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Hello. Today, the earthquake in Nepal and why despite thousands of dead some believe the country got off lightly

The South American nation where having a miscarriage can get you a 30-year jail sentence.

The story of the anti-Semitic Hungarian politician who learned he was Jewish.

And can that really be the sound of leather on willow at St Peter's in Rome?

The Vatican, it seems, now believes that part of God's purpose is cricket.

It was almost exactly a week ago at midday last Saturday that Nepal was hit by that huge earthquake,

measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale.

It was the deadliest tremor there in more than 80 years and today while international

aid is now arriving in some of the remotest, worst hit areas, huge problems remain.

Hospitals are full to overflowing, medicines in short supply,

water, food and power are scarce, and many bodies are still thought to be buried

amid the ruins of collapsed buildings.

But Justin Rolat, who's been part of our reporting team there this week, says some Nepales believe

they've been lucky.

We landed in Cab-Mundu less than 24 hours after the earthquake struck, heading straight to what quickly became the symbol of the crisis,

the stump of the Dadahartha tower, the 8-story brick structure that used to mark the skyline of the city.

It was a gruesome place, a wreck of rubble, wreaking of death.

A man whose house had been smashed when the tower fell told me he was convinced there were still people in the ruins.

Two great diggers were sifting through the mounds of broken masonry.

It was clear they were searching not for survivors but for bodies.

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