Afghanistan's Herat province in need of medical supplies following deadly quakes: minister

STORY: Afghanistan's Herat province in need of medical supplies following deadly quakes: minister DATELINE: Oct. 11, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:14 LOCATION: HERAT, Afghanistan CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the views in the hospitals 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Pashto): QALANDAR IBAD, Acting Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan 3. various of the aftermath of earthquakes 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Pashto): QALANDAR IBAD, Acting Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan STORYLINE: Afghan caretaker government's Acting Minister of Public Health Qalandar Ibad told Xinhua on Monday after visiting hospitals in quake-hit Herat province that there will be a need for medical supplies for people in the region. SOUNDBITE 1 (Pashto): QALANDAR IBAD, Acting Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan "If we look at the issue in the long term such as one month, two months, three months, or six months, we need medical equipment and medicines." Two powerful earthquakes, each with a magnitude of 6.2, jolted west Afghanistan on Saturda

Bangladeshi army deployed as container depot fire kills at least 45

STORY: Bangladeshi army deployed as container depot fire kills at least 45 DATELINE: June 6, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:38 LOCATION: Dhaka CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of a terrible fire broke out at a container depot in Chittagong, Bangladesh STORYLINE: At least 45 people were killed and hundreds of others injured as a devastating fire swept through a container facility in Chattogram district, about 242 km southeast of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh. The fire broke out in one of the containers loaded with chemicals in the container yard located in Sitakunda on the outskirts of Chattogram on Saturday night. The district's chief administrator Mohammad Mominur Rahman told Xinhua over the phone that "the death toll of the depot fire has risen to 45 on Sunday." According to Brigadier General Shamim Ahsan, director of Chattogram Medical College Hospital, at least 250 people were treated in the hospital. They suffered from burn injuries in the devastating fire that erupted at about 8:00 p.m. local time Saturda

China launches crewed mission to complete space station construction

STORY: China launches crewed mission to complete space station construction DATELINE: June 5, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:47 LOCATION: JIUQUAN, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the launch of the crewed spaceship Shenzhou-14 STORYLINE: China on Sunday launched the crewed spaceship Shenzhou-14, sending three astronauts to its space station combination for a six-month mission. The trio will cooperate with the ground team to complete the assembly and construction of the Tiangong space station, developing it from a single-module structure into a national space laboratory with three modules -- the core module Tianhe and two lab modules Wentian and Mengtian. The spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, was lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The crew will work with the ground team to complete the rendezvous, docking and transposition of the two lab modules with the core module, said Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of the CMSA, at a press conference Saturda