2025-04-01
32 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Jackie Leonard and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday 1st April, these are our main stories.
A woman has been pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Myanmar's capital four days after the huge earthquake that left thousands dead.
The UN says about 1,000 children have been killed or hurt in Israel's renewed offensive in the Gaza Strip.
The Israelis have issued more evacuation orders for the Palestinian territory.
And China has begun large-scale military exercises to practice for a blockade of Taiwan.
Taiwan, says Beijing, is the world's biggest troublemaker.
Also in this podcast on the 100th anniversary of the publication of the American classic The Great Gatsby,
we'll hear about a new rendition of the novel.
Let's make her a woman, let's make her a social media influencer.
Fitzgerald himself said he had no important women characters in this book and he feared that was failing of it.
Flags are at half-mast in Myanmar and a minute's silence has been observed four days after the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake which has claimed more than 2,700 lives so far.
Even as the figures for the number of dead continue to rise, there was a small piece of good news.
A woman in her 60s has been rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building in the capital Napierdor after being trapped for 91 hours.
Meanwhile, a team from the BBC's Burmese service has arrived at the epicentre of the quake in Mandalay.
Tosar Lin is one of them.
Her report has been re-voiced because we couldn't get a quality line.
I am now in Mandalay, near the epicentre of the earthquake.
We arrived late last night, one full day later than planned.
When we drove into the city, it was completely dark.