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i'm ta mccrae. this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up escaping the nightmare and tennessee of african migrants returned home after a crackdown by president chinese seas. many are leaving in the areas affected by the earthquake surviving. net disaster zone is a major challenge. we made survivors of the earthquakes and to kia who are facing a new set of difficulties after the trimmers. plus i'm jessica washington in hong kong, where environmental groups are working to save the territories damaged oyster. ah, columbia's prison, gustavo petro says, all the hostages at an oil facility have been released. 85 people were taken hostage by protest is in the southern province of ca, quit there on thursday, a police officer and

a civilian were killed. protesters were demanding help to repair and bills. new roads in the area of sandra ron p a. t has more from the capitol ball. gotta the announcements came after many hours of negotiations by the minister of the fans to the minister of the interior, with the farmers and indigenous people that had retained the police officers and the oil workers be those published by the defense ministry show, the police officers stepping off a truck and greeting the van velasquez, the defense minister. this development was obviously a huge relief and not only for the family of the hostages, but also for the government that had insisted that the release had to be the 1st step for the government to negotiate with the protesters is from crystal. it is a gesture that mislead reconsideration of many issues around in the treatment of social conflict and columbia. i will personally dialogue with the farmers about

their needs and the complaints. the claims in colona austin entire popular movement in general, hasn't rural urban. to see that this is a government of dialogue, a government that belongs to them. and under these terms, violent actions only destroy the possibility of having a progressive and popular government. one of the protesters or farmers that live in a remote area long neglected by the state that also have to deal with drug trafficking activity. also the activity of armed the rebels fighters in the area. and that had been promised that infrastructure developments the paving of a major road in the area when the company moved in, but improve in improvements that had never materialize. and in the end, this was a relatively quick resolution to what had turned out to be a major crisis for the government. and the way this government is trying to deal with social conflict in the country,

trying to use dialogue 1st and avoiding excessive use of, for some part of the police. in this case though, that strategy had turned into a major tobacco for the colombian state forces. and finally present, gustavo petro also said that now the attorney general will have to investigate and tried those responsible for the day. the you in human rights office has urged columbia to speed up the dismantling of the armed groups and the country. president, gustavo petro has found to implement the 2016 piece accord and strike new pace deals with the remaining rebels and crime gangs. at least 450000 people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced during 6 decades of armed conflict. if you could, okay, columbia in april, emma, i believe columbia has profound human rights problems which will take a long time to resolve. we have seen the governments openness to recognize human rights problems, discuss human rights problems and proposed solutions. these problems will not be

solved overnight. they require structural changes, development to reach abandoned territories and institutions and the rule of law to reach these cases. migrants from guinea now back home from tennessee, a say they were living in hell after a crackdown, ordered by president chi side. he's been condemned for sang, hoards of illegal sub saharan migrants were changing the demographic, makeup of the country. nicholas hoc reports from cynical capital decor. you'll love to see what the lesson was on social media, a video of another racist attack on black migrants in tunisia. such attacks are prohibited by law, but rights groups say they're condone by the countries president. last week, k say it said quote, hordes of sub saharan africans, we're changing the demographic makeup of the country, sparking racist attacks throughout the nation. this is what is left of one black woman's home after it was ransacked. black men and women say they are arbitrarily rounded up by police because of the color of their skin. let me have from oliver

the wall. we are really suffering. he had. hundreds of ivory indians are now beat repatriated, some injured and unable to walk after the beatings will be what not. we live in fear. people are scared to go out. even those that have the right paperwork that a doctor and for those that don't have visas, they get thrown out on the spot. many of them were hoping to make it to europe. most african migrants from senegal and west africa are not fleeing war, but poverty. but europeans don't want them on their continent that have signed agreements with north african countries, like kanisha to stop them from crossing the mediterranean. according to aid agencies, there are 30 to 50000 african migrants living in tunisia, illegally. genuine rights activist, miriam, my store says the art mistreated and do menial jobs that tunisians don't want to do . she says she and her husband have also experienced abuse for racism is a, has

a long history internal year against black people, even if a black people are like 10 or 15 percent of the population. now people in chinese there are in social and economic crisis. so the, the president, he uses a black people as the scapegoats tunisians are out on the streets denouncing the it has hold a sign saying, donations come in all colors. it's not only a reminder of the diversity of the country, but a call for unity in the face of growing bigotry and division. nicholas hogue, al jazeera de carr, senegal, the head of russia's wagner masonry group, says the besieged ukrainian city of buck mount is almost completely surrounded. russian troops have intensified shelling of access roads to the west, making it harder for ukrainian forces to move in and out. wagner's chief called for the town to be evacuated, to save the lives of ukrainian soldiers, or kremlin,

says it will take measures to prevent a repeat of a border incursion. it claims occurred on thursday. president vladimir putin has called the incident where one person was killed and a child wounded, a terrorist attack, according to potent a ukrainian sabotage unit, shot civilians on russian territory close to the border. cave says the claim is false and a provocation. ranier treaty reports from brianne score on the russian ukrainian border. nan and i live and out of la lead, ready to receive lugging that wouldn't good russia president has held a closed door meeting with members of the country security council to discuss ways of protecting important national institutions from why he calls terrorism. moscow has described what it says were attacks on southern border villages by ukrainians. arbiters on thursday, as acts of terrorism, not to border villages remain cordoned off. russian armed forces are reported to have pushed ukrainian, sabotaged groups away from the villages. operations are ongoing and russian forces are removing explosives and mines at the kremlin says,

the weapons used to attack the 2 border villages were obtained by the craniums from nato. russia will react soon, and the perpetrators will be punished. it says, investigations are ongoing and measures will be taken to prevent such attacks in the future on the border between russia and ukraine expense for thousands of kilometers. and they're also large forests that are difficult to control and monitor completely before german chancellor olaf showed says on a one day trip to the us where he made president joe biden, the war in ukraine was top of the agenda during the friday meeting in the oval office, sholtes and biden vowed to continue this support for ukraine. together work blocks have to supply critical security assistance, ukraine, and everything from what we've done to walk step ammunition, artillery armor tanks, air defense systems, and we've been together throughout this. let me just say this is a very, very important. yeah, because of the very dangerous threat piece that comes from russia.

ukraine. and it's really important that we get together organized except that we make feasible because we can give the necessary support to ukraine during this time. i think it's very important that we get the message that we would continue to do. so as long as it takes that long story, we are ready for staying with the ukrainians as a, as long as necessary. a key member of to key is 6 party opposition alliance has signaled it's pulling out of the block. it comes out to the parties mit on thursday, to select joint candidate to contest maze presidential paul, according to the e party, 5 members of the group ones, kamala killing, the louis the candidate. he's the leader of the largest opposition party. the republican people's party was c h p, but the

e party says it's preferred candidates is either increment, molly, the mayor of a sample or mens to give osh who's become anchor is 1st c h p met in 2019. so them castillo has this update from ankara. the government circles have been criticizing the opposition for not being able to come around the common presidential candidate so far. and yesterday, the opposition ally and 6 members came together. they discussed the name and everybody was nearly assured that from the meeting is main opposition they the coach would come out and today we heard the 2nd largest opposition party leader met alex. and i also ran who also was an interior miss there during the late ninety's in trick here. she said that she is, i guess is because she, according to the public opinion polls, chemical role as an opposition candidate doesn't have my chance. and,

and this is all on the polls. i'm kind of mayor monthly about the, someone make him a model in the polls come out as potential arrivals against present ardon one each and every election so far in his governing term. more than 20 years. i have spoken to some party officers and they told me that this table of 6 was not a table that that came together. it's a point here, michael is federal the meno position later as a presidential candidate, but they came around the same principles. that's why they met at the table which are switching to parliamentary or system if they come to power. and it's been committed to some democratic valley. nearly a month are to 2 devastating earthquakes killed more than $31000.00 people, inter kia and syria. millions have been lived homeless,

10 camps and container cities have replaced houses and apartments. but for those who struggle with disabilities, the challenges are even greater to resubmit reports from gassy on tape province. awe walking has become almost impossible for 72 year old cathedral on bush. a his house was destroyed by the earthquake and he's now living in a container. cadina's wife xhylia says her husband desperately needs a wheelchair. oh no problem. let me on. we don't know what to do. either he needs to be taken to his special care center or he needs an electrical wheelchair so he can go outside. he's always indoors of these crutches. and we found them in a container in his law here at town that like so many others was devastated by the earthquakes last month. though not the only one struggling to cope with the situation is she'll stork is also living here and was waiting for surgery before the earthquake happened. and so he's had the j who's struggling with paralysis.

there's over 8000000 people with disabilities into the kia and many are living in the areas affected by the earthquake surviving. now disaster zone is a major challenge because it's not only difficult for them to reach the age distribution points, but also they're shortages of well chair, crutches, and other personal care items that did not far away in another town. silva is 22 years old and has special needs. the rehabilitation center she attended was also damaged during the earthquakes. and that's why she's here at this kindergarten that was set up in attend for children who have lost their homes. annella, let them know that them. i told my mother an earthquake is happening. i cried and was afraid. it was raining. children here do sports and music activities. teachers i hoping to help them forget about the struggles they're facing every day. to finish this one and then we have 5 disabled students here.

i'll specialist spend time with them individually as we know what they liked doing in the past. we do the same activities with them now, so they can remember the past was a sudden, oh, hardship is everywhere in southeastern, to kia these days. and when many are struggling to cover their most basic needs, others like a later on today, i desperate for more help and we allow them to cope with a new life. that he said, well, i'll just see there is less here till kia. angry protests have continued in greece over. choose those train crash that live dozens of people did. the march isn't. is along the key and ethan's erupted into violence, breakaway groups through petrol, bombs of police who responded with tear. guess protesters blame the government for the poor condition of greece's rail system? rail union say

a fatal accidents was inevitable. the latest protests happened as hundreds of mourners attended the 1st funeral for a crash victim. so far, 52 of the 57 confirmed victims had been identified mostly with dna. 350 people were on the passenger train when it collided with a freight train on the same track of still ahead on al jazeera, the rice is on in the philippines to contain an oil spill from a tank. and a think the vessel has yet to be located. plus us conservative, meet in maryland as the contest to select the republican party's 2024 presidential candidate heet south. ah, here's our headlines for the americas. we've got it. snow storm cutting across the

great lakes. the winter storm warning for toronto could see up to 25 centimeters of snow. those winds will pick up his walls. so that's going to impact the visibility . things had turned quieter for the u. s. gulf states in the southeast effort. we had some tornadoes in texas and louisiana, golf ball sized hail in northern texas, but again, the pitcher is much calmer on saturday. active weather returns for northern california could see up to 60 centimeters of mountains snow here through the sierra nevada and also some mountain snow for the cascades is fall on saturday off to central america and it is still hot, dry and windy across cuba. so that is not helping with the about 80 wildfires burning across the island nation there for the top end of south america, weather alerts in play for some pretty severe storms for the pacific coast of ecuador on saturday and off to let's go to argentina right now. temperatures have fallen off here, so bio blanca 29 degrees storms are also cooling the atmosphere through the river

plate, the southeast to brazil, and seem for that eastern face of paraguay. so assaults the on 30 to the top temperature for you on saturday. enjoy your weekend, let's cease and take care. ah, they come from humble indian village, but then chasing and international sporting success. one on one east examines how athletics it helped him, tribal communities gain recognition and accept on al jazeera. ah al jazeera, with every new blue.

ah, you're watching al jazeera, a reminder about top stories, the salad, more than 80 police offices, an oil work is in columbia, who's been taken hostage had been freeze. they were captured on thursday, during protests said an oil facility in ca, quit a province guineas. military leader has criticized what he called the degrading treatment of sub saharan africans. and to nicea, dozens of giddeons have been repaired, trio says up to tennessee, as president accused migrants of creating a crime wife. and a senior member of to key is 6 party opposition. alon says it's pulling out of the block. it comes off to the alliance, met on thursday to try to select a joint candidates to contest the presidential election and my the navy and coast guard and the philippines is searching for a sunken tanka that's creating a huge oil spill. it's through threatening protected marine areas and what's being

described as a potential environmental disaster. the slicks now missions more than 24 square kilometers. the empty princess empress sank on tuesday. we'll barnaby live has more from the ari into mon doro. in the philippines. we'll get oil spill off the island of been doro, which is where we are right now, has shrunk to about 3 kilometers long, from 6 kilometers in length. yesterday, that's based on the aerials surveyed that the philippine coast guard did earlier in the day. officials of the philippine coast guard now theorizing that the bulk of that oil spill is a diesel oil from the engine of the oil tanker rather than from the 800000 liters of industrial fuel oil from that oil tanker. now it's important because industrial fuel oil is unrefined oil, so that would be more harmful to marine life here. although of course we're not saying that these an oil is not harmful, they're still testing water samples. they have yet to determine whether it's diesel

oil, really, or if it's industrial fuel oil. but the authorities are also saying that they are facing a number of problems right now, including strong currents and winds. that's preventing them from installing booms to contain the oil spill. but also more importantly, that oil tanker has completely sunk in so they can pinpoint the exact location of this oil tanker. the water is here very deep, almost twice as tall as the eiffel tower. so they can't find it. they can't siphoned off the 800000 leaders of industrial fuel oil that, that oil tanker was carrying a 1st. it's beyond the capability of technical diapers. second, we don't have submersible mechanical equipment. now the problem isn't just at the main site of the oil spill. oil has been found in a few causal towns in this locality. the oil that has been found is thick. it is smelly, and it is black, which are size that it could be industrial fuel,

oil or unrefined oil. now within these localities are a number of marine protected areas. the university of the philippines, marine science institute warning that $24000.00 hectares of coral reef is at risk from this oil spill. bar to below al jazeera oriental min, doro, the philippines. at least 17 people have died after a fire and a fuel storage station in the indonesian capital, the blaze spread to houses and a densely populated area of jakarta, where many people had flayed with their belongings. thousands were evacuated from the area. the fuel depot is operated by state run energy company, the to mena, which says the fire has been extinguished. but the united states were a republican party members are holding the 2nd day of the conservative political action conference. it's seen as an early test for those seeking to challenge donald trump for the parties. presidential nomination. alan fisher is at the meeting and

oxen hill, maryland's what you want to judge who got the best reception over the last few hours. it was steve band and the man fired by donald trump is still very close to the former president when he talked about donald trump winning election and the next presidential election that brought the crowd to their feet. certainly by far and away the biggest response we've seen, and if you what runs the whole tier, you will see many people wearing compet competition selling portraits. he's still very much the dominant figure here in the republican plot, you know, to potential appointed for them in the republican party. i've already spoken. first of all we had from mike from here, the former secretary of state. he wasn't afraid to take on donald trump by name saying that donald trump added to the national debt when he was an office, and that is something that has to be rectified. and then he talked about rejecting celebrity leaders with fragile egos. who could he possibly be talking about?

as for nicky healey, she of course is a declared candidate, but this was our 1st real test. she was out of the comfort bubble of supporters in south carolina, coming here to what essentially was a less than half fool whole to speak to the rank and file. and she started her speech with the criticism of both joe biden and donald trump went online to my campaign. i said, every politician over 75 years, all and should be required to take a man on competency test. have you seen the see lately? we shall start with joe biden and we shouldn't stop there. if you want to talk about the elephant, not in the room, then that's the florida governor on desantis. many people would suspect that he would be a very strong opponent for donald trump if he were to run and many people think he will declare. but he's decided to opt out of c park. he's going to make a big speech in texas on saturday, but there are supporters here. and if you put donald trump up against ron de santis, who is very popular in florida and is brought in some policies that are very

popular with the rank and file of the republican party, he does very well. but still the overwhelming favorite at this point to win, the republican nomination would be donald trump. and this hall will be packed on saturday evening when he comes here to speak to c packs. the china is gearing up for its most important annual political gathering. delegates at the national people's congress will begin meeting on sunday to lay out the country's policy for the upcoming year. katrina, you reports from beijing top chinese leaders were gathered on sunday for the 1st national people's congress since the start of the pandemic. in recent years, the meeting has been postponed or shortened, but in 2023, a full program is in place and it'll include an overhaul of communist party leadership under president sheet and ping. lee chung will officially be confirmed as premier. taking over lee could chung who is held the role for 10 years. a slew of top economic and political positions will also be filled,

including central bank, governor, vice and state ministers. all by officials reportedly close to see the re shuffle followed the 20th communist party congress in october, where he secured an unprecedented 3rd term as china's supreme leader. who for the 1st time in 10 years that segan paying is going to have his people leading all of the major organs of state power in china. so the outside of that is that we could see more efficient policy implementation of she's priorities. but the downside is that after 20th party, congress has become pretty clear that stage and ping wants to continue taking china in a more ideologically controlled, more economically statist and more diplomatically assertive direction. there will also be an extensive reorganization of state and party institutions giving see more control of china's financial system. last year's growth rate of 3 percent was the

slowest and half a century. a new target for gross domestic product or d. d. p will be announced. economists say a relatively high figure of 6 percent, ne point to more aggressive pro growth policies ahead. the one thing that the government can control is to make that a so stage sacked a stronger, not necessarily bigger, but certainly more competitive and stronger in order to provide are enough support for growth. this is congress comes as china faces increasing headwinds at home. the government is grappling with an aging population and unemployment crisis abroad. beijing is navigating and increasingly adversarial relationship with united states and sanctions on technology threaten it's access to the global market. oh, it also fuller's widespread protest against east 3 years. 0 curve policy. analysts are divided over how far they damaged confidence in the president's leadership.

what is clear is following this meeting. she didn't things grip on power will be more comprehensive and consolidated than ever before. katrina, you. i'll da 0 teaching oysters or a prized commodity in hong kong, but many traditional psalms have been abandoned. now conservationists are working to restore them as part of efforts to repair damaged reefs and protect marine wildlife. jessica washington reports on hong kong, north western coast. tom chan spends his mornings trying to bring back a chapter of the territories past. we want to are we saw this abandon oyster far bad to a more natural yellow king habitat. so that example fired the ecological function as a normal i so riff this area was once part of an oyster foaming industry dating back 700 years. many of these traditional farms were abandoned when more modern techniques were introduced. now conservation is so

trying to restore them to help save the reefs. hong kong once had thriving oyster reefs, but a number of factors including coastal reclamation, pollution and over exploitation have led to a decline in oyster populations. over the past, a 150 years, signed to say restoring. the old farms is a fast and effective way to boost oyster populations. one of the, the big benefits with something like an a, an abandon noise to farm is that you've already got oysters growing. if you can consolidate that structure, bring it together to fall more of a reef like structure. you've got a head stop. researchers estimate about 80 percent of oyster reefs around the world have been removed or damaged. professor russell says, restoring them is important to revitalizing marine ecosystems, thy fall reefs. they formed big structures which provide habitat for other organisms. and so this thousands of species which live in and around oyster reefs.

oyster reeves also help mitigate coastal erosion and help reduce toxic al k balloons. the research, a se, restoring reefs and sustainable harvesting can go together because farmers benefit from an increase in the number of oysters. in hong kong, bustling victoria hopper researchers are deploying a different method, putting oyster shells back in the ocean to attract alba marine life. so this is they are saying that we put into the ocean. i'm 10 moms before. so i'm, we have like a company killer. it oyster shells and then we'd go them, assemble them and then put it into the ocean. so this i sal, substrate. i'm for other mary organism to live on that they say they want to teach people the haunted belongs to every one, including its oysters. jessica washington out to sierra hong kong. oh.