that time we did not even imagine that it will go to the extent that it will really spread and people will themselves to start doing lot of things also by us i mean from the suburb of katmandu has also taken matters into her own hands she s building a larger house progress is slow because she always has to save up the money for the next step. but she s patient and determined. and she s no longer willing to accept discrimination for being a tallit. i could give any condor a wad of money people don t understand her other thing they think i m weak but i m not. i m strong enough to fight being treated like that if some in the community don t want to see it that way that s their problem i don t want to be treated like i m inferior to others i ll fight that however long it takes they are looking. for so by me and others it s a fight for dignity and respect and
and michaela pereira. good morning. welcome to your new day. it s tuesday may 12th 6:00 in the east. we begin with breaking news. another major earthquake hitting nepal near mt. everest and the china border. this is the moment the 7.3 quake started shaking what s left of that city and surrounding areas. so you can see first images of chaos and confusion in the streets. this comes of course as nepal is still recovering from the other devastating earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people just two weeks ago. let s get right to cnn senior international correspondent ivan watson in hong kong. what do we know ivan? reporter: good morning. it s a tough day for nepal coming so soon after that previous terrible natural disaster. everybody we ve talked to said they were frightening moments after the 7.3 magnitude earthquake hit. our own producer outside of katmandu he was cleaning up debris from the previous earthquake when this earthquake hit. and he said he witnessed in
[ bleep ] [ bleep ]. you re looking at brand new video of the avalanche on mount everest. at of now,b three americans are dead and more than 100 are reportedly still missing. this is some of the video you can see. i think this is from one of the base camps. people go when you decide you re going to go up mt. everest, you go to a base camp for a month or five or six weeks so you can aclimate. that is one of those go pros as that shaker happened. you look at it and it s utter devastation. it s not like this hasn t happened before. in 1934 the city of katmandu was completely levelled and there you can see it this weekend, once again, everything that was there before is either completely destroyed or almost un reminiscent of that time there. it was the worst to hit the
seeing any efforts there, neighbors trying to help neighbors? reporter: yeah, everybody is trying to help everybody else. but the problem is the streets are narrow. and even walking is difficult. because most of those compound walls, you know, they have fallen down. so even walking is difficult. but, yes, everyone is trying to help everyone else. c.k. lal a columnist for the nepali times. and manesh shrestha, a journalist. a very strong 7.9 magnitude earthquake has hit the country of nepal, near the city of katmandu, a very densely populated area of a lot of older buildings, reports of fatalities and injury. we will continue to bring you the latest as the news continues right after this break.
the everest region. there were quite a few people at the ice fall area, though, we re tries to hear courts what took place if there were injuries if people are trapped or still trapped underneath the debris from the aftershocks of this earth wake. by the way, mt. everest, about 160 kilometers from the north-northeast of katmandu. that s in the mountains of the himalayas. you can see some of the images coming out of nepal. these are the first images there s quite a bit of, well, disray, across the streets with the building and infrastructure, especially with aftershocks ongoing across this region. this is just the best advice we can get for people tuning into cnn, thank you for listening, get away from large structures and buildings. if you cannot do so, get under