. >> rescue crews are searching for survivors through debris water and mud flooded the rod of bento rodriguez destroying more than 200 homes. residents say no alarms sounded to warn them of the dam breaks. >>> the iron site is owned by the world's largest mining company, bhp billeton. >>> citizens in myanmar, votes could finally put a democratic government in power after a generation of control by military leaders. al jazeera's scott heidler has more from yangon. >> with campaigning coming the a halt myanmar is now hours away from heading to the vote, a historic vote the whole world is watching. over the past two months, most of the cities have seen extensive voting. something the 50 million people here have not witnessed in a quarter of a century. especially the national league for democracy the party of the nobel laureate aung san suu kyi. the party boycott of the 2010 election a year before the transition to the current somewhat civilian government. but daw tontanu did participate as a founding member of the democracy party, one of 90 parties participating in this party's elections. her fa

this is bento rodriguez a small vivillage in southeastern brazi. people who live here can hardly believe what happened. >> translator: i heard ostrange noise and when i went out to see what it was, it looked like a volcano. i don't know how i managed to escape. i saw a lot of people running. >> translator: what passed through our house was worse than otsunami. everyone was shouting. families shouting. >> reporter: hundreds of people have been rescued. many are now sheltering in emergency accommodation like this person in the city of mariana. 12-year-old victor can't put the horror of his experience into words. his family spent the night in the forest waiting to be rescued the next morning. >> translator: i saw my grandson, my brother, i started screaming. it was really hard. i want to wake up from this nightmare. >> environmentalist groups are claiming that the flood has spread mercury and arsenic all along its path however the company is denying there is any toxic material in the area. >> it is important to state that the iron air spoils are inert

bento rodriguez, southern brazil. those who lived here hardly believe what happened. >> i went out and saw what looked like a volcano. i don't know how i survived. i saw other people running. >> what passed through our house was worse than a tsunami. hundreds were shouting, just shouting. >> emergency situation, like this gym in mariana. 12-year-old victor can't put the horror of his experience into words. the family hid out in the woods to wait to be discovered. >> environment groups are claiming that the flood is spread mercury and arsenic all along its path. however the company is denying there is any toxic contamination in the area. >> it's important to note that the fluid will spilled out of the dam is iron or smelt which is inert. >> the dam is operated by san marco. the company says a small earthquake may have caused the dams to burst. rescue teams are flying over the region but as every hour passes hopes that they'll find any more survivors are fating. al jazeera, ma mariana. >> president obama has rejected th

after two dams burst and hundreds of homes destroyed when a huge wall of mud hit the village of bento rodriguezsays up to 113,000 passengers had flights cancelled on monday because of strike action and carrier grounded 930 flight z as a week long walk out entered its third day and popular brand of noodles is back on sale in india after a five-month band and noodles ordered after the shelves after food experts reported dangerous levels of lead in samples and they proved the instant noodles are not a health hazard and we have more on the story. >> maggie noodles was a well selling product and could find it in small stores like this one through the country, in the southern tropical parts to up north and hill stations by the himalayas and it was cheap, about 20 cents a serving but in june the product was ban after government testing found higher than acceptable lead limits in several samples and led to the product being pulled from store shelves and many of the, whoers who made it to be laid off. and nestle india the company that made it took a hit to product and reputation and last month they foun