>> jewers in nepal pull out a survivor from saturday's earthquake amid warnings that more than 10,000 people may have died. you're watching live from london. also coming up in the next few minutes, the nigerian army rescues hundreds of girls but confirms that they're not from the chibok school kidnapping. national guard troops sent to baltimore after a night of rioting over a man who died in police custody. and the genome project that

could help us understand what causes rare diseases. >> heavy rain has been hampering earths to rescue people trapped from the earthquake. the government has been criticized for its slow response to the crisis, but the army has been defending the rescue operation. andrew simmons traveled to the foothills of the himalayans to see firsthand how the relief efforts are coming along. >> it's an operation that stops for refueling and briefings. but while the military may have been mobilized quickly it hasn't been enough to bring the relief this country so desperately needs. beyond the sprawl of nepal's capital is where the extra effort is needed most.

you can see how inaccessible the rain is. it really has a could loss sal job. --it really could be a colossal is job. this is one of the disasters in the wake of the quake and it's aftershocks. defending operations, insisting while so many have died, few people are recognizing or even counting how many have been saved. >> one ma 17 helicopter of the nepalese army, threw 68 missions

on the day. in one 24-hour cycle pulled out 370 people. >> landing in the town, it isn't long before the commander sees his ground forces in action bringing casualties to a district hospital that should be treating less than 300 patients. right now the figure stands at just under 800. and doctors say the situation is at breaking point. this woman has a serious back injury. she has traveled 100 kilometers for treatment on the floor. there are no mats, no trolleys left. this hospital is overwhelmed. the doctors keep going and they've been working since saturday. >> we have to help them. we're people continue to get

injured. others have been traveling long distances. you would be forgiven for thinking the earthquake only just happened. >> meanwhile, a search and rescue team has pulled a man from an apartment apartment in kathmandu. he had spent 80 hours in a room with three dead bodies before being rescued. he was on the second floor of the seventh story building when the quake struck. it took rescuers five hours to pull him out after they heard his cries for help. we speak to al jazeera's mohammed as we heard there is some good news. i guess one man managing to get pulled out after 80 hours. obviously that's not the picture

across the country. andrew similar simmons report painted a desperate picture. is there more help coming to those who need it? >> even though more aid is starting to be delivered there is going to be a lot more before it reaches all the people that is needed here. you get a sense of all all these agencies are mobilized. the international community is mobbled. theit is so hard getting aid into this country and even more is arriving there is a growing sense of frustration. it took a very very long time numerous hours from when our plane landed. it was packed with aid workers. rescue workers doing their

utmost to get to the neediest, to get to the terminal, to get their supplies, and you saw the sense of hopelessness many coming to see if the houses they have built are still standing. more aid is trickling more workers are coming in, but it's just not enough. they're angry it has taken so long to mobilize. you've heard from the prime minister that there is three days of mourning. but he's also said that he expects that the grow to as much as 10,000 people. that is a stagger number, even when you're talking about the fact the confirmed number of dead is around 4700. the fact that it could reach that. that is something that is causing a lot more grief and is

causing growing anger here in this country so they just don't know what to expect. we're here in kathmandu in the center of the city. really the number of people hardest to reach they're out in the mountains. they're in the other parts of the country. the more rural areas. there are a lot of questions right now as to whether they will get the help even though the aid is coming in to the country now. barbara? >> mohammed with the latest from kathmandu. thank you. >> the nigerian army said it has rescued nearly 300 women and girls. they were found in the sambisa forest, a boko haram stronghold. let'slet'slet's go to yvonne ndege.

when we were speaking at the top of the news hour the news was just breaking. do we have any more details? >> we managed to speak to major general the spokesperson, about the details of these 293 women and girls who have been rescued from sambisa. >> they will explain in some instances what the military believes is that some of the children, the women the girls that they come across in sambisa

now could be relatives, wives, of the boko haram operatives who have camps in the area. in a separate statement me say photographs are to follow with more information about the 293 who have been rescued. right now interest is a screening and profiling process on going in which the military will try to determine who they are, where they come from. it could be incredibly difficult. as i say many, many people have within kidnapped over the years. the fact that nearly 300 are missing and many wonder what is going on. >> thank you. and james snider is the editorial director of the new

africa magazine, thank you for being with us in studio. what do you make of all of this, nigerian army announces they have found 300 women and it's an hour later it makes you question why they announced it in the first place. they predicted that twitter would be set aon fire on fire with the speculation. >> much more strong than the last two times when they released girls when they said they found girls. if you look at the initial tweets they put occupy, there are three tweets that say that they do not know if it's the chibok girls. what we should really focus on is that 300 women have been freed, and some of them may be relatives of the boko haram fighters we don't know at this time. but the fact that they're not the chibok girls should not look like what looks like quite a military picture by the

nigerians freeing a bunch of women. >> what is interesting that people have jumped to the conclusion that it could be the chibok girls because they were discovered in sambisa forest, most people have been speculating that if they're still united as one group then that is where they would be. do you think the army encroaching on the forest makes it likely that some point soon that the girls will be found? >> not for that reason. i think probably for two reasons. one, most the chibok girls would not be in the sambisa forest. the forest is a slightly misleading term. it makes you think that it's densely populated by trees and difficult to surveil. it's a shrub land where surveillance would be able to see if there are large groups of people. it's unlikely that the taking of

the sambisa forest that they would find the chibok girls but it means that they're encrouching further on boko haram's ability to react. if that sense it does make it likely that they would find the girls. >> the chibok girls really became the symbol, didn't they. there was a huge campaign to free them across the world. what do you think symbolically it would do to nigeria if and when and we hope it's when the girls are freed. >> i think it will be enormous. it has been a mastiff massive hit to national pride. it was a massive election held. it was a big cross against president goodluck jonathan's administration, and i think it would do a lot for the country having just had these incredibly impressive elections to beating barry boko haram almost in a

two-month period then get the girls back. it would mark a big step for the international psyche. >> at least 52 people are feared dead after a huge landslide in afghanistan. it happened in a remote part of the province. afghan officials say the only way to access the area is by helicopter surrounding roads are covered in. iranian said they boarded a vessel after it cress trespassed in territory waters. it's now reported to be near the iranian port.

in saudi arabia has arrested more than 90 people suspected of belong together islamic stateing to the islamic state of iraq and levant. in baltimore they're saying there is a need for national soul search. the unrest came after the funeral of a black man who died from injuries in police custody. >> it is not a protest. it is not a statement. it's people, a handful of people taking advantage of the situation for their own purposes and they need to be treated as criminals. the violence that happened yesterday distracted from the fact that you had seen multiple days of peaceful protesters. that were focused on entire

legit concerns of these communities in baltimore. >> meanwhile, a clean up operation is underway across baltimore and national guard troops are on the streets again. 15 buildings and 144 vehicles were set on fire monday night and almost 200 people were arrested. coming up on al jazeera, australia retaliates indonesia over the execution of two of its citizens.

>> you now a reminder of the top stories here in al jazeera. a man was been pulled alive from the rubble of an apartment in kathmandu after 80 hours after the earthquake in nepal. the prime minister said as many as 10,000 people may have died. the u.s. president barack obama has called for a national soul searching after riots over the death of a black man in police custody. and the nigerian army has rescued 300 women and girls in a forest in the northeast. but the kidnapped chibok school girls are not believed to be among them we're joined live on the line from abuja. thank you for joining us here on al jazeera. first of all could you give us

any information about who these girls and women that you've asked actually are? the operation has raided three of the camps in which they were keeping all kinds of witness which we dislodged today.

>> you cannot rule out-- >> major general if you could still hear us, which i hope you can. can you just confirm what you're saying you're not ruling out that some of these girls or among them may be some of the girls also kidnapped from chibok? unfortunately, i think the line has gone down. he may still be on the line. major general can you still hear me? >> i still hear you. >> can i just get a confirmation from you. you're not actually ruling out

that some of these girls are the chibok girls. >> that is true. anything is possible. >> if you can still hear me, if i can just ask another question about some sambisa forest. how close are you from taking control of all of it? how close are you from pushing boko haram out of sambisa forest. >> there are activities all around the place. we have confirmed sources.

>> major general we'll have to leave it there. we're having terrible problems from the lines. that was nigeria defense information spokesperson. thank you for having joined us. australia has recalled a it's ambassador after two australian citizens were executed in indonesia. four australians brazilian and indonesian were killed by firing squad. australia's foreign minister condemned the execution.

>> our concern is that the rehabilitation has not taken into account. it's the fundamental aspect of the prison systems. mr. chan became an ordained christian priest. there sukamara became a renown artist. both were spending their time in jail helping to reform and improve the lives of other prisoners in the indonesian prison system. they were examples of the hope and transfer imaginations that can come about through reflections rebilltation and remorse. as the prime minister said the death at this time senseless and unnecessary. >> the australian prime minister there, and we have more from the island of java. they did not actually care about international repercussions. they weren't worried about that.

i guess putting on a brave face. how are they going to react that from australia they have withdrawn its ambassador? they said they don't want foreign intervention, as they called it. we just had this very macabre situation here. they just passed us here and the brazilian prisoner who was said to be mentally ill diagnosed with schizophrenia. they have come to the mainland, which means that the whole execution process on the prison island has been finalized and the bodies have been handed over to the families. there is only one person who

actually escaped from the execution, the only female in the group. mary jane peloso, a filipino migrant worker whose case suddenly had a complete turn around today when one of alleged recruiters who brought her to malaysia and indonesia were handed over to the police. at the last minute, the president of the philippines asked indonesia to spare her so she can testify in the case. >> thank you. saudi joe addition jets bomb the runway of the airport to prevent an iranian plane from landing. a coalition spokesman said that the plane had ignored a warning to turn back. iran said that the plane was carrying aid. damage caused by the bombing has rendered the runway unusable for aid flights. the retrial of two al jazeera

journalists in egypt has been adjourned until may 9th. mohamed fahmy, baher mohammed are charged with harming national security and aiding the banned muslim brotherhood. charges that they and al jazeera reject. they were freed on bail on february 12th after more than 400 days in jail. to ukraine now where the military says that separatists are still using rocket launchers that should have been withdrawn under the february peace deal. they said rockets have been fired at the government-held town near the rebel's stronghold of donetsk. ukraineukrainian president said that the country is still under the threat of war but urged other countries to invest so they could recover. fire has swept through woods in the exclusion zone at the cher noble power plants in ukraine. the explosion at chernobyl was the world's nuclear accident and

30 kilometer zone around the plant remains off limits. the finnish navy has spotted a suspected submarine. there is growing concern over russia's military exercises. scientists in the u.k. are embarking on an ambitious project to under the causes of rare diseases and how cancers develop. 100,000 volunteers are taking part in the 100,000 genome project and offer their genome sequence to be put on a database. >> jessica balanced baldwin explains. >> she's a special child. not only discuss she smile just about all the time but she's nearly four and she has just started walking. she still doesn't speak. she's got problems with her kidneys. problems with her eyes, her

brain, and nobody knows why. all the doctors know is that georgia was born with some sort of rare genetic disorder. they have no idea what caused it or how it will effect the rest of her life. they also don't know if georgia's parents were to have another child if that child would be fine or would have problems that were worse. >> it's been hard for us because we always wanted more children. we want georgia to have a brother or sister, but we can't take the risk knowing that that child could have--could be very disabled. and with that would be the right thing to do for them, for the family. it's very hard. if we had answers we would be able to go into it with our eyes wide open, but at the moment we're in the dark. >> with no answers georgia's parents have volunteered for britain's genome sequencing project. >> we find out a lot about natural human variation but in particular we're going to find out cause of rare diseases in

the majority. and for patients with cancer we may learn more about what drives the cancer and it's behavior. >> scientist also complete the database by 2017. but some early information is being shared with researchers and pharmaceutical companies to help develop treatments or cures. what makes this project unique is the sheer size of it. scientists are going to analyze the genetic makeup of 100,000 people creating a vast database. because it's the national health service that data will be added to over time as the health of those patients is monitored. for georgia and the other 5,000 people in britain with rare problems and no diagnose, the genome project provides hope for a treatment or at least a knowledge of what the future holds jessica baldwin al jazeera london. >> and you can find much more

about that and all the other stories that we have been covering on our website. the address www.aljazeera.com. the nigerian army says they have rescued nearly 300 women from boko haram but confirm they are not the girls from chibok. a family is burying a young woman they say was killed while ile escaping the group calling itself the islamic state. her father told us what happened.