to would start to go to villages but many villagers have said they've seen many villagers have said they've seen no one. many villagers have said they've seen no one. and they have not even checked up on those places most affected, the epicentre of the earthquake. people from there said they have seen no officials. 50 earthquake. people from there said they have seen no officials. so the authorities struggling to cope with what has happened? authorities struggling to cope with what has happened ?|i authorities struggling to cope with what has happened? i think there are s0 what has happened? i think there are so many different forces, the military, aid agencies, the red crescent and there is no coordination between them. and even present rouhani went to the major cities affected today and said he promised that there would be blankets, food and water, something that should have happened from the early hours after the earthquake struck. that is why i think the focus of the government was on two major cities. most of the casualties came from there. but they have not putting any effort or enough effort

to search and rescue the villages in the mountainous regions. viewers can see the mountainous regions. viewers can see the official visit by the president that is going on, it went on earlier today, surrounded by media as you can imagine. while the authorities then are failing to coordinate the rescue effort, people are coordinate the rescue effort, people a re really coordinate the rescue effort, people are really suffering. absolutely. i talked to one gentleman on facebook and he said this is our village, he showed me the homes, 14 members of the village were killed, two people dying, no one had come to help them. he said they had been sleeping outside in the cold because the temperature drops of mike in this mountainous region and the freezing cold is too dangerous for those injured and four young children. and we are using the official figure of 460 people dead but there are fears that that figure could be much higher. even officials themselves

say they are afraid the number will rise significantly because there is a tradition in muslim countries when you have a death you want to bury them as soon as possible so some of those people get a certificate for death but many more people would not have waited for that, more than 1900 villages affected and some com pletely villages affected and some completely wiped out. so selling many people have been killed, possibly buried beneath their houses 01’ possibly buried beneath their houses or they may be did not wait for officials before burying them. so definitely the number would be much higher. and despite the lack of coordination of the rescue effort as you put it, the iranians must be used to having to deal with quakes like this? well iranians are no stranger to earthquakes, we've had a

number of deadly earthquakes. but what is surprising, the government should have been prepared to cope with the situation much better and coordinate with different agencies. but this earthquake is proven that they have not been fast enough. what we're hearing from the people on the ground and what we are seeing in the early hours, military personnel were there but they did not have enough ambulances or machines to remove the rubble. some people complained many soldiers were there but they did not have the right equipment. not even a torchlight to search for people possibly trapped beneath the buildings. on the second day they had some dogs sent in to search for the potential survivors. so a lot of criticism towards the government. thank you very much.

mps have begun debating detailed scrutiny of the government's plans for brexit. they have begun voting on various amendments. let's speak to our chief political correspondent, vicki young. these are the first of many boats. what are the mps voting on? there will be eight days of debate on this particular bill. to this week and then the other dates as we go along. this is the detailed line by line assessment of the eu withdrawal bill. the vote that they are doing now is plaid cymru, their amendment, what they want is for the bill only to go through if consent is given by the devolved legislatures. so the welsh assembly, the scottish parliament and northern ireland assembly when it is sitting, they would have to give consent before being allowed to repeal the 1972

european communities act. this whole bill is about transferring over all of the regulations and laws that have come from the eu for the past 40 or so years and put them into british law but is it morphs repealing the initial act of parliament but took the uk into the eu. so that is what this is all about, this first vote happening now. frank field, who kicked off the whole thing today, he was putting in a fixed date for brexit. at the end on the 30th of march 200019. he has decided not to push that to a vote at the knowing his own labour party would be opposing it. the government opposing it. so he probably realised there was no point in it. but that is not the end of that matter, there has been much debate about that today and it will come back at a later time because the government will be trying to get that brexit date themselves on the face of the bill. they could be under a lot of pressure on that because labour said

they will oppose it, some conservatives are unhappy. that is for another day. and this is a complicated bill that mps are scrutinising line by line. which will be the crunch vote when it comes to actually deciding what is important about the bill? well from the discussion today i think the one about the fixed date will be a problem. we had ken clarke, dominic grieve, others nodding along when they said there was no way they would accept this. they think it would accept this. they think it would box the government in too much and you need flexibility and possibly in 18 months' time, you never know, to extend the negotiations if the other eu countries all agreed that is possible. but they said if it is on the face of the bill you do not have that wriggle room. so several conservatives may oppose this at a later date. they need a lot of conservatives to rebel if there is to bea conservatives to rebel if there is to be a defeat because there are a

set number of people on the labour side were happy to go along with the government. so complicated business but that and the so—called henry viii powers, these powers that ministers say they need to get through all this work, but will also bea through all this work, but will also be a moment of controversy for the prime minister. what people do not know, if there were to be a government defeat, what then would happen but we're not there yet. many thanks. time now for a look at the weather. good evening, very misty and murky on wednesday morning especially across england and wales and possibly some thick fog patches for early morning commuters. in scotland i think early morning commuters. in scotland ithinka early morning commuters. in scotland i think a little bit clearer. so tomorrow a slow start of the day with grey skies and some of that

list and drizzle and generally reduced visibility continuing into the afternoon. but the best of the sunshine across scotland, the lake district, potentially wales but for the bulk of england and overcast day. and not much change into wednesday evening and then thursday a change in the way, things brightening up across most parts of the country as a cold front sweeps through the uk. you're watching beyond 100 days. downing street has no evidence that russia successfully meddled in the uk election, but that doesn't stop the prime ministerfrom slamming moscow, accusing the kremlin of threatening western democracies. theresa may makes her strongest attack yet, saying russia is weaponising information with the aim of sowing discord in the west. on the question of russian interference, the us attorney general suggests the trump campaign was so chaotic that he just doesn't remember what contacts there may have been with russian operatives. house speaker paul ryan is the latest republican to say roy moore should step down as a senate candidate

in alabama after multiple allegations of sexual abuse. also on the programme: from eu rules on health and safety to finance — mps debate a bill that aims to turn them into british law. this is the scene now in the house of commons.