violence and discrimination are all too familiar to many women in india a reality too often reinforced by bollywood. but its leading star is throwing his weight behind the cause. they believe to be her duty and using his celebrity to advocate for gender equality. the snake charmers comic con witness at this time on a. the search for survivors continues in iran for an earthquake has killed at least four

hundred people iran's president is expected to travel to the hardest hit area on tuesday. and all matters in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up saudi arabia says it will ease its blockade on yemen but the u.n. says the move doesn't go far enough. a possible breakthrough over the long disputed south china sea and china agreeing to negotiations and italy fails to qualify for next year's world cup its first absence from the football competition in sixteen years. iran has declared tuesday as an official day of mourning after an earthquake killed at least four hundred and thirteen people sunday's quake also left thousands homeless and injured the u.s.

geological survey puts the epicenter on the border between iran and iraq semi autonomous kurdish region most of the deaths reported so far are in iran's mountainous province the worst hit town appears to be south poles a hub on the iraqi side there are reports of extensive damage in the nearby town of . challenged ballots reports. this is the a.p. seem to have damage to sunday's earthquake on the iraq iran border. it's supposed. more than three hundred of. thousands were injured and i was under the rubble of a destroyed it collapsed on my head. the remote area is overwhelmed this is what's left of the only hospital in the county medics improvise in an open field iran's government has sent in twenty helicopters and created four field hospitals using

trucks of medicine and buses to treat the wounded those whose injuries were too severe were transferred to the capital tehran. there were no facility has no access to electricity or water i'm not i was in hospital for eighteen hours in this seconds that the earthquake rolled through at nine eighteen on sunday night and used to make should seventy thousand people became homeless iran is one of the most seismically active countries in the world several fault lines cross the country twenty six thousand people were killed in a single earthquake in two thousand and three. in iraq they are less common but this time the destruction cross the border. the building was flattened by the earthquake that struck yesterday at a fellow a seven member family we managed to rescue only five of them or the other two were killed it was the first time i've ever seen an earthquake so divine act that no one can prevent because of via losses it's believed that many people are still under

the rubble search and rescue dogs have been brought in and over to play their work will see the death toll rise. ada streaming in via air and rose the turkish red crescent deployed fifty five cargo trucks and one hundred staff to iraq on monday. so unless. we have to stop war in iraq president hassan rouhani will travel to the worst hit area of kermanshah on tuesday as a show of support and to oversee risky work the true cost of this earthquake still becoming clear charlotte dallas. what is and what actually is the research director of the national iranian american council says emergency responders do have experience dealing with the aftermath of earthquakes in the region but iran may still need help and you've seen long queues to donate blood you've seen a variety of people trying to donate everything from food to blankets to. clothing

and i think you're going to see even more of a robust government response in the coming days because quite frankly if you don't see that kind of response from the government then you're going to start to see increasing outrage from the people which is the last thing that the iranian government is going to want i do still think that we're assessing the damage but i would be personally surprised if you run didn't accept some kind of outside assistance whether it be from the red crescent or from friendly countries that have experience with disaster relief like japan for example so there's a precedent for it but precisely because geo political tensions with countries like the united states for example are extremely high perhaps it's a bit less likely that iran would accept any offer from the trump administration even though i personally believe those offers are are unlikely at least at the moment aid groups are preparing to send much needed supplies to yemen after saudi arabia said it will start opening some of the country's ports and airports saudi

imposed a blockade a week ago after who the rebels fired a missile at the u.n. is warning millions of people could die in the world's worst famine in decades unless the measures are lifted completely diplomatic editor james bays has more. saudi arabia has announced that aid is going to be allowed in but only to places that are controlled by its military coalition aid is not going to be allowed to ports and airports which are under who think control the problem with that is that eighty percent of yemen's food normally comes in through the data port and that is under who think control with regard to the u.n. their statements on this are very careful because of the political sensitivity but if you read between the lines what they're saying is this is too little too late. the ports that we need access to or the ones where the humanitarian needs are the greater sin that includes data and saif. seaports. obviously we

welcome the opening of other other ports but those are the ones that we need later in the same room saudi arabia's ambassador flanked by the ambassador of yemen and the deputy ambassador of the united arab emirates took questions from reporters they were asked why they were planning to lift the blockade selectively doesn't this lay you open to accusations of using starvation as a weapon of war no no far from it we are we are saying that we have had to take measures to control the safety and security of our country and we have taken these measures on a temporary basis and for a short and limited period of time we are lifting the siege in the areas where there is no threat of smuggling we are taking steps to improve the verification mechanism in the other areas and in the meantime we have not stopped the supply of humanitarian aid to all of you haven't from saudi arabia and from from elsewhere the saudi ambassador denied reports that the president of yemen president had he

was under house arrest in saudi arabia it's perhaps remarkable that moments later he was asked exactly the same question about saad hariri the prime minister of lebanon who resigned in riyadh last week and he was still in saudi arabia airstrikes in a market in a rebel held town in northern syria are reported to have killed at least sixty two people the syrian observatory for human rights says three strikes hit the countryside town of i thought arab near aleppo it's inside one of the deescalation zones agreed between turkey russia and iran it's not yet clear who is responsible for the strikes and the war in syria was on the agenda at a meeting between the russian and turkish presidents in sochi that dimia putin said their work on syria is producing concrete results and. tell you about one of the two agreed to focus on a political solution to the conflict. we have discussed the most recent developments in syria the deescalation zones have done

a lot to reduce violence in the region we have come to the same understanding that there is now sufficient grounds for resolution to really challenge has the latest from sochi. this was a curious sort of press conference in the topics which we had been led to believe was going to be the main discussion point here syria was actually talked about very little when the two men came out to meet the press afterwards of course they did discuss syria in the press conference so we can hear some of what putin had to say about it here now when you. of course we discussed the syrian issues in the background of the success of course you terrorism we decided we need to coordinate our efforts to ensure long term certainly to the situation we need to promote the process of a political outcome. the president the joint communique was approved to ensure the integrity and sovereignty of the country in syria person also pointed to the asked

on a process and its deescalation zones co-sponsored by russia turkey and iran as being responsible for a marked decrease in violence he wants to keep that going and also say that he should meet as often as they possibly can but mostly this press conference dealt with trade before the incident two years ago where turkey shot a russian war plane out of the sky over the turkey syria border these two countries have had a very productive trade relationship that was completely shattered by that incident and over the last few months they have been working towards getting that back on track again russia has been lifting the embargo put in place and getting frozen infrastructure projects like energy pipelines and nuclear reactors bringing those out of the chiller and getting them moving again we haven't quite got there

yet they said in this press conference but the relationship is almost back to where it was before. asin leaders and china have agreed to start talks in drafting a new guideline for the south china sea the philippine foreign ministry says the countries will negotiate an effective code of conduct over the long disputed territory but they've given no details on why in the talks will begin for more than a decade leaders of the ten member bloc of struggle to reach a deal with china which claims most of the strategic waterway called feed off is a fellow at the chicago console and global affairs he says beijing may use this new agreement to keep the u.s. out of future disputes over the south china sea all reaching agreement is going to be very difficult for china and i see on in part because of the consensus decision making process this means that essentially one country an aussie and can veto any agreement and because of that i think china is going to look to take advantage and been this agreement in their favor and i think in part you know you have donald

trump the u.s. president there in southeast asia and it was just a day or two ago where he said that he would be willing to negotiate or arbitrate some of these issues on the south china sea and then suddenly you have china coming in and reaching this agreement with asio on that this is something that they can work out with themselves. this looks like it's going to try to freeze out the united states that is probably china's intention and in doing so it may try to codify and legitimate some of the the island building that it's done it's taken steps to militarize some of those islands and it would certainly like to lock that in perhaps that is something that it can do with some of these agreements and that will probably be its aim. still ahead an al-jazeera. hero's welcome for the french president to one of the struggling suburbs but critics say he's anything but. the u.k. foreign secretary apologizes for his controversial comments about a british citizen jailed in iran.

through trying. and if. the weather's looking pretty quiet across central and southern parts of china over the next comes as a. damn whether some times perhaps they are just creeping into hong kong. a little further north as well why just. be fine and dry plenty of sunshine too went to taiwan and not see bad across parts of the philippines the west whether that's pushing through the south china seas heading towards central and southern areas of vietnam eventually we will see this play out pushing over towards southern parts of china but to see some rather wet weather coming in here in the next i'll say philippines brightening up behind manila thirty two celsius usual rash of showers there parts of southeast asia through malaysia down into indonesia there we

go with that clattering pushing into southern vietnam into cambodia as we go through wednesday some of. the way across thailand yet again and they stretch to across a good part of the goal so heavy rain coming into the southeast of india that is a little more cloud up towards the northwest pushing across northern parts of pakistan northern areas of india that will help to flush out pollution and small at least temporarily the heavy rain continues to the southeast. the weather sponsored by cat time ace. of the soul by the pakistani army to the americans and we got held in guantanamo bay the number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial and the people are that they were. ever talked to or screamed would be beaten again a quest for

a better life that ended in incarceration. for one tunnel no twenty two at this time on al jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour at least four hundred thirteen people have been killed by an earthquake near the iran iraq border about six thousand others have been injured the magnitude seven point three quake caused widespread damage in both countries aid groups are preparing to send much needed supplies to yemen up to saudi arabia said it will start reopening some of the country's ports and airports but the main the supply routes the port of call data but only reopen it once the

saudi led coalition is satisfied the hokies cannot use it to bring in weapons. leaders and china have agreed to start talks in drafting a new guideline for the south china sea that philippine foreign ministry says the countries will negotiate an effective code of conduct over the long disputed territory. the head of lebanon's modern i touch is visiting the saudi capital where he's expected to meet lebanese prime minister saad heidi last week a spokesman for patriarch the shot is said he received a positive response. from saudi arabia over a possible meeting between the two it's believed the patriarch will deliver a message to the kingdom that lebanon quote cannot handle conflict ideally announced his resignation more than a week ago from riyadh but he hasn't returned to lebanon prompting speculation that he's being held against his will but lebanon's president says he's happy to hear prime minister saad hariri will be returning to beirut and is considering taking

back his resignation really made those comments in an interview in riyadh on sunday the instability in lebanon has sparked fears of a wider conflict with israel paying particularly close attention ari fawcett reports from western roussillon israeli troops rehearse another war with hezbollah these exercises the largest in one thousand years took place in september two months on some are wondering whether lebanon's political crisis might set the stage for the real thing and it is because it's all going to have great concerns over the developments in the middle east the fact that the prime minister has fled to another country obviously looted destabilization in lebanon and there were already several areas of instability behind those fears and the extraordinary events of the last ten days which have seen the lebanese prime minister side hariri summoned to saudi arabia and announce his resignation and the leader of hezbollah accuse the saudis of declaring war the israeli media have been full of speculation about the intentions of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sandman one theory is that he's

trying to destabilize lebanon in order to spark a war in which israel would defeat hezbollah and deal a blow to their common enemy iran even if that theory were correct there's little sense among analysts here that israel would at the moment be willing to play along it will certainly be an enormous tested an early stage of the recent warming in relations between saudi arabia and israel. not least because since the last lebanon war in two thousand and six hezbollah soldiers have been battle hardened in syria and its missile arsenal has swelled in size range and destructive power on the israeli side defense minister avigdor lieberman has repeatedly this year promised that in any future conflict israel would seek a decisive clear victory all of which would risk a largescale conflict eleven years ago just because both sides have incentives not to go to war doesn't mean they're not going to go to war all it takes is one miscalculation of you know from one side that the other responds to you and then there's a response to the response and back and forth and all of

a sudden you're fighting a war that you didn't want i really gave a t.v. interview on sunday raising the prospect of his return to lebanon and even to office if he's uneasy partners in power hezbollah stopped intervening in the war in yemen is a sign at least of a potential deescalation in a crisis being watched intently from israel al-jazeera west jerusalem and social media blackout has been imposed in somaliland as votes are counted in its presidential election three candidates are in the running a member of the ruling party and two from the opposition these are the third elections since somalia declared independence in one thousand nine hundred ninety one from the rest of somalia french president emanuel has paid tribute to the one hundred thirty people killed when paris was hit by a series of attacks two years ago also and that's the front line of the band eagles of death metal they were performing at the concert hall where ninety people were killed ceremonies were held across paris and the other sites that were targeted the

only suspect who survived. has refused to talk to investigators. staying with friends is promising increased investment in jobs and education to help the struggling part housing projects but some residents say that six months into his term his policies favor the rich over the poor. reports. it was emanuel mccall's first visit as president to. one of paris's most troubled and well known suburbs and the welcome was it. was remote community leaders and local politicians unemployment is particularly high here and there are a few opportunities mike ross says he wants to revive towns like this giving tax breaks for investors and reducing cost sizes to mr president what message did you bring the need to dearly support the c g. i convey a very clear message of hope but not a naive one of the commitment of the whole nation. is trying to shake off its

reputation in france as a no go zone twelve years ago two teenagers were killed here by electrocution while hiding in a power substation off to being chased by police an incident which sparked three weeks of violence and revealed the depths of discrimination felt by so many there's been some improvements since then but people have been waiting for years for a metro line the would provide a desperately needed link to central paris. for the metro. the project because without it for young people studies training. is suffering. because you i'm really happy he came here to meet us and see what it's like there's no doubt the people here hope that a man or michael will keep is election campaign promise to help people in the suburbs but there are others who say he's already been in office for six months and

the social policies that he's so far have been more harmful than helpful. to towns like. they've been tax breaks for the great the poor has been hit with housing benefit cuts you could have been told to slash spending to help reduce france's deficit. there's a sense that he addresses the concerns of elites rather than ordinary people this visit is welcome it's symbolic but it needs to be about action words a fine but suburbs like ours need more than that past presidents have failed to fully address the concerns of people in the suburbs seeing them as a problem rather than as an opportunity it will be up to mark to prove that he's different. al-jazeera. the u.k. foreign secretary has apologized for causing distress to a british citizen jailed in iran and her family. that cliff is facing charges of spreading propaganda she says she was in the country to visit family but boris

johnson is accused of complicating the case about two weeks ago by saying she'd been there to teach journalism critics say the comments might have prompted iran to extend her prison sentence and i knowledge of the words are used. to be misinterpreted my apologize i apologize to me. and her family if i inadvertently cause them any further and the house should bear in mind. and no one else has chosen to separate this mother from her infant daughter i am reason is that even they find it difficult to explain or describe. continues to demand the release of a journalist mahmoud hussein who has been in a gypsy in prison since december the twentieth is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al-jazeera strongly deny lockwood has repeatedly

complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested in december while visiting his family. the kremlin funded t.v. channel r.t. america says it will comply with a demand by the us government to register as a foreign agent but that work says it will challenge the issue in court r.t. is previously known as russia today it says it presents the russian view on global events and cover stories ignored by western mainstream media reports from washington d.c. . r.t. has been broadcast around the world since two thousand and five initially calling itself russia today it says it presents an alternative view of the world away from western centric networks of politicians in the u.s. claim it traffics in conspiracy theories and works as a propaganda arm of the kremlin after being accused of influencing the last presidential election it's been forced to register as a foreign agent under a pre world war two a law that worked to block poor nazi propaganda channel will now have to file by

annual reports to the u.s. government and flag its backing from the russian was the suitable to me just imagine you work in media and you should sign anything you do with foreign agent or produced by a foreign agent how does it feel for any media for interviews that you do to be declared to the institutions and ministries like this can't be called working these conditions are aimed at destroying us as mass media the state department has said in the past that this will not impact on what broadcasts when the united states tells someone to register under a foreign agent requirement we don't see impacts or affect the ability of them to report news and information russia's embassy in the us says the order to register is an attack on press freedom one analyst says it's not government you know tor is a words have to register as foreign agents. things that don't that aren't even involved in politics so the notion that that this is some nefarious law that's

attempting to squelch alternative views or to to censor foreign governments and their abilities to reach out to the american public is absurd last month russian president vladimir putin wonder could be a midget response to the u.s. action. in this case we all do it only in kind and quite quickly as soon as we see steps to pressure media there will immediately be an answer. the russian parliament has already begun discussing legislation which would require for international broadcasters including the news channel c.n.n. to register as for need alan fischer washington sterling m.p.'s have been given three weeks to prove they're not also citizens of other countries following a crisis that's led to the government losing its majority in recent weeks m.p.'s from several parties have been forced to resign as a strenuous constitutional bans people holding deal nationality from sitting in parliament andrew thomas has more from seventy. this is australian prime minister

malcolm turnbull's attempt to put an end to all can only be described as the jewel citizenships song that is completely dominated australian politics for the last few weeks it was last month of course in australia's highest court threw out by even entertain us from parliament for being jewel citizens even though they claim they didn't realise they were the high court interpreted the constitution in a very strict way since then other m.p.'s are revealed that their parents or grandparents were born in other countries and have stood down from parliament because they also think that they might be citizens well malcolm turnbull is saying but every politician now but if some of the first half of the class where they were born where their parents born and where their grandparents were born and if any of those people were born outside of australia that politician has to prove that they have renounced any potential citizenship he is desperate the prime minister so you stop this dominate saying the political cycle into next year as well as the end of this for the first time in sixty years italy's football team have failed to qualify

for the world cup the four time cup winners drew near no with sweden in a qualifying playoff it was a game they had to win legendary goalkeeper general e.g. both announced his retirement ending a twenty year international career that included winning the two thousand and six world cup a judge has halted the controversial sale of two paintings by the american artist norman rockwell at the heart of the matter is whether a museum has the right to sell off works that were donated to it for safekeeping for generations to come kristen salumi has more. the works of norman rockwell provide a window into america's past smalltown twentieth century life whether it's after hours fun scene here at shuffled his barber shop or the bustle of blacksmith's boy these paintings were donated by the artist to the berkshire museum in the one nine hundred fifty s.

but the museum in the state of massachusetts where rockwell lived and worked for the last twenty five years of his life fell on hard times and decided to sell them my grandfather gave them to be viewed by the people the birchers probably in gratitude. to the director and to the museum i think the museum is losing its soul i think it's. you know it's very clear that it is a mission around science history an art and has decided to sell the art in order to invest in the other parts of the mission. norman rockwell's descendants aren't the only ones upset about it but the museums board which turned down our request for an interview says it's been losing a million dollars a year and needs to raise money to revamp its site to attract new visitors. a massachusetts court has delayed the sale after the family and the state attorney general's office sued the state argued the sale also opposed by the association of

art museum directors and the american alliance of museums may violate the museum's responsibility as a charitable trust are critically rosenbaum says the move would set a bad precedent allowing cash strapped institutions to potentially convert public treasures into liquid assets the metropolitan museum couldn't find the money for its expansion that it's planning to do but it didn't sell the rembrandts that's not the way to do it what you do is you pause you postpone make some cuts i mean laid off some people and you just wait until you can get the consensus and the donors support that you need or risk the sale of iconic works such as those of norman rockwell to private collectors where the american public won't get a chance to see them kristen salumi al-jazeera. this is these are the top stories at least four hundred thirteen people have been

killed by an earthquake near the iran iraq border about six thousand others were injured the magnitude seven point three quake caused widespread damage in both countries aid groups are preparing to send much needed supplies to yemen after saudi arabia said it will start reopening some of the country's ports and airports but the main supply route to the port of hard data will only real once the saudi led coalition is satisfied the who things cannot use it to bring in weapons. air strikes in a market in a rebel held town in northern syria are reported to have killed at least sixty two people the syrian observatory for human rights says three strikes hit the countryside town of auto debit near aleppo it's inside one of the deescalation zones agreed to between turkey russia and iran it's not yet clear who is responsible for the strikes the war in syria was on the agenda had a meeting between the russian and turkish presidents in sochi to me

a putin said their work on syria is producing concrete results and a broader one said the two agreed to focus on a political solution to the conflict. we have discussed the most recent developments in syria deescalation zones have done a lot to reduce violence in the region we have come to the same understanding that there is now sufficient grounds for resolution i say on leaders and china have agreed to start talks in drafting a new guideline for the south china sea the philippine foreign ministry says the countries will negotiate an effective code of conduct over the long disputed territory and french president emmanuel mccrone has paid tribute to the one hundred thirty people killed in the paris attacks two years ago he met the front man of the band eagles of death metal who were performing at the concert hall where ninety people were killed gunmen in suicide bombers attacked about

a clan as well as the national stadium bars and restaurants in them for the first time in sixty years italy's football team have failed to qualify for the world cup the four time cup winners drew nil nil with sweden in a qualifying play off it was a game they had to win those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story life and. is this a massive breach of privacy and indian government leaders want to find the world's largest biometric database and link more than a billion id calls with phones and bank accounts opponents of supreme court judges to say no.