bombed by all sides civilians in syria hit by chlorine gas, shells and coalition air strikes. ♪ this is al jazeera live from london also coming up one week on as the death toll keeps rising from nepal's earthquake and meet a family struggling to cope. military rescued 234 girls and women from the boko haram forest stronghold. and carrying the hopes of the nation winners at the town where pacquiao grew up ahead of

his big fight with floyd mayweather. ♪ hello in the pace of 24 hours civilians in syria have been bombed by all sides and victims of the four year civil war between government and rebels and the fight against islamic state of iraq and levante and barrel bolducs dropped from government war planes contained chlorine gas and idlib providence was target of the attack and 50 cases of suffocation reported with children among the injured and the second attack on the town in the past three days. and in aleppo they shell districts killing 12 civilians and injuring dozens more and opposition fighters say their next move is to capture the strategic city by a string of military gains, the fighters say they are determined to break the

stalemate and win their fight against the regime and we report. >> reporter: this is a military parade on the outskirts of the capitol damascus. the biggest show force by syrian rebels after they captured the city of idlib and islam is having the task of regaining this after they are toppled and defeating a regime backed by iran won't be easy. >> translator: today we stand united against the iran they want to spread influence here and want to have a persian state established here i assure you we will fight them and defeat them. >> reporter: across the country rebels are shifting tactic. in the north armed factions merged under the army of conquest to capture idlib.

now, their eyes are set on latakia and assad's stronghold. the u.s. has in the past refrained from arming syrian opposition fighters. they were concerned about the weapons landing in the hands of groups like al-nusra front, al-qaeda affiliate but nusra is now joining moderate groups in their fight to repel i.s.i.l. from syria. saudi arabia, qatar and turkey provide significant assistance for syrian rebels. >> in yemen the saudis discovered that i have power, the united states is following them in yemen and killing shiites and can turn this to syria and the united states is not going to stop them from arming these islam. >> reporter: assad fighters still hold ground in major cities. more rebel groups are now considering joining forces to defeat assad, i'm with al

jazeera. a u.s. led air strike killed at least 52 civilians in northern syria on friday according to an group and this was near the town of seran and children were among those killed and not a single i.s.i.l. fighter injured and the pentagon cannot confirm the report but it's investigating. ♪ it's exactly a week since the devastating earthquake hit nepal and the death toll is climbing 6841 are known to have died and more reports come from remote areas and rescue workers recover more bodies from the rubble more than 14,000 people were injured. u.n. believes nearly 1 1/2 million people need food and reconstruction test could be

over $10 billion and half of nepal economy and help still not reaching villages they need more really helicopters and this is where people are struggling to cope. >> reporter: an old trade route to the chinese border natural beauty is scared by what nature inflicted on the country one week ago. with all the ruined buildings for now a way of life has been extinguished and without their homes, without their farm buildings, how can people plan ahead? and without loved ones how can they cope? that is a question going through the minds of the girl wearing the pink coat. her mother and her baby brother are both buried in this rubble. and she is 11 years old standing with her grandparents wishing her mother and brother could still be alive.

for three days they watched from the pavement. a chinese search and rescue team has now taken over the operation. and with such an odor in the air they are not expecting to find anyone alive and her grandmother feels that all hope is lost. >> translator: my daughter in law and grandson were so beautiful. this tragedy is unbearable. i'm not sure what will happen now, how we will manage. we lost everything. my son has reacted really badly. he doesn't have work and now i feel i've lost him. >> reporter: it becomes too much for her, her father is in shock and has taken to drink. he hasn't been seen for hours. the searching goes on into the night. and the darkness can't fade out any of the pain. the chinese search team plan of attack on the next day. her grandfather wants to hear

some news but the only development is his son certainly appearing. >> translator: slurring his words because of the alcohol, but clear in his thoughts. >> translator: it's a dire situation. my wife and baby son are buried her, many people are buried elsewhere but what is the government doing? we have nothing. pleasure feel the please tell the government we hardly have anything to eat. >> reporter: not far away the flames of protest, people demanding food and shelter. she is spending another night under plastic sheeting for her shelter, surrounded by relatives. her grandmother is unwell. what goes through the mind of a 11-year-old in this situation? her cousins try to lighten the mood. but daylight brings reality. it's a start of yet another day and the chinese search and rescue team are back on the

ground. it now appears they may have found a body. mother and baby son are found huddled together. it was never going to be a rescue. the family moved down the road away from the crowds trying to seek some privacy for their grief. but this earthquake doesn't even allow dignity with the lives it takes. mother and baby don't get an hearse or even a car to the journey. their bodies pass a family that can't absorb what the shaking earth took from their lives. a father who can't face up to what has happened and a girl who faces an uncertain future without the love of her mother. andrew simmons, al jazeera, nepal. in an interview with al jazeera nepal's information there says foreign aid has been slow to arrive. >> until now in terms of cash we

received $4 million. we have not received any penny beyond that. but we are hoping that we be able to mobilize as large as $1.8 u.s. dollars for the reconstruction plan. >> reporter: live to al jazeera in kathmandu so we heard that andrew's report and seeing heartbreaking stories still and the suggestion that somehow the aid isn't quite coming through properly? >> well, that's correct, that has been the major complaint here that aid is slow to arrive the bottleneck at the airport since we have reported on since the quake happen and slow to reach the villages, the village in andrew's package this represents one of many villages that still, that are only now getting some aid, getting some relief but there are many more that have not had any contact yet. and we actually have some new numbers from the nepal police.

they are saying that since the quake took place last week there has been some migrations in and out of the kathmandu valley about 22000 people from the remote areas who were close by have come in to the in and around the capitol since the quake and 100,000 people have left the capitol since then as well. we visited a bus station a few days ago and found a lot of people leaving here out of fear of disease and complaining they weren't getting help in the capitol so they were leaving for their home villages and uneffected parts of the country. >> and are these places equipped to deal with an influx of people from other areas? >> well basically the short answer is no no nepal was not the easiest place to live in before the quake 3.6 million people were without access to clean water according to the u.n. and this is before the earthquake on saturday. so there is not -- there is still people living outside in the capitol itself but a lot of

people in the more remote areas feel they have no choice and those that can move are trying to move but many can't and have to remain in these villages and wait for more international relief to reach them. >> thank you very much indeed for the live update there from nepal. and we will have a special program and nepal in ruins airing at 1730 gmt on saturday, looking at how the country is coping a week after the earthquake struck. still to come this half hour. >> i'm in turkey and just over there a greek island we will show you why this has become such a popular destination for migrants trying to make it to europe. and set for a weekend of celebration rallies after six officers are charged over the death of freddie gray. ♪

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intensifies with reports that 27 people have been killed. houthi rebels and troops loyal to exiled president abd rabbuh mansur hadi are battling for the airport there and dozens have fled after houses were shelled and burned. hundreds of families remain trapped in their homes and are running short of supplies. [shouting] in the capitol sanaa hundreds are condemning the saudi-led air campaign and a dozen people were killed on air strike on friday hitting a residential neighborhood and saudi arabia and partners have benatar -- been targeting them since. we have the humanitarian coordinator for yemen and we had the general saying the humanitarian operations would end in days unless fuel supplies were restored hazard anything restored on that front?

>> i'm afraid not. i'm afraid this call by the secretary-general is still as solid as it was yesterday. the worsening situation in yemen and worsening humanitarian situation is alarming the escalation of the conflict over the past six weeks has worsened and what was already a humanitarian situation in yemen over a few years has now become a catastrophe. as you say, the lack of fuel and also look of food has raised that population to be starved to death. the lack of fuel means that health facilities can no longer work, the tela communication network will come to a stand still and water pumping systems will not function and if we do not have food and fuel and supplies coming in the country, we have to fear for the worst.

>> is it an issue with moving around with supplies in the country to other parts of country and roads are block or the stocks are running low and nothing is coming in? >> it's both the stocks are low because we have difficulty getting supplies coming in because we need to speak with the party, the coalition parties to get flights arriving in the airports and get docked and that is a problem because the arms embargo requires a strict control mechanism which has unintended consequences with supplies and also commercial like fuel and food and subject to strict controls and relaxation of the implementation of this to allow getting supplies and also commontys of fuel and food to be shipped into the country quickly but it's also as you say once the goods are in the country and we still have some supplies this the country that they are able to

bring it to the people who are in need and we need to negotiate the parties so we have a safe condition to bring it to people in need and the situation is complex because we have to deal on the ground with a number of parties fighting each other so it means that we can work and it's extremely complex and difficult. >> thank you very much indeed for talking to us. >> you're welcome. 220 migrants rescued in the mediterranean sea landed on the island of lampadusa picked up friday and all those rescued are men from the sahara and africa and seen unprecedented numbers crossing from north africa into europe. malta rescue service started the summer mission and migrant off shore aid station is working alongside doctors without

borders to help those who are stranded at sea and malta and italy is on the front line of migrant influx and last year during a 60 day mission 3,000 people were rescued off the libyan coast. this is not the only route that migrants are using as they try to find safety and security in europe and we report from turkey. >> reporter: from the remote corners of turkey and the gm coastline the distance between despair and hope for a new life in europe via a greek island can be just 25 kilometers. [shouting] but over crowded boats, coast guard patrols and routeuthless smugglers have a periless crossing and he is a smuggler and he is about to take a boat full of migrants to the greek island of lesbos and this time if he makes it he will blend in with the passengers and claim asylum himself. >> translator: i've never sailed a diesel engine boat but

i have to sail tomorrow and never sailed this deep the sea is scary and i'll be scared particularly as at least 35-40 peoples' lives is my responsibility and it's no humanity whether or not i send you out to see if you make it or not i still made money. >> reporter: they made it there and he sent pictures and after a couple of days a the migrant reception center they are free to go to athens and beyond and migrants will pay 900-2000 to be squeezed on to a small boat that will sail them to greece, that is the island just over there. now, if they get into thisin the

u.n. has no way to get to europe and forced to take the road to death. >> reporter: more migrants taking to the sea here because of the land borders with greece and bulgaria and you cannot of course throw barb wire across the sea and will get popular with summer and turkey and gm coast. nigerian military said it rescued 230 women and children held captive by boko haram fighters and reportedly free as part of an operation to clear fighters from northeast forest and it's not clear if any of the rescued girls are from a group

of students kidnapped last year. latest rescue bring the total of women and children free from forces in the past few weeks to 700 and amnesty international said they abducted girls since 2014 and will maintain offensive until the forest is clear of camps and we have more from abuja. >> we made repeated request to military for further information about the identities of the hundreds of people who have been rescued from boko haram and the circumstances in which they have been free and the military are saying 234 people just freed that the circumstances were the same circumstances in which others were freed earlier this week but there were assaults on boko haram camps in the forest which they were freed and attended casualties of boko haram fighters but no detail on how many fighters may have been killed and that the operation is ongoing. now what we can conclude from

this statement from the military is that those who are rescued are currently under going a screening of profiling process to say who they are, how they came to be in the hands of boko haram and where they had come from. now, the organizers behind the campaign to find the 219 school girls who were kidnapped last year and who remain captive are demanding that the military and the government release more information about the identities of these people and given them an altimatum and by the weekend they must know who are being freed are but so far that demand has not been heeded and week of protests protests, two policeman and a civilian were killed near a police station in the capitol central market. the government spokesman said 17 people were also wounded and stopped the protests.

people in baltimore planning to come in the streets later on saturday to celebrate criminal charges being brought against six baltimore police officers over the death of an unarmed black man. john tell us a little about preparations for this on a scale of the kind of march that is being expected. >> this is a march and organizers say there could be as many as 10,000 people here and we never know how many people are going to show up and the epicenter of the event or one of two of them anyway at city hall you can see there are a number of state troopers with us if you look down the line there are also maryland transportation police and the national guard is here and that looks like baltimore city police in the background but this is not a show of force, this is a pretty casual environment here because out here as you can see today it's more of a celebration what

is going on there is music in the park and just the beginnings of the crowd are coming here it's going to be to hours or more before the crowd really begins and a major march starts so the dignitaries of course will sit up here where you see these chairs and they are memorials here on the wall and but today people are pretty calm, last night there was a bit of activity over 50 people arrested for violated the curfew that began at 10 local time and police came out and rioted but they were very restrained by comparison to other nights and given warning by helicopter what happened before and you can see this is a pretty casual environment now that those six officers have been charged. right now we are just looking at some of the crowd here you can see the variety of people. >> and, john the police union in this case has criticized what they call a rush to judgment and is it a bit early to be

celebrating given these are only charges at this stage? >> it is a bit early you know for a celebration about the conclusion of this event but as the family of freddie gray said they are happy that charges have been brought by the prosecutor that these officers have already had to post bail and that there will apparently be some kind of accountability. what the outcome is none of us knows because the first legal appearance i believe is on may 27th and it's also interesting to note that while six officers have been charged in this case three of those officers are african/american. and what we asked people in the crowd about whether that makes a difference in the argument that police are disproportionately aggressive with youth this is not about black and white, this is about blue the color that police wear and police brutality in the streets of this majority african/american city. >> and john briefly there is stuff happening in baltimore but

matches around the country. >> that's right, marches going on at the same time in new york and chicago i believe there is one as well in ferguson missouri where a similar incident happened where white police in that instance killed an unarmed black man so this is something that is a national story at this point and even international and that is why we are here. >> john thanks very much indeed. it is billed an as the fight of the century and mayweather taking on pacquiao in las vegas and expected to walk away with $120 million a huge contrast to the circumstances which he grew up in the philippines and we have more. >> reporter: this is where pacquiao learned how to box at the age of 12. back then the young man he was selling bread for to u.s. dollars a day to help his family in the city in the southern philippines. his uncle prized possessions are

his first boxing gloves he bought him. >> translator: i started teaching him how to box. i thought he was different. he trained hard and didn't matter he was in the rain or with bare feet or torn shorts and the boy was determined. >> reporter: pacquiao rise from humble beginnings is mirrored by his climb through different weight divisions. he started fighting for a prize of $1 dollar here and eventually he joined fights abroad and made hundreds of millions more. in this city there are signs of "the boxer"'s success everywhere. he has become a leg lend in a town where majority of the people live below the poverty line. everybody here wants to be like him. this city has produced many of the philippine's top boxers throughout history, 14 of them went on to become international champions but not all of them were success stories. the world boxing counsel is the

9th beth super feather weight champion in history, and he was on the world boxing map and was making hundreds of thousands of u.s. dollars of earnings. but he lost everything to alcohol and drug abuse. >> translator: i look back and regret everything i wish i could go back and miss the glory days they are all gone now. >> reporter: he is one of the world's richest sports stars. and also is smart in business politics and acting in the philippines. his fight against floyd mayweather has been described as the fight of the century. it is expected to bring him hundreds of millions of u.s. dollar earnings. for the people here though it does not matter what the outcome of the fight will be. he is a symbol of hope a living proof that even in this poverty

stricken country dreams still do come true. al jazeera, city in the southern philippines. plenty more for you on that and the stories we are covering on the website and the address of that is al jazeera.com. wildfire. >> we are going to explore the intersection of humanity and doing it in an unique way. this is a show about science by scientists. tonight "tech know" journeys into the jungle, this is one of the iconic animals of costa-rica with post cards of this thing. a beautiful and fragile place on