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Global News Podcast

Indian rescuers reach 41 trapped tunnel builders

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

An evacuation pipe has been inserted into the collapsed tunnel, where the men had been trapped for more than two weeks. Also: the truce in Gaza appears to be holding for a fifth day - after a swap deal between Israel and Hamas was extended, and the first transatlantic flight powered by an alternative fuel has taken off from London.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The at the story's making the headlines with insights from the BBC's global network of

0:14.7

experts. Search for The Global Story wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

0:20.0

You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:27.0

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway and we're recording this edition at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday the 28th of November.

0:34.6

Rescuers in Northern India begin in operation to pull 41 construction workers

0:39.1

out of a collapsed tunnel through a narrow pipe.

0:42.0

The truce in Gaza appears to be holding for a

0:44.9

fifth day after a swap deal between Israel and Hamas was extended.

0:48.9

I was talking about this obligation that we have to get as many people out as possible.

0:51.6

If that includes a pause, not a ceasefire, a pause for a number of days, then so be it.

0:57.0

And the first long-haul flight powered by alternative fuel has taken off from London.

1:03.0

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1:05.0

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1:09.0

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1:13.3

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1:17.6

After 17 days trapped underground, 41 construction workers in northern India

1:27.0

are expected to reach the open air in the coming hours. The day laborers had been

1:31.7

helping to build a road tunnel in the foothills of the Himalayas when part of it collapsed.

1:36.0

After numerous setbacks, rescuers finally broke through on Tuesday afternoon.

1:41.0

Specialist miners dug the last few meters by hand when drilling equipment broke.

1:46.5

This was the scene at the tunnel entrance as families and rescue workers waited for the

1:50.4

men to be pulled out. The authorities have not said what caused the landslide, but there's been criticism of the one and a half

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