixed with spells of extreme heat and dry weather, a symptoms of climate change. and they're expected to become more frequent and intense. victoria gay to be al jazeera. so back of a couple of minutes with our special program at ukraine, one year on the club. ah ah hello, it's nice and quiet across japan at the moment and we will see that choir to weather eventually spilling over towards search japan. we have got a little speclink of shower clouds. there's no showers, girls that drifting in from the relatively warm waters, the icy of japan, 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 bryce guys there across the korean peninsula, 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 shouts. they're across 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 into full anchor over the next day or so. but for much of south asia, once dry and sunny pretty much summed it up, that heat still in place across that western side of india. and to much of pakistani could 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 sent me over the higher ground. but for the most part, it's fine, dry and sunny. ah

. ready the catastrophic series of earthquakes into kia and syria has taken thousands of people's lives and left many more harmless. a major mobilization of humanitarian support is underway. ready ah, teams on the ground will bring you continuous updates to t. n, syria waits on al jazeera ah. the rubble of a pin bridge flowed off by ukrainian forces distort, promotional offensive. as a reminder of moscow's failed attempt to seize keith. in the early days of rebuilding the.