♪ cutoff from kathmandu and we report from rural nepal where entire ail villages are in desperate need of relief. >> andrew reporting and explaining why the devastating loss and destruction here has passed unnoticed in the wake of a nepal earthquake. ♪ hello there, this is al jazeera live from london also coming up france promises harsh punishment for peace keepers found guilty of sexually abusing children in the central african

republic. desperate for a new life and al jazeera meets migrants trying to reach through lawless libya. crash landing and one of nasa's successful missions ends with a bang. ♪ hello, in nepal bad weather hammering delivery of relief to villages devastated by saturday's earthquake official death toll has passed 5800 people. the u.n. has launched a 415 million appeal for aid saying those in rule areas are especially in need of help. andrew simmons has this update from the village of sindu. >> reporter: the mountain roads of sindu would normally take you to one of the most scenic places on earth, now the journey shows you misery despair. and for some of those who

survived this is what remains of their lives. this small village has one home left standing and people are in a state, no one is here to help them. officials say around 1600 people have died in this region. unofficial estimates put the figure at beyond 5,000. two more deaths are recorded here after a search that has lasted three days. the bodies of a woman and her baby lying together are recovered. deeper into the region the needs get even greater, some aid is getting through but it's a drip feed, aid workers arriving here say the region has been neglected. >> the need is quite huge. initially there was a lack of proper communication in the sense if you see the data for the first three days the number of dead people were 200-220 and day three the number of deaths from the area rose up to 650.

>> reporter: this is the town with no power anywhere and no sanitation and very few tents. this is a town that is devastated and the humanitarian needs are colossial and the few search and rescue workers who reached this place say it's dangerous to be in the town itself because the buildings that are intact are unsafe. this man lost his wife in the quake and left trying to make due in a school attempting to look after his baby son and little girl who has an eye injury that needs more attention. >> translator: the government has not provided relief in such an extreme situation, it's raining and it's wet and tremors come and we are having to take shelter in the school. >> reporter: the weather is making things worse, normally this would be the dry season but there is heavy rain aside from washing out already over crowded shelters it causes landslides

more fear for the people with aftershocks making the landslides more frequent and want to know when the suffering will end and no one has an answer andrew simmons in nepal. amidst despair there have been glimmers of hope and two people were rescued after being trapped under rubble for five days and we have more from kathmandu. >> reporter: a day when some good news is finally over shadowing all the bad. two incredibly dramatic rescues. and was pulled from the remains of a small hotel in kathmandu just hours after a teenage boy was saved. when 15-year-old llama first got stuck in the rubble he couldn't see a thing. >> translator: i didn't know if i was alive or dead. >> reporter: he had no idea whether he would make it but wasn't willing to give up. >> translator: i was trapped but i could move around by

crawling in the rubble. >> reporter: he was stuck there for five days before being pulled out. llama's rescue in kathmandu was cause for celebration. on lookers, so used to seeing dead bodies retrieved from their surroundings of late cheered for him, now at an israeli medical camp volunteers and medics are optimistic he will recover. >> mall newerishs and doing remarkable well miracle. >> reporter: happy to be alive llama describes how he got through his ordeal. >> translator: i found closed and squeezed water from the clothes and drank the water and then i found butter which i ate. >> reporter: llama's incredible story gave a much needed moral boost to a city in tatters and its people among the ruins. bracing as they have forever more bad news, this brought a much needed respite to a city and country in mourning al

jazeera, kathmandu, nepal. dramatic new video emerged showing the earthquake when it struck east of kathmandu. tourist captured this incredible video 30 kilometers outside the capitol and the area is filled with temples and known as nepal's cultural gem. many of those buildings have been badly damaged or destroyed by the quake. ♪ france president says there will be harsh punishment for soldiers sexually abusing children in central african republic and took place at a place of displaced people at an airport between december 2014 and june last year and we have more details. >> reporter: this is where the abuses alleged to have taken place, this is a center for

displaced people at the airport near the central african airport and 16 soldiers accused of abusing young boys and the oldest victim 15, the youngest just nine. the french military were in the country to help stem sectarian violence that killed more than 1,000. french prosecutors are investigating the allegations and france's president said anyone guilty will find no mercy. >> translator: if certain soldiers behaved badly there will be sanctions that measure up to the amount of trust we place in all of our armed forces. i'm proud of our forces. and thus i am remorseless with regard to those who are proven to have behaved badly. >> reporter: in the camp the claims have caused anger and frustration. >> translator: yes, those french people did it on purpose. they came to look at after us near the tarmac and abused little girls, even raping them at some point, when they came to

take the girls i was there. they took a little boy and they raped him. >> activists investigating the case say evidence is based on detailed testimony. >> there is an astonishing amount of detail by very young children, the children were able to describe what happened to them and in some cases what they witnessed other children being subjected to and a pattern that seems very indicative of regular abuse and in some cases they said they were regularly abused. >> reporter: has a secret investigation of abuse going back a year but kept secret until it was leaked in britain guardian u.n. and behind the leak of the u.n. confidential documents has been suspended, allen fisher al jazeera. they released pictures of women and girls that says were rescued from a boko haram stronghold. 293 people were freed from the

forest on wednesday. the army also says it has found another group of captive thought to be more than 160 women and girls. and yvonne reports. >> reporter: these are some 293 women and children rescued who were held in severe and inhumane conditions and military says, and trying to workout the identities of the women and children where they come from and how they were kidnapped. many are hoping some rescued are the school girls, that i were abducted by boko haram in april last year. 219 are still missing. the military say they can't confirm whether some of the rescued are from there. >> hope is not lost. we will search everywhere possible, not just in that forest everywhere there are cliffs is being assaulted and searched and we hope to locate

them the school girls and every hostage that is in captivity of terrorists. >> reporter: but people who have been campaigning for the rescue of the school girls and other women and children held by boko haram are demanding that the military announce the identities of those who have been freed. >> how many more people are still missing? we never had a record from the military that says that at a point in time the number of people and number of girls and number of women and number of men or boys were abducted. >> reporter: on thursday the military announced the rescue of another 160 women and children and a promising to release their identities too. they say on going operations against boko haram are going well and they expect to free more people who may have been held captive by boko haram in the forest in the next few days. >> a lot of grounds have gone

over and running out of cliffs and over run and it fits in the plan and this gives us a lot of encouragement that the plans are working out. >> reporter: it's not possible to independently verify what the military are saying about the rescues because restrictions have been placed on humanitarian organizations and the media in accessing the areas where these rescues are taking place. but many people are hoping the military's claims are accurate. yvonne, al jazeera, abuja, nigeria. there may be problems in burundi as protests continue in the capitol and 15 have been injured in the latest clashes on the sixth day of unrest and protest began after the president announced he would run for a third term in defiance of the two-term limit. malcolm web following developments at the capitol. >> reporter: local radio station reported a short while ago that a policeman shot dead a

soldier on the streets at one of the sites of the protests. now if this is confirmed it may strain the relationship between the army and the police. the soldiers have been out the street since monday and have not been joining in with the police and have been observing small groups of soldiers and most of the sites where they are clashing and seen them a couple of times trying to negotiate between police and protesters, sometimes urging police to use restraints and less force and the army is respected here and seen as neutral and not taking political sides so of course if it is confirmed that a policeman did choose a soldier and if there were more incidents like this if the situation deteriorates that increases the chances of the army at a later stage taking control themselves. >> reporter: all right still to come on the program [gunfire] we will have a report on the port city of aiden where much of the war in yemen is being played out, plus outbursts at the u.n. security is called at the north

korean diplomate refuses to stop talking. ♪

♪ hello again and reminder of the top stories on al jazeera, two people have been rescued from the buildings in nepal five days after an earthquake killed 5800 people there and u.n. says people in rural areas are in need of help. harsh punishment if they are guilty of sexually abusing children in the network and

happened at a center for displaced people between december 2013 and june last year and nigeria army have 300 women and girls that were rescued from boko haram and rescued from the forest on tuesday. saudi arabia says its forces driven away groups of houthi rebels and supporters in the southern yemen district and thousands of rebels killed in the battle as well as three saudi soldiers and meanwhile yemen presidential office is warning embassys in the port city of aiden to make sure no houthi fighters are on their premises and we report. >> reporter: aiden is a battleground for the war in yemen and pro-government fighters say they are gaining strategic territory at the airport. but beyond that people say it's the houthis who seem to be gaining ground. they say the rebels are shelling their neighborhoods and pushing people from their homes.

the houthis have also stormed a hospital medical staff fled leaving behind people in need of care. >> translator: they can't to shell places where they know women and children gather. most people have fled and only a few are left in aiden. the houthis shelled our homes and robbed the people. >> reporter: but a houthi spokesman denies allegations of targeting civilians and torture. >> translator: our opponents accused us of killing a demonstrator in sanaa and we asked them to help with the investigation and move him to the hospital but they refused and burned him. >> reporter: aiden is a port city in the south. its location is important because it's near the gulf of aiden and offers easy access to the red sea. it became a base of operations for president hadi after he was forced to leave the capitol earlier this year. despite weeks of air strikes the

houthis still control large parts of yemen and they are well armed. the government says iran and hezbollah are partnering with the rebels something the houthis deny. >> translator: let me tell you that the yemen minister of defense has been kidnapped an operation led by iran. >> reporter: according to the u.n. more than 1,000 people have died since the war began in late march. about 12 million people desperately need food and water. [gunfire] numbers that will grow as the fighting continues, natasha with al jazeera. wave of car bombings around the capitol of baghdad left 23 people dead and 60 injured and four different explosions reported in public places across the city after night fall another bomb went off in the town of madane 20 kilometers south of the capitol, no one has yet claimed responsibility. u.s. navy war ships are

accompanying u.s. flights commercial vessels as they pass through the strait off the southern coast of iran, two days ago iran forces boarded a cargo vessel in the region and patty has more from washington. >> reporter: u.s. military initials are saying u.s. ships accompanied cargo through the straits and not escorting ships and mean one u.s. flagged cargo ship for a navy ship alongside and basically they say the ships are going to be hanging out in the area and say this is not only because that one cargo ship marshal islands flag cargo ship was boarded but they are asserting that a u.s. flag cargo ship felt harassed last friday by iran ships and sending this message and still military officials realize it does come with some risks especially talking about at sea, small spaces and situations can quickly escalate. the eu foreign policy chief has

been in tunisia for talks on migrant crisis which has seen tens of thousands of people drown in the mediterranean sea and many traveled through libya where people smugglers have taken advantage of the political instability and we report from central libya. >> reporter: they come from different countries but they all have the same story, one of a long journey that took them from several borders and in the sahara desert in southern libya, each left a story of hardship and each had strong hopes for the future and for duty it all ended in a detention center in misrata and decided to leave ethiopia after her husband died. >> they caught me in the desert so i came here. before this they didn't catch me. one week here like two weeks i

want to leave this place and cross to europe or something to challenge my life. >> reporter: these are only a fraction of hundreds of thousands of migrants and nobody knows how many waiting in libya for the opportunity to reach europe. the country is a transit point and many migrants stay here for several months to earn enough money to pay for crossing mediterranean. hundreds of kilometers of empty beaches along the coastline and typically migrants are gathered in spots like this away from the city usually around sunset and then at night on the cover of darkness the boats sale off. little control. libya coast guards have limited means and rarely go out. and with the area there is one vessel available with the eu for shore patrols. >> translator: we need support from the land forces. they should try to stop people before they board the boats. once at sea it's very difficult for us to catch them.

>> reporter: there are also a few monitoring points that overlook the coast. but the current lawlessness in libya allowed smugglers operating in the country to flurnish and there are nine departure points in homs and many to the west. >> with supports and because of the political divisions the eu is not assisting and we have four vessels held in italy because of the situation and they do not recognize the tripoli government and one in tobruk doesn't need it because departures are from the western side. >> reporter: set off a few weeks ago and left his wife and two children in gambia to find a job and take care of them. >> it's not easy and in this war right now everything is money, if you have money you are everything. for me right now it's over. i done with want to be here

anymore. >> reporter: going home won't be easy either. there are few embassys left in tripoli to assist and authorities don't have the means to deport the migrants. for now they are stuck in libya's turmoil. al jazeera, in central libya. a leading u.s. newspaper reported that freddy gray was trying to hurt himself when he died in police custody 11 days ago and the death sparked the baltimore reports and we report. >> reporter: a makeshift memorial has been set up here at the very intersection where freddy gray was arrested and we saw that now video of him screaming in pain being loaded in to that police van. now, with the police handing over their internal investigation over to state prosecutors, we came to this neighborhood and found a young man who said he witnessed everything that happened but yet he says police investigators have failed to even contact him about what he saw. >> i can't feel my leg hurt my leg hurt and got him up and

dragged him to the patty wagon. >> no police contacted you? >> not at all so i don't know what they charged him when they said they did all that and didn't contact me yet. >> reporter: here in this community nobody we spoke to said they had any confidence in this police investigation. >> i want to believe that they are going to have justice but honestly in my heart i don't think they can give it to us. >> a lot of unsolved murders here in the city they have done nothing about. >> reporter: the washington post newspaper has an explosive article on thursday where they claim someone inside the van with freddy gray claims gray was actually trying to injure himself, people here in the community have very strong opinions about that this is what they had to say. >> how can you hurt yourself when you're in handcuffs and how can he break his back in handcuffs. >> you think the public want to believe something stupid like that as it sounds. >> reporter: the baltimore internal investigation now

handed over to local prosecutors it's up to them in the coming days or weeks to decide if charges will be filed against these six officers that are now on administrative leave and on the federal government side the justice department continues their investigation as well. >> reporter: disturbed a u.n. event on human rights in the country and james base explains. >> reporter: chaotic and angry scenes at the u.n. it all started when a north korean diplomate demanded the right to speak at a meeting on human rights in his country and the u.s. ambassador said he should wait his term. >> you are discrediting yourself further by interrupting the proceedings. we will continue our panel and you can speak when the panel has concluded. >> reporter: but the north korean would not back down and so ambassador samantha power seemed to relent. >> i think the audience will agree that it's better to allow the dprk to speak since it's

discrediting exercise and conclude your statement and we will go back to our statement. there is no need for a microphone. >> reporter: so he addressed the committee room with his microphone switched off occasional jeers from the crowd with defectors from north korea. >> a bit of iceberg. >> reporter: someone decided to turn the microphone back on. >> plus shut the mic down since this is not authorized presentation and ensure the microphone is not live thank you. >> reporter: the north korean continued on and on detailing what he said were human rights abuses by the u.s., even mentioning resent events in baltimore. the u.s. ambassador who organized the meeting with the south korean counterparts lost her patience. >> we are calling security and you can conclude your remarks or be removed from the room. >> reporter: they jeered the north korean and there was

applause as he stopped just as u.n. security officers arrived. >> it must be chilling for those of you who have been subjected to the terror of the regime to be confronted with bullying and disruption and the kind of behavior that we saw today. >> reporter: what happened in the committee room shows north korea's determination to counter any criticism of its human rights record. however, that subject is now on the u.n. security council agenda and it's a subject many nations want to continually raise here in new york. james base al jazeera, u.n. nasa mission to mercury the planet close to the sun has ended and we report on how it is transforming our knowledge of the solar system. >> reporter: it's only slightly bigger than the moon and it's the closest planet to the sun, but until nasa space craft arrived in mercury orbit in 2011 little was known about the planet.

since then messenger 7 scientific instruments have been feeding back volumes of data. >> very massive and solid core of ion similar to the earth but much bigger proportionately bigger and there is a liquid also there surrounding this core in mercury which is producing the magneting iic field of the earth. >> reporter: messenger revealed the moon-like surface in unprecedented detail scarred by as astroids and temperatures and mapped ancient lava and ice at the polls covered by a layer of dark mysterious matter. >> the hypothesis this dark material is, in fact, organic, material delivered to mercury by what brought the water probably

from the outer solar system and not only of water rights but of what on our planet were once some of the building blocks of organic chemistry and life. >> reporter: now the fuel has run out and nasa says it is powerless to stop gravity from dragging messenger to the planet and the impact at more than 14,000 kilometers an hour adds another small crater to its already pitted surface. expirations of the planets are giving us a year of how it was formed and how our planet came to be and placing us in time and space within the universe and within the confinement of the solar system very important to know these things. >> reporter: this image published hours before messenger demise is one of many the research team will release in the weeks and moves ahead, the next mission to mercury by japanese teams is not expected to arrive there until 2024 and scientists will work through the

huge volume of data from messenger and air more detail to our knowledge of the planet i'm with al jazeera. much more on that and other stories on our website, the address to click on to is al jazeera.com. al jazeera.com. intersection of hart ware and huge -- hardware and humanity. let's check out the team. marita davison is specialising in ecology. tonight, what are the scientists at monsanta up to. we go into their lab.