Welcome to the programme. We start in morocco, where Search And Rescue crews are trying to reach people in the areas worst affected by friday nights powerful earthquake. More than 2,000 people are now known to have died. Three days of National Mourning have been declared. This is the small town of asni in the Atlas Mountains about 30 miles 45km south of marrakesh. Very few buildings have been left undamaged by the 6. 8 magnitude quake. Live now to marrakesh, we can speak to our correspondent anna holligan. This is a un World Heritage site and the Culture Agency has offered to help morocco come up with a repair strategy. In marrakesh, 300,000 people, about a quarter of the population, has been affected. I just want to take you closer to give you the full picture. This is the mask and the minaret has crumbled. There are piles of rubble here earlier which have been removed by heavy machinery. Some of the street signs have been vented and twisted. Here, you can see some of the debris has f
Hinders its counter offensive, the top ranking us Military Officer says. Speaking to the bbc, general mark milley said colder conditions would make it much harder for ukraine to manoeuvre. It comes as kyiv was attacked by russian drones early on sunday and debris fell in several districts, ukrainian officials say, but no casualties were reported. At least ten explosions were heard in the capital and Air Raid Sirens signalled that residents should take shelter. Lets go live now to kyiv and speak to our correspondent paul adams. Before to our correspondent paul adams. We talk about ti wa nt before we talk about the fighting, i want to talk about this agreement in delhi, which is not strongly worded, about the war in ukraine. Doesnt criticise russia, Sergey Lavrov has welcomed it and call that a milestone. What has the response from ukraine beam . fix, milestone. What has the response from ukraine beam . Milestone. What has the response from ukraine beam . A rather critical one. The resp
This was the moment the quake struck the unesco World Heritage listed city of marrakesh prompting people to sprint for the streets. The city is reporting a lower death toll, but considerable damage to buildings survivors have been describing their experiences. Walls started shaking, Picture Frames started falling off the walls. I realised we were going through some sort of a shake, an earthquake, obviously. People started screaming, i could hear all the. My windows were open, i could hear all the neighbours screaming. I opened the door, everyone was running out of their flats, running downstairs. Lots of panic, people screaming and shouting, screaming for their families, ladies screaming for their kids, where is my son . Where is my daughter . I would say for about 15, 20 minutes, it seemed like hours. But there are huge concerns in particular for the areas outside the city. These incredible pictures show the damage to the community of taroudant. Here, soldiers and residents have been
Where Search And Rescue crews are working to reach people in the areas worst affected by friday nights powerful earthquake, which is now known to have killed more than 2,000 people. Three days of National Mourning have been declared. This is the small town of asni, in the atlas mountains, where few buildings have been left undamaged by the 6. 8 magnitude quake. Rescue teams have reached asni, after the Moroccan Army cleared a landslide on the access road. But other small Rural Communities remain cut off by rockfalls and there are reports of entire villages flattened. 0ur correspondent nick beake has made it to another community in the atlas mountains. This is amizmiz, in the atlas mountains. And you can see the destruction here. These were typically one and two storey buildings that came crashing down, and people have been picking through the rubble for their possessions. But of course, its notjust possessions. Many lives have been lost here, too. And just talking to someone a short ti