♪ search and rescue efforts continue in nepal as anger rises about the government's response. countries struggles to distribute aid and help for wounded and over run hospitals. ♪ hello and welcome to al jazeera, i'm sammy live from doha headquarters and coming up the battle for ties and saudi air strikes target one of yemen's largest cities and report from johannesburg where brutal attacks on foreigners cast a

shadow on freedom day celebrations. ♪ the death toll from me poll's devastating earthquake is rising it now stands 3729 much of the damage in the capitol was centered around the historic square the heart of kathmandu's old town and rescuers are still digging through the rubble for survivors but there is problems getting aid through the kathmandu's international airport and one runway and hundreds of people waiting to fly out and the on going aftershocks mean the airport is not always open and let's cross over now to the historic square in kathmandu and are people receiving now some of the basics they need like water, food shelter? >> those people that live here in the square have been in the

large spaces in front of their homes because they are quite afraid of going back into their apartments and flats and where they live they are concrete structures and managed to withstand the earthquake. the square has ancient monuments hundreds years of and made of brick are ones that collapsed and the world heritage site lies in ruins. people are getting better aid, be it water and at least one meal a day but around the city around the capitol of kathmandu there are especially set up camps for people that have been displaced and whose homes have been ruined. to give you an idea of this is across the world and we will take you into the distance and the dark buildings that you see are hundreds of years old and a part of the royal palace made of wood and of brick and of course when the earthquake struck on saturday it imploded downward in the building itself. further to the left you see a

white building and this was a royal building for the coronotion and worried about the large fa sed you see in the center of your screen and this is leading to and think it may fall if there is another quake and wondering what to do they want to try and save as much of the building as they can. and it's a difficult day for rescue workers and volunteers who have been trying to dig through the ruins of what happened here on saturday. this is how the day has progressed progressed. working their way through the ruins using the hands or any other tool available, it's a pre precarious and dangerous task and stop for water and then continue. these historic sites once stood proud for hundreds of years in the center of kathmandu. then they felt like a pack of

cards on saturday small groups of security personnel and volunteers go through the rubble and hopefully trying to find any survivors if they can. it's a difficult task and it is only stopped when there is another tremor or when the sunsets. rescue and relief operation continues with medics working around the clock to help the injured or seriously wounded and it's a tough job. the death toll is already in the thousands and that is just in the capitol. from the air the destruction is clear, while hundreds are still stranded at the airport it is peak tourist season and many will return home with horrible memories and the problem is aid flying into kathmandu airport with only one runway. while the world sends help the logistical challenge is getting it out to the people that need it most.

so what about the more remote areas, the areas closer to the epicenter, is help getting into some of those people? >> well we do believe that certainly the military has been able to get them to the areas to assess what has been happening and we do understand that some of the ngos that can help with immediate first aid and care have been flown in to those areas but it's a very remote area and a very large distance to cover according to authorities and they are overwhelmed in terms of they do not have the numbers of helicopters that they would really need to get into those places intauz -- because there are landslides and roads cracked and broke and hard to get to places by road and villages in the country and you get to them by a dirt track and therefore still no news you may say some villages we don't know how

serious the numbers are and the injuries are to the community at large and therefore that aid effort which is coming internationally is coming into a very small international airport of kathmandu as they restrict the runway and certain size aircraft can get through and land here and because the airport is so small only a certain number of planes can be accommodated by the airport and they have to unload the cargo and passengers and move and fly out and the next can come and why we are seeing a backlog of delay and the circling of military and civilian aircraft trying to get in, trying to help. >> reporter: all right thanks so much for bringing us up to speed on the situation there in kathmandu. al jazeera has traveled to a small village a few kilometers outside the capitol and sent us this report on the relief effort there. >> reporter: we are in the village where at least 20 people have died, just in this area

there is a cluster of old houses which all came crumbling down around six people were buried over here and they were all cremated yesterday and now the entire village is not only in the shot but also they are quite angry because of the lack of services from the government. this gentleman over here can you tell us what kind of help you received from the government? >> translator: so far we've not received anything from the government. we had the armed police come and threw three tarps in and that is all, everyone is living outside, nobody is in the village, not even dogs are in the village. >> reporter: this may be coming because earlier we had found some government vehicles trying to pass and the locals are so angry they are not allowing any government vehicles to pass tlu through. >> translator: i brought some relief and i will give you three packets for here. >> reporter: they foind out the

relief material over here is not actually for this village and the locals are refusing to allow people to pass through and want relief materials for the area and everyone is saying they are hungry tired, thirsty and want relief now and they are also expressing concern about how if this village which is just a few kilometers outside the city is suffering like this the fate of many other mountain areas is unknown, i'm with al jazeera, kathmandu. now at least 44 people mostly women and children have died in pakistan after heavy rain there and strong winds ripped through the northwestern city of peshwar and the pakistan army joined the rescue effort after winds reached speed up to 120 kilometers an hour uprooting trees and flattening buildings and the storm came ahead of the usual monsoon season taking

people by surprise and more rain is forecast and let's go straight over to peshwar and how bad is the scene where you are kamal? >> reporter: well, as you can see for the moment it is sunshine again but the last 24 hours have been very frightening for the residents of peshwar and we have been speaking to some of these people who tell us the storm resembled a twister and stayed for quite sometime and destroyed crops and led to the collapse of roofs not far away, seven members of the same family died when their roof caved in on them walls have collapsed. the school behind me doesn't have a boundary wall any more and frightened experience and hundreds rushes to the hospital and emergency was declared in the major hospital the latest reading hospital and many of the wounded had to be taken to other hospitals as well.

the office is now warning of more rain but it seems the worst may be over. >> and, you know other than that are people getting sufficient help that they need there, kamal? >> reporter: well the government was taken by surprise because this is no one expected anything like this. the people we spoke to saying they never saw anything like this in their lives and it was freak weather. the government has responded. a little while ago we sawmill saw military and it has stunned the people because as you mentioned power supplies down and the billboards along the roads have blown away there is damage to infrastructure, to homes and that is also partly because the government has not planned the construction properly and most of the poor people are living in mud huts so they couldn't stand

up to the strong storm. >> all right, thanks so much. the u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon will go on patrol with an italian navel ship off the coast of sicily on monday and joined by italy prime minister and the eu foreign policy chief. so far this year more than 1700 people are believed to have died in boats trying to reach europe and some of those who make it end up in the sicily port city of katania from where barnabie phillips reports. >> reporter: the steps in europe after cramped and painful days at sea and hundreds disembark from an italian navy ship, all the efficient on the dock side men, women divided and first aid for those who need it and clothing for the cold but first impressions are deceptive. within days most of these new arrival also be effectively left to fend for themselves the

reception centers are full the government and aid organizations overwhelmed by sheer numbers. the migrants who come to sicily rely on support networks from friends and family from people who might come from their hometown or village and it's those who don't have those contacts who can find themselves in a very vulnerable situation very quickly. like 18-year-old from guinea and he came by boat two weeks ago. he has no friends, no money, no phone, and no idea as to what he will do next. he is sleeping in the mosque. he asked for his face to be hidden hidden. >> translator: my dream is to stay in this country, study, learn the italian language and go to school and speak for the italians and have the right documents and send money home to my parents. >> reporter: they say some nights ten migrants turn up some nights it's 200 in each

shelter. >> translator: the problem is enormous and italy has already done its part but it's not capable of solving the whole problem on its own. this is something that needs to be solved on a european level if not a world level, this is everyone's problem. >> reporter: because as long as there is poverty, war and oppression on the doorstep these weary boat loads will keep on coming sicily. in yemen intense fighting in ties where popular resistance forces are advancing. [gunfire] prohad di tribal forces gained control over some strategic positions including a hospital and houthi rebel group is battling forces loyal to the exile president and saudi-led coalition are carrying out strikes on houthi led positions in the area. in libya fierce fighting has broken out near tripoli between libya dawn forces and tribal

armies loyal to the chief and u.n. recognized government in tobrook and more fighting is also taking place in cert to a group linked to i.s.i.l. and fighters loyal to the other government in tripoli and i.s.i.l. has taken advantage of the conflict in libya where the rival governments are battling for control. activists have accused the syrian government of dropping chlorine gas and use as a weapon is ban and u.n. security council promised to tack action for those responsible for chlorine attacks in syria. coming up, on al jazeera we will have more coverage of the earthquake in nepal and the work overseas and waiting for news of their loved ones back home. and protests against police brutality in baltimore erupts into violence. ♪

♪ thanks for joining us on al jazeera and let's recap our headlines the death toll from nepal's earthquake is rising and now stands at 3729. communications are still down with some of the remote areas closer to the quake's epicenter and the toll is expected to hit 5,000. at least 44 people are dead and hundreds injured in pakistan after high winds and rain latched the northwest city of peshwar and 120 kilometers an

hour is the wind speed and uprooting trees and flattening buildings. in yemen intense fighting where popular resistant forces are advancing and pro-hadi tribal forces gained control over some strategic positions including a hospital. and returning to our top story the earthquake in nepal and hundreds of thousands of nepal and trying to get ahold of their families back home after the quake and we report. >> reporter: these men have been trying to call their relatives since the earthquake struck. some have managed to get through even briefly but for the last few hours the phone lines have been down and they are worried. >> it's sad news. this is our black day in all of the middle east who have a black day and we are praying by the

grace of god. >> reporter: people from nepal moved to qatar to work and for many the goal is to earn enough money to build a house in nepal and help their families now they can't even do that. >> translator: our house has collapsed, all my family are sleeping in the fields on the ground i want to be with my family but i cannot go there and if we try to send money they cannot receive it. >> reporter: he just found out some of his relatives are dead. >> translator: my brother's son and wife were killed. everywhere we are facing the same problem, landslides covering the villages and i have been working one year and my contract is two years so i can't go back to my home. >> reporter: visa sponsor ship workers need permission from the employers to leave the country and most are here on two-year

contracts and allowed to return home at the end of it the nepal embassy in qatar says so far since the earthquake it has not received reports of people being prevented from leaving and the group representing them all over the gulf is urging companies to help people who want to go home. >> translator: if the workers lost their house or someone in the family died they should be given permission to go home the company should let them go and they need to make this happen. >> reporter: some of the men say they are so stressed about the quake they cannot work and right now home has never felt so far away. i'm with al jazeera, qatar. south africa's president has spoken out against xenophobia attacks that left at least seven people dead and zumo was speaking at freedom day celebrations to mark 21 years since the first democratic

election. >> we strongly condemn these attacks. they have no place in our democracy where people are free to express their unhappiness about any issue. we also urge our communities to isolate criminal elements who perpetuate such horrendous crimes against fellow human beings. >> reporter: following those attacks nigeria recalled its top diplomates from south africa the country's ambassador in pretoria and johannesburg will leave and are calling for just cities and charles stratford met the family of one victim. >> reporter: he came to south africa from mozambeke in 1971. his nephew emmanuel was murdered during the resent wave of

xenophobic attacks against migrant workers. >> translator: when the nurse told me he was gone i was broken because when his father died he left him with me to look after. why has god taken him away from us? >> reporter: the family is scared and trying to cope. the attack on emmanuel was caught on camera but a south african journalist. >> translator: i cannot eat or sleep. he is always in my mind, the picture of how he died is always there. >> reporter: this is the spot where emmanuel was so brutally killed, now four men were arrested and are expected to stand trial for his murder but there are a number of families who lost loved ones in xenophobia violence in 2008 and have given up waiting for justice. he came in 2008 from democratic republic of congo and attacked on a bus in 2008 in johannesburg and said he had all the necessary paperwork to legally work in south africa.

>> south africa migrant guilty until proven incents and when you are reporting a case if it's against a south africa it's hard to have justice. >> reporter: 62 people were killed in this kind of hate crime in 2008 and 132 convictions after attacks and promised justice for victims of the most recents violence. >> our courts are independent so they take decisions without fear favor or prejudice. >> reporter: the government offered financial support for his three children in mozambeke but they want more than cash and want justice and his cousin has a poem in his memory. >> you are evil, you are a gang. he was bleeding for mercy. you killed a son. you killed a brother. you killed an uncle.

you killed a father. you killed a hero. you killed a man. you killed our brother. >> reporter: charles stratford, al jazeera, johannesburg. now sudan election committee says he won 94.5% of the vote and widely expected to win and election committee says his closest competitor won 1.43% of the vote and i'm joined here by a reporter in sudan reporting on the elections and it wasn't a huge surprise to see nazarbayev win again. >> there were 15 candidates running against nazarbayev and one was not registered to vote and never held a campaign rally. the opposition was staging a

boycott campaign they called the elections a sham and the candidates actors in a carefully choreographed play. now the government would tell you that it was doing its best to be transparent. we visited the national election commission they dispatched 120 election monitors to all precincts or polling stations in the state, the african union sent monitors and so from the government's point of view they were doing their best to boost voter turn out which by the way the elections started with a three-day voting window the government kept extending that window and actually gave people a day off from work. >> trying to get people to come did it work knowing that is a question question, what was the turn out with 90% approval for nazarbayev. >> reporter: today the official rate is coming from the government and you have to keep that in mind with 46% voter turn out and we visited several precincts and they were deserted

quite frankly but keep something else in mind we spoke to people it was very difficult outside of a presidential bashir for people who were planning and registered to vote and that was one of the reasons people thought the elections couldn't be fair among one of the reasons people thought they could not be free and fair because the registration period apparently was too short, many didn't get the opportunity to even register. >> now the issues that the country has to deal with they remain as well corruption inflation, unemployment tell us a little bit about what you saw when you were there in terms of the harshness of the economic situation and challenges facing people. >> you said so yourself sudan is a country that is struggling and warring with rebels in darfur and south of the country and half of the population lives at or below the poverty level. right now the economy is a mess because south sudan succeeded in

2011 it took 20% of oil revenue and there are cooking fuel shortages and bread short analyzes and drive outside of an embassy of an arab country and a given day and you will semen outside lined up hoping to get a visa to go outside of sudan to work. >> thanks for coming in and explaining it to us. police in burundi used tear gas and water canon on protesters in the second day of demonstrations in the capitol and hundreds are protesting president third term in office and people died on sunday after police opened fire on demonstrators and in the capitol most businesses are closed and the army has been deployed. the funeral of a black man who died in police custody is due to take place in the u.s. city of baltimore, freddy gray's spine was fractured at the time of his arrest and his death has triggered mass protests across the city and we report from

baltimore. >> reporter: outside the green funeral home in baltimore small groups of residence denlts gathered to show sympathy of the family of freddy gray and the university is up the street and a few students thought it was important to show his death had an impact on the entire community. >> really increasing that conversation and making sure that we can start talking about what is going on in this city and this country and we have to stop ignoring issues. >> reporter: on saturday two as thousands gathered to march demonstrate and want peaceful protests with small pockets of nonviolent civil disobedience and this was the image the media has seized upon a few cars and windows were broken but there was though mass rioting, baltimore was never a flame and the baltimore police chief was clear, the few minutes of vandalism relayed rounds the world were utterly

unrepresentative. >> residents were telling people in the crowd to calm down and relax and proud of them for doing that and residents put themselves between police officers and agitated crowd and asked for calm and peace. >> reporter: that has not stopped those who feel police have no case to answer from seizing on a few isolated incidents to make their case. >> it's a threat to civilization itself. >> reporter: a frustrating narrative for people of the city whose only aim is to make things better. >> for hours and hours and it was completely peaceful and we are here today to show solidarity with the family and show that there are people in the communities in this city to work together to make things better. >> reporter: gray will be buried on monday morning but as other cities in the u.s. there is a sense of determination in baltimore with problems widely known and rarely publically discussed and not allowed to recede in the background again, i'm with al jazeera, baltimore.

you can get more on all the stories and more if you head over to our website on al jazeera.com, you can see our front page there with our lead story, the earthquake aftermath and we are back with another update in just a minute. the search is on for survivors in nepal. relief agencies from agross the globe race to help after a devastating earthquake. japan's prime minister arrives in the u.s. and an american takes action against the u.s. government after being forced to give up his passport leaving him stranded in yemen.