regular people sort of people and there are groups that guard rescue corps to be. a law that if one does it making the score of the reasons that normally the business of iran are being met because they ran from calling me because there is an issue to the president not more than a doctorate reason but. i wonder in the country we should go to the airport moment is a mark of the. opportunity and a number of people is increasing of the moment caught because of the one. hundred thirty six people killed in the quick writes it is much bigger than we told louise. on the line from that don thank you very much for that update and i do apologize for the quality of that due to head on now to the u.s. president visit to the philippines and they've been clashes between police and demonstrators in central manila as the u.s. leader met his counterparts at a recent summit the security teams use water cannon on the demonstrators in the filipino capital protest is angry over visit they say it was than the human rights situation in the country away from the trans leaders took part in

pacific ocean three of those on board are still missing eight people were rescued a plane was flying from i remember from my marine corpsair station to the aircraft carrier ronald reagan which is on patrol in the philippine sea in japan. now a former u.s. olympic team doctor has been convicted of sexually abusing young girls and his cat laurie nasa worked for usa gymnastics that's the organization that prepares gym asked to compete in the olympics rob reynolds has the story. for years larry nasser was responsible for the care of most of the top gymnast in the united states in a michigan courtroom he pleaded guilty to charges of criminal sexual misconduct and admitted to using his position as team doctor to sexually abuse underage girls you molested seven girls ranging in age from under thirteen to fifteen you know all one hundred and twenty five women and girls reported that nassar assaulted. i was actually assaulted by larry certainly after my thirtieth birthday and it was a dark secret until i put the pieces together last september nassar worked at michigan state university and served as the usa a live picture mastic

iranians do have a significant amount of experience when it comes to rescue efforts they've sent the head of the iranian revolutionary guard corps to kermanshah to oversee operations that a priority will be people's safety also there is another problem one of the main gas plants that has been shut down for safety reasons and this is an area that gets very very cold at night so that's going to have a name pipes also going to have an impact on people's ability to cook food so it's likely that this crisis in iran will go on for a number of days while they try and get people back to their houses and trying all of the damage that has taken place so far and as you mentioned and as indeed shallots report mentioned iran is one of them a seismic seismically active parts of the world does this mean therefore that the iranians have got a very well developed rescue and search and rescue and emergency management team in place. that's right i mean they've been doing this for a very long time now they know exactly what they're doing but just to bring this back to the iraqi side of the border also the iraqis are. used to having something of thi

rescue efforts what's happening at the scene. where they're continuing in the iranian revolutionary guard corps is in charge of all of that and they're also working with local aid agencies such as the iranian red crescent they're getting in a lot of the field hospital some four field hospitals of already been set up some twenty helicopters are flying around the area in coordination with those rescue and recovery efforts and they've got heavy equipment and so they going in to try and find people that may well be still trapped under the rubble now president hassan rouhani has visited the area he landed in the province of carmen just a few hours ago he'll be visiting some of the most affected areas and this just goes to show you how seriously the iranians are taking this now this is one of the most seismically active regions in the world iranians are very used to dealing with quakes they've had a long history of dealing with quakes but a visit of this level goes to show you how seriously they're taking this particular one now what president rouhani has said is that he will every help that's needed to try to get everything back to normal

the head of the iranian revolutionary guard corps to kind of the to oversee operations they bring in emergency supplies very much at the moment it is rescue efforts to try and get as many people out of the affected areas as possible like i say it did take place on the iran iraq border but it seems that the earthquakes real impact was felt on the iranian side rather than iraq you saw it here on the iraqi side it was much more panic as people fled from buildings and moving on to the iraqi side where we actually believe the epicenter was very close to a large town national city of. salut you're right and what we're hearing is that promise to hide a body issued a statement on sunday night saying that he was speaking to all of the relevant authorities concerned he is very much trying to reassure iraqi citizens iraq's not really used to earthquakes of this level i have to say when it happened on sunday night i was in my hotel room and the building swayed from left to right for about a minute people were out on the streets they were talking about this very many people were incredibly concerned about what was going on because they're not used to

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