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the country. ♪ welcome to world news america. in morocco, survivors of the earthquake that struck friday say the government is not responding quickly enough to help. in the atlas mountains, some villagers have been digging through the rubble with barehands to recover bodies. heavy equipment cannot travel on roads locked by lindsley. so far, more than 2800 have died. thousands more injured. the world health organization says when threaded thousand people have been affected by the disaster. the 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck northwest of marrakech in the atlas mountains. international emergency workers join the recovery effort. tom bateman reports. >> lights out after the

destruction this village. morocco's most remote hillsides have become encampments for survivors. haekeema has lost contact with her son. she was already grieving. her husband was sick and died before the earthquake came. we are staying in the streets, i feel bad for my son. his dad passed away and i have to take care of him, says hakim a. -- hakima. people are here to help each other. the mosque that is still standing becomes a makeshift future. but in the morning we spent here, there were no signs of any official aid response. hussein survived when his son free him from the wreckage

behind him, but his wife was killed. >> my wife, she stayed in the house. the ceiling came down and struck her. this comes from god, but thankfully my son is safe. >> this is where homes once stood. now people walking through a cascade of ruins. recovery attempts across this region have been painfully slow. so far, physically is people doing it by themselves -- this clear up his people doing themselves. in this house, a family of six was inside. five have been killed. only the father has survived but it feels like people barely have time to grieve. you can see the humanitarian challenge that now remains. >> in another village, chris painfully body from the rubble. -- chris beck pull a body from

the rubble. the destruction is absolute. meanwhile, british rescuers have arrived with a team of 60 specialist appointment. people are retrieving what they can from homes too damaged to live in. moroccans and survivors are now on the land with all they have left. >> earlier, my colleague spoke to an emergency physician based in marrakech. she highlighted the huge concern for the health needs of survivors in remote places. >> a lot these villages that are worst affected do not have good access to health care. even on the best of days, they access health care in the city. there is no already standing system to access it in. people have been streaming into

the city, starting with those villages on the edge of the mountains. actually, the big problem is getting people from the further away villages so we can do it needs to be done to help them. >> you and your teams, are you heading to those remote areas yourself, given health difficult it has been for people to make their way into the city? >> is with the military response and the national response, they are sending the military rescue teams in terms of medical teams. we need to be in the city. if we leave the hospitals and the clinic to go out there, we are already saturated here. there is nobody to spare. there is also very limited equipment infrastructure in terms of what is there already. we need to be here where we have

that infrastructure. >> hawk's crew -- talk us through how overwhelmed your infrastructure is where you are. that also is unequipped for the volume of people seeking help. >> our health care here and our public health care system struggles at the best of times. the hospital is always overcrowded and did struggles. -- and struggles. no one could ever prepare for a disaster of this magnitude but at the same time, moroccans are exceptionally resilient, work hard, work is teams, get on with it. my colleagues, i cannot speak highly enough of them. everybody working together tirelessly one hour at a time, when they at a time, one night

at a time, just getting through as many patients as we can. >> at least 200 people have died in eastern libya after widespread flooding. storm daniel made landfall neared the dish near the north african nation on sunday. the libyan red cross says at least 150 homes have been destroyed. libya has declared three areas in an eastern process a disaster area among the hardest hit two dams and four bridges reported to have collapsed. local authorities calling for international help. president biden left vietnam earlier where he signed a trade deal bringing the former foes closer than ever. the agreement is a combination of a push by washington to strengthen ties with hanoi, which it sees as key to countering china's influence.

this includes a $7.8 million deal for voight -- vietnam airlines to buy objects from boeing. it also includes support from u.s. tech companies like microsoft, metta, and nvidia to develop artificial intelligence projects in the at nam. -- in vietnam. the deal is meant to include china's influence in the region but some wonder if it is meant to curb china's influence internationally. thank you for joining us. president biden has assigned a new strategic partnership with vietnam, bringing the two countries closer than ever before. how significant do you see this fact is being? -- as being? >> it is significant in terms of

normalizing our relations with the country. but also, the main motivator is that it is a hedge against china's growing power in asia. >> it is interesting you say that it is a hedge. speaking in hanoi, you would've heard those comments from president biden. heat sent this was not about containing china. what do you make of that? >> everyone says they are not trying to contain china, but geopolitics is full of people trying to counterbalance. china has done it, especially when it made overtures to the u.s. in the 1980's. the u.s. has done it in the past. i was reading two from vice president mondale's trip to china in 1979. the talking point was that this

opening to china as a hedge against vietnam's power in asia. this is what countries do. they tried to balance, especially if a country is as large as the region as china is in asia. you should expect to see other countries trying to balance that. >> now we have a situation in which the united states and china are on the same footing because of this packed when it comes to their relationship with vietnam. how do you think beijing might react? >> beijing has been cautiously unhappy about it. we have seen a lot of diplomatic traffic between vietnam and china, where vietnam is trying to reassure china that this is not necessarily a hostile move. it is a difficult balancing act, especially for a country like

vietnam which is next to china and in other circumstances would be considered a large country, which is dwarfed to its northern neighbor. >> what about the people in vietnam? how do you think they will greet news of this partnership with the u.s.? have you been able to speak to them? >> i personally have not, but in my trips to vietnam in the past, i was always impressed by how willing people were to engage the u.s. and how positive they were about having an equal relationship with the united states. as an american traveling there, for me that was a bit of a surprise. growing up, vietnam was a sensitive topic, especially for people who'd fought in the war, including within my own family. i was surprised at the warm reaction when i got to vietnam

for the first 10. -- first time. people want a relationship with the u.s. but they want it to be a relationship of equals. >> i want to talk about the nitty-gritty of this partnership, particularly when it comes to cooperation on things such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors. do you think this is a timely move from the united states, when we know that other players in the region have already invested in this kind of technology? >> it is almost an overdue removed by the united states. when i was covering china from china, we saw that every time a country had geopolitical tensions with china, they tended to start on the road of what they called the china plus one strategy. vietnam was obvious for investment and south korea has put a lot of investment into vietnam.

a lot of other countries have also seen vietnam as having the same advantages to investing. from the vietnamese point of view, they do not want low-end investments. they want to move up the manufacturing ladder. they would welcome higher tech investments. i am not sure to what degree they have the knowledge base to do so yet, but they have the knowledge base in electronics manufacturing and a desire for the country to move up that ladder. >> and today is the anniversary of the september 11 attacks. for the past two decades, attention when it comes to foreign policy has been firmly focused on the middle east. would you now say that the biden administration has entered a new era in foreign policy, one that is firmly focused on asia?

>> a lot of american administrations have seen the need to stay focused on asia but they keep getting distracted by the middle east, which has events happening on a more short-term, regular basis, whereas in asia sometimes it is a longer-term gain. when hillary clinton was secretary of state, she talked about the pivot to asia. the trump administration was attuned to the implications of china's rise. i think the biden administration has tried to take a classically diplomatic approach of trying to create traditional allies and counterbalance diplomatically against this new global player. but i do not think it is going to be possible for any u.s. administration to fully focus on asia and not have to react to events in the middle east. that is definitely one of the

challenges for any american administration. >> we appreciate your analysis. thanks for being with us. the kremlin and south korea have confirmed that kim jong-un is traveling to russia. south korean media reports that kim's training used for foreign visits appears to have departed. the meeting between the two leaders is expected to take place as early as tuesday local time. kim's train is expected to take the same route as his previous visit to russia in 2019. a pentagon spokesperson added that the u.s. is concerned that north korea they provide arms to russia. matt miller warned against a transfer of arms. >> we will monitor closely the outcome of this meeting. i will remind both countries that any transfer of arms would

be in violation of a multiple of you. -- multiple un security council revolutions. and we are against any entity that funds of russia's war effort. we will enforce those sanctions and not hesitate to impose new ones. >> the visit will be kim's first foreign trip since the pandemic. >> ♪ what so proudly we help at the twilight's last gleaming ♪ >> solemn remembrance ceremonies taking place today to mark 22 years since the september 11 attacks and to honor those killed. mourners gathered in manhattan to continue the tradition of family members reading aloud the names of those killed and planes crashing between towers.

vice president harris joined the commemoration. in pennsylvania, relatives visited the site of the plane that crashed in a field as the passengers overtook the hijackers. lloyd austin, general mark milley, kenda joe biden -- and jill biden part in a ceremony at the pentagon to honor those who died when a plane crashed into that building. >> the u.s. has demonstrated we will never bow to fear and hatred. momentarily taken, the united states rose up from the ashes of the world trade center, the pentagon, and a field in pennsylvania to show the world that we were still standing, that we cannot be toppled, that

terror would never destroy us. >> and president biden is marking the anniversary today in alaska, visiting troops and their families at a base in anchorage. he is currently traveling back from india and vietnam. after a brutal war and genocide, it was hoped that an international peace agreement would allow bosnia to heal. 27 years ago this week, leaders of three main communities agreed to a set of principles that would form the basis of the peace agreement of 1995, but now the united nations is warning of a renewed crisis as bosnian serbs threatened to break away from the country. >> it can feel as if it all happened yesterday.

the past is constantly revealed. this forensic anthropologist -- >> some cases are not officially identified. >> for nearly 20 years, she works -- has worked to identify the dead. >> still, we have to do a lot. a thousand people is still a lot. >> there is another imperative at work here. she is serbian and fears -- feels a duty to the truth. >> kit is important for society to find out what really happened in the 1990's in this region to change our history. >> 8000 men and boys were massacred here.

in europe's worst atrocity since world war ii, they surrendered to the serb commander. he separated men from their families with false promises of safety. leaders in serb-controlled territory called the genocide a fabricated myth. this in a land filled with old execution sites, like here, where around 700 men were killed. >> you come here and you would never realize that this is the scene a massacre. there is no plaque to say what happened here. but if you look closer, there are bulletholes from that time when the men were lined up and shut them.

but apart from that, weeds have been allowed to grow. it is part of the denial. >> not only is genocide denied, those responsible are now revered. >> we must remember those men, regardless of whether they say we are glorifying. think what it is to be a survivor and hear those words. he was 17 when, badly wounded, he escaped the massacre like playing dead. he has come back to live close to the great of his relatives. -- grades of his militant spread why do you stay here? >> is therapy for me. maybe for you it is history, but

living here is a struggle on a daily basis against that. >> against denial? >> tend against the glorification of criminals -- and against the glorification of criminals. >> at this serb religious festival, we found souvenirs of the jungle on sale. and in the local church, we met one of the generalists. he spent 10 years in jail for crimes against humanity, failing to stop and punish atrocities by his troops, but he will not accept that serbs committed genocide there. rather a massacre for which he does not bear responsibility. how on earth can your conscience be clear when you have been convicted of crimes against humanity? >> simply put, a person just has

to accept things as they are. if you cannot change them, let it be. this thing i cannot change, i live with it. >> or survivors, commemorate -- four survivors, emory lives and photographs of the dead. of a grandfather, a father, of this child now a law professor and fearful of new conflict. >> i became interest especially for these are not -- a jurist especially for the survivors. -- four survivors of genocide, everything looks similar, the celebration of war crimes and war criminals has caused unimaginable suffering. >> history, the manipulation of history, has long helped fuel conflict. that is why truth matters so much now.

>> the u.s. food and drug administration has approved updated covid vaccines as cases and hospitalizations are on the rise. the boosters were made to target variants currently circulating. the cdc just needs to sign off on the vaccines on tuesday. shipments could begin to pharmacies by the end of this week. updated vaccines were approved for people 12 and older. emergency approval was authorized for those six months to 11 years. finally, some pictures out of hawaii. this is the kilauea volcano. it spewed fountains of the month more than 80 feet into the air, but hawaii emergency management says it is not a threat to local communities.

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wow, you get to watch all your favorite stuff. it's to die for. now you won't miss a thing. this is the way. the xfinity 10g network. made for streaming. geoff: good evening. i'm geoff bennett. amna: and i am amna nawaz. on the newshour tonight, the death toll from the devastating earthquake from morocco rises further as rescue operations struggled to reach those in need. >> everything is gone. we lost the entire house. there are no officials visiting us, there is no health or aid. geoff: president biden wraps up his overseas travel to the g20 and