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continuing coverage of the earthquakes disaster in turkey and syria rigorous debate, unflinching questions up front smoking. the mantell cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom 20 years on from the start of the iraq war. we examined how the past 2 decades have shaped the country and the major challenges confronting future generations. documentaries, that inspire witness brings, woke issues into focus through compelling human story. i made widespread industrial action and a cost of living crisis. the u. k. government seeks a way to turn around it's faltering economy march on a jesse era who displaced by war and earthquakes. communities in northwest syria are now being threatened by a cholera outbreak obese sweet people have died. ah,
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hello, this is al jazeera life from doha. i'm fully back to will also coming up the head of reviewing nuclear washed our clothes off. sydney ran after traces of highly enriched uranium, are discovered by inspectors. hundreds more black africans are being repatriated from tunisia after enduring racist attacks indiscriminate re sent for 6 portion. and the search continues for a sunken fuel tanker in the philippines as cool struggle to contain a major oil spill threatening protected marine area. ah m a camera break in northwest syria is getting worse. following last month's earthquakes, at least 3 people have died. health facilities, water sources and sanitation way extensively damaged by the quakes and many are
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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 flattened by the earthquakes. health workers say they need to urgent support to help survivors deal with trauma and mental illness. life to hush him, i had borrow, who's in gaussian tap in southern turkey for his hush him. let's start with the situation in syria and the surgeon cholera case is there. what more you hearing about the outbreak solidly ensures the people that the local authorities, we've been talking to in those areas saying that it's stuff that institutions i completely overwhelmed and that they fear the wes could yet to come for different reasons. now they've been struggling with the aftermath of the earthquake, more than 2000 casualties in those areas, and they were trying to relocate most of the displaced into make shift camps. you
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add to it there over 2 and a half 1000000 people who were displaced throughout the 11 years of the conflict in syria. and they say that they don't have the all it takes to be able to cope with those growing numbers of people displaced in makeshift camps throughout the north western bottle, the country. now the w h o and unicef chiefs have been visiting those areas of the express, the same concerns of the about the potential of further health crises in those areas. now they have been distributing some hygiene kits of that be more, but the organizations operating there, that means they say they need more and more international aid. the biggest concern is the outbreak of cornell and other diseases. and they say that we're talking about thousands and thousands of vulnerable communities up there, particularly the elderly and the young. now the areas that were affected by the earthquake earthquakes senior, a tardy and gender race are usually they have been places with poor in for
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infrastructure in the past. now what they're doing, like in dallas, this hospital has been damaged during the earthquakes and they have been relegating most of the critical cases all the way to athlete i've they say that that is absolutely no way. we'll continue to go with any growing number of people affected by a candidate in the upcoming days while we need is when it more international how to be able to cope with this crisis. and one other health concerns in turkey, where you are hashem. similar concern del i've been traveling to different areas here to the southern part of the, of the country. and now the authorities have been doing the following to have been distributing hygiene or kids. medical supplies, the local communities affected by the earthquake. they have also deployed more by a pharmacies to those areas, but the engineers in particular say that if you look at the situation now, there is a potential for those communities to stay for really quite some time in that
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makeshift terms where i'm standing, for example, in an area where there is a mix shift or a camp for those who are affected by the earthquake in antic province. and people are going to say differently for quite some time. they need a clean water. they did submit a co supplies non stop for the upcoming weeks and months. the authorities in common matters and a hard time. for example, have been concerned voice and concerns about clue and the clean water. they have been asking the local communities not to use tap water and the a fad which is the emergency response bra agency has been distributed, distributing clear water to the communities, but is going to take them really a months to be able to deliver on those promises they have been given to the local communities and they say the potential for an outbreak of different diseases is still high there. and this is why they are really concerned about what happens next . hashem, thank you for updating a sound situation in turkey and in northwest in syria hash and i have our lives
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there in guardian tap while the united nation has been criticized for a slow response in north where syria. earlier i spoke to kim steiner from the united nations development program and i asked him what the un instilling to help syrian 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 after also say it is not the un that created these conditions. i mean, we are responding, i was humanitarian. colleagues, i have a significant team in sera that was working there before. 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 via doing assessments to 1st we'll look at where the buildings have collapsed. we are working with ours, you monitor and colleagues to keep local services or the going re establish them
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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 reestablish their businesses, repairing buildings, reconnecting electricity. those are the things that will help people to regain a foothold in these some perspective of hope. and that's what we're focused on right now. a another world news, the head of the united nations nuclear watchdog says even should be transparent about its nuclear program. raphael go see made the common during a visit to tave on his you to hold talks with the iranian government is visit comes days after the i. e. inspectors found any rainy and nuclear side had enriched uranium to near weapons grade level. to ron says,
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this nuclear program is for peaceful purposes and not for developing nuclear weapons. we have to have a very deep and serious systematic dialogue with iran. and this is why i am here. it's been too long. there have been a number of issues throughout the year, and i'm very glad that at long last i have been able to return. i think it's going to be more than satisfactory. an important visit. while the report from the international atomic energy agency found the purity of enrich uranium particles at the fall, dow site was 83.7 percent. that's close to them. 90 percent needed to make a nuclear weapon. the report only mentioned particles that suggests to stockpile of enriched uranium, hasn't risen above 60 percent. let's go live to our correspondent in tehran door such a barry, let's talk about the i. e. is chief's visit for his store. so wising,
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tehran, and what are both sides saying so far about this visit? well, ruffle grossi arrived in the capital on friday afternoon, where he met with a number of high ranking officials, along with a number of nuclear scientists from the countries nuclear program. he's here because he hasn't been here in, well, about a year and there's a lot of questions he has for iranian officials about this country's nuclear program. this comes at a critical time because of, as you mentioned, those particles, the un inspectors from the agency found at the for don't nuclear facility in january, during one of their regular inspections. and they believe that this was something the iranians had not discussed with the agency now at the radians for their part have said that that level of enriched particles found at 4 door is something that was not intentional. and it was done during the enrichment process of the 5th at
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the facility, which does tend to happen from time to time. it's not unheard of for a certain amount of enrich uranium to exceed the levels that they're working towards. that being said, the a director general of the international atomic energy agency, a during a press conference with his iranian counterpart mohammed slummy, reiterated the importance of the cooperation, the agencies looking for from iran, as well as guarantees from iranian officials about ron's nuclear program. to where do things stand right now? door said this point between the agency, the i e e n d rod well, according to both sides, they are trying to resolve the issues they have. there is 3 out standing issues about particles, found uranium enrich uranium found at various locations at 3 locations that the agency says or have not been declared by iran to be nuclear sites. that's one of the issues that is still being discussed between iran and the agency as well as
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this latest report from the inspectors they found. and i have been rich uranium at a higher level. so these are the main issues they're discussing. and the director general says that they are still continuing the talks today. and he is expected to hold a press conference when he returns to vienna later this evening. and we'll get a better idea of what has been said. and whether or not his trip has been successful, he expects to give us some more answers when he arrives in vienna later on saturday door, sir, thank you. dawson jabari live there in tehran. more african nations are flying their citizens out of tenicia falling a government crackdown on undocumented immigrants. active is said, many people from sub saharan africa have been attacked since prison. chi said accused him of changing the countries demographics. rice groups have condemned his comments as racist. and the african union says it's shocked by the statement from the car, senegal, his nicholas hoc. so this does not want to lessen us on social media,
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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 than it had from all over the wall, but really suffering here. 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 the 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.
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most african migrants from senegal and west africa or not fling 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. junior 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 experienced abuse for racism is a, has a long history in julia against black people, even if a black people are like 10 or 15 percent of the population. now people into 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 via test holding sign. seeing tunisians come in all colors, it's not only
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a reminder of the diversity of the country, but a call for unity in the face of growing bigotry, in division. nicholas hong al jazeera liquor synagogue to the philippines. now where the navy and 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 coast of no john, in the philippines. the slick stretches for a 120 kilometers n is 9 kilometers off shore is threatening protected marine air is thousands of fishermen in the philippines in order to stay ashore. barnaby lo reports from oriental min dinero in the philippines. it's been 5 days since an oil tanker carrying 800000 leaders of industrial fuel oil or on filtered oil. sunk off the island of a min doro, which is where we are right now. and that has cost and an oil spill. now on friday
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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 facility 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 tanker that is submerged right now. we're talking about an area that is a 100 kilometers away for where the submerged oil tanker is. and is actually away already from the island off, mean doro, closer to the popular tourist island of murat deisel. there are fierce that the oil spill could further drift into brought dye, which is a, you know, a crown jewel for philippine tourism. but the main concern really here is that
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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 banned and they don't know how long this is going to take. there are a number of challenges that philippine 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. so the exact location of the sunken oil tanker the can't get to it because it's so deep. it's more than the height of the i felt how're and not within the reach of technical divers, they would probably need
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a mechanical equipment, but which the philippines doesn't, doesn't have. so they're asking assistance from their foreign partners. barnaby low, i'll just euro or young thought, mean doro, the philippines still ahead on the program. dozens of police officers are released in columbia to be held hostage by who'll work as we're processing against an oil company. and a game changer for women's cricket. as in the past to launch a new big money me for female past ah hello once again, welcome to another look at the international forecast and it remains very wet just around the malay peninsula. more big down pause coming through here to hor, which is just to the north of singapore, has seen 82 millimeters of rain in the past 24 hours. and since the start of the
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month is every day for in march, of course, we've had $412.00 millimeters of rain. compare that to the average for the entire month. well, it's twice that monthly average and there's more rain where that came from. it should be less, where should we say as we go on through s sunday, but the showers never really too far away that just pushing the way across into west marcher. and then we'll see that wet weather, sneaking a little further east, which as we go on 3 monday, but more showers, grassy coming back in as we go on through the course of the day. notice that it is generally dry across indo china sunshine and showers into the philippines. more sunshine than showers, and the scattering of showers there across indonesia, joining up with a heavy shows that we have across the far north of australia. because we do still have toggle side cloud, kevin now pulling away from van what to still some very heavy rain is coming back into fiji. over the next couple of days, the heavy rain linger steam across northern parts of australia, still hot in melbourne for the time being. but it does cool off by monday.
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welcome back. you're watching al jazeera life from doha. reminder of our top story says our a con or outbreak that followed earthquakes in northwest syria last month is getting worse. at least 3 people have died. more african nations are flying their citizens out of tenicia after a government crackdown act of his say, many black africans have been attacked since prison. chi fade accused them of changing tenacious demographics and the navy and coast guarding the philippines are scrambling to contain a leak from a sunken tanka that's creating a major oil. spill is threatening protective marine areas. columbia's prison, gustavo petro says, all hostages held by protesters at an oil facility have been released. 88 people were seized in the southern provinces. coquette. on thursday, a police officer and a civilian were killed as violence escalated. o testers demanded help to repair and build new roads in the area. alexander i'm kit, he has more from bobo,
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top. 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 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 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 their needs and the complaints the claims. and i asked the entire popular movement in general, hasn't rural urban. to see that this is a government of dialogue,
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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 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, 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,
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that strategy had turned into a major tobacco for the colombian state forces. and finally, president gustavo federal also said that now the attorney general will have to investigate and tried those responsible for their protests have continued in greece over a train crash on tuesday, which killed more than 50 people marching in athens and tell me he turned violent some groups were petrol bombs at police to fire gas. protestors blame the government for the poor condition of police. his rail system, rail union say a fatal accident was inevitable. and hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of the 1st crash victim to be buried. 52 of the 57, confirm dest, have now been identified. 350 people were on the passenger train. when it collided with a freight train on the same track. i thought we should become the voice of the
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dead. we're truly outraged and showing a rage because of all the deficiencies that exist in all aspects of our lives there saturday. my thought this crime will not be forgotten. our dead classmate will not be forgotten, nor any of those who died in this accident. i reckon up on the phone as if in the united nations human rights chief valcall term can criticize israel's finance minister after he called for the palestinian village of who are at to be erased. take said the statement by basil as more trash 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, but violence minister publicly called for the town of who are to be wiped out an unfathomable statement of incitement to violence and hostility. the war in ukraine
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now and the german chance that olaf shoulds n u. s. president joe biden has said they will keep punishing russia for the conflict. the 2 leaders met on friday in the white house shall send biden pledge to continue supporting crane together work lock step to supply a 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 potent yeah. because of the very dangerous piece that comes from russia. ukraine. and it's really important that we act together organize the lock step that we've made 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. that's the
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theory that we are ready for staying with the ukrainians, as long as it's necessary. meanwhile, the head of russia wagner mercenary globe says the ukrainian city of back most is almost completely surrounded by russia and its allied forces. russian to 710 to 5 charlie roads to the west, making it harder for ukrainian forces to move in and out. victory in back more would give moscow the 1st major victory in 6 months. now, in haiti violently throwing up between gangs in the capital, armed groups are competing for control over districts and photo french. hundreds of people have been forced from their homes by the fighting. 3 hong kong for democracy activists have been found guilty of security offences. lawyer chow hung tongue was among those convicted for not complying with a police request for information that organized gathering to commemorate the town
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and men square massacre of 1989 authorities of band and annual tenant men vigil for the past 3 years. citing corona vice restrictions in malaysia, at least 3 people have been killed in more than 40000, forced to leave their homes after severe flooding. days of heavy rain have caused a flash floods in 6 feet rescue as a trying to reach families trapped on move tops and the goblins opened dozens of relief centers. meteorologists are forecasting dangerous levels of rain for at least another day. a fate of emergency has been declared in van war 2 has another powerful cyclone battery, the country, the 2nd this week cag category for cycle. and kevin is bringing gale force winds and torrential rain. hundreds of thousands of people across van waters, islands. i found to be effected on wednesday cycling, judy cut power enforced many residents from their homeless now its being built as
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a game changing tournament for women's cricket in india and beyond. the women's, for me, a league is modeled on the money fueled glamour of the man's i. p l. competition. it's already broken, broken all financial records in women sports as paddling time reports now my connie's demanding the bat increase. she's been playing cricket for a decade. it's by far the most popular sport in india con says it's the best time for women to be playing the gentlemen's platform. they are more platforms, more opportunities for girls. now. earlier, we only got a job in the indian railway. if we did well into misty cricket, may have many option of the new woman's premium will give us more money and a chance to make a name for ourselves. women's quick age is getting a new tournament. the women's premier league or w, p l has 5 teams. games will be played in the t 20 format, and players will include indian and international stars. the biggest names tend to
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on up to around $400000.00 for 3 weeks work. that's 10 times as much as a woman's 100 competition in england. and really the women's premier league is already one of the was most valuable women sporting franchisee leads. the teams will auction for more than half a $1000000000.00. that's more than what the man's engine premier league raised when it began 15 years ago and brought gothright sold for more than $100000000.00. t team owners also have franchises in the ip. delhi capital says it's tapping into the growing demand for women sport. if you look at the price now to 45 percent of 45 percent of the ship comes from them. so currently the ip yet is watched by those 2 to 40000000 revenue. so we are all very, very bullish that the commercial growth of this league is going to be phenomenal. in justine has had a strong season, the under 19 squad recently won the t 20 woke up,
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and the senior players reached the semifinals in just cricket federation. the b, c. c, i recently announced equal match fees for international male and female players. the whole idea is to was the women cooked because no, australia, new zealand inland, the other countries there really wasn't women cooked. so we say didn't want to leg bed because unless you put them our lives will bring them at the forefront. how will you release the potential? the federation says doubly piano success hinges on how many people come to the stadiums. players hope the league will grow and inspire mortgage to pick up a backed bath, new metal, al jazeera new delhi. ah no. again, i'm funny betsy ball with the headlines on al jazeera, a cholera outbreak that followed earthquakes in north by syria last month is.

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