Quake kills hundreds in Afghanistan
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Rescue workers in Afghanistan are trying to reach villages in remote mountainous areas in the east of the country following a magnitude six earthquake. A Taliban official said more than eight-hundred people had died and more than two-thousand-five-hundred had been injured in the provinces of Kunar and Nangarhar. Helicopters have been deployed to collect the wounded as landslides have cut off roads. The UN says that twenty assessment teams have so far been deployed to areas worst hit by the quake. The emergency comes as Afghanistan is suffering from a severe drought and food crisis. Also: at a summit of world leaders in the Chinese city of Tianjin, the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, said the group would challenge what he called bullying behaviour - in apparent reference to the tariffs that President Trump has imposed on India and other countries, and details of how Queen Camilla fought off an attempted assault when she was a teenager are revealed in a new book about the British monarchy:
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Nick Mars and at 14 hours GMT on Monday the 1st of September, these are our main stories. |
| 0:10.5 | The Taliban in Afghanistan say hundreds of people have been killed in an earthquake in the country's mountainous eastern region. |
| 0:17.4 | The leaders of China, India and Russia have been presenting a united front at a summit of world leaders in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin. |
| 0:28.0 | Also in this podcast, as the Israeli army continues its push into Gaza City, what more do we know about the US plan on the so-called next day after the war? |
| 0:39.4 | And details of how Queen Camilla fought off an attempted assault |
| 0:43.0 | when she was a teenager are revealed in a new book about the British monarchy. |
| 0:47.6 | Camilla said, I did what my mother taught me. |
| 0:50.1 | I took my show off and I whacked him in the nuts with the hill. |
| 1:05.2 | The Taliban in Afghanistan say hundreds of people have died in a magnitude 6 earthquake in the east of the country. |
| 1:12.9 | As we record this podcast, the authorities say more than 800 are dead and that more than 2,500 people have been injured in the provinces of Nangaha and Kunah. A Taliban spokesman, Zaybullah Mujahid, said the epicenter |
| 1:20.9 | was in a remote mountainous area which is making relief operations difficult. |
| 1:29.3 | He said the casualty figures may increase, |
| 1:33.4 | as some villages were only accessible by helicopter, |
| 1:36.7 | and some people and bodies were still being recovered from the rubble. |
| 1:40.5 | Our correspondent in Afghanistan is Yama Beres. |
| 1:43.4 | I spoke to him as he made his way towards the area worst affected by the quake. Our correspondent in Afghanistan is Yama Bariz. I spoke to him as he made his way towards |
| 1:45.6 | the area worst affected by the quake. The percent of the earthquake was in eastern Afghanistan, |
| 1:52.1 | Koonar province, which has been affected very badly. It's a mountainous area, and the area was |
| 1:58.6 | hit by flas during the weekend. So because of the landslides, now the roads |
| 2:04.9 | are blocked to the affected areas. The latest reports which we have got, the sources and |
| 2:11.3 | Nangra are original hospital, they told us that they have received hundreds of casualties, but it's still a developing story |
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