disuse mine, wherein you illegal drug has taken hold. god has organized crime, gangs battle for control of this lucrative industry. huge that started been sold too often and, and bloodshed. the accordion wars on a just 0 on a recent february day in central park in new york city. you never have guessed it was right smack in the middle of winter. look around, people are dressed like it's spring or summer. wait, hold on. where is the snow ever seen new york in february like this? never a new reality, perhaps with new yorkers, 1st enjoying the warm weather, but now beginning to ask themselves, will it ever snow this year? because this isn't normal, they probably don't even need to be wearing this jacket right now because it's mid february and it's supposed to be cold. but it's not ah,

one month since the devastating earthquakes in tech in syria, more than $50000.00 odd dead, and millions have been displaced. ah, hello moneys, are you the sound? is there a life and also coming up, a major fire destroys thousands of shelters and overhang a refugee camp in bangladesh. floods in malaysia forced tens of thousands to take shelter in relief. camps will have a live update. on a stone years pro ukraine prime minister contract colors sick. he was a big win in the countries parliamentary election. ah b. it's one month since

a devastating magnitude. 7.8 earthquake hit turkey in syria. more than 50000 people have been killed. recurring tremors have resulted in additional damage to affected communities. hundreds of thousands of buildings have collapsed in turkey, and millions of people are now homeless. the united nations estimates more than 8000000 people in syria have been impacted. while the earthquakes have come as farm as face the fastest approaching agricultural season, one of the regions hardest hit by the tremors is hattie. it accounts for more than a 5th of all turk is farming are too busy raising concerns about food security. ra mcbride reports now born just 3 days earlier, baby mehmet starts a life made all the harder by the earthquakes. his family, like many small scale turkish farmers who produce just enough to get by have lost

what little they had. so far, it's going to be hard to recover. everything was destroyed. i don't know when we will be back to normal. a few kilometers down the road ness him coach is one of this regions, big farmers, the road leading to his farm, like the buildings. the one stood here ripped apart by the shifting ground. nasim has just been explaining that the ground where we're standing here is a couple of meters below the ground just here, which in turn is several meters below the ground way out just underneath that bond that. but at one point before the quakes happened, all of this was on the same level. his brother, who was in the farm house at the time, shows the destruction he found when he escaped outside with his family. this farm provided a livelihood finesse seems extended family of 25, but also crops lives, dog and the local markets. what, what happens is everyone leaves their lunch with them. this upgrade didn't really

happen here, but in 10 other provinces, if you stop producing food, would be dependent upon other countries. and the days and weeks after the earthquakes, the focus has been on saving lives and providing for the survivors. but there's a growing awareness of the damage to the agricultural facilities in this important farming region that threatens the longer term supply of food. early morning get the wholesale market the arrival of produce from surrounding farms shows just how abundant this entire area res, together the 11 effected provinces supply around a 5th, the national agricultural output. and in some categories, they dominate with the majority of citrus fruit produced here about 3 quarters of the country's cotton, and nearly all of its pistachio nuts contributing to turkey. exports. farmers

already had problems finding enough seasonal workers. but the quakes mean they would have around a 3rd fewer than they need this year syndic telling me, so we'll look for the past 3 years. we have struggled now. many migrants have gone back to syria. we need more workers. although this disasters timing could not have been worse, it seems for the regions farmers coming in winter which adds to the misery of homelessness. and right before the spring starts of the agricultural calendar, that is now seriously disrupted. rob mcbride, al jazeera, ty, ty, bucker's, and aid work in northern syria. he explains the devastation and what still needs to be done to help those affected by the earthquakes. me who i am a cor,

i'm working in the human city and field decisions are northwest of syria. i as this region which had a long period of war for about 20 years. and this region is a northwest of syria has a very weak franchise in for us. actually, one of the difficulties that organization had and decision is about border gates research crisis or cut us through fee is issued to be fixed by a response. and i

responded immediately the same day, even to distribute garbage and blanket and mattresses for homeless people and me and even the materials and deeply we. we had a big project as a horse down which was originally designed for the space the people. but we looked for people who with diminished quick, we responded to 1000 family where every as much as with my colleague tom mccray spoke to doctor lucy jones,

a world renowned seas modest. she says, earthquake building regulations and preparedness. happ become more important for techie before the big choir. how would you have right to, to key is a preparedness for a bigger earthquake like this, obviously, from a major phone line. if one knew that it was going to be prone to having a lot of quite, we've seen many earthquakes over the last couple of decades in took here. so how would you write the preparedness for something like this? and then how is it stacked up with what you've seen, play out. there are more people dead than i expected beforehand because because of the, the code is very good. the engineers are very good. we've. i've worked with a lot of turkish engineers, they're very much part of the international community. and that's why i want to see, have we miss something and creating the code are not a turkey in terms of scientific understanding and engineering expertise. it's up there with the, with the rest of the world because they know they have

a problem. it had a lot of really dedicated scientist working to it. and this is where i feel like i don't know how much it's the lack of enforcement of the code and how much the international call really has failed and really hasn't understood what these type of earthquakes could be. because we haven't had a major strike slip, earthquake with modern construction and the modern code since the code is really adopted in the last 20 years. and so the studies are going to be important. a major fire has engulfed to ringo refugee camp in bangladesh, nist made to 12000 people, have been left without shelter. the cause is not yet clear, and no casualties have been reported. the blaze broke out in the bar leucon count in coaxes bazaar and the se if the country hungry a chatter reports from deca. oh, this is not the 1st time destroying i have been forced from their homes years ago. the flat oppression in me unmarked. ah no, a major fire at cox's bazaar,

a refugee camp in bangladesh, has again left thousands without roof over their heads. in this 3 comes with the while hopping around 100000. if you use on leaving, and 50 percent of them are children. unicef on the port on us, we are on the ground and we are trying to meet that immediate and i can meet off of those children and their families, ah, firefighters and volunteers were able to get the blaze under control. but by then there had been extensive damage aid groups. i've been distributing water and basic necessities, but it's not clear whether those left without homes will find shelter. cox's bizarre is home to more than a 1000000 ro hang or refugees. i camp this size with so many living and cramped condition makes fires like this. difficult to avoid. yeah, now i have to buy something. i have 7 children. when the fire broke out,

i couldn't find all of them on. i went to search for the others but couldn't find them or, and i, when i returned home, i had all my belongings were burnt, but i have nothing left. my alert on via i had taken my mother to see the doctor. when it came back, everything was on fire. we couldn't save any of our belongings. ah, hundreds of thousands of rowing that fled a military crack down in me and mark that began in 2017 years later. it still isn't safe for them to return. while the fired conference conditions in the refugee camps are dangerous, those are living here have nowhere else to go. than rich audrey al jazeera dot josh . tens of thousands of people have been evacuated in malaysia on to floods caused by heavy rain swept across several states. and he, 40000 people have taken shelton relief camp set up by the government. they were forced to flee their homes in southern jer, horse state, last week. at least 4 people had died. mosquito correspond floor in slavery,

he was in columbia for us. now florence, how bad these floods while according to the government's national disaster management agency, more than 51000 people have now been affected by floods. and the worst hit state is to hor, which is in the southernmost tip of peninsula malaysia. now over there, the number of evacuees has risen from 41247000 the other 2 affected states are malacca and palm which is in the central area of peninsula malaysia. now videos have shown feels st. submerged in flood waters. people few days ago were stranded on the rooftops awaiting rescue. in some areas, the only way to go in and out is via boats. and we've seen rescue boats manned either by volunteers or government and agency personnel. ferrying people to safety and the prime minister on why brought him has visited jehovah state where he met

survivors and evacuation. but he said that the government is not declaring a flood emergency as yet because the situation is under control. but he did acknowledge the severity of the problem and he said the government would expedite flood mitigation projects. florence. this is happening during the countries annual monsoon season. is this what she would expect at this time? was it worse than normal? well the monsoon season, you know, typically runs from november to march. this is the north east one soon. and it brings heavy rains to the eastern coast of peninsula malaysia. but this, but this is quite unusual because it's happening in march. now typically the rains would have tapered off by february, the heaviest rainfalls occurred during late november to around february. so this is unusual. and according to the malaysian metro metro logical department, your whole state has seen unseasonably heavy rains in the last few days. and the weather department is also forecasting rain to continue with the next few days in

the southern parts of peninsula malaysia. so it sounds as if things may get worse into hope before they start to improve. the weather department also says weather could continue until april, and this has been a particularly bad monsoon season for malaysia. now in late november, more than 70000 people were affected. they had to move to temporary relief centers because of flooding, and they were mostly in canton state, which is in ne, malaysia. okay, thank you for that. florence louis the 1st call alarm for hiram's education minister has apologized falling a wave of suspected poisonings in schools targeting female students use of norie says the government is investigating the cases a 2nd wave of gas attacks and schools led to more than 300 girls hospitalized on saturday, under his mall have been admitted to hospital since november. people have been protesting over the unexplained incidence. occur 1st, i apologize for what's happening. and the parents got worried mom,

we were waiting to receive the results of testing on it. we totally understand parents concern on you and we seriously followed the issue. we have formed emergency committees through to the education ministry with arms or students recovering in hospital have described what happened then. garage really was p e class, but no one showed up when we went to the hall, we smell something like perfume, a little bit of a ha, my stomach burned and i was blacking out by 2 of the students all felt the same symptoms as me. they had coffee, some of them said their eyes burned, and most of them were scared that and that the reform party off estonia is a prime minister. kaya calis has secured 1st place in the parliamentary elections with 32 percent of the vote. callous is a strong supportive ukraine and has warned that estonia needs to bolster its own security against russia. i do a major record is regarding a grievance ation, for example, but we also have to invest in our security. our aggressive neighbor has not

vanished and will not vanish. so we have to work with that. so hands on al jazeera, the u. s. president press for move asia. ryan says he marks the 58 anniversary, monday, sunday. and why mexico's president is increasingly relying on the ministry to police ah hello. the weather remains very hot for southeast and parts of the u. s. so it was west though. yeah, i'm afraid there is still some snow in the forecast more that's come. we've got these areas of low pressure just running in to the west coast. northern parts of california particular still seeing some rain and snow struggling to get around 11 degrees celsius. they're in san francisco, a 14 and ally. it should be dry, fine,

and settled, but it should be getting to the low twenty's now. so still on the cool side some when she, whether the to turn to where western parts of canada some snow sliding across the mountain, states over towards the lakes. that'll drift further east, which as we go on through tuesday, 7 celsius in new york, a little disappointed, but it should be largely dry clean wesley wind coming through here. chapter one, a 2 were sleepy showers. just stop steak, some snow. they're just pushing into the northern plains as we go back into choose dance, sign to some wet to weather few shells across the deep south, just a few showers to into the caribbean over the next couple of days. for the most part, it is 5 dried, sunny, and warm, pleasantly warm temperatures in kingston getting up to $31.00 degrees, summer temperature, too, for havana always the charge of water to shout over towards the western of the region, which is the costa rica ah,

in the blink of an eye. many lives were lost. thousands of people buried alive and more left homeless. you are shocked by the number of sites. we were shocked 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 way, amid severe shortages of humanitarian aid, the full report syria, the continuing tragedy on al jazeera lou lou open back you watching al jazeera and lined up all top stories this hour. it's one

month since a massive magnitude. 7.8. earthquake hit turkey in syria, over 50000 people in killed. hundreds of thousands of buildings collapsed. millions of people have been left from major fallen. it has and gone to ringo, refugee camp in bangladesh and broke out at the bottom of cali camps in hopes this was on the southeast of the country. estimated 12000 people have been left now without shelter. ron's education minister apologized, falling a wave of suspect to poisoning school targeting female students. use of new re says the government is investigating. meanwhile, a 2nd wave of gas attacks in school. so more than 300 girls, but in the hospital, saturday has been fighting between police on protesters in central athens following a fatal train crash that left 57 people dead. demonstrators blame the government for the poor condition of the national rail system. harry faucet reports outrage

after greece's worst, have a train crash exploded into violence again on sunday some among the thousands protested in central athens through fire bombs and rocks. police whose tear gas the unrest is broken up around the country since a collision between 2 trains on tuesday, $57.00 people were killed. re work as have been staging, rotating strikes, angry at what they say is under investment and poor safety infrastructure. earlier the protest is launched, hundreds of black balloons to commemorate the dead. prosecutors have charged a station master for allowing the passenger train on the same track as an oncoming freight train, but many in the country blaming under resourced aging rail network. some additional ah, they just stopped looking at the profits and thought looking at the lives of people

are children. this must never happen again. we shouldn't be afraid to put our children on our country's metro and trains. but for the business, despite the continuous warnings of the workers, there was criminal indifference by those responsible to requests of the safety system. and that is what led to this tragic accident. the scale of this accident has horrified the country. on sunday, the prime minister apologized and said a long delayed remote signaling system would have made the disaster in practice impossible. about a few kilometers north along the track. people gathered to remember those killed 5 days on from this tragedy across the country. the grief and anger remain rule. hurry for sit al jazeera. the south korean government says that it plans to compensate victims of japan's war time, forced labor through its own public foundation. a dispute about the colonial era force labor has strange relations between the u. s. allies,

southwest foreign ministers as leaders of the 2 countries are willing to improve biological ties. as katie unit kim has live for us in. so units give us a bit of context here. why has south korea decided to compensate these labor is now when previously that was down to japan or a specifically japanese companies? yes, certainly a change of turn of events and a lot of hope writing on this proposal to potentially be a turning point in into improve relations with tokyo at the center, as you noted, is a public foundation here and south korea that will hold and distribute reparations to 15 the south koreans who were in the $900.00 forty's during the colonial era for us to work without pay at japanese companies in japan. now, notably, the scheme will exclude the presence of japanese entities as it will be filled the fund by south korean companies, which had benefited from

a 1945 normalization treaty which tokyo has maintained all along, addressed all war time, reparation issues. there are still several questions that remain on the details of the scheme itself, but the foreign minister here in south korea, in announcing the plan popped in said, is a product of several rounds of high level talks between the 2 sides and in the interest of forward looking future oriented relations with japan in a bit of context here. tokyo and social relations under previous leaderships one day in and a prime interest. you know, they had seen some of the lowest points in relations after a supreme court ruling here in south korea in 2018, had ordered the japanese companies to pay reparations to these 15 south korean victim. saying that they hold the right as individuals to sue the companies. and we saw that bleeding in to trade. japan pulled south korea's preferential trade status,

which impacted semiconductor and panel production. here, as well as a military information sharing pop called g. so mia now forward, fast forward to today. as we know, south korea is tightening its military alliances with japan as well as you know, it states, amid a heightening rhetoric from north korea. we will see how tokyo responds to this proposal that came out just this morning. we are expecting some statements from the prime minister from u. t shita as well. and what about the families of the victims, the south korean victims of the 4th labor is how do they feel about this proposal? sure. even if tokyo were to accept their proposal and it does come down to the acceptance by the victims themselves as essentially they will be giving up their legal rights that stem from that supreme court ruling in 2018 in order to accept

the reparation money we've already heard from at least one victim 94 year old young dog who has said that she doesn't want south korea money. she wants to sincere apology from japan and that she has fought for this are far too long for it to end in this way. ok, eunice came. thank you for explaining that to us eunice came there for life in sol . incentives, yet thousands of opposition supporters have defied an official protest. been on to some of their leaders were arrested demonstrators broke through a police barrier in the capital tunis, demanding that president east side stepped down for just to say that the president has reduced their freedoms and caused widespread economic problems. why not? yeah i, i know you, our current situation is bad. why does the president say that everything is

available, but in reality there's nothing i'm telling you there is nothing available in the markets, not just sugar or cooking oil, but every thing we live in fear. when chi saeed gives a speech, i'm afraid, do you know why he does not reassure us? and his speeches are frightening, and he divides us. i don't know about the emotion we haven't experienced this kind of situation before. as i looped through the period of bulky but, and been a li doctor, the situation is unprecedented in terms of freedom's good. former pakistani prime minister m ron con, has been served arrest warrants at his home in the east and city of la hor, some of con supporters try to block offices approaching the home. we've been demanding a snap collection since losing a no confidence vote. last april u. s. president joe biden has pressed for the passage of measures to strengthen voting rights. he was visiting selma in alabama to mark the 58th anniversary of the state troopers attack on civil rights protest is in the city. on his trip is aimed

at underscoring his commitment to black voters who helped him win the race to the white house in his efforts to polish voting rights legislation have stalled. in the republican controlled congress, i caught her come admiration. not for show show martyrs directed me the right to vote. right to vote. grab your vote, counted as the threshold of democracy, liberty. was it any that is possible without it? without that right? nothing is possible. and this fundamental right remains under assault. conservative supreme court as good as the voting rights act over the years since the 2020 election a wave of states and doesn't, doesn't have an i voting hawes fuel by the big law. and the election and ires now elected to office mix case president is increasingly relying on the ministry to

place the streets as van and crime is on the rise. many fail, the involvement of the armed forces will only make things wes manual upon reports from mexico city. you know, over the past few years, mexico's president and that is manuel lopez over others has greatly expanded the role of the countries armed forces that occurs again. my, you have a secular for, for, for them from building airports, hospitals and railways to securing borders. mexico's military has been handed control over dozens of public works that were previously managed by civilian agencies. no gunners, never in the contemporary history of mexico has the military have access to this amounts of resources and civil functions delivery. also, most recently, mexico's armed forces were assigned to monitor air traffic and even given control of an airline. and now with violence and force disappearances in the country at record highs, mexico's armed forces or taking

a leading role in policing the country. while many criticized growing militarization in mexico, president lopez over in says the armed forces are the only ones capable of curbing violence. it's the same attitude. mexican presidents have held since the start of the so called war on drugs in 2006. but human rights advocates say the piece of militarization under the current government has grown exponentially. good. okay, almost macho and, and we've been a military state for a long time. i think we're entering a more dangerous route, which is militarism. militarism is the next phase. it implies that he's not all the security issues that are being handed over to the military. would that they are being given political control, allowed to be from the mo, the locked doors in the day to day government decisions. and the most dangerous thing is the political participation. they could eventually be given. unis. many security experts say that after a decade and a half of boosting military spending to curb violence in mexico,

the effect has been the opposite. arguing that more military has instead lead to more abuse, citing deadly incidents like the recent killing of 5 unarmed civilians in level at a little at the hands of security forces on february 26 full to rallies. it's an assertion that president lopez over at ward and fagley denies. i wanna go and try to get a look as to cynthia country to how things used to be there are no human rights abuses. the police and military corporations do not torture all massacre, nor do they forcibly disappear people. president lopez over what is often criticized for having an autocratic streak in us. these recent electoral reform is seen by many as an attack on democratic institution. ality was but it's the president's affinity for the military that's raising the most concerns over the future. democratic stability of the country. manuel apollo al jazeera mexico city.