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a major poor team. so darn after almost 2 weeks of a row case that's threatened for countries most vital supplies. tanzanian author abdur rises, gordon. i is awarded the nobel prize for literature, voice uncompromising works on colonialism and the fate of refugees. also this our we ride along with families in mexico on a painful journey looking for their loved ones who disappeared more than a year ago. we joined them of course, school days. you can you pull the code to sleep houses. swampland. we find the dumbest well and in sport players unite in protest in north america's top, but women's football league teams are returned to action for the 1st time since in abuse scandal hit the competition. ah, thank you very much for joining us. this search is on for survivors after an

earthquake in south west pakistan that killed at least 20 people. hundreds more are injured, and many victims could still be buried under the rubble. the military has been sent in to help with rescue efforts. the city of our nie in baluchistan province is the worst hit region. then best robbie has the d test. most people were asleep in the early morning hours when a shallow earthquake caused the death and destruction. in southwestern pakistan, there's the gilbert by carrier, norma. that is see it was a $5.00 magnitude quake, but i would say it was more than that. lots of lives lost and damaged property. the main mosque of the town was also damaged badly. him buffalo believe was vi, but everyone including women and children, were running here and there we were. skin didn't know what to do. later. ambulances arrived and took the injured to hospital with other people in rural baluchistan, live mostly in mud, brick homes, and as has always been the case across earthquake prone pakistan, poor communities that lack modern construction methods were high build quality is

an affordable. those are the places where earthquakes exact their highest cost are $200.00 c is yes, so far we've managed more than $200.00 injuries. we have received 15 dead bodies. we sent some severely injured by abroad using ambulances and private vehicles to gretta for better treatment. those who are in serious condition, like we are shifting them using helicopters, despite access roads being cut off by sunrise rescue cruise had reached the town of her knight and begun sifting through the rubble. this earth greg, it may not seem very large, but it was shallow. this the shaking was very strong in the uh, the center area. hannah is very close. you are only about 15 kilometers away from the abbey center. and so if you add that to the construction of the homes and structures in the area that will unfortunately cause large damage. the fact that it happened at niagara sleeping that even exists, arrays, da damage,

and the injuries that will happen in the area where the quake was felt as far as the provincial capital. quit aftershocks. continuing for hours. the areas mountainous and prone to land slides that poses another threat that could hinder rescue and recovery operations. rescuers are also trying to reach more than a dozen coal miners trapped under grown. provincial government officials say as many as 100 homes have collapse so far. and with most people at home in their beds at the time of the earthquake, the number of dead and injured is expected to increase is in basra village is here . while i get an update now from camel hider who's just arrived in han, i, in baluchistan province, the worst affected area. tell us what you found since you've been there. how bad is the damage? apologies. we seem to have lost our connection there with camel hider,

who was just to write as we were saying in her night, in baluchistan province, in pakistan where there was an earthquake earlier today that slept at least 20 people dead over a 100 injured. as soon as we re establish our connection to come our we will bring him back up. ben does get an update on the situation there from him. let's move on to the news. in the meantime, and dozens of trucks in eastern sudan have been allowed through a blockade that's causing a supply crisis, demonstrators or for sport sudan to close as part of a protest against the government. but they have now allowed trucks carrying medicine to pass for humanitarian reasons. the members of the betia tribe are angry over the regions economy and a p c r, between the government and rebel groups. my mid i do has the latest on the blockade from cartoon the beecher and had done doors tribesmen who are blockading the port and also the roads leading out and into the port as had done city

are saying that this was just an exceptional gesture from their site that, that location is still on, and they say they will allow the vehicles to move in a convoy to its khartoum and only in a convoy and then they will reseal the roads and the pulled us well at the beach. another door, tribes of complaining about and the marginalization economic modularization of the people is done so done. and it's about 3 weeks. and since they started the blockade of the polt m, of course the, these also the issue of the dialogue between the government under protest us not having hud much, a success sofa. and the, and the b j under the under placement are saying that they will continue the blockade off the port. the port is a lifeline will just was to done. but also, it's neighboring, a landlocked south sudan, which ships more than $164000.00 bottles of oil through the port daily. i returning

now to thank a sign in the aftermath of an earthquake in baluchistan province. as i was saying earlier, come on high to has arrived in hon. i one of the worst affected areas. i tell us about what you've seen seen steve arrived. come on, how extensive is the damage where the kill ready, dog care. we've been door that about 400 holidays have been damaged. the dead, george derry standard brent d. a you can see behind me the rubber and as you saw and then but rob it's back age . most of the how did hair made out of mark and stone, so they didn't have it. they didn't stand at john's warehouse or door that the military had been active and yeah, relief effort. i know it's hard to dig out people from under the rug, but the get door like surprisingly, it mainstay. but it, although they will fear that it could be much higher,

they said that it more region, it has taken no trouble. 5 hours to reach this place from the provincial capital of that's where the 1st responders came from. so it took a considerable amount of time for people to do it. i. and therefore the low goods had to head them, says, and apologies. we have a loss of connection to come on hider. this is a mountainous area where he's reporting from very hard to access, as you heard and communications links, not very stable as well. but we got the gist of the situation there. come are saying that the death at all still fans at 20, over a 100 injured in rescue efforts are ongoing. there in baluchistan. promise. plenty more head on this news. our including seeking approval. pfizer asked u. s. government to authorize. it's covered 19 vaccine for children between the ages of $5.12 versus anger grows about lebanon's economic crisis. he rides foreign minister is in b route to meet the new government in sworn the world heavyweight boxing champion.

his back had accusations that he's a cheese. ah, pfizer says it submitted a request to the main us drunk regulator for emergency approval of it's covered 19 vaccine for children aged from 5 to 11 trials for the age group began in july, the dr. to vaccinate, children has been spurred by a rise in infections of the delta variant and the reopening of schools. the u. s. in canada were among the 1st to approve the job for children above 12. back in may . let's go live to alan fisher at the white house for is so pfizer asking the f d allen to approve your emergency. use of this vaccine on children, just as president biden is, is keeping on with his pushed for vaccine mandates. tell us about the process, how soon could we see kids vaccinated?

it's more likely to be next month. so we're told that the, the process i all the detail will be studied ads or start looking at it sometime towards the end of this month. will then be a series of meeting series of discussions in the next year will make a decision probably before the thanksgiving holiday, which is the last week in november. certainly the white house would be keen to see this. they've seen the surgeon the number of cases of children catching covered as you say, it's 3 months since, as the vaccine was approved for those age, 12 to $15.00 throughout the summer they carried out. extensive studies are low as much younger and the see that the success is there for everyone to see at this comes as joe biden heads to chicago. well, why chicago is going there to talk about vaccine mandates? he's going to tell people that they work as far as he's concerned. he's looking at a new study. they says that not only did it for south vaccination rates to help people get back to work. and that in turn, helps the economy chicago as well, because you will meet this c e o, all united airlines,

one of the big carriers here in the united states. it was one of the 1st companies to mandate a vaccine for it staff. a lot of people said, look at people on going to do this, they would rather lose their jobs in the, in the vaccination rates around 99 percent. and that's happened in a number of companies across the country. and you remember the joe biden also said that there had to be a vaccine mandate for federal workers for federal contractors, and also those working in the health care system. so when he goes to chicago, he's going to say, look, vaccine mandates work. we've got to try and push through this, particularly as there's a warning from the sta, just in the last 24 hours that the united states could be facing a very tough flu season. this winter allen fisher at the white house. thank you very much for that. the head of the world health organization is calling on private organizations to drop intellectual property rights on vaccines who ensure great

distribution. he says it's a right thing to do and will help to end the pandemic. the i p waiver could be controlled, so it's possible and i fully agree with the secretary general, but we cannot force any one. but we believe that governments and manufacturers have the obligation to really cooperate because when they cooperate, it will be, it will help economically, the world will open up and it will because it will help us to end the pandemic. and it's morally also the writing to do the nobel prize for literature has been awarded to a tanzanian born novelist. abdur resigned, coroner's coroner's work focuses on colonialism and the fate of refugees is the 1st time a black african has won the prize in 2 decades. the committee held corner for his uncompromising and compassionate take on the gulf between continents and couches,

and as also chairman of the nobel committee for literature con schooner, one of the world's most prominent post colonial writers, feels publication of his novel paradise. in 1994, he has been widely recognised as one of the world's most prominent post colonial writers. in his 10 novels he has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism in east africa and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals. al jazeera maurice has more now from stockholm. the prizes are judged on literary merit and i'm sure that is the case. i with abdul rosa goodness prize as well. but maybe they've had their outlook broaden the little bit there was a, me to scandal in, in 2018 that led to them saying that they would make that criteria farrah in terms

of gender, more global outlook. and that seems to be seems to be the case head as may may be abdur ross at gurnett would have won the prize anyway. and we've heard a report from reuters that i spoken to him on the phone. i think he's still a bit overwhelmed at the moment. in fact, i think it was a, a surprise, this announcement. there are many guesses about who's going to win, but no one really knows as a height of secrecy and around these prizes. in fact, his unpublished said it's been breaking her heart that he's not had any recognition at all really. and then suddenly, today he's 8 nobel laureates. and maybe that shows some of the value of what can seem of i dusty old fries really, you know, we have so many so many internet forums. everyone can be a reviewer. we have trending lists. but still a group of, of learned swedes in gilded rooms can subjectively decide who the most impactful

and literary writer of books writes reforms right of place is in the world. and he spoke to yenna lilith strand, who has a credit can journalist at the express an evening newspaper in sweden. he says the nobel committee decision comes to him as a surprise. he was born in santa bar in 1948, and he came to england as a refugee at the age of 18. and where he established himself as a doctor of literature. and he's been teaching all his life at the kent university in england is now retired, i believe. and i have to say that this was someone that was literally unheard of. but he was extremely little known in my, in my decades of watching the nobel prize and writing about the new price of literature. this is the most, this is the biggest surprise. this is the, the most draw opening announcement so far. so it's a very, very surprising choice. if you ask the chairman at the noble committee in the

swedish academy, he says that mr. girl's name has been on the list for a long time. so they have all, apparently been reading his work and watching his career for a long time. no one just appears on this list automatically. you have to be there for a while. so i don't believe that you know, that recent recent developments in the world, or will world politics or the refugee crisis as affected this choice. but i think that probably the need to watch more closely post colonial post colonial literature and to pay more attention to this literature has the, the importance and the acuteness of this the signature has probably been more emphasized in recent years. yvonne's foreign minister says his country will stand by lebanon as it faces a spiraling economic and energy crisis. well, st. amir abdur, law. he and how talks in beirut a month after the formation of

a new government? then a hunter has our report. iran's foreign minister says he came to lebanon to convey the islamic republic support at a time of economic turmoil. but her saint amir up the law, he ann also asserted, he runs influence. it has been sending shipments of fuel to help, with shortages in defiance of us sanctions. mother to cassandra at him. we will stand by lebanon, with all our power in order to break the turn of siege that lebanon has going through at such a critical time in its history. iran's ally has below managed to bring in iranian fuel through us sanctioned syria a few weeks ago. it used it as a political tool and declared victory. the move wasn't approved by lebanon's government prime minister. and as you may anti said, it violated the country sovereignty. nevertheless, he received the iranian diplomat and far, bernice is completely and is complete

the last 2 hours in face all this breach of the key, but more important misdemeanor government are you in order to, to find a way to get out of this economy and financial crisis lebanon is in economic turmoil. it's seeking a bailout package from the international community. this could undermine iran's influence, since the much needed hard currency will have to come from the west and lebanon's, traditional allies, gulf arab countries. as of late, those governments shunned lebanon because of iran's influence here, as it is caught in the middle of different rivalry with saudi arabia. and the united states has below, is armed, and along with its allies, controls, political power in lebanon. critics say it is for the ring, iran's agenda at lebanon's expense. we don't feel that libyan is besieged by

them by any country. the only country that is so feuding or making rubin and severe really. and the fact to its relations with the international community is the amount of practice over u. m. and it's proxies. the visit by iran's foreign minister was more of a message than one of substance. and while he received a warm welcome, lebanese officials were careful, at least publicly, not to position themselves firmly in one camp center for their elder sita, beirut nato. secretary general has defended the decision to expound 8 members of russia's mission to the alliance. and sultan bert said it was due to an increase in russian malign activity. the 8 members were expelled after nato discovered they were undeclared, russian intelligence offices. the relationship between the nato, russia is out. it's is point to since said the handle, the cold war on the that's because of the russian behavior,

or we have seen her that i guess of actions not least against the ukraine, but also the us significantly military and build up on the violations over. ah, important to arms control agreements like for instance, the and on a fir tree thing that the lead to the mice over the street to that actually a bond older. and to me, the jane sher weapon systems to mexico now where the families of the disappeared are searching for the country, the countryside for their bodies. some 80000 people have vanished. many of them victims of the ongoing drug or, or criminal gangs, fighting a government for control of large ways of a country out here as john home and spent 4 days with one group of families in western state of me. chaka rental for a journey starts on a ranch in mich weakened state, southwest mexico. a group of families have come here to search for their treasures

. oh, that's what they call their family members who've been disappeared. criminals, toe, police, when they were arrested that they buried bodies in this ranch, including a bell, the son of maria, the lord this romero. this is her chance to find him and see them with oliva, you're not, i'm in so much pain. i haven't got anything against the people who did this to him . may god forgive them and have mercy on them. so he could really ask her how long since her son disappeared with a year and 3 months is love permit of escape. and it's the 1st time you've been able to come here and look for him simply. and the law always when i go up on to my roof, i say to myself, son, i know where you are, but i can't come and get you. it's so sad to know that there's nothing i can do. she hasn't been able to look till now because it hasn't been safe to do so. this state is in the grip of criminal groups like other areas of mexico. they don't want

bodies found. but this time authorities have come with the families. it's the 1st large scale search for the disappeared ever and make you a con maria and the others have accepted. they won't get them back to life. but it's tough. with the food, i don't know. if with them there are almost 80000 people disappeared in mexico as if a full football stadium had suddenly vanished peter blanca, his are many of them murdered and then hit him by criminals or even authorities. their relatives usually search for them with rudimentary tools. it's all they can afford a metal rod screwed into the ground, then sniffed for the smell of decaying flesh. they spread out, come the hillside, but they find nothing in the ranch, not a bell or any one else. and so over week the search goes on. we

saw them bust through concrete floors pull up stones, upper trees and bushes, dread, swampy ground on a mission to find them and all the time that being watched by criminal groups with him, a little bit of em, hello by law. the heavily armed security policies who are with them i just visited here in a week, they'll be pulling out for now they offer some protection. but as with so many of the searches, it's the relatives of the missing who take the lead. one thing, you know, is it, if the families that are teaching each other, how to search, not ready the authorities there's a common complaint from families in mexico that authorities are understaffed under

equipped and i'm willing to help get the phenomenal and as to what for the national search commission, crated by the government to try to improve things. and he says that slowly getting more resources with some of you in family gone the we started the commission with 10 people and more are being added to the team all the time. we scabies around here in this hunt state authorities brought sniffer dogs forensic teams, a metal detectors into play. oh. but it still felt like looking for needles in a haystack. ha. by the full day, every one was pray that i kind of sudden she's asking for strength and supernatural energy for the search. i. now on day 4 of the search and the authorities and the families have identified a spot that they think that bodies might be. so we look in against see if there's

something here. the former of this land says he, so criminal tip, something down his well the families begin to plot mount root. gam acendo at the top, sipped pruitt. she's been looking for a sun macro. antonia for years she explains will that's been like that. i'm only the hello, have another telephone number, the mom and dad, they took them to me, our peace was finished. we're not complete after that. nothing conflict us. that's how we left her and the others still searching in the mud with the anguish and the hope that a small fragment of their relatives might help them to be complete. again. john hohmann out visitor, be sent to ghetto mexico. still ahead on the news r. o, on the front line of argentine is john trade rejoined police on raising one of the

country's most dangerous cities. but i'm for you and, and i some other well, larger calming, have to go online technology that they make an impact on climate change. in sports, see to lease record breaking and beaten van comes to an end sized here with the remains of cycling shaheen. you can no longer see except it's the showers here in weston. yep. and maybe just crossing into southern, sorry, that's a result of most that came from that cycle that when we remember came on the coast of, of our mon, across the empty quarter and ended up down here in between. it's a fatty dry picture. the shamal city at that, not particularly dusty but dry wind it's persistent. i think the next 3 days and

most went to try to exert itself in coming out of central asia. it'll show by bringing snow to places like tajikistan, giga, stan, and eventually the hindu cushion may be parts of northern afghan as well. that white is snow, rain across the sas of that dry otherwise. and the wind didn't as strong as it was across the caspian sea. is blowing across the black sea, and that would bring right in to greece. turkey just avoids that. his confirmation by saturday as a persistence of that shamal act, normally when reason, dust with it by this time. and there's still some chows down in west, in yemen. we seen early rains quite heavy rains in the, our congo, but as you can see, that optically widespread buzz, how we get to friday, just a general light scattering, right across to was the easier it heightens. and the monsoon breezes to slowing up the coast of kenya and samaria ah,

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you'll weakly take on us politics and society, and that's the bottom line. with a you're watching the news hour on al jazeera with me fully back table. i reminder romaine stories an earthquake in pakistan's baluchistan province has killed at least 20 people. he struck in the early hours of thursday flattening houses while most people were asleep. the military has been sent in to help with rescue efforts . dozens of trunks in eastern saddam have been allowed through a blockade set up by protesters. that's been causing a supply prices about us is that the trucks carrying medicine to pass for humanitarian reasons, they say. and pfizer says it submitted a request to the us wrong regulator to authorize his hobby 19 vaccine on children

aged $5.00 to $11.00 trials for that age. group began in july approves president pedro castillo has replaced his prime minister in almost half his cabinet. only 2 months after he took office castillo has been under pressure from an opposition lead congress, and now from members of his own party as marianna sanchez report from lima. did you recently legal counsel? neither. rask is a lawyer, and former head of congress is appointed the new prime minister in one of the most politically unstable times he a door. there's been 5 precedence in the last 5 years. what we are for god, for this country, of women and men every day, fight for a dignified life without discrimination and for real change. yes, i swear indiscriminate, feel her predecessor either way you a hard liner marxist was removed after major disagreements with both the opposition and allies, including president dusty. you guess the you has been facing pressure from party

members like the outgoing prime minister d. the way you to follow on unpopular measures like.