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wearing this jacket right now because it's mid february and it's supposed to be cold, but it's not russia one ukraine has sent shock waves across the globe. what, what does it mean for its neighbor? georgia would decide it's not to to ross tell what a dollar because is very much pro bratia with their country still partly under russian occupation, an influx of russian citizens. and then elite with moscow connections, many ga, see the conflict as a barometer for their future. these window, for fortunately all the questions that you and of course ukraine, fight our fight is well. george's tough choices on jessia. ah, so porn program research program? where my 11 b, opera. ha, barney nigeria is present intellect. abolla in blue book defense the election
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process, but opposition parties say the results of fraudulent ah phillips and robin. what sheila is there like my headquarters here in de also coming up a syrian civil society group calls for the investigation into the you in response to last months to devastating earthquakes. the greek prime minister visits the sides of a train collision that killed 36 people, as rescues work to find survivors. and why few a gray whales are embarking all one of the longest migrations of any mammal. ah. welcome to the program. nigeria is new president to leg to bola and noble is defending the integrity of the vote after the main opposition party said it
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fraudulent cannibal, whose from the governing all progressive congress is urging citizens to unite around him. luxury is independent. national electoral commission says to new bu got maybe 8800000 votes. that's about 2000000 more than his nearest rival opposition parties at any cold saturdays pulled the council describing the process as a sham this room we have is 13, that were that was where my one for the unity up as a bullet. the new book, one more than 36 percent of the vote. his runner up to cool. i will bucher from the
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people democratic party at 29 percent. now to win the nigerian presidency, the candidate must have the largest number of votes nationwide plus a big 25 percent of the vote. in 2 thirds of the nation's $36.00 states plus the capital of future. if a specials are not reached, then they'll be run off between the top 2 candidates and the address has more from the jury and capital. it's been very warm and for everybody from the voter to the political parties, to election officials and considering the delays. we've seen over the past few days and reactions or proctors from opposition parties up the people. i expected this to happen and if you listen to his. 1 keywords, speech, basically the key word that is unity. this is a deeply divided country from jeff nation. so many factors have played in this
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election. you have religion politics, you have regionalism, you have a 50. so many problems have gone into this election and also also helps determine which way that vote went. basically, the opposition from day one stage was out when the results are being announced. the correlation center park test is that the procedure was wrong, and there are several legal arguments about whether or not the election commission was right or wrong. how about the next few days and few weeks will determine which way, whether they vote it's the courts will determine whether the vote or the procedure was correct or not. these is what the position wanted. they wanted the consolation of the vote, but the election commission insisted, but the process must continue wherever wants to challenge the results of the election. will go to course. ah,
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in to he is president. mr. has said that presidential and parliamentary elections will be held on may. the 14th, earlier from the scheduled date in june of the vote will follow last month's devastating earthquakes that killed more than 45000 people. let's get more on this from some consider correspondent de 9 cr and of course would be much debate about the upcoming general section. i will be hearing about that in the coming days. but the focus now seems to be really on local councils and administrations and perhaps the role in building regulation approval with with so many buildings that collapsed exactly. so hail a 1st that begin with the election. the official data set for the election was june 18, but given that it's time to pull a day, inter kid president ad on has been saying that he would like the selection to be held on may 14th. it was even before the earthquake. now he repeat,
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this is claim today after his political parties group meeting in ankara, and we will be hearing from the higher election board on march 10th is setting the state as an official date. of course, this is a very challenging election for turkey. as 11 cities are affected in to southern to care from this earthquake, which means direct the 14000000 people have been affected and experts have been saying that nearly half of this population have been displaced. people are living in the millions that living in the container is living in the 10s have moved to different cities. the election will be challenging in terms of logistics. but of course, as you have mentioned now, accommodation, giving a roof over those people is the most important thing as turkish president have stated. at the beginning of the these incidents, he said that when he visited the hospitals, when he visited the 10th, everyone was asking about their homes. that's why the government started building
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homes immediately. as soon as they, the authorities removed the wreckage, the deb rate it all the collapse buildings to the allocated areas. and we're talking about more than $800000.00 buildings. and the government promises for 800000 new houses to be built in one year, which is very challenging because all those cities were built on the phone lines. city centers have been affected. like in hot sy, untucked guess, city centers, maybe they will have to move the city centers to different places instead of a 10 floors, they will need to build a 3 story building. so a all the regulations about zoning and everything will need to be redone. a re, evaluated, especially as these cities, 11 stays are under state of emergency. of course, people have many losses. these are material losses. these are spiritual losses.
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people last they relatives and turkey citizens in the earthquake affected areas are preparing to seek for their legal rights. and we spoke to some of them in the capital and cut out, let's watch together. these trucks return again and again to dump the wreckage of thousands of buildings that collapsed after devastating earthquakes his southern turkey over 3 weeks ago. in the rubble ly irreplaceable memories and possibly the life savings of people who lost their lives. mandatory kesh people keep cash and gold at home because they don't trust banks. tanya is a lawyer from how tight one 0, the worst hit cities. now she is in a capital anchor with her counterparts chasing jestice after losing her grandmother and aunt will not on the shore. we are preparing a lawsuit against the ministry of environment, an opposition, as well as municipalities because the buildings were so old. we've already begun
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preparing to follow material and moral compensation claims with the judiciary investigations into the 10s of thousands last last and almost 200000 buildings damaged or destroyed, have been launched. but the people who been affected what compensation and reserve the right to sue. not only contractors, but also and factors and public officials. but the legal system flows slowly intricate, and the number of the cases are massive. hon digital system in the parliament, me instead work on a mediation solution that will keep time meet minds and compensated losses without spending. ear said, the court citizens must evidently have legal representation during the settlement of citizens. participation in the judiciary is crucial, given the size of the damage caused by the powerful earthquakes and the huge tool many here believe the court cases could take years. the government acknowledges that some of his clothes and legal procedures made to be changed were updated to
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reflect the reality on the ground. because all of al jazeera on camera, or more than 3 weeks after the earthquakes, many people are still living in 10th. let's go over to talk about who's in sla here in gus in the province, one of the worst effected areas in turkey. and just really tell us about the situation where you are because people are still having to really co part like 3 weeks on lots of difficulties for people all around turkey. south eastern region were here in the city of his he in the province of god that we were just lining up around here trying to get some food . we're in what is known as a container city. hundreds of thousands of people have lost their home. the many are leaving intense, but others have been placed in locations such as this one. if you can see right behind me, there's been a kindergarten, a supermarket. there's a barber shop and many other thing that is quite surprising how organized the
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situation is 3 weeks after this earthquake from this part of the country. and we're talking about election, who are just asking people about what they felt and, and this is a is, this is a city where press enter the one where one with over 60 percent of the votes. and when we asked them about the possibility of election, a whole debate started here. and while some people were saying that they were happy with the receive, they have, they have received so far. others were saying that the government's help did not come fast enough. let me show you a little bit about what this nice looks like. it is that containers, stories, those hundreds of families that are located in this area right now. many are resting. they have a bathroom, some of their beds. we've been talking to. some of the people here, they tell us that they have some food that they have water, that their basic needs are covered. but what many here would like to know is when they'll be able to own a home once again. and that's the big question. the government have thought it
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would be, we move the rubble for the main city. it has started. the rebuilding process rebuilding process that is going to be very expensive. the world bank is saying that it's going to cost around $34000000000.00 in a country that is struggling economically, that he's struggling with inflation, where the devaluation of the currency, among many other things. and we know that around 3000000 people have left the disaster zone. the areas affected by the earthquake, they have gone to villages. they have gone to, there are relative houses and many others are staying here. living in 1010 in container store. and the president has been asking them not to leave permanently, the government is promising to rebuild this entire cities, talking to architects to urban planners, to engineers, so that the people that are right now, living in this containers can own a home once again. theresa, thanks very much for the of the trees voter force and it's like no civil society group in syria is calling for an investigation into the united nations over the
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emergency response or so the light chip is one of the activists calling for accountability. he says, the u. s. reaction to the quakes was slow and inadequate. the un has failed since the un has left syrians to die alone for at least 72 hours, and the most critical 72 hours post postiani earthquake. you and i was not activated in iraq was not activated. those are 2 mechanisms available for the un to respond to. i could ask your fee of the scale of an earthquake to allow to mobilize international rescue teams to respond to a good after fi area. and have not been used by the you. so although largely rivers are offered his apologies. unfortunately, his apologies are not going to bring people who died under the rubble. meanwhile,
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a color break and syrian is making the humanitarian crisis and the earthquake region even was the and him out of terry and cheese says the situation on the ground is daya and more international aid is needed. growing demand on scarcity, therefore, of critical items 10 being the obvious example, rising prices, australian supply chains into the, into the region. those are beginning to fly and suppliers to the turkish border and also crossing to damascus and allegro. this is essential and most welcome local markets from there longer readily supply cross border operations to some of these 4 items. hence the need to such costly but necessary early critical, empty structures, body damage, full still had hail all al jazeera, can small phone makers live up to the promises of sustainability. at this years.
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mobile world congress will find out after the break. ah, a journey of discovery and one albanian month, exploration of his religious heritage. how has the baked ashy face survived for 700 years despite of volatile history of oppression? all josie rewards tells the story of a religion that has over 7000000 followers. in the footsteps of my big tachi ancestors on alta 0. 0
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bulletin ohio, has been declared the winner of saturday's presidential election opposition parties called for the vote to be cancelled calling the process of sham turkish president of time, early one has said that presidential and parliamentary elections will be held on may the 14th earlier than the scheduled date in june. the vote will follow last month's devastating earthquakes that killed more than 45000. a color break in northern syria is making the humanitarian crisis worse. following the massive earthquakes last month, the un humanitarian chief says the situation is dire. it is called urgent. a greek prime minister, courier course. the midst of bacchus has visited the site where a cargo train and a passenger train collided on tuesday night. his government has declared 3 days of national morning, at least 36 people died in the west train accident in the country's history. the crash occurred on the line connecting athens to the northern city, or ther, loankey,
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emergency teams are still on the scene searching for passengers who may still be trapped. stephanie decker has the latest. it was dark when the 2 trains collided had on at high speed. oh but am i going to bomb up with um huh. we heard a big bang 10 nightmarish seconds. we were turning over in the wagon until we fell on our sides and until the commotion stopped, there was panic cables, fire the fire was immediate. as we were turning over, we were being burned. fire was right and left greek rescue workers or at the accident site and searching for survivors. those who made it out, we so coming to terms with what happened. good, also to guide on a little more people naturally were scared, was very scared that they were looking around searching. so they didn't know where they were. amazon, our local one was a passenger train carrying around 350 people. it departed athens around 7 30 in the evening, traveling to fellow nicky. the collision happened with a cargo train outside the city of larissa in central greece. the cause of the crash
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remains unclear. stephanie decker, i'll g 0. russian meters reporting an unmanned drone has crushed in the moscow region. the governor in the area says the drone was talking of facility belonging to gus from the rush. me to say the drone was made in ukraine. there were no casualties or reports of damage to property. well, months after russia destroyed large parts of mighty appall in one of the bloodiest battles of the war and ukraine. moscow has promised to rebuild the city. it's in a region that was annexed by russia in september sullivan, java, the husband from moscow. this was once a busy wiper and sitting with cultural buildings like this famous drama theatre, now damaged and peppered with bullets and bomb fragments. russian forces won the battle from opal after more than 18 days of intense fighting. and now they want the people of the city to move on from the scars afore to rehabilitation. by 2025, the city should be rebuilt. according to moscow's more your pul reconstruction
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master plan, it wants the population here to go to half a 1000000 people in the next decade, by rehabilitating a 1000000 square meters of social buildings. the russian state plans to find a complete replacement of the cities facilities, including a railway station, a port tram lines, and the airport well, rational different definitely. it's right to take this territory into organized new life. there was russian authorities also hold that ukraine. political vision would collapse, told probably before the miscalculation as it was a necessity to make of his plan. but one can imagine that if you have this long, prolonged, or long time conflict that people could live safely, there just was not possible to imagine. according to a new law passed by russia state, duma, people in antics regions of ukraine will have the same benefits as russian citizens . the legislation aims to provide free medical care, pensions, and benefits. piece by piece, people are trying to rebuild their lives. what we,
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what we are going to redevelop, we want to live free as our grandfather's grandmothers and relatives used to live in our free territory, where no one shooters tell us what to do and force us to speak another language. a few 100 apartments and homes have been rebuilt in the city, where only a 5th of the population is left slowly. basic services such as water and electricity returning. we don't very of my house burned down on the left bank near the sea. it was at com, someone boulevard, about 50 meters from the ceiling and my son took us to his house so we can live with him. and his family don. yes, the police and her son were an act by russia in september in what preston power is called a sha referendum wants to insist that people chose their right to self determination . this mike with and condemnation, but for the hundreds of thousands of people in these territories, any help to rebuild their lies in about them. if there is no more fighting here,
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will take years to remove the scars afore from the city of mario pool. for the families of the thousands of people killed in these territories, no number of new buildings or benefits can replace their loss. some of a job done to 0, moscow. the hundreds of people rallying across israel, protesting against prime minister benjamin netanyahu plan judicial reforms. major, it's a blog that always is a call for a national day of disruption. the proposed changes would limit the power of the supreme court while giving greater pounds to the government. critics call it anti democratic. now the iranian government says it's investigating the poisoning of at least $650.00 school girls by toxic gas local media. say the attacks have been occurring since november and have been reported over 30 schools. none of the girls have died, but many have suffered from disparate re problems every year, grey wales and ball call one of the longest migrations in the world is
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a 16000 kilometer trip from the lagoons of mexico to the arctic and back again. but in recent years and the bas of dramatically decreased short holeman has the story of mexico's west coast. sailors in times past who this the devil, fish. the little sign of that now is playful, is a 50 meter 40 come puppy a gray whale. and it's cough one of the great sites the pacific coast, from mexico to alaska. but in the last 4 years, the great wells numbers have gone down by almost 40 percent. according to the national oceanic and atmospheric research administration, the u. s. agency, as the number of carbs is decreased to, to the lowest points in scientists started counting them in the ninety's. the doctor said he'll martinez in some ignacio like new mexico together with his team
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where wales breed. he's been coming here for the last 15 years to monitor them as part of the laguna son ignacio, a consistent science program. i asked him why the drug, phenomenal, my and syndrome that i in florida, when there's a phenomenon called a skinny way in which you start seeing that their body condition is getting worse. like getting thinner because they're not getting enough food. and from the middle of 2018, the phenomenon started happening. it peaked in 2020, when 30 percent of the whales were in that condition and all the whales feet in the arctic on shrimp like creatures could empty boats that they dig for in the mud. indications are that the supplies running low climate change could be involved. but there's also precedent to this in the late 19 eighties. and again in 1999, there was a big drop in whale numbers. scientists believe that there is a natural, tough in the number of gray whales, so very co system can support when they reach that point,
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the number goes down and then it starts climbing again back in the lab. so he says he cautiously confident it will happen again. this time, the new numbers his team coming up with up. but of course it is a cyclical process. no, that's our hope we've seen that happen before. and you know, it won't keep going down. but there is an unknown factor here. for my only thing is that it's going down and then you factor in global warming and you don't know if it will go up again or not. i'm not seeing certainty here every time. the numbers dip for the researches i'm for the curious friendly animal that they're watching over john home and i'll just say to son ignacio lagoon. mexico. sustainability is all nearly every company's agenda. the mobile world congress in barcelona. but with around one and a half 1000000000, new phone sold each year, the industry is facing an enormous challenge. charlie angela reports. it's the
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desire for the latest model that drives the mobile phone industry. but after an average of 2 to 3 years, use 90 percent of these handsets won't be formally recycled. one can open the phone like a book. companies are now being forced to find a sustainable future of phones. nokia is encouraging customers to repair and recycle their devices, people in the industry, se giving handset 2nd and 3rd lives is crucial. and industry about $1500000000.00 devices come into the market every single year. and this year, over $5000000.00 devices are going to end up in a landfill or in florida. and that is a real problem because i just mean they're going to continue to make more and more devices. ultimately, today, only 10 to 15 percent of a new device fail is accompanied by a traded in device and that's just too low. these 80 phones have been waived into an abstract art is demonstrating the potential of the economy. because like sending
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the life volt smartphones in the world by just one year, we could reduce carbon emissions by 20000000 tons. that's the equivalent of taking 4700000 cars off the road. reducing emissions source is a more accepted goal in the industry with a commitment to reach net 0 by 2050. some companies already on track to reach 100 percent renewable energy years before then. others a lagging behind, still refusing to disclose that carbon emissions output 0 without the head of any of the g 7 economy. and we have been helping our members on climate disclosure . there is a global reporting platform forwarded for the cdp. and in the last year, 67 of our members reporting to the cdp, there's actually covered 80 percent of the industry revenue, but the industry believes it can make an even bigger addition to claim action
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through digitization. here, teams brainstorming a solution that challenge on the day is how my really satisfied are food and water demands of an urban area in a sustainable way from post it to prototype using tech to solve the problem with a tight self imposed deadline. the sense of urgency helps drive momentum, a similar urgency for action or climate goals, and sustainability could be encouraged by mobile customers. charlie angela al jazeera barcelona, won't sit with a moment, more news and half law, but don't go away. i'll be back after the break with inside story. we want to al jazeera life, doha to stay with us. ah ah, threat virtually all the japan, another advisories on increased avalanche risk because we keep getting fist
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a warm you spell that ratings going through to then a cold you spell. which means that generally speaking, temperatures are not low enough to maintain that snow safely. with more snow shall come on thursday. the rochester keeps going higher, but in the korean peninsula, and in china, generally speaking fine warmer than it might normally be in northern china. so it's a bit cloudy, coming through the west with breaks of rain to quit in. for example, this is a spite right. this tommy it after coming over the early. if you go further west, we still got a few showers around the foot of the himalaya. most notably, those this rain coming through iran then into pakistan, which will help to tamp down what's been renewed very warm weather. but if you look at the temperatures here, gucia ross and rochester, 38 near 40. that is warm and it should be this time the year as well as maybe not a surprise. now, given it has been fairly warm in some pakistanis, increasing cloud, and chows, all thunderstorms in western disturbance will bring those temperatures down just
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a little bit. and the facts, good part of pakistan in the north side of the sandra turning is them about about 22 degrees. in contrast, it should be 36 in karachi. ah, with still, by arriving here, pledging more a detailed coverage more than a decade. who has killed all these many, serious millions of that you're looking for safety from around the world, limiting their powers with increasing number of governments getting elected as will have to wait longer. well, that's the u. k. any you have reached the agreement to break the deep stay late on trade and customs in northern ireland. the deal came 87 years since britain voted to leave the blog. so.
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