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CNNW CNN July 3, 2024

More than 2,000 people were killed and close to 2,000 injured in the 6. 8 magnitude original quake. Its the countrys deadliest earthquake in decades. Those numbers are expected to rise. Relief efforts are slow to arrive at some of the most remote areas. You can see Drone Footage here showing the scope of the damage. Entire villages have been flattened, reduced to piles of rubble in the aftermath of this earthquake. Earlier a person was pulled from under a collapsed building and then carried away to safety. It was a rare moment of celebration. And for a second Night Thousands of people slept in the streets of marrakesh. Many have no home to return to or facing the threat of aftershocks, they are afraid to sleep in the damaged buildings. Sam kiley has more. Reporter this is the scene here in the medina in marrakesh. As you can see, a whole side of this building has collapsed into one of these very narrow streets. They have evacuated most of the tourists from this area. If there are any motre tremors, more of this will occur. Many buildings are very, very badly damaged and they have got some catastrophic cracks. You can see up there in the left, you can see how with a minor tremor all of this could come tumbling down. There have been tremors elsewhere in the country and it is the tremors, the aftershocks that are continuing to pose very severe problems for the authorities, partly because the roads are being closed. If they werent closed originally by the earthquake, they are being closed by subsequent tremors, and of course those buildings that are remaining standing are likely to come down. Now, Tens Of Thousands of people are believed to have been made homeless by this earthquake. People are having to sleep out in the open. There have been some miraculous rescues. Yesterday afternoon a woman was pulled out from under the rubble, having been trapped 12 hours. A similar rescue here in marrakesh. The authorities are having to use helicopters, aircraft to get to some of these remote villages in the atlas mountains. The foothills, traditionally extremely badly hit with villages reused to rubble. It is no those areas where the death toll, which is now just over 2,000 people, at least 13 here in marrakesh, but 2,000 people in the rest of the country, and likely to rise as the authorities pick through this rubble and discover whether or not the people who are missing are now actually dead. All right. Sam kiley, thank you. Lets bring in the head of communications with the International Federation of the red cross and red crescent societies. Really appreciate you joining us. First off, i know you have been talking to the volunteers there on the ground, helping with the rescue efforts. Have you heard of very many rescues that have been happening . Good morning. Thank you for having us, first of all. Please, let me express my sincere condolences to the moroccan people and those who lost their loved ones and wish a speedy recovery to the injured. As a federation of red cross and red crescent societies we work with the moroccan red crescent. We had the chance to be in contact with our volunteers there on the ground. So they were, as you know, that volunteers are working with the local communities to provide them the services, the firstaid and they were helping the public. Its a strong earthquake, and nowadays, i just had a call with them. They are organizing the moroccan red crescent, mobilizing all their volunteers across the country, and they have a Blood Donation campaign. So the volunteers themselves are donating blood for the people affected in this devastating earthquake. I understand that you are also helping coordinate some of the rescue and corooferry efforts. Is that correct . As a federation, we work with the National Society. So i will our National Society is helping the moroccan authorities in the rescue and search effort and mobilizing the teams on the ground. Most of the volunteers are trained to do firstaid. So they were from the beginning the first on the ground to provide firstaid and heal the wounds of the injured and give them shelter, Psychosocial Support, et cetera. Got it. Okay. So tell me, in terms of injuries, what youre hearing about for those, you know, have survived this earthquake. I mean, im just looking at the pictures here, and it really looks like a very challenging effort for those who are digging through what looks like really thick, dense clay and mud, the rubble there on the ground. For those who are injured, what kind of injuries are your volunteers seeing . What kind of treatments are they giving them . So far, we dont have a clear picture on the severity of injuries. But our volunteers are saying that there are a lot of people still under the runl, and not they are not able to reach to most of them. So this needs collaboration with the public, authorities to get the injured from under the rubble. Until now, the picture is not very clear, but as the operation unfolds we will have a clear idea on the situation. But as we know from other disasters all over the world, and we have the recent earthquake in syria and turkey, we know that there will be severe injuries and people need very urgent support to get them under the rubble. But as we know, the capacity of the National Society Cannot Respondez loan to like a disaster with this magnitude. What kind of resources are needed then on the ground . First of all, after we continue the rescue and search of efforts, people need food, people need water. As you know, the Water Pipelines are now damaged. The electricity cut off. The roads are blocked. So people need first the basic needs and they need shelter. And they are traumatized. Basically, Psychosocial Support is very much needed, and these are the basic needs that we have witnessed in many disasters before, and also helpful to provide surgeries for the people. From all over the world we have calls from red cross and red crescent National Society. They are mobilizing their resources and their support. Their teams on the ground. We are sending Emergency Teams on the ground to support the National Society, the moroccan red crescent, and have them give aid to the affected people and rescue them as fast as possible. We are seeing a huge response from around the world, including the United States pledging significant assistance. The moroccan government deploying its own response to the quake, but i imagine looking at the damage and devastation that a lot of help will be needed from around the world. I appreciate you, thank you. You can learn how to help victims at cnn. Com impact or text morocco to 707070 to donate. With the g20 summit officially over, President Biden now turns his focus to vietnam where the u. S. Is looking to strengthen ties with the country and lessen the influence of china and russia in the region. We may get more iniekt see into the Biden Administrations strategy this morning when President Biden holds a News Conference in hanoi. Joined by Cnn Senior International correspondent ivan watson and anna coren is in han eye. Ivan, ukraine is not happy with the g20 statement on the war, saying the groups member could have nothing to be proud of. Tell us what is in the statement and whats not in this declaration. Reporter right. The biggest Sticking Point and the biggest point of contention in this meeting in new delhi was the war in ukraine. Russias fullscale invasion of ukraine. I know that because the top indian official who was kind of leading negotiations in place of the Prime Minister of india, he put out a tweet saying that this was the most complex part of the entire g20 bringing consensus on russia and ukraine. These geopolitical paragraphs in the joint statement that was put out was done over 200 hours of nonstop negotiations, 300 bilateral meetings, and 15 drafts. So that gives you a sense of how much work went into it. There was a lot of concern that maybe the gathered governments here would not be able to agree on a consensus document. In the end, they is. And what it did, what the ukrainians are angry about is it did not directly condemn russia for the invasion a year and a half ago of its smaller neighbor ukraine. Instead, it spoke more generally, talking about how the use of Nuclear Weapons is inadmissible, that it is wrong for one country to invade another country and annex its territory, as russia has done, and that the consequences of the ongoing war in ukraine are doing serious harm to the global economy, particularly to the worlds poorer countries. So the ukrainians are not happy with this. The Biden Administration has defended it saying, hey, there were good cases presented here. Clearly, it was important for the indian hosts to not break with tradition of having a Consensus Statement coming out at the end of of this summit. Would have been the First Time Since 2008 if they havent been able to agree on something. Definitely the ukrainians unhappy with the fact that russias feet werent put closer to the fire here. B keep in mind, russia is a member of the g20, as is its close ally, china, which has, so far, not condemned russias invasion of ukraine, as have several other g20 countries, for example, the host country india. Speaking of china, lets turn to vietnam where anna is and how the influence of china plays into what we expect to hear and see from the president over the next 24 hours or so. Ron well, victor, vietnam is very much aware that china is watching. You know, it does not want to anger beijing. China is vietnams big northern neighbor. They share an 800mile land border, the largest trading partner. It cannot afford to upset china. But, at the same time, you know, vietnam is incredibly pragmatic. Thats what we have heard from u. S. Officials who have worked and lived here. And they say that vietnam is looking for the best deal. It wants to be autonomous. It wants to be selfsufficient. And it knows that there are huge Economic Opportunities by upgrading its partnership with the u. S. The u. S. Had been trying for many years now to upgrade its partnership. Its an exclusive club, something that china and russia are a part of. Well, now the u. S. Is going to be a part of it as well. We also heard from officials saying that the u. S. Is going to upgrade the vietnamese relationship to top level and there will be a Security Component in that. We heard that they are talking about perhaps, you know, helping vietnam diversify away from russian weaponry. That is something that vietnam has used now for decades and decades dating back to the viet cong. T vietnams top brass would go to soviet union and then to russia for training. So there was a deep relationship there. But the americans are going to offer them Economic Opportunities, and also security opportunities. Victor. All right. Anna, ivan, traveling with the president. Thank you. Luke broadwater a Congressional Correspondent for the new york times. The white house, luke, says that the president delivered on his earlier pledge to, quote, restore the United States leadership role in the world at the g20. Youve got china. Xi was not there. Putin was not there. Did the president succeed . Well, i think democrats believe that President Biden is setting an example that President Trump did not set, and thats a message you hear repeatedly on capitol hill, that President Biden has changed the tone in washington. He has changed americans standing in the world. He has regained respect of other countries. The republicans view it very differently. They think he was weakened america. They think that trumps more, i guess, aggressive, verbal style had the respect of russia and of authoritarians around the world. So its a very divided view in the congress about whether President Biden is succeeding internationally. And really there is almost no changing it, no matter what President Biden does. All right. Lets turn to congress now, bring it home. The house returns this week. They have about a dozen or so work days to fund the government. I mean, the country could be facing a Government Shutdown if they do not come to an agreement there in the house. The senate seems to be moving their Funding Bills through. Mccarthy has the right flank that wants changes to the doj. They want changes to the pentagon. They want some more money for funding the border. Whats his weak back look like as he is trying to herd these cats . Yeah, not good. He has a big he has a big task ahead of him, and he is feeling a lot of pressure. I would, if i had to bet, would bet we will have some sort of shut down at some point this year. The house simply does not have time to pass its 12 different Appropriations Bills bit the end of the month. Its literally i will possible, i would think. So so they need this shortterm funding extension. Right now the House Freedom caucus, more than 30 members, is adamantly opposed to that unless they get some of the concessions you just named. They want to border bill included. They want funding cut even lower than whats been agreed to with the white house already. It stands in stark contrast to what is going on in the senate. The senate has advanced bipartisan Funding Bills out of its committees with republicans working hand tin hand with the democrats. The house is a completely different world and mccarthys had a really difficult time wrangling this farright faction to get them to vote to keep the government going. Lets talk about the democrats and congresswoman nancy pelosi. Its been a long time since i called her that because she has been in leadership so long. She is running for reelection. When asked whether she would serve a full term, she told politico, well see, yeah, thats the plan. She added this. Here is the quote. My focus is the house and presidency. Youre in a stronger position as a candidate. If youre not a candidate, you really cant raise money for yourself and raising money for myself enables me to spend that on other people. She added this. For the House Democrats, i needed to be able to raise significant money for them as a candidate. Maybe thats why she is running for reelection. Does she need to be there. She is nancy pelosi. She has raised millions of dollars over her time in leadership. Could she not have done this from a super pac outside the chamber . Yeah, i mean, nancy pelosi is out of leadership but still very much a leader. She gives advice to the new leaders of the House Democrats whenever they ask for advice. She doesnt force it upon them. She waits for them to come to her. But, you know, one of her great agents is as a Master Fundraiser and it is much easier, as she said, to raise money for your own campaign and then you can distribute that money to campaigns that you want to help. 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