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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 11th of September, these are our main stories.

Rescue teams in Morocco continue to search for survivors of last Friday's earthquake, with the death toll now standing at two and a half thousand.

The United States and Vietnam have issued a joint statement warning against the threat or use of force in the disputed South China Sea.

A China vehemently denies reports that a parliamentary researcher in London has been spying for Beijing.

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The toll from the Moroccan earthquake continues to rise.

The government there now says almost two and a half thousand people are confirmed to have died.

Many of the worst hit villages are yet to be reached, so that figure is certain to rise further.

With heavy machinery unable to get through blocked roads, villages have been using their bare hands to search under the rubble.

People are still being pulled out alive, but our correspondent Tom Bateman, who's reached one of the worst hit areas of the Atlas Mountains, says time is running out to find more survivors.

He sent this report from close to the epicenter of the quake.

Dawn lights up the destruction in the village of Mule Brahim.

Morocco's most remote hillsides have become encampments of the survivors.

Hakima has lost contact with her son, who fled the village, she says, to get help.

She was already grieving, her husband had been sick and died before the quake came.

We are staying in the streets, I feel bad for my son, his dad passed away and I have to take care of him, says Hakima.

People are here to help each other.

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