there's a big search and rescue operation this morning in larissa in central greece.ind me, two people have just been rescued and they are getting to safety. we have seen all morning volunteers getting on dinghies like this one, on boats, on canoes, and looking for people who are still stranded, stuck on rooftops, stuck on their balconies. this rescue operation is extremely complicated. entire villages are without power. hundreds of people are still stranded. roads are damaged. and there are some villages that are entirely submerged by water. and that means that the authorities have been unable to reach some of the worst affected areas. there are several people still missing and the fear is that the death toll could go up. the greek prime minister, kyriakos mitsotakis, said that greece is facing an unequal battle with nature, and that he's going to do everything humanly possible to help with the emergency. sofia bettiza. authorities say a deal has been reached with azerbaijan to restore transport to the corridor by russian peacekeepers and the red cross, a deal reache

assess the loss and damage the prophecy. 11 people confirmed did john circle of supports from central greece, the school notebook split to have flown off the shelves next week. when the greek school year begins there on usable now, because they sat on the lower shelves of this stationary shop in the village of all of us, which was flooded down the street. there's a stench of spoiled meat from 2 butcher shops and the local supermarket is throwing everything out a quarter of a $1000000.00 worth of damage in this business alone. the police have come from all over the country, feeling an outbreak of lawlessness, but angry residents said that's not the kind of state a they were looking for it. but in the 3 of for our new america, we started as 3 use a go card. so was flooded and now it happened in the surrounding villages. no slug, prevention had been done yet. millions had been spent. but on nothing substantial. you're living with climate change. now, things are going to get worse. people need to be able to live, look and invest in their locality. otherwise they should tell us this areas uninhab

the flooding triggered by severe rain storms has led to the depth of 6 people in central greece, so the 8th have been rescued. the hello, i'm down, jordan, this is down to 0. 9 from dough. so coming up from says top cool, says the bottom, i mean was going to bias in schools is legal fees. navarro a former advisor to donald trump is convicted of contempt of congress. so that investigation into the capitol hill, ryan couple in minutes each into names and opponents of the house of president as a new insur in 5 minutes. the storm daniel has brought more rain and funding to central greece, where 6 people now confirmed that and at least 6 more, i'm missing the army is helping, but search and rescue efforts. that's been major damage to infrastructure on several places in the port, city of photos, one of the hottest tape areas as the rest stuff on the main highway from athens to for some of the key storm drains overflowed at these water has risen a few more sent them, he says, this business would have been flooded in front of me, but here it's been more than 20 years and something similar happe

a trail of devastation across central greece.ords began. entire villages have been engulfed by water. and a massive rescue operation is underway to evacuate hundreds of people trapped for days. many without food or drinking water. this woman has lived in her house for more than 30 years. and is that the one in the yellow tent? yes. it's completely submerged in water. yes. translation: my home is completely destroyed. j i have nothing left. all i have is my work, this house and my children. and now our home is gone. climate change is causing more extreme weather. recently, greece faced the worst summer of wildfires on record. translation: it's a tragedy. we will suffer for a very long time. the damage to our homes is irreparable. a lifetime's work gone in a couple of hours. the damage to infrastructure is enormous. many roads are impassable and bridges destroyed, adding to the problems faced by emergency workers. many people here are furious at the greek government. they accused ministers of using climate change as an excuse for p

daniel has brought more rain and flooding to central greece, where 4 people are now confirmed dead and at least 6 are missing. the military is helping with search and rescue efforts. there's been major damage to infrastructure . drums throughout the list is in the port city of bolos. one of the hardest hit areas as a rest, stop on the main highway from athens to facilitate. the storm drains overflowed at these water has risen. a few bowls sent to me says this business would have been flooded in front of me, but a good deal. it's been more than 20 years since something similar happened. the local authorities need to clear drains, canals and rivers in the heart of colors. another restaurant bull, the full brunt of the floods. oh no say it will be a month before they will be able to reopen. the water was coming down slowly and then came suddenly in a torrent, it was about 50 or 60 centimeters high. we grad sandbox and what to protect the business, but there was little we could do. they dump them up onto the streets for municipal services to remove. flood was still receiving from the town

now this disaster has shaken the community to the core storm and the as has been factoring, central greece, torrential rains, have damage, roads, flooded homes and broke down power lines. european union has promised emergency funding to help greece rebuild for me a summer of qualifies and floods. the government has made, adapting to climate change, a national priority, the deputies, sophia class, stocky is following the latest extreme weather events from athens. so we talked to residents also bolos earlier, and they told us that the amount of water that um they see and that is uh, washing away the city since early this afternoon is nothing in comparison. and um, it's is more as sorry when you compare it to a storm. daniel, only 3 weeks ago, people are trapped in the houses with golf electricity for hours now for 5 hours. that without the necessity, we are 80 percent of the city is without electricity. water is coming out of the ceiling inside the houses. and people try to communicate to tell each other if they're safe. and the only thing they told us they can do right now is. 2 the whole f

roads and bridges, and hurling cars into rivers. emergency workers have been sent in throughout central greece, but the lack of access has hampered rescue efforts. some regions received more than a year's worth of rain in less than 24 hours. several people are missing, but it's not clear just how many the air force and the fire department are air lifting trapped residents. these people are from the village of bluehost. they waited 3 days without food before being rescued by the army. further south in columbus. the army is using rubber didn't use to get people out that i get the disaster of misery. pain, sorrow you such a tragedy who were suffering and will suffer for a very long time. the damage to our homes is a reparable, a lifetime's worth of work lost within 2 hours. everything is destroyed. the prime minister flew over the flooded areas to assess the damage. he says he's asking the european union for financial assistance to help rebuild the affected areas. is that what should have happened? what's happened, and what could be done best or would it be discussed later on? let's see our prior

the flooding has destroyed roads and caused blackouts in parts of central greece. after a long stretch of drought, the arid ground is unable to suck up the water masses in just 18 hours. more than $750.00 leaders of water fell per square meter. that's around an average years worth of rainfall. over the summer greece is government has been battling hundreds of wild fires, only to face the next big stream weather event, digital test i from i push it to what do i think everyone realizes there are certain where the phenomena that are beyond the capacity of humans to deal with that, that no matter how many flood prevention works, there are initially the homepage is one of the unprecedented volume of waterfall. this happens ever in the world. we will unfortunately have flooding. it wasn't much of the equipment. i mean, i'm truly hoping to meet you all are just all right. but we know a lovely having some difficult hours ahead of us is because we're such greece as prime minister as blame the extreme weather events on climate change, fearing the careless summer's in his cou

the community to the corner stone ellis has been battering central greece. torrential rains, have damaged roads, started homes, and brought down power lines. european union has promised emergency funding to help greece rebuild following summer of wildfires and floods. of the pulse of solace slotted for the 2nd time in a month. officials impose the cuff, you trying to keep people off the streets as the storm barrels through the residence captured the flood waters sweeping across the island, the vivia. yeah, roxanne's many thoughts of greece has still not recovered from the devastation prove by storm. daniel, earlier this month over a 1000 people died during the west storm on record. this farmer is one of the few people still living in his village still cleaning up weeks off the storm down. you'll see that she was born here in 1963 for the i grew up here. all my memories, the here. now it's all destroyed just because we've had to throw everything out and that's a cause that one. but actually it's not just homes and memories, but the storm took livelihoods, the going to stone wrecked crops a

the flooding has destroyed roads and caused blackouts in parts of central greece. after a long stretch of drought, the arid ground is unable to suck up the water masses in just 18 hours. more than $750.00 leaders of water fell per square meter. that's around an average years worth of rainfall. over the summer greece is government has been baffling. hundreds of wildfires only to face the next extreme weather event from april ship 14. i think everyone realizes their sudden weather phenomena that are beyond the capacity of humans to deal with that that no matter how many flood prevention works and there are kind of initials on the middle of this, one of the unprecedented volume of waterfall. this happens ever in the world. we will unfortunately have flooding. it wasn't much of greece as prime minister as blame the extreme weather events on climate change, fearing the careless summer's in his country may be a thing of the past. sketch up on some of the stories making headlines around the world today. you can government has announced plans to officially designate the ru

and um, the situation in low, low spot in general in central greece doesn't look good, especially in the cities of not assigned a series of data in st. law. whole houses were coverage. if you could just see the rooms, people try to get to rescue by like literally climbing on their roofs and also to all denies the fire forces were operating when we left waltz. and that yesterday night we saw the 5 horses getting ready for taking off the boat to go and rescue. those were trapped in the houses and where the boats um cannot reach the houses. helicopters are uh, operating. oh, so the brig army is joining troops of the greek army is joining in police. oh yes. c right, everything the, the transfer on the board, it's a chance are so the, the authorities still advise people to avoid going around is the streets are full of mot. a car. so we're washed away from the floating. so the rain it's, it's not draining right now, but the damage and what the rain causes it's still ongoing. so now them the residents have to be patient add to to see when they're going to be rescued. there were more. c than

a number of major streets in central greece have been flooded after heavy rain hit on wednesday. many people were trapped in their cars in flooded streets while rain and lightening struck. trash can be seen floating in the water. unfortunately, the system is expected to stay over the region into the weekend. so thunder showers are still possible in athens and istanbul, however sunny skies will cover much of the continent. berlin will see much warmer conditions with a high of 26. that's all for me. have a nice day. >>> that's all for this edition of nhk "newsline." i'm yoshi ogasawara in tokyo. thanks for watching and please stay with us for more. ♪ >>> this is "newsline biz." i'm gene otani. the hong kong stock exchange says it has suspended trading in shares of heavily indebted chinese property developer evergrande group. the reasons for the move have yet to be revealed. trading in evergrande shares has been halted since the opening of the exchange thursday. shares of the property management firm and an electric vehicle maker under the group umbrella have also been suspended. am

. >> torrential floods ravaged central greece with authorities working to rescue hundreds trapped bydaniel. some areas of the country have had a years worth of rain in the last three days. our reporter is in the town were a bridge collapsed and rescue operations are running into difficulty. >> a massive rescue operation is underway today in this part of greece to try and evacuate hundreds of people stranded by the floods. many homes are still without power. entire villages are almost completely underwater. helicopters are being used to airlift people stuck on rooftops. the evacuation efforts are proving to be very difficult because of the ferocity of the downpour. this is the heaviest rainfall greece has seen in decades. you can see the damage behind me. bridges and roads are badly damaged. authorities have been unable to reach some of the worst affected area because the water is so deep so there are still will just completely cut off. nobody have been able to reach them yet. climate change has caused heavy rainfall and heavy flooding in greece in the past few years. what is happenin

western and central greece have been hit hard by stormy weather since monday.ne area received 30 inches of rain. >>> well, bob barker's cause of death is revealed and a massachusetts teen dies after taking part in a social media challenge, also a convicted murder wants a new trial. those are some of the headlines on the morning news stand. >>> the post and currier reports convicted murderer, alex murdaugh want as new trial based on claims of jury tampering. authorities for the disgraced former lawyer claim a south carolina court clerk told jurors not to trust murdaugh when he testified in his own defense. they also say she pressured jurors to come to a quick verdict. mur daug's lawyers are now asking federal lawyers to investigate. he is serving life in prison without patrol in the shooting deaths of his wife and son. >>> "the boston globe" says the family of a teen who died suddenly after eating a spicy chip are now awaiting autopsy results. 14-year-old harris died on friday after his family says he took part in a social media challenge where people eat an ext

reporter: right now, the situation, especially in a port city in central greece is traumatic.he city is literally drowning due to the amount of water. the river has overflowed, it is almost three meters high. forces are there to rescue people that are trapped in their houses, trapped in their cars even. so right now these are the pictures that we see, and the people are cut off, villages and streets have been cut off so it is dangerous right now for the residence there. brent: i understand you have been talking with people and we know that all traffic there has been basically banned. what are people telling you? reporter: we talked to residents earlier and they told us that the amount of water that they see that is washing away the city since early this afternoon is nothing in comparison -- when you compare it to storm daniel only three weeks ago, people are trapped in their houses without electricity for 4-5 hours now. we've heard 80% of the city is without electricity. water is coming out of the ceiling inside the houses. people are trying to communicate to tell each other i

death toll from rising. further. jump sorrowful us. outages are in the villages spell of us in central greece. the let's take you through some of the headlines now. at least 2000 people have been killed in morocco in the west coast quite the since 1960 the magnitude 6.8 from a struck light on friday night. i may just search and rescue operation is continuing. troops and emergency services have scrambled to reach remote mountain villages, where people are fed traps in the rubble, where all can spend the night. meanwhile, the outdoors in fear of off to shocks many have slaps on the streets of to being wound the gains returning to the homes. yet, just a simple but the bottom. and that was at the point of taking a water bucket when the ground started shaking the other, i had to run, feel safe to new york, correct, on the color, and everything fell on the ground. i flips the road with my children. when i heard that my neighbor was kept under the rubble of accounts with russian save. oh shante, what as the buttons this car was asleep when the earthquake struck, i could not escape because the follow

. >>> a dramatic rescue at sea after mul ple >>> in central greece, at least two people are dead andssing after record rainfall unleashed devastating floods. since monday, the storm has triggered landslides, destroyed a bridge and swept away dozens of cars. >>> now to this story. three sailers are safe tonight after a harrowing encounter with multiple sharks off the coast of australia. the sharks caused severe damage to their 30-foot boat. they were rescued by a cargo ship. the sailers, two from russia and one from france are okay. they were attempting an around-the-world sail. >>> america's young tennis stars making their mark at the u.s. open. that story is next. >>> finally tonight, at the u.s. open, youth is holding serve. 20-year-old ben shelton earned his first trip to the semifinals tuesday night with a four-set win over fran's tiafoe. it marked the first qwest match featuring two african american men. american coco gauff is another player whose game is as hot as the weather. tomorrow she makes her first bid for the finals in flushing meadows. at 19, gauff is just two wins awa

picture of the headlines here, this a student danielle has brought more rain and flooding to central greece with 6 people. and now confronted and at least 6 missing, the military is helping with a search and rescue efforts. the states absolute priority at the moment is to rescue people from the areas hit by the bed with the as well as the protection of critical infrastructure. a form of donald trump advisor has been convicted for refusing to cooperate with the congressional committee investigating the capitol hill riot. peter navarro was a wide house economics adviser in the trump administration. prosecute has charged him with contempt, but not turning over the documents and refusing to testify in front of congress of our faces up to a year in prison. i get a house of representatives control by nancy pelosi put try to put me in prison. why? cuz i'm a trump guy, and i get a bite and white house and a bite and department of justice would the marriage, garland running, it are running a part of it. is anybody listening? anybody want to tell me that i would be here if republicans had held the ho

. >>> the death toll from flag in central greece has risen to at least six.rm has brought days of heavy rainfall. water is more than six-feet deep in some places. fire officials say nearly 1,800 people have been rescued so far. about 200 people including foreign tourists were evacuated from one area. six people remain missing. >>> a controversial snack is taken off the market. why a family is blaming a popular exercise bike for their loved one's death, and the manhunt under way for a terror suspect in britain. those are some of the headlines on the "morning newsstand." "reuters" reports britain vows to find an escaped terror suspect. 21-year-old daniel khalife appears to have slipped away from a london prison wednesday while working in a kitchen and hiding under a food delivery van. he had been awaiting trial on terror charges. khalife, who was discharged from the british military in may, is accused of gathering intel and planting fake bombs at a military base. police say his military experience may make him harder to catch. >>> the "daily beast" reports on a

o and central greece with the hardest hit. how if people they're holding up. that's right. the storm seems to fit very hard on increases the east coast, about 3 hours of a 150 kilometers north of athens. that's where the 2 confirmed casualties, an elderly man, and an elderly woman, and now being reported with another 2 elderly men, reported missing. and it seems that they were just washed out. the old man was found on the beach worst out to sea possibly. and the elderly woman was found outside her house. it's. it's being speculated that she may have been so long by floodwaters as well. the, the, the damage is still far from being assessed, and emergency services have locked down the safety of all us. we are told and the on the mounds, p on which sits next to it is also i think, positive that to lock them. but there are no details emerging get from the pharmacies on what the damages and indeed what the final casualty count will be. but uh, one good thing that can be said is that this isn't an area that's recently suffered from forest fires, so hopefully arose. so it arose an

right wing groups banned in recent months to reach a range from storm alia, said, swept across central greece damaging roads, flooding homes and housing power outages. authorities band road traffic in the port city of bolos. european union has promised emergency funding to help raise cope with flooding involved fires. the greek government has declared that adapting to climate change is a national priority. erac a wedding that turned into a deadly and for an over at least a 100 people were killed and more than a 150 injured in a blaze that witnesses a could have been started by fire works char debris, now blocks the hall where hundreds of guests had gathered for a wedding, the ceiling blabs onto the guests, a darning celebration, to carnage. more than a 100 people are dead, including the bride and the groom. eye witnesses said the fire broke out as the wedding couple were on the dance floor and move it. and how did this happen? well, i should have what i got. i mean, what can i say? they were about to do a slow dance with us. so they only the fireworks sometimes die, the one that hit the ceili

that death toll from rising further jumpstart awful us outages or in the villages by them us and central greece the the, let's take you through some of the headlines now. at least 2000 people have been killed in morocco in the west coast quake more than a 100 years. the magnitude 6.8. tremont struck flights on friday night and the major search and rescue operation is continuing. troops and emergency services have scrambled to reach remote mountain villages, where people are fed tracks in the rubble. americans spend another night, can't count, following the us quite many slacks on the streets off to being born to a games returning to the homes. and you can get much more on this quake as well as all the other stories were following here. now to see, or if you head over to our website out to 0, don't com. it's the stream next. so please stay with us. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter why you call out you 0 will bring you the news and current affairs. the houses in here the i answer me. okay. you're watching the stream on this episode. we upgr

deaf co from rising further jumpstart, awful us elders are in the village of pelham, us, and central greece. the type of quick check of the headlines here, this uh more than 2000 people have been killed in morocco, in the west of quick to hit the country and more than a 100 years. the magnitude 6.8 tremor struck late on friday night. i may just search and rescue operation is now continuing. troops and emergency services of scrambled to reach remote mountain villages where people are still in track. meanwhile people in morocco are fearful of off the shocks and the off them off of the quite many have been sleeping on the streets, off of the government, warning them against returning to their homes. rescue as are struggling to reach hod hip remote areas. yep. just a simple but that has been awesome. and that was at the point of taking a water bucket when the ground started shaking your heads around, feel safe, didn't you? we give you a wall correct on the color and everything fell on the ground. i flips the road with my children. when i heard that my neighbor was kept under the rubble of the c

far, well, things are getting worse from minutes submitted, especially in am i going to see on central greece where storm daniel started his last yesterday and the heavy rain falls continues throughout the night and another person was referred to death by the learning fire for a service on a 1030 local to. * and this is the fear of everyone that's a, this number will arise. so in other regions of research doesn't look better in every. * in the got to be so i'm part of the post. nice daniel his athens this morning slightly. it was raining around $830.00 right now. it's uh stop it. stop. but like 10 minutes ago that was like, uh, a storm. so everyone tried to, um, to get some protection and i ran into and shops near the city center. so um, daniel will uh, continue for now and um, people are hoping for it to stop. and the only thing they can do for now at least, is just uh, wait. so the rains are continuing, our authority is telling people to brace for further flooding. their quotes are continuing. um. it's expected, at least for the next 24 hours, and the storage fees are sending the message as

right now, terry, especially in the 4th city of bolos in central greece, where samuel, the storm hits dramatically yesterday morning and the heavy rain falls, continues throughout the night. and still we spoke to some residents develop just a few minutes ago that told us that they are trapped in the houses to drive the switch up and their cars on main street, on the city, and also siege amount of mount sandy on web terry's down to the city, so uh right now uh it is on the if it's out of control and of course residents are afraid. oh, so the only thing they can really do is so afraid. so things are out of control as you say. and i understand there could be more flooding to come. what's the forecast? yes, indeed. indeed, there is more to come as daniel is expected to hit the wider region of africa today . uh right now in athens. uh, it's leaning not so strong as we saw the moment it started on this hour ago, but also all the parts of things, not just the low, so also on charge of the nice in area as well. and it will continue. this continues and expected for the next 24 hours. at least

, and the probably one straight storm out as broad, devastating floods in torrential rains as central greece, causing major power outages in several areas. it's been 3 weeks since the earliest storm in the region left. many people that the bulk of that's more of the dental use tools through the coastal city of follows. destroying homes, businesses, an infrastructure within $250.00 people have been evacuated from the city since storm earlier struck on wednesday, causing the crusty don't us river to bust its banks and plunging 80 percent of the city into darkness. locals or blaming pool planning for making matters worse. we've been battling the situation with the water for 20 days. the do not come to help us in the open one, small drain and then they leave the rest example of the city. this was destined to happen up until yesterday. they were collecting heaps of money and they did not finish in time. and then this happened that was of cause and lots of water, but they did not do the jobs properly. the extreme rain full comes just 3 weeks of to devastating storm. daniel killed 16 people in the

that deaf co from rising further jumpstart, awful us elders are in the village of spell of us in central greece. a palestinian teenage has been killed by his riley forces in the occupied westbank. it happened during his ready raid and a robe refugee camp north of hebron. the palestinian red crescent says the 16 year old were shutting the buck during confrontations with his ready troops since his daughter. but yeah, it's really forces and settlers of kill 232. understand living on this can take a prime minister has told the palace to the and presidents that fighting between arrival functions of the you know, headway, refugee camp. dozens of the palestinian cause. the mythology says the escalation of violence spinning on goods. and the muslim youth is a great risk to living on. the 2 sides had agreed to a ceasefire, would fight to get up to it again on saturday morning for people have been killed. today is preparing to mock the 50th anniversary of the 2 that brought general a goose that's gonna shake the power as many travel losses. who am i? 17 years more than 3000 people were killed on 28000 to

death toll from rising further jumpstart, awful us elders are in the village of spell of us in central greece to the movies. now where preliminary results show opposition candidate mohammed vid suit is leading the presidential election. with 2 thirds of the ballots counted which it was projected to receive 46 percent of the votes, meaning the country will go again to the polls. so run of later this month, tony change report somali on how the day progressed. early voters heading into a polling station in money schools across this island city, turned over to the election commission for the day the, the new nearly 50 percent of voters had already registered the pay and many said they would please. the process was going smooth. yeah. what i'm very satisfied with have voting went. it is very organized going well. it was done well. yes, i feel good. we waited for so long. but this moment, also what seem the process carefully is the european union. it has a full team member team of election monitors in place a little bit with eager distress the knowledge presence. necessarily mean they were expectin

a storm daniels sweeps through wisdom and central greece. the ryans had flooded cities and paralyzed roads. well, they said to me where there is next inside story takes a look at africa's 1st climate summit. up next the the had low, the, the he is set to build once again across parts of the middle east and event, particularly for places like iraq and to 8. we'll see those numbers start to climb up into the high forty's over the next few days. and it system is some of the trend across the event with syria. seen temperature in damascus puts up to 40 degrees celsius on thursday, the lodge we settled picture with just some showers in storms of places like human, possibly creeping up in the south west and pots of saudi arabia, but illogically drive picture. we could see some poor visibility on thursday around the gulf, as those winds kick up some dust and sand, and sand is the story across the north of africa. we've got some gusty winds blowing. that's the hardest end to southern parts of europe. when does a story for libya as well as to new z, a

biofofreeze >> norah: in central greece, at least two people are dead and several others are missinge storm has triggered landslides, destroyed a bridge, and swept away dozens of cars. now to this story. three sailors are safe tonight after a harrowing encounter with multiple sharks off the coast of australia. the sharks caused severe damage to their 30-foot boat. they were rescued by a cargo ship. the sailors, two from russia and one from france, are okay. they were attempting a 'round-the-world sail. america's young tennis stars are making their mark at the u.s. open. that story is next. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: this portion of the "cbs evening news" is brought to you by fisher investments. clearly different money management. management. different how? you sell high commission investment products, right? (fisher investments) nope. fisher avoids them. (other money manager) well, you must earn commissions on trades. (fisher investments) never at fisher investments. (other money manager) ok, then you probably sneak in some hidden and layered fees. (fisher investments) no. we structure our fe

toll after greece's deadly storms has risen to 15, after rescuers recovered four more bodies in central greecefter storm daniel caused devastating flooding throughout the country following a summer of dangerous wildfires. that's due to the effects of climate change. you're live with bbc news. turning to delhi now, where india formally handed over the g20 presidency to brazil on sunday, at the closing ceremony of the group's annual summit. prime minister narendra modi completed the transition by passing the ceremonial gavel to brazil's president, luiz inacio lula da silva. on saturday, the group issued a joint declaration on the war in ukraine, but the text made no direct reference to russian aggression. moscow has since termed the meeting a success. from delhi, the bbc�*s south asia correspondent yogita limaye reports. a poignant start to the final day of india's g20 presidency, a moment to remember the country's most revered leader, mahatma gandhi, and his message of peace. but war and regional conflict has meant the summit wasn't a full house. the presidents of russia and china didn't attend

death toll from rising further. jump sorrowful us. outages are in the villages by them. us and central greece the let's take you through some of the headlines now. at least 2000 people have been killed in morocco in the west coast quite the since 1960 the magnitude 6.8 from a strong.

that's also hopeless, as has moved from lobby in central greece. we are standing under very low hanging clouds from horizon to horizon and constant rain, which now covers all of central grease. we've been driving up on the main highway that goes from athens to for some of the key, the nerve import surgery. that highway has been closed. all traffic has been diverse. it offers off of that highway here. and let me, uh, and the, the trucks that are doing a normal delivery to you. so you are having to find, by ways to filter that way north or south. we've seen from local media scenes of devastation embolus, which is about a 120 kilometers north east of where i'm standing, where anti roads have been swept away. villages have been cut off from each other and the fi service is telling people to stay inside the homes, not to venture out, not to go check on their lives, talk over their fields, little bit of prophecy. because roads may have been eroded and they may collapse at any moment without that being apparent. if you're standing on them. already 2 peopl

reach those people to rescue efforts are underway for hundreds of people trapped by floods in central greece. entire towns have been swamped and cut off following a storm earlier this week. that's caused rivers to overflow. at least 10 people have died and several others are missing. electricity, gas, telephone and internet lines are down. in the mo, the preliminary results show opposition candidates mohammed my resume leading the presidential election with 2 thirds of the ballots counted, we do is projected to receive 46 percent of the votes. now that's just under the 50 percent mark meeting, the country will go again. to the polls for a run off that will be later this month. tony chang reports from molly on how the day went on. the early vote is heading into a polling station in molly schools. across this island city turned over to the election permission for the day. but at the office knew nearly 50 percent of voters had already registered the pay and many said they would please. the process was going smoothly. yeah, what i'm very satisfied with the voting went it is very organized going

this is the city of larissa, in central greece.dwaters. ten people are known to have died in the flooding though some villages have yet to be reached by the emergency services. let's return to our top story this hour — reports that nearly 300 people have been killed and many others injured after a powerful earthquake struck southwest morocco. bbc arabic�*s mohamed taha joins me from the newsroom. mohamed whats the latest? what we know at the moment is the number of casualties and if this big earthquake have reached 296, according to the official initial estimation of casualties and more than 150 injured in that earthquake, given the earthquake happened at 11 given the earthquake happened at i! which is quite early in the night and sunrise will happen in this area in morocco after about two hours means that when the sun will come out we might see more casualties in these areas. talking about areas where houses are old. some of these buildings have cultural heritage and some of these areas are tourist areas. there is a danger we migh

storm elias flooded parts of central greece wednesday.ehicles trying to manoeuvre through the floods, as emergency crews patrol the area rescuing people trapped. landslides and power outages have also been reported. it comes just weeks after deadly flooding from storm daniel, in the region. you're live with bbc news. in washington, there's been no clear progress in efforts in the house to avoid a partial government shutdown by sunday. republican hardliners have been threatening to block the passage of spending legislation unless there are significant budget cuts. president biden said key government services could be disrupted. a loss of vital work in science and health could be impacted, from cancer research to food safety. so the american people need our american friends in the house to do theirjob. —— republican friends. house speaker kevin mccarthy says he plans to introduce a stop—gap spending bill friday, but it's still not clear on whether that could pass. the us soldier travis king, who was being held in north korea, is on his way

the storm daniel has proved even more rain and flooding to central greece. why 6 people are now confronted? at least 6 also remained missing. the ministry is helping with such and rescue efforts, has been major damage to infrastructure. how correspondents on the drop list is in the port for 2 of those. one of the honda state areas, or as a rest stop on the main highway from athens to facility. keith storm drains overflowed at these water has risen. a few bowls sent to me says this business would have been flooded in front of me, but a good deal. it's been more than 20 years since something similar happened. the local authorities need to clear drains, canals and rivers in the heart of colors. another restaurant bull, the full brunt of the floods. oh no say it will be a month before they will be able to reopen. the water was coming down slowly and then came suddenly in a torrent it was about 50 or 60 centimeters high. we grad sandbox and what to protect the business, but there was little we could do. they dump somebody onto the streets for municipal services t