Years in prison for 2 men who helped alshabaab gunman carry out the Westgate Mall attack in nairobi. For the 3 victims killed on my for attack at a church in the east. And far is smile have all the days sport including paris and cement president Nasser Al Khalifa he has been cleared a fake corruption charge at a court in switzerland. We begin then with continuing coverage of that breaking news the strong earthquake in the aegean sea which is shaken both turkey and greece rescuers are frantically searching for survivors and is mir after the magnitude 7 quake caused several buildings to collapse it triggered a sea surge and flooding at least 4 people are known to been killed and 120 injured lets speak to aljazeera 7 course is live for us in istanbul so whats the latest from israel. Well as rain according to the governor of is meant for buildings have completely collapsed and for citizens were killed on their the rubbles of those buildings he also said that 70 citizens were. Rescued by the search and rescue teams and we know that this 120 people have been injured of course the figures change dramatically even in minutes when these kinds of strong earthquakes happen this is what we know so far about the casualties but we dont know any accurate numbers because at 1st some source in some official sources said that they had reports of 6 pill things being collapsed then. The minister said that these 20 buildings were collapse so maybe there are more buildings that have been damaged and that have been collapsed so that the d. V. D. After india aftermath of the earthquake we have seen pictures showing some small coming out of those buildings that have collapsed people were in panic and on social media we are seeing some calls by citizens giving some addresses saying that they have people on their rubbles over there or those buildings that they are mentioning might have been collapsed but this was a very strong one it was felt by it was felt in the nearby cities even in istanbul also greek island somewhere. It was one of the places that was affected by the earthquake there was a partial tsunami even if it is our District Office where there was a partial tsunami and the Governors Office said that it was contained once turkish citizen was injured of course since its a course a city a harbor city there is a risk for floods and tsunami or always that but according to the office it was a it was a small risk and it is out of question right now but we dont know what. This earthquake is going to ring because izmir is the largest city of turkey with more than 4500000. 00 People Living there and it tracks the mastic and Foreign Tourists every year millions of the hundreds of thousands of tourists every year and the city center is highly populated thats why the buildings are very high of course this is a real. Western turkey that egypt calls have been actually witnessing earthquakes for the last one and a half fear mainly is made. In the cities of western turkey have been affected most by those earthquakes which whose magnitude have been between 3. 3 to 4. 5 but this 17. 0 was a very strong and unexpected one despite the earthquakes that have been with the so far turkey is sits on a fault lines at 3 and not only on the western coast also on a taller and plus stumble the if those areas are sitting on a very strong assessment fault lines which are potential dangers in the country thats why especially after deny 999. 00 earthquake that shook istanbul and its nearby cities which cost thousands of lives in turkey there was a call for mobilization for urban transform ation thats to back up the structures of the of the damaged buildings or the ones that have been built before 999 or to demolish those all buildings and renew with with the new ones in even just a couple of weeks ago is stumble in is stumble at the Governors Office and took his Disaster Management agency sent letters to those buildings were who were built before 999 and to either back to their structures column structures up or to demolish and build new. Build things as this thumb rule is also facing a potential. Strong earthquake so is my it was a shock for is met today as many people were at home it was the mid day and because of course on the virus many people are working from home and students are at home to add 3 to the many thanks indeed ounces there is some consumer there reporting live from istanbul david im xander is a professor of risk and the sauce to reduction at the University College london he researches Emergency Management and planning he joins us now live via skype from florence. Could tell you with us this was a magnitude 7 earthquake it was felt as far away as crete looking at those pictures how is it that that some buildings a complete be untouched the majority of buildings completely untouched whereas others have just crumpled. Right there are several reasons why that may be the case one relates to the Foundation Conditions under the building whether those are effectively stable ground or not perhaps a more important condition relates to the cromarty of construction the quality of the reinforcing roads and the cement and about all the inspection regime which i think in turkey is generally rather poor. And for that reason we find modern buildings collapsing historically there has been an evolution around the Seismic Building in turkey but rather smaller buildings martin reinforced concrete buildings can across be very large as you can see in pictures here and if they are not constructed to seismic standards and that is not in force by proper inspection for conformity with ability codes then youre likely to have a collapse as you did very widespread collapse in the east made parade of 999 on the north coast of turkey so what needs to happen to ensure that this sort of thing doesnt happen again i mean you cant just demolish buildings that could potentially be a hazard of quake or kenya. Sometimes i think that perhaps you should demolish such a building these however it is generally possible to retrofit buildings that theyre not built to particularly wonderful standard of seismic resistance there are ways and means by which there seismic resistance can be improved truthfully to an acceptable level it is a rather technical process but it is feasible although costly and its now a race against time i suppose with with with night falling there and as we had to to find people who may be trapped under the rubble how do you go about doing that. Well let me 1st point out that according to an estimate by the u. S. Geological survey what they said craig about 6000 people who live in the area of severe shaking 71000 in the area a very strong shaking of 3200000 in the area of strong shaking which implies that in fact the number of casualties is likely to rise possibly substantially but one thing is that techie since 999 as opposed to a pretty good network of search and rescue units are go to brown couldnt go there which is based in istanbul and is on the scene now we this minute and they are United Nations so to fight their own Party Quality you know they know what theyre doing so youre getting the convergence reaction of search and rescue technical explain medical specialists doctors and so on on this area and of course the Emergency Operations will go on unchecked throughout the night and why is it that seems to. Hit pretty hard by this earthquake where as. Greece and the greek islands at the moment dont seem to have suffered this kind of damage. Well if the earth breaks it didnt start quite superficially right near the surface of the earths crust and this one had a high profile into that to say where the shaking starts 21 kilometer says date which in part of the shallows and then be sent to a point on the mark where the shaking starts reaches some or the order of 60 kilometers south west of is mia you know who its quite a long way from greece so you get whats known as seismic attenuation in other words the waves lose their folds of the shaking loses if it falls as it travels and it would travel westwards towards the gulf or hurry which actually is an area that has had some very serious that greggs and tsunamis in the past across the acnc which is fairly highly seismic timetable of generating significant tsunamis in this instance however the tsunami that was generated the water rushed through the streets of these bigger least according to a programmer just had an emergency manager who lives in his beer and was there. However fortunately not as large a tsunami as could have occurred and has occurred as a result of programs in the most distant parts a david just basically that earthquake of this magnitude what now is that the danger of aftershocks being further travis. Right this sort of very great aftershocks tell you a lot really what we would call a negative exponential manner in other words very rapidly however unfortunately there are almost certainly be several large part of the shots and not sequence you know who is there will be thousands or even tens of thousands of smaller aftershocks that maybe perceptible but it will not be or a great deal of damage and there will be a few larger events probably smaller than the main shock or just might be to 6. 6. Parts taper of doing damage firstly in their own right and secondly because they will be acting upon buildings and structures that have been weakened by a major shock and that is unfortunate but true. Professor still to his many thanks indeed for being with us David Alexander there. Via skype from florence Reuters News Agency reporting that the greek prime minister. Has called the turkish president and he says whatever our differences these are times when our people need to stand together. Referring of course to the earthquake that hes offered his condolences to president other one of the deaths that we know of so far of course and stay with us saying that the death toll is likely to rise given the scale of the damage that is managing editor of the daily southern newspaper he says the death toll is likely to rise. I was right where i am at the moment when the earthquake hit and it hit and i did feel it very very strongly. As i cant imagine even how it was felt in is near where it actually happened throughout its some walleyes people that i spoke to they all said that they had felt the earthquake and we know that it was even felt from the greek island of some was and actually has caused damage. So unfortunately there has been you know announcement that 4 people have lost their lives so far and about 220 are already announced to be under the debris. You know it is very soon to actually speak on speaking on the numbers of the casualties unfortunately. As it very very short happened very you know nearly about an hour ago or so so but we know that the rescue and search teams have been dispatched. And we know that the efforts are underway something that we should also be aware about this region is that is near as surrounding area and most of the aegean coast is a earthquake prone. Area so. Very recently earthquakes happen in the in the region and use me in in medicine for a story im monita province for example. Small damages had happened at the time but this strength of the quake wasnt as strong as what happened today the fact that we felt its you know all the way to stumble a very strongly shows the intensity of the earthquake itself as far as we know at this point at this hour that we have have we have heard the reports of about 20 buildings collapse yes this is the strength of the earthquake is a big measure but at the same time i think the region is meeting in and some of the buildings we we know that actually that you know some of the areas in that region are the regions where Urbanization Ministry had already previously. You know had plans to to redo of a night because of the quality of the building buildings you spoke about the 1909. Earthquake but very recently actually we had an earthquake in l a. And before that we had another earthquake in van provinces of the eastern turkey and they were also very deadly you know we we are hoping that the numbers will not be escalating and we hope to hear the news about its more people being rescued but the fact that some 20 buildings have collapsed is. A big news and im afraid the number of casualties may rise. Thats just take a moment to bring you up to speed with exactly what has happened a strong earthquake in the aegean sea has. Shaken turkey and greece that it hit on friday afternoon local time it was a powerful one to a magnitude 7 trauma and was centered off the keys is may have province it was felt as far away as athens and istanbul in the out of crees turkey put the magnitude of the quake at 6. 00 saying that at least 20 buildings collapsed in the city of is man greek media is reporting that it triggered a mini tsunami that flooded the island of samples at least 4 people unknown to have died at the moment that figure is likely to rise more than 100 other people have been pulled from the rubble injured rescuers are still searching for survivors but it does to me it is the u. N. Coordinator for a cooked search and rescue association the organization that is the largest aid group assisting with quick rescue joins us now live via skype from london to tell us about what will be going on now in izmir as far as this rescue operation is concerned. By the arm well so far initially when the 1st the earthquake the for the 1st time we got a note of cation and initially our teams on the ground so we have several regional teams in the region that went and started to their watery areas. And then out of 28. 00 of our teams across the country none of them were activated to deploy that region for initial assessments. It looks like youre it laid up the collapses are sporadic in or in particular this despite the city only so its inborn noble and directly but the rest of the city currently does not have any mass collapses and so it looks like local response will be sufficient for the time being one of the the chances of people surviving a building collapse. A others the rescuers looking for bodies here or is it possible to survive under a mountain of heavy rubble like. It actually comes down to how the buildings were built in the 1st place so if people have been trained and educated about how to react when they start hearing to. Start feeling the tremors then and if the building is a building or standards then there is a relatively good chance of people surviving but otherwise if the buildings have been poorly constructed or have not been inspected source so to speak then. Minute really depends on the law the size of the boys that had left the building makes after the collapse so there is statistically speaking but they there can be survivors that can be retrieved from under the rubble rubble alive up to 10 days after an earthquake but this is only a statistical value and it can change depending on the size of the buildings that what the Building Material is it cetera so it comes out to pure luck and whether you fall into a void. A pocket of air underneath that rubble that i assume means that rescuers will need access to heavy lifting equipment. That may be the case at these times they are there are local mechanisms in place that to utilize a coherent response when come when coming access to heavy machinery this can be anything from the local emergency amount of north already a farts equipment or it could be the local municipal equipment there but. Currently a Crisis Management center has been set up and the local municipality already include the local Governors Office and all sorts of Club Structure assignments or work site assignments and have the rescue equipment distribution is done through there and i assume that if when when youre using heavy lifting equipment and youll searching for survivors it has to be done very very carefully. Thats absolutely right there is special training that. Done it requires us to do that so only our trained and licensed personnel will be able to guide you operators of heavy lifting to hit d some machinery and this little course be done after having been an extensive search that might not be with canines make that routinely trunk equipment so to see if there were any survivors near where the were at the table if you quit and is operating you talk about the use of the of dogs i mean how do you go about locating survivors who may be trapped. I mean what is quite a large area of of heavy rubble. So there is actually you can simply speak and theres 2 ways of doing this 1st of all it would be an initial wide a reassessment so there could be survivors up on. Doctors thats more towards a surface a bit of be the Club Structure so they can be helped out by their neighbors usually in earth but situations are structural collapse. In the 1st 72 hours the neighbors and the neighboring and people in the area help their bear no ones out of the problem but other than that for people who are lower down into the into structures then. Canines are the number one go to tactic here because canines can be very effective in locating. The senses and smells of people strap underwater on the rubble and on the other hand we also have sensitive audio and visual equipment back and listen into the listen to be and what sensors place across the rubble and we can magnify the sounds coming out of the rubble up to about a 1000000 times and then be the operators of this equipment is is known to basically clean up the sound and to identify what sounds maybe maybe coming could i mean is it like a trap animal or is it like a trap maybe. The operators are very well trained and that you can come up race and how do you go about old arising the manpower on the ground i mean this is a search now that is going to take more than the next 2436 hours how do you ensure the people get enough rest and in what must be in an exhausting job. Say it again i mean catch less part how do you go about older guys in your teams i mean this is such an exhausting job and its likely to go along the next 243648 hours. So for our team sake there is a we already have plans in place for that were were preparing underway for a expected major as time will earthquake so we have the internal coordination mechanisms already in place and we are to hook up those aware the governmental. Mission mechanisms and the government coordination mechanisms of run by assads which is the National Emergency and