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a brocade that threatened for countries most vital suffice. tanzanian author, abdur rahim back gordon. i is awarded the nobel least richer prize for his uncompromising works on colonialism and the fate of fresh teaching pass. i'm charlie angela in ice and while the wild largest carbon helps applaud has got online technology that they hope to make an impact on climate change. ah, the search is on to find survivors after an earthquake in southwest pakistan that's killed at least 20 people hundreds more 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 ha, 9 bellucci, san province is a worse hit reaching rainbows, robbie hast, at each house. most people were asleep in the early morning hours when a shallow earth caused the death and destruction in southwestern pakistan. as the

guilt barger biker, you know, but that is say, it was a 5.9 magnitude quake, but i would say it was more than that, and lots of lives lost and damaged property. the main mosque of the town was also damaged badly him buffalo believe was v, but every one including women and children, were running here and there we were. skin didn't know what to do. later. ambulances arrived and took the into the 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 unaffordable. those are the places where earthquakes exact, their highest costs are due and birthday is yet so far. we've managed more than $200.00 injuries. we have received 15 dead bodies. we sent some severely injured by broad using ambulances and private vehicles to gret duffel, better treatment. those who are in serious condition,

like we are shifting them using helicopters. oh, despite axis 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 dis, the shaking was very strong in the edison area. her name is very close, only about 15 kilometers away from the abbey center. and so if you add that to the construction of the hans and structures in the area that will unfortunately cause large damage. the fact that it happened at nag when people are sleeping, that even exaggerates the damage and the injuries that would happen in the area. the quake was felt as far as the provincial capital, quito aftershocks. continuing for hours, the area is 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 ground. provincial government officials say as many as 100 homes have collapsed 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 bas raphael to 0. i'll just, there's come all high to has the latest now from the hottest hit area in bellucci, some promise. we're in our deny area. more district in baluchistan, situated about 5 i'll drive from the city of went up, which had to provincial capital. the alternative that saying that did it damage or to 500? how did at least 20 people have been good. the military had to use helicopters to evacuate the most seriously injured. most of the injured, of course, include women and children. the idea had received a number of off their shock, and this particular wake was so strong that it was failed, hundreds of miles away and the provincial capital of credit and other major cities

of baluchistan. the government, of course, responding in dime by david, the fear that the aftershocks could lead to more damage. as some of these structures have received considerable damage. as you can see, it is dark, but we can see the rubble from the houses that are mostly built out of mud and stone. and therefore not side make lea a solid enough to be able to withstand a strong earthquake. the people of gods will be expecting relief from the government. they will be expecting danger so that those people who have lost their homes can be looked after. the military is head and strength and of god, the rescue are deemed have been working all day long. in order to find people under the robbery, dozens as trucks in eastern sudan have been allowed through a blockade set up by protesters that's in causing a supply crisis. demonstrators let the trunks carrying medicine to pass for humanitarian reasons. they say,

members of the betia tribes have force port sudan to close, angry over at the regions economy and a peace deal between the government and rebel groups. and many people say they were struggling to get medicines even before the port shut down here. but morgan, re, for some cartoon, getting medication isn't easy for him, a homicide, a residence of whom he says buying medicines has always been difficult. but in recent months it's got tougher. good idea, let me hold on. i have a family member suffering from epilepsy, and i have to go to several pharmacies to find the medication and has become expensive to afford it. and that's affecting me. but i have no choice but go and find didn't buy it, because if it's miss by a day, we have to start the treatment all over again with us. well, for years, hospitals and pharmacies here have faced difficulty in getting drugs. the government subsidizes imported medicines for public hospitals and health centers, but it's facing a hard currency crisis that forced to devalue its currency earlier this year.

pharmacists rely on imports companies to provide them with drugs. but those companies now use the new official exchange rate. that's 8 times more than the former one, and that's pushed up prices for the law here of the good a bowler at the hospital. because of the devaluation of the currency. prices have increased and we see people who suffer from chronic diseases buying less than what they used to, where they used to buy enough supplies for a month. they know by enough for 10 days or so. and there's the issue of availability. some imported medicines take months to get here. so sometimes it's out of stock and the patients are the ones who suffer. pharmaceutical importers say, since the currency to valuation some my distance have become too expensive to bring into. so dam importing, my defense is vital to sudan because local manufacturers only produce have of what it needs for more than 2 weeks. protest at the main port stopped in operating and the government is learning. the shortage of medicines will get worse if that continues members of the beach, a tribe incidence easton read these dates,

are pressuring the government to council. what is known as the eastern track of a peace agreement signed a year ago. they said those who negotiated on behalf of the eastern states do not represent them and they've been marginalized. they've also blocked fuel from being imported along with other basic commodities such a sweet. but the protesters denied they are preventing medicines from coming in. and on thursday, dozens of trucks entered the port to pick up medicines and medical equipment. beecher council members say they allowed that as an exception, but would escalate their actions if their demands are not met. so dance madison imports committee says the unrest in the east alone is forcing some companies the whole shipment. oh val costs for private suppliers that deliver to pharmacies. there are medicines that have arrived at the port, but cannot be cleared. and then there are several containers now waiting at jet a port in saudi arabia. those cannot come because of the protests. and then there are companies who are supposed to supply us with medicines. but the shipping

companies have said that because of the protests, they won't deliver to saddam the standoff between the government and the protesters in the east doesn't appear close to being resolved. and many of those struggling to buy the sense at high cost feared that even if they find the money to buy the drugs they need, they won't find them on the shelves of any pharmacy in the country. he, bill morgan al jazeera, harder to the nobel prize for literature, has been awarded to a tanzanian board novelist, subdural zack corners work, focuses on colonialism and the fate of refugees. it is a 1st time a black african has won the prize into decades. the committee, hales gordon, r for his uncompromising and compassionate. take the gulf between continents and conscious seals 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 ovens,

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. earlier we spoke 2 years, little strand was a credit can germany said the express an evening newspaper in sweden? he says a no bout committee's decision comes 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 has 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, that he was extremely little known in my, in my decades of watching the nobel prize and writing about the 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 mister 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 importance and the acuteness of this. the secretary has probably been more emphasized in recent years. pfizer says has submitted a request to the main us regulator for emergency approval of it's covered 19

vaccine for children from 5 to 11 years old trials for the age of began in july, the dr. to vaccinate. children has been spared by the rise and infections with the delta variant and the reopening of schools. us and canada were among the 1st to approve the job for children above 12 back in may. ahead of the world health organization is calling on private organizations to drop intellectual property right on vaccines to ensure greater distribution. he says it's the right thing to do and will help. and 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 economy collie, the world will, will open up and it will because it will help us to end the pandemic. and it's

morally also the writing to do still ahead on al jazeera, we ride along with families in mexico on a painful journey looking for their loved ones who disappeared more than a year ago. and as anger rose about lebanon's economic crisis, yvonne's foreign minister is in bayville to meet the new government. ah, it's another beautiful sunny day at 35000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle airways voted world's best air line of 2021. maybe surprising the weather in malaysia in an easy area. just daily showers. nothing spectacular is all the real action, whether it's for the north and south johnson the philippine. see those 2 big giant big circulations will bring right. persistently to southern china for time viet nam and bit silly song. i'm also sent me in southern china. we still bought this line

of rain. it's just drifted. samson is going across the korean peninsula. not really doing much in japan, apart from leaving a few showers in hong kong. the real action takes place was coming from the south chance the strong easterly when will persist for 3 days, for the overcast, humid and wet, at least to those with rough seas lasting right through the weekend. as a monsoon rains, slowly go sas, now there's still a fair amount of rain to come particular by day in land. in the western gatson, b all martin deck, and plato, it's now dry in rochester, and most of pakistan, lot all of pakistan. the hindu kush. it starts snowing, i think, for the saturday throughout sunday. but flooding potential still exists from goer eastwards. now most the middle east is fine, but i mentioned there's something happening in the hindu kush and reprise to know if you like these things. a shamal setting up down the gulf, the weather sponsored my cattle airways, voted world best airline of 2021 would to on i will be part of the greatest global

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struck in the early hours of thursday flattening houses. while most people worsley dozens of trucks in eastern sudan have been allowed through a blockade set up by protesters that's been causing a supply. crisis. brought us is that the trucks carrying medicine to pass for humanitarian reasons facing. and the nobel prize for literature has been awarded to the tanzanian born novelist, derosa coroner. his work focuses on colonialism in the feet of refugees. it's a 1st sign, a black african has won the prize in 2 decades. in other world news, the un human rights council has voted to end its war crimes investigations in yemen . of the 47 member, you and council 21 countries voted against the resolution to extend the investigation by 2 years with 18 in favor. independent investigators have said in the past, at all size in yemen, ongoing conflict have committed acts that may amount to war crimes. let's speak to

catherine shad damn about this. she's a former un security council consultant on yemen, and is joining us via skype from london. very good. have you with us, catherine. they had been indications that saudi arabia and its allies, whose actions and yemen have been under scrutiny, had increased lobbying efforts around the world in recent days, in a bid to do away with this independent investigation. so this decision doesn't really come as a surprise, says it. what is your reaction i'm, i'm not really surprised now. i think the other people will be disappointed, obviously of because it's a failure on the quote of them of the un human rights council that said, i think that from the political perspective, he put you to understand that in order to actually find a solution to loan you know, to these ongoing war with this crisis in this conflict, thinks this to be moving in the right direction. and maybe when we looking don't know to, to find a peaceful resolution to that conflict. i don't think that pointing to fingers is

necessarily the right way to go about things. things have been done on e. this hides, crimes against humanity. i would say, i would argue have been committed by both parties. right? um. but even if the finger is not going to, as you say, well, you know, this goes on without impunity. absolutely that side again. i think that every one once for the convict you stopped and, you know, did you stop? you know, people in the town is found that something's going to have to give, but now i'm talking short term. i think that people need to take the long view and understand that it's a failure. and now it's definitely a defeats were human rights activists. but it doesn't mean that yemen would be forgotten. i think that once a resolution is found out, maybe we might be able to circle back and actually look into what happens and, and try to find a way forward, sometimes blaming and criminalizing what is happening on the grant is not the best way for which the people on the crump was still suffering. what i was going to ask

you, what, what impact i mean, this independent investigation, the ending of it? what impact will it have on, on the conflict and the lives of the millions of yemenis citizens who have been affected again as an issue of impunity here? yes. well, the problem that we have is that we might found the shot that we'd filled out to have basically a blank check that the all allowed to do what at the whenever you want. and that's the problem. short term that side if eat on the back of this, there is a really strong push towards a peaceful resolution to that conflict. then i think it might be worth it. i'm not really happy about the situation because obviously criminals needs to be taken to justice, been, and closure needs to be given to the people in yemen. that sides we have to be part of. much of these concave has gone on for so long, not again, something has given. i'm afraid that politics and political this legs have taken over. so what has to give then, what do you think should happen now to deter war crimes, in other, other violations by all parties in this conflict?

again, i think that if we stop trying to blame, i either policy then try to look at the situation today and try to find a political solution that things might move forward. the saudis, having so very hard spot. what is happening, the field that the being other than the figures is being pointing at them solely, that they're the one thing, the promise of everything which i mean in old fan is to should because they have done a great deal in terms of what crimes and what all that sides a powerful country such as i would euro, but this is not about a hurricane and other dogs out at sea people's feelings. is it, i mean, when people die, we should go beyond i having to worry about. i heard meetings feelings, i do agree with you, but the reality of these conflicts are very different and when so jury doesn't involve we have seen it before. um that with what happened to me? so how shoji, nothing happens when it comes to 3rd year about these a great deal of impunity. so we have to nothing that we have to come to terms with that. but for now, i think though, we have to because if an institution assessors,

as you, as such as the un fails to actually stand up to this algae lobby that tells you just how powerful filed your abuse money is in terms of what he can do politically speaking on so i'm not saying to give up, i'm saying that we have to admit defeat and now for maybe fight for now the day and actually bring some kind of closure to you um to the any people who do saw on the ground and the only way to stop this offering is does help the wool and to find a political solution to that conflict. i know that is not, is not something that everyone will agree with. but again, i'm trying to be pragmatic and, and see high again. i'm trying to take the long view and, and think that yes, did you feel now that maybe not forever? and at some point, so at your job we have 2 of you answered to some of the crime that they committed. so will the other policies in yemen go because again, a convoy i'd as on both sides need very important to point that out. it's not just the saudis, of course, the who these have also been accused of crimes. thank you very much. catherine.

shut them for talking to us. thank you for your time. touch in iran, foreign minister says his country will stand by lebanon as it faces a spiraling economic and energy crisis wholesale. amir abdullah, he and held talks in beirut a month after the formation of a new government. as in a hunter has 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 de la hen, also asserted iran's 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 a siege that lebanon has going through at such a critical time in its history. iran's ally has bella 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 by means it is completely, ann is complete. the laugh, our hearse is all this breach of the balance of a key. but more importantly, mr. me and his 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 bailiff 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 the hands rivalry with saudi arabia. and the

united states has bella 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 boy merrill by any country. the only country that is so feuding or making rebellion severe really. and the factors relations was the international community. is the malpractice over yolanda 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. ready publicly, not to position themselves firmly in one camp center for their elder sita, beirut, the families of the disappeared in mexico are searching the countryside for their bodies. some 80000 people have vanished. many of them, victims of the ongoing drank war or criminal gangs. fighting the government for

control of large ways of the country. al jazeera john home and spent 4 days with one group of families in western state of mac con rental credit. with we're heading into a ranch in which we can't state southwest mexico. a group of families have come here to search for their treasures. oh, that's what they call that disappeared relatives kept to criminals of told police that they buried bodies here, including the son of maria, the lou. this romero, a bell. now she's come to find him. missing them with only the you know, thing for another couple of i'm in so much pain. i haven't got anything against the people who did this to him. may god forgive them and had mercy. lemme ask her how long since her son disappeared for a year and 3 months. his love madawaska, and it's the 1st time you've been able to come here and look for him simply and the laws 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 too now because it hasn't been safe. the criminal groups who bury bodies here and elsewhere don't want them found one. but this time authorities with the families. it's the 1st large scale search for the disappeared ever in which we can state. there were around $80000.00 disappeared in the country in total. as if a full football stadium, it suddenly vanished. i thought of it as elsewhere in mexico. the relative search with rudimentary tools, a metal rod screwed into the ground, then sniffed for the smell of decaying flesh. le, although the security forces are here, the relatives take the lead. one thing you know, is it, if the families that are teaching each over how to search, not really the authorities, they find nothing in the ranch, nor a bell, or any one else. we joined them across cool days,

looking informa ca till safe houses swampland, and find the dumbest. well, they got a tip off that remains could be here. root grammar cinder was at the top, soothing through the mud. she's been looking for her son, mark one told me for years. she explains what's meant. there's a moment of her little cover letter. and if that are, you know, lumper the moment that they took them and they are piece was finished, we're not complete. after that, i think on flip f, that's how we left during the others, still searching in the mud for small fragment of their relatives to try and complete themselves again. john holman, al jazeera, this integral climate scientists say emissions need to be cut and billions of tons of c o. 2 must be removed from the atmosphere to stop level temperatures rising so far. the main way of doing that has been by planting trees, but a factory has just opened in iceland that permanently remove c o 2 from the air and

turns it into stone. charlie angela went there to find out how the process works. it looks like modern art, but this is actually the world's largest carbon capture plant. a bank of fans drawing in the air and removing it c o 2 permanently. so this is where climb works . sucks carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere. and the seal toys accumulated in the cells, we heated up and then they sent the seal due to conflicts. and we injected into the bedrock and turn it into stone. the greenhouse gas arrives here and is then sent deep into the ground below where it will stay for thousands of years. here we are injecting c o 2 into the ground to where it goes into was office and drop with it turned to stone. and that's the essence of the complex technology. we imitate an accelerated process that nature has been applying for millions of years. and by

doing that, what able to permanently eliminate some of our c, o 2 emissions. and this is what we need to do at scale. if we are to move our climate goals, the world released 34000000000 metric tons of c o 2 into the atmosphere last year. the bulk of plans will capture just 4000 tons. the equivalent of emissions from 850 cause. and the technology is expensive. $15000000.00 to build this site in iceland . but clients, a lining up corporations and private individuals are already paying climb works to remove carbon dioxide in their name. is quite a sensor and is quite a tiny market. and so one of the reasons that we were so excited to purchased carbon or more from companies like client work is that we see that our, our early movement here can help to develop that very nice and market. scrubs free of carbon dioxide. the iron has gone briefly back to pre industrial level. the

question is, where the technology like this can be scaled up on the cost down in time to make a real impact. climate scientists optimistic that aiming of $4000.00 tons per year, which is very trivial compared to what we have to do with what is very important. if this is the 1st one on it, there's a muffin. what do you do it you, if you, she'll to, that's released to new york can be here to break of it, you know, or slump in a tooth is later. ice and itself has always been a low emitter. 100 percent of the country's electricity is from geothermal and hydropower, but it's what is capturing from the f i send is looking to import captured c o 2 emissions by sea and fix it deep into their bedrock. bringing the world a little closer to its carbon neutral goal. charlie angela al jazeera had his heavy

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