oh i breaking news at least 284 people are killed and thousands injured according to turkey as vice president. as a devastating earthquake sweeps, the country knocking down multi story residential buildings. we've got a report from the ground. this one, the rescuers are extracting people from under the rob, according to unconfirmed reports. there is a lot of having done, many rescuers, doctors and firefighters came to the scene as well as the police and military who

are trying to disperse the heavy traffic drums and deadly aftershocks strike northwestern regions of neighboring syria, claiming the lives of at least 237 people and injuring hundreds more. according to the country's health ministry. china says the attack on its weather balloon has undermined the process of stabilizing china us relations. that's of the u. s. military try to recover the balloon remnant to find any evidence of its surveillance capabilities. ah, good morning for mark here, national studios in moscow and walk them to the hours most vital new stories worldwide. i'm peralez about breaking news on our teen or national a massive 7.8 magnitude. earthquake has hit central trick here with at least 284 people dead. hundreds of residential buildings have collapsed in southern provinces

with the vice president say more than 2300 people are injured. rescue services continue to search for victims in affected areas with many still trapped hon. ah. these pictures show an entire 9 story building destroyed by the earthquake. the earthquake knocked down 531 buildings in just the city of gazillion tap. according to the governor. other footage of the quakes disastrous impact came from a number of the countries regions. locals are helping emergency services rescue those who remain under the rubble. the national interior minister has announced the highest emergency alert level, a warning you may find the falling images distressing. a video circulating online chose rescue workers providing 1st aid to a young man who was pulled from the rubble in a southeastern problems the yacht about quarter. at least 8 people were reportedly

killed there when an 8 story building collapsed. as rescue teams worked to clear rubble, local infrastructure communications have been damaged. media report suggests the turkish government could appeal for international help to manage the disaster. local authorities are calling on residence in affected areas, not to enter buildings and to refrain from using vehicles. they also suggest calling emergency services only if absolutely necessary. oh, and more devastating consequences of the trickier earthquake video footage shows the rubble of an already destroyed building, falling and hitting residence. as they searched through the rubble for survivors. rescue works continue in affected regence turkey or southern kara ahmad marashi province is believed to be the epicenter of the earthquake. at least 5

people have been killed and 34 buildings destroyed because of an earthquake in a neighbouring province. according to local officials. authorities in south eastern shanley or far province for poor even greater casualties. at least 12 dead with rescue worker still pulling people from the rubble. white thread damage has been reported in a total of 7 provinces with the earthquake felt in 10 regions. according to turkey, has interior minister, a total of $22.00 aftershocks. i've struck the country, correspondence at the sight reports from the epicenter of the quake. oh, you are very close to kaufman the rush. the earthquake has submitted damage the city of malott's, yet many how's tut turned to ruins. emergency service continues to respond to cause to lot of people are set to be under the rubble. they come to the governor mulatto while hi, so to billows for destroys. and a lot of people who are injured residence help rest, chris,

and do what they can. everyone walks together on the ruins. it is also snowing, which slows down the process. some times rescuers asked for silence to hear voices from under the rubble. when eunice should hear d r, but your province behind me, you can see a ruined building. when the 1st term has happened, people ran into the street and rushed to the gathering places some on food. somebody caught this crated heavy traffic jams, which immediately began to hinder rescuers and emergency services from getting to the air is affected. weston and in front of her 8 stories shopping centers in partially collapsed rest. curs are extracting people from under the rubble, according to unconfirmed reports. so there is a lot of heavy damage in the city. many rest, curious doctors and firefighters came to the scene as well. as the police and military or who are trying to disperse the heavy traffic chance turkish media also report an ancient castle dating back to the 2nd century. a d has been destroyed in

the southern province of ghazi and tap the site. had been included in the unesco world heritage site along the city of gazande top itself. some 33 kilometers from the epicenter has also been badly hit by the earthquake with multi story buildings collapsing and entire neighborhoods in ruins. as tremor shook the area, at least 23 people have been reported dead in the city of more than 2000000. this cctv video footage shows the view from inside buildings which were heavily shaken with objects and flying under the tremors zion in check here, professor of geology at the engineering department of each stumble, technical university says many buildings just could not cope with the heavy tremors . several different falls are involved in this earthquake. i said is

a huge one. i mean it's a very big area for us building called so are not designed for resistance. prior to 2000, you 2000 because after the i think he's made into 1099, the government changed the building calls. so the, the, the business can't resist a larger effect. but the buildings that were made before this, this state and area is, is mostly on the, on, on soft sediments, a little sentiment. so it's going to take long time and good coordination of fully . but the, the conditions are not favorable unfortunately. and this footage appears to show the countries natural gas pipelines on fire with information on multiple glazes across the street. here as a result of the earthquake spreading on social media. earlier we spoke to alper

could check director general of international affairs and migration at red cross and he says, emergency services and volunteers are on high alert. but weather conditions in some regions are making the situation worse. the most me. busy condition it's not only cold or rainy, solving in the pharmacy, it's waiting for them, it's not. and so it's all going on the minor michigan and the most challenging part of next year for now is a better while to get deployed. and we probably haven't impacted today with the support you provide in food and also emergency food. it's competition. some hospitals for me impacted. we added that mission drop whole outside the hospital for for 3,

our service and then hospital are now be implementing for example, outside the home and outside because the main state hospital is impacted. so we are deploying shelton to the public buildings primarily let's cross live now to use of era p r t. world editor. obviously, unfortunate news, but how serious is the situation on the ground inter gear? it's very serious, very serious visuals coming in. what we're hearing from people in areas that are impact, that is that 1st the wide region is impacted about a 500 kilometer region is impacted all throughout southern turkey. but many buildings have collapsed. there's still areas that are testable. so very serious, the 1st reports where 5 killed earthquake now is all the way up to 300. we can

expect that number to exponentially rise in the coming hours in coming days, as the turkish government in security and emergency services assess the damage in continue their discovery phase of what, how, how much damage there isn't over how wide geography that damage is. so what we're seeing right now is only the beginning, the numbers definitely going to unfortunately, exponentially climb. so it's terrible. it's someone who's experienced this before another 77.4 earthquake back in 1999. when i was just sample, this is exactly the same phases that we witnessed as that decimal rises exponentially by the hour, by the day. so, it's bad, it's really bad. that's all i could say. it's very bad. we're seeing reports of many regions head are any of the major cities such as symbol that you mentioned are on kara at this time. not as big as stumble or on crib. it's still very important

cities in the southern region of to get caught him on mirage. god, the other the, the book are, these are all very important cities. all cities with populations are close to 1000000, some just a little over 1000000 population. so not megacity, but medium size cities. so there's a lot of residents, population dense areas at height, and we are seeing some of the building, the structures collapse. there's damages the infrastructure, some damages that airport. some of the airports have been close, not taking up. i think having flights right now. so the roots coming from the north of the stumble area. there's snow storms and so that's slowing down. any type of land route there as well. so there's multiple dimensions and multiple levels right now of that it's, this is trying to get there were just the problems of trying to get food, the shelter, the clothing that people need, especially that 1st day. very,

very important. and there's logistic challenges that are being faced and again, weather conditions is happening in that you are a, it's about 3 degrees right now and caught them on mirage. the epicenter of the earthquake and that areas around 0 to $5.00 degree in temperature ranging from city to city. so many of these people who have lost their homes or whose own, whose residents are just too risky to go back into. now have to find shelter because of the winter light conditions in the area as well. it's unfortunately not the 1st massive earthquake that turkey has faith apart from the weather conditions that you just mentioned. why is it so devastating this time? well, one of the reasons why it's devastating. first of all, the 7.4 earthquake, i mean as much as you plan as much as you prepare for earthquake, how much can you really prepare for an earthquake of 7.4 magnitude. this is truly as on the scale of earthquake it throughout history. this is definitely on the

upper side of that list as one of the biggest earthquakes ever ever felt. and more importantly, this earthquake lasted for one full minute. now, one full minutes for a duration of an earthquake, i would use experience many earthquake myself. one for minute is a very, very long time. every 2nd feels like an eternity where you are just hoping that the shaking just by me and i just can't imagine how they were, how these residents were feeling when those buildings were shaking. what i remember from the big one is sample 99. it was also a $7.00 lasted 40 seconds. the sound of glass breaking car alarms going up. it is a very chaotic situation where all you can really do is pray at that moment because you are left at that you are truly humbled in the power of nature. and again, not really much you can do as your week is happening. you really can prepare for it,

of course. now the next step, as the discovery phase goes on, people trying to get that 1st aid to the areas that need it most. and the most important part of this assessment is fine, you know, actually who need it most because there's just many collapse buildings. you can only read so many, there's logistical challenges as well. so once these challenges are met and once the map of the assessment is prepared, the target government and also the international aid that will most likely be pouring in in the coming coming date will be able to be distributed more properly on a priority basis for the entire nation of turkey is obviously hurting. do you have any personal friends or relatives that have been affected and how worried are people by further tremors or after shots? i have family and other than that, which is about 15200 kilometer the way from the center. they built quite

a shape. everyone's okay, that i've talked to family and friends there. okay. at least right now that from what i've been. ready i've been able to reach them by telephone. thank god. everyone's ok there. but still this is, i mean, this is going to get bad as the hours you were probably go to speak. quadruple digits, either by nighttime or by tomorrow, because these are just initial assessment that we're seeing 284 killed right now at 6 hours ago. that number was that by now to the 7284. that number is going to continue to climate. we're going to get more and more updated. just so many people still under the rubble. so this is a tremendous natural, a natural did that throughout epic proportions. this is a very big time, natural disaster. and we're, we're understanding the scale is the hours go by right now. and as you see on your screen right now that building collapsing there's, there's neighborhood collapse. so hopefully there's going to be

a strong international response as well. not just, not the national response. many countries have called oper condolences, oper help, and i'm sure the turkish government is going to take many of these countries up on their offers for help going forward. so right now, while we can do it, sprayed hope that the emergency services could get as many people out from that rebel as quickly as possible. you mentioned the weather and the numbers. how are the emergency services actually handling the situation? how much time do you think this is going to take? while there is a window of opportunity to be able to save live that window is normally 2 to 3 days . sometimes you'll get a couple of survivors after 4 or 5 days, 6 days, which is basically the max limit that a person can survive under this trouble. so this initial response right now is very important. they're trying to determine which buildings to be able to go into. it's a very so slow process of removing the degree of a class building. but thank god,

we've seen many times in the past that many people are saved from the debris. there are triangles of life that form when these debris are when these collapses are happening and people are able to be there for a couple couple hours will be using phone calls, calling people outside, asking for help. so right now that's what the emergency services are doing. they're trying that very delicate process of picking up the degree, trying to free up people from under the rubble. this is a natural disaster are almost impossible to prepare beforehand, but is there anything government entities could do to minimize future risk of loss of life? well, i mean, this is the turkish government experience. many massive earthquakes. and when we look back over the last 203040 years, even the love love preparation up to today, we've seen a tremendous improvement. we've seen a very quick reaction,

very quick deployment and dispatching of emergency services. but again, how much can you really prepare for 7.4 earthquake that last one minute? i don't think anyone can fully prepared because it's going to cause a lot of damage. it's hitting residential areas right now. it's not in the middle of the ocean. it's not in open country. these are residential areas, residential areas. mean a lot of building type, the fact building. and there's going to be structural damage. there's going to be collapses. even in the most developed countries as well. so whenever you have this much type residential areas, you're going to see this type of collapse, buildings happening. and again, the reaction is very important. the health services have been dispatched, ministers are already on the ground interior minister, health minister, ministers, city planning, and urban station. they're trying to pull their resources and use them in the most effective way possible. at the end of the day, the resources are not it,

they are limited. so you have to use your resources in a very smart point manner to be able to provide the most relief that many people as possible use of aram care t world editor reporting with unfortunate circumstances. thank you. thank you. aftershocks could be cell and neighboring syria as well were health ministry reports, at least 237 people killed. and more than 500 injured in the countries northwestern regents videos from the scene show people being pulled from the rubble and clearing up the effects of the destruction. we spoke with an rti, arabic correspondent who is near serious border with turkey to get more details of do on the do i thought on the effects of the earthquake that occurred this morning at 4 15 am in the lower regions of south eastern syria are been felt here in commercially during the earthquake, most people left their homes and ran out into the streets and went to remote places

in sight. come usually the effects where serious this residential building shook men it thinks were shaking. we didn't feel straight away that the building was collapsing in the city of co, barney and i and not out of 3 buildings collapse. one person was injured as a result of the earthquake in rutger and the resort. the effect of the earthquake are barely noticeable in the areas of aleppo that effects our wars 11 injured and for death, according to the kurdish red crescent organization. and now some disturbing images from syria as numerous victims of the earthquake are now being hospitalized in the emergency room of a local hospital. according to media reports, hospitals are currently overcrowded, and some people are even placed directly on the floor. syrian journalists, mohammed ali says syrians are particularly sensitive to scenes of devastation after a years long, deadly civil war. b,

a minister defense here in syria stated that the 3rd army will be involved in all its efforts in the search and rescue operations. all medical teams in cities and that were not affected close to the northern parts serial like holmes will be sent also to a live quote, to exit in helping the needy. this is definitely a very difficult situation, doesn't the building has collapsed as a result of this earthquake. i have some friends and po, and many of them had their apartment, perhaps partially damaged to showing me about the destruction over there. they said that such a destruction all we only remind them of the war that happened in sir yes, in 2011, of course instruction that happened as a result, they see the same image of destruction. there's the singing pain written minutes, your health and medical team, they're all on high alert to even private hospital doors. have been open for all

condition, but this is the most that they can do. this is the government told area that we're not even speaking, guess about the areas like that which is occupied by terrorists groups like outlets or from over there. we don't know about the condition over there. and because of the occupation of service groups over there, the syrian government and medical teams cannot even reach those areas and reach the effect that the people the residence as a result of the earthquake. well bring you the latest updates on to kids. deadly earthquake as we received them. the us actions undermined the sino us efforts to stabilize relations. that's a message from the chinese deputy foreign minister commenting on the top on a chinese weather balloon. us actions against the chinese balloon, how 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 scene looking to recover any material with value to us. intelligence local residents were also warned to not touch or move any remains which could be washed ashore as they are part of the federal investigation. the chinese weather balloon was 1st spotted in u. s. territory last week, hovering for days and raising fears among politicians that it could be spying on nuclear facilities. that's us by beijing's numerous warnings that the stray balloon

is designed purely for civil in use and had unintentionally crossed u. s. borders. the balloon was eventually shot down on saturday, c, g, t and corresponded to in yon son says washington's hype over what they call. another threat from china contradicts bilateral agreements between the countries. how the us side responded to the balloon incident appeared to be contradicting what the 2 leaders had agreed upon. last year, the pentagon said the chinese balloon does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground. but the military shot down anyway. even so, republicans have criticized president biden as being weak towards china and failing to take action quickly enough. if the american politicians and some media continue to hype. the incident as another china threats as could leave little room for the 2 sides to de escalate on the issue. now this could be seen as a double standard on the part of the u. s. a chinese balloon went off course and

drifted across the u. s. in circumstances that were out of the chinese government's control, but closely related to tie one was planned despite beatings, repeated warnings, and could be seen as a challenge should one china principle. in fact, the u. s. has been a frequent uninvited guest to chinese territories. take the south china sea, for example, every year the u. s. military flies, hundreds by planes of the region for recognizance and us naval ships have frequently flex their muscles. the are chinese waters including the taiwan straits, under the guise of so called freedom of navigation. u. s. military activities have also caused casualties among chinese military personnel and civilians. over the years, china and the u. s. has experience far worse situations in recent decades. and here they are. so we will have to wait and we didn't see the russian foreign minister survey lab rob has arrived in iraq, capital baghdad,

to conduct talks with the country's top officials, as part of his tor, to african and middle eastern nations. it is the 1st visit of the russian delegation to the country since 2019 russia's top diplomat has met with the iraqi ambassador to jordan. top of the rock president ad prime minister are expected to be held during the day. they'll focus on developing bilateral ties, as well as strengthening of economic, military and cultural relation. as part of the tour survey live, russell also visit molly murray. tiny at dawn. ortiz middle east correspondent maria fin notion brings us all up to speed. while i had a water of the rival to bagdad rushes for him and his tray described the official visit as an important part of the system efforts to promote multifaceted corporation with traditional partners of russia in the middle ways. it also tries that despite enormous and unprecedented pressure from the western countries on all those siding housing or supporting more so 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 the portals of strategic cooperation with russia. law 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 dialogue between the 2 countries. as well as boosting bilateral ties including in trade and very importantly, an injury sector in congress. i made a rocky strive to open 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 law roof over 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 2003 interesting that labranz horizon bagged. i don't was exactly on the 20th anniversary or historic speech by calling powell that basically lead to the iraqi war. then the rest of state presented to the members of the un security cow. so what he or sure it was a solid, proven iraq having for assessing piles of weapons of mass destruction that the country is ready and is preparing to lose vile and 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 in foreign policy and humanitarian catastrophe. this is how most of the world see this conflict. baghdad. hayes, the 1st off, a lot of rod middle is and africa to were. he'll continue to saddam or return. and molly, up to a rod. i have to say that early january a ration. so diplomats already made another african to, we're in razor. the other 4 countries on the continent. that's our up on the top stories this. our thanks for joining us for more to the minute. use updates, head over to r t dot com will see it back very soon. the ah, hello, i'm manila chan you are tuned into modus operandi. this week we will dive into

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