we took the world back on the search for oil in the middle counting the cost on al-jazeera. a frantic search and rescue mission after a powerful earthquake levels dozens of buildings in turkey's ismy a province. hello i'm maryam namazie and on then the watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program vigils across france for 3 people killed in nice among them a mother of 3 who cared for the elderly. this during a national coronavirus lockdown in france the cases are also surging in italy and germany the e.u.

says a joined our sponsor is the only remedy in the state of texas breaks in early voting records more people have voted before this election and in the tire 2016 votes. come to program our top story as a desperate search for survivors in the turkish city of izmir after it was struck by a powerful earthquake on the aegean sea the magnitude 7 tremor brought down buildings and triggered tidal waves in the coastal city as well as in parts of greece at least 20 buildings have collapsed several neighborhoods or flooded by sea water fishel figures are that 14 people are known known to have died and that includes 2 teenagers on the greek island of samuel's but the number is expected to rise more than 400 others were injured though search and rescue teams are still working

through the rubble and a new reports now from istanbul. rescuers search for survivors and the rubble of buildings in is made trickiest 3rd biggest city the epicenter of friday afternoons shallow magnitude 7 earthquake was off the turkish cost. i have a shop on the back side i was talking with someone i felt that while we were outside the ground started to shake while i was watching our building i saw this one collapse many buildings collapsed injuring hundreds. all i'm sending them hundreds of. this man says got you are the greatest please protect us it still continues. emergency responders are traveling from a stumble to support rescue efforts while residents are asked not to jam phone lines or transport links on necessarily but i thought that the ground has shifted you cannot think or you try to do is get out everywhere was collapsing luckily our

building was intact we were really panicked diminish to get out at the last minute . the quake caused damage in many provinces in western turkey and triggered to see stores that flooded streets near the city of is made some damage was also reported to buildings and votes on the greek island of some most the hospital director there said some people with slight injuries have been treated we are hoping that the numbers will not be escalating and we hope to hear in the news about more people being rescued but the fact that some 20 buildings have collapsed is. a big news and i'm afraid the number of casualties may rise crisscrossed by major fault lines turkey is one of the world's most 1st quick prone countries at these 17000 people were killed in 1999 when a large quicks flock the city of is met south is stuff a stumble and around 500 turks died endure the quake which struck they stand city

a farm 9 years ago with this earthquake about 6000 people live in the area of severe shaking 71000 in the area a very strong shaking a 3200000 in the area of strong shaking which implies that in fact the number of casualties is likely to rise possibly substantially the one thing is that since 999 has evolved a pretty good network of search and rescue units near earth quake was also felt here in istanbul 500 kilometers far from israel now residents in turkey and on nearby quake islands have been a warned of aftershocks and further damage they might bring up a solo al-jazeera a stumble. so these are some of the pictures that we're getting now from the scene of those search and rescue operations that are still underway of course likely to continue throughout the night and if you can just take a look at that collapsed building just gives you an idea of the extent of the

damage suffered as we're hearing in cinemas report there over what at least 20 buildings have collapsed perhaps as many as 28 buildings have collapsed as a result of this magnitude 7 earthquake and many of them residential buildings so sadly that death toll which currently stands at 14 is likely to rise over 400 others injured we know that emergency responders have been called in from other cities in turkey to try and help with this rescue effort to try and find survivors but obviously a great deal of damage and destruction caused by this earthquake which sadly the country has become accustomed to. so actually we can now talk to says it is an editor for the newspapers foreign desk in istanbul joins us by skype and i'm just wondering if what the earth quote earthquake felt like to you or if you felt any tremors

a toll road to be honest but much. my family lives in israel so i was quite a group called my mom and she was shaking she was crying a little holes in her knee because. the court. didn't. do. a couple of public park. books. or mine mine mine. lives in there so it was a bit warmer clothes a moment marketable. you saying that they're very upset understandably where are your family now do they have a place to stay are they safe well my current with you so you don't stay in the current cause you know they will stay in my brother's holes which is all new.

story. new or so they want to make sure that they will stay together and you know there is. official figures are that 14 people have died that includes 2 teenagers on the greek island of some lost but also more than 400 others were injured did your family or anybody that you know in izmir province tell you about what they might have witnessed or what they're hearing in terms of casualties and injuries. incurred crucial clues injuries. maybe more than the or which will number words in our street is near 2 houses were damaged. holes they didn't get them it just makes holes in the holes the next across it was damaged. probably going to be some new her preemptive action support of the critics to prevent any of

these in the creature what's interesting about the pictures that we're seeing is that there is just complete destruction some buildings completely flattened and then we see that the surrounding buildings in the vicinity actually not far from each other maybe a few kilometers away still standing does that suggest that perhaps there are some buildings in the area that are earthquake proof and others perhaps older buildings have weak as structures and just not built for something like this. yeah that's true it's all about structure and you know regulations the quality of holden is not very routine is made on to be honest also in istanbul. to some new here evolutions that controls the quality of houses you know stumbled in. earthquake off 9099 so newly built houses were demolition because of the poor quality you know they'd be the goods that you use during the course of action is very important so the

regulations are still very weak there has been some progress after the 9099 earthquake but it's not enough that as we see today because also there has been some damage is in houses in istanbul so 'd there needs to be something you know that the government and the states sure take some preemptive states to prevent corder. thank you very much for joining us today appreciate it editor for her papers foreign desk is temple thank you. now vigils are being held across france in honor of the 3 people killed in an attack on a church in nice a suspect is now in custody investigators say is from tunisia and arrived in europe last month on the italian island of lampedusa a makeshift memorial has been set up outside the not remember silica in nice from

where david chaytor now reports. outside the basilica in these streams of people are still coming to pay respect to those who lost their lives and pray for the grieving loved ones the sense of shock and dismay here that terrorism has once again blighted this city to choose some of those will everything must come to an end one day you have to have faith faith brings happiness not war. political attitudes of the crisis are hardening the french interior minister general down in said his country was a war against islamist ideology not against a religion and face both internal and external enemies words concerned the muslim community here you should. be. muslims have now to express themselves and media have to give them all gents they are ready to tell that we are keeping strong facing disappear off their risen terrorism won't win.

the chief antiterrorist prosecutor revealed the attacker was a refugee from tunisia sources have named him as able him we who is 21 he reached the italian island of lampedusa last month before coming to france when his request for asylum was refused. i mean these compounded the gap in this war against islam islam because we do now speak about all because war has been declared it is necessary to win the fight because i think the people of france want protection these i want us to change their methods i think it's time to collect constitutional reform to create a french guantanamo for those we know as dangerous people people. here in nice police have arrested 47 year old man who's been accused of providing the knife man

with a mobile phone and i found himself is now in hospital being treated for serious bullet wounds surrounded by the police on the eve of all saints day the congregation are determined to continue with their services despite the horror witnessed here. their prayers will be the victims and their grieving families 1st saw look as the father of 2 daughters aged $21.00 and. the 5 who worked as a warden of the church for 7 years simone bought it to silver a brazilian mother of 3 who's been in france for 30 years and worked in the care service for the elderly and a woman aged around 70 years almost beheaded as she noted in prayer nobody knows her name david chaytor 0 niece. well in you officials of one members to prepare for new coronavirus restrictions as infections across the continent

a block is planning a coordinated response to ensure hospitals are not overwhelmed but its health commissioner says further measures must be imposed to break the chain of transmission well millions of people across france are once again on the national lockdown and germany is set to follow suit next week but reports on this story now from paris. quiet neighborhoods and closed cafes in paris as france begins a new lock down the picturesque area of momart nearly empty the french government says the measure will help stop the coronavirus spread for some staying home a 2nd time won't be easy for monica i don't think we'll look down is the best idea because it only delays things so in the short term things may get better but once the leg down is lifted it will be the same as before and cases will rise again. we expected it it seems necessary they tried a curfew but it didn't work so now the most important thing is for everyone to play

the game to respect it so we can live normally again there was some traffic in the city center the government's allowed some businesses and public services to remain open to help boy the struggling economy but office buildings in the financial district were shocked when an offense are of paris's business district there are a few people out and about but is nowhere near as busy as they would be normally on a regular day tens of thousands of people work in this area and the square behind me would usually be teeming with activity a 2nd wave is battering economies and people's health across europe in russia new infections are rising fast some doctors say medical supplies are running out in germany some hospitals may not have enough staff to cope with the emergency. the number of patients is risen in the past few days in the past week we've had twice even 3 times more patients than before you know we still have capacity to provide good care but we're seeing

a fall in care supply our staff is slowly reaching their limit the european union says the block must act fast not to be overwhelmed leaders have agreed to pay for the transfer of patients across borders in the virtual meeting e.u. health ministers promised to better coordinate their approach. we're not powerless in the face of it after all. there are hygiene measures and we can webcast but we need to coordinate measures with other member states and that came across very clearly but it's important that people take charge of their own responsibilities on a daily basis the french government had wanted to avoid a 2nd shutdown little costs ruling out such a measure until very recently but the spiraling infection rate make them change their strategy germany will also look down the urgency of the situation suggest other european countries may be forced to follow suit natasha al-jazeera paris. still ahead on the program fighting intensifies in

a going to car back hopes now turn to international mediation talks between azerbaijan and armenia. spin fine and sunny across the good parts of southern europe the downswing spain and portugal a lovely big dose of clear skies here high pressure in charge of keeping things nice to settle but around our high we've seen bands of cloud and grain just getting pushed him from the atlantic some very wet sand windy weather across the british isles we have seen flooding in the northwest of england further spells a very wet weather coming in here as we go on through sas last real day as well that cloud on the right will make its way across the north sea notice some law of the shallows to around rumania ukraine pushing across the black sea pushing up into that western side of iraq we go on through sunday still some showers around here

clear skies for central and southern parts but the weather will push towards the by of biscay say northern parts of spain and portugal can expect to see some wet weather there are really wet weather will be through the press potentially pushing back across and snow the nala and western parts of england along with wales and the good parts of scotland so some more. lively weather coming through here best of the sunshine then across the mediterranean but that said on the side of the med we'll see a few showers just getting just put fed into that said more they still call it out of libya somewhat weather to a possibility and all that egypt. for . now is to doing 5 go to would likely if it's not you don't learn about it's night something else happened on august 9th annual. interest among 18 year old michael brown was gunned down 2 point one really

something ferguson was really mean i saw my son in 15. years that i mentor. and i felt like you know at this my time to stand. the over the the way. back i'm back look at the main stories now search and rescue operations are continuing into the night in the turkish city of izmir after it was struck by a powerful earthquake 20 buildings collapsed and several streets were flooded by surging seawater has at least 14 people were killed that figure includes 2 teenagers in greece. and vigils have been held in memory of the 3 people killed in

thursday's knife attack in southern france security has also been heightened with more soldiers deployed across the country off to attack in the next. 4 days to go until the us presidential election and texas has seen an unprecedented surge in voting the amber of people who've chosen to submit in personal mail in ballots has already eclipsed the state's total time now for 2016 more than 9000000 texans have cost votes up from 8000000 and just 4 years ago well that makes texas just the 2nd stay off to hawaii to break its voting record before election day the southern state is america's 2nd largest electoral prize off to california hasn't voted for a democrat since jimmy carter in 1976 but polls suggest joe biden is ahead with early vote is that president don't trump on texas by a 9 point margin in 2016 that's around 800000 votes he's campaign says its own

analysis shows the president is well ahead. secondly hulk is following all this joins us now from washington and early voting very much the story of this election cycle. yeah there's no question given the fact that there were so many millions of early mail in ballots sent out that we're seeing this incredible surge it's not just in texas but while that stands out as a state it we're seeing this to a large degree and in states all across the united states and what this tends to do is show very much what we're seeing in the national polls because typically mail in voters have tended to be democrats there are people who have more confidence in the system republicans listening to donald trump and concerns that there is vote rigging are choosing to vote in person were early voting has started but what this

says is much like the national polls that biden has a lead and so well there is some caution optimism among the biden campaign they are still taking this and with a degree of confidence both the joe biden as well as donald trump are crisscrossing the midwest today will be in 3 stops each as they try to grab every single vote but already you can see at least within the case of joe biden the fact that his up until now his campaigning schedule has been a bit subdued compared to donald trump's it shows that they feel not only are they doing well in the polls but they're also doing well in terms of fund raising and that is translating into a very good campaign for the former vice president who hopes to become president can really have been covering developments there in washington the last few years it's been very busy and the atmosphere very feeble how would you describe the mood then now just days away from this election. well i think that washington

d.c. can sometimes be a little bit different than the rest of the country but this time i think that there is a feeling even more so well there is anxiety all across the united states the fact that the white house is located within washington d.c. and it's a very small jurisdiction has residents here in the district nervous has business owners very nervous in fact what we've been seeing for about 234 days now are businesses boarding up why are they doing this well because we've seen social unrest in the united states for many many months now and the fear is regard list of what happens on november 3rd that there's going to be unrest that there's going to be protests the question is who will be protesting that has a lot to do with the outcome of the election the bottom line is 50 percent or roughly 50 percent of this country is not going to be happy with the election results so there could be celebrations if donald trump loses or there could be

anger if he does or does it just depends where you sit on the political spectrum but the bottom line is there's a feeling there's going to be unrest and that's translated into a landscape that was already looking a little depressed in washington d.c. due to the shutdowns due to job losses due to covert 19 and the social unrest in the protests that have occurred over the summertime now that boarding up in the vacancies in the downtown getting even worse so it's an unnerving science so close to the u.s. election many people in the united states and particularly here in washington d.c. feeling very apprehensive. at that hour in washington. well not the conflict of a newborn a car a box of foreign ministers of armenia and azerbaijan holding more talks with the international mediators just days off to a 3rd ceasefire collapsed it comes as both sides make advances toward key locations in the battle for control of the disputed it and going to car by region on the union officials say that troops of blown up ammunition posed as very troops near

the city of panic cut not far away as a by john's army is said to be closing in on the key town of shushi fighting in the region has intensified in recent days hold to abdel-hamid has more now from the capital a coup. there hasn't been any official announcement coming out of here about the show whether the syrian army is actually heading towards that area i was speaking to with a top commander of the army earlier today and he wouldn't confirm any of the news coming out of armenia he didn't deny it either but then he said at the end of the day it's no secret we have said that we want to take back all our. territories so that means the 7 disappears surrounding that corner and eventually nagorno karabakh itself and if you look at what's happening the reality on the ground a few days ago gen announced that it wasn't coup but is now is basically south of

the light chain corridor which is key for me. because that's with resupplies nagorno-karabakh the azerbaijan army has been making advances at a formidable pace over the past few weeks is now trying to i think this is really it has to calculate very well what it's going to do next because basically once they get the corridor and shusha. armenia will be in a very tough position anything north of that it's. also considers occupied territories is a very amount in this area is not very there's not many people there. would be very difficult according to there were john to put up a fight there. now the remains of young women are among $59.00 bodies found in a hidden grave in central mexico it's the latest discovery as police and security forces struggle to contain violence that's led to a record number of mud as many of them linked to drug gangs cattle up as her day on

reports. more teams are called in to look for more bodies the remains of dozens of people have already been discovered here dumped in mass graves in mexico central state of going to what many were women and most were teenagers. it's a very wide area we must continue the search because we think there may be more remains buried there but it's a much to think about it. this mother fears her son could be a victim of the drug cartels and their battles for control of the cocaine trade and other illegal narcotics at 1st she believed he was still alive but that hope is now doing your local school is going to make i hope they let me going to the area to see for myself i can maybe recognize something like my son's clothes that's what i'm hoping for. more than 3000 unmarked graves have been found since mexico's

military was deployed to fight the powerful drug cartels in 2006 for years families have appealed for more government help to find their missing relatives with that great a bush. just glad this day and that's it critics say the lenient approach of the president and his men with has emboldened the drug gangs turf wars between rivals has led to more murders and innocent needed 40000 mexicans are reported missing. and now public frustration is growing let it is this makes us sad because our beloved city is always quiet we go out not very late but with our family we can't do that anymore because of the insecurity. back at the mass grave families say all they can do now is wait for answers on who is buried here and perhaps hope for some closure katia locus of the young desire. now 2 men of been

sentenced to 3 and 18 years in prison for their role in west in the westgate mall attack in kenya they were convicted earlier this month helping al-shabaab fighters storm and i wrote the shopping center in 201367 people were killed during a siege that lasted for 4 days catherine shaw is in nairobi and says it's hoped the verdict could draw a line under the attack. this is a case that has taken quite a long time to conclude it started in 2030 and right after that attack on the westgate mall here in the city in nairobi for assailants all of that attack were all killed by security forces but this 2 men who were in the dock today were found guilty of helping and supporting that crime and today the lawyers presented their final statements with the defense asking for leniency saying that the men have. conducted themselves well in the duration of this case also

saying that the right their role in that attack was very small was peripheral we also heard from the convicts themselves also asking for massing and insisting that they are innocent the prosecution on the other said hansei no matter how small their role was 67 people were killed and that trumps everything chief magistrate francis and i agreed with the prosecution sentencing the 2 men to 33 years and 18 is right after that ruling we talked to the defense lawyer who said they will be appealing that sentence and we've also been speaking to survivors of the westgate attack we've been speaking to those who lost their loved ones and they've been watching a very keenly what's been going on and they're happy that justice has been served after such a long time they're hoping that finally they may just get their closure. thousands of protesters are gathering in the polish capital walsall to rally against any a total ban on abortions defined rules that restrict gatherings during the pandemic

activists and marching through the city military police of lined the streets some of them in riot gear have been more than a week of protests now against a court ruling which further restrictive the country's of all laws a procedure is now only available in cases of rape incest or where the mother's health is at risk. a look at the main stories this hour now 12 people in turkey and 2 people in greece have been killed after an earthquake struck the aegean sea search and rescue operations are continuing into the nih after several buildings in the turkish city of izmir collapse when a magnitude 7 trauma hit it set off a small tsunami sweeping water in deborah including cars up to 50 meters inland is disaster relief agency says more than 5.