a way to solve these several, several research is now on the . this is dw news live from berlin, morocco grapples with the aftermath of an earthquake. morning begins as rest, your teams try to dig survivors out of the rubber. the death toll passes 2000 as hospital struggle, the co, many more injured. also, polls close in local elections in russia and occupied regions of ukraine. give and it's western partners. call the votes, a sham and victory for jeremy in the basketball world comp final. they be serbia

and a closely bon match to win their 1st ever worlds find the island blue cross. welcome to the program. more than 2100 people have been killed in the biggest earthquake to strike morocco in more than a century. rescuer as are searching for survivors in the high atlas mountain southwest of the city of mar cash. tremors were felt as far away as southern spain . morocco's king mohammed has announced 3 days of national morning. the mountain village is reduced to rubble. despite the scale of destruction survive, it was a remote g. a resident is pulled from beneath the degrees,

badly injured by the lies. giving rescue is a rare moment to celebrate. the earthquake struck at night, sending people running from their homes, or stuck in their beds. what's the time i couldn't disguise because the roof fell on me. i was trapped. there's one that i was saved by my name, basically at the rubble of with the bad hands. a lot less. i always had to all the wounded would treated a make shift outdoor clinics. others have received no help at all. this man survived, but his injuries leave his family without an income and the food. we have no way to cook and they show that we cannot go to baxley him because of the danger of collapse today because of the residents are cause a the damage to their homes. many wrecked beyond repair. buildings teeth are on the

verge of collapse, folding rocks, a slowing access to the epicenter in the remote atlas mountains. no matter where a lot of blocked roads, a lot of people can't find that parents and a lot of people are still under the rubble. that's but they're still searching for their relatives while ago. the quake rocks at the historic city, myra cache, destroying mosques and shops. the streets, usually busy with tourists, were left lined with rubble. residents and travellers had been sleeping in streets and parks, afraid of off to shucks. okay, will allow houses are cracked, they could fold down at any moment table. that's why we can't go back to that and then say those moroccans a queuing to donate blood to treat the wounded. international assistance is also on the way. meanwhile, the digging continues here, not for survivors,

but for grades as morocco, berries, it's thousands of dead to have you. a corresponding young philip shelves has seen some of the towns hit by the earthquake and those high atlas mountains. he's joining us now from our cash. yeah, and phil, tell us more about what you've witnessed. we have seen a lot of rescue work as desperately searching for survive us. unfortunately, we also witnessed a case where a pregnant woman was phones that's under the rabbits. we spend a lot of time in the town of, i'm just around one hour south of my case. it's quite badly affected, but the places that i even much squares affected of a small villages and the less mountains that are very difficult to reach where trucks with 8 supplies cons, passed. and so that we met a lot of people that have to sleep out in the open and that say that they're still

waiting for help spinning of health. what do people need right now? i think uh most of all of a need professionals to help in the search and rescue mission is as you know, the 1st 72. i was a crucial crucial. so it's really a race against time. and as i mentioned before, a lot of people are sleeping outside. so that also in need of the basics for survival, fluids, uh, makes of housing and medical attention and so on, of that from the local communities around about in the long run probably is lots of fine menstrual help is needed from the international community to help with a big task of the rebuilding or the destruction and based on what you've seen and what you've heard, what sort of 8 out there is coming from the american authorities and what kind of support are those authorities getting from other countries?

well, the support from other countries is slowly, slowly starting now of spain is one of the 1st countries probably also due to it's a geographic location of the military emergency unit and supplies. and i also saw some spanish fire fighter on the ground today from what i've heard the also teams from the united states and friends. lots of other countries including germany have offered that help. and in the meantime, morocco a has created a commission to coordinate all those age efforts ends to answer to the international community which age as needed, in which place you have your corresponding young philip shots in march with the latest thanks very much turn on some other stories making news right now of india has passed the presidency of the g 20 group to brazil at the end of

a summit in delhi for sales president lewis and i show that the silver said division should not be allowed the rail. the g 20 is agenda earlier, meters issue to joint declaration, despite why differences over the war and ukraine. hundreds of palestinians turned out for a funeral and a teenager shot dead by as rarely security forces during classes in the occupied. westbank palestinian officials said the 16 year old was killed near the city of hebron. these rarely military has not commented chillies. president gavin boards has joined the annual march in remembrance of victims of the penal shay dictatorship. thousands of people gather the capital santiago on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the crew, which brought in military rule. police used water cannon as demonstrators through flares and tore down fencing poles of clothes in local elections in

russia and occupied areas of ukraine. voting took place in eastern ukraine and crimea, which moscow illegally annexed in 2014 d of and its western partners are condemned to poles in ukraine, calling it a violation of international law in russia. opposition leaders said online voting systems. last transparency. the vote is seen as a test for the kremlin for next year's presidential election. and do you have your correspondent jennifer pocket joins me now from the lots the and capital of rica where dw reports out of since the can't get into russia. jennifer, 1st of all, what is the point of this election as well? william, as you have mentioned before, is this the regional elections can be viewed as a test run for the kremlin and for letting me approved to you ahead of the presidential elections plan for march. 2024 and could prolong for routine through

over russia at least until 2030. and we also have to consider that these elections are the last big elections any rush hour before these presidential elections. and so it offers the authorities an opportunity to holy vote or turn out as they aimed to deliver a decisive victory for preteen when he's on the ballot in march, every sounding when for poor teens, ruling party united russian, these a region of elections as well as for putting it as presidential elections next year would demonstrate to everyone that the whole country fully supports putting a mid the ongoing board in ukraine as well as after the mute and you that was probably the biggest challenge for putting in this almost 25 year route the kremlin also needs to check everything works well ahead of the presidential elections 2024 . so i can imagine there's a lot of interest in getting people to the polls to participate. what are russian

authorities doing to compel them to vote as well? what makes the elections more attractive, or at least more accessible for people that voted in them, are that they are accessible through online voting as well as using, holding stations throughout the region. making sure that the touring out remains as high as possible. what makes the voting definitely more attractive is that there are $2000000.00 cash prizes for online voters, ranging from $1000.00 roubles up to $5000.00 votes, which is around 10 us dollars up to 50 us dollars. russian st. media reports more than $500000.00 people, cast their votes and the 1st 4 hours of online voting. but of course, russian official numbers have to be regarded with a pinch of salt. the election watched our goal is that it had already received, complains to up to 600 complaints of violations as of friday afternoon, especially from the most care regions. so bureaus,

republic of park garcia and the city of moscow where may or so banyan was re elected with more than 2000000 votes, according to russian media. so nothing unusual about your regular voting in russia . now, in terms of the legally annex parts of ukraine, voting is happening there as well. what have you been hearing a well, william russian authorities are holding these elections in the occupied regions of, but he has won the bodies in your soul, in an effort to tightened their grip on these territories, must out legally and next, but still does not fully control for russia, it is important to go on with voting, to maintain the illusion of normal. see, the russian or tardies are trying hard to pretend that everything is according go, is going according to plan and everything is fine. and if everything is going according to plan, well, that means so must 5 so called political processes like elections. local residents

say that co workers make house calls accompanied by armed soldiers. most voters know little about the candidates that are up for boat. reportedly, half of them have arrived from us, i just recently. but lucas understand that these elections don't influence anything and are simply held for russia's propaganda purposes. so a lot of questions still to remain to be answered about russian elections that locally. anyway, have you course montana for public of their, for us and to be good. thanks very much. the germany of one, the basketball world cup for the 1st time beating serbia $8377.00. in the philippine capital manila, germany, it already sprung a surprise by beating team usa in the semi final they were made to work hard for their when by a determined serbian side, serbia and germany treated point for point. the next reading signal in manila then screwed up. i'd be in the germans main mind, all tournaments and he produced in the fight to

which stores locked $4747.00 at tough time. germany produced a 20 to 10 search in the 3rd quarter. that looked at taken the game from sab yet. but the service kept coming back. alexa, from the ditch finished of this break away. the top stored for them with 21 points. what should i put the difference between the sides? is 20 points, help break, so it'd be a good time germany, a victory for the ages the celebration. see what exactly what it meant to the players. establish the country as a major force on the international stage. earlier i spoke to germany's former national basketball coach, henry rhoda,

asking him about the secret to germany success. it's been a process over the last couple years to the core. the group has been together for a long time. they went through the, went through some valleys, but now they all come together. they, they display great team chemistry the well coached um and uh, you know, they, they are very resilient throughout the whole tournament and beat all the everyone that there was in their past. um, it's the something that's been worked for the for a long time and they showed some greatness last year in the your basket when they came in with a bronze medal. but you know, this is something unexpected, but the group really showed some, some great basketball. so resiliency team kind of see the very, very proud scrape for german basketball, the farmer national basketball coast there and make a note of. now how does the flick has been sacked as coach of the german men's national football team? the announcement by the football federation comes after germany last for one japan

at home on saturday. it was the latest in a string of bad results that also soft flex team exit early from last year's world comp. and tar. flick succeeded, you know, in 2021 and started well, but that good form hasn't been maintained. germany is the host nation for next year's european championship. and we're going to leave it there for now more to stop by our main blue cross. thanks for watching. the flying river is formed by a most of full b. this firing trees or see stars fires. no good deal and the, the invisible with the flows through the sky starts september 20th on the w.