a with a breaking news, an earthquake hipster key with dozens reported dead and hundreds injured as buildings collapse across multiple provinces and deadly after shock strike. north western regions of neighboring syria claiming lies of at least 42 people and injuring hundreds more. according to state media, reports with china says the attack on its weather. balloon has undermined the process of stabilizing. sy know you have relations that says u. s. military try to recover the balloon remnants to find any evidence of its

surveillance capabilities with good morning for marquee international studios in moscow to wherever you're catching us, and welcome to the hours most vital stories worldwide. i'm carol isabel, breaking news on our t international, a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit central church here with 76 people dead, and hundreds of residential buildings destroyed. rescue services continue to search for victims in affected provinces with many still trapped under rubble. ah. these picture show an entire 9 story building destroyed by b earthquake. other footage of the quake disastrous impact came from a number of the countries. regents locals alongside emergency services are rescuing

those who remain under the rubble. the national interior minister has announced the highest emergency alert level, a warning you may find the following. images distressing. video circulating on line shows rescue workers providing 1st aid to a young man who was pulled from the rubble in the south eastern province of z out about a kid. at least 8 people were reportedly killed there as an 8th story building collapse . as rescue teams were to clear rubble, local infrastructure communications have been damaged. media report suggests the turkish government could appeal for international help to manage the disaster. and local authorities are calling on residence, ineffective areas, not to enter a building and refrain from using vehicles as well as only calling emergency services. if absolutely necessary. reports also indicate the number of victims

could rise, will keep you updated on the situation. and terrifying seeing her local residence this cctv video footage shows a view from inside the building which were heavily shaken with objects flying under the tremors video footage shows the consequences of the devastating earthquake as well as after shocks report stay, there's risk of a fire occurring in the countries, natural gas pipelines with information on blazes across the country, spreading on social media emergency services are working to minimize the threat. cherokee, a southern region province is believed to be in the epicenter of the earthquake with local media, still reporting after shots. at least 5 people have been killed and 34 buildings destroyed because in an earthquake, a neighboring in

a neighboring province. according to local officials, authorities in the south eastern san lulu for the province report even greater casualties. at least 12 dead with rescue workers still pulling people from the rubble. whites for damage has been reported in a total of 7 provinces with hundreds of buildings destroyed, or damage. authority say the earthquake was felt in 10 provinces, according to trick he has in peer minister, a total of $22.00 after stocks have struck the country with 6 of them being over on the magnitude of 6 on the scale of all to diploma in. they have been 6 after shocks measuring 6 on the richter scale and then we can't say for sure how many buildings have collapsed and how many people are under the rubble. we continue to monitor the situation and we'll report on any new information. it's going from the k, all information will be provided by government officials. we ask tv channels not to

spread disinformation and scare. people are main task is to say the survivors under the rubble, we ask citizens not to use personal vehicles as they are already traffic jams. in the affected towns, we ask you to clear road for rescue teams and ambulances. and after shots could be fell in neighboring syria as well were state media reports, at least 42 people killed and 200 injured in the countries northwestern regions videos from the scene show people trying to get out of the rubble and clearing up the effects of the destruction and, and for the latest updates on the deadly earthquake in turkey, head over to r t dot com, where you can also find reaction and analysis and are stories. china slammed the u. s. attack on its weather balloon saying the move has seriously undermined any improvement inside the u. s. relations. us actions against the

chinese balloon has seriously affected and damaged both sides efforts and progress in stabilizing. so i know us relations. china strongly opposes this. a no, just the us to stop harming china's interests in escalating tensions. the chinese government is paying close attention to the development of the situation and will resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of chinese companies. defend the interest and dignity of china and reserve the right to react further as necessary. the u. s. military is currently searching for the remnants of the chinese balloon, which was shot down last week off the coast of south carolina. defense officials said an investigation is ongoing with navy divers at the, the looking to recover any material with value to us intelligence local residents were also wor, not to touch or move any remains which could be washed off shore, as they are part of the federal investigation. the balloon which drifted over from the northwest to the south east of the united states, caused a spike in anti chinese sentiments among the media. and politicians are ti,

steve sweetie, doves, deeper into the latest spot between washington and beijing. the u. s. is ramping up the anti china rhetoric once more after weather balloons and washington into meltdown. president joe biden was accused of not acting decisively enough before the balloon was finally shot down over the atlantic. 4 days after it was detected and the senior military official predicted war with china in just 2 years, i hope i am room. my gut tells me we'll fight in 20 to 25 chinese president, shooting being secured his 3rd term and set his war counsel in nic. tobar 20. 22 to wants presidential elections or in 2024 and will offer exceed a reason. us presidential elections earned 2024 and will offer a c, a distracted american. see, esteem, reason, and opportunity are all alike for 2025. in a twist, the pentagon is now claiming that chinese spy, balloons flew over us territory during the trumpet, ministration form us defense,

secretary mall casper said he was surprised by the statement adding, but he was never informed of any such incidents during his time in office. i don't ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the chinese had a surveillance balloon above the united states. i would remember that for sure. but while wrapping up tension with beijing, the u. s. has itself pumped 3800000 into spy balloons. in the last 2 years, with a staggering $27100000.00 a month for 2023 alone. and when it comes to spying? well, the biggest scandal in the last decade doesn't involve china. thanks. a whistleblower . edward snowden. it is known, the american national security agency and gate in the illegal master violence citizens, nato, designated china, a systematic challenge. china stated ambitions and assertive behavior presents a ton of challenges to the rules based on national order and terrorist, relevant line security. yet is the us which has surrounded china with military

bases while sending war hips to the south china sea. i'm the taiwan strait. washington is also drawn by using zaya by pumping billions in arms at military equipment into taiwan. with then us how speak nancy pelosi, in flaming tensions with a provocative visit. woman meet you, gwen jewel. if the u. s. has been ongoing its own way, china will take resolute and strong measures to safeguard china, sovereignty and security interest in the orca security part fine. with britain and australia aimed at containing china, military power is accused of undermining regional stability. so as the u. s. continues it hotel over the weather balloon incidence, it is clear that washington has china in the crosshairs of its actual weapons. i live now to him one son, c g t correspondent, us, good morning and thank you. b. jing has criticized washington's take of it picked

out of a weather balloon and has asked them to act in a calm, professional, and restrained man. or do you think china's request will be heard at this point? the morning beings message was loud and clear and trying to has repeatedly inform united states. the entry of the chinese civilian airship into american. the airspace was unintended. earlier. the weather balloon, which the us suspects as a conducting surveillance, was being used for immediate, logical research and happened blown off course by westerly winds and high level communications. follow the statement. senior chinese, my one, he held a phone call with us secretary of state asking blanking on friday evening. and one asked us to deal with the incident and com and re screen matter. however, instead us come for a fighter jet with complete to shoot down the balloon over us territory was on

saturday. now the thing has launched serious protests against what he called an over reaction by the us, the chinese, for a new the she had expressed strong dissatisfaction and protest over the use of, by force by us. while chinese defense ministry set it reserves the right to use necessary means to resolve such a similar situations. how do you think this incident will affect be already tense relations between china and the united states? well, it's hard to say it's moment judging from babies. statements trying to not taking the issue lightly, but what actions it may take and how they could effect bilateral relations remains to be seen. chinese president, she can king and he's us counterpart beach confirms is doing their meeting in indonesia last year to agreed that the 2 sides ships sold this through peaceful

means. however, the u. s. side responded to a balloon in sit in the peer to, to be contradicting. what the 2 leaders had agreed upon last year, the pentagon said the chinese balloon does not present military work, physical threats to people on the ground, but the military shut it down anyway. so republicans have also criticized president, died and has been weak to words china and failing to take actions quick enough if the american politicians and some media continued hype a b incident as another trying to threats this could leave little room for the 2 sides to be actually the issue, however, china and the us have experienced wire worst situations in these decades. and here they are. so we have to wait and observe. washington was very quick to label this events as an attack on its territorial integrity. this comes of course, months after nancy pelosi went to taiwan and china warned that this was also an

attack on their territorial integrity. has the us changed its approach or definition of a territorial integrity when it comes to its borders? well, i think this could be seen as a double standard on the part of the us. the 2 incidents are very different in nature. the chinese balloon went off course and drifted across the u. s. in circumstances that were out of the chinese government's control. but all those visits to taiwan was planned this by business repeated warnings and could be seen as a challenge to the one china principal. in fact, the u. s. has seen, i've been frequent uninvited guest to chinese territories. take the south trying to see, for example, every year u. s. military send hundreds biplanes over the region for reconnaissance. now the us naval ships have also frequently flex muscles near the chinese waters,

including the highlands greats under the guidance, the so called a freedom of navigation. so u. s. military activities have also caused casualties, chinese military personnel and civilians over the years. in 2001 a u. a spy plane illegally enter china's airspace in this house, china c and rammed into chinese fighter jet chinese pilot, one way was declared missing and assumed debt. and in 999, the u. s. b 2 bomber bomb. the chinese embassy in belgrade during and the whole military operation. this right killed 3 chinese reporters and entered dozens of other people. back to you, tanya and son c gtm correspondent with that report. thank you. me back to breaking news on our teen or national a mass of 7.8, magnitude earthquake hit, central cert. tia with 76 people, debt and hundreds of residential buildings destroyed. rescue services continue to

search for victims, ineffective provinces with many still trapped under rubble. ah, the picture show an entire 9 story building destroyed by the earthquake. other footage of the quake disastrous impact came from a number of the country's regions. locals alongside emergency services are rescuing those who remain under the rubble. the national interior minister has announced the highest emergency alert level live. now as i add the check here, professor of geology at the engineering department of each stumbled technical university. good morning and we know turkey has seen earthquakes in the past. how serious is the situation at this time? good morning. of course. it is not a good morning for us here in church here. it's of the she's a big one, very big one. no dad has affected lot of cities. like 10 cities

are in southeast in turkey, and is it the largest, the 2nd largest, one since 1939. i was in john houston. tokyo ok. i'm. and did they live coming up or did did do do do the damage. i will be better seen unfortunately. i mean the casualties are increasing rapidly. unfortunate numbers we're seeing are there risk of further tremors are a stumble or cora under risk as well. not in that far but around dr. gary, i like him with a lot in syria. doctor starkey that area on tape. my luck. yeah. marsh. i don't

know that area. he's not been shaking your intentions. a lot of larger austin shocks it seems there are several different falls are involved in this earthquake it's. it's a huge one. i mean, it's a very big area for us. it's not as big as like, dolls in japan, the pacific area, but for the continental, no take like 7.8 is quite large. and considering the weather conditions, it's called the snow. we and people who are sleeping, you know that night and the timing was most horrible. you mentioned that this is a big one. how high is the risk of the earthquakes in the region usually? well, this is not the narrative. a flu unexpected. no. the

scientists expecting a larger pick here, but we didn't know the timing of ours since like more than 500 years, there was a quite a quite area here. i so i, it seems like more than $200.00. so it's a long section of this. unfold, rupture in this area that lock to like 500 years ago. so this is like a fold continuity combination of the dead sea fault coming from lebanon's area to on, on what can be done in these situations. is it possible to prepare for such events beforehand? well, don't fix to not change about the buildings a chase unfortunately for 4 countries

like like like to get a building called so are not designed for assistance with prior to 2000 year, 2000. and because after the other thing, he's moved into 1099, the government changed building calls so that the business can't resist large. ok. ok. but the buildings that were made to ford is this date are not controlled by the government. they didn't get any injuring services are, you know, there was no serious um, building called control whatsoever. so not in tertiary, we have this building called said are strictly controlled by,

by due by the government and private companies who is this sort of the gate. so the new buildings are ok, but unfortunately we're still building a stock is very large in this area. and area is, is mostly under on soft sediments, a sediment. so that i'm too far as a, as a result of the damage that happens, you know, more than expected. we're seeing a lot of damage. this just happened. how much time will it take? do you think to conduct rescue missions? it's, it's why surprise, unfortunately, it's not in like in one city or town, it damages some buildings collapse. as far as you know, on my luck. yeah. i don't know. several kind of criminal away from the, the epicenter

a did call us the damage all over the place is large area distributed. so it's gonna take long time and good coordination, hopefully, but the, the conditions are not favorable. unfortunately, there is on the snow cold and i hope they will manage they didn't care what those reports, professor of geology at engineering department of a stumble technical university. thank you very much. the russian foreign minister survey live rob has arrived in iraq, capital baghdad, to conduct talks with the countries top officials as part of his tour of african and middle eastern nations. it's the 1st visit of the russians allegation to the country since 2019 russia's top diplomat has met with the iraqi ambassador to

jordan. talk to the rex president and prime minister are expected to be held during the day, so focused on developing bilateral ties, as well as strengthening of economic military and cultural relations. as part of the tour survey lab will also visit molly maurice, tanya, and to don. crossing live now to our teeth, middle eastern correspondent, maria fin notion a good morning, maria. what are the other key topics on the agenda right now during the russian foreign minister store? while i had water of the rival to bagdad rushes for him and his tre described the official visit as an important part of consistent efforts to promote multifaceted corporation with traditional partners of russia in the middle ages. it also tries that despite enormous and unprecedented pressure from the western countries on all those siding housing or supporting most baghdad to have very balanced position on

russia. special mil to operation and ukraine and refuse to join the sanctions. that is very important for russia. of course, the iraqi foreign ministry stated that law firms vision comes in the context of confirm and they portage of strategic cooperation with russia. lava on monday is expected to meet the country leadership, including the iraqi president, prime minister, foreign minister, and many, many others, including the countries former prime minister, to be discussed further expansion of political dollar between the 2 countries as well as boosting bilateral ties including in trade and very importantly, an injury sector in congress damage iraqis tried to open his oil, its own oil market at the time when the country is looking for potential partners in this direction. when energy prices remain very high with the west, continuing to more cut the russian supplies, the russian delegation is including high profile trade and investment officials,

including representatives of oil and gas companies. also, la are a little bit discuss it international regional problems. how, particularly, how to achieve security and stability and peace in the region that was shot at following the us invasion in 2000. and 3 interesting that la ross horizon bagged, i don't, was exactly on the 20th anniversary or historic speech by calling powell that basically led to the iraqi war. then the us temperature of state presented the members of legal security council. would he are sure it was a solid prove of iraq having for assessing piles of weapons of mass destruction that the country is ready and is preparing to use violence. la deal was decades long. conflict followed that took the lives of more than one 185000 iraqi civilians and more than 4500 american lives,

disaster and foreign policy and humanitarian catastrophe. this is how most of the world see this conflict. baghdad. hayes, the 1st off, a lot of ross middle is and africa to were. he'll continue to saddam or return. and molly out a rod. i say that early in january it rushes dog diplomats already made another african 2 ways or the other 4 countries on the continent back to you are respond at maria for notion with all the information. thank you. the, the palestinian health ministry has a ques, israel of denying cancer patients the right to medical treatment abroad amid an ongoing standoff surgeons from palestine perform to kidney transplant operations in the gaza strip. we spoke to one patients, father who said the procedure was a long time coming. the subtle, i remember 6 years ago the disease was discovered. she was getting treatment and didn't need dialysis. she was taken madison and getting full ops with the doctor

hoping for a pre calvary without needing dialysis. after several years, her condition deteriorated from bad to worse, and the doctor decided to perform a kidney transplant for her. we know that we are in gaza. there is no possibility to perform a kidney transplant and we must travel outside the goddess trip. it was november 2022. we were told that there was a possibility. a medical team will arrive in december, but they didn't come. so they said it might be delayed until the middle or the end of january 2023, and we have to be patient. at the end of january, the delegation came and we performed the operation in gaza. this is the 1st time doctors from the palestinian territories have performed a kidney transplant. in the gaza strip, a delegation from the international organization. physicians for human rights visited the occupied territory during the weekend to carry out medical procedures

to kidney transplants were performed at the hospital in gaza. city for 2 young women who received kidneys from their relatives. according to the palestinian health ministry, there were over 5000 cancer patients in the palestinian territories by 2021 and 40 percent are deprived of the opportunity to get treatment abroad because of his railey restrictions is really officials have justified the limitations saying hamas uses it humanitarian and civilian transportation for terrorist purposes. we spoke with a doctor from a human rights i who described to use the difficulties of the patient's face. we think medicine that they have shortage on their disposals flores and machines. surgical machines mean mainly the last edition. we did something unique, we succeeded in lasting, took it, which is something that is

a pretty new. so the, and i'm very happy about this actually does it is under a seizure or look if i'm not sure about the war politically, but they, undersea and they're looking for in years. and this has a huge impact. everything on his system, sanitation, or most of the things that they actually get them from donations and then for them to see the people that i'm very that they go in the same time i'm, i'm happy to to give them the changes that they, they need the things that they can get maybe donations and the title pushes for them everything that it comes to the administration, we priced all to them as soon as possible. meanwhile, one patients father says the blockade of the gaza strip as well as financial

difficulties make it nearly impossible for patients to get life saving statements. well, a lot of them a day there is a blockade imposed on garzon. we were upset. the operation was supposed to be performed 6 months ago. if we had the capabilities, staff and equipment, we would have performed the operation after 2 month of dialysis. but there are no means because of the blockade on the gas trip. this is the reason for the delay. the doctors advised us to go outside because us trip because they didn't know when the medical delegation will arrive. so i went, i found out that a referral in jordan would cost me $5000.00 jordanian dinars, which is $7000.00, plus a commendation and travel expenses. min, another 7000 jordanian dinars. i didn't have this amount. i suffered a lot and had tried to borrow the money,

but i couldn't do it. i thought about my guilt day and night, and at times i thought i was ready to sell the house. in order to perform the operation. i was ready to do anything for my daughter because i saw her suffering before my eyes. this situation caused us a lot of home. it was a serious crisis. now, that's are up on the top stories for this our, for more up to the minute up. they had over to r t dot com and don't forget to follow us on odyssey rumble. gab, thanks for joining us. we'll see a back at the top of the hour. ah . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offensive, very dramatic development only personally and get into.