Strong aftershocks hit Afghanistan after quake kills more than a thousand
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Aftershocks have struck eastern Afghanistan - two days after a powerful quake in the same region killed more than a thousand people and injured thousands of others, according to the Taliban government. Rescue efforts following Sunday's quake have been complicated by landslides that have blocked roads, making land travel difficult. Helicopters have been deployed to search for survivors. The Taliban government has appealed for international help. The UN has released emergency funds. Also: Trial of Brazil's ex-president Bolsonaro enters final phase, and Trump orders US Space Command to move from Colorado to Alabama.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Jonat Jalil and in the early hours of Wednesday the 3rd of September, these are our main stories. |
| 0:12.3 | Powerful aftershocks hit Afghanistan as the survivors of Sunday's earthquake mourn the hundreds, possibly even thousands, who have been killed. |
| 0:21.9 | The Supreme Court in Brazil considers its verdict in the trial of the former president, |
| 0:26.3 | Jaya Bolsonaro, who's accused of plotting a coup. |
| 0:29.5 | The African Union has called for a ceasefire in Sudan's civil war |
| 0:33.8 | to allow aid to reach a village that's been buried by a deadly landslide. |
| 0:41.7 | Also in this podcast? |
| 0:43.4 | Most importantly, this decision will help America defend and dominate the high frontier, as they call it. |
| 0:49.4 | President Trump announces his relocating U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama. We'll tell you why. |
| 1:00.6 | The Taliban are appealing for international aid as Afghanistan struggles to deal with the latest disaster to befall one of the poorest countries in the world. |
| 1:10.5 | They say that an earthquake on Sunday |
| 1:12.4 | in the remote mountainous east is now known to have killed more than 1,400 people with thousands |
| 1:19.5 | more injured. Powerful aftershocks continue to be felt, even as blocked roads hamper rescue efforts. |
| 1:30.0 | Only a few countries have offered to help so far, |
| 1:36.5 | as even in the midst of this disaster, the Taliban is not letting up in its restrictive policies on women and girls with reports that many more men are being evacuated for medical care |
| 1:42.0 | as the Taliban does not allow male medical staff to treat female patients. |
| 1:47.4 | This doctor at a hospital in Jalalabad told the BBC about the types of injuries she and her colleagues have been treating. |
| 1:56.3 | Today, around 15 patients were brought to us. |
| 1:59.9 | Along with their injuries, many of them were |
| 2:01.9 | pregnant and had obstetric complications and trauma. Some of them had head injuries, others had |
| 2:07.8 | spinal or other body parts. Seven or eight underwent surgery. One had a fractured leg. Another |
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