of the days global headlights inside story on al jazeera ah, unprompted and uninterrupted discussions. from a london bro casenita on al jazeera, who the u. s. senate is poised to vote on raising the dead ceiling after reaching a stop gap deal until december. ah, hello, i'm emily angry. this is al jazeera live from dough ha. also coming up. the last thing they need is desperate people with out anything to their names because they just spent everything trying to get the state of warning. the mass deportation of migrants were worse. insecurity in haiti, the us special envoy who resigned,

testifies before congress tanzanian also abdul resurrect, go and i. e is awarded the noble literature prize for his uncompromising works on colonialism and the face of refugees and the painful journey from mexican families as they search for loved ones. we've been missing from more than a year. we joined the recall school days, looking at puma cultural, safe houses, swapper. we find the dumbest well, oh, the u. s. senate is poised to boys on raising the debt limit by $480000000000.00 to stave off a potential debt to fault without raising the national barring cap, the treasury would not be authorized to pay its bills in less than 2 weeks. alive.

peaches, the white house says it's a positive step forward and we'll give the country some breathing room. but this is only a reprieve until december. let's take a look at the political and economic significance of this so called debt ceiling. this is a limit imposed by congress on the amount of debt the federal government can accumulate . it's been set at $28.00 trillion dollars since august. first, analysts say the debt ceiling is important because if the u. s. defaulted on its debts, it would damage the cum countries credit rating. they say it could also plunge the global financial system into turmoil, and possibly lead to a recession. the agreement by senators to raise the debt ceiling until early december needs to be passed by both chambers of congress and legislators will still need to address this issue again in 2 months, toward verse a default by the government. my cana has been covering the story for us. he's live in washington, d. c. hello there, mike. what's happening?

well, its tortuous us politics in operation. what is happening at the moment is that the senate is voting on a procedural measure to take away the filibuster. in other words, to ensure that the ceiling can be raised for a limited period of time by a simple majority boat that is by 50. as it stands at the moment, you still need that 60 votes, which would mean getting 10 republican boats to pass the measure. but the republicans came to a deal, or some republicans came to a deal in which they agreed to waive the filibuster by a procedural vote. which is happening at the moment. so far, 9 republicans have voted to do so. we still awaiting that last vote, which will make it a foregone conclusion. after that vote is taken, then there will be a vote taken on whether to raise that debt ceiling until december the 3rd. now that requires, as i said, a simple majority, that would be

a pure formality. but essentially, what is happening here is that the debt ceiling at the moment to put it into figures is $28.00 trillion dollars. now what they would be voting on this evening, should the procedure be altered? is to raise that to $28.00 trillion dollars. that will give the country enough money to get through to december the 3rd and will give parties time to work out a way in which they can get the full debt ceiling raised. probably without republican support, the republicans have made very clear they want no part of that. this despite the fact that republicans greys the debt ceiling 3 times during the trump administration, now they are saying that they want the democrats to do it alone. there will be no buy to part as an effort, as normally this is a given and when it comes to the debt ceiling. so you will just have a situation here of the can getting kicked down the road, or there will still be the owners on the democrats to figure out

a way in which they can get the debt ceiling raised to get that additional a more than $28.00 trillion dollar debt ceiling established in order for the country to continue to pay its debts. and mike, particularly given miscellany last until december, what does this so main well, what it means essentially, is that political gamesmanship is alive and well on the capital. what lies behind this is the republicans looking forward to next year's mid term elections? yes, that's in november next year. but republicans already plotting ways in which they can take back a majority in the house and senate. now their thinking is, is that if the democrats are forced to raise the spending limit that can be used as a tool against them in an election campaign. the republican style saying, our hands are clean of this. it's the democrats who raising the debt ceiling

because they full of their crazy spending. we have nothing to do with it. vote for us because we are fiscal conservatives. that's what lies behind this. it's a long term. but in terms of getting more seats in a mid term election at the expense and at the threat to pulling down the entire economy of a country, the failure to meet the debt limit as never happened before within the united states, it would be absolutely critical. it would be devastating to the economy. it would be devastating to the u. s. as position in the world. generally, most observers believe that at some stage reason is going to prevail, that democrats will find a way to get this debt ceiling passed. but all that has happened at the moment, if the simple majority vote is indeed passed in the coming hour, is that that is just put off until december, the 3rd, another 500000000000 essentially has been added to the debt ceiling to allow our spending to happen in the months ahead, come december 3rd,

the country faces bankruptcy. again, just another straightforward day, new as politic, thanking for your inside said mike hannon live for us in net washington dc. rescue is have been searching for survivors in south west pakistan where no, the quake is killed. at least 20 people. hundreds were injured and its feed. others could be buried under the rabble. the military has been santian to help with rescue efforts. the city of hon. i, in ballard, she stand province is the worst hint. rage in saint baz robin has moved. most people were asleep in the early morning hours when a shallow earthquake caused the death and destruction. in southwestern pakistan, the gilbert by carrier norma, that is seat 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 good, 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 them 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 abroad using ambulances and private vehicles to gret duffel, better treatment. those who are in serious condition that we are shifting them using helicopters ah, 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, this, the shaking was very strong in the epicenter area. her name 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 harms and structures in the area that will unfortunately cause large damage. the fact that it happened at niagara be personally being dead, even exasperate the damage and the injuries that would happen in the area. the quake was felt as far as the provincial capital quite 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. underground. 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 in basra vo dizzier. the

former us special envoy for hazy, has slammed the deteriorating security situation in port a prince, sang massacres, and kidnapped for ransom. and now part of everyday life, daniel foot has been briefing the house foreign affairs committee after he resigned from his position in september. either the treatment of haitian migrants at the southern border, thousands were to ported without being given a chance to claim asylum and decision foot cold, inhumane and counterproductive. anti gallagher has more from my n, but this is frankly a pretty scathing briefing from the former us special envoy to haiti daniel foot. he of course, was appointed in july, i just days after president job. now mo east was assassinated, which largely explains the situation in haiti right now, but his main points of contention with the, by them ministration was the treatment of those thousands of patients of the mast at the us mexico border saying that they should have been treated more fairly and perhaps given a chance to get processed through the immigration system. he also said that

forcibly we patch, rating haitians back to the country. at this point in time is counterproductive. let's listen to what the former us special envoy to haiti had to say. deportation back to haiti is not the answer right now. i am not saying that that the intending my roots were in illegal status shouldn't be deported. but haiti is too dangerous. our own diplomats cannot leave our compound and quarter branch without armed guard and the already failed essential services delivery. the haitian government is really overwhelmed in places like c. d, so lead the biggest slum and them the sphere. i've seen pictures of, of waste and stuff. so, deportation in the short term is not going to make a more stable. in fact, it's going to make it worse. daniel ford also talked extensively about the security

situation in haiti saying that essentially porter prince is now being run by gangs . and he was aware. 3 that in one day alone, there were 20 abductions. that's the point he makes about ations going back. the security situation is extremely darn. there really is no functioning government at the moment at now. of course, the biden administration's main policy is a free and fair elections that and as soon as possible, but that isn't going to happen until some time next year. meanwhile, the effect of daniel foot words, a lifelong diplomat on the by the administration's policies, remain to be seen. still head on al jazeera, located in sudan, has been lifted for humanitarian reasons. that is not expected to fix the agent madison shortage for long. ah, it's another beautiful sunny day at 35000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle

airways voted world's best air line of 2021. but to get very wet in hong kong, watch out because what's happening is as chassis is slow moving, there's going to be flooding. there's going to, it's pretty nasty weather, 7 degrees above average was the temperature in the middle of china. that's all disappearing because the incoming wind from the south and from the east means humidity, cloud and right, we're back to near but not quite normal. the rain band that was across beijing is heading slowly south and in a bit north, again, wavering to be honest. but tempt you to come down near no one as well. the faced what is probably hong kong, southern china, because around the south jones, you know, big circulations got to make exceeding the wet is pulling away from vietnam. but it's taking all the energy from further south. so from malaysia and indonesia, it's daily showers debbie thunderstorms, but nothing spectacular. the monsoon trough finally officially is moving away. it's come out of rochester. there are still some weak circulations in the bay bang goal and the re b and c, but i think they're not going to affect very much of

a ladder. we've got daily big showers building in go cartucker and further south. but if you're roger stan, you're all of pakistan. the chances are you're seeing pretty dry weather that's true. throughout the around the middle east, there will be snow coming into the hindu kush and still some big showers around western yemen. the weather sponsored by cutter airways voted world's best airline of 2021. when afghan filmmaker has san facility catches the taliban, attention. a bounty on his head forces him to flee with his family, desperately seeking sanctuary. they journey across continents chronicling their multi year saga on their phones. the midnight traveler, an odyssey of hope, resilience and ultimately one family's love for each other. witness on al jazeera. ah

ah, hello, are you watching out 0? i'm emily, ang, and anglin. reminder of our top stories this hour, the u. s. senate has passed a procedural voice paving the way for another voice on raising the dead limit. i $480000000000.00. this will stave off a potential debt to false. in the last few minutes, the 60 votes made it to an debate were secured without raising the national borrowing cap. the treasury would not be authorized to pates, feels in less than 2 weeks. rescue as have been searching for survivors in south west pakistan where an earthquake is killed at least 20 people. the strong but shallow trema has left hundreds of people injured in ballard. she stands high,

nice susie, the worst hit region. and the former us special envoy for heidi says, security in port a prince is deteriorating and massacres in kidnappings. and now part of everyday life, daniel foot told congress america's policy of deporting thousands of haitians would only make things worse. the nobel prize for literature has been awarded to the tanza named bourne novelist. abdul resurrect governor. he's work focuses on colonialism and the face of refugees. it's the 1st time in 35 years that a black african has won the prize and comes as the swedish academy tries to avoid charges of west and bias. pull race reports from stockholm. it began as a typical thursday for abdul russell guna, but by lunch time had gone down in literary history. the 72 year old townsend ian being named the winner of the nobel prize for literature, getting the news on the phone in his kitchen and canterbury,

england. and this man says, oh ah, hello, i am from the swedish academy. oh, congratulations. you have won the nobel prize for literature and i said, is this a prank? shortly afterwards, the rest of the world knew as well. but about prize in literature for 2021 is awarded to the novelist verbal rosin. gordon. born is algebra. active in england for his uncompromising and compressions penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continence. some was men, drama, gunner is the 1st black african to win the nobel prize in literature since 1986. he fled zanzibar after an uprising in 1964, a citizens of arab heritage like himself suffered persecution. gerning arrived in

england as an 18 year old going on to write 10 novels. his work has explored the continuing effects of colonialism on africa and given a voice to the experience of refugees. there is a kind of meanness, i think in this response to people who want to come from elsewhere to europe is not like they're coming empty handed or anything like that. it's not like the coming saying, here's my begging goal, please fill it. the swedish academy has promised to become less western centric, as well as less male oriented good is when follows. to female prize winners in 20192020 his books including after lives and the book of shortlisted paradise were written as he worked as a professor at the university of kent demand for them could now go through the roof . they have from the same at the half where we don't have any more clue than any

one else who's going to win. and then when it's announced, people are excited and want to buy the books. there's often a shortage. so we have to be ready to order, they mean as soon as the announcement is made for tom gunners when breaks ground for african writing. although he still in a small minority of non western literature laureates. the swedish academy has faced questions over the prevalence of europeans and americans in its previous choices and over the relevance of this a 120 year old prize in today's world. the sudden fame that has fallen on abdul rasyid, gerda in becoming the 2021 nobel laureates in literature, answers both of those questions for this year, at least, polaris out is era stock. i for more on this, awarded spring in grand fred. he's a professor of african studies at cornell university. he joins us from new york. hello, there grant. thanks for joining us. 95 out of the 117 passed a winners where from europe or north america. how significant it is it for you that

ghana has won this year is incredibly important. it seems to me that in the last years i think to lead into justice or if you come back in 86, it's been a long time. the previous to southern african women in wideman, south africa goodness, victory, it seems to me speaks of and well then allows decision to, i suppose democracy, that democratize itself to spirits are all over the world. but what seems most important to me is that there is a symptomatic winner. i think, going as best work is arguably, paradise. on, you know, he shares their title strangely with only morrisons work and morrison's paradise begins. they shoot the waco 1st. turner's isn't in quite fair traumatic,

in terms of its opening. but it is certainly a critique of the ways in which that he gives especially are being doubted to ways in which your inter can i heard this in your lead in, ah, he's refusing to accommodate equal from devastated african states. but i think what we should also consider is arm gern is on status as a long term refugee. i think he came in something like 960 and incredibly on you know, asked al conditions because he's a arab sandy. it's interesting that he's always represented or has been the past. 1215 hours has come from sandy bar rather than tanzanian. and his experience as i'm and i think i'll kimberton will know this, you know, 1970 to 80 a mean this was earlier in tanzania and algebra, but it was especially to in places such as can hear where people of arab descent,

savvy, him descent were forced out of the country as was in agony, 72 good as precedes there. and what he is at the deal was on, i don't think must be forgotten. the kinds of ethnic violence is committed against by africans against other africans. i think he helps to cast light on a very volatile and incendiary situation with certain people at the seats to be african and others are not the, in the late been there for generations. so it seems to me that he throws, he shows important critical white on there. and i'm also hoping that his victory will extend into another condensation. while the refugee crisis is a fundamentally important one for all of you, man, trust the traitor gibraltar making your way up to triply, and then pain or pain smugglers to get you across from them. and the not in a place where people don't want, you know,

know the latest stories of people flying to min skin bells, no good. they can be smuggled across into poland and finding literally was going, it certainly was relevant to school. yes. no, go to the, sorry, i didn't mean to interrupt you. i guess we're wanting a little bit sort of time. so i just wanted to get your thoughts on why now, why do you think that sar, we're hearing and that he's receiving this award. now, i think is the scene for exactly those reasons. i think it's symptomatic of a world in crisis. europe been unable to deal with a new influx of refugees. but as in boy b, as i trellis just fail states in africa and you know the mon least are in latin america in central america. the floods of people in the nations are gone, is trying to smuggle their way into europe and then facing a hostile reception at the very least. i think that's why i'm gonna win because

people and i think the nobel committee recognizes that this is a moment of crisis in humanity or in human movement. alexa, which we've never seen before, and the events of potentially catastrophic, especially given the fact the green and economic crisis been brought on by a jamie and the world is divided into have and have nots. i think what you will see now is an intensification or the inequality of world. and i think the, this may be the bell committee's cry to the rest of the world and a plea rather, can we do this differently? the moment of the pandemic is a moment of crisis, and crisis is also always moment of opportunity. can we look differently world can we be differently in world relation to other people in relation to delicate will come from different places. but also, i think it's a critique of africa, it's and the middle east and those fell states all over the world saying how can you tend more efficiently and with greater care to your own populace that people

do not have to undertake these awful, hazardous and life threatening em journeys from in a distant places to find himself in. i'm turned away to face potential death and in the devastation will be found. while i read the timeline in saying that we're all looking forward to reading some of his work. thank you for your insights. grant fred, i professor of africana studies at cornell university. thank you. welcome. dozens of tracks in easton, sir dan have been allowed through a blockade which has been causing a supply crisis. demonstrators had forced port sudan to close as part of a protest against the government. but they have not now allowed laurie's carrying medicine to pass for humanitarian reasons. the members of the b j tribe are angry about the regions wake economy and a pay still between the government and rebel groups. the families if

people have disappeared in mexico as searching the countryside for their bodies, some 80000 people have vanished. many of them, victims of the ongoing, tranquil, or criminal gangs fight in the government for control of large areas of the country . john hallman spent 4 days with one group of families in the western state of mitchell, a can rental credit given for the 9th. we're heading into a ranch in which we can 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 toe police that they buried bodies here, including the son of maria, the lou. this romero, a bell. now she's come to find him. symptom with only though you're nothing, grandmother good to live. 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. asked how

long since his son disappeared within a year and 3 months. his la permit of a step 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, though one them found one at 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 a 1000, disappeared in the country in total. as if a full football stadium, it suddenly vanished. i thought of it as elsewhere in mexico. their relative search with rudimentary tools, a metal rod screwed into the ground, then sniffed for the smell of decaying flesh. already. although the security forces

are here, the relatives take the lead. one thing you know is it, is it, it's the families that are teaching each other, how to search. not really the authorities that they find nothing in the ranch, nor a bell, or any one else. we joined them across school days, looking for mikoto safe houses. swampland and find the dumbest. well, they got a tip off that remains could be here. roots groom a cinder was at the top, soothing through the mud. she's been looking for her son, mac one told me you for youth. she explains what arts men did the movement of the little cover letter and study number. the moment did. they took them and they are piece was finished. we did not complete after death thing conflict us. that's how we left during the of this still searching in the mud for small fragment of their relatives to try and complete themselves again. john holman, al jazeera disintegrated to the us. now,

in abortion clinics in the state of texas have reopened following a federal court ruling. suspending a law that effectively banned the procedure. wednesday's temporary judgment criticized the legislation as an offensive depravation of a such an important rise. some taxes, abortion clinics are wary, they could be shut down again in the possibility of an appeals court rein, stating the law. in the coming days, the texas legislation imposed last month is regarded as the most restrictive on abortion control in the country. he needs a newly appointed interim. prime minister has pledge to prioritize government were forms before handing back power to civilians. mohammed it be a vogue, he has no previous government experience, but he's an expert in agricultural finance and has worked for international organizations including the u. n. last week, interim president, my marty dunbar, berea was sworn in following last month's qu, joan boyer has said,

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