More aftershocks hit Myanmar
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
More aftershocks have been felt in Myanmar as the military junta continues bombing rebels. We speak to Kim Aris, Aung San Suu Kyi’s son, about her 4 years’ incarceration in a Burmese jail.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming live from London. This is Owen Bennett Jones. |
| 0:10.3 | Mandalay was once a royal capital complete with a palace and pagodas, monasteries and markets, a fabled city where craftsmen worked with silk and gold leaf. |
| 0:21.8 | It is also a place that has been taking a lot of punishment over the years. |
| 0:26.3 | Much was destroyed during the Second World War and now this earthquake, |
| 0:30.9 | with more than 1,700 people dead. |
| 0:33.7 | In a few minutes, we'll hear how the son of the jailed former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is seeing things from where he is in the US. |
| 0:42.0 | But first, we managed to get through to a teacher in Mandalay, who we're calling by her nickname, Nikki. |
| 0:48.6 | I asked her what happened when the earthquake struck. |
| 0:52.9 | When the earthquake hit, I was teaching my students, and my students age 4 to 16, and they |
| 1:00.7 | are around about 60 students in my homeschooling center. |
| 1:05.6 | My students, they cried a lot because they are very young, and they worried about their house and their parents. |
| 1:14.6 | And we never had like that kind of earthquake before. |
| 1:18.5 | It was very strong. |
| 1:22.1 | It's shake now. |
| 1:24.5 | It's shake again. |
| 1:25.5 | It's still shaking. |
| 1:27.3 | Right. You're feeling that now. The ground is still shaking now. It's still shaking. Right. |
| 1:27.8 | You're feeling that now. |
| 1:28.6 | The ground is still shaking now. |
| 1:30.8 | Yeah, just now, it's shake one time. |
| 1:33.7 | The ground shake very strong. |
| 1:35.8 | And then we feel like it's just in. |
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