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Annie McDermott’s translation of Argentine writer Selva Almada’s ‘Not a River’ is shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize.

It will swallow houses and sometimes it floods this plantation before we have time to stop it or will the flooding allows for just one harvest per year and that also limits the types of crops that can be planted but once the river flow is under control more intensive agriculture can be practiced its a different story for sudanese brick makers they depend on silt washed down from the ethiopian highlands to make bricks which are then baked in riverside kilns with the new dam in place there will be...

When you know there was a blue nile is very unpredictable tonight the level of water will be low tomorrow it will swallow houses and sometimes it floods this plantation before we have time to stop it or will the flooding allows for just one harvest per year and that also limits the types of crops that can be planted but once the river flow is under control more intensive agriculture can be practiced its a different story for sudanese brick makers they depend on silt washed down from the ethiopia...

The senate and the fbi, the vice-president must have heard something that put a smile on his face as he addressed a union member after another. >> electricians, brick makers, boiler makers. >> reporter: the president didnt make clear that his infrastructure plan is stuck. >> were a nation of builders and it was about time we had a builder in the white house. right? >> reporter: so how seriously is the white house pushing this tonight? we saw the president a couple of times today didnt say a word...

This week, were launching the cnn freedom project. a yearlong initiative to highlight the problem of modern day slavery. according to united nations estimates, human trafficking is an industry worth an astonishing $32 billion. an estimated 140,000 people are being held as slaves in europe, after being smuggled by human traffickers. the u.n. has launched a $1 million fund to help the victims of trafficking. well, slaverys often hidden in plain sight in rural india, bonded laborers work long hours...

They are restoring, rebuilding, the crumbling brick and mortar of this historic site. more than $7 million in stimulus money is making it possible. its grueling, but for dennis wood, a mason from massachusetts, its work hes glad to have. >> things are slow today though, got a job offer down there so we took it. >> reporter: if it wasnt for you working -- >> probably be laid off right now. >> reporter: the seven masons and eight support workers were unemployed before the job. others benefited too...