u. n. does expect that those efforts will be hampered as a result of the earthquake. but series ambassador to the un says they will not allow additional border crossings. inter rebel held areas. we are ready to work with all who wanted to provide syrian from insights. so axis from inside syria are fish. so if anyone would like to help syria, they can coordinate with the government and we will be ready to do so. you and says that hospitals are overwhelmed and there's a dire need for tanf and plastic sheeting, luckily thousands of non food emergency kits had been pre positioned in the area and those will be given out. the secretary general sent his condolences to syria and promised that more help was on the way united nations is mobilizing to support the emergency response. and so let's work together in solidarity to assist all those heats by this disaster. many of whom were already in dyad needs. have you meditated units the united nations has yet to release money from it? central emergency response, fun for the disaster, but that's likely to happen after the assessmen

n u. s. national university of singapore does how much detail on this particular person use, high altitude balloons in general, have a range of functions they can do anything from imaging, to collecting samples from, of the air to you know, trying to collect signals intelligence. but in this particular case, that's not much enough information for us to know what this particular person does . and this is the 1st time that something like this has happened. so according to the u. s. statements that, that it seems to 60 some suggestion that similar kinds of activity have happened before. busy was just that this the 1st time they have made it public, but whether that is really the case, the so much secrecy surrounding this whole situation, we don't really know for certain. so how does that, how do you expect this to play out from here? do you expect the u. s. to react to in some way or to just wait and bring it down and examine it? so i don't know whether they they will bring it down. i mean, the option remains on the table. i guess it depends on where the balloon goes to, where the some error

ah, i know about us and this is a 0 live from doe hob, also coming up a u. n. t. as in quite kit northern syria to provide help to more than 5000000 people who've been made homeless. that these 5 people are killed in a suspected israeli missiles strike, targeting a security complex in damascus and african solutions to african problems. the call from leaders meeting in ethiopia, the 2nd day of the a you summit ah, to rescue efforts are coming to an end and humanitarian aid is ramping up across her care and syria and nearly a fortnight after 2 devastating earthquakes. more than 46000 people had died and millions more are homeless. the head of the turkish disaster and emergency management authority says, rescue efforts will finish on sunday night. many of those who survived are now living in camps and make shift shelters. the world health organization estimates more than 26000000 people across both countries need humanitarian aid. now we've had a team of correspondence covering the disaster across the region. first, we're going to hear from us had begun command mulas

u. n. a has accused the u. s. of politicizing aid in syria in the wake of these are these earthquakes. does that sound accurate to you? thank you very much for having me both sides on accusing each other of politicizing, humanity driven aid. but as a journalist, if we see facts underground, we will realize that it's the united states that is politicizing dis, humanitarian assistance to syria because it insists on until this moment to not deliver aids. to 90 percent of the syrian people were affected by his deadly or by just deadly earthquake. the insist to st. this 8, exclusively 2 areas controlled by drop it on the straw and utter islamist to rec groups in serbia. up until this moment, they refused to deal with the syrian government in order to send the much need of help, when thousands and thousands and thousands of servants are affected by this deadly earthquake. we have to know that up until to day, they are alive. people under durable and they are being rescued right now. thanks to the friends of serbia who sent their risk, your team's were sent their assistance will sent their equipme

does. you know, i really hope that the u. n. a really makes the difference. i hope the south south cooperation makes a difference and i hope that the west will supply the necessary technology and manpower to help these people. because of course, the knowledge is the one thing that they use oppressed the global you've been purposely under developed. but to be honest with you more than this one day, i hope for a day that the global south doesn't need the west. the handle tragedies like this, the south and south cooperation can have its own technology and its own manpower that supersedes the west and doesn't need them for speaking to bradley blankenship columnist on contributor many thanks for your time. brother. really appreciate it. thank you. thanks. thank you. for joining us have an aussie international as always plenty more of the latest news updates to be found on our website r t dot com will be back in 30 minutes with more awe. every spring and summer, the melting optic snow reveals abandoned machinery, millions of rusty barrels, and the detritus left by

hello, i'm elizabeth bronman doe, have with the headlines on al jazeera, the u. n. has appealed for $1000000000.00 to cover immediate humanitarian needs and to a kia following last week's devastating of quakes. that's on top of the $400000000.00 appeal for quake affected regions and syria. the relief effort there has been delayed by the lasting legacy of civil war opposition held areas and serious northwest have only seen a trickle of age delivered so far. more than 42000 people are now known to have died across both countries. vessel. so that has been meeting survivors in the northern syrian town of gin that is and it's drop off the aid to help them to survive this winter. you can see that there are thousands and thousands of people that they have lost their houses or relative there did one. now they are here waiting for aid for food, food, warm cloths for heaters and for the medicines. so it has been days that they were with him for this eve. they're said they're angry and they say that the old at the international community has forgotten them. now we're still hea

does it matter? where it sends a very strong signal to the world, because the way the members of the u. n. voltage this year, it's not any different from the way they voted a year ago. so it shows an overwhelming support for ukraine. and this is more than just shows an attitude when it comes to the violation of the country. and it's a border china abstained from the vote as it's done in the past. but in the hours after the resolution was passed, beijing released a much anticipated 12 point piece proposal to end the fighting in ukraine. what is your reaction to that plan? how is it being seen trying to place an interesting role here in, in providing a 12 point plan. the content of the plan was known before because many of the of the issues in the plan has been, i think you're late communicated by china already. so we didn't see anything new here and we didn't see it from the nation off the wall. but again, it shows that china place an interesting role and one to be seen as a mediator in the conflict. nicole robert from the german council on foreign relations. thank you so much for providin

can any process that does not involve either of the 2 sides ever lead to a credible and meaningful solution? has the u. n. system and particularly its principal organ, the un security council based on a 1945 vote construct not been rendered ineffective. we will always call for dialogue and diplomacy as the only viable we out. while we take note of the stated objectives of today's resolution, given its inherent limitations in reaching our desired goal of securing lasting peace, we are constrained to abstain. thank you. that comes as the un general assembly passed, a western drafted resolution calling on russia to withdraw its forces. $141.00 countries voted in favor of the motion after 2 days of debates and new york 7 nations including russia, bella roost and syria rejected the document while an additional $32.00 you and members, abstained among them. china, india, and iran. the hungarian foreign minister has also stood up against western arm supplies that have led to an escalation in the conflict in ukraine. it became already pretty obvious that the need are delivery of weapons, nor sanctions. those meas

u. n. has long been criticizing garage at 4, facilitating modern slavery. it is still available on apple's app store and google play store. in other words, slaves are being sold online. shocking, how does that work and who is in charge of stopping this? ah, what exactly is happening on the ross with more than half a 1000000 visitors each day harass, described itself as the largest saudi buying and selling platform cars, real estate, electronics, animals. and as a recent investigation, by the time suggests, human beings are on the list as well. according to the report, dozens of listings are posted each day by saudi citizens, advertising migrant workers garage users can rent or buy them as mates, cleaners, nannies and drivers. foreign laborers in these fears are in a vulnerable position in saudi arabia. they don't get full civil rights and can live and work in saudi arabia, only if a saudi citizen signs as being legally responsible. this practice is called co father. the legal guardian, or co feel, will write a contract and even the terms of the work as visa. as a consequence, people from abroad that want to work in saudi arabia paused on a rush to find a field that could help them hear

u. n. is gearing up to try to meet those needs? occurs. what more does the un beads good aids, those who thus remain made well, the secretary general's very clear. he said that they need resources and access. we do expect a new flash appeal after the visit of the relief chief over the weekend, a flash appeal next week, where our nations will be asked to contribute to help respond to the crisis. and access is really the sticking point for this part of northwestern syria. in particular, ah, the secretary general said that they are working with damascus to get more aid to the region through the country and through the government. but they would also like to see more across border routes into the country as well. because in some cases they can get to those in need more quickly if they come from over the border as opposed to through damascus. so that is something that they're working on. and he called on everyone to put politics aside and focus on relief efforts. or kristen, thanks. letter, kristen salumi there at un headquarters. new york was survivors are u

can any process that does not involve either of the 2 sides ever lead to a credible and meaningful solution? has the u. n. system and particularly its principal organ, the un security council based on a 1945, a construct not been rendered ineffective. now it's also important to note that we heard remarks from the representative of the hungary prior to the vote that also were somewhat inciteful as to what's going on in the feelings across the world. we can save lives of the people by creating peace. and based on our experience, it became already pretty obvious that the neither delivery of weapons, nor sanctions, those measures do not save lives. to the contrary. they contribute to the prolongation and the risk of escalation of this war. and they bring more suffering . united nations have been crated to serve as a platform for dialogue, for those who even consider each other as enemies. therefore, we urge dogs between russia and the united states to be started as soon as possible in the framework of the united nations. we do not want the world to be divided into blocks again, instead of blocks, we want con

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does not go through the regime areas on what you call the regime areas. the areas controlled by the government, it goes actually from turkey and the united nations relief agencies like u. n. s. c. i had been authorized to send this humanitarian relief items like food tans blankets, all kind of really had been authorized to do so by the security council. as to that's what's happening. there is a mechanism in place then announced a un to send this release into another country from turkey without actually that bruland officer and government. now it's unfortunately, the people here are stuck in a lot of politics and that's why we call on people to put politics aside on everybody, the government, the opposition, the international community. politics needs to be set aside. we need to focus on the needs of these people on these people themselves. what, what kind of 8 do they need? how can we get them to them as soon as possible with as much aid as possible, and as many people as possible? because many of these people live, either in far away remote areas or hot to reach areas either by this. the storm, the snow storm that had hit the region or by the earthquake that had damaged

u. n. i believe, have no answer about the hala crossing along the turkish border, which of course we'll then bring that age into northern syria. does that give you any hope or optimism that you are going to get at least some help this convoy? it belonged to the end of the program. or there need a convoy schedules to intercede before the or it's not about there. there are people are needed. they need in dire need of this. this doesn't come the way. so it's a different totally different and that wouldn't. this is not support for that. got the stuff that we are missing. yeah, it made me like give us some support, but that's, that's a boat that we needed that not that that we ask it for we asked for 2 days and reported that we talked with it when we talked a lot with many different part is that we need support from the spare platform, what vehicle there's the discover acumen medical supplies for hospitals and doctors come in to see that with that obstacle. you know, we, we ask in from the very beginning to help us and this is luck with no one. and this conflict doesn't look to be the best we we ask it is not a delta is a volunteer at t

u. n. is going to provide paychecks for people to help with debris clean up and small construction projects. but the united nations points out that it does not have any heavy equipment or search and rescue teams, and that it is dependent on other international donors for those needs to be met. sammy, all right, thanks so much. kristin salumi there. i want to give you an idea of what's been happening all day here and all night, and you can see a little bit, i'm going to move out the way and asked you out if he can no zoom in a little bit. we have seen people, neighbors, relatives come to this area where a building one stood and has collapsed all day. people have been wandering over and these guys came over just during our life. john said hey, can we come to this spot? and we said shaw of course, we've seen people get out of cars, we've seen women come here and just sit down on the ground and cry. and i think that is quite telling of the emotions and the challenge that remains for people here. people i've been speaking to say, well this is our home people who've been told by the government that they should leave some of these buildings are

u. n. has long been criticizing the herat at 4, facilitating modern slavery, it is still available on apple's app store and google play store. in other words, slaves are being sold online. shocking. how does that.