Search for survivors after New Year’s Day earthquake hits Japan.
Search for survivors after New Year's Day earthquake hits Japan.
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Now the story.
Emergency services are searching for trapped survivors following powerful earthquakes in Japan.
At least 64 people have died so far after a series of quakes on New Year's Day.
Images taken by helicopters show many fires and widespread damage to infrastructure and buildings.
You've been looking at the headlines, Georgie.
What's the vocabulary?
People need to understand this news story in English?
We have battle against time, rocked by and aftershock.
This is news review from BBC learning English.
Let's have a look at our first headline.
This one's from the Guardian.
Japan earthquakes, battle against time to find those trapped under rubble as death toll rises.
So this headline talks about the time pressure to find people trapped under the rubble after the earthquakes in Japan, rubble is the broken bits of buildings.
But we're looking at the expression battle against time, which contains the word battle.