Rebecca Kesby
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
Yeah, you mentioned the north there and hardly any aid has got there over the past few months, has it? What sort of conditions are you finding there?
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
So there are many challenges facing aid workers trying to bring in aid and also distributing that aid to pretty desperate people. One of the challenges, I guess, would be things like unexploded ordnance. Is that a concern you have for your workers?
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
But after the Boeing spacecraft they travelled on suffered technical problems, their mission was dramatically extended. Butch and Sonny embraced their time on the orbiting lab, carrying out an array of experiments and conducting spacewalks. But space takes a toll on the body, as Helen Sharman, Britain's first astronaut, explains.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
let's say, get back to normal. After emerging from the capsule with waves, big smiles and a thumbs up, Butch and Sunny will now be flown to the Johnson Space Centre in Houston for medical checks, before at long last being reunited with their friends and family. Rebecca Murrell.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
And what did you find?
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
And what was the technique that you used to make these discoveries?
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Fascinating. So you've done this through living humans, not fossils and digging up bones and that sort of thing.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
You've done this research using living people. Geographically, did you work out whether people are still living in the same sort of areas or whether there's been migrational moves or that sort of thing?
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
The moment NASA's Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams' epic mission came to an end. After making a fast and fiery re-entry through the Earth's atmosphere, their SpaceX capsule opened its parachutes to take it gently down into the ocean. Butch and Sonny arrived on the International Space Station last June and were only supposed to stay for just over a week.
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Trump calls Zelensky a 'dictator'
The best thing would be to use this process early on in an injury but could you also use it on an old injury?
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Trump calls Zelensky a 'dictator'
I mean, I know you've been doing this research in Ukraine where so many people have lost limbs and there's an urgent need for this kind of treatment there. But could it work with other pain management for things other than amputations, like simple back pain, things like that?
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First deaths as wildfires wreak havoc in LA
Could direct mechanical damage still be the main cause of Alzheimer's?
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First deaths as wildfires wreak havoc in LA
Some of this does sound quite frightening that we're all walking around with these viruses in our brain that could be triggered and cause Alzheimer's. But I suppose there is hope in all of this as well, because it means we understand the origins of that disease better. And I mean, is there a chance that you could even treat any potential viruses, say, after a head injury or something?
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Trump's threats to seize Greenland and Panama Canal
Goodness. OK. And so just tell us where you are on Everest, because I think you're on your own as well, aren't you?
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Trump's threats to seize Greenland and Panama Canal
Goodness. Were you worried that you would even be thrown off the ridge? I mean, it's not a very large area.
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Trump's threats to seize Greenland and Panama Canal
So just explain the shock waves. How long did that go on for and what was that like? And also you mentioned the avalanches, but I presume those are still a threat to you at the moment.
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Trump's threats to seize Greenland and Panama Canal
Well, that's very dangerous. I mean, you talk about ice, but the kind of ice, the impacted hard ice that would be there raining down on you could do you some serious injury.
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Trump's threats to seize Greenland and Panama Canal
I have to ask you this. It's incredibly dangerous what you do. Why do you do it?
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
The key countries that have been able to get rescue teams in quickly are China, Russia and India because they have maintained a relationship with the military government after it started.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
seized power in a coup four years ago also malaysian teams have been quite effective in some of the rescues very noticeably the myanmar military has been absent from from the rescue so i mean i lived in indonesia for many years covered lots of earthquakes there and the first to be deployed would always be the military in this case that has not happened
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
That's right. The Myanmar military, according to the United Nations, has made quite an outrageous decision. Amnesty International are putting out a very strong statement saying that with one hand you're asking for aid, with the other hand you're bombing. Because we have...
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
received reports again that the Myanmar military is carrying out ground offensives in Sagai region, which is the epicentre of the quake, and also carrying out aerial bombings in other parts of the country.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
So what we've heard from the National Unity Government, which is this ousted opposition group, they very quickly announced a ceasefire in the earthquake affected areas and I was speaking to a rebel leader that comes under them today and they were saying that they were coming under attack but he claims that they were not fighting back, that that ceasefire is holding and then today we've heard from the Three Brotherhood Alliance, which has been the most effective alliance of ethnic groups.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
They've defeated the military in huge areas of land up near the Chinese border. But they also have control over rebel groups around Mandalay. So their decision to have this month-long ceasefire is important because they control trade routes between China and Myanmar.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
But as you say, it's also politically important because it's a stark contrast, isn't it, to say, on one hand, we're stopping the ceasefire because this humanitarian disaster is so grave. We all need to be focusing on that. and on the other hand you have a Myanmar military continuing to bomb.
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BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
It isn't there, yeah, and I think very sadly we've passed that golden period after an earthquake where rescue workers typically believe that people can stay alive under the rubble. So while the focus moves away from the rescue, sadly perhaps... The focus now is on how do we keep those that survived it alive. Rebecca Henschke.
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
This year we've already been treated to several of the major planets in the night sky at the same time. And at the end of this week we'll have an even rarer treat when Mercury joins the planet parade, meaning all seven of the great planets will be visible in the night sky at the same time. Most of them actually even visible with the naked eye.
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
So you will want to go out shortly after sunset because Saturn, Mercury and Venus are all very close to the sun right now, while Jupiter and Mars are further to the east. And so to capture all of them in the short window I really recommend going out just after sunset.
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
We only see this kind of alignment once a decade or so, but to actually see them in this specific order there in the night sky is more like something that would happen every hundred years or so. Furthermore, we actually don't have the full moon, including our view of any of the planets at the end of the week, so we actually have a dark sky as well.
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
In most of the world we'll be able to see this, unless you're at the very, very furthest north latitudes, you'll be able to be treated to this show. Astronomer Rebecca Allen.
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
A rare spectacle in the night sky.
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Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
After more than nine months in space, a fond farewell, as Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams' mission finally comes to a close. Inside their SpaceX capsule, final preparations are underway for Butch and Sonny and two other crewmates who are sharing the ride home.
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Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
Butch and Sonny's mission began last June. Three, two, one, ignition.
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Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
But the spacecraft they were travelling on, made by Boeing, suffered technical problems and it was deemed too risky to bring them back to Earth. It meant their eight-day mission was dramatically extended.
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Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
The NASA pair have made the most of their stay, carrying out an array of experiments and going on a spacewalk, with Sunny breaking the record for the most hours spent outside of the space station. And there was even a chance to celebrate Christmas that they'd planned to have at home. So from all of us to all of you,
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Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
With a blast of the engines, the astronauts are on their way, hoping for a smooth ride and a gentle splashdown off the coast of Florida.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
So you using the word flip, I wonder if you could just explain what that actually means. And from what you're saying, then, is President Trump likely to be exposed? And why has his team allowed him to be in that position?
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
But doesn't Moscow owe Mr. Trump something? Because he has taken a lot of flack for speaking to Putin in the first place, something that Joe Biden never did directly. And, you know, Mr. Trump's been accused of giving away too many concessions of appeasement almost. He's really sort of gone out to try and extend the hand to Moscow, potentially, you know, risk to his own political reputation.
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China vows to fight US 'blackmail' over tariffs
The digital scan reveals the Titanic in its entirety, as if the ocean has drained away. The wreck's immense bow is sitting upright on the sea floor, but 600 metres away the stern is a heap of mangled metal, badly damaged after the ship split in two.
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China vows to fight US 'blackmail' over tariffs
The 3D replica has been studied in detail for a new National Geographic Atlantic Productions documentary, with particular interest in the boiler rooms. Eyewitness accounts from survivors said the lights of the ship were still on as it sank, and the scan tallies with this. Some of the huge boilers are bent inwards, suggesting they were running hot as they sank beneath the cold water.
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China vows to fight US 'blackmail' over tariffs
And elsewhere on the wreck, an open valve indicates that steam was still flowing to generate electricity. This would have been thanks to a team of engineers who stayed behind. All were lost, among the more than 1,500 who perished in the disaster. But their heroic actions saved many lives. Park Stevenson is a Titanic analyst.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
OK, I mean, you mentioned the polls and they are actually abysmal, aren't they, for the Liberal Party? The Conservatives are ahead by, well, at least 25 percent. Has Mr Trudeau actually left the the party hanging, left it too late?
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
So who do you think should replace him as leader of the Liberal Party and who would stand the best chance in the election?
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Senior Putin aide against temporary Ukraine ceasefire
It has been a bit of a saga, but it's not that unusual for rockets to be delayed. And it wasn't actually a problem with the rockets. It was a problem with the ground-based system that launches the rockets. So the launch was delayed. The NASA officials took the decision to do that. And it now looks like it's probably going to be rescheduled.
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Senior Putin aide against temporary Ukraine ceasefire
friday and late in the evening uk time when it goes up but as you say butch and sunny you know they were supposed to be on there for just over a week and they've been there for more than nine months already but actually a few more days isn't going to make much difference and once the rocket why it's important it's actually carrying the replacement crew for butch and sunny so when the astronauts the four astronauts who are going to eventually go up when they finally do arrive there'll be a brief handover and then
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Senior Putin aide against temporary Ukraine ceasefire
Butch and Sonny can come home. They can return to Earth. And that'll probably be on Wednesday if it goes up on Friday. But so many ifs. It's a movable feast.
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
Since the Myanmar military staged a coup, it's sort of been plunged into international isolation, but there's been three countries that have kept a fairly close relationship. with the military regime. That's India, China and Russia. And we are seeing those countries sending in aid that is starting to arrive.
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
They're also sending rescue teams that have had experience, particularly from China, with earthquakes. Although this is slow, you know, rescue workers talk about a golden period after an earthquake where you need to reach people that are trapped. Das ist das Gleiche, was wir von Anfang an gehört haben, dass sie immer noch Leute mit ihren Händen ausüben und sie nicht so schweres Equipment bekommen.
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
dass sie versuchen müssen, große Teile von Rubbeln zu bewegen, um wirklich Menschen zu retten. Und wir bekommen jetzt mehr Berichte von einem ganzen Monasterium, das mit vielen Mönchen, die unter dem Rubbeln ein wichtiges Examen machen, kollapsiert. Mehr und mehr Berichte von der Anzahl der Menschen,
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
That's right. I mean, the United Nations has called this outrageous, an incredible situation to have people Vielen Dank. Their forces will implement a two-week pause in the fighting. So their forces are the people's defense forces. They're a network of civilian militia groups. And they're saying this pause will be in earthquake-affected areas starting March the 30th.
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
And it will take place except for defensive actions. And they say that they're doing that in order for those militia groups to concentrate on the relief and rescue work. And what have you heard from the rebel-held areas? So that's also a key issue here. The National Unity Government, which is the opposition government, they're in exile.
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
So they are saying that they're trying to coordinate relief, they're trying to get funds. But on the ground, it's a real patchwork of resistance groups. They're all united with one goal of overthrowing the military. But it's not one united group. Ich glaube, das ist das, was wir hier sehen. Sie können nicht wirklich aufstehen und effektiv über das Land sein. Es ist mehr ein sehr grassroots-Level.
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
Sie bekommen ihre Kräfte, um Leute aus dem Rubbel zu holen. Aber wir sehen nicht, dass sie es können, den Gap zu füllen, den das Militär verlässt.
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
Unsere Berichterin Rebecca Henschke hat uns mehr über die Rettungsaufgaben in Myanmar erzählt. We are seeing now teams, Malaysian teams, Chinese teams, they are still finding people alive. But my colleague from BBC Burmese did reach a preschool in just the outskirts of Mandalay and that has completely collapsed. And we're still learning about the sheer scale of the destruction, aren't we?
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
Wir sind es. Und es gibt keinen Zweifel, dass diese Todesstärke erhöht wird. Es ist extrem schwierig, eine klare Bildung zu bekommen. Aber sobald Teams mehr auf dem Boden gehen können, meine Kollegen von BBC Burmese, finden wir nur hunderten von Leuten, die noch unter dem Rumpel sind. Und das ist in großen Bereichen. Also wird die Todesstärke sicherlich erhöht.
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
Meanwhile, the conflict in Myanmar is still continuing. That's right. The Myanmar military has continued to carry out ground attacks. I've had confirmation from the rebel groups in the Sagai region, the worst affected region. They've carried out heavy mortar attacks against the rebels, they told me. They've also carried out airstrikes.
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
So this is at a time, as we've talked about, that people are in desperate need of rescue work. Yet the military in the face of calls from the United Nations, from Singapore to carry out an immediate ceasefire and focus on humanitarian aid, they are continuing this war to suppress opposition, suppress this pro-democracy uprising.
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
Yeah, that will make things much more difficult. And we're hearing from people who are now sleeping out on the streets, they're heading into their fourth night out on the streets, that they don't have fresh drinking water. And also the other issue is that there is just so many deceased people, dead bodies, that crematorians are working overtime, but there's concern about the spread of disease.
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Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
After the spacecraft docked, the hatch opened and the four new astronauts floated on board the International Space Station. The arrival of this replacement crew marks the beginning of the end for Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams' extended mission. The NASA astronauts have been on the space station since June and were only supposed to stay for just over a week.
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Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
But the spacecraft they arrived on, made by aerospace company Boeing, suffered technical problems. so NASA had to find another way to get the astronauts home. They opted for the next scheduled SpaceX flight, extending Butch and Sonny's mission until now. The pair will now spend the next few days handing over to the new crew before they can finally begin their journey back.
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
Well, we're hearing from people that there isn't enough help. Frankly, people are saying that they're not getting the relief or the recovery effort that they need, which is to be expected given the state of the country. The epicentre of the earthquake, Sagai, is an area where there's been fierce fighting. So it's basically a volatile region.
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
battleground between pro-democracy rebels and the government. So even that area itself, the government has limited control of. So there's a real patchwork of people who should be doing things. We're hearing from the military government that they are going to get relief. We're also hearing from the rebels of the National Unity Government that they are trying to help.
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
But what we're seeing from the footage that is coming out is it's really people on the ground. I saw some quite extraordinary footage from my colleagues in the Burmese service of people literally with their hands helping a woman and a 10-month-old baby out of the rubble. That was in Naperville. And you see them there lying. She talks about how she was lying there praying for help.
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
But it's very local and very rudimentary at the moment.
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
It is very unusual. Since seizing power in that coup nearly four years ago, Min Aung Hlaing has plunged his country into isolation. So he has effectively shut the country off. So foreign journalists have been barred. Independent media basically shut down. We haven't got foreign aid workers in there. So for him to say we need international help is a sign of how bad things are.
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
But how easy will it be for international aid to get in? Very difficult because they're really starting from scratch. And one of the key things that I've been hearing from aid agencies who have tried to continue to have a presence in the country are through local partners, is that they face intimidation from the military when they try to act.
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
They're also operating in a very active civil war, so they also need to negotiate with the pro-democracy rebels as well. And the Myanmar military has a history of denying aid to opposition areas and blocking aid. So there's concern from aid agency people that I've been speaking to today that they
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
This open door request may not really lead to something on the ground that they can work with, but they're willing to try. We're hearing from all agencies that they're gearing up. They're going to go in. They're going to help. And looking at this from an optimistic kind of lens, this could be a window that the country is craving for, for the world to pay attention to what's happening.
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
inside Myanmar. Of all the pro-democracy groups I speak to, the world's forgotten Myanmar and how this earthquake has forced us to look at it. Perhaps this is the window where things change.
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State of emergency declared in Myanmar after huge earthquake
My BBC Burmese colleagues are getting reports and images and videos from Mandele, mainly. And the situation is very grim. They're getting reports now of schools collapsing, at least five hotels in Mandele. and also significant historic buildings in the city.
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State of emergency declared in Myanmar after huge earthquake
So an ancient mosque, also a monastery has collapsed and they're also getting images of fires that have broken out in some of the universities in that city and also images of makeshift hospitals, so beds out in the open with people with serious wounds. So it's a very chaotic and very bleak picture that we're getting.
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State of emergency declared in Myanmar after huge earthquake
It is. Since seizing power in a coup nearly four years ago, the Myanmar military has plunged the country into isolation. They have barred foreign journalists from entering, foreign aid agencies are severely restricted, they have restricted communications and they are waging a civil war against a pro-democracy uprising.
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State of emergency declared in Myanmar after huge earthquake
So for them to say, we now need help, is a sign of how serious the situation is.
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State of emergency declared in Myanmar after huge earthquake
And the situation in Myanmar before this earthquake was dire. We're talking about millions of people displaced because of the civil war. The United Nations was already warning that a third of the country would need aid this year. So that situation coupled with the civil war means that this is going to be bad.
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EU agrees to boost defence spending
Yeah, and as you say, Nick, a lot of money is being talked about and also really ambitious projects for new high tech in military hardware. But how fast realistically are they going to be able to get any of this together?
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EU agrees to boost defence spending
So obviously there's a lot of unity within the EU, but not everybody is singing from the same hymn sheet. I'm just seeing a line here now. This is coming from Reuters news agency saying that the EU leaders agree a statement in support of Ukraine without Hungary. We know that Hungary does have quite a different stance on the situation in Ukraine and I think Slovakia has also had some hesitancy.