from so the site goes for the longest, hollywood dreams on al jazeera. the latest news, as it breaks, joe biden, arriving here, pledging more her weapons. more defense finance with detailed coverage more than a decade with city war has killed or has these many serious millions of buffalo patricky . i'm looking for safety from around the world limiting their powers require i'm done through the constitution. i'm going to look for more with increasing number of government electric. neither really have to wait longer, hold on. ah, displaced by war, an earthquake, and now a cholera outbreak is threatening communities in northwest syria. at least 3 people have died.

ah, play you watching al jazeera live from doe how with me fully back, people also coming up hundreds more black africans that being repatriated from tunisia. after enjoying racist attacks, indiscriminate arrests and force expulsion. the search continues for a sunken fuel tanker in the philippines. as crew struggle to contain a massive oil spill threatening protective marine areas and dozens of police officer to release in columbia after being held hostage during a protest by rural workers against an oil company. ah, thank you for joining as their fears. the cholera outbreak in northwest syria is getting worse following last month's earthquakes. at least 3 people have now died. the damage to health facilities, water sources and sanitation. as

a result of the quakes has been massive in the are concerns. the rebel controlled areas will not be able to cope millions of or in neighbouring turkey. meanwhile, are also living in makeshift camps after their homes were flattened by the earthquakes health workers. they say they need urgent support to help survivors deal with trauma and other mental health issues as go live, so aren't as eras hashim. i had barra was in gaussian tap in southern turkey for is a hash m. let's start with the situation in syria. there's a surgeon cholera cases in the north west bring us up to speed with the latest on the outbreak there. folly ha! health authorities in the opposition held areas along with engineers operating fair say the upper must concerned about an outbreak of cholera and they say that they don't have the means to cope with this situation. therefore, a variety of challenge years right after the earthquakes, they say that they feel betrayed by the international community. the we're,

we're looking forward to see more a trickling into those areas and they say they don't have all it takes to be able to cope with those problems, particularly that we're talking about an area where you have according to it you an estimate and also activists on the ground over 3000000 displaced syrians living in refugee camps. you add to that the number of those who were displaced right after the earthquakes, living in poor conditions. and the premise much concerned the units have, has been saying they're in it. something like $500000000.00, he has dollars to be able to cope with the aftermath of the earthquake. and they say they immediately need medicine containers and proper sanitation to be able to or to deal with the situation. knowing that most of those victims will have to spend months and months ahead in those shelters before the

situation is contained by the authorities. and this is why people are pretty much concerned now in the series, in the areas controlled by their revel in the north western bars of syria. and so what about turkey hash and what are the health conditions in the air is affected by the earthquake fair? similar sets of challenges or the the i've been traveling through different areas hit by the earthquakes and i was talking to the engineers and health authorities from, from turkey and also from international engineers operating here. and they were saying that the biggest threat is an outbreak of diseases because there is a shortage of water in antique here. and in common marashi areas are camp to day in escondido, in and takia was swept up by strong winds with which could pose further strains on

the camp community that and this explains why the government has been saying along with the international community that that needs to be contained there shelters implemented throughout the vast territory. we're talking about 11 provinces that were hit by the earthquakes. these continued to be serious challenges for those people. and as you know, folly, we're talking about our recovery plan, which is going to take quite some time. we're talking about hundreds of thousands of people that were displaced during the earthquakes, and these people still live in make shift caps and they are likely to spend months ahead in those areas. and this explains why those health concerns are continued to further increase, exacerbating the already tough conditions of those communities in those different areas that were hit by the 2 above earthquakes, about 4 times 4 weeks ago. thank you so much for that. i shim, i had a barrel, i there in gaussian tap in san n, taking in other, well,

he is more african nations are flying out their citizens out of tenicia after a crackdown by presence i eat on undocumented immigrants act of his se, there's been a wave of racist attacks on people from saps hon. africa after side accused them of changing that demarc. the demographics of the nation rights groups have condemned res, insides. comments as racists and the african union says it's shocked by that racial statement made against fellow africans from the car synagogue. nicholas hoc reports, you will not assume the listeners 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. all the need help from all over the wall. we are really suffering here. hundreds of i volumes and unions are now being repatriated, some injured and unable to walk after the beatings will be what not we live in fear or 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 feeling war, but poverty. but europeans don't want them on their continent that have signed agreements with north african countries, like tenicia to stop them from crossing the mediterranean. according to aid agencies, there are 30 to 50000 african migrants living in tunisia, illegally. tunisian rights activist, miriam, my store says they are mistreated and do menial jobs that to neeagin's don't want

to do. she says she and her husband have also experienced abuse for racism is a, has a long history intern easier against black people, even if a black people are like 10 or 15 percent of the population. now people, internally, there are in a social and economic co crisis. so the, the president, he uses a black people as the scapegoats tunisians are out on the streets denouncing via holding sign. seeing tunisians 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 in division. nicholas hawk al jazeera, the court synagogue, to the philippines. now where the navy and coast guard are scrambling to contain a leak from a sunken tanker that's creating a huge oil spill, the princess empress, which had engine trouble, sank on tuesday off the coast of now john, in the philippines, the slick stretches from 420 kilometers and is 9 kilometers off shore and it's

threatening protected marine areas. thousands of fishermen in the philippines have been ordered to stay ashore while i speak to jerry around chase about this. he's the executive director at the center for energy ecology and development. and he's joining us live from quezon city in the philippine. thank you for your time. jerry . tell us more 1st about the area where this fell, happened and a damage. it's caused so far. good afternoon from the philippines. and this is really saddening because the location of the oil spill is actually within what is called the very the island passage which many conservation groups international conservation groups have are celebrated as the center of the center of global marine shore fish. meaning that a massive concentration of sure fish, fish species and a marine,

a species are actually located. there are at least around 1700 different species of shore fish. i can absolutely be found there are, which basically are in the at least $21.00 marine protected areas in the province of mentor alone. so the, this situation, this oil spill actually really highlights the, the devastation and the impacts on are in marine life. but as, as well as around 22000000 filipinos rely with their livelihoods and daily consumption from marine resources in the province alone or min daughter orient, battle are close 220000 or 20000. fisher folks

leave in dependent on fishing in that area. what do you know about the extent of the damage caused by this fail? it's, it's the, the, the information is, is fairly scars right now, but there are some r e on the ground. what we've already got that information or is that one? there is no, ah fish available in the market as of yesterday and for thee, ah, so meaning most of the thousands, the 10s of thousands old fisher for doesn't have anything to after the, you know, leave on, ah, at the moment. and the latest news is that it has even rich to another province, which is south all men, daughter. oh oh, which is also part or the for the island passage. ok. 9 to sand. i, terry,

that they are a lot of tankers that pass by these waters. how concerning is, is and why we seeing this increase tank a traffic. yes, and that is really concerning from our in because this is the 1st that this is not the 1st oil spill in the area a few years before a similar incident already happened. and there are many other incidents across the country which highlights the level of protection, especially on this marine protected passage, which is very important, not just for the philippines, but actually globally because it, these are the hard. oh, you know, marine protection, we're a lot of species are actively can, can actually be found and should be conserved. and so these be just very concerning from our end and regularly sean has to be addressed. but at the same bye,

this is just the people, the iceberg. we know for a fact that, you know, the issue right now is on the oil spill. but because all the, the directory of the country, especially of this government to expand ellen g liquefied natural gas and have all the bottle, all the expansion will actually be located in that particular area as well. so there's a lot of stress for the very the island passage. thank you so much for talking to us about this, jerry, jerry, ranches, he's the executive director of the center for energy ecology and development in the philippine. thank you for your time. thank you. columbus, president, gustavo petro, says all hostages have been released at an oil facility, which was the scene of a deadly protest. 88 people were taken hostage by protest is in the 7th province of k town thursday at police officer and a civilian were killed as violence escalated

o t. i says, demanded help to repair and build you roads in the area. alexander, i'm petty, has mo, from bova top. the announcements came after many hours of negotiations by the minister of defense 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, 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 asked the 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. the protesters or farmers that live in a remote area long neglected by the states 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 improvements that had never materialize. and india. and this was a relatively quick resolution to what had turned out to be a major crisis for the government. and the way this government, this 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, president gustavo petro also said that now the attorney general will have to investigate and tried those responsible for the day. protests have continued in greece over the train crash on tuesday, which kills more than 50 people. marching in athens, in to send an e key turned violent some grooves through petrol, bombs that police of fire tear gas. protestors blame the government for the poor condition of greece's rail system where union, se a fatal accident was inevitable. in one hundreds of mourners have attended the 1st known funeral of a crash victim so far 52 of the 57 confirmed victims have been identified mostly through dna, 350 people on board. the passenger train when it collided,

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ah, you're watching al jazeera live from doha. reminder of our top stories on this. our more african nations are flying their citizens out of tenicia after the government crackdown active is seen. many black africans have been taught since present tie, st. accused them of changing the countries demographics. the navy and coast guard in the philippines are working to contain a leak from a sunken tanka that's creating a major oil scale. it's threatening protected marine areas and a cholera outbreak in northwest syria is worsening. following last month's earthquake. at least 3 people have dives. not only i spoke to a came steiner, who had the united nations development program, i asked him what exactly the u. n. is doing to help the syrians in meet the context in which the un has to work as a whole in syria is severely constrained,

politically, sometimes logistically. and certainly in the face of this terrible, terrible destruction that followed the earthquake. it is heartbreaking not to have the ability to immediately be by the side of people, but i often have to also say it is not the un that created these conditions. i mean, we are responding, are you monitoring colleagues? i have a significant team in sierra that was working there before. we are under various severe restrictions in which we are able to work because we cannot really do develop the traditional sense. we can only do early recovery and that's what we're focusing right now. following the earthquake, the are doing assessments to 1st look at where the buildings have collapsed. we are working with our monitoring colleagues to keep the local services are the going re establish them whether it's electricity, water, and then again you in the piece focuses on the early recovery and livelihood sector . this is our core focus. we lead the un country team in that area and we're going to focus on what we have done in other countries, which is help people to quickly get back on their own feet. people have dignity,

they have pride. they don't want to be standing an acute, to get handouts, helping them to re establish their businesses, repairing buildings, reconnecting electricity. those are the things that will help people to regain a foothold in the some perspective of hope. and that's what we're focused on right now. chem and chance that olaf shows and us present, joe biden has said they will keep punishing rush after the war in ukraine. a to leaders met on friday at the white house themselves, plates and bite, and pledge to continue supporting ukraine together. work lock step to supply critical security assistance crate and everything from when we're done to watch them. immunization or chill or armor tanks, air defense systems together throughout. let me just say this is a very, very important, you know, be critical to very dangerous. that piece comes from russia meeting you quit and it's really important if we're together organized next step

that we made feasible that we can give the necessary support of your crew. during this time i think it was very important that we get the message that we will continue to do so as long as it takes at this moment. that's the story from the feel ready also for staying with the ukrainians as as long as the survey. meanwhile, the head of russia wagner mercenary group, says the ukranian city of back moat is almost completely surrounded by russia and its allied forces. russian troops have intensified shelling of road to the west, making it harder for ukrainian forces to move in and out. victory in back more would give moscow is 1st major when in the ukraine conflict in 6 months in the us republican party members of how the 2nd day of the conservative political action

conference in washington. it's seen as an early test for those seeking to challenge donald trump for the parties. presidential nomination. alan fisher was at the meeting. ah, if 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 it. if you what runs the holes here. you will see many people wearing hats, t shirt selling portraits. he's still very much the dominant figure here in the republican park, you know, to potential appointments for him in the republican party. i've already spoken. first of all, we had from mike from kill 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? asked 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 a criticism of both joe biden and donald trump. when i liked my campaign, i said, every politician over 75 years, all and should be required to take a man on competency test. have you seen daisy 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 de santis. 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 follow 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 pack. china is gearing up for its most important annual political gathering. delegates at the national people's on grace will begin meeting on sunday to lay out the country's policy for the upcoming year. katrina, you report some beijing top chinese leaders together 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. li chung will officially be confirmed as premier taking over the could child who's 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 burton as china's supreme leader. for the 1st time in 10 years that the jan 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 c's priorities. but the downside is that after trans party, congress has become pretty clear that the agent paying wants to continue taking china in a more ideologically controlled, more economically statist and more dramatically assertive direction. there will also be an extensive reorganization of state and party institutions giving she more

control of china's financial system. last year, the growth rate of 3 percent was the slowest and half a century. a new target for gross domestic product, all g d p will be announced. economists say a relatively high figure of 6 percent may point to more aggressive po, growth policies ahead. the one thing that the government can control is to make the state such a stronger, not necessarily bigger, but certainly more competitive and stronger in order to provide enough support for growth. this is, congress comes as trying to face is 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 seized 3 years. 0 corvette 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. ping's grip on power will be more comprehensive and consolidated than ever before. it is katrina you al jazeera teaching in haiti. violence is flaring up between gangs in the capital. armed groups are competing for control over districts in port au prince. hundreds of people have been formed from their homes by the violence have been moved from their homes, from the violence that's in use for now on al jazeera, i'm fully batty boy, and i'll have one use for you after inside story to stay with us. oh the it's the weekend, here's your forecast for europe in africa. good to have your long and right off the bat. we've got to talk about blowing snow across lithuania that it's reducing

visibility to near nils. so why don't conditions there? now want to put this on your radar, looking ahead to next week, mid week through next week. temperature has fallen off once again through the islands of ireland and britain. so london, top temperature of 5 degrees for you back to the here. and now we have had low temperature is across portugal, so up and down the country, whether alerts in play for just how low those temperatures have been. but they're starting to come up on saturday. there is a batch of rain fighting across southern italy through the balkans, that's happening over the g and pushing into western turkey over the course of the weekend. so some showers in the forecast here, off to africa, we go in for the northeast of algeria, weather alerts in play for snow and ice here. but just suppose that's what's going on in egypt. the heat returns cairo up to $32.00 degrees. it's almost 10 above where you should be for this year. what, whether across the coast of west africa and off to the most in b channel we go remnants leftovers of what was tropical storm freddy's still

hanging around here and that's pushing rain into the west coast of madagascar. okay . got it. i see it soon. ah. in the blink of an eye, many lives were lost. thousands of people buried alive and more left homeless. you were shocked by the number of sites we worshipped by. the number of victims al jazeera goes to the most afflicted region in syria. here in northwest syria to see those affected by the earthquake and its severe shortages of humanitarian aid, the full report syria, the continuing tragedy on al jazeera israel in crisis, a wave of killings in israeli military raids, attacks on palestinian by jewish settlers. a continuing protest against proposed changes to the judicial.