listen well, hold hands with them, offer pats on the back and play games with children. sometimes just offering a blanket or a cup of coffee is comfort enough in that moment. the psychologist say in the upheaval of the earthquakes aftermath, children are particularly vulnerable. the president of the turkish red crescent says it's ability to provide mental health services to survivors is co, humble, considering the enormous need required in the coming weeks, months and years, ah, displaced by war and earthquakes. communities in northwest syria are now being threatened by a cholera outbreak. at least 3 people have died. ah,

are you watching al jazeera life from doha with me fully back? he bore also coming up. hundreds more black africans are being repatriated from tenicia. after enduring racist attacks, indiscriminate arrests and force expulsion. the search continues for a sunken fuel tanker in the philippines. as crews struggle to contain a major oil spill threatening protected marine areas, and dozens of police officers are released in columbia after being held hostage by rule workers who were protesting against an oil company. ah, a g r f years, a cholera break in north west, syria is getting worse. following last month. earthquakes, at least 3 people have died. health facilities, water sources and sanitation were extensively damaged by the quakes. and many are

concerned. authorities in the rebel controlled areas won't be able to cope. millions of people in neighboring turkey are also living in makeshift camps after their homes were destroyed by the earthquakes. health workers there say they need urgent support to help survivors deal with trauma and other mental health issues. let's go live to al jazeera hashim. i had barrows in gaussian tap in southern turkey forest. let's start with a situation in syria, a hashem. there's been a surgeon cholera cases there. what more you hearing about the outbreak follow have been in touch with activists engineers and also have workers operating in different areas, particularly engine dairies. and they told us they are concerned that the death tool could further climb in the upcoming days, because you're dealing with a real health crisis and the concerned, the ha, there's going to be an outbreak of cholera expanding through ard, vast areas in the north western part of her assyria,

just to give you an idea. we've been talking to people in jan doris and they said that the hospital was damaged during the earthquake. they had to move. most of the critical cases all the way to the hospital of a freedom that they were so overwhelmed with the number to the people who were injured that they couldn't cope with other cases, particularly now. the cases of all of are of, of color affecting the children and the elderly. now we're talking about in area was, has been shelled by government forces in italy. we're talking about over 2000000 people who were displaced during the conflict in syria, along with the number of the displaced right after the earthquakes, all living in makeshift camps and with the absence of hygiene stand. there's the absence of international aid. there has been trickle down very slowly to those areas. people are just concerned. is that the worst could be yet to happen?

yeah. are they similar can santana intake? yeah. when it comes to this risk of that disease outbreak, a wide array of concerns here. i'm standing behind or you can see behind we are make shifter camp that was established right after the earthquake. now the government has been doing the following. we have been distributing er er hygiene kids along with medical supplies that i know by a pharmacies operating in different parts of the vast area. we're talking about 11 provinces that were have, by the earthquakes of trying to help people by the organizations and years that we've been talking to and visiting particularly the makeshift hospitals established by the international engineers. they're saying that the potential for outbreak of diseases, particularly cholera, will continue to be one of the biggest challenges facing authorities here in turkey because people are going to stay for quite some time in those mix shift camps

before ferment before permanent ur, containers are established for those people, or before reconstruction comes to and, and in the, in, in the meantime because of those biggest concerns of because of the contaminated water. they are monitoring the situation. but the continued to ward, that could be a huge problem affecting those areas is a delicate us, is massive destruction is a mammoth just for the authorities. it will take some time for them to be able to contain this health crisis. thank you for them. hash him hash him almera reporting their life from guardian tab in 7 take here. while the united nation has been criticized for not reacting quickly enough in syria after the earthquake sally, i spoke to kim signer, who has the united nations development program. and i asked him what exactly the u . n. is doing to help syrians in need 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 after all to say it is not that you end 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 and we are under various severe restrictions in which we are able to work because we cannot really do developing the traditional sense. we can only do early recovery and that's what we're focusing right now. following the earthquake, we are doing assessments to 1st we'll 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 seat. people have dignity, they have pride. they don't want to be standing in a queue 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. while united nations secretary general antonio, the terrorist has called for massive economic support and investment for nations in dire need. his im, katara speaking at the 50 united nations conference on the least developed countries using the cost of living crisis girls most difficult by the they with the water new gray and accelerating the rising prices of energy and foods in the impacts of coffins throughout sango and extreme poverty and the result is a perfect storm for perpetuating poverty and the injustice. we must end the storm in other well his more african nations are flying their citizens out of tenicia. following

a government crackdown on undocumented immigrants act of his say, many people from subsaharan africa have been attacked since present eyesight, accused them of changing the country's demographics rights groups have condemned his comments as racist. and the african union says, it's shocked by the statement from the car synagogue. nicholas hark reports. you will notice move the lesson 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 ivory ins and unions are

now being repatriated, some injured and unable to walk. after the beatings, 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 or north fling war, but poverty. but europeans don't want them on their continents and 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 tunisians don't want to do. she says she and her husband have also clearance abuse. so 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 scapegoat 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 the coast guard are working to contain a leak from a sunken tanka that's creating a major oil spell, the princess empress developed engine problems and sank on to say off the course of no, john, the slick stretches for a 120 kilometers and is 9 kilometers off shore and it's threatening protective marine areas. thousands of fishermen in the philippines have been ordered to stay

ashore. barnaby lo reports on me oriental min door in the philippines. it's been 5 days. this is an oil tanker carrying 800000 leaders of industrial fuel oil or on filtered oil. sunk off the island of min, doro, which is where we are right now. and that has cost and an oil spill. now on friday morning, the philippine coast guard said that there were signs that this oil spill is not as bad as previously thought. an aerial survey showed that the oil spill within the passivity of where the ship had sunk, had shrunk from 6 kilometers in length to 3 kilometers. but by the end of friday, there were more coastal towns that were reporting sightings of oil suspected to come from the oil. packard that is submerged right now. we're talking about an area that is a 100 kilometers away for where the submerged oil tacker is. and is actually away

already from the island off, mean doro, closer to the popular tourist island of murat di. so there are fears that the oil spill could further drift into brought dye, which is a, you know, crown jewel for philippine tourism. but the main concern really here is that thousands of people live along these coast lines that have been affected by this oil spill. and we have been talking to fishermen, and they've been telling us that they have no other source of livelihood, that this is what they've been accustomed to, their source of food, their source of income. it's all in the sea, and now fishing is bad. swimming is band and they don't know how long this is going to take. there are a number of challenges that philippines authorities are facing right now. number one are the strong currents as well as strong winds. they're having

a hard time installing booms that could contain the oil spills. but the bigger problem here is the location, the exact location of the sunken oil tanker we can't get to it because it's so deep . it's more than the height of the eiffel tower and not with the reach of technical divers. they would probably need mechanical equipment, but which the philippines doesn't, doesn't have. so they're asking assistance from their foreign partners. why in the below, i'll just euro, or you tell me the oral the philippines can be as president gustavo petro says, oh hostages hound by protesters at an oil facility have been released. 18 people were seized in the southern province of k town on thursday. a police officer and a civilian were killed as violent escalated. protesters demanded help to repair and build new roads in the area. alexander has more from the announcements came after

many hours of negotiations by the minister of defense, 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 he 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 chris to 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 pharmacy about the 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 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 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 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 has 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 try those responsible for the day. ahead on al jazeera gangs compete for territory and haiti, capital civilians that call it in the crossfire. plus, i'm jessica washington and hong kong where environmental groups are working to save the territories damaged oyster. ah. hello, it's still looking pretty unsettle across the parts of the mediterranean. there's area of blood pressure still swirling away just around italy, pushing that where to whether that windy weather over towards greece as we go on through the next couple of days, cold windy to further north, we got this cold, normally blast right out of scandinavia. eventually making its way across ca,

pretty shells and into the island of ireland because some wet weather, some when she weather just around the boat eating further east was. but you can see have as winds come in from an all the direction. so we are struggling to get about freezing over the next few days. it will be try for london and paris, but temperatures no higher than around 8 degrees celsius a little below the seasonal average. it will cool office to go through the week with some snow possible for many pass at that stage. is that disturb where the still swirling away across central parts of the met. then southern italy, down into sicily, pushing across into greece. nothing further east, which as we go on through sunday, and there will be some very wet weather, grassy making his way into to tear it up. it's the snow there, started to show the hand up to a central and northern parts of europe by this stage. meanwhile, it stays very hot for cairo, that suddenly winds still picking temperatures up to route 30 celsius in cairo for west africa, more showers around the coast. ah,

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stories this our a cholera outbreak that followed earthquakes in northwest syria last month is getting worse. at least 3 people have died. more african nations are flying out, their citizens are out of tenicia after government crackdown. they're active is see . many black africans have been attacked since prison. chi said accused them of changing the countries demographics. and in the philippines, the navy and coast guard are scrambling to contain a leak from a sunken tanker that's creating a major oil spill is threatening protected marine areas. and protests have continued in greece over the train crash on tuesday, which killed more than 50 people. march is in athens and to send an e key turned violent, some groups through petrol, bombs at police, so fire tear gas t o t s as blame the government for the poor condition of greece's railway system.

rail union say a fatal accident was inevitable, and hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of the 1st crash victim. 52 of fif 57 confirmed a people to have died have now been identified. 350 people were on the passenger train when it collided with a freight train on the same track. the no nations human weiss, she vulgar turkish criticise, israel's finance minister after he called for the palestinian village of who are to be erased. turk said the statement by a busier, less mortar, each was an incitement to violence and hostility. the attack was strongly condemned by the president of israel, who called it, and i quote, criminal violence against innocence which harms us as a moral society and a lawful country. yet the finance minister publicly called for the town of who are to be wiped out an unfathomable statement of incitement to violence and hostility.

gemini chance that olaf shows end us present, joe biden has said it will keep punishing russia for the war in ukraine. the 2 leaders met on friday at the white house and a pledge to continue supporting ukraine together. work large chapter supply critical security systems, ukraine, and from everything from what we've done in lockstep ammunition or chill or armor tanks, air defense systems. we've been together throughout this let me just say this is a very, very important here because of the very dangerous threat piece that comes from russia meeting you quit. and it's really important that we are affected together, organized on walk step that we later feasible that we can get the necessary support of your crew during all just talk about this time. i think it's very important that we get that message that we would continue to do so as long as it takes up as long

as that's a sorry of that you're already posted for thing with the ukrainians as and as long as it's necessary. meanwhile, the head of rushes, wagner mercenary globe, says the ukrainian city of back mo, days, almost completely surrounded by russian forces and its allies. russian troops had intensified chaney of rhodes to the west, making it harder for ukrainian forces to move in and out. victory in back mode would give moscow its 1st major when in 6 months in the us republican party members have had 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 republican party's presidential nomination. allan tricia was at the meeting. while 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 come pat t shirt selling trump portraits. he's still very much the dominant figure here in the republican park, you know, to potential appointments for them in the republican party. i've already spoken. first of all, we heard from mike volunteer, 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 level of supporters in south carolina, coming here to what essentially was a less than half rule, whole to speak to the rank and file. and she started her speech with

a criticism of both joe biden and donald trump went online to my campaign. i said, every politician over 75 years, all and shouldn't be required to take a mental competency test. have you seen the see lately? we shall start with joe by law 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 panel at china is gearing out for his most important annual political gathering. delegates that the national people's congress will begin meeting on sunday to lay out a 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 and the president sheet and ping. lee chung will officially be confirmed as premier. taking over, lee could, shall, 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 3rd term as china's supreme leader. who for the

1st time in 10 years, that stage in paying is going to have his people leading all of the major organs of state power in china. so the up side of that is that we could see more efficient policy implementation of c's priorities. but the downside is that after the 20th party, congress has become pretty clear that stage and paying wants to continue taking china in a more ideologically controlled, more economically statist and more diplomatically assertive direction. they'll 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 g. 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 sector 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. baiting 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 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 things grip on power will be more comprehensive and consolidated than ever before. it is katrina you. i'll da 0, beijing in 80 violence is wearing up between gangs in the capital armed go, sir,

competing for control over districts in hotels, friends, hundreds of people have been forced from their homes by the violence. now he says a price commodity in hong kong, but many traditional farms have been abandoned. well now conservationists are working to restore them as part of efforts to repair damage, 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 low king habitat so that each amplified the ecological function as an all mole i saw riff. this area was once part of an oyster foaming industry dating back 700 years. many of these traditional farms were abandoned when will modern techniques were introduced. now conservation is so trying to restore them to help save the reefs on 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 abandoned noise to farm is that you've already got oysters growing. if you can consolidate that structure, bring it together to form 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. they form reefs. they formed big structures, which provide habitat for other organisms. i'm so there's thousands of species which live in and around oyster reefs. oyster reefs also help mitigate coastal

erosion and help reduce toxic al keep loons. the researchers say restoring reefs and sustainable harvesting can go together because farmers can benefit from an increase in the number of oysters. in hong kong, bustling victoria harper, researchers are deploying a different method. putting oyster shows back in the ocean to attract elder marine like this as they are censuring that way into the ocean. i'm 10 moms before. so i'm, we have like a company cure it, eyes 10 shells, and then we go them, assemble them and then put it into the ocean. so this i sal substrate for other mary organism till they found that they say they would teach people the hump of belongs to everyone, including its oysters. jessica washington al jazeera hong kong ah .