thank you. all jews iraq. with and for us. the race to save survivors after a devastating earthquake along the iraq iraq border more than four hundred thirty

people have died. now i'm fully back to bo this is al jazeera live from doha also ahead lebanon's prime minister saad hariri tweets that he will return home from saudi arabia in the coming days. work on a lot it's clear from the nature of the steps taken and the rhetoric used by the blockade in countries that they don't want to solution to the crisis. qatar's emir says they can be no compromise on his country's sovereignty as the saudi led economic blockade continues and shock and sadness in italy as the two thousand and six champions fail to qualify for next year's finals in russia. thank you for joining us a desperate search for survivors continues in iran where thousands of people are

spending a second day without shelter after a powerful earthquake struck near the border with iraq rescue workers have been digging through the rubble pulling out bodies an estimated seventy thousand people have been displaced after their homes collapsed in a magnitude seven point three quake iran's president hassan rouhani has traveled to kenya and shop province touring the worst affected areas. and isolated four hundred thirty people have died and more than seven thousand are injured. reports from darabont economy of the quake's epicenter in northern iraq. they won after sunday's earthquake on the iraq iran border and the community which frees their dead from the rubble the loudest sounds of morning come from iran's come onshore provinces more than three hundred of that that lived here thousands more were injured. i was under the rubble of a destroyed war it collapsed on my head infrastructure has been devastated so

medics improvise in a field iran's government has sent in twenty helicopters and created four field hospitals using trucks of medicine and buses to treat. those whose injuries were too severe or transferred to the capital to wrong there were no facility has no access to electricity no water in the seconds that the earthquake rolled through at nine eighteen on sunday night an estimated seventy thousand people became homeless iran is one of the most systemic and active countries in the world several major fault lines cross said. in iraq there are less common but this time the destruction across the border the corridor standard brenda hanna was also shaken by sunday's earthquake a few buildings have collapsed and many are badly damaged the government is warning people to stay away from them. when the earthquake hit i was lying in my bed

because i wasn't feeling well my son started shouting mom wake up there's an earthquake we all went to the corridor and you could see the house collapsing behind us and hear the sound of things falling. it's cleared many people are still under the rubble communities in iran and iraq are scramble. optimistically to find out. the building was flattened by the earthquake that struck yesterday it fell on 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 it's a divine act that no one can prevent severe losses. professionals have been brought in in ever to believe their work will see the death toll rise the area was already fragile economically and politically quick has broken their independence. the turkish red crescent has deployed fifty five cargo trucks of aid to kurdish how

the areas of iraq and iran tuesday has been declared a national day of mourning the true cost of the earthquake slowly becoming clear so you know i'm close although al-jazeera depp and northern iraq. and so we began director of the iranian red crescent society she says her teams have reach most of the affected areas and the priority now is sheltering people from the cult. the focus now on the actually emergency sheltering and food. but the and the solution of the food but the point is that because the wide areas reaching to the people it takes a little bit time so we are actually doing our best to accelerate this procedure and to send the items to all of the people we receive the items from our a starbucks from the sixteen provincial branches around the area in order just to

not to waste the time so that i can say that all the needed items are now deployed. to the. province it is which is the main province of that severely damaged. and i can say that. our people. they do their most. to reach the people in the in different religious. in other world news more than a week after lebanon's prime minister unexpectedly announced his resignation from saudi arabia saad hariri has tweeted he will return home from riyadh in the coming days he's also called for calm and says his family will be staying in saudi arabia and the tweet came soon after hariri met with the head of lebanon's maronite church in riyadh he. is the first lebanese official to visit the kingdom since harry we

resigned after the meeting he said he supported harry reid's reasons for resigning let's bring in dana holder from beirut dana let's start with this tweet from mary in which he says he will return soon to beirut any more details about when this will be. well really the picture is not any clearer saying that he will return to lebanon in the coming days without giving a specific date and also saying that my family is here in saudi arabia it's their second home and this is the real fear especially the foreign ministers brought under seal himself said that if he does not return with his family then we will consider his family in one way or another hostage is that the saudi arabian authorities will be using them as some sort of pressure card on assad on how to do so so i don't how do you say he's coming in the next few days not giving a specific date there has been a lot of concern really on the prime minister's wellbeing and his whereabouts and whether or not really he have the freedom of movement

a lot of questions in lebanon just two days ago he gave a live interview on his local channel but people were not convinced many lebanese fear that you know they were talking about how stressed he looked and that he was not speaking clearly so a lot of questions really on the fate of the resigned prime minister. what about this visit by the patriarch in saudi arabia what does this say and what's been the reaction in beirut to this. well this visit was scheduled before had to be announced his resignation over a week ago and there was a lot of debate on whether or not the picture of should travel to saudi arabia who does head the maronite church where they met away from the cameras how did he was able to meet the patriarch at his residence the patriarch did not have to go to see how did he but what's more important at this point is the european tour that is underway by the french for the lebanese foreign minister he's holding talks in

paris hoping to put pressure on saudi arabia to in the words of the lebanese authorities release the prime minister ok thank you very much for that xena's in a harder line for a scene in beirut. qatar's emir says his country's neighbors have no desire to end the gulf crisis shet i mean been hammered funny says the book eighteen countries underestimate the will of the contrary people saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain in egypt cut ties with qatar in june and imposed. more. qatar's leader remains defiant describing the blockade imposed as unfair and violating diplomatic norms checked i mean been hammered then he says qatar is willing to start talks but national sovereignty is a red line. as you are all aware has been subjected to an unjust and unlawful measures that violate all the values and norms established not only among

friendly countries but also among enemy by nature of the measures taken and the rhetoric and conduct adopted it has become evident that the blockading countries are not aiming for a solution or settlement it all started in june when saudi arabia the u.a.e. bihari in and egypt severed diplomatic ties with qatar and imposed a land sea and air blockade they accused qatar of promoting extremism accusations dismissed by the qatari leadership as fabricated lies kuwait and the u.s. are trying to heal the diplomatic aware of it but saudi arabia and its allies say the sanctions against qatar will only be lifted when qatar meets a list of thirteen demands including shutting down the al-jazeera media network closing a turkish military base and downgrading ties with iran. the five month crisis

continues but the m.e.'s says the blockade in countries underestimate the will of the qatari people here with her to the series of measures to break the embargo such are starting new shipping routes to ensure food supplies continue. qatar in the qataris are capable of thriving and progressing whether the siege ends or not we do not fear being boycotted by these countries we are far better off however vigilant is needed and they have not stopped that the blockade but continue to interfere with our domestic affairs the emea made his speech at the opening session of the parliamentary advisory body called the shura council for the first time appointed for women to the forty five member council last week they'll help draft laws approve the budget and monitor government performance the emir appoints one third of the council to third are elected plans for full elections to the

council have been delayed for the past nine years qatar's leader we to rater the gulf crisis won't deter his country from pursuing political and economic reforms. still ahead on al-jazeera one of the world's most dangerous walks to school children in yemen forced to cross ground with landmines. i'm reporting from austria on the return of the would know how architect turning back time on construction. the weather's looking pretty quiet across central and southern parts of china was a possibility maybe the odd shower there just in the far east of china will

southwest as well have to was high night again you could catch water to showers getting pushed in all that northeasterly wind and they're still very much in place as we go on through thursday hong kong on the other hand looking fine and dry temperatures here again getting up into the mid to high twenty's with the next few days in north easterly wind also affecting parts of south asia. of cloud we're looking at this little area this circulation which has developed in the back been goal for some time now and that has been producing some very heavy rain down towards andhra pradesh it's not a little further northwards easing up a towards west bengal very heavy rain coming in here with the risk of some flooding and. we go one day very heavy rain also pushing into the southern half of bangladesh to the south it does dry that a bit of cloud that towards carola and also into maybe the odd shabbat nothing much to speak of now sort of the showers across. here stays warm dry and sunny in the

way in is easing down so will feel pleasant here in doha where the top temperature thirty one. oh is it a listen when they're on line we were in hurricane winds full almost like thirty six hours these are the things that has to address or if you join us on set. but. this is a dialogue tweet us with hostile a.j. stream and one of your pitches might make the next show join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories the hunt for the search for survivors continues in iran where thousands of people are spending a second day without shelter after sunday's earthquake a national day of mourning is being held for the estimated four hundred thirty brilliance killed near the border with iraq more than a week after lebanon spry minister unexpectedly announced his resignation saad hariri has tweeted that he'll return home from saudi arabia in the coming days earlier tuesday harry met with the head of lebanon's maronite church in riyadh and the. countries have no desire to end a five month old gulf crisis and they're underestimating the will of the country people i mean been hammered all funny says is willing to start talks but it won't be dictated to or surrender sovereignty. syria more than sixty people have been

killed in airstrikes in a rebel held town in the north people say there were no fighters or weapons in the neighborhood targeted by russian or syrian jets the bombings happened as the leaders of turkey and russia discussed the syrian call. take us out of an job that has more from god. syria border. in the hands of dust and debris rescuers trying to make sense of what happened. here strikes leveled almost an entire block of homes. was a young boy is safe from the remains of his about but. not that i know how good this rescuer says there were three airstrikes by russian warplanes on the crowded market i thought of a city wiped helmet rescuers try to help the. majority of the casualties were children as is the case in many attacks. during the war

kids head all are home are children died our house is destroyed we lost everything so many are dead and injured there's so much damage in the area coming to see us last many relatives. and other children to search for the rescue workers and activists say dozens were killed and more than one hundred injured they continued late into the night to try and hear voices and dig out people who were buried alive the countryside of aleppo province is not part of the deescalation zones agreed by turkey and russia. the airstrikes happened almost simultaneously as president of the gun and putin met and as the door to voters for their satisfaction with the way things are going in syria. well initially abusive listeners will see the level of violence has definitely been reduced labor conditions are being created to push forward the syrian talks under the un. but that dialogue may seem strange to syrians continuing to pull bodies from the

rubble after it strikes. people from a tyrant say there were no fighters no weapons or even check post in the market that was destroyed by war planes all this as human rights advocates are reminding all warring sides that targeting civilians amounts to crimes against humanity is on a big job with al-jazeera. the united nations humanitarian coordinator in yemen is calling on the saudi led coalition to urgently open oh yeah many seaports because millions of people are facing famine aid groups want to send much needed supplies after the coalition said it was reopening some air and sea ports in the country saudi arabia impose a blockade on yemen a week ago after who fired a missile at riyadh's. now yemen is littered with landmines many of them planted deliberately to kill civilians burnet smith has that story. it's perhaps the most

dangerous walk to school in the world because every step these children in yemen take could be their last to get the class they must walk through a minefield. this school or what's left of it is in time a yemeni city that is one of the major front lines in the battle for control of yemen. it's been besieged for two and a half years by who's the forces loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh they planted the mines when they controlled this area. we're asking the your thirty's to remove these mines we've got so many students we can't control all of them and anyway they are so young and at the back of the school all the windows are shattered. much of the school was blown up by the who the fighters as they were pushed from this part of thais by a saudi led coalition that is supporting ousted president apt rubber mansell hardy the school teachers are trying to block pathways where they think there might be mines and the mining teams have made attempts to clean up the area but lots of

metal debora in the soil the mine detecting equipment didn't work effectively and there are still landmines in the school grounds the demining teams weren't able to detect them all because of all the rubble around here so asking the government and humanitarian organizations to lend a hand the mines pose a direct threat to the students' lives like in the after an estimated quarter of a million mines planted in yemen the government says one hundred thousand of them are in ties yemen banned their use in one thousand nine hundred eight but didn't destroy its stockpiles as required by international law in the last two years those mines have killed more than six hundred yemenis and maimed another thousand bernard smith al-jazeera. asean leaders in china have agreed to start drafting a new guidelines for the south china sea the philippines foreign ministry says the countries will negotiate a code of conduct over the long disputed territory for more than a decade leaders of the ten member bloc have struggled to reach

a deal with china which claims most of the strategic waterway china has graciously agreed. to. by itself to be agreement. over the right in space. and the use of the china sea. and its list of promise. and. we can use. myspace is now some news just into us from zimbabwe and the reuters news agency is reporting quoting eyewitnesses that they are tanks headed towards zimbabwe's capital on choosey according to witnesses a day after the head of the armed forces in zimbabwe said that the military would

intervene in who replaces president robert mugabe the warning came from the army chief who wants mugabe to stop a so-called purge of the party the zanu p.f. party leadership after he sat his deputy last week may believe that mugabe's wife grace mugabe is being primed for the position design and p.f. party youth league supports grace of god vienna suggest said it would stage an uprising against the army if it interferes with the government and we're just getting reports now that there are eyewitnesses saying that they've seen tanks headed toward zimbabwe's capital. harare will of course bring you more information on this as and when we have it earlier we spoke to george sharon who is a zimbabwe political analyst and he explained the complex to say succession situation is in bad ways facing. nobody is opals the idea of intergenerational politics in zimbabwe the question is what does this new mean and

i think the uncertainty invent the uncertainty people have both within and involved with is that they don't know how to be in the driving seat that's how the argument is playing itself out of course they kind of qualities around. but i don't think differently to do with those pathologies is to do with what this new younger generation thinks of its present and in its future and there lies the question about whether it is a bug driven by the national the unfinished business of the national liberation movement or just or they are just another neo liberal outfit and if you look at it that within you are be able to see what the law is the decision of myanmar's military is clear is silva committing any atrocities against iran having a minority in rakhine state running a refugee is accuse me and my security forces of massacres of rape and burning of villages by the military says it carried out its own investigation and has found no wrongdoing the army can't ban force more than six hundred thousand people to flee

to neighboring bangladesh. to afghanistan now and a survey has shown that four out of every ten people would leave afghanistan if they could and sixty percent think the country's going in the wrong direction foundation survey found attacks by the taliban and other groups are a major concern and so is unemployment as jennifer grass reports. in one of kabul's busiest neighborhoods men gather every morning looking for work out hussein he says he'll do anything carry bricks make cement help on a building site any general labor that will earn him up to five dollars a day he has nine family members to feed and often can't find work. i'm not the only unemployed man there are three to four hundred of us in the area on the best day only fifty to one hundred get work the rest of us a hopeless why should we do. saki says he's sixty six and by law should be retired

with a government pension instead he's here hoping for a job. i only work two or three days a week and even when i do get work sometimes they don't pay me what they have promised. the competition is tough potential employer wives the men crowd around here only a lucky few are chosen. it isn't just the poorly educated. like these men who find it hard to get a job in today's afghanistan the country's high unemployment rate of. society and contributes to the country's other major challenge lack of security high unemployment has cost escalating crime rates here in kabul and other city centers countryside poor job opportunities have contributed to record high opium production and cost some men to join opposition groups such as eisel or the taliban they can sometimes pay more than the afghan army. afghan businessmen.

employs about two hundred people here it is office and another few hundred on contracts while the high unemployment rate means he can pick the best workers for him personally it's a threat a number of afghan businessmen have been kidnapped or killed but there are so many important issues which are linked to the unemployment and the one effect is most security. least the security. security then affects us. one of his companies is a recruitment website the first one of its kind in kabul in seven years they found jobs for fifty thousand afghans another forty six thousand job seekers most highly educated are on the site now hoping to be chosen for the few hundred jobs currently available in concentration i have none of them we're having most of the people who are even there or you know having mastered the b. or they're having their better but that stand there and the like are there are still at home that's because there are dozens of universities churning out

thousands of graduates a year the job market can't keep up the government modernization is expected to offer opportunities for those with i.t. and computer experience but until government leaders are able to foster a more robust economy many unemployed afghans will have to get by as best they can jennifer glass to al-jazeera. after the first time in sixty years it's least football team has failed to qualify for the well the four time cup winners joining with sweden in a playoff it was a game they needed to win a goalkeeper john luigi before has also announced his retirement ending a twenty year international career. to him and. now we are all in tears this evening because we did our best and this will chase us forever it's incredible to lose and even now we're struggling to realize as delegates meet for the cop twenty three time at summit in germany much of the focus is on ways to implement the paris

climate accord and reduce greenhouse gas emissions the concrete jungles of the well cities are a big source of c o two emissions due in part of a construction but now some architects are reverting to one of the oldest swarms of building material which is cheaper faster and more sustainable reports from austria . and the austrians a little old they've been building houses out of wood for as long as anybody can remember. but now the global demand for tim the construction is soaring business is booming at the bin to hold so a mill every day twenty thousand trees go through the system that six million trees a year the scale of production is staggering. it's not the trained it to mainstream and i think that the mainstream arrives because we have to change worldwide back to the nature absolutely everyone is talking about green living.

much of the wood is compressed into products known as cross laminated timber or sea l.t. incredibly strong and durable and surprisingly fire resistant it is the material of choice of more and more architects around the world especially in the u.k. like this residential development in dalston in london it's faster to put up than traditional construction materials and five times lyta we don't tend to think of the carbon footprint of all buildings but concrete and steel production is actually responsible for up to eighty percent of global emissions trees on the other hand i can really suck in c o two and when the timber is used for construction where the cobbler remains the way. nearly all been to help him comes from within one hundred kilometer radius all sustainably produced air is a felled off the fifty or sixty years of growth and then tree regenerate. sorted by

size and quality the logs are huge into planks to be used around the world and for more local projects. architect thomas uses e.l.t. for many of his designs. or devices and that it's in the big advantage of it is that it presents new possibilities with the traditional way of building the carpenter creates in a three day plan and sends it to the sales a machine for the parts to be made then it's all put together like a puzzle on site at the sawmill anything that is not turned into timber is burned to supply district heating for nearby communities and electricity to the national grid there is next to no waste in the whole process the wooden age may not yet to overturned but mankind's original construction material is making a definitive comeback and the clock al-jazeera zillah tell austria.

well again i'm fairly bad to go with the headlines on al-jazeera the search for survivors continues in iran where thousands of people are spending a second day without shelter after sunday's earthquake and national day of mourning is being held for the estimated four hundred thirty iranians killed near the border with iraq more than a week after he suddenly resigned in riyadh lebanon's prime minister has said on twitter that he will return home from saudi arabia in the coming days earlier tuesday saad hariri met with the head of lebanon's maronite church in riyadh the emir of qatar says locating countries have no desire to end a five month old gulf crisis and they are underestimating the whale of a country people been hunted all funny says qatar is willing to start talks but he won't be dictated to or surrender its sovereignty. one i hope that.

i'm talking to you with all transparency we mean what we say when we say we are ready for agreements through dialogue based on mutual respect for sovereignty and shared commitments but on the other hand we know that the indications we receive say seach countries don't want to solution these countries with this attitude have opened a new stage in the relations between gulf countries we have benefited from this experience it brought out the best from this people we contributed to shaping its national identity and reinforced the national unity with the leadership. in syria airstrikes on a rebel held town in the north have killed at least sixty people a market in the town of out to rob was reportedly hits by three strikes the town is in the countryside ne aleppo and it's only in one of the so-called deescalation zones agreed between turkey russia and iran the united nations humanitarian coordinator in yemen is calling on the sound led coalition to urgently open all your many seaports because millions of people are facing famine aid groups want to

send much needed supplies after the coalition said it would start reopening some air and sea ports in yemen. leaders and china have agreed to start drafting a new guideline for the south china sea the philippines foreign ministry says the countries will negotiate a code of conduct over the disputed territory coming up next stay with. them for you. grabbing my waist trying to kiss me touch me with her hand touch my breasts. my arm grab me like a roughly grab.