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and my mother was dropped on the 1st floor. we follow 2 clinical psychologists with a turkish red crescent into this camp for displaced people. they listen well hold hands. yup. with an offer pat on the back and play games with children. sometimes just offering a blanket or a cup of coffee is comfort enough. in that moment, the psychologist say in the upheaval of the earthquakes aftermath, children are particularly vulnerable. the president of the turkish ride crescent says it's ability to provide mental health services. 2 survivors is co humble, considering the enormous need required in the coming weeks, months and years. ah, trading blame over a drone crash. russia cools, american slides near crimea. provocative with the us says it will continue to
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operate over the black sea. ah, hello, i'm darned, jordan, this is al jazeera live from go. i'll also coming out the turmoil on the financial markets. shares and credit suisse hit a record low as the collapse of silicon valley bank races, fears of a wider crisis. o, ongoing frustration in malawi, a tropical cyclone, freddie kills at least 225 people with many stu waiting to help. i'm flash floods. give up these 14 people in areas of turkey, a devastated by last month. so ah, there's growing discord between moscow and washington over us drone crushed in the black sea. russia's defense minister. so gay shaw denounced the drum flights as
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provocative and a phone call. with his us count about lloyd austin showed you insisted the americans were not respecting a russian imposed restricted flights em. earlier, the u. s. that a russian fighter jet intentionally harassed the drone over the black sea, but it's unclear if contact was deliberate. the u. s. as the trend was of international waters and pose no threat. i just got off the phone with my russian counterpart. minister assure you. as i've said repeatedly, it's important but great powers be models of transparency and communication. and united states will continue to fly and to operate wherever international law allows and it is incumbent upon russia to operate as military aircraft in a safe and professional manner. when luna judges from the frontier europe initiatives, she's also a former military advisor to nato. she says russia may be testing the limits of international airspace rules. if we're looking,
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particularly at the inter junction between the nato space and the international air space, we have before the full scale invasion and into the full scale invasion, a long history from the russian side off violation often ne, to airspace in this incidents, this is likely to be, to have taken place within the international air space. so what's in the context off the black sea, the russians are likely to be doing is to try to provoke, to determine the americans, but also need to overall, to not be able to use international airspace like they have tried to determine nato forces not to use the international maritime space within the black sea. this is what they're likely trying to do. and there's another bonus if we can call it that on the russian side. the m q reaper is one of the most advanced and
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very expensive. a u. s. a military capability, um, so it's a significant loss that the russians, the crammed and particularly can boast, i'm off in regards to their domestic public as well as through the international community to say, look, we're able to down such an important military capability off of the americans in international airspace, we do not care about international law. this is, these are some of the possible speculations of why russia has been doing this well for more mis. let's me to my cana in washington dc. mike, so u. s. officials seem to be rowing back on the rhetoric saying it's not clear if the contact was intentional by the russians. what more they been saying is indeed the spokesman for the state department said that it's not clear whether the action was intentional. this is a very important point because it does, as you say,
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appeared to be the us trying to ratchet down this ongoing argument about this incident. but it does appear to have moved on as well away from the specific incident to the us use of s space over the black sea. something that russia appears to be using this accident as a way in which to heighten its concerns about us operations in that particular area . now we do know when the course of the day the a us defense minister held a discussion with his russian counterpart. now, lloyd austin, after that discussion released the statement saying that they had discuss matters of neutral interest that russia had to be informed that the u. s. was very displeased with that action, but then as well what he did not mention, and this was subsequently released by the russian defense ministry. a warning from the russian defense chief that the u. s. has got to limited operations in that
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black sea area, and that any such operation would be regarded by russia as a provocation. so the debate, the discussion, the argument is continuing, despite the fact that the u. s. and indeed, the russians appeared to be trying to wretched down the argument over the incident that sparked off this whole debate. all right, mike kind of life was there in washington dc might thank you for landline reaper drone is one of the most advanced tools in the us military is asked no defense editor alex topple. it's explain the n 29 reaper is the world's 1st purpose built drone design for attack, as well as surveillance. it can stay up in the air for up to 14 hours. i can fly up to 15000 meters. it was 1st flown in combat in 2007, and has the capability to stay in survey, a specific target area, sending back vast amounts of information to pilots and analysts on the ground, sometimes half way around the world. what made the repay initially different from
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other drones, was the fact that it was the 1st one designed to carry weapons. it cannot only survey targets, but destroy them if needed. this combination of surveillance and strike capabilities makes the young man vehicle a potent weapon able to operate night or day. syrian president bashar al assad has reiterated support for moscow with its war with ukraine while meeting with russian president vladimir putin. it's as abs 1st official visit outside the middle east since the devastating earthquakes and north western serial. last month, the leaders discussed rebuilding syria after 12 year long civil war. russia is one of our sad, biggest military backers in his fight to retain power leave. i would like to take this opportunity during my 1st visit after the start of the war, new crane, to renew my unchanging stunts serious dance in supporting this war against the old new naziism. our stance doesn't only stem from the strong friendship that we have, nor does that stem from the loyalty you've shown us. our stance comes from the
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world's need to day for rebalance. otherwise the world will hit towards explosion and destruction. thousands of people in syria commemorating the 12 year anniversary of an uprising to overthrow president. i said the peaceful protest turned into a civil and proxy war involving regional powers. hundreds of thousands of people were killed and millions displaced. many continued to live as refugees, switzerland central banks, as it repaired to financially support trouble banking giant credit suisse shares in the countries. second biggest bank plunged or record low was on the wednesday, sending us and european stop markets tumbling. trust in the financial sector was already shaken up to 2 large us bank failures in the past week. investors are worried about credit suisse art, which biggest lender saudi national bank said it would not be able to provide more financial help. when it shares plunged by 24 percent on wednesday, dragging european bank stocks down along with it. the u. k. stock market suffered
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its biggest fall in more than a year with a foot c $100.00 tumbling 3.8 percent. the dow jones close more than $250.00 points lower on wednesday, after banking fear spread across global markets. kristen salumi has more from wall street in new york. the swiss banks falling share praises re ignited concerns here at the new york stock exchange over the u. s. banking sector. after the government stepped in over the weekend to protect the depositors and shut down to you as institutions. these were regional banks and regional banks, which are less regulated in the united states continue to suffer. some of the sharpest declines on wall street on wednesday. but major banks were hit as well, like jp morgan chase city bank, bank of america. and others also seem declined ranging from 2 to 3 percent as investors worried whether or not these institutions can deal with rising interest
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rates and an unsettled economy. the scandals are really assigned that management is not where it should be. and i think that's the 1st thing that anyone looks at is that say, what does this institution have? good management? can we rely on that to take care of our money? if that can't be resounding yes, that everyone is going to doubt everything else about the bank, but it wasn't just financial sector stocks that suffered on wednesday across the board. the markets took a hit. the dow jones industrial average at one point down more than 2 percent recovered slightly, but commodities also took hits and investors poured their money into government bonds, treasuries that are seen as a safety investment driving down yields on the bonds as well. now the head of the securities and exchange commission did try to re and reassure investors by warning that any misconduct that threatens global markets would be investigated and prosecuted. malawi has declared 14 days of morning after 225 people were killed
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when cycling. freddy tool through southern africa for the 2nd time and a month. it's commercial hub massena, most damage with flooding and mud slides. and that's for meta miller reports. some blantan, hundreds of people are still missing. oh, this is one of the most recent bodies found at searching the city of blan tire. as men carried by foot 2 mortuary, nearly 10 kilometers away, they shouted frustration, angry. they are no rescue services. 3 days after the worst of the flooding and mud slides that hit this area, david period is still searching for, for missing family members. know who you call a few things here. know, and it is the team in the 40. so any government officers, nothing. will it all organize people, the people that most people ality where there is now several meters of mud and fallen rocks was once a village, dozens of homes were stepped away,
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few on higher ground and by the strong winds and flooding. hundreds of people on the thing and it's evident in a place like this, where people say just a few bodies have been recovered compared to the number of people missing. and the search is being made all the more difficult. as the rain continues, people use make sure bridges to escape the widespread flooding. and as the search continues with whatever is available, a man's body is found within the muddy hills. and around him what remains the bits and pieces of other lives at once. what can we take a, be ready to be delivered or people can be that you a few wherever a question that may only be answered if and when help eventually arrives from read amolla al jazeera blunt. i am a law we at least 14 people have been killed after flash floods, hit southeast and turkey heavy rains of inundated cities of some year for an ad
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yeoman, and is expected to continue for the next 2 days. a flooding comes as the region struggles to recover from last month. devastating earthquakes, russell soda reports from his stumble. these men had a fortune dest. keep police rescue workers, and civilians have been helping to save doors, stranded by fellows in southern turkey. here several people have died. in many areas, the emergency services were overwhelmed. you see this area is completely submerged . all thirties couldn't set up pumps to discharge the water. here. they were car stranded here, but they couldn't find pumps to discharge the water up. the flesh follows our heating areas already struggling, often last monster prestige in earthquakes. dr. more than 48000 people. families forced from their homes by the quakes are now been flooded out of their pants. when i struggle but fell through. as you can see,
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we managed to relocate our tents and moved to the park. we managed to surround the tents with stuff to stop the water coming in. the middle shannon for was heckled as he surveyed the done. many were already unhappy with the government's response to the queen of the yet and other disaster. passions is running now. heavy rains since tuesday night. how brought flooding? not just a chandel offer, but also to other cities like of young authorities. how shut down hospitals and schools in some areas rescue work is underway. but there are fears that'll be rice, christmas elder al jazeera stumble. ruth president is declared an emergency in 400 district south 2nd. yeah, to better the country. nearly 60 people have died since the start of the rainy season. marianna sanchez as more from winter morsa south of lima. lima is under state of red alert,
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and this is the situation happening throughout the codes of most of the coastal pedals from the north of compass to the south in the region of people are cleaning up their flooded homes because rivers of mud has torn through communities cities, villages and in this beach resort, copeland that are most up the river of mud tore through this area and flood. all these homes of people are cleaning up on their own. they're getting some help from authorities. but the situation in the north is much much worse. riverside overflowed and in their past they destroyed thousands of homes and flooded tens of thousands of pictures of crops ruining everything. the government has suspended for 24 hours classes in schools and universities, and more than 400 districts have been declared in state of emergency. now the cycling yahoo, which is more than a 1000 kilometers off the pacific coast, is still causing
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a lot of rain from continuing more rains in the days to come. and authorities are urging people who live in ravines and next to rivers to evacuate the area immediately. also to come here and al jazeera, including the growing smell of discontent in fobs as rubbish, piles up, and the latest strikes against pension ripples unveiled at sleek, up more flexible space suit design for instrument. going back to the more in that state, ah, with, here's our headlines for the americas. thank you so much for joining in. things are drying off across the u. s. state of california, after more than 30 counties, declared states of emergency because of flooding, that energy rolling through the rockies on the other side. coming out as storms
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over the southern plains, you get this warm feet of air off the gulf, colliding with that cold air. and that's what's going to spark this storms. there are nor easter, still spreading a bit of snow to canada's newfoundland province. it's to party. and by the time it leaves likely dropping about 30 centimeters, there comes more snow for the upper mid west and south of that some rain, that's going to be a story for the great lakes thursday into friday, western canada, the pacific northwest. very calm here. suns out to look what it's doing to the temperature in portland, up to 15 degrees. now for that nor'easter, it's also dropping down a lot of wet weather. cuba hispaniola, also rate through jamaica as well, and we see a kick back through the yucatan peninsula. while pedro's capital, lima declared a red alert from cyclone jak, who it brought a lot of rain to northern pedro. now central and southern areas are at risk of seen flooding argentina in about its 10th heat waves since november. but for eastern argentina. storms are cooling off. the atmosphere here,
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ah, in a concert hole in baghdad, away from the conflict and tales from the war, sectarian bonnet and sanction the rocky national symphony orchestra has full to perform classical and traditional arab music. in the face of all adversity, ah oh to 0, mo tells it's challenging story. symphony for iraq on al jazeera. ah ah,
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welcome back, a cucumber about top stories here. this al at moscow on washington, not trading blame harbor us drone crash and the black. see, the pentagon says a russian fighter jet intentionally harassed the aircraft on moscow has the mouse for use of drones. mia crimea as provocative switzerland central bank sans. it's prepared to financially support trouble banking giant credit suisse shares in the country. second largest bank plunged or reco. glenn was on wednesday, sending us some european stop markets tumbling. and malawi has declared 14 days of morning after 225 people were killed when psycho freddy tool through southern africa for the 2nd time in a month. it's commercial hub of blood. china has seen the most damage, flipping mudslides is when the president isaak hertzog has unveiled alternative changes to the judiciary. opera planned overhauled by israel's far right coalition triggered mass protests. the measures would give the government more sway in selecting judges and limit the part of the supreme court to strike down legislation,
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israeli cabinet secretary has said the coalition is not behind the new proposals put forward by the president. when earlier hundreds of people held a demonstration of israel's ben curry, an international airport to try to disrupt the prime minister's departure to germany. they formed a convoy of cars and held banners denouncing these ready prime minister and his government. i give a courtesy call. i ask all the citizens of israel to come to the demonstrations of the proton to stop the dictatorship of we will protest until this dictate tauriel government is removed and the corrupt man vacate his place with his entire family. we will not give up. we will not give up even if the laws will pass. tens of thousands of people have marched again in cities across france in a last ditch attempt to stop pension reforms. riot police faced off with crowds in the capital, paris. it was the 8th round of protest against president manuel microns plan to raise the retirement age from $62.00 to $64.00. politicians have been working on
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the final wording of the bill, which could be voted on this week. oh well, the whole ship, if we will get pension reform out, we're going to go all the way we can't let it go, we'll keep going until the end is always stop actually all going on with them. and even if the refund goes to the passes, how can i say the inequality garrison, especially for women, will be present? so we must indeed be on the street and always ready to fight this by foreign or garbage. workers are among those on strike, and that's left mounds of rubbish piling up on the streets of paris. they say president microns planned to raise the retirement age is unfair, given their tough working conditions. without a butler report, ludovic has worked as a street cleaner in paris for 6 years. he began on a garbage truck. now he's on foot. he loves his job, but he's been on strike on and off. now for a week. he's protesting against the french government plan to raise the retirement age by 2 years under its proposed pension reform. ludovic says people who do
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challenging jobs shouldn't be made to work longer. we don't, within on the 2 more years is far too much. because this is a difficult job with rapidity tissue to re madame woman. because i uses all the time, i can barely move my aunts and fingers in the morning on the garbage workers and street cleaners in paris have been on strike for more than a week. and it shows the city council says thousands of tons of rubbish hasn't been collected. there were over saying bins like this nearly every way in paris and more garbage collectors. hope is that the dirty streets will help put pressure on the government to scrap their proposed reform. french present, emanuel macaroni says the reform is necessary because the pension system is too complex and costly work is on this picket line at the cities biggest garbage
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incinerator, say the changes will affect poor people. the most fredericks cleaned paris is suicide for more than 2 decades. he works on the ground with heavy equipment in conditions that a hot, humid and polluted miniature day to fit your. a study was done that shows the life expectancy of garbage and sewage workers is 12 to 17 live event for other people. this is where the government still wants us to work longer, which is unfair, as you don't know, i invite the french president to spend the day working in the sewage, which i imagine we very different than sitting at his desk and really say rusty diondra, awarded israel macros government doesn't have a parliamentary majority, so it's trying to win support for its reform from some opposition and peas. but it's not easy to build on popular with many lawmakers. meanwhile, trade union leaders say they'll continue to call for more protests and strikes until the reform is been katasha butler, al jazeera, paris security forces of surrounded the home of synagogues,
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main opposition leader rosemont sancho, is due in court on 1st day in a trial to decide whether he is eligible to run in next year's presidential election, the government ban rallies by his supporters. there's growing concerned that president lucky sal could run for a controversial 3rd term. nicholas hark as more from the senegalese capital. so police have just far tear gas trying to disperse the crowd away. it's happening across every neighbourhood of the capital. this protest is bad. and for the government, this is an attempt to bring back law. well, police have just pushed us away from clinton goes house. they put up barricade photo is in fact, what feels like in house arrest. he's supposed to appear in court on thursday. after cusick government minister, corruption, that minister has accused him of defamation. now if the court sentence him and he
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will not be able to run in the upcoming election on tuesday night, and so go held around and he is huge president lucky so oh, using the court to clamp down on the opposition. god is an island of stability. we will not accept myself and his desire. it's important to know if that imposes kale country would be at the heart of what we're seeing right now is a prelude to the presidential elections are supposed to be placed in 2024. and as long as the intentions of president mikey saw are not clear whether or not he'll run a 3rd mandates. the opposition says that it will continue demonstrating like of it . nicholas hawk al jazeera, the car, now the u. k. on trying to avoid the recession. this year that's according to the british finance minister, jeremy hunt. he made the comments, was he deliveries budget to parliament? while another day of strikes took place across the country?
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the budget will provide a $115000000000.00 of financial support to struggling families. john reports from living can spot britain's finance minister called it a budget for growth that the shop measures jeremy helps predisposed to used last autumn. thompson. 2 2 but policies instead intended to restore stability and faith in government. after a period of political and economic turmoil. today we face the future. with extraordinary potential, the world bank said that a whole big european countries we are the best place to do business plays in election in a year and a half. and the conservatives are lacking in the polls. opponents know that restoring the u. k. 2 growth will be one of the central come 3 set up, part of managed decline falling behind our competitors, resting up stagnation of stability as their expiry date looms upon close. among the
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measures announced were a series of low tax investment zones to boost productivity in traditionally undefended parts of the country. like here in the west midlands, they were firms to tackle a post coven post bricks in skills shortage, including help to fund child care. so the hard press parents can rejoin the labor market and enticements to get some of the more than 8000000 over fifty's, who left the job market. that to work you are a retired g p. what would it take to entice you back to? oh, my peer group of all retired qualify from boss back in 1982. there's nothing that we to go back to work now. i think he's trying to go in the right direction. how successful it's going to be. it's another thing, a question that economists say, it's too soon to answer. the current budget is a very safe one. no borrowing. i think that was pretty much striking.
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but it's is very difficult to insure economic growth without borrowing. you look at the united states of america, you look at you, you look at china, they're all borrowing to, to generate that economic growth. in the short term, of course, the high cost of living remains britton's, most pressing economic problem. and while jeremy hunt did offer more help on energy and fuel costs, in the hope that inflation falls dramatically by the end of the year, more significant items like tax cuts and likely to appear until closer to the election. this in the meantime, this budget cannot erase, but the fact that economic pain is sent to continue that the i m f, noting the britain will be the worst performing g 7 economy. this year. joe, to help al jazeera was now nasa has revealed a new space of design. it could be worn by astronauts on the next mission to the moon, which has plan for late 2025. the prototype space the which will be used for astronaut
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training this summer. as alan fish on our report. it's what the well just astronaut will be waiting on the moon in 2025 as nasa plans, a new lunar mission. it's also updating the suit that will be used. and so it's very important that you have very strict a safety guidelines in a suit that will provide their redundancy and the reliability. you need to make sure every time a human steps, foot on the moon that they'll be able to do. they need to safely and get back and be ready for the next day. the next mission space suits have come a long way from the iconic image of human kind, setting foot on the moon. the suits then were bulky, difficult to move around in the last up grade came 40 years ago with the space shuttle missions. this new $200000000.00 design is considered a revolution rather than evolution, a dramatic new way. and it allows astronauts to do what they need to do. that's not taking a piece from say that the current space and just kind of tweaking it in upgrading at the there's, there's cases here or there of that. but in large part,
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the live support system is, is totally brand new. ah, it leverages lessons learned from previous suits so, so we're, we obviously study what types of failures have been app happened in the past and what's worked well and what hasn't worked well. but almost everything inside the launch support system is totally totally brand new years. these suits, designed $5050.00 by americas speech agency, nasa and the private company will be worn by astronauts on the mission. taking human came back to the moon for the 1st time in more than 50 years. we will have the traditional white covering protection from the sundry, the issue. and that mission should see the 1st woman and the 1st person of color set foot on the lunar surface. from there, the plan is that it's on to mars. nasa believes the new suit stretches technology policy before it tries to stretch the frontiers in space. allen fisher al jazeera ah.
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