A big earthquake has killed more than 100 people in Tibet and wrecked the Buddhist holy city of Shigatse. Also: the French far-right leader Jean Marie Le Pen has died, and the weird and wonderful species under threat.
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You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday the 7th of January. An earthquake has struck near Mount Everest in the Chinese region of Tibet, killing more than 100 people. The French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen has died at the age of 96.
And Paris marks 10 years since the deadly Islamist attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Also in the podcast... We wanted to start the year off with hope and optimism. Every species matters, whether it is a chameleon the size of a paperclip all the way to a whale shark.
We hear about new efforts to protect ten weird and wonderful species. A powerful earthquake in the Chinese region of Tibet has killed at least 106 people as we record this podcast. The centre of the 7.1 magnitude quake was Shigatse, one of the world's highest regions and traditional seat of the Panchen Lama, the second highest authority in Tibetan Buddhism.
The epicentre was about 80 kilometres north of Mount Everest, but tremors were also felt in Nepal and parts of India. Ektev Adhikari leads the National Emergency Operations Centre in Nepal.
Immediately after the earthquake, we activated our emergency response protocol and coordination was established with the local authorities. But we have the difficulty of the rock terrain, highest Himalayan terrain, including some of the world's highest peaks. And this time is winter season, so the temperature is also freezing fast.
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