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ah. ready i'm sam is a dan, live from law in sort of here you're joining us for us special coverage, marking one month since the series of earthquakes. that struck on this very spot, sent an entire region of foster care and syria, into turmoil shattering lives. livelihoods turning politics upside down for one
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month on the situation is becoming a lot more clearer and we give you some numbers more than 50000 people have been killed, 1000000 have been displaced across 2 countries. and now the focus shifts on to reconstruction on to re settling people into some kind of stable living condition. what a report from the world bank says the cost from the direct, physical damage stands around $34000000000.00 us dollars. that's equivalent to 4 percent of tortillas. g d p, and as a result of those february 6th earthquakes and after shops more than one and a half 1000000 people have been forced from their homes. well, i caught up with the residence of death, no town where they've been visited with destruction. i took 1st hand low cut, the can living conditions they are now enduring and how entertain as are coming
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together to try and help provide them with some relief. there's a haze hanging over the earthquake zone. made of broken buildings and torn roads, broken hearts and torn lives. repeated earthquakes have brought time to a standstill. many now live in 10 cities after losing their homes. a cigarette may still nerves, but not mines in a camp filled with displaced people and unsettling memories. consented giving news . we miss our homes. we miss drinking a cup of tea at home. we used to live without needing help. it's very difficult. now. yield is among those violently weaned off the familiar environment. commonly born into a new reality. if can not only has a great number of tents, but a great number of stories of pain. and while here people have been taken to a safer place, performers hope that will take them to
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a happy one to 2 kias artists have mobilized fear to companies like the called your municipality. group are traveling from camp to camp, lowering stages and lifting spirits. but their motives, randy will not good. i was caught in the 1999 north greek. i was 6 and my father rescued. but he went back into the building to look for my mom and the building collapsed and killed him. klaus came and entertained us and they helped me with company should be missing on this. but it's now time to swallow the pain, put on a brave face and take the audience to a different world. darcy ma gte also survived the 1999 earthquake. he took the tents, inviting children to the upcoming shows. little hearts need little convincing. suddenly an incredible current of happiness snakes through the camp. children are
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eager to latch onto any sweet moment they can find with treasure quality. we came here for the children. when a child loves who the mother and father law among every one love hon. but i cannot say it's important for healing. we want to take them away from the psychology of earthquakes. you argued a song and a clap helps healed the wounds on the inside. despite any carts on the outside head and a movie takes you far away. ah, took us out. the movie was very good with you, so i loved it. i saw 2 movies. we saw ice age 5, and the other one was when the hero makes friends with the tiger. what about a wound that was near to appreciate the relief comedy provides her 3 kids on the earthquake trapped her and her family in a room. but her husband broke through collapse debris and rescued them. a chocolate . i'm the church of clayton in the 1st 2 days after the earthquake. the kids
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couldn't sleep till they were scared. they weren't talking after the shows and music were south and recovered, savoring every moment i see a huston and use if enjoy the play. a little dance. i literally full and for a moment the world seems right. or did you like the play? yes. yes. did you like it, with ah, tender moments born of tragedy, as musicians play the theme of romeo and juliet? a beautiful story, as romeo says, is a haze made of the fumes of size close your eyes and the trauma of earthquake seems a world away. live hayes includes
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a lot of trauma that the victims are going to have to deal with for the rest of their lives. i caught up with by contrast, know to a dollar about some of the issues those people are facing. there is multiple different traumas that were coming across the victims of the earthquake. there's a trauma of losing, losing your home. there's a trauma of losing people that your air. you love your family members, friends particularly that's what we've seen in disaster zones and earthquakes. but in syria when we cross over to syria, in particular, we see different types of trauma trauma, people who have already went through about 12 years of trauma from barrel bombs and from, from just being displaced and being refugees in their own countries. in order to continue as any medical operation, the stability is important, right? so when you're in an environment where this repeated earthquakes, whether it's fighting a war, going on,
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surely that impacts the sustainability of treatment. absolutely, but i think the most important thing is to strengthen your relationships with people on the ground, the people that are doing this work every day. and so if you give people the resources, if you give them the proper training, and if you help with their confidence and just being able to understand the materials and help others, then you've done your job as a, as a n g o. and we've seen cases that looked like multiple actors being traumatized when someone is pulled out of the rubble alive. they've suffered a terrible trauma. but then you see the family members have been traumatized and maybe even the caregivers have been traumatized. how do you, how do you deal with all of that? i think in syria we, we were able to go around the hospital and see different patients that have had multiple traumas. has one of the patients that we saw and saying he was a child who was under the rubble for about 44 hours. he
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unfortunately lost his entire family except for his father. his father happened to be somewhere that was far away from, from the disaster zone. and he lost a part of his legs apart the entire time that we were seeing him. the only thing that he would ask us for was his dad and to be able to just talk to him and talk to his family and see what we could do to kind of intervene to give them that, that support that they need. and we hope in the future that they're able to, that they're able to overcome this and that we can help other children that are there in the hospital is everyone who needs therapy, who needs help getting it? i don't, i don't think that there's ever going to be a model or every single person that needs something can get it, but we can do our best to train as many people as possible so that they can train the others that can further help. a lot of mental health issues obviously
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to deal with is also the primary issues of recycling. people is also the issue of reconstruction, trying to rebuild homes and communities. we can go over now to, to raise a bow and theresa where you are and unpack. yeah, that's one of the places where that challenge is most prominent. right? well, that's correct. family were here in the city of and hockey or the capital of the province of high tide. the city has been completely devastated. it's an ancient city, a place where a myriad of civilization that saw 14 centuries of history collapse because of the earthquakes. what you can see right behind me is one of 2 kias oldest marks heavy. an agenda that was completely destroyed because of this earthquakes. and when you come right to this place, no right, very early this morning it's very difficult to find a building that has been left and damaged it is completely destroyed. it looks like
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a war zone. and this is where you see the challenges ahead for rebuilding entire parts of this country. the government says that it will begin has already begun the clean up process and the rebuilding process. but it is such as this one will have to be completely rebuilt. what they're thinking of is moving the residential areas located in places such as this one closer to the mountains where the ground is supposed to be much more stable and safer. they're talking to says, mileage is g r, las is urban planners, engineers among many other things. and this is certainly gonna take a while, even though the government is promising to deliver new homes in about a year. but if you see what we're seeing right here, you notice that this place is uninhabitable. thousands and thousands of people have already left this city among them. thousands of syrian refugees that we're living here that has a keep the war. many are leaving intense around the city,
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but others had to go somewhere else. oh, these people have been waiting for days to be allowed inside this temporary refugee camp in a dana in southern tokyo home there syrian and had been living in this country for 7 years. but the earthquakes last month left them homeless. so marilyn bagley says he and his family have no way to go. that hadn't been not the 2nd earthquake destroyed our house. we left the house with children without any of our belongings . so we've come to this camp we're syrian stayed, i believe there's enough space in the camp, but i been living on the street for 14 days now. hanna, this turkish authorities did not reply to our questions on why these families were not allowed inside. since the civil war started in syria, tortilla adopted an open door policy towards syrians fling the conflict. there now more than 4000000 syrians in the country. many i living in camps where they have shelter, food, health care, and education. but over time,
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many turn started to resend the support given to syrian refugees by the turkey state. does widespread need for food shelter on basic services all around the areas affected by the earthquake in hockey, and that has increased the anti refugee sentiment in the country. there are many who would like to see the refugees leave. hundreds of people are living in this 10 city in the center of cassandra, m collette a housemaid. alice acted all blue is one and she's angry. she says she's living in a tent with 5 other families among them. a premature baby is deborah, do in childhood like all civilians have dance, but we turks have nothing. we are living outside in terrible conditions, while syrians halftime, aren't we, human beings, to the turkish ministry of defense as more than 40000 syrians have returned to their country in the past weeks. many others here are also finding it difficult to survive in a disaster area and they're considering other options. clarify that boosting.
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ibrahim elisa syrian, he says he fears the lead up to 2 kias presidential elections in may, could increase hostile, sentimental words, syrians in the country, some like special like from their rights like side to flight parties, considering as like actually more loyal to other parties, which is make it like very difficult for our syrians and if you are trained like to do like little survey around between civilians be nothing about policy of or like politic. like here. they're just like trying to leave them out of millions of serious have come to tokyo to escape the war in their nation. now they've lost everything they had once again and have to survive in a country that is not their own or that there's so many challenges that had so many difficulties. but 1st, the government is, has started to clean up the rubble in places such as this one and also demolishing the buildings. the houses that have already been damaged. on sunday,
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we went to the city of shan notify where we saw how a building that had been previously damaged by the earthquakes completeness collapsed in the center of the city. again, search and rescue teams on the ground trying to verify whether anyone had been trapped underneath the rubble. so as you can imagine, the difficulties for the term for to key as government. how many things they will have to try to achieve. they will have to clean up the rubble beginner, rebuilding process and tend to people's needs. thanks so much, theresa. there is a big operation as theresa was finding out there was criticism about the government's response at the beginning. not being quick enough. there was criticism about enforcement of construction codes, all we're seeing now as authorities are moving quite quickly to try and set people up in a more decent sort of settled living situation. let me give you some numbers that came out there talking about the fact they put out more than 370000 tents. and more
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than 11000 of these containers, what they call container cities, that they're creating for people. we can go over now to the api center of the 2nd major earthquake that hit one month ago on february the 6th. we've got hash mahala barra joining us from carmen marsh hashim. you've been out talking to people, talk to them about what their living conditions look like now, what have you been hearing and see some of these are people who are facing more uncertain to looking forward to rebuild their lives, rebel, their houses, the delivery. now it makes shift camps and they have been promised to move to temporary containers shelters. and the government is saying that is going to deploy more and more containers across the areas that were devastated. here in canada, man by the us. it's quite interesting when you travel across those areas,
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all you see is mountains of rubble and thick dust. and in between, you see people struggling, determined to salvage, whatever they can from the rubber they say is quite important for them to wants to stitch together life for their own. although they know this is going to be a life marked for ever by grief loss. and tears ah, this is the moment, little a year has been waiting for excavators clear the rubble. she only has a few hours to salvage whatever she can. she has spent most of her life here. and now she has to confront the harsh reality. yoga, i'm here with my family to collect anything that would help me connect the path to that the memories of the place and the people i met lives on. this was once my house,
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the authority is keep safe deposit boxes recovered from the rubble. it police stations, owners have to provide detailed lists of their belongings, which should match the least find if people are desperate to retrieve whatever they can from the debris, identity, cause furniture, jewelry and money. and sometimes all they want is only the medicine the left behind, as they rush to survive the devastation. the reason they're taking risks is the fear. this could be their last chance to recover whatever the can before is forever gone. right after the earthquakes it 11 provinces in southern turkey, security forces launched a crackdown on robbers and rounded up looters. the also managed to retrieve cash and gold bars, from destroyed banks and jewelry shops. highly sharlack overland is
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recovering his brother's belongings. he was raptured along with his family, but 7 other families didn't make it. hi, the heart of the day. what can you do? you feel completely helpless in the face of calamity. i find a few items are mostly portrait of my brother and his children. he has at least a few memories now to keep it, and it's all about keeping memories alive and remembering those who couldn't make it mostly buried in unmarked grace. what are the things i've noticed sammy, when i was travelling across those areas walking through those ali ways. devastated by the earthquakes as the authorities were clearing the rabble and the wind was blowing towards those areas. you see basically uh, photo albums swept by the wind and those photo albums. you look at them you of
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closer to them, moments of joy and happiness. of a past life that was completely shattered by the earthquakes of seeing her volunteers trying to collect those photo albums. and i said, what are you doing with them? they said, we put them just near the destroys site, hoping that someone would come over and claim them. we know that most of those families have lost their lives. why was just hoping that a relative or maybe a survivor, someone who's been out treated in the hospital would come back one day and fire them the could really help them reconnect where they're past put together the pieces of that life and then move on. thank. so much ashley, marla bottles, and indeed we have been seeing her hashem, those kinds of scenes right across different spots where buildings have caps. it's a very sad side. and of course we've been seeing earthquakes and aftershocks continue. we had an earthquake to matters matter of hours ago last night. i thought
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the question of why are we seeing so many earthquakes and aftershocks continue to july shanker. he is a geologist from his stumble technical university. this was a very large earthquake. and if i may show you our model, does everybody see this, though you're not going to create a hole in the earth. so this one moved, and that's the 2nd death. great. can you see the offset? these. these are both very large earthquakes. and as you can see, the motion here would create a motion there also ok. and therefore the aftershocks both along the main folds. and along these, what i would call auxiliary or continuation faults, are very normal. the whole system is trying to settle into
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a new state of stress now and there were other earthquakes and central anatolia, as in case any need cetera. there will be more. and the reason for that is the guy natalia. as you can see in this model, anatolia consists of blocks bounded by faults. and this one earthquake, the largest quake, and the immediately following. so in point 6, have disrupted this state of stress along the boundaries of these blogs or look what happens. so if i hit it, all these blocks move here, they move more nearer the earthquake here, they move less. does that enable us to say which areas might be hit next and how long this system will need in order to settle down? as you said, i mean remember after $999.00 for a few years,
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there were large earthquakes, both in the aegean and in greece. and here all kind of body of the california institute of technology, cal tech. as pointed out that this was a result of the stress change caused by the big earthquakes in girl jake or adapter and does jay in turkey. now this is the same thing. this big earthquake has caused a change in the state of stress. now which areas are vulnerable? naturally, areas closer to the larger squeaks abominable along the eastern natalia fault, and along the betsy vault, which is this one. okay, that's the one that goes down to her day. the ancient antioch and further down into syria and the stress jane modeling done by our german colleagues in the university of munich. her professor, aren't you free?
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came to turkey and showed it to us on television that south of the main shock is now loaded. so south of her tie, one would expect another earthquake i long but use that natalie and fault. i would expect another earth, great grand, bingo, eleazar, et cetera. other will be affected because the $7.00 fault, that is the fault that causes $7.00 goes west into arden. i area turns south and becomes a part of the other killer. you're basin system. therefore there will be enough break. that is the solution to try and rebuild in the earthquake hit areas. there is a solution to try and move people away as far as possible from fault lines and rebuild and re populate so that it's not viable. you
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can't do that. there are a lot of cultural readings, et cetera. you can build on any kind of ground, provided you build a property. so you have to rebuild the city, but do it properly. a lot of time as an turmoil, putting a question mark over the future that many people have been displaced by the earthquakes are facing, but also something of a question mark as well when it comes to the political future within this country. let's bring in now you've seen occupy, he's somebody's a universe, he's a physical analyst. also economists with the newspaper good to have you with us. so 1st of all, you know, there is a question mark here about what will happen politically next. as a result of this quite how important is it going to be for the authorities now to demonstrate they can move quickly, effectively in recycling people and in reconstructing
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thank you much. of course, it should be, it should be good reasons because everything out of it, the sink, things a month after the earthquake is not happening in this limited time. it is, it has some roots. i circled roots from past roads and many preferences which are made before and the tree and the way the earthquake and the result of these are quick is being handled, of course is on the question of popular question. popular witnessing the people are all, we've seen all these and they have where they will have some preface, some, some choices about politics. and of course, doing this earthquake was sort of shameful to, to talk about politics because it was a problem for humanity. a human problem was at stake and nobody was mentioning
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about the political dimension of these. what a dan both that they and after one month of or after 3 or to the or not week every about the turn to the political discussion which was retreat which was broken by these earthquake. and so these earthquakes didn't shake on the, the thought of the houses and destroy dollars. what it also made a brick compulsory brick to the politics or the agent of turkey, which was very, very much occupied with the political discussion. first of all, about the candidate of the position camped. it was on the claim and still it is on the claim. and also of course, this sponsibility of all these are great. of course the, the government is being on the question and everybody's question, what is rightly, of course, rightfully is, is,
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is questioning about the role of the vehicle jump in by focusing on people that's concerned about where the syrians are going to be, end up paying a political price to some of the fall out from this quite ridiculous areas that yes, the city and people into yes, i have is the city of people that unfortunately were under discussion not only doing the earthquake, but before the arcade. good, unfortunate. there are some, the opposition parties, especially are more more that they have a sort of a racist or some discriminate if an approach to the city and people and during the earthquake or so even this has some examples of these ready, shameful examples. in the, in, in terms of turkish capacity or turkish quality or of, or posting the syrians. actually, unfortunately, this is not the majority,
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this is the, might that, that is a man that minority about these minority are important opposition and their voices already strong. and they are very high, but at the an, at the corporate, at what level a, fortunately, the people e p, people are not in the same mistake. you can see that all the endure source shading . we're, we're, we're delivering all the humanity an 8 stool cd and people and the turkish people alike. and nobody was discriminating. but the, somebody, of course, some opposition parties are always, is this questioning a do it where the existence of the sodium people in turkey and this is unfortunate, is sit in, people suffer much more than the turkish people in building these are earthquake and are you wrote some articles about this, but the fact that that is not reflecting the policy of the government of the quality of the majority of the people, the majority of the people are not so in about policy. i think government said that,
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i mean criticism women of the policy of the government when it came to response times when it comes to enforcement of construction, cozier, the criticism, why did so many buildings collapse? do you think the government is going to also pay a political price because of these earthquakes, especially when we get closer to elections? of course nobody can, for example, can, can avoid of paying any, any price for these not neither the government nor the position when you compare the role of who is who has played the role in these as possible. you can see, for example, some, there were some urban fishermen or new ne will projects in turkey, which was taken by, by the government. and it was registered by the way, the opposition many times. i mean it was stopped even in unpacking this. this toya has taken put a much more level and you can see in very,
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very short short cut short class. you can see the opposition figures were resisting and they were very proud of it have been stopped. the government making these or urban renewal that that is for example, another example. and even in the government, the boys being constructed by the government under the name of talk on the institution of pocky. it did not. none of these were destroyed when collapse, building is earthquake and also another one pays off of the government in order to introduce 2 people. but at the end of the day, so he's one of all, and turkey is off of the government and the position parties are part of the country and everybody. nobody can, can, can consider himself as innocent about what is happening. this is the responsibility of all of us and everybody should have responsibility of making some
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criticism about his past policy. if the policy has been implemented and the policies that will be implement, but in terms of in terms of the boys in the country, let me show the question marks raised about the speed of moving towards elections. will there be time to hold an inclusive election by may the 14th unfortunately, this is a constitutional compet necessity requirements to hold the election in time. if the go on is trying to perform these, these action, the size of why and it's legitimate, they will be criticized by the opposition. fortune was opposition. can take all
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these as opportunity. you know, fortunately i from my point of view of an i'm, i analyze the facilities i got, i could see and i sort of opportunity or for the, for the sake of the government to postpone the elections and to gain one more. for example, in government, be the the election, but if you, that's opportunity or that's not important about that possibility that will be criticized by the government and the legitimacy just to make sure the government will be put on on the question. and so the paper go, i think, didn't use this and didn't try to abuse these as opportunities out there. he, he preferred to make the actions on time. and it is possible, of course, the report which came from the highest conceit of election intercultural election. an extra constant,
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they said it's possible set the electro bucks in even in the region or the people who have left the area. the region could be, could be given a possibility or some all opportunities or, or possibilities to whatever dash. all right, thanks so much. just seen a tie there for joining us. well, of course, as the as seen mentioned, there's a cost being paid and suffering across the border in syria. let's take you through some of the numbers that it's estimated, the damage the cost of damage that's been done. there stands around $5100000000.00 us dollars. now that's about 10 percent of siri as g. d p. the in terms of displace people. we're looking at around 5000000 people being homeless. it's been hard getting aid into revel. hell know then syria, we caught up with one aid work. sad,
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but cool from human appeal as he describes how he's trying to meet people's needs. me who i am. 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 at this region is a northwest or syria has a very weak project in for us. one of the difficulties
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that organization had in this region is about border gates. in such a crisis or catastrophe is issued to be fixed. by the response. i responded immediately the same day even to distribute garbage and blanket and mattresses for homeless people and me and even the theme material lately we. we had a big project as a whole down which one and it will already be designed for the people. but we do it for people who with damaged we
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responded to 1000 family where every house a posting, as in as much as with well, as we've been going through the region, we found a very god landscape with just looking at the building, symbolic of how life, every level of life is come crashing down to the grounds. this is a tragedy where marquis in our special coverage today will continue to market in the upcoming 30 g shows. so do stay with us as we mock very painful event across the region. ah, and at least one police officers have
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been killed in a suicide bomb attack and south western pakistan that happened in the cash district of the province. so boss has done several others have been injured. no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. him all hide out reports from the slum about . 2 3 according to their due date, there was an annual festival that was taking place and a district down of k b k. b, of course, is about 830125 or 30 kilometers from where these people were dead on duty. in order to ensure the security around that they were traveling back to greater and they came under an area known as the ball lawn bought the hayley area with meandering road, according to the board, suicide bomber writing a more to bike approach to re near a bridge. and detonated the explosives, which led to the killing of george policeman. and as your mentor and many more
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injured, i read the balloon on government and sent a helicopter from quite an order to evacuate. some of the most li wound gauge who had initially been admitted to the local arts producers and they combine military hospital and no one has yet taken responsibility. but there's a dag river. there's been an escalation and a number of our doctor against the police for that security portrait. they were there, deadlier dag or not much which carried almost $100.00 policemen. there were dinner, jack in the city of karachi, on a senior police official office. and of course now the new job and the ball lawn area of blue, just on a major fires devastated a rahile reggie camp in blank, la dash, an estimated 12000 people have been left without shelter. and the cause is not yet clear. no casualties have been reported. it happened in the baltic, holly camp in cox's bazaar in the southeast of her charge,
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reports from docker. this is not the 1st time destroying i have been forced from their homes years ago the fled oppression in me unmarked. ah no, a major fire at cox's bazaar refugee camp in bangladesh as again left thousands without roof over their heads. in these 3 comes with the while happening around $100000.00 if you use on leaving and 50 percent of them are children. unicef on the part and as we are on the ground, and we are trying to meet that immediate and i can meet of, of those dramatize children and their families, ah, firefighters and volunteers were able to get the plays 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 rowing or refugees. i camped this size with so many living and cramped
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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 all when i, when i returned home, i had all my belongings were burnt, i thought, but i have nothing left me a good idea. i had taken my mother to see the doctor. when it came back, everything was in fire. we couldn't save any of our belongings. ah, hundreds of thousands of rowing our flight 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 is conduct and in the refugee camps are dangerous. those are living here have nowhere else to go than rich audrey al jazeera dot josh universities across of janice dunn of reopened after the winter break. but taliban authorities still bar women from attending the university ban is one of several restrictions imposed on women since the taliban seized power and
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2021. foreign ministers and rights groups have condemned the restrictions which united nations has called gender based apartheid south korea's and owns to plan to compensate victims of forced labor in japan's factories during the 2nd world war. south korea's foreign ministers, as the former workers will be compensated through public foundations funded by private companies, both japan and the us of welcome the move. but many of protested against a decision ties between washington's regional allies have been strained for decades and the issue of war, time compensation coming age gene therapies could become more accessible in the coming years. and that's what scientists and polyps policymakers are going to be discussing at the human genome editing conference in london column. baker reports 5 years ago, humanity quietly crossed into a new era. a scientist walked on stage of the human genome editing conference in
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hong kong to reveal he'd modified the embryos of twin girls. before they were born, he changed jean, known to create resistance to infection by h. i. v. scientists in the audience were shocked, and a near unanimous call was made to halt similar attempts, illnesses like sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis and huntington's disease are inherited. they start as variations in genes, the codes in human dna that tell bodies how to make cells out of millions of letters of code. just one can be out of place. and in some cases, only one parent needs to have a variant gene to pass a serious and rare condition to their children. new tools are available to edit the human genome. the most efficient so far is crisper. it finds cuts and replaces parts of genes to deliver new genetic code to a target with great accuracy. our vision,
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our dream is that there would be basically a crisp or cure center where physicians would see a child there. the child's dna would get red and professional geneticists would understand what causes the disease. and then they would send that information to the chris procures group, and they would be like a rapid response team. they would just jump on it today. genetic editing therapies modify immune cells to recognize cancer, correct? loss of vision directly in the eye, and seem to have reversed sickle cell anemia. by editing the cells in bone marrow been want to really pay attention as and these technologies are being developed as they're getting closer and closer to market. about how we are considering the population at hand that have access or don't have access to these technologies. a human embryo contains a few cells that become a whole person. in theory, these could be edited to prevent a rare or serious inherited disease from ever starting. but no studies have shown
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how an embryonic at it would effect a person throughout their life. and as an embryo develops into a fetus, and he changes would be replicated to including in the cells involved in reproduction that would allow human made changes to be passed down generation after generation. with unknown effects, the last time they met scientists and emphasis said it was too soon to try with new therapies coming online. it might also not be worth the risk colon baker al jazeera, which on the whole is live for us in london. joe. no one can imagine the enthusiasm for like the potential of certain aspects of genome editing, but there are ethical questions as well. certainly there are, there are a small number of protests as outside the francis crick institute here in london. as this 3rd edition of the human genome. editing summit gets underway,
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discussing all of those very weighty issues around this enormous advancement in medical to technology, but also with big cost and ethical implications. one of those are very eminent scientists is joining me now. doctor ambrose won't come from st. johns hopkins medical center. you are a professor of genetic medicine, your specialist field is using or looking at the uses of genetic editing and sickle cell disease treatment. give me an idea of how useful this technology is in treating sickle cell disease. so thank you very much for having me as the castle disease is there bigger in terms of number a single gene disorder of recessive inheritance into a wall? about 15000000 people affect it and eat estimated at 80 percent of that 15000000 dose ad born in africa. so we know that since the 112 years that this condition have been discovered there is not yet a widely used definitive treatment. so
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a curative ch are happy, ours hop for critique to let b use in chin indian approach will be widely important for the global population of psychology is not just an object. you say it would be it's actually in use, isn't it? i would it at actually already been years actually a successful generating for psychologies. i've been a report at least 2 years ago, but we know that this isn't likely yet at their level where we want to see it to be equitable. 8, it was a if you're patient, it was in the us, if cost about $1.00 a $1000000.00 and you need to move self, modify them outside before putting them inside. the doctor will, could give me an idea of what your colleagues are sort of focusing on at this summit. in terms of the wider potential uses of genome editor. this lease it or a fresh and the capacity of the technology is to a reduced cost. the ethical issue armies east would discuss the issue of a creek debility, but also the legal framework that need it to be internationally accepted to
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practice that specific knowledge. but so 2 of those things i want to pick up on one is the cost. i mean, one particular gene therapy of this sort is known as the most expensive drug therapy in the world. as i mean, like 3 and a half $1000000.00 per dose. the other major hurdle is this ethical question of just how much do we want as a society, as a human race, to have the ability to edit our individual genetic code. how do you square those 2 things, this vast cost and this very serious ethical consideration into the potential for a widely used medical therapy training course is not that high as the way we could thing if for you and she needed someone for sickle cell disease, for 1500000 that far lower than the cost estimate for a whole life chillman recredentialing meant for chronic condition. but of course are worn by family line is too high for someone leaving. for example, in nigeria,
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i'm already congo. so that where they're question of equitability or half edge will be to be interrogated. bird in a high income country attorney is high. bert, a comparative to the life treatment is not that high. are again in the it, you call aspect be, say we, what we all agree on. we don't want to bridge editing that can be inheritable. that can be passed from generation to generation. but we want to the editing on so much excel to cure one specific disease. okay, dr. ambrose, welcome. we'll have to leave it there. thank you very, very much. this is about curing and preventing disease, tentative steps being taken, yet more of them being taken here today. jonah, thank you very much, john holt, talking to us from london. time for the sport is far, rob, thank you so much unprofessional and unacceptable. these are just some of the words manchester united manager, eric tan hog used to describe his team's performance in their 7 in l. defeat at the hands of liverpool. it's a big come down for united who just last week and celebrated winning the lead comp
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. dutch forward cody gaff forest or the opener at anfield, who's strike partner darwin noon. as doubled the home teams advantage early in the 2nd half. as united resistance crumbled mohammed sala set up jack low for his 2nd and liverpool 3rd thought himself made it for nill liverpool on their way to their biggest ever win over united nunez headed home. number 5, sol as 2nd goal, made him little pools, highest all score in the primary league era. roberta for nino completed united embarrassment as it finished 7 know liverpool up to 5th in the tables. well, united slim chances of mounting a title challenge looked to be over with as a team to stick together that we didn't do. and that was a surprise for me. i have seen this for my team and i don't think it's us. i don't
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think is miss united, so it's really better and for more sa achieves tonight. something really, really special should not forget that just because we are used to him scoring a lot of goals. very special, very special play, a very special boy. and she'll be really proud of that. now do you talk us through this demolition? can we call it demolition, scotland ledger sports presenter and what, what product demolition? embarrassment. any one of that was before. okay. yeah. well 7 now are liverpool that good or manchester united? just not as good as we thought that they were both i thought yes will be on. yes. these performance limit per sensational. they were, they were back to the liverpool had one the premier league. there were back to the liverpool that caught belt, full of energy high in football, manchester that you could cope with that. so let me pull on yes,
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this performance definitely back. as from manchester united. wow. what could to see about their performance? what did you use? abysmal comes to mind just didn't produce a single thing. i tried to think yesterday or one my jesse need to play the played well yesterday, and i couldn't think of one, but so bad the raw so they were awful yesterday, but they've got football games come up to again, trail betters the police. so thompson at old trafford the weekend and that's a massive game. they've got to go and beat so top to beat them. well, to show the fun stuff back. but the one thing that jen, hi guess father, he was right about performance yesterday from manchester. united is unacceptable. ok, now you yourself have scored goals at anfield, but i want to ask you what we do pick of the goals last night. i'll tell you that when i could he got cause 2nd. ok. the 3rd goal in the game, i think it was, it was the way it was constructed. that was, it was live at the very, very best you know, when the like and jordan henderson. and suddenly they've gone, look at stella. it just leaves show. and then you think what we are,
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we've got co who's going to get is going to get some, he embarrassed is one of the best defensive in the premier league. yeah. let's see . and suddenly gap coke. and that's a magnificent body. so that goal, we're said to me, but liverpool a very, very base in transition. thanks. he was absolutely unbelievable when this is one of the best defenders in the league on the speak data for very long. and maybe they can not just that, i have a little bit of a problem. cody got because this is the best performance last night. when you take the front main photo, le nunez, and get for a new old score, 2 goals each, then the coach can only be very happy. we talked about the co and she was disappointed, but he also said that mattress united can bounce back, but there's gotta be alarm bells ringing in his head. do you think that they can he would not have expected what he saw yesterday. that's an absolute certainty. now, does he just see, okay, it was one of those days. we can all have them. we can all get hammered and
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football. it's how the respond and that's why i see the better game on thursday. and particularly the south hampton game at old trafford, next weekend on massive games. i think when both those games, then he probably can push the bed, but there will be players to he has seen yesterday. he will pretend he's made to think, well, that can happen again. if it does, he may have to move them. i was shocked by some of them. i just shoot a back, a captain. perfect. you'll fernandez. i've never seen my jet united captain behave like that and i bought my chest made a new tv, and i've never seen a captain behavior. he said so. and so there's a lot of problems for him, but he's got games the solve them. i think not just like, well, i want to talk about liverpool because they have been below par this season. where do you see them going from now? i think taught ford is within the grasp. without a doubt, i've seen them progress slowly as they've got players fit. they've got better. the one, some games, that's the best 15 to play the season by 1000000 miles. so if they can take that on
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and this is the f, we know they can do it in the back game. they did it yesterday. we can do it for the next 10. the games father can keep that intensity in the back of the question that's been leveled against them. we can't do it now. but if we take and i think we'll get talk for. okay, well let's talk about the title race because it's a big weekend. we're heading into what are your thoughts arsenal? what magnificent to say when when the, when the last that everton drew with branford and their last against 30, everyone was saying that set the blown title is gone. i never believed up how you respond this most important, and i think how we have responded. it's been magnificent and couldn't be an exemplified more by as we look at the statement call 97 minute. it's just that 87 and reach nelson. trust me. we'll never, ever, ever score to go like that. you'd like it. yeah, i was screaming. oh, you must have enjoyed that. yeah. all right, well great to get your thoughts. great, thank you so much for speaking with us. oh,
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birth. well i have tightened their grip on the spanish title raise bar. so beating valencia one know is they in to win the league for the 1st time since 20. 19. that brazilian forward referring yes. score the only goal of the game, his head are coming in the 16th minutes. plenty of other talking point fair and tourism is the penalty for bar and the 2nd half and with more than half an hour were still play 1st loaded. defend ronald's around ho was fun, talk the team held on for the wind, valencia stay down in relegation. while martha victor was made even sweeter with round madrid, dropping point plus one for how to withdraw by rail baptist. they now tro barcelona by 9 can as well number one know about job, which has formerly withdrawn from the indian wells tournament in miami. the serve is one of the most high profile athletes to not be vaccinated against co, with 19 john rich applied to the us government last month for special permission to
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