a unesco world heritage site, faiz where you stand.so what going on behind you, what you see. >> reporter: well, this is just a small section of the square, one of the many heritage sites in this area, as you can see the rubble how bad it is. this is only a small faction. about a block on the other side there is a rescue could you operation going on there. officials have said quietly they don't expect to find anybody but the first 48 hours since the earthquake is crucial and the most likely time to find survivers, so they are giving it their best efforts. people are in a well struggle. it's a battle against the element. people are living in the square ex-they can't go inside because of the after short then the rain comes and they go inside and then another aftershock so they come back out. it's al jazerra actually really hot as well. it's really been a struggle. they are just doing whatever they can to cope with all the different circumstances and elements being thrown at them. >> what about any sort of rescue missions and the aid that

. >> we return to the capitol now faiz jamil waiting for us there.aiz i know you're going to tell us about something you saw earlier on, which contrasts with the terrible damage and suffering we have seen but let's save that for a couple of minutes. give me an idea of how well it seems to be going or not in kathmandu and what the rescuers are saying particularly about those people they are still managing to get out alive. >> reporter: 72 hours is usually the most likely time to find anyone left alive. the fact that they found two people alive today has been a big moral boost for people here. we are getting so much bad news so even a little bit makes a big difference here. in that goes to the credit of the people here they are very resilient. nepal isn't a wealthy country. 20% of its gdp will be needed for reconstruction. 3.6 million people in this country were without clean water before the earthquake took place. this is a country that is difficult to live in for many even before a disaster like this takes place. but some people are trying to get thi

. >>> live to faiz jamil in kathmandu.have heard some of the stories there, faiz and there are thousands of individual tails, but sometimes when you are in a place in -- in the way that you are, something stays with you, and i'm wondering what in particular in the last 24 hours or so has struck you? >> reporter: what has really struck me has been the -- really the tenacity of people just how much they endured. they are still outside days after the quake. they have received some tents, but as you saw, they are not getting what they need still to this day. but there are people trying to open stores trying to get on with their lives. it's hard to do when there's little phone connectivity and electricity electricity. but they are still trying to survive. tensions have boiled over. i did see -- you know there was clashes today. one was at one of these tent cities. they were demanding more relief and the police and armed police came and helped beat them back with batons. it became quite violent at one point. there was another cl

let's cross over to faiz jamil in the historic square in central kathmandu, as i mentioned there thedow must be closing on finding any survivors. bring us up to speed with the search through that rubble. >> reporter: well, that's right sammy. the window is closing. there was a search and rescue team from the netherlands here late last night. i spoke to them and they said they didn't believe anyone here was left alive. their sniffer dogs had gone around the whole area and none of them bark which i don't indicate this they found someone living underneath. we have a different scene this morning, if you take a look, these are locals going through the rubble right now. looking for survivors. yesterday this area was if you would off locals taking pictures. now they have coordinated entire efforts. they cordoned off the area, moved the public out and they and some self-defense personnel have joined them and are going through the rubble. they pulled out a body 40 minutes ago. now, as you said, this is the 72 hours, the most crucial time to find survivors. and even though international search

. >> reporter: i am faiz janel in mumbai where supporters say a new statewide ban onslaughterring bullsprotecting the animals. coming up we'll speak to others who say the ban is killing their livelihood. ♪ ♪ >>> thanks for being with us, there is a report from yemen more civilians have been killed in air strikes by the saudi-will he coalition. they are considering a russia proposal to allow a pause to allow in humanitarian aid. more than 500 people have been killed since the bombing campaign began. >> reporter: explosions lit the sky of sanaa. of the saudi-led co since strikes resumed on saturday night. the targets included a military base and other locations controlled by houthi rebels and troops loyal to former president saleh on the is al jazerra jay sent mountains. >> translator: we have continued to give lodge justice identical assistance to popular resistence in aden and local authorities. we can say the situation is relatively calm. >> reporter: but as fighting considers around the city of aden in the south the number of civilian casual adveritise continues to rise. hundreds have

how is the government responding to these concerns faiz?> reporter: well the government themselves today admitted when the disaster first struck they themselves didn't act fast enough. they did turn some aid away. now they are asking for more. they are saying they need more relief. they need neurologists orthopedic surgeons to come to the country. one of the big stumbling blocks has been the kathmandu airport itself. it only has one runway. and that makes it very hard for aid to come in. and that's one of the big issues as so much outpouring is coming in. the united states air force sent a c-17 globe master but just getting that into the country is the biggest hurdle so far. >> we know many have also been trying to leave the region. given that there is just one runway, are airports even departing for people to get out? >> reporter: they are. but it's a very slow process. if you go to the airport, there are thousands of people just camped out there, waiting, trying to get out. i've spoken to several foreigners here. one was an american coupl

on the line from new delhi our correspondent faiz jamil. did you feel it where you are faiz?reporter: yes, i was actually just at home when the tremors came through. a lot of people came out of their building, feeling a tremor in delhi is not uncommon, but it was rare enough that people take precautions and there are reports all throughout north india in the states that border nepal they felt it much more strongly delhi is about 100,000-kilometer ways from where the epicenter is said to have taken place, we were feeling the first tremor last aid good 20 seconds in about 10 minutes we felt another one, i felt one recently a lighter one as recently as about 205 minutes ago. so we are still feeling it here. there has been no reports of sear yeah damage on the indian side though, but that's a different story from the information coming out of nepal. >> forgive me, this is not common you were saying is that right for you to feel this sort of thing in new delhi? >> reporter: themmers have been known to hit delhi when there is some seismic activity here. it usually happens i would a

faiz jamil has more. >> reporter: people here have every right to be frustrated.here have been several days since the quake hit, and most of these people have not received enough relief. they have received a few tents. but that's all they received. there's little food little water, and water, shelter and medicines are in short supply. the undersaid yesterday 1.4 million people don't have enough food to eat. so they can't even move outside of the capitol to try to find loved ones and while they are here they don't have enough to eat. today we start three days of official mourning here in kathmandu, and the government has admitted that they did drop the ball after the earthquake first happened and now they are appealing to help not just for those buried but for these survivors. they are saying they need specialists from overseas anyone with trauma experience to come and help those people who have survived. >>> that's faiz jamil in kathmandu. >>> the global effort to help nepal is expanding today. two russian planes arrive at kathmandu's airport. russia delivering su

but as faiz jamil reports some of asking whether india can afford the program. >> reporter: he startedshe started work to go support her family. but never gave any thought for how she would support herself in retirement. >> translator: i didn't have any savings. i didn't know what a pension was until i started working here. >> reporter: her case sun usual. that's because she was able to invest in a private pension fund with the help of her employer. but for hundreds of millions of others in india's low-paying, unorganized job second, to financial security and retirement is often not possible. many low income earners rely on their children and families to support them in retirement. the government has announced its intention to launch a new pension initiative for these workers. it's not the first previous governments have tried to create similar programs. but fiscal experts warn the cost of running it successfully could significantly affect the national budget. others argue the last cost would come with a long-term benefit. >> it will keep the people participating in this pension scheme

. >> so faiz, we know that that aid is arriving. the bigelow just technical challenge is that it's simply too hard to get it to the people who need it in many cases. >> we still don't know the full scale of the devastation. we have these reports that the death toll is rising but we have not been able to get most of the communications to the effected areas near the epicenter. the fact is, judy, we have not been able to get enough aid to people here in the city. i walk around and i sill see tent cities everywhere that have popped up. mostly people have been sleeping out in the open. some how sleep in tents that have been donated. but if relief is not reaching people here in the capital of the country, you can only--one can only imagine how bad it is in places that have been cut off from all access. >> faiz jamil joining me live from kathmandu. thank you. >> saudi arabia's king has appointed his new crown prince making him next in line to rule. he's severing as prime minister. in mother big shift the saudi ambassador to the u.s. has be

faiz jamil, al jazerra. >>> a missile attack in egypt's sinai has killed three people. a town bordering garza in the sanaa region were hit. three were killed inside their homes. >>> a palestinian man who stabbed two soldiers has been shot debt. one of the israeli soldiers was critically hurt while the other was slightly injured before killing at tacker, it happened near the jewish settlement, it's the second knife tack in a week tagger targeting israeli soldiers. >>> the palestinian liberation organization is trying to secure the safe passage of palestinians caught in the fighting of the yarmouk refugees camp inside syria. eights week since isil fighters stormed the camp which was home to about 18,000 palestinians, em identity he is tie ab reports. >> reporter: for days, she has been searching the internet for news out of the yarmouk refugees camp. although she now lives in the occupied west bank city, she grew up in yarmouk and still considers it her home. showing me pictures posted on social media websites of badly-damaged streets. >> translator: it makes me so sad to

as faiz jamil reports once they arrive home the hardship is not over. >> reporter: they cannot forgete saw in yemen. all these people that had to leave were from the same neighborhood and saw the violence first hand. >> i was working in thei.c.u. and every day i saw injuries and dead and burned bodies coming in. the whole hospital was shaking from the bombings. we all stayed in a bomb shelter and were praying we didn't think we would make it out alive. >> reporter: she and her husband also made it out of yemen. >> i had to leave everything and come here. i have over $12,000 in loans. i don't know what to do now. if things get better in two or three months, we would both like to go back. >> reporter: but it's unlikely the couple will be able to return any time soon. the government of india still focused on removing its people from yemen. >> translator: whoever wants to come back we are helping them. we have evacuated people in large numbers and we are sending them back home through planes. and then we will scale down the operation. >> reporter: thousands of indians have return today wo

. >> faiz, do you get the impression that things are well coordinated? all the planes arriving at the airport, which is small anyway, is there a priority, i don't know maybe medicine, search and rescue over other things right now? what do you get the sense that the coordination isn't quite there? >> the coordination definitely is not there. when our team landed we could see that there were hundreds ever people landing mostly journalists and relief agencies. people were waiting for baggage. there was no coordination. no one to help coordinate anything. and then there were thousands of people trying to get out. tourists migrant workers. there were few officials there. there were not enough baggage handlers people waiting two hours sometimes just to get relief supplies to bring them here. people we've talked to today throughout the daytime they've been complaining they've had barely anything to eat or drink. they've onlien helped by locals basically the kindness of strangers. from the government they've gotten very little help or nothing at all. >> the late

and now that are asking for more aid, anyone with trauma experience to come into the country. >> faizhank you very much for the update. >>> well thousands of people are being forced to camp outdoors in nepal. they either have no homes left or are too scared of the after shocks. >> reporter: open and exposed, it's the safest place for many thousands across the capitol and the rest of nepal. while the threat of more after shocks remain no one is taking any chances. ten generations of this family have lived in this area for decades, 24 of them have been living here since saturday's quake. with only the clothes they were wearing and a few personal possessions, this is now their life. >> translator: i have to build this myself and borrow money doing it. no one has come to help us. no fresh water. no heat no toilets. this makes me angry. >> reporter: his wife is more direct. >> translator: no one from the government has come to see how we are coping in this pathetic condition. just across the road people have diarrhea we have all helpless. >> reporter: like many preparing the daily meal is

faiz jamil, al jazerra new delhi. >>> in south africa, aging power plants are having a detrimental effectle's health. the state-owned power company has been given five years to meet air quality standards. erica wood has more. >> reporter: this wind farm is south africa's newest show piece for renewable energy. the government says it wants 42% its lex are electricity to come from wind and solar power. more than three-quarters of the country's electricity needs come from stations fueled by coal. but those living nearby say they are getting sick from all the polluted air. >> translator: i am suffering from asthma. >> reporter: the environmental charity greenpeace says katrina's symptoms are common in this area, she dint have access to electricity but the district where she lives is home to 11 coal-powered stations and another is under construction. this region is built on coal mining and colborneing. as soon as you arrive in the area, there is a real noticeable difference in the air quality. in fact something researchers say it has some of the dirtiest air in the world. greenpeace says allow

. >>> let's cross over to faiz jamil in the historic square in central kathmandu hit by the earthquakeso is the u.n. there talking of eight mill i don't know people perhaps being impacted. gives us a sense of the scale of challenge that people are facing right now. >> reporter: well, yeah, the cold hard numbers sammy have been coming in the government saying the quake has killed 4,349 people so far. but the prime minister of nepal has warned the number could more than double. 8 million people have been affected by the earthquake accord to this you were as you have mentioned and water shill ter ands are in short supply of the u.n. goes right now 1.4 million people do not have enough food to eat. and as you can see the rain has come down now. it's another hardship to people. ever since this earthquake hit. people have been battling the elements. they come out living out in the open. even just behind me here in this area in the square, since the earthquake hit on saturday. rains come. people trying to find shelter but then aftershocks keep happening and people come out again, it's hot dur

faiz jamil has the latest. >> reporter: locals here have started taking the search and rescue on to themselvesthey were worrying that the rubble might still find down. and they did find one body. and some members from the nepal civil defense organization did come and join them. but the rains came. people went back for shelter. and now two international teams one from malaysia and one from germany have just come. and hundreds of disaster tourists have also come. and i have asked some of these people why are they here? and they say simply there's nothing else to do. shops and businesses schools are still closed. they want to see the damage and if there are survivors here. 72 hours is the window to find survivors, but that window has now passed. but search and rescue teams have started coming back to the area hoping to find one or two people who might be alive. >>> all of the climbers stranded on mount everest are now rescued. the earthquake triggered avalanches sending a wall of snow rocks and ice towards the camps. at least 18 climbers were killed. most of the camps were destroyed. >>> earlier

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faiz jamil visited people trying to bring some sense of normalcy to their lives. >> reporter: this hinduedding is takes place five days after the earthquake struck. many of the guests were sleeping outside in tents, so the wedding was canceled. the couple decided to go ahead with this scaled-down ceremony today. >> the reason why was we came here just for wedding, and even though we canceled the wedding, it won't change anything. so just to get things going, we decided to take this wedding. >> reporter: it has been anything but normal for those still sleeping outside, these tents really only provide a token protection from the cold at night. they are trying to move on but it's hard to do that when one can't even go home. >> translator: i would like to move on but i can't. i'm confused. how will i manage the expenses? it's very perplexing. >> reporter: the terrain making living here even on normal days. the fact that people can live through these conditions day after day is a credit to how resilient they really are. >>> activists are calling it justice for malala. several of the men who a

faiz jamil, new delhi. >> in pakistan many people in tribal areas rely on local coun sizzle known as jergas. in some cases, the guilty have to give their daughter away as compensation. as nicole johnston reports, some local leaders say this practice should be scrapped. >> reporter: makno is paying the price for her father's crime. when she was 5, he killed a man in their village during a dispute. a meeting of tribal leaders known as a jerga agreed that she would be handed over to the victim's family as compensation for the crime. >> i was struggling with my husband. was it her fault? you killed someone. not her. i told him, you should go. >> in the end, the father defied the council's order and kept his daughter. >> there was tremendous pressure from my wife and my daughter was just a child. i realized this was brutality towards her. >> makno is still afraid the victimes family will try to kidnap or kill her. campaigner manala says she supports the counsels as long as they don't violate the rights of girls. >> people don't want to admit that a girl who is ultimately going to go to an

let's bring in our correspondent faiz jamil who joining us from central kathmandu. hearing of a new avalanche north of kathmandu, and as many as 200 people missing. what more can you tell us about this? >> reporter: details are sketchy so far. this area itself has 200 people missing, as you said but we don't know if they are trekkers or villagers. that has been one of the big problems getting information outside of the capitol. but if these areas have been made inaccessible by mud slides and landslides and have been completely blocking roads. everything we know right now, the death toll the number of people affected this is mainly coming from estimates. anything outside of this area we're only getting bits and pieces of information. >> what about relief and recovery efforts, and also the aid getting into the country? is that getting better now? >> reporter: it is getting better. today actually we saw locals take the initiative. they were blocking off the roads to anow emergency crews and ambulances in. and we saw search and rescue meme -- teams from other countries.

. >> reporter: i am faiz jamil in india where diarrhea caused by the roto vie us kills thousands of childrenry year, especially in poor areas like this one coming up we'll look at a locally made cheap vaccine that's aiming to change that. >> al jazeera america international news. shining a light on the untold stories. >> believe in yourself and you'll get there. >> making the connections to the bigger picture. >> shouldn't you have been tougher? >> get the international news you need to know. al jazeera america. ♪ ♪ >>> the top stories on al jazerra. gunmen have stormed the university in kenya's northeast near its border with somalia. police say two guards were killed in the attackers are now hold up in student hostiles. the red cross says 32 people have been injured. saudi-led air strikes are forcing houthi rebels to pull back from the yemeni southern city of aden. the sought i-left coalition wants the rebels to vendor and for president hadi to be reinstated. >>> marathon talks over iran's nuclear future are continuing in switzerland two days past their deadline. france's foreign minister s

thank you faiz jamil in nepal. >> saudi arabia's king has appointed his heirs as part of a major shakep. the new if ground prince is king salmon's nephew making him next in line to rule. he'll serve as prime minister and interior minister. his son is now second in line to the throne as the new deputy crown prince. then the saudi ambassador to the u.s. foreign minister replacing saud al faisal. >> this is saudi arabia's new crown prince. principles mohammed bin naive. replaces his uncle in the new shuffle. the new crown prince has built strong ties with the u.s. when they were in charge with the fight against al-qaeda. but this is the man who is likely to play a crucial role in the future of the oil-rich kingdom. the king's son has been appointed as new deputy crown prince. mohammed serves also as minister of defense and chief of the royal court. shake outs in saudi arabia are closely monitored by the worlds. the country is the world's biggest oil produceer. >> previously there were questions about the succession go the issue of the first generation becoming very old all of them in thei

we are bring in faiz jamil in kathmandu. little thought of finding survivors, and anger among those that survived the earthquake. >> well there was a near riot at one of the bus terminals earlier the day. there weren't enough buses for people trying to leave kathmandu. we visited the main bus terminal. thousands are trying to get out. they have been trying to leave for days. they didn't feel safe in the area. they are worried about diseases - cholera diarrhoea, malaria malaria. they are going to areas in unaffected regions. it may take a day or two to get there. some travel up to 900km. there's a risk of aftershocks. now they have the ability to go and no relief comes in the city there's no point in staying here. >> thank you for that update >>> now, the world news. 12 houthi rebels have been killed in fighting with government forces. a local commander among those killed in a battle that took place in aden. street battles are reported across the southern provinces. >>> a saudi coalition bombed an airport. a plane ignored a w

faiz jamil visited people in and around kathmandu. >> reporter: this hindu wedding is taking place justive days after the earthquake struck. it was initially canceled because many of the guests were sleeping outside in tents. there's no open celebration here today. but the couple decided to go ahead with the skilled down ceremony today. >> we came here just for wedding, and even though we canceled the wedding, we [ inaudible ] so for us to get things going, we decided to hold this wedding. >> reporter: these tents really only provide token protection from the cold at night. they are trying to move on, but it's hard to do that when one can't even go home. >> translator: i would like to move on but i can't. i'm confused. how will i manage the expenses? that's very perplexing. >> reporter: the terrain makes living here easy even on normal days. but this is a credit to how resilient these people really are. >>> now to yemen. the yemeni government says backing from iran is giving the houthis an edge. and one official says there is now proof the iranians are on the ground. >> reporter: aden h