an quake near mount everest so powerful it racks the captain kathmandu our reporters are on the scene. ♪ hello. live from doha. also ahead. >> we hope that a ceasefire will hold. >> iran calls for a truce in generally which could help millions of desperate people. time to talk. the top u.s. diplomat has arrived in rauch for the first time since falling out over ukraine and syria. no refuge indonesia's navy

intercepts migrants and points them towards malaysia. ♪ ♪ nepal has once again been struck by a large earthquake. this time a nag tuesday 7.4 tremor. it's end center was near a remote area along the chinese border it sent people in the capital running from buildings. and was felt as as far away as the indian capital new delhi. andrew immaterial you understand is live for us in kathmandu. i know information is a bit sketchy right now. just tell us what you know at this point. i know you actually felt some of this. >> reporter: i have very little information other than what you know already which near inch chicago u, this is mountainous

territory near mount everest of course it was a tremendous earthquake felt here. the building turned to jelly effectively it was swinging for all of two to three minutes it seemed. i just went to the nearest piece of furniture and went underneath a table. but i don't know i don't have no idea what it has done to kathmandu, but there are so many buildings unsafe. we are hearing it would appear there 70 a full scale emergency going on on the nearest hospital to here. but certainly in the rural areas it's unmanageable what sort of situations they face there. in the mountainous areas near the end certainty of this latest quake because the buildings have had so much damage done to them

already. whole villages have been demolished. people are in some areas have just been venturing back to what is left of their buildings trying to make the most out of really badly damaged areas with some plastic sheeting if they can get ahold of it or whatever tin roofing they can get. but at this stage, a lot of panic is going on. a lot of controlled areas where people are just standing back and looking at buildings. there has also been an aftershock following on about 45 minutes of the main quake was felt. >> all right, andrew simmonds, live for us there in at man due thanks for that. iran says it backs a truce in yemen. this is significant because the saudis have asksed for a ceasefire to begin in generally around 20 g.m. it.

thegmt. the they called for a immediate sues fear. >> translator: any ceasefire and any halt on the military operations is supported by iran to help the victims of this war which are innocent children and women. this ceasefire must turn in to a permanent ceasefire and talks to form an inclusive government should be immediately resumed. >> meanwhile an iranian ship is on its way to yemen packed with humanitarian aid workers and journalists as part of a humanitarian mission being carried out by the red crescent society and iran. more than 1400 people have died in yemen since the saudi-led air strikes have began in march. thousands of others are suffering because of a shortage of foot, water and fuel. the u.n. is urging all sides to stick to the proposed ceasefire to allow desperately-needed aid in. erica wood has more. ♪

>> reporter: much-needed surprise being distributed to displaced families at a camp in central yemen. they have abandoned their homes and left behind everything they owned to seek safety from the fighting. >> translator: we and the leaders committee started distributing aid to displaced families. when we manage to get to all the families we will complete our campaign and distribute even more aid. >> reporter: the hand outs are oil, bagsal wheat tea and sugar. >> translator: before we arrived here we were engaged in fees battles with houthi fighters. we had to take our families and take shelter in these tents here. the families a are a phrase of the houthis we left everything behind but now we are shoverring from the water shortage and lack of basic necessities. >> reporter: further south in the port city of aden people beg for help as they line up for their daily ration of drinking water. oh, people of good faith. owe people of the world, we are

living under siege surrounded by these houthis no water no electricity the sewage is overflowing our children's bellies are swollen and we have no medicine, we have nothing. >> translator: we hope that our brothers in charge of relief rush to aid our citizens. what we look is aid and relief. >> reporter: the constant bombardment of the capital sanaa has left many homeless. mohamed and his family have been living in a sewer drain since their home was destroyed two weeks ago. >> translator: interim underground, the environment is bad but it's safe tore stay here than on the ground during the air strikes. >> reporter: yellen was already one of the world's most immaterialimpoverished nations but after six weeks of fighting people are even more desperate. they are hoping the ceasefire due to start later on tuesday will hold long enough to get them the help they so badly

need. erica wood, al jazerra. there is no end to the fighting as air strikes continue and the houthi as tack saudi territory. saudi arabia has moved tanks and armored vehicles towards the front close to the city. those en reinforcements were sends after the houthi as tack with artillery shells and rockets fired from generally reportedly two people were killed. air strikes continued on monday across yemen in sanaa aidan and t.a.i.z. targeting training camps. migrants stranded at sea and at risk of death. the indonesian an may have navy says it he directedded a packed boat with migrants back after they game them food and water.

a thousand from me an bang and bang losbangladesh including dozen of children. >> reporter: i am standing outside the shooting range and this is where the thousand odd migrants rohingya migrants as well as bangladesh bangladeshis being kept. we are not allowed beyond this point with you we spoke to the police chief earlier and economy firmed some 1,158 people are being held here, that the vast majority of them of bangladeshis. around 672. there are migrants from myanmar and there are 486 of them and among them are women and children over 100 women and over 60 children. they were in a very poor state when they arrived on the shores. they were suffering from dehydration, as well as hunger and we have been told that they have been given access to medical aid, as well as food and

water. now, the police say they are investigating currently the circumstances of how these people arrived what they can tell us is that they believe the captain of the three boats that the migrants were on as well as the other traffickers had managed to escape on another vessel and had left the migrants to their own devices to make it to shore. the police say they have handed over respond for these people to the immigration department and they have not been able to confirm for us what they plan to do with them. the european union has appealed to the u.n. for help to deal with people smuggling. it is seek a mandate allowing military action to detroit smugglers' boats in libyan waters. 10s of thousands of people have crossed from libya to europe already this year, addressing the u.n. security council the even u.'s foreign policy chief admitted that europe has been slow to act.

>> 2015. look even worse than the previous year in 2,143,000 flee hundred my grant died trying to enter the european by sea. which means three out of four people perished bow crossing died in the mediterranean see three out of four. we must prevent further loss of life in sea. we believe in the european union that this is a responsibility that we all share not only as europeans, but also globally. kristen saloomey has more on that question from new york. >> reporter: frederica outlined the even u.'s plan to address the migrant crisis which includes allowing more legal pass ways in to europe. and dealing with the root causes of the problem issued by poverty driving people away from

their homelands. the main issue that she has before the u.n. security council is winning support for a military component to the even u.'seu'splan and that is searching and stopping and destroying boats coming from libya and this could include working in libya's territorial waters and also on the coastline of libya something that libya says it is not on board with. the foreign policy chief made her case mowing that she had to have a comprehensive plan in order to win the support of the security council russia has says, for example that destroying vessels in libya may be a step too far. there are many issues that still need to be worked out but the consensus seems to be that something has to be done on the part of the international community to address this crisis. and they are working on a resolution that they hope to circulate in the coming days. still ahead on al jazerra we'll have more on that new earthquake to hit nepal, we'll

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buildings and felt as far away as the indian capital new delhi. iran has called to put down arms arms. significant base the saudis asked for a ceasefire to begin this evening around 20 gmt. returning to the stop story the breaking news out of that nepal. bill frye is a size knowledges in new zealand and joins us online. thank you for being with us. often with a quake of this magnitude happens there are several tremors that happened. that's what happened with the first quake, is it a surprise that i been followed by a bigger earthquake of a similar magnitude? >> yes. you are right whenever you get an earthquake we typically have

a higher likelihood of earthquakes and aftershock but they are usually slower and smaller than for sure the main shock, but in this characters it's quite large approaching the same magnitude of the main shock. the big miss concepts is that whenever an earthquake happens you are relieving stress in the ground. what is actually happening is you are changing or redistributing the stress to other faults in the region so then you get an earthquake some faults are more likely to fill in another earthquake. unfortunately, for this case, the large fault that ruptured tonight was -- is probably encouraged to fell by the previous we 7.8. >> unfortunate indeed. there is still quite a lot we don't know about the extent of the damage that this particular quake has done. but as we said, it only comes less than a month after the first earthquake and the country is still reeling from the damage

to that one. how is the country going to recover from this? particularly what sort of damage is a quake likely to do to an area already severely damaged from the previous quake? >> sure. fortunately this earthquake was quite far way from the original one. the buildings that were most severely damaged or compromised from the first earthquake probably didn't see the strongest shaking in this one. so that's a little bit of good news. but the reality is that a lot of those buildings as you said have been compromised originally and probably suffered a lot of damage from this. the aftershocks will continue in the coming weeks and months so the process of getting them rebuilt will not be a quick one. >> good to speak with you bill frye talking to us there from wellington, thanks for your time. as we said, it's been two weeks since that devastating

quake struck nepal, in addition to saving lives there is also a major attempt to rescue the country's cultural heritage. andrew simmons traveled to witness it first hand. >> reporter: there is a different tempo to the relief operation now, more than two weeks after the earthquake. instead of attempting to save lives this, painstaking work is about trying to rescue ancient tradition. the temple dates back to the fifth century and within it lies treasure. but modern day social media is spreading stories of wrongdoing. and so another part of this country's rich heritage lies destroyed, along with many other icons there are myths associated with it. not only that, rumors circulating now that jewelry associated with the deity is missing. a priceless julienne crusted vest is said to be stolen along with other items but that's firmly denied by local officials, who say it will all eventually be recovered.

the earthquake struck soon after the start of one of the most important festivals of the kathmandu valley. this chariot had left the temple and was being culled along by volunteers as part of an ancient ritual symbolizing snakes being dragged back to the valley ending a drought. the legend i was all the credit to a rain god. the deity is in the chariot. along with this priest who has to stay on board. tragically, a nearby building that collapsed as the quake struck belongings to him. his father and his aunt were killed in it. even so, he's unfazed at having to stay in the chariot. >> translator: you can't call it a bad owen. earthquakes happen in other countries. it's a natural disaster. >> reporter: back at the temple. some people aren't reassured by his words. >> translator: we are cursed. this is a hard thing for us. >> translator: it has to be a bad men.

a bad moan maybe the gods are angry. it shouldn't have happened. >> a lot of people are spooked and scared. >> reporter: this conservationist believes superstitions have to be put to 11 side for. >> for some like us who have the heritage of this valley we have to get up and start running it again. >> reporter: no sooner has he spoken than the rain comes. despite tradition, it doesn't signal a restart of the festival. no one is sure when that will happen. andrew simmons, al jazerra nepal. to burundi now where heavy gunfire has been reported at thatat aprotest in the capital. witnesses say police were firing tear gas at demonstrators were who were throwing stones unclear who fired the shot. weeks of violent protest in burundi against the president's bid to run for a third team. opponents say his decision to run again violates the peace deal that ended the civil war in 2005. u.s. secretary of state john

kerry has arrived in russia to meet president vladimir putin in the resort city of sochi. it is his first visit there since the start of ukraine crisis, let's go live now to rory challands in sochi. rory what are you hearing now about what is expected to happen today? >> reporter: kerry has arrived his plane landed roughly 20, 30 minutes ago. and we have had confirmation finally from the kremlin that there is going to be a meeting between john kerry and vladimir putin later on today. so all systems go. john kerry will get a brief bit of freshening up time after a long flight over from the united states. and then what we are going to see first of all is some sort of wreath laying ceremony at the second world war memorial. recognize the united states did not send a high level representative, someone from the obama administration to russia's

victory day celebrations last weekend. then kerry and lavrov are going to be going in to a two-hour meeting. and they will be in there for about two howard after that that's when beget the big one the meeting between kerry and putin at vladimir putin's private sochi residence which is somewhere nestled in the trees behind me towards the black sea. what will they be talking about? three big issues of contemporary gio politics all different different levels of u.s. russian cooperation. >> rory challands reporting live from sochi, thanks for that. the u.s. says saudi arabia's king has expressed regret for not being able to attends a summit of gulf leaders hosted by the u.s. the son will be attending instead. the king of ba bahrain has did he

complained also. the white house dismiss the suggestions that the king's absence from the sum sit a diplomatic snub. >> there has been no concern raised by our saudi partners. either before the change in travel plans or after. related to the agenda at camp david. so i know that there a have been some speculation that this change in travel plans was an attempt to send a message to the united states. if so, that message was not received. because all the feedback that we have received from the saudis has been positive. >> reporter: this is pretty unusual the white house never announces the that people will be attending a summit or meeting with the president unless they are fairly confident they'll actually show up. the white house is saying that the king of saudi arabia agreed to that's why they announce first degree on friday not only would he be at the summit but with velshi one on one time with the president here at the white

house this coming wednesday what changed? saudi officials say the king decided to stay in saudi arabia because that will happen during the humanitarian pause in yemen. behind the scenes analysts are saying it's a snub. the press secretary says he was asked so many questions about it that snub is the word of the day at the white house the white house is down playing what seems to be a pretty serious diplomatic spat saying the right people will be at the table when they announce new initiative on his defense security. greece's government says it will face a cash crisis within two weeks if it can't agree a deal with intimate intimate national intimate international lenders of they have been meeting in brussels to discuss the debt crisis, jonah hull reports. >> reporter: it promises to be a long tense sumner greece. the protests are so small now but they could grow bigger if the new left wing government is forced by its international lenders to extra mice on austerity. in return for much-needed bailout funds.

in brussels talks with the other euro zone countries are progressing to unlock billions in aid for greece, but there is skepticism still about a new economic plan offered by athens. >> some important issues have now been discussed in-depth. but more time is needed to bridge the remaining gaps. >> we have a joint interest with the greek authorities to get that agreement as quickly as possible. there are some time constraints there are liquidity constraints but hopefully we reach reach an agreement before time or money runs out. >> reporter: so greece must wait longer and try harder to get it's hands on a much-needed 8 billion-dollar slice of aid. but there isn't much time. the existing bailout program expires at the end of june and in the men time with few other sources of revenue available the government in athens must pay public sector salaries and mentionspensions and also billions

of loan repayments that fall due over the course of the next few months, greece is under immense pressure to reach a deal. >> our red lines are there, they are such at that there is common ground, what. >> what is the time frame now? >> the next few weeks i think. >> reporter: the government says it will stick to its red lines on lake reforms labor reforms and pensions. no plan-b. the problem is keeping that promise it could cost the government and greece the ultimate price brung is a and the exit from the euro. jonah hull, al jazerra brussels. a painting by pablo picasso has smashed the world record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction $179 million is the price paid for the masterpiece women of al jeers. that's $37 million more than the previous record.

john terrett has more on who is willing to pay so much for a pricey painting. >> welcome to this evening looking forward to the past auction. christy's auction house in rockefeller plaza in new york. the much talked about picasso painting women of algiers part of a unique sale combining impressionism, modernism post war and contemporary art. to. >> 22 million, $24 million. >> reporter: the bidding is fast and furious. another one. >> i am selling it here 78 for the record books. >> most of the young collectors who have become billionaire are not collectors in the traditional session, working studs inning, looking at art. >> 110 115. >> these collectors tend to be immaterial pulling shopping. >> reporter: what what is that by the way, is that a woman? >> it could be a woman or a bird bird. >> reporter: nothing like teasing an art dealer, that's

okay he has heard it all but he remembers a disk time. >> most my collectors were lawyers and doctors professional people that made a good living. we didn't have hedge funds in 19 kwr5eu6789 accord to1980s. >> reporter: they are now i didn't think billionaires from silicon valley, russia, china middle east seeking a good return on their investments. >> when you have people worth let's say a billion dollars or more whether they pay 1 million or 5 million or 10 10 million it's not a major part of their investment 79 the picasso wasn't the only big sale the christy's. multiple works of hard south southern byes has auctions also. this one is estimated at 40 or $60 million. isn't it a blue square on a yellow background that's michael who must be thinking who is this

man. >> it's a 1954 monumental -- >> reporter: he says because buyers are psych good investment doesn't mean they don't appreciate the art. >> i think that you can do both. i think that a lot of art today has tremendous asset potential. >> reporter: but buyer beware, especially if you are seek to go pop up your portfolio of stocks and shares. >> we saw what end in 2007, two that up eight. if there is a meltdown these works of art will go down considerably. >> reporter: no sign that have yesterday. >> peu cass so selling it here at christy's 116 midst. >> reporter: john terrett, al jazerra, new york. now that picasso wasn't the only record-breaking sale a bronze statue say new record for the world's most expensive sculpture sold at auction pointsing man by swiss artist

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