Earthquake which killed at least five hundred and thirty people. Hello im Barbara Starr youre watching aljazeera live from london also coming up on the program Zimbabwes Army chief puts the military on a collision course with mugabe after threatening to intervene over the president s party purge the yemeni children who have to walk through a minefield to get to whats left of their school in titans and me on mars military careers itself of committing atrocities against iran just in an investigation that Rights Groups have branded a whitewash. The iranian government is scrambling to get aid to the remote area devastated by sundays. Hour for the earthquake on the iran iraq border more than five hundred thirty people are known to have been killed almost all of them in iran but many victims have been buried without the authorities knowledge so the real figure could actually be much higher the number of people injured in the seven point three magnitude quake now stands at nearly eight thousand the quake destroyed more than Twelve Thousand homes leaving a staggering seventy thousand people homeless worst hit was the rainy and town of southwell is a hob were former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered the construction of many low Income Housing projects seen in casio glued reports now from the barn and near the quakes epicenter in northern iraq. Well you know they won after sundays earthquake on the iraq iran border and the community which frees their dead from the rubble the loudest sounds of morning come from irans come onshore province more than three hundred of the dead 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 irans government has sent in twenty helicopters and created four field hospitals using trucks of medicine and buses to treat divonne did those whose injuries were too severe were transferred to the capital to her on her neck there were no facility has no access to electricity or 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 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 record astounded brenda hanna was also shaken by sundays 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 wasnt feeling well my son started shouting mom wake up theres an earthquake we all went to the corridor and you could see the house collapsing behind us and hear the sound of things falling. Its played many people are still under the rubble communities in iran and iraq are scrambling optimistically to find out. How they came along the building was flattened by the earthquake that struck yesterday it fell in a seven member family we managed to rescue only five of them both the other two were killed it was the first time ive ever seen an earthquake its a divine act that no one can prevent because severe losses. Professionals have been brought in ever to believe their work will see to that all right 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. Aljazeera depp and northern iraq. Woman so whatever gary is the rector of International Operations of the Iranian Red Crescent Society she says her teams have reached most of the affected areas and the priority now is sheltering people the bitter cold 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 area is 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 receive the items from our a starbucks from the sixteen provincial branches around the areas 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. Four tanks have been seen on a road outside the zimbabwe and capital harare and witnesses also told the voters news agency two more tanks were parked beside the main road from harare to chinoy it follows a warning from the head of zimbabwes armed forces that the military may intervene if president Robert Mugabe did not stop purging members of his ruling Party Last Week mugabe sacked his Vice President a man who has close ties to the military many believe that mugabes wife grace is being primed for the position how the hawk star reports. Some regard it as a standoff between the old guard and the new on the one side a youth faction law to grace mugabe the wife of the long time president on the other some of those who fought for the countrys independence miniature leaders including general constantine chinwag a scene has been loyal to the ousted Vice President and defense minister. You cannot benefit from these one. With the former minister of defense and. The current page which is general chiwenga spoke to reporters twenty four hours warning the military will intervene if the targeting of former war fighters continues. On account of what is. In the party must be exposed and fished out. Zimbabwes military leadership is powerful but usually stay silent not this time. The general spoke out a week after his ally. Was sacked as Vice President and expelled from the ruling zanu p. F. Party its understood his ousting followed a route with the president s wife grace mugabe. When a gag was removal its been seen as boosting the first ladys leadership. The faction dispute and the ruling party is nothing new with the ailing president forced to publicly intervene last year when the g forty or generation forty section clashed with the war veterans within the zanu p. F. Fracture fracture. Shatter. Is the worlds oldest leader at ninety three years old having been in power for nearly forty years since secure in zimbabwe is independent throughout his time in office who is counted on support from the military the army has always maintained it would only support candidates to succeed him who food in the independence war. Is fifty two year old wife its not only. The latest is put him in a difficult position ahead of the zanu p. F. Conference next month. Lebanons absent Prime Minister has tweeted that he will return home from saudi arabia in the coming days saad hariri also called for calm and said his family would be staying in saudi. The head of lebanons Maronite Church in riyadh patriarch bashar rai is the first lebanese official to visit the kingdom since hariri unexpectedly announced his resignation there more than a week ago after the meeting he said he supported her reasons for resigning yemeni Officials Say the Saudi Led Coalition has bombed the airport in the capital sanaa which is controlled by the who the rebels there are conflicting reports about the extent of the damage the who these say the runway and ground navigation tower were damaged but the u. N. Says most of the airport is intact and can receive aid shipments once saudi arabia loosens its blockade of the country as it announced on monday. Earlier a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside a camp used by Security Forces in yemen at least six people were killed and several others injured in the attack that happened in the southern port city of aden i so have after claimed responsibility for it. The United Nations has called on the Saudi Led Coalition to open all sea ports in yemen to allow in food and other essentials James Mcgoldrick the u. N. Humanitarian coordinator for yemen says seven million yemenis already enduring what he calls famine like conditions but for other yemenis the danger is far more sinister the country is littered with landmines many of which were planted deliberately to kill civilians Bernard Smith has more. Its 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 whats left of it is in time a yemeni city that is one of the major front lines in the battle for control of yemen. Its been besieged for two and a half years by whos the forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh they planted the mines when they controlled this area. Were asking the your thirtys to remove these mines weve got so many students we cant 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 didnt work effectively nagaland ahead and there are still landmines in the School Grounds the demining teams werent 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 narcan 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 didnt 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 aljazeera. Human Rights Groups have filed the suit of the International Criminal court in the hague accusing armed groups in libya of war crimes and crimes against humanity the accusations are being made against forces loyal to renegade general. Have torres opposed to the un backed the government of National Accord in tripoli the i. C. C. Has already demanded have to our hands over one of his commanders mahmoud filey who is accused of war crimes or britain joins us live now from the hague so paul what exactly are the lawyers alleging. Well i mean the room where the news conferences and his daughter im the guy weve been listening to what that played out and its a preliminary investigative reports and because of that the contents of it remain largely confidential what the lawyers did say though that the allegations relate to two specific incidents two attacks that took place in two thousand and fourteen and another attack a third incident which took place early in two thousand and seventeen and the lawyers are being instructed by victims of those attacks and Civil Society groups and theyve also been gathering evidence on video and from analyzing the public speeches of those in commanding particular the renegade general Khalifa Haftar himself now unlike the previous case that you mentioned the commander whos already been wanted by the i. C. C. What the lawyers here have argued is that the command structure shows that responsibility goes to the very top to the renegade general after himself and they accept that although i have to has been to a certain extent feted and hosted and welcomed by certain western leaders im thinking specifically the french president manuel macron he was in paris just outside just outside paris in july meeting with. Both of them committed to a kind of peace deal the lawyers here dont put a lot of weight in what have to is saying they say that there should be no impunity for the kind of crimes that are taking place and we talk about murder crimes against humanity these are serious crimes what happens now though is the i. C. C. Has to decide whether the evidence has been presented is credible and whether it should filter into its larger investigation and the timetable for that could be a few months from now when with the latest from the hague paul thank you. And still to come in this half hour the u. S. Attorney general testifies in washington with his questions over his contacts with the russians during last years president ial campaign plus a shock and horror in italy is the National Football team failed to qualify for the world cup for the first time. The weathers looking pretty quiet across central and southern parts of china was a possibility maybe the odd shower there just into the far east to china down towards south west as well have to was high now again you could catch one or two showers getting pushed in all that northeasterly wind and theyre 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 twentys with the next few days in north easterly wind also affecting parts of south asia goal of this massive cloud were 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 deschutes not a little further northwards easing up a dish 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 to dry that a bit of cloud that towards kerala and also into maybe the odd shabbat nothing much to speak of now sort of the showers across the region potentially here stays warm dry and sunny in the way in is easing down so wolf will present here in doha where the top temperature thirty one. Short films of hope. And inspiration. A series of short possible stories that highlight the human triumph against the odds. I prepared for the four hundred people one you know here in the. City are prepared are computed a free copy for everybody one aljazeera selects at this time. Welcome back heres a reminder of the top stories on aljazeera thousands of iranians face another night of freezing temperatures after sundays powerful earthquake on the iran iraq border more than five hundred thirty people are known to have been killed almost all of them in iran four tanks have been spotted outside zimbabwes capital harare a day after the head of zimbabwes military rule into that the army may intervene if president mugabe doesnt stop purging members of his ruling party and yemeni Officials Say the Saudi Led Coalition has bombed the airport in the capital sanaa which is controlled by the who the rebels. May have more as military has cleared itself of committing any atrocities against the range a minority in iraq kind state ranger refugees accuse me and maher Security Forces of massacres rape and the burning of villages the claims have been backed by the un which describe the violence there as ethnic cleansing but the military says it carried out its own investigation and found no wrongdoing Rights Groups have dismissed it as a whitewash the Army Crackdown forced more than six. Hundred thousand people to flee to bangladesh has more now from the capital of me and. Released on the myanmar commander in chiefs Facebook Page late on monday the investigation an internal investigation carried out by the military here on its actions in the Rakhine State over the last couple of months has exonerated itself saying that those who carried out this operation this antiterrorist operation as they coined it in the western Rakhine State say that they had of themselves within the rules of engagement now this is was met by human rights activists around the world as a white washing of what took place over the last several months in Rakhine State that sent over six hundred thousand range into neighboring bangladesh now its interesting that they say you know detailed that they didnt carry out any killings murders of innocent civilians no rapes and no torching of villages again this goes directly against what i witness is have been saying in neighboring bangladesh those who have fled now itll be on wednesday Rex Tillerson the u. S. Secretary of state will be visiting here in april or the capital will be meeting with top military officials and already met on the sidelines of down in the philippines with song suchi the civilian leader of this nation Rex Tillerson tomorrow on wednesday with meeting with the military leaders will be interesting to hear what comes out of that if anything we really havent heard any schedule we havent been notified of any public statements to come out of those meetings well myanmars leader on sun suu kyi has come under enormous pressure from World Leaders over the range of prices at the summit in the philippines both kind of this Prime Minister just introduced and un secretary general and tony highlighted the plight of the refugees