that future generations will do it as well via the story on told to how does era, the at least $600.00 people have died and many more are trapped under the rubble off to a powerful as quick hit central wrong because it's the countries with natural disaster in 20 years, i heard people screaming, everyone went out of the house to the streets, which were full of people and women screaming the money. i'm sorry, this is out. is there a life from jo? how also coming off? india is probably minister during the moody welcomes the communion into the g. 20 blog kinda summit in you, denny. i'm very thing is on the way in the mall days,

presidential election that fits the pro. indeed, an incumbent lead against the account of it supported by china. the we begin with more, okay, with a powerful, as quake has killed at least 632 people has been significant damage being reported . the number of casualties is expected to rise. the us geological survey says the magnitude 6.8 quake struck some 70 kilometers south of marquez, the shocks. what will say felton the coastal cities are for about casablanca, on its way to ask them who bought up against coverage the ccd. the footage showing the moment a ball full of quake, hey, to morocco. it's sent to people in america, running until the streets that will agree to buy destruction and fives

of deputies everywhere. it's the nearest major city to the epicenter of the quake. residents. recall the moment they found the trend this to my mother and my wife thought it was a helicopter or something. but i told her it was in a quick and suddenly people board running in all directions and the streets. the desk with us for loved ones began soon off to the video posted online shows a mother trying to reach her children stuck on the bubble. the number of that is expected to rise as the rescue teams look for people trapped on the destroyed homes. you saw, but you can see johnson, we dispatch a number of security teams at a rescue operation to various effected areas. we urge all citizens to stay comp denser and ministry will update the public later more. i mean, the, the us geological survey says the epi center within the high uh, less mountains,

some 7 to columbia, to the south west of my gosh. it's reported in magnitude $4.00 after a shock. 19 minutes late. there are reports of damage from monica. she was old town known as the medina, it's web of read rules and side stories are recognized as well as heritage side by the when the quake was also felt in the coastal cities of robots, casablanca, and so we had a and most have spent the night out on the streets was gone and checked, who was at the house, rooked, aggressively. everyone was scared and i was shocked. i didn't understand what was happening. i thought it was only my house that was moving because it's fraudulent, only. i heard people screaming on. everyone went out of the house is to the street, which was full of people's and women screaming if houses were unsafe, those were dangerous, as people tried making that way out to safety. this is the scene outside the

hospital, the amount of a cash injured people are being brought in dozens. the quake has also been felt as far as for to go and talk to you about. but i just see what i'll do. there is a better name and ronnie has moved from 2 to one, a powerful quake, a hip morocco at this center is located to the south, west of the city of mara care should in a place called interviews, which is located in the high i plus mountains and at the, the, the power of the it was a power from the law mates was, according to the moroccan geological institute. it's $6.00 on the scale of relative . and it was a deep in this about age, kill them, which is into the deep into the, into the us. it was felt the through the cities of myra cash off

i get the office. so we, uh, up until the city of casablanca and the capital city, about the damage is the, mainly in the old town of mark harris. this is the historical town of my case, but also in the 4th town of cairo, dance and where he lives at the building of this old medina as, as we call them and a big the age is hundreds of years. i'm not built according to i'm faces make looms or, or, or regulations. so basically we have a concern the report that's the story was all from the old town of the city of my case has been damaged in some of its volumes. there's also the amino right, so for you most called had a bush, which is located in gem. i left not a landmark,

a square where tours flow from all over the world. the, the main, the rates of a powerful fixed chain down because of all of these s. busy and also in the towns of total dance and, and, and why that, as i said in the old box of this down at the old buildings and also in the villages . so in some locations in these mountains, have been, have been damaged. it all has and how about a is hit onset with us? indo has a $632.00 people have died so far. that's the official figure from authorities. but sadly, we think that number is gonna be much higher indeed because we are yet to get a sense of what happened to those areas which would affect us, some of which requires some time to get to the top of the mountain to assess the damage to those areas, it's very tragic by the way. people now waking up to battery their loved ones. this

just us, you for those dropped under the rubble. they all forward to say that they have deployed that teams across those areas of fact to the out doing all the necessary where to be done to be able to provide assistance to those and into us and save those of us to a truck truck under the rubble of some, you know, this area very well. you've visited it many times. in fact, you were in the region just 10 days ago. took us through some of the challenges involved. uh, the rescue f rescue authorities all going to face stranger, you know, way because i was talking to people i met just few days ago and they would talk to you about families who lost their loved ones. areas that were destroyed, houses are the longer that it's very sense and you don't of the, which is the center of the us quite a while yet to see what happened. that's why people expecting the death toll should

be the highest. and then as you move forward, you have the battery, as like, is okay with a gun and many other areas in the outlets. mountains, that's what also actually by the way it takes time to be able to go that because of the rough terrain. so i think the biggest concern would be now is the account that i did show that all the necessary views of that to protect and retrieve those positive trusts under the rubble. indeed, it's this 1st 2448 hours. that is so incredibly crucial. we've been speaking to experts, rescue experts that they need to find people. now if they're gonna find them alive, you know, in terms of the infrastructure and responds to the a quake. they've been building a infrastructure over the last few years because i areas which we ship, which, where you have the snow storms, flash floods, lance lights,

and they happened to play and how they helped us teams, the ministry sometimes to provide assistance and also to deliver a to those chopped because sometimes you have it, it just dropped for weeks and weeks. now we have to wait and see because this is going to be different. this is a one single place. many other places. it was so powerful. the geological center is saying this was the most powerful earthquake and a century morocco. the trends were felt really far away from the area all the way towards the north of the south america. the people are really concerned looking forward to see what happens if the upcoming hours, but i think sort of the moment you have helicopters flying over all those areas with area and footage or the taking the areas of a very a percent of the quick that we can get a sense of the magnitude of the destruction. stay with us because we can speak to a local journalist with some amar 8 who is a journalist at the morocco world news. he joins us from f on

a thank you for joining us again. so we're just talking there about how wide this area is that the earthquake has impact and what are you hearing in terms of the latest in terms of the damage. uh there haven't been many updates so far from official sources in terms of the material or human damage the the quickest cause, but it was felt throughout like all of morocco even far up north. and there have been even some reports from people living in the south to for, to go have report to the food in a small shocks. uh so clearly the area effect of the is big uh, but it remains to be seen because we don't have any further updates from the official sources. so 5632 people have died. 329 injured was 551 of them being in great condition. and we, we're talking about the f,

a sense of being high in the atlas mountains. uh, what more can you tell us about this area? how well populated is it? i know that just very remote villages of this uh, yeah. so the most affected area so far is uh and whose, which is, uh, uh it's, it's 5 populated, or maybe 500000 people live in there. uh, from, from what i can recall. uh, but like you said there are, there are quite a few remote areas that have been effective for most, most areas. which is why we have been saying that the desktop is expected to increase as more information comes in because currently it's as expected. but it's, it's difficult for us give workers officials to go to those areas in the system or what's going on in the force. such areas also don't have the different infrastructure, especially in the residential areas which can cause further damage due to the

strong shots. and what are people feeling, how they holiday dealing with this mean? i was speaking to an eye witness elliott who was saying that he was going out in his taxi on the streets. people too scared to go back into that house is, i mean what, what as far as he's telling people to do. yeah, so last night so it's around 11 pm on the earthquake for struck, there was understand to be a lot of spanish people who are asked to leave their homes and not go back in until the until the bus to 2nd, so to speak. so that's good, they are sure of it. there is no, there's no further damage to this morning. it seems of the people in the, in the near the epicenter of the weight are still dealing with the consequences. if it's a, from what i understand being a little bit far away from the, from, from the situation in america should self impacts. there's lots of large due to the, due to maybe the better infrastructure or being and the farther away from the,

from the sensor. so people are, i think going about the usual lives, but the in other places it's reading circumstance that shows uh, i think people almost banish and people are trying to maybe contact their loved ones or rescue their loved ones in the other as morocco. i think there is a sense of calm, so to speak, but people are also on on alerts because there have been a lot there might be oxer shots coming up. there might be a 2nd that's quick in the coming days to weeks. so people are on the alerts that have been official safety instructions given by restorative. so over the next few days to the next 2 weeks, there's more information keeps coming up from the geological forces. we're expecting some ok. and we've heard of people being trapped on the rubble and how critical it is the next 24 to 48 hours to rescue people. if indeed they can be

rescued in terms of the authorities. how well prepared, how well equipped. busy to carry out this, this was a rescue operation. yeah. so as, as, as i think we've seen in previous, uh, the disasters like this level. so even though more for the 1st 24 to 48 hours can be very crucial for us to operations. especially as you have people trapped on the verbal. so uh, starting at 11 when, when the 1st or we could uh, from what i understand rescue efforts were immediately dispatched uh, firefighters, medical staff rescue workers. uh no, of course the terrain difficulties and some of the, some of the places that have been effective and maybe the, the difficulty that been investigated by the earthquake would make it harder for any this getting door to reach there. it remains to be seen how the next the next day, the next 2 days. they will improve hot weather for the, for these are to handle such a disaster and they will also prove how,

how far the extent of the human damages are. so thank you for your time with something. laurie's of journalists out there. okay, well new speaking to us, the silver um air iphone. well, any i was speaking to listen, had died. he's american senate. so he's also a former minister. he says, authorities are responding quickly despite many challenges. it's a very, very strong earthquake in a place that is not known for being uh, active in terms of her, its quakes, its the high plus mountains. uh, so the in very different terrain where that is the epi center, which is like the pass between modification teladvantage called the t the t as in test boss. what did that, all of those villages which i just got again and, and, and the other, the usual cuts and all the others. so we, i mean, like, i think you moroccan apologies, out of just a get monitoring the situation counting. did that seem during my, the day,

the magnitude of the destruction that is happening around the rescuing people, getting them to a lot of cash. the, the, the hospice has been modification, which is the closest town what the closest city do you have given people there? i think that has been a call to give blood even in the, in amount of cash because that a lot of people a lot enjoy the night thing to unfortunately 632 out of the at a given the magnitude. what would it see? i mean, like what, what brought me like, how many people like that. i mean, i've trapped within that rather than with the rescue with whether there would be live or out of that. but it's, it's can find all the which has been felt in places like casablanca and robots and other places, but it's confined within a center, which is south east of america. so the other house province is the problem is that it is to most but also when you cross the high address mountains towards the

southwest through fine, settled, then that's also come use on that either side of the mountains, you texted to the east of the, the what is, is that the area that a village is which are affected and towards the west, which the show problems that affects its after the same uh, earthquake in 2004 has put together this kind of makeup land for the erupted intervention whenever there is discuss to think so the teams have been ready for any kind of thing and this is the moments when did deployed that. so each province has its own kind of rest your logistics to did. we 1st kind of situation, but there is also a national level intervention that is taking place in order to reach those people in to and ask them just coming back to you. obviously at this point the priority is saving as many lives as they can. and the injured and so on. but i guess the next point is going to be some of the historical buildings that have been around for

such a long time and whether they have survived. i mean we know mar cash for example unesco heritage sites. but so much as morocco has is so rich in history and culture, particularly rock ash, which was built around 1200 years ago by of a lot of the dynasty. it was one of the most vibrant bas centers of morocco ever since. and i think this is going to definitely trigger the debate about the need to review the construction code and didn't show that it was preventing the future loss of lives. because historically speaking, the morocco, the nation, was traumatized by 1960 of the as quick as i got you. 15012215000 people were killed when we're all glad that population of 11000000 it was a made a huge one of those of the city was guilty of that of quick. so they, they, they, they transformed, i got you. and then the shift to the knowledge of towards the north, because that's why you have the alpha can place with this. and next to the region, one of this why you have the potential for more active, more size, make activities,

obviously many escalates of those areas. particular say about 2004, suddenly we have the us quite a quick in my guess. it took everyone by surprise, and i think it will trigger this debate about the need to look off to the construction codes that but also the need to protect historic science. people will go to monica by the way, globally for to things that's new accounts balances and that's whether it be center was of the escalate. and the medina, which is the old town which is very rich in history. and the architects have very much known for its time, the ways and also bazaars. and we are small palaces and in the international community has stepped into the past to provide more assistance of american government when it comes to financing a renovation of those areas. but i think we saw signs of a damage to the strikes of those areas, particularly the who has been that is the came crashing down off to the quick in the old medina. and also some of the historic was that show signs of cracks. and i

think this is going to put more emphasis on the need to be close, like those spaces, ask them how about uh, thank you so much. uh, and we will continue to bring you more on that strong as quick magnitude 6.8, that a stroke central morocco killing as we know, 632 people so far. the now the african union has for many join the g 20 economic grouping. the indian prime minister during the moody invited the block to take a seat as a permanent member at the 2 days summit being held in new delhi. the african union with 55 member states now has the same status as the european union. i'll give you kind of a little going to zip badly before starting further action,

mine vice president of the african union to take your place as a permanent member, the key to into how you have the to okay, let's go to new delhi and speak to a diplomatic editor james base. so how much of a surprise was this announcements about the african union age, something that we knew the indian presidency warranty. and that was actually no objections . a tool that we have by consensus. so it kind of june 2019, just the european union has now been joined by the african union. the african union comprises of 55 countries. one of those in south africa was already in the g 20, but it increases the population by another 1000000000. and of course, most of the g 20 powerful countries, that's why they, they came together in the 1st place, a pretty rich countries. this balance is that this out because african countries, many of them are developing countries,

emerging countries and include some of the horse countries on the us. as a say south africa was already a member of the g. 20. they've been pushing hard for this. some of the said that in the world right now, we're getting a growing division between perhaps the brakes and the g 7. the current president of the brakes is south africa and i spoke to the to the south african presidents, presidential spokesman vincent mac waiting. uh, and i asked him whether there was a divide in the world and he said, no, what's happened here is there is the number of challenges that we feel the world needs to come together and tackle collectively with a great deal of solidarity. as the president said this morning, so all of you is that the world is coming a lot more to get, then always be to face and don't always with different perspectives. but the easier vehicles and issue that we need to be coming together a lot more. and looking at all of this 10 inches from a collective perspective,

rather than a unilateral actions and approaches coming together the, the g 20 has 2 participants. the leaders are not here, the countries are represented and that's the present cheap of china and present fruits in of russia out of cost was we got to rush of the war and ukraine is a central problem in international relations right now. lots of negotiations going on about the final communicate. what would it say about your train? the final draft communicate just has a blank and i'm told that there are a different versions of the language that might go into that blank on the war and ukraine. i am they told by the president to a spokesman to south africa and all the delegates i've spoken to the negotiations are going on. i am going well and they're pretty confident that will be some sort of final declaration of the end of things on the things that times buy is bad for us in new delhi. people in the movies are costing the ballots to elect

a new president. abraham mohammed solely seeking re election for a 2nd time is running against 7 all the candidates content as well. the major policies are promised major projects despite the serious government debt button, tony chang has a very brisk, early turn now. so this polling station in downtown molly, lots of people flooding in, checking up the names and going to cost the balance. and they have been offered an awful lot by the 8 candidates. they going to be choosing from, from massive infrastructure spending projects to land reclamation schemes, housing huge increases in salaries in public sector workers in one case, even a levy, 18 parking fines versus they're also starting to ask, who's going to pay for a little this? the mold, this is in very considerable debt and has only a finite amount of earnings from its principal industry tourism. at the moment, much of that debt has come from india and china. many people here seriously consent

. but this tiny island nation could be cool between 2 massive jobs. the current president is seen him as having done very well. getting the most of these out of the curve of 19 situation, particularly when so much of its economy is reliant on terrorism. the mold, this is also a very young democracy. we've had full presidential election sofa. each time it's renew the new president. tony chang l to 0. north korea has held a power ministry parade to monk. its founding de kim jonah and hosted a high level delegation from china to the parade. he has pledged to expand and strengthen ties with both beijing and most go is expected to travel to russia for talks with love may appear to him to discuss weapons supplies. florence lily has moved from so the north korea held a massive meeting presided over by its leader,

kim jong, and it also held a parade featuring its power military forces. now this is the 3rd time this year that it's held a parade. and that's interesting because this is also the 1st time that north korea has helped sweep rates since kim came into power. and some analysts suggest this could signal that north korea feels it needs a feel good to fight to domestically considering the country and stuff it from severe food shortages and also following its to failed attempts to launch a satellite into orbit. now what's also significant is the diplomatic activity behind these events. north korean stage, media reports that russian president vladimir putin and chinese president, she's in pink, has interest sent a letter to kim. now we also know that kim held a meeting with a visiting chinese delegation, led by chinese vice premier to the state council. and in july, russia sentence defense, minnesota to attend event small can be anniversary of the korean honest

disagreement. so we're really seeing a lot of high level contact between these 3 countries in the last few months. and this comes and it's reports of a possible meeting between kim and put in later this month, possibly to talk about an alms deal. now if the opposite of what happened, no, tony wouldn't mean that russia would get support for its will on ukraine. north korea could possibly also in exchange for supplying weapons, get technology it needs to advance it's nuclear weapons program. and that is certainly something of concern to people here in south korea. and that's why we've hud just earlier this week. south korean president you into your judging china to do more as a un security council member to address north korea's new catherine florence louis algebra. so the arsenal tours these are holding local elections and ukrainian territories on the control the united states and all the western nations condemned the elections as a sham and as member states to reject the results. christian slim,

he has moved from the united nations headquarters in new york. the united states came to the un security council to make a point. we're going to condemn those sam elections in here this morning. and we will never recognize any of these elections on ukrainian occupied territory. the us along with albania, called the meeting to discredit elections currently underway and for russian control regions in ukraine. the voting is to select local candidates to the russian installed legislatures and coincides with elections currently happening in russia. russia's and bassett are insisted ukrainians were exercising their right to self determination regarded even with the choice that it is the inhumane crimes of the key of regime and its maniacal, hopeless desire to deprive the russian people of the russian identity that became the main reason. due to which the residents of don't ask lou haskins that for easier are actively and consciously voting for their future together with russia.

but the un agrees with western nation saying that russia's annexation of ukrainian territory is a legal and that the elections have no validity under international law. and the majority of you and member states agree back in 2020 to 143 countries in the general assembly condemned russia for a similar round of illegal referendums as you cranes. and basset are reminded the gathering friday in the security council. we call on the international community to condemn the use of the russian election system on the territory opened out of state . but this year the council took no action as last year's attempt to do so was vetoed by russia. kristin salumi al jazeera, the united nations, to columbia and mexico all co hosting a 3 day um, the drug summit, mexican present on the manual lopez open the door is in the city of cali, where he will meet with the columbia in need of a stop. a petro comes as the cultivation of cocaine is as an old time high in many

countries. a seeing an upsurge in drug vine is alexander. i'm here t as in kelly columbia, where the summit is being held. the presidents of the 2 countries most affected by car sales violence are pushing for the world to change the way they think about the . 3 the war on drugs that they believe that the war and drug is it's been a failure that despite billions of dollars spent and hundreds of thousands of that little has been done at to dance at this criminal activity, they believe that the ara focusing is and the this with policies instead centered on human rights, the protection of the environment and dealing with drugs from the perspective of us how to pull.