wet, cold, and in desperate need of help. the united center launches a multi-million dollar appeal for nepal. ♪ ♪ hello, i am sammy, you are watching al jazerra. also on the show. saudi arabia's new foreign minister is to attends his first first degree gcc summit with the war in yemen set to dominate the agenda. parades and celebrations in ho chi minh city to mark the victory over america by vietnam. >> translator: life is very rough, more than 40 of us

shelling one toilet. >> and we hear how south africa's glaring inequalities are driving the nation apart. ♪ ♪ there has been a dramatic rescue in nepal five days after the earthquake struck. a 15-year-old boy has been pulled from the rubble in kathmandu where he had been trapped between two collapsed floors. it's a huge more al boost for the rescue workers who are still digging their way through the rubble of ruined buildings. the u.n. as haunched a $415 million appeal for nepal let's crass over now to the capital kathmandu. dramatic rescue, some calling it a miracle. tell us more about what happened there. >> reporter: yes sammy it couldn't have been anymore dramatic. at a time when morale is solo as more and more bodies are pull

from the rubble we are told a 15-year-old boy was pulled out. that aid workers had been working throughout the night to rescue here that the crowd of onlookers cheered. the boy looked quite dazed and was wisked way to the hospital, we'll try to get more information about him and his condition in the hours to him to come and report that for you now, as i said kathmandu is in need of these types of stories morale is solo right now. it's decimated many of the buildings around us, we are here at the site of the temple. one of the most icon rick structures here in the city. it's been reduced to rubble. and they are looking for people here as women. looking for bodies. yesterday we spoke with a 27-year-old man who had been pulled out of the rubble of a collapsed hotel just a couple of days ago. he had his leg amputated. he told us about his ordeal. here is our report. the pain in his eyes belies how

lucky he feels. >> translator: i had to stay under the rubble for four days with no food. >> reporter: trapped for 80 hours in a collapsed kathmandu hotel. he watched friends die in the surrounding wreck inning had & had to drink his own urine to stay alive. now after having his leg amputated. he has no idea how he will make a living. >> translator: i hope people will help me. i am too young for something like this to happen to me. >> reporter: so many so many here the 28-year-old farmer has on his way out of the country so he could make enough to support himself and his family. >> translator: my flight to due pie was scheduled for april 27. the accident happened on april 25. >> reporter: kathmandu is in desperate need of survival stories. >> translator: people can survive for days without eating. many of those trapped must still be alive. if they could be rescued in

time, they would live. >> reporter: many here believe there should be a lot more of them. with morale as decimated as these structures, residents and rescue workers here have grown used to fearing and seeing the worst. the mood here on the outskirts of kathmandu is very grim. we are at the site of another one of the buildings that caved in. there is two bodies that some just been pulled out of the rubble that are being removed right now behind us. husband and wife, one wedding ring clearly visible. it looked as though they were reaching out to each other even in death. some of these surroundings buildings could collapse at any time. so neighbors traumatized but curious look on while standing as far back as they can manage. as a devastated sibling negotiates the release of his brother's body. he want to take it back to

india. >> translator: only those who have lost families understand my pain. >> reporter: that pain is growing while fear spreads. the sun is about to set and rain has begun to fall. the rescue efforts will be hampered even further. crews pack up for the day even though everyone knows time is of the essence. and sammy i want to step out of the frame here for a second so you can take a look at what's unfolding behind us. there are relief workers that are here at this site there is a bulldozer here and they have been dugging around here for the past hour searching for bodies. it's really quite sad and i can tell you that one of theeeriest things about the area is the sense of resignation when -- that you get when you talk on the on lookers and residents of this neighborhoods. they tell me they expect to see more and more bodies dug out in the days to him. that's why stories like the ones we just told report resonating

perhaps as much as the government would like here because morale is solo right now. these types of efforts are going on all over the city. this is quite a common zenon fortunately. and everybody is worried it make the humanitarian crisis worse in the weeks ahead. >> we have seen pictures of scuffles and protests what about the people who are really desperate to get aid. are the survivors getting more aid now? is that bottleneck clearing up? >> reporter: well, it's a good question sammy. more aid is actually getting in to the country. more rescue teams are getting in to the country. but there is a bottleneck that is still quite -- that's really, really bad right now. it's very difficult getting surprise in to the airport. it's difficult still getting planes in to the airport. a limited number of planes can come in at any teal. a limited number of team that his can get in. even though the international community has been rapidly

deploying people. it's hard to get here. even though more teams are fanning out across kathmandu they are not getting to the hardest hit areas in the mountains, countryside. outlying areas and that's where people fear the most devastation has happened. so that is the concern right now. and everybody i am speaking with in kathmandu practically everybody has said if aid isn't reaching all of the necessary parties and places in kathmandu how will it get to the people in the surrounding areas as quickly as they will need it to get there. sammy. >> let's hope they find a way. for now thanks so much. in syria at least 26 people have been killed in aleppo in government barrel bomb attacks activists say dozens were injured. regime forces have intensified their bombing of the neighborhoods of aleppo controlled by rebels, targeting schools and markets. saudi arabia's newly appointed foreign minister is to attends his first gulf corpse

summit. yemen is expected to formally request to join the powerful grouping of arab gulf monarchies. more on the deteriorating humanitarian situation in em yemen. i must warn you might find of the images in this report to be distressing. >> reporter: this malnourished 12 is one that millions that need food in yemen. and this is what has forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. intense fighting between pro government groups fightth houthis and loyal assists of the former regime. this area is just west of the airport in the port city of aden. people who live here say houthis and militia men who support them took over their houses. the accused -- they a cooss the iran-backed fighters of using heavy weapons. >> they took over the civilian residentses and continue to shell place where his they know women and children gather.

most people have fled and only a few are left in aden. the houthis she would our homes and robbed the people. >> reporter: tribes men in another district of aden say they are under constant sniper fire by the mute is. they say they development have the right weaponry to fight the rebels and need help. >> translator: we are peaceful people. we don't want to threaten anyone. but enough hugh humiliation and oppression we can't take the tyranny anymore. >> reporter: the saudi-led coalition says that's why they are bombing places you want the houthi control. the strikes and blockades are worsening the humanitarian situation in the or impoverished situation. yemen's internationally recognized government calls houthis extremists and said their take over is helping other hard line groups such as al qaeda. >> translator: we keep hearing that the houthi armed group claim that they are fighting al qaeda. but the reality is that they are fighting the yemeni people and

not al qaeda al qaeda came to yemen and managed to take over some areas simply because of the instability and lack of secure 2eu6789 the conflict is affecting almost all of yemen. the fighting has disrupted water and power surprise. there is very little food and hardly any fuel. >> in taiz there is a lack of fuel. we have to go long distances to get it for much more expensive price. >> reporter: and as the fighting continues, civilians continue to pay the highest price. al jazerra. japan's prime minute has offers his condolence to his americans who died during the second world war. he earlier visited it a world war ii memorial in washington and expressed deep repep dance during his speech to a joint meeting of the u.s. congress. >> my dear dear friends on behalf

of japan and the japanese people, i offer with profound respect my eternal condolences to the souls of all american people that were lost during world war ii. well vietnam has celebrated the 40th anniversary of its victory over america with a colorful parade. more than 6,000 soldiers and veterans paraded through ho chi men city, formerly saigon. the fall of saigon in 1975 marked the final end of colonial room in america's decades-long involvement in the country. it's estimated 3 million vietnam east and 58,000 americans died in the conflict.

75 million liters of toxic chemicals were dispensed in vietnam and the dark legacy of that continues. unite find some of the images in the report to be disturbing. >> reporter: she wasn't alive during the war that you carries his country's name i'm war that end 40 year old ago but it's contamination has robs the seven-year-old of a normal life. but much more than that, it will kill him. just like it killed his sister. she was seven when she died from the same blood disease that he suffers from. his father works at the airport a site where u.s. military planes were loaded with agent orange during the war. it contained die objection an the chemical that causes birth defects, cancer and other diseases which can be passed on from parents.

>> i wish the us would fully did decontaminate where agent orange was sprayed. i don't. this for future generations. the physical reminder are few but the dark legacy left by the weapons is clear and disteach, those working with agent orange victims are focused on limiting the affects of die action ox an contamination in a fourth generation. >> with the first generation that sevened in army they got cancer and died. their children also became sick and died. the third generation, some know about agent orange so they don't have children. >> reporter: but they want more people to know about the impact of dioxan. and expands early detection through technology like using ultrasound machines during pregnancy. some of the agent orange that rained down on the jungles was stored and loaded at the former u.s. military base in duh make. a so-called dioxan hotspot now

the site of the commercial airport. the first american funded cleanup began three years ago a hugely complex process super heating the soil in a massive furnace think the americans still dispute the figure that three to 4 million vietnamese have been affected by the chemicals. >> what for vietnamese are the biggest concerns which is environment pollution couldn't is hitting this historical legacy in terms of dioxan there are other sources in vietnam. >> reporter: regardless of the source the current generation suffering are solely focused on survival. >> the thing is the goodwill of all people to do everything medically like blood transfusion to his keep my boy alive as long as possible. >> reporter: and the medical needs recently innocence identified you know under goes two transfusions a week. while his mom hopes future generations see the dark legacy of agent orange come to a close

her family lives day-to-day. scott heidler, al jazerra denang. still ahead this half hour, the u.n. suspects a senior aid work fore leaking a report which accuses french peacekeepers of child abuse in the central african republic. and we report from baltimore on the compelling research about the importance of black business ownership and ways to improve u.s. race relations.

>> fall of saigon, forty years later. >> we have no idea how many were killed. >> unanswered questions, a botched withdrawal lives lost. examining the impact that still resonates today. a special report continues tomorrow, 10:00 eastern. on al jazeera america.

let's have a quick reminder of our top stories now. a 15-year-old boy has been rescued from the rubble in nepal five days after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake. more than 5,400 people are now confirmed dead, though. the u.n. has launched a $415 million appeal to aid. saudi arabia's newly appointed foreign minister is to attend his first gulf corporation summit. the war in yemen will be on the to have top of the agenda a yemen is also going to ask to join the block. it's estimated 3 million slow he had familiar east and 50 a thousand americans died in the conflict. french prosecutors and military authorities are investigating claims french soldiers in the central african republic sexually abused children they were sent to protect. to follows the leaking of a

united nation says report in to the claims last year. the report is said to have documented the exploitation of children as young asinine by french peacekeepers last year. children at a center for internally displaced people at the airport in the capital said they were sexually abused in return for food and money. the report was leaked to french authorities by a senior official in geneva who believed the u.n. had failed to take action to stop the abuse. he's been suspended and is himself under investigation. let's talk now to paula donovan the co-director of the advocacy group aids free world. she handed that document over to the british press. joining us now live from the hague in in the netherlands via skype. good to have you with us, first of all let's get one thing straight if you can help us here. has anyone actually been held accountable for these alleged owe bruising so far? >> as far as i know, i have

heard no indication that anyone has been arrested for these abuses no. >> now was the u.n. still in the process of investigating of taking actions when the senior aid worker released and leaked these documents? i am trying to get a feeling for, you know what, level of inactive at this it there was at the u.n. >> right. and, again it's hard for me to speak to those issues because i saw the report and i learned that the senior official had been asked to resign. and was imminently to be suspended. but i have heard nothing about any sort of action on the part of the united nations. you know that these were french troops and the united nations has actually made an official statement now saying that this is the responsibilities of the french not of the united nations. despite the fact that the

interviews with these children that were documented in writing were compiled on the station area i the letterhead of the u.n. peacekeeping mission which has since taken over from the french troops. >> all right. that's an excellent transition there. what -- do you think that is acceptable then? what responsibility should the u.n. shoulder for action if these troops were not acting under a u.n. command? >> the u.n. doesn't have jurisdiction over troops who contributed even if they are peacekeeping troops, but the u.n. has a moral authority and an obligation first and foremost for the victims of these horrible abuses just to interview them and to compile the documentation about the detailed sexual abuse both of the six children who were interviewed directly by people

from the commission for human rights and uncief and then the accounts that they gave up their friends and others -- other children they knew who some hart been subject today the same abuse. in some cases regular abuse. this was a constant ongoing thing. there is absolutely no question that there is a moral ethical and legal obligation to the united nations and its agencies to move in immediately and make sure first and foremost that the abuse stops and that the victims are treated. >> it's interesting you said there regular abuse give us an idea from talking with your sources, we talking about a few isolated cases in which a few number of children were enlargedly abused or a much bigger problem was going on? >> it's a much bigger problem than that. the six children who were -- whose interviews were documented by the u.n. staff spoke about

being able to go to their friends and recount their stories and learn what sorts of sexual favors were demanded of chirp in exchange for food. and one boy, for instance, named about five of his friends who said that they regularly did this and explained to this young boy what it was that he did in order to receive the foot ration from a particular soldier or from various soldiers there. they seemed to be -- have been spread all over the -- all over the area, these soldiers who would sometimes and a child to beck an to a child and ask the child to come over, show them pornographic videos on their phones and indicate to the child exactly what sort of sex he wanted performed upon him. and in other cases the children would approach the french soldier and ask for food or for

water and would be told you will receive a food ration, an individual combat ration in exchange for doing this. and then it goes all the way up to children little sodomized by different french soldiers and begging for the soldiers to stop and then being seen by their friends the next day limping around feeling obviously physically very distressed. the fact that these -- these accounts were documented and there is no further documentation of the response by uncief the commission for human rights and others to these obviously traumatized children and there was no effort that at least is he have defend that they moved in to stop it. it's appalling. >> it is pretty horrific, thanks so much, paula donovan there. >> you are welcome. south africa's president

jacob zuma says he will tackle what he describes as the root causes of the recent wave of attacks on my grand workers. he says they include unemployment. immigration and poverty. a recent government sponsored study found 12 million people in the country are living in extreme poverty. charles stratford reports. >> reporter: he has five brothers his parents and three children to support. he's the only one in his family way job. he works 12 hours a day, seven days a week as a security guard in a rich johannesburg neighborhood. he lives in a township of alexandra. one of the poorest areas of the city. >> translator: life is very rough. there are more than 40 you 40 you have us sharing one toilet in the at the present time. $380 a month is not enough to support me and my family. >> reporter: that works out to be more than $1.25 a day which puts him above the extreme poverty line. according to the world bank. but with all of his dependents and the rising cost of living he

cannot even afford for to feed himself properly and can't afford public transport either. every day he has to walk three hours two and from work. a world bank report in 2014 says around half of this country's urban population live in townships or so-called informal settlement like this one the report goes on to say it's places like that that are home to around 60% of this country's unemployed. some of the worst violence against foreign migrants who many locals accuse of taking their jobs happens in neighborhoods like these the government says it will tackle what it describes as the root causes of the problem. including poverty unemployment and immigration. but analysts say the government has failed so far. >> the number of people living in poverty is now about 53% of the total population, the number of people who are unemployed is higher than it was in 1994. at the end of apartheid. the level of protest is protests is

increasing. the basic problems are not being addressed by the government. which is becoming increasingly unpopular out of touch with ordinary people. feels when he walks through the neighborhood in which he works. >> translator: i know people i work for are very rich. it's painful to return every day to my place in alex alexandra but i have no choice, it's a better life than the life of crime. >> reporter: for him and million of people like him a meaningful change in post apartheid south africa is yet to come. charles stratford, al jazerra johannesburg. the cry of protesters from baltimore to los angeles has been black lives matter. new research shows mending america's racial divide means giving everyone a stake in society as gabriel elson so explains. >> reporter: he is teaching young people how to print

designs on t-shirt. >> put as much inge as there as you can. >> reporter: i runs a program that is not only about making clothing but also about keeping kids off the streets. he hopes that some day they'll become does business owners these december. at many as 31 are a part of the program at any one time. he owns a sorbet store in the community where many of the kids are front. >> so our goal is to help empower the young people with the resources that they can so that they can provide for themselves first. and then their community. >> reporter: six out of every 10 people who live in baltimore are black, but only three out of every 10 businesses are owned by black people. a new research study looked at data from urban centers around the u.s. and found in areas where african americans were increasing their business ownership, there were positive results i don't understand the business bottom line. the growth of african-american owned businesses was strongly link today a reduction in black youth violence and there is a whole host of reasons for it,

primarily because black business owners are seen as role models in the community. >> it creates jobs, it creates opportunities. >> reporter: omar mohamed directs the development center at morgan state university. so what are the key challenges that african americans face when trying to open a business. >> having access to resources. so that the access to capital is big. whether it's a loan, money from family friends and some people say fools or from a venture capitalist but access to the capital. >> reporter: people don't want to be seen as simply living in a homeless blight the blighted part the time that needs outside help to improve. >> we need investment and capital on our own behalf instead of having many government agencies and nonprofit agencies trying to manage disaster, that's what they are trying to do. manage disaster and all the data produce odd the outcomes have not been transformative. >> reporter: and that's why they continue to learn in hopes of some day owning the very stores

they might wants to shop in. gabriel elizondo, al jazerra baltimore. you can keep up-to-date with all of those stories if you head over to our website there it is right there aljazerra.com. stay with us. will the clinton foundation apology for sloppy bookkeeping well, the controversy. jeb bush said, he's had a record fundraising, and he hasn't keyclared his presidency. turning prisonners. and we'll show you where