cnn's michael holmes has more. >> reporter: more boots on the ground, as a spanish search and rescuearrived in marrakech to assist with relief operations in morocco. the help coming just in time as rescuers face blocked roads and mountainous terrain as they search for survivors in some of the country's hard-to-reach villages. but the specialized units of spain's armed forces have faced challenges like this before, have deployed in previous disaster zones like turkey, nepal and haiti. the team has four dogs with them as well as tools that can capture concrete in that all things morocco needs as rescuers push deep into the remote areas of at lat mountains. many countries have sent offers of help, so far morocco has accepted assistance from some after what it says is careful assessment of its needs. on sunday, morocco thanked spain, and the uae for its support. in qatar, shipments of emergency vehicles were loaded on a transport plane bound for the quake zone. the gulf nation also sending pallets of supplies and rescue personnel to the region. schepp also on the way from the uk, with 60

i'm michael holmes. we appreciate your company.l earthquake hit late friday night. images on tweftion tuition8 magnitude quake is strongest in more than 120 years. joining live from lagos nigeria. tell us the damage its done and the toll it's taken. >> reporter: michael, the more rock an government more moroccan government says, so far 296 people have been killed, 153 wounded. but as has gone through 6 a.m. in morocco, so when dawn finally comes around and they assess the full extent of the damage those numbers could very likely go higher. this has been felt in the region of the high atlas mountains, but the closest city to this is marrakech. the unesco world heritage site. it gets millions of tourists each year, in marrakech and casablanca had to spend the night outdoors. after they heard the tremors and aftershocks, some of them were afraid what would happen if they went back to sleep. they spent the night essentially outside awake and worried about their property. some buildings completely clatchessed near the epicenter and resc

welcome, i'm michael holmes. appreciate your company. after that powerful earthquake rocked the country. >>> also, the g20 summit wrapped

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cnn's michael holmes has the details. >> reporter: a gathering of the faithful in one of the smallest most remote communities of catholics in the world. on sunday, pope francis celebrated mass in mongolia, a country with a population of around 3 million people but only about 1,500 are catholics and nearly all of them came to see the pontiff. >> translator: i'm so happy that pope francis visited mongolia. i got emotional when i attended mass. i think it furthered my spirit. i'm very, very thankful. >> reporter: vatican watchers say this trip to mongolia wasn't just about spreading the church's message to a country where no pope has visited before. it was also strategic and a chance to ease tensions with two of mongolia's neighbors, china and russia. relations between the vatican and moscow have deteriorated since the invasion of ukraine, and there have been tensions with beijing over its treatment of religious minorities and a controversial agreement to jointly appoint bishops in china. but on saturday, in words thought to be directed at china and russia, the pope said the church is no

michael holmes has now more on the aid being offered by the community of nations. >> reporter: the scope from the earthquake in morocco may take days to become clear, but there is one thing that is certain. the country will need help to recover from this disaster. people in marrakesh are lining up to donate blood after hospitals and health centers in the area made a plea to stock up. but that's just a tiny fraction of what the country urgently needs. additional rescue teams, heavy equipment, specialized doctors and medical supplies are often critical in relief efforts. and many nations are pledging their support, with india's prime minister, narendra mody offering his nation's resources at the g-20 summit in new delhi. >> we pray all the injured people get well soon. the entire world community is with morocco in this difficult time and we are ready to provide them all possible assistance. >> reporter: the u.s., the uk, the uae, france, japan, and the united have also sent condolences and offers of help. similar vows of aid from germany with one agency making plans deploy with highly trai

welcome, i'm michael holmes. appreciate your company. we're following two major stories for you this hour. the devastation in morocco with more than 2,000 dead, and a frantic search for survivors now under way after that powerful earthquake rocked the country. >>> also, the g20 summit wrapped up in india, but as world leaders prepare to head home, how much did they actually accomplish? we're live in new delhi with the latest. >>> but we begin in morocco where three days of mourning have been declared after more than 2,000 people were killed in the country's deadliest earthquake in decades. emergency teams have been desperately combing through the rubble of collapsed buildings to search for survivors. some of the worst-hit areas are remote villages on the foothills of the high atlas mountains. survivors there say they're in desperate need of life-saving aid and basic supplies. >> translator: we are living in a crisis situation. we ask that king mohammad vi intervenes and sends us some help because we are living through a traumatizing situ

i'm michael holmes. we begin with breaking news out of morocco where state television reports hundreds of people been killed, dozens more injured after a powerful earthquake hit late on friday night. images on state television showing buildings toppled or heavily damaged and residents running into the streets in fear. the u.s. geological survey says the 6.8 magnitude quake was the strongest in the region in more than o120 years. larry joins me live from legos, nigeria. a terrible death toll one imagines will only grow. tell us what we know about the strength and breadth of this earthquake and the toll it's taken. >> reporter: michael w he know that authorities in morocco say this earthquake hit after 11:00 p. 11:00 p.m. local time in the high lattice mountains southwest of the country. a lot of people were forced to spend the night outside after the buildings were damaged, and we still don't have the full accounting of what happened here because it's dawn in morocco when that happens and the sunlight, it

i'm michael holmes.ere state television reports hundreds of people been killed, dozens more injured after a powerful earthquake hit late on friday night. images on state television showing buildings toppled or heavily damaged and residents running into the streets in fear. the u.s. geological survey says the 6.8 magnitude quake was the strongest in the region in more than o120 years.

michael holmes, cnn. >> regional elections held across the country and in parts of occupied ukraine,he international community and monitoring group say the so- called elections were not right shannon carr limited choice in many places with opposing candidates blocked from running, one independent russia vote monitoring group said they saw many instances where the result was falsified. joining me now from london with more. putin nearly made a clean sweep of the annexed areas of ukraine and it doesn't come as a surprise to anyone and some of course point out it is a blatant violation of international law. >> it depends what side you're on, for russia they are valid elections and legitimate, a spokesperson said the importance of the elections cannot be overstated. of course to the west in the ukraine, they are being viewed as a sham and rigged, and prefabricated, but it is worth noting there is dissent within russia, quite key and quite rare to see, commented that they have been viewing the elections and this is with the cochair had to say about these elections.>> probably one of the ma

. >> earlier, our cnn michael holmes spoke with benjamin brown, a cnn researcher who is in the city of marrakesh, and he's describing what he's seen in the 24 hours since the earthquake struck. here he is. >> the scenes in marrakesh are really, obviously, quite, quite heartbreaking, when we look at material damage, but also personal injury. and at the same time, there's also a feeling that some parts of the town are getting a sense of normality back. it's really, there's really a split in the city. if you look into the old town me medina, it was a ghost town in large parts. residents have blocked off parts of the city, because it's too dangerous. but if you're in the newer suburbs of marrakesh, you see that there's a sense of people attempting to return to normality. that obviously, is in stark contrast to the scenes that we're seeing outside of marrakesh. i was at a hospital yesterday, where people have been brought in from these rural areas, and the emergency operation was still very much ongoing. marrakesh at the minute kind of stuck between these two realities of the more modern ar

michael holmes takes us aboard. >> three, two, one.iris rex. >> reporter: more than seven years ago, nasa set out on a mission to visit an asteroid, collect samples, and return them to earth. it took more than two years for asirius re-election to reach the asteroid named benu that's roughly the height of the empire state building. it circled benu for more than two years, mapping and studying its rough terrain. then in a brief touchdown in 2020, when the spacecraft attempted to extract rock samples from benu, something unexpected happened. as the spacecraft swooped if to garth some samples, it landed with such force that it set off an explosion of loose materials. the asteroid's surface was softer and looser than expected. then after collecting rock materials from the asteroid, osirius-rex departed benu in 2021 and has since been on its way back to earth. scientists believe that k carbon-rich asteroids like benu could hold the mysteries to the formation of the earth and the solar system. >> we're looking for clues sas why earth is a hab

michael moore and tim heaphy. thank you very much. >>> over to kristen holmes to hear from the trump camp, and certainly from the social media at some point, and what are you hearing from the contacts that you are combing through about this? >> well, that is right. with res we are still waiting for another adviser who is caught up in the investigation peter navarro who was found in contempt of congress yesterday, but as someone who covers trump day in, day out, and another person in the list of people who are not charged is how close they are to president trump, such as lindsey graham who was with him in the trump stop, and saying he is throwing the support behind him, and boris epstein is still his attorney. and now, we know that others have been spotted at mar-a-lago, and david perdue who had a meeting with david kemp to call this special session to help donald trump with the effort to overturn the 2020 election, and also, what we know is that he ran an entire failed gubernatorial campaign on those lie, and he was backed by donald trump, and the reason he ran is because he was mad that brian kemp had not overturned t