00:00The death toll from the huge earthquake that hit Myanmar and Thailand has now crossed 1,000.
00:06The rescuers are still digging through the rubble of collapsed buildings.
00:09There is a desperate search going on for survivors.
00:12India has also dispatched the first tranche of humanitarian aid.
00:16At least 1,000 people have been killed and close to 2,000 people have been injured in
00:20Myanmar.
00:21Now, the worst affected regions are the places where the rescue operations are going on in
00:25full-fledged, in a full-fledged manner.
00:28With communications badly disrupted, the true scale of the disaster is yet to emerge.
00:33The toll is expected to rise significantly.
00:36India has sent humanitarian aid.
00:38There is a flight which has been dispatched to Myanmar.
00:41An Indian Air Force C-130J aircraft has flown in from Hindon, carrying 15 tonnes of relief material.
00:49Relief material includes tents, sleeping bags, blankets, ready-to-eat food, hygiene kits,
00:54solar lamps, generation set.
00:56Essential medicines have also been sent out.
01:03The epicentre of this dastardly earthquake was Myanmar and in Myanmar, the rescue operations
01:12are going on.
01:13In Thailand also, the rescue operations are going on in a full-fledged manner.
01:17India has sent close to 15 tonnes of relief material, which includes tents, sleeping bags,
01:22blankets, ready-to-eat meals, water purifiers, solar lamps, generator sets, essential medicines,
01:29antibiotics, gloves and syringes, have also been sent by India.
01:33The External Affairs Minister S.J. Shankar is personally looking at the rescue operations
01:38that are taking place both in Myanmar and in Thailand.
01:43Rescuers also are digging through debris and through collapsed buildings to look for survivors.
01:53Rescue operations both in Myanmar as well as in Thailand are taking place.
01:58The epicentre was Myanmar and the earthquake was 7.7 on the Richards scale.
02:10This was a powerful earthquake which has killed close to...
02:14At the moment, I'm joined by Christina Case, who's joining me from Bangkok.
02:23Christina, if you can tell us, what's the level of devastation that we are seeing in Bangkok?
02:28We have seen those horrific images coming in, the buildings shaking and most of the
02:32buildings, a lot of under-construction buildings also turning to rubble.
02:37Yeah, so the level of destruction I would say, I know a lot of hotels are cracked.
02:44I think even in my hotel where I was staying, some of the walls were cracking.
02:50The girl that I'm with actually stayed at a different hotel because she was on the top floor.
02:54She was on the 29th floor of our hotel when it happened and our pool was splashing everywhere.
03:00So she was nervous to stay, she stayed somewhere else.
03:03Everything's pretty much back to normal now. It seems kind of odd.
03:06I've never been in a natural disaster before, so it seems like everything should just be on pause.
03:12But everything is just back to normal. All the stores are open, the streets are full.
03:17But yesterday, I was just in the middle of an appointment and we all had to run outside.
03:22Everybody was flooding the streets, running. As a foreigner, where am I supposed to run?
03:29What do we do? Where do we go? It was really scary. It was very, very scary.
03:36I've never experienced anything like it before.
03:38But today is a new day and I'm just grateful to be alive, grateful to be here.
03:46And yeah, everything is just back to normal, it seems.
03:51Christina, were you in the building when the earthquake hit or were you out on the street?
03:57I was in the basement of a building. I was laying on a table, actually.
04:02And I was like, are you moving the table? I'm sitting here moving on this table.
04:07And she's like, no, I'm not moving the table.
04:09And I'm like, OK, well, something's moving under us.
04:12And then someone came in and was like, we need to go.
04:15So I sprinted up three flights of stairs and then everyone was flooding out of the building, just running in the streets.
04:23It was very bizarre, very scary.
04:27Christina, do you think the people who came to tell you that you need to move out,
04:32do you think the rescue operation in that sense was very swift?
04:36Yeah, I do think so, because it was about, I think it was just a random,
04:41like another worker in the building that ran in and was like, hey, we actually need to get out.
04:46So I think we were kind of contemplating what was going on for about 20 seconds.
04:51And then someone came in and was like, we got to go. So it was very, it was very quick, I would say, yeah.
04:59And today, as you're pointing out, things are back to normal as they were.
05:04Yeah, I think I mean, everyone's outside walking in the streets, the streets are less crowded today.
05:10But yesterday it was shoulder to shoulder all the way up and down Sukhumvit, which is where I was.
05:18It was just, it was chaos, honestly, yesterday, everybody was outside, people couldn't,
05:23I couldn't get back into my hotel for about four hours.
05:28It was really crazy, very hectic.
05:32Right, thank you. Thank you, Christina, for speaking with us.
05:35Christina Kaye, who's in Bangkok and was in the basement of a building when the earthquake shook the building
05:41and said that people rushed outside and out on the streets.
05:44Yes, there was utter chaos, but today the situation is a tad bit better, both in Bangkok and in other cities in Thailand.
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