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Hello, and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
Coming live from London, this is Owen Bennett Jones, and we're going straight to Myanmar.
And after the earthquake, the rescue,
and the all too familiar scenes of people trapped under heavy concrete with rescuers trying to reach them,
the military government says over a thousand people have died,
a number it believes is bound to rise.
And lots of governments are offering help.
The military have said they need it.
Here's the head of the military junta, General Ming Ang Hang.
As we're in the middle of a massive relief effort after this natural disaster,
I would like to request all people to help as much as you can.
I have declared a state of emergency in all the affected areas and have opened all ways for foreign aid.
Well, the situation is worse than Mandalay, and the situation that really remains unclear.
Sue Montai is from the aid agency Plan International Myanmar,
and she was speaking to Reuters news agency from the city of Yangon in Mandalay.
It's so desperate, Mandalay, it's just 12.
Miles away from the APEC center and.
The damaging of infrastructures, the buildings, the roads, cracking, airports.