>> scenes of complete devastation in the philippines, it's feared the death toll could reach 10,000 in one city alone. >> hello, you're watching al jazeera. also on the program - iran's president says it will not answer to threats or sanctions after france blocks a deal on its nuclear program. >> translation:... put all the items for sale... >> the president of venezuela says customers are being overcharged and orders troops into shops. >> we are in brazil for the

indigenous games where organizers are aiming to target a global audience. [ ♪ theme ]. hello. as many as 10,000 people are feared to have died in the philippines. typhoon haiyan sent ferocious winds and waves into homes and schools, burying people under tonnes of debris. >> reporter: this is the moment when the storm hit tacloban, a city of more than 200,000 people. monster winds whipped in from the coast with gusts of up to 2,000 k/hr. with it came flood water. people used mattresses to stay above the rising waters. >> i see electricity in the water - my legs are tingling >> reporter: this is the scene

rescue teams are seeing as they reach isolated areas. >> translation: my father, mo mother, and child are missing. i accidentally let go of my child's hand. >> reporter: there's looting going on. >> we are opening many stores so people can have access to food. there's looting. we have deployed army as much as we can. we are trying to secure power and water, which are the basics. with communications down and roads out, emergency organizations are struggling to organise relief. the philippines military has three hercules aircraft to fly in soldiers and aid. other countries are promising help. >> we are bringing in food, water, filtration plants, water

bags and body bags because a lot of people were dead, and we want to make sure we manage the conditions of the dead. >> people are starting to identify bodies. a full human cost will take time to count. >> this will be substantially more. we do not prefer to say how much at this point in time. >> reporter: it's hard to overstate the devastation here. one united nations official compared it to the 2004 indian ocean tsunami. the government says there's a 1km wide strip ipp land from the sea -- inland strip from the sea where everywhere was destroyed. it sent out weather warnings early and often. there was no preparing for this. >> let's get the latest from marga ortigas in the philippines capital manila. our correspondent said it's hard

to overstate how bad this has been for the country. how has the government been responding to this? >> the government hasn't been thrilled at the level of responsibility that they've been able to provide. we understand that the president of the country, who was in lake province on sunday walked out of a meeting at sheer frustration - is what some people in the meeting with him said. he is making sure that they do the best they can, and at this point it is being hampered by how big the damage is to infrastructure alone. it has not been easy to get food and medicine in. most of the airports have been damaged. some are shut down, communications remain very, very limited. power is down, there's no food, no clean water. they tried it be proactive about this, and sent emergency personnel to some areas in the

typhoon's path before the storm hit on friday. some of those teams have not been in contact with the organising committee. >> also they are welcoming any outside help that they can get. has that been forthcoming. >> yes, indeed. they are welcoming it, they are inviting it. the u.s. military said they have come of their troops stationed in the pacific from hawaii and japan, headed towards the philippines to help the military in terms of their rescue and humanitarian missions. aid is pledged from european countries, australia and the south-east asian neighbours of the philippines, some pledge in terms of money to go towards humanitarian organization, and others are sending medical missions as well as relief operators who have more advance the equipment to try to find survivors. >> thank you for that. marga ortigas live in manila. >> we'll get an update from our

reporter in tacloban in around 10 minutes from now. to let you know typhoon haiyan is heading towards vietnam - half a million people there have been ordered to leave homes and move to safer ground. the storm lost some of its strength, but forecasters warn it will bring heavy rain and flooding. >> a 3-day strike begins in bangladesh. opposition is trying to force the opposition to resign. tension is high. vehicles have been set alight by protesters. >> a court in the maldives postponed a presidential run-off election until 16 november. no single candidate won an outright majority. the run-off pits the democratically elected president against the country's former

ruler's brother. >> battles with foreign workers protesting a visa crackdown - hundreds of thousands left the saudi kingdom. the government granted amnesty for those living with expired visa. a crackdown was launched on monday. >> iran's president says his country acted rationally and tact fully in talks with western powers which broke up without a deal over its nuclear program. behinds the scenes there was frustration at france for blocking what would have been an historic agreement. our diplomatic editor james bays has more from geneva. >> foreign ministers from seven countries and the european union were hill, most clearing their schedules because they thought an historic agreement was close. after talks dragged on beyond midnight, there was no dam.

>> we are on the same wave length, that is important. it gives us the impetus to go forward when we meet next time. actually, i think we had a very good fully days. very productive three days, and it's something that we can build on. >> an emphasis on the positive. but behind the scenes annoys and blame directed at one country, it was not iran. the international community was represented at these talks by what is known as the p 5 plus 1, the security council members and germany, in effect it became five against run, that one france, whose foreign minister laurent fabius raised objections, a deal which the u.s. was probably prepared to sign. >> reporter: did the french ruin your deal? >> not at all, he told me.

a point he elaborated on. >> we worked closely with the french and agreed there were issues we needed to work through. we came with language, that is the nature of a negotiation. the president repeatedly said we will not rush to an agreement. the president has made it clear that no deal is better than a bad deal. and i think it's good we are going to take the time we are taking to make certain that we are dotting the "i"s and crossing the "t"s so make sure we have an great where we can look our allies in the face and say this gets the job down. >> the provisional date for the next round of talks is set for november 20th. there are those in israel, the middle east and the gulf and the u.s. congress that want to kill

off a deal before it's done. there's certainly frustration, but no doubt progress has been made after a decade of rangling getting this far is an achievement. the >> we are joined from tehran, the iranian capital. frustration there that a breakthrough has not been reached at this point. what is the reaction in iran to all of this? >> you said it - frustration, frustration that after waiting for a decades for the issue to end, and there was hope and optimism, that finally something would happen, it hasn't come to frew. >> there's a lot of frustration in iran that the issue is going to continue. a lot of media they are talking about these talks, and the blame game, of course. a lot of blame on france for - from what the iranians see as

scuttling a deal and getting in the way. not the united states as it turns out. there's pivoty towards the united states -- pivoty positivity towards the united states. p 5 plus one. instead of saying death to america, death to israel, there are jokes at the anti-hegemonic rallies it will be death to france. the president, of course, has spoken. hassan rouhani has been talking about uranium enrichment being the iranian red line. a lot of international watchers in israel - hawkish about iran's nuclear program, hoped that iran's nuclear program would scupper. it doesn't appear that that's anything on the tables that the iranians would agree to. they haven't talking about what level. there is a frustration here, but

a little optimism as well towards the powers and the united states. >> presumably some of that opt miss -- opt miss m extends to talks later in the month. >> it's a good sign, it's not far away. when hassan rouhani won the presidency in iran, he promised to get this kick started and get things going. it's been three months, and almost 100 days today, actually, since he's been in office. so in that time he managed to get the nuclear talks going, two rounds already, and a different atmosphere than his predecessor. there's optimism surrounding the talks. the foreign minister when they finish the talks in indonesia, despite the long hours they were keeping, was jovial. he had a smile on his face.

iranians have that to take away. like the foreign minister said, the talks were positive, they made ground and they'll meet soon. >> thank you for that. >> we have a lot more ahead - including the tough job of getting a job. we meet millions of south africans dying for work. >> and a dying satellite is falling to earth - where will it crash?

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as many as 10,000 people are feared to have died in tacloban. ferocious winds sent waves crashing into homes. hundreds of thousands of survivors are trying to get food and water. >> despite iranian optimism no deal has been reached in geneva on the future of the nuclear program. six countries have been locked in discussions. they'll meet again in over a week. >> police surrounded the house of the leader of bangladeshi's main opposition after a strike called by the nationalist party began. they are calling for the government to set down. >> now to tacloban, a worst-hit area of the philippines we have

this update. >> scenes of devastation. the city is in disarray. people are wandering around wondering what to do next. this is beginning to sink in what has happened here when the huge storm swept through, and the storm surge - the water 5 metres high that came with it as well. people still very much in the early days searching for missing friends and family members. as mentioned in craig's report people are searching for any food and water that they can get their hands on. the military has been arriving here to the tacloban airport in bringing supplies. clearly at the moment it's not enough. the airport where we are is still being used as a makeshift command center. the airport has been all but destroyed. the runway, the tarmac is pretty much intact. the structures, buildings, control towers have been fairly well damaged.

it's where the philippine military is basing itself at the moment. there's a long line of people waiting to get their hands on the supplies that the soldiers have been bringing in. >> members of the basque separatist group eta have been released from prison. set free following a european court ruling saying spain illegally extended their gaol sentences. it could lead to dozens more being freed. >> this is one of nine members released from gaol. he had spent 27 years behind bars for two assassinations in 1985. he and others have been set free following the high profile release of another eta member. this man was gaoled for 30 years for taking part in 23 attacks, including bombings and assassinations. this person had been due for early release, that was quashed

by the courts. that was before the european courts of human rights ruled it was illegal to hold her. the court decided she had been violated by adding time to her original sentence. the decision to follow the ruling is not without controversy. most vocal has been the organizations against eta assassinations. >> it has been terrible for us, painful we think this is unfair. we are very, very upset. >> 800 people were killed in a ceasefire. despite the pressure to keep convicted eta members behind bars, more than 40 prisoners are expected to be released in the

near future. >> jobs will be a crucial campaign battle ground in the run-up to south africa's elections next year, nearly 5 million south africans are unemployed - most are young. the government's action policy is trying to get more black young people into work. some minority groups feel ignored. >> this man has been at school. he can't find full-time work. he washes cars to earn money. >> i should be working. i stayed out of school. i'm finished. i should be out there, doing something. but i'm here at home doing nothing. >> nearly 5 million south africans are jobless. the government says it's affirmative action policy is trying to correct the imambulances of the past -- imbalances of the bast. people who you are unemployed, and we talk about the 25-26% unemployed, the majority of

those, 99.9% of them are black people dealing with the legacy of apartheid making black people not having the necessary skills. >> employment equity is practised by employers, state and private. people disagree with affirmative action, believing jobs should be given to people because of qualification, not because of a colour. minority groups are worried. this man is a mixed race. >> reporter: the reason he believes his children can't get work. >> people with talent, relevant qualifications who can make tremendous contribution towards building our country are leaving because of this national demographicses should be applicable. i hope the governor gets to this, stopping this racial thing. >> some feel affirmative action helped a few.

members of the poor black majority are waiting for a chance to benefit and are getting frustrated. others in south africa's ethnic groups also want jobs. in venezuela soldiers have been sent into a chain of popular shops to order managers to cut prices. president madura says shops are overcharging. we have more. >> hundreds of bargain hunters surrounded a store in carr abbing as. it was not a -- carr abbing as. it was not a recular sales day, it was promoted by the government >> translation: put all the items of sale for people at a fair price. all of them so nothing is left in the stores. enough, enough. >> with this country facing mounting shortages and sky-high

inflation, the president sent the military into stores accused of hiking prices. the managers of that chain were arrested and the stores forced to reopen with goods priced at level set by the state. >> this woman welcomes the government's intervention. >> i have been trying to buy a refrigerator. i haven't been able to do so, it's too expensive. what is happening seems like an exaggeration. >> shoppers took the sale a step forward - looting a store closed by the military. while hundreds of people gathered for a process against the government plan in carr abbing as. >> it's a spon tain yaws civil society -- spon tainias fill society gathering. crime and inflation are killing us. >> madurai accuses speculators

of trying to sabotage the economy. many feel government controls are to blame. with elections in december the government knows it has to fix the economy, and fast. >> the bank of america is facing an $864 million fine after a mortgage fraud verdict. the federal jury found it liable for fraud last month over defective mortgages sold by its country wide unit in 2007 and 2008. the prosecutors call for the banks to be punished sending a message that fraud will not be tolerated. and a new warship n u.s. navy has been kristined the "gerald r ford" will place a power fleet. it is a technological marvel designed to launch current aircraft and future weapons that

have not been designed yet. >> british airways refused to allow a passenger to avoid a flight because he's too overweight. kevin, who weighs 300 kilograms travelled to chicago to receive medical treatment. he was denied actions upon trying to return home. the airline says it's for health and safety reasons. >> the first discrimination is not making of airplane handicap friendly. i can't go on the plane - what happens now. >> it weighs more than a tonne and is about to land possibly somewhere near you. a satellite from space is about to crash on earth - no one knows where. gerald tan has more. >> reporter: march 2009, this rocket roars into orbit. it's doned the ferrari of space,

its mission was to map variations in earth's gravity. that mission is complete. its experiment with gravity is not over yet. the spacecraft ran out of fuel and is being pulled back to earth. >> the explorer weighs more than a tonne and began to fall at the height of 224km. once it reaches an altitude of 80km, it will break apart. roughly four-fifths of its mass will burn in its atmosphere. the rest of the debris will crash down, some weighing up to 90 kilograms. >> we are in contact with the national civil protection agencies throughout europe - of islam member states. they get the information we have, and that includes information on emergencies in case parts of the satellite fall on inhabited area. >> it's uncertain where the

falling pieces will make impact. don't worry too much. the european space agency says humans are about 250,000 times more likely to strike it lucky at the lottery than to get struck by a piece of the satellite. something else which is about to return from space - the olympics torch for the winter games in russia. it's been taken on first ever space walk by two russian cosmo nauts. the flame was not lit because of vacuum in space. the torch is due to end its extraterritorialestrial journey and return from the international space agency soon. to brazil, where the indigenous games are about to begin. we have more now from kuaba.

>> reporter: the stare of a young man ready for competition. this 18-year-old is honing his concentration. he's a specialist with the bow and arrow, the best shot of his tribe. he'll compete in the bow and arrow competition at the 12th indigenous games. he didn't need to do extra training - he's been doing it since he was five years old - it's part of his culture and daily life in his tripe. >> the tribe elders teach us to hunt. the first animal we kill we get to keep the head. these teeth are a memory of the animals i've killed. >> earlier the tribes were matched - the first time participants travelled more than five days by bus to get here. the paresi tribe won the match

easily. >> translation: the game was great, we won 5-0. >> translation: we like football, everyone in the community likes football, and all the sports. >> reporter: in the late afternoon 40 participating tribes gathered to celebrate the official opening ceremonies of the game. it was a preview of things to come. organizers are thinking big about the next one in 2015, wanting to make it global, inviting tribes from all over the world. earlier in the day they were thinking bigger. n >> translation: i keep dreaming a trainer will see my talent and say, "i'll invest in this guy", and pick me because i hope to compete and do bow and arrow in the olympics one day.

>> over the coming days of the games and beyond, he's aiming high in the competitions. lots more on the website, of course, aljazeera.com. all the latest. >> i'm ali velshi, this is real money. this is real money, and you are the important part of the