This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Rachel Wright, and in the early hours of Saturday the 29th of March, these are our main stories.

Rescue workers in Myanmar and Thailand are scrambling to find survivors after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit the center of Myanmar.

The U.S. Vice President has taken aim at Denmark on a visit to Greenland, accusing it of underinvesting in the security of the semi-autonomous territory.

And family members of Venezuelans deported to an El Salvador prison say they are trapped in a nightmare.

Also in this podcast,

You take the sourest apples that you can find,

roast them in a fire until they're soft,

and then mix quicksilver, mercury, in with them,

and then slather this on your body.

We look at medieval cures.

As we record this podcast, it's the early hours of the morning in Myanmar and Thailand,

where rescue operations have been continuing after the huge earthquake on Friday.

In Thailand, attention is focusing on a high-rise building,

which collapsed in the capital Bangkok. At least six people have been found dead and around

100 people are missing. And we'll be hearing from there a little later. In Myanmar, the picture

is still unclear, but the authorities say 144 people have been killed.

There are fears that that number will rise much higher.

The 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit the centre of the country in the early afternoon.

The epicentre was in Surgaay, close to Myanmar's second largest city, Mandalay,

where a historic pagoda collapsed.

These people in Mandalay described what they saw to the Burmese service.

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