♪ a rescue operation is fast becoming one of recovery in south korea as divers struggle to access the wreck of the sunken ferry. ♪ hello, i'm in doha and also to come the siege and the u.n. wants food for the 20,000 palestinian in this refugee camp runs out today, that is saturday. south sudan sends soldiers at the scene of a deadly attack. and president obama signs a bill

designed to block the man iran has chosen as ambassador to the u.n. ♪ but first to south korea where emergency teams are struggling to find survivors from the sunken ferry and has it been three days since it capsized with more than 470 people on board and the vessel is completely submerged and shifted to one side. so far 29 bodies have been recovered, 273 people are still missing. harry faucet has the latest on the rescue operation. >> more desperate efforts at the site of the wreck has dive teams continue to battle strong currents and visibility in and around the sunken ferry and for the first time bodies have been seen on board. >> translator: a civilian diver

discovered three bodies through a window and a cabin on the fourth floor in the morning but the diver came out of the water due to time limits and floating objects. >> reporter: these are overnight dives and news of a shift in the boat's position and admitting what families made public that it tilted on its side making access more difficult. the families at the port it is a familiar feeling that officials are not telling them everything they know and some feel the under sea movement feels air pockets are gone and hope of survi survivors and others are clinging on to hope. anger at the captain and crew on the court with negligence and breaking maritime law and had apology to parents and nation and said he delayed the order for passengers to abandon ship because rescue boats had not reached the scene. >> translator: the current was

very strong. the temperature of the water was cold. and i thought if people left the ferry without guidance and not wearing a life jacket and if they were they were drift away and face many problems. >> reporter: the body of the vice principal who committed suicide was brought home for burial and this town is bracing itself for hundreds of more funerals in the coming days and weeks. >> we are live to harry and get the very latest and it seems as if the moment is fast approaching when this operation is officially deemed one that is of recovery and not of rescue. >> i think we may have lost the sound. no, i think we have harry, harry, can you hear us? we have not got harry for now i'm afraid. so we will move on. we will try to get back to harry

as soon as we can but in the meantime the south sudan government has sent troops to secure a u.n. base that was attacked by gunman and 58 died in bor and the u.n. called thursday's assault a war crime. and south sudan says u.n. peace keepers provoked the attack by firing in the air and we are in the capitol cuba. >> this is bor in the state and a town that changed hands between government and rebels several times since december. it's been in south sudan army control since late january, a few months later and the situation is still volatile. >> we are ready for what happened yesterday and in bor was that a group of 350 men, women and even some children decided to walk towards our peace keeping base. we were led to believe they were going to hand over a petition regarding the work of the u.n.

in bor, upon arrival at the base part of the group broke off and went to the area of the base which is where we are protecting civilians and opened fire. now we immediately returned fire and have used lethal force to repel the attack. >> reporter: the u.n. condemned violence and said what happened in bor constitutes a war crime and also reminded the government of south sudan it does have a responsibility to protect bases in the country and for their part the ministers of the government say the u.n. peace keepers were the ones who provoked the crowd. >> the force shot bullets in the a air. that shooting of bullets in the air provoked the situation. and as a result a fight ensued between the youth, the force and

the peace on one side and the youth on the other side. >> reporter: the past week is a wave of armed incidents in south sudan and the town was taken by rebel forces and it's rich in oil and strategically important to both sides. the rebels and the government are supposed to have a cease fire that was broken in late january but just this week the rebel leader told reporters he was targeting south so d sudan' capitol and the fields and i'm in south sudan. >> the gremlins on the line have been fixed and we can speak with harry where the rescue operation is continuing and harry we understand now that 40 dives were attempted at least today. do you know whether a they managed to go ahead and, b, if they yielded anything?

>> well, certainly we were briefed about an hour or so ago that at least 40 dives would be attempted, but, in fact, more recently than that they said 50 divers were on the scene and they would be going down in pairs trying to get access to the three access points they are conducting during the course of yesterday, friday, where they put in guide ropes. of course all of this is more different by the familiar the ferry tipped more on its side. we were told by police it was at a 45 degree angle and spoke to a special forces diver who had been out with civilians who had not been able to get on the wreck and he said it's more like a 10-20 degree angle so it's on its side and should be able to gain access but we are -- key question really about what that has done to the interior of the ship, could there still be air pockets left in there and he, a

man that led dive team whose have dive d the south korean naval ship that was sunk in 2010 with 46 sailors he said there really is no hope now. the fact it is submerged and got all the way to the bottom means there is no hope there is any air pocket left in the vessel so it's distressing to hear and no official word along the lines and no confirmation this is a recovery operation but from the people out there doing the job that is the sense we are getting. >> so just to try to imagine them because i know the families of all these people who are missing are based in a gym, held up in one building and they are privy to video feeds as to what is going on with the rescue operation and seen under water footage and how is this news going to be broken because of course they are criticized, the authorities thought mishandling the situation already? >> well, that is right, there is

one large group of family members there in that gym, a good number of them are down here on the port side as they have been since the very first day of this disaster. and they have been on that first day some of them are already saying that they didn't really think that their children could get out of this alive and others are holding on to hope throughout. in terms of how they have been interacting with government officials a lot of it is extremely angry and scenes of frustration here because they do not full they are getting the full story and there was an instance of that earlier today when family members say representatives and relatives at the scene are the ones who were informed or found out the ship had gone over on its side and when a man came down from the maritime police agency to give a briefing that information was no where to be found in the

briefing and only came out when he admitted to what the family members were telling him. there is a constant struggle i think by the families to find out exactly what is going on and that has led to increased anger and frustration and on copy of that the grief they are going through now. >> thanks, harry and harry is reporting on what is set to become it would appear south korea's worst maritime disaster for many, many years. the u.n. says that as of saturday, today, palestinian in syria refugee camp will have no food. the organization says for the past ten days it is prevented from providing aid and food recently delivered ran out on friday. the camp is in damascus and set up for palestinian refugees. and syrian activists are accusing the government of using chlorine gas in an attack in the

village in the northern city of hama. doctors say they have treated at least 100 people with suffocation and they are blaming the use of so called barrel bombs and they are containers which are packed with explosives and dropped from helicopters. and aid workers are warning up to 2 million syrian children may need psychological help because of the conflict. some children living in refugee camps in jordan are receiving support and treatment already. and we went to meet them at a ca camp. >> reporter: severe depression left this 14-year-old boy from hom scarred and vulnerable from help and that is not his real name and he tried to end his life four times. >> i was upset with my grandfather and i used glass to cut my arms. >> reporter: he never felt suicidal until he moved to jordan from syria a few years

ago and receiving psychological support and medication from the international medical core and his parents are divorced and siblings separated and the death of his youngest and only sister from shelling in homs devastated him the most and dropped out of school and even picked up drinking. >> i hurt myself so i can escape, it's no big deal if i die, death is better than my life now. >> reporter: there are children who need specialized help and here are children who need psychological support are attending a group counseling session where they share fears, war experiences and worries about their future with their psychologist. the u.n. organization for children unicef estimates that 2 million syrian children need psychological support or treatment. but more severe cases require individual sessions and he has

not said a word in over a year and she has been silent since her street in damascus was shelled and it's called mutisism and she points to communicate and this is common among children and she is mute for a year and has spoken after treatment but now suffers from a speech impediment and requires speech therapy which her family cannot afford. >> translator: if she sees a laser she thinks it's a sniper or a bomb and the girl is living in fear. >> reporter: thousands of syrian children are being treated for psychological conditions across jordan and psychologists say it's harder for children to come to terms with war. >> understand the issue and they just understand i'm not happy because i left my father and i'm not happy because i could not accept the atmosphere in jordan. >> reporter: some children continue to receive help here in jordan but back in syria

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♪ these are the top stories here at al jazeera, a ferry that sunk in south korean waters has fallen to one side. this will make it harder to find

any survivors. 29 people are confirmed dead and 273 are still missing. the u.n. says as of saturday, that is today, palestinians in refugee camp in syria will have no food. it says that for ten days now it is prevented from delivering aid to the camp. and the government sent troops to secure a u.n. base attacked by an armed group, 58 people died at the bor compound in the jungaleeze state. nigeria officials say 85 school girls out of the 129 who were kidnapped are still missing. that means, he says, 44 of them have been freed. they were abducted, you may remember, from their school on tuesday. let's find out more about this rather perplexing story and we are joined now from the nigerian

capitol and there is so much confusion, hasn't there, as to the number of girls abducted and their whereabouts and what can you tell us now, evon? >> well, we managed to make contact with a local education official in borno state where the girls were kidnapped on tuesday who confirmed to us over the telephone that according to what he had seen, as you say, 44 of the 129 girls who were kidnapped on tuesday are now free and 85 remain in captivity or lost. however, this official is not able to tell us exactly how this rescue or escape of the girls happened. another challenge to this story is the fact that it's been incredibly difficult to corroborate official sources with what the school principal and parents are saying about the missing girls. remember earlier in the week the school principal and parents dismissed official claims from the military that at least 121

girls had been rescued. all of this uncertainty about their whereabouts is exacerbated by the fact that it's very difficult to first of all independently verify what the authorities are saying because what they say that it's too dangerous for human rights organizations and even we the media to travel ourselves and see firsthand what is going on and on top of that despite this ongoing crisis in this community, there has been no photographic or video evidence, not one shred showing any of the rescued girls and we are waiting to hear what the principal and the parents have to say about whether the girls have indeed been rescued >> we are absolutely certain that this event happened, that 129 school girls who were getting ready to sit their final exams at high school were kidnapped by armed men? >> just repeat the question, the

line is breaking up and didn't quite hear what you were saying. >> can we absolutely confirm that this event did happen, that armed men broke into a school, a government college in borno state and abducted 129 girls? >> okay, i think you are asking about how this could have happened and let me just talk very briefly about that. i mean, it does shock nigeria and remember that thousands of soldiers have been in the region for almost a year now to fight the armed group and it's believed were behind the kidnap of the girls. we have seen millions of dollars, hundreds of million dollars spend to protect life and property in the area and so the question is being raised as to how, with all these security resources pouring into the region how this could have taken place. and no responses so far from the authorities about this. what they do say is that the manhunt for these girls will

continue and that there will be a full investigation into how this event could have happened in the first place. >> all right, thank you very much and sorry about the difficulties on the line. now, at least nine suspected fighters have been killed in an air strike in yemen and this drone fired a missile that hit a car that was thought to be carrying members of al-qaeda and three civilians passing by were also killed. the u.s. president signed a law aimed at blocking iran's chosen u.n. envoy and the u.s. says hamid was involved in the 1979 take over of the u.s. embassy in tehran and doesn't want him taking on the post and tom has the latest on what is becoming a growing diplomatic dispute. >> the decision to refuse iran diplomate entry as iran's new ambassador to the u.n. is met with out rage in tehran.

>> the americans used the u.n. as a tool in different forms in the past. now we are witnessing this abuse of the role of the u.n. in another way. >> reporter: and he has been accused of helping to hold 52 americans hose hostage in iran for 44 days when it was taken over in 79, the diplomate who had been given a visa to the u.s. said he only served as a translator but the state department called him not viable for admission despite what some international lawyers say are long-time treaty requirements for hosting the u.n. in new york. >> we take our obligations very seriously and cases like this are so rare and we are happy to have a conversation about why we will not grant the visa with the u.n. as we have and also with the iranians. >> and they sent obama legislation to bar entry to anyone engaged in spying, terrorism or a theft to national security and president obama

signed the bill but in an attached statement he reserved the right to exercise presidential discretion in enforcing it. just as his predecessor george bush did with other laws he felt infringed to conduct foreign policy and the u.n. and a spokesman says it's staying out and saying it's a bilateral issue between the countries and raises worries it might complicate the current talks to diffuse the iran nuclear issue but american officials say that so far that has not been the case and they say that the iranians have been fully compliant so far in freezing their enrichment program, tom ackerman al jazeera, washington. >> russia says it's being treated like a guilty school boy as the white house increases pressure on moscow to stick to the terms of a pact that was signed in geneva last thursday and the nieshl security advisor threatened more sanctions if the kremlin doesn't cooperate.

>> if we don't see action commensurate with the commitments that russia has made yesterday in geneva which we all welcome, then obviously we have been very clear that we and our european partners are ready to impose additional costs on russia for failing to adhere to its obligations. >> inside the country in ukraine itself pro-russian groups are vowing to continue their fight defying the terms of the agreement, armed groups refused to put down their weapons and hundreds rallied in the lennon square and demanding that the kiev government set down. al jazeera is continuing to demand the immediate release of its journalists in egypt and greste and fahmy and mohamed are accused of having a platform for the out lawed muslim brotherhood

and behind bars 112 days and their case is adjourned until later this morning and the fourth al jazeera journalist in detention has been held without trial since last august. he has been on hunger strike for the last 89 days. al jazeera rejects all the accusations. a kidnappers of a diplomate are demanding release of libyans on terrorism charges and he was working at the embassy in the libyan capital tripoli and disappeared on thursday and his colleague was abducted last month. the u.s. has delayed a decision on whether to approve a controversial oil pipeline project. the keystone xl pipeline is designed to transport thousands of barrels of crude oil from canada to the u.s. but it's unlikely to get approval before mid term congressional elections later this year. and ben is a climate and energy

director for the environmental organization friends of the earth and he says the delay is good news. >> not a guaranty the pipeline will be stopped and we will continue to put pressure on the president to make the right decision, but it does show that the state department is hearing all of the opposition that the activists in nebraska and all across the country are putting forth and they are listening. so this pipeline would bring some of the world's dirtiest oil in the gulf coast refineries for the first time and it would basically help open this really dirty oil to the rest of the world. and so it's a really important piece of infrastructure that stops the bottleneck that it has created around the shaktar sands in canada. >> reporter: and 7.2 earthquake that hit mexico on friday has damaged buildings the capitol of

mexico city and the u.s. survey say it was around 50 kilometers east of the costal town and cracks could be seen on a number of buildings but so far no known casualties. and mexico has invested millions of dollars preparing the country for such earthquakes and the capitol has a system of sensors and radio receivers to warn people, but few of them don't have them because they are expensive and we explain. >> they know about earthquakes and this is from the quake in 1985 that killed an estimated 10,000 people. since then mexico had invested millions of dollars preparing the country for the next big one and in the capitol mexico city has a system of transmitters to warn people of an approaching

kuwait and radio receivers can give a minute of advanced warning depending where a major quake strikes and when he moved here two years ago he worried about the tremers and wanted to buy a receiver but at $300 he thought it was too much. >> it's odd to me we have such a sophisticated infrastructure which is expensive and smart people behind it and has valuable life-saving warning and one receiver on the market and promoted. >> reporter: he developed a prototype of the cricket earthquake alarm and plans to launch it this year for about $30. mexico spent millions building a network of centers and transmitters after the 1985 earthquake and if they have a quake of 6.0 or higher transmitters and data warning signal and they have three earthquakes a year of that magnitude or higher and it's not

just the magnitude that poses a risk to mexico city, it's the soil under the capitol that is extremely unstable and you can see that when you look at buildings across the city like this one, it was build some 500 years ago and it has been sinking ever since then. the company has exclusive concontracts with schools in the capitol and we asked the head of the company who used to work for mexico government if it holds a privileged position on the market. >> translator: now it's important to allow different companies to enter the market. it's going to make the technology cheaper. >> reporter: and the mexico legislative assembly says there has not been enough competition. >> translator: today we have competition. i can't tell you the details about them but it's a free market for anyone who wants to compe compete. >> reporter: so far he has sold around 100,000 alarms and those

eager to compete in the earthquake rattled city of 20 million people there is a lot of business to go around, i'm in mexico city. >> reporter: find out more about earthquakes in mexico and elsewhere of course on the al jazeera website, al jazeera.com. ♪