The search for survivors continues in Myanmar as the number of deaths rises to more than 1600. The UN pleads for the Burmese military to stop attacking rebels. Also: Mexico tackles its country's obesity problem.
Chapter 1: What are the main stories covered in this podcast episode?
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Rachel Wright and in the early hours of Sunday, the 30th of March, these are our main stories. In Myanmar, the search for earthquake survivors continues with hundreds trapped under the rubble. While the UN pleads for the Burmese military to halt attacks on rebels in affected areas.
In Turkey, hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy protesters gathered in Istanbul to support the city's jailed mayor. Auch in diesem Podcast schauen wir uns die Inselkultur an und Mexiko kümmert sich um das Obesity-Problem in ihrem Land.
Chapter 2: What is the current situation in Myanmar following the earthquake?
Die Schulen werden verabschiedet von jungen Füßen, in Fischbrüchen und Zuckerbrüchen, sogar in den Schulen.
We start with the earthquake in Myanmar, where the military government there has confirmed more than 1,600 people have died. That figure is expected to rise. Buildings and bridges have been brought down across large swathes of the country with reports of widespread destruction in Myanmar's second city, Mandalay.
Aid has arrived from China and India, but the United Nations is warning of a severe shortage of medical supplies. Our correspondent Nick Beek has been following developments from Bangkok.
Die Ruinen von Mandalay. Das Sky-Villa-Kondominium war ein Wohnzimmer und ein Gebäude. Ein 12-Storey-Bild, reduziert zu 6-Storeys in Sekunden. Und mehr als 90 Menschen sind noch nicht hier. Ye Ong sagt, er hatte große Erleichterung, als er gesagt wurde, dass seine Frau in der Ruhe war. Aber sie zu retten, ist Zeit, sagt er. Ich verliere die Hoffnung, die ich hatte.
Some have been using their bare hands. And more than 24 hours after the quake, rescuers are freeing some survivors, young and old. But these minor miracles are few and far between and have punctuated an otherwise grim day of recovering bodies amid the destruction.
I feel so sad to see this. All temples and pagodas in my village collapsed.
Myanmar State TV has been showing damage to the presidential palace in the capital Naypyidaw. But the military junta of Min Aung Hlaing, which seized power four years ago, continues to restrict internet access, meaning it's hard to get a clear sense of the scale of the devastation. Russia and China, countries that have propped up the regime, have been sending specialist support.
In a highly unusual move for the insular Burmese military, it says it will accept aid from everyone. But there are fears it will only direct help to areas under its control. Back at the Sky Villa condominium, 30-year-old Pule Kain pulled out of the rubble, alive. Nick Beek.
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Chapter 3: How is the international community responding to Myanmar's crisis?
First of all, I'm calling upon the junta to just stop, stop any of its military operations. This is completely outrageous and unacceptable. Many countries that are coming forward, China, ASEAN in the region, the European Union has stepped forward, Japan, Korea, that's the good news.
But obviously, if you've got bombs being dropped from the sky while you're trying to rescue people, it's just nothing short of just...
Aber Präsident Trump hat gesagt, er will helfen. Und nochmals wurde USAID in Myanmar ausgemantelt. Ich glaube, das war sehr recently. Wie groß ist das Problem?
Es ist ein riesiges Problem. Ich meine, ich bin auf der Grenze gefahren. Ich habe mit Menschen gesprochen, Physikern, Ärzten. Medical operations that have had to shut down. And it's not just the fact that they've had significant losses of funding from USAID, but it's just the way it's being done. It's just chaotic. They hear one day that things are being shut down.
The next day that they hear there's going to be, well, you can continue the most urgent operations. 48 hours later, they get another call saying, no, no, all of those are good stuff. Right smack dab in the middle of that, of course, ist dieser Earthquake. Und es ist also eine Katastrophe auf dem Topf eines Desasteres. Und erinnere dich, du hast halb das Land in Poverty, in dem Land.
Du hast 20 Millionen Menschen, mehr als ein Drittel des Landes, in Bedürfnis von humanitären Bedürfnissen, vor dem Earthquake. 3,5 Millionen Menschen wurden vor dem Ursprung intern verletzt. Und die Bedingungen, in denen sie leben, sind am besten spät. Also haben Sie ein großes Problem, auch vor dem Ursprung. Jetzt haben Sie einen unglaublichen Desaster.
The UN's Tom Andrews. Well, for more on those relief efforts, I spoke to the former BBC Asia editor, Rebecca Henschke.
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.
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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Chapter 4: What is happening with the protest rallies in Istanbul?
that could be trapped at this point. In a desperate situation. And of course then there are reports of the generals, the junta, the army bombing people in the rebel-held areas, even despite the earthquake.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rebecca Henschke, let's cross the border now into neighboring Thailand, where the focus is on an unfinished high-rise building that collapsed in the capital Bangkok as a result of Friday's earthquake. Rescuers are working around the clock as families of more than 80 people who are missing continue to wait for news. Our correspondent Shaima Khalil is in Bangkok and gave us this update.
I hope that will be a miracle.
Aber deep down I know that it's very unlikely. My hope is just that they find her so that we can bring her home. What I fear the most is that they will not find her body at all.
Rescuers say they've detected signs of life under the rubble. But getting closer remains difficult. Large pieces of debris are still dangerously unstable, making the rescue work painfully slow.
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Chapter 5: What measures is Mexico taking to combat obesity?
Erdogan, bir yandan suçüstü yakalanmıştır.
Erdogan has been caught red-handed and the young people of this country have shown everyone and all of Turkey that they will not bow to fear. They will not kneel to oppression. They will not remain silent.
Protests have been going on for 10 days now, ever since Mr. Imamoglu's arrest. And they've been met with a repressive government response that has been sharply condemned by rights groups. Our senior international correspondent Ola Geren is in Istanbul for us.
It was certainly a massive demonstration and you got that sense when you arrived because it took us a very long time to enter the plaza where the rally was being held because there were simply so many people trying to get through the entrances. And worth pointing out, I saw something today I have not seen before at a demonstration.
It was a long line of what appeared to us to be closed-circuit TV cameras. And these were trained on every entrance. So it seemed to us as if the faces of all of those who were coming through to attend the protest were actually being recorded by the authorities, presumably for use in the future to identify people who've been at the demonstrations. The demands were very consistent.
The same kind of message we heard earlier during the week on Monday and Tuesday at the large nighttime demonstrations. People were calling for the freeing of the mayor, saying they would keep protesting as long as it would take to get him out of jail. Das könnte einen sehr langen Kampf bedeuten. Die Wahrheit ist, er könnte für mehrere Jahre im Gefängnis sein.
Die Leute beantragten die Freiheit der Ausprägung. Die Leute beantragten die Schutz der menschlichen Rechte. Ein junger Mann sagte zu uns, ich bin gekommen, um hier zu versuchen, Demokratie zu verteidigen, bevor es zu spät ist.
Du hast erwähnt, dass dort CCTV-Kameras waren. Und wie wir wissen, hat die türkische Regierung bereits an Protesten und Journalisten in den letzten Tagen geschlagen. Können Sie uns ein Update darauf geben?
Well, there's certainly a great deal of fear and we heard that from demonstrators today. Several people said they were afraid of being arrested. Some told us they had friends who had been picked up in these dawn raids that have been going on over the last 10 days. The official figure from the Interior Ministry now is that 1,900 people. Vielen Dank.
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