TTV — broadcast
20260808 170000 UTC
114 transcript segments
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking
Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive.
Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record.

[00:00:00] battle.
[00:00:08] You are currently watching Taichung City News Channel.
[00:00:27] Hello everyone, welcome to "See the World Together". I am Lin Ru. On July 28th, Taiwan time, at
[00:00:31] 3:27 PM, Kyushu, Japan experienced a strong earthquake of magnitude 7.1.
[00:00:34] The epicenter was in Yatsushiro City, Kumamoto Prefecture, and the earthquake source depth was only 16
[00:00:38] kilometers. The Japan Meteorological Agency once issued a tsunami warning, including Kyushu,
[00:00:42] Fukuoka, and Nagasaki, all experienced strong tremors. The disaster
[00:00:46] situation is also continuously expanding. In addition to multiple buildings collapsing
[00:00:50] and roads even rising more than 50 centimeters,
[00:00:53] cross-river highway bridges were broken, and highways
[00:00:57] collapsed. Famous scenic spots, such as Yatsushiro, were also affected. More seriously, the Japanese industry, Yatsushiro factory, and the center exploded after the earthquake, causing multiple deaths, injuries, and trapped people. Experts warn that aftershocks are still expected in the next week.
[00:01:22] The 30-second tremors were so powerful that even large trucks looked like toys, swaying left and right. All emergency stops were made.
[00:01:35] A large amount of earth and rocks rolled down the hillside, raising a sky full of dust and scaring
[00:01:45] The earthquake source depth was only 16
[00:01:49] Even Mount Aso in Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture,
[00:01:57] the metal frame made a loud crashing sound.
[00:06:31] Kumamoto's Nanshin Hospital after dark resembled a field hospital. Due to power outages, the medical system was almost completely shut down,
[00:06:34] and all patients had to be transferred
[00:06:36] .
[00:07:17] Japan's surface
[00:07:20] temperature reached 40 degrees Celsius, causing many people to suffer from heatstroke.
[00:08:18] the strong earthquake in Kumamoto on July 28th. It inevitably reminds
[00:08:22] people of the Kumamoto earthquake that occurred ten years ago. In fact,
[00:08:26] the cause of this earthquake is similar to the previous one, also caused by fault
[00:08:30] slippage. At that time, the main earthquake was triggered by the Futagawa fault,
[00:08:34] and the foreshock was caused by the slip of the northern section of the Hinagu fault
[00:09:29] the bridge cracked
[00:09:32] in the middle and has already fallen into the river
[00:09:35] . Multiple highways on the main line of the highway were damaged, causing traffic disruptions.
[00:11:38] The Hinagu fault only slipped in the northern section, and the southern section did not move.
[00:11:52] I didn't expect it to happen ten years later. During the 2016
[00:11:56] earthquake, the central and southern parts that did not crack
[00:11:59] until the fault line moved,
[00:12:03] that earthquake was not yesterday.
[00:13:25] If a large-scale earthquake occurs in the south, in the south, then
[00:13:29] this area is the sea, so in that sense, the possibility of a tsunami
[00:13:32] increases
[00:13:41] . The house seen in the center of this screen has its second floor completely
[00:13:44] fallen into the first floor, and everything has flowed into the river
[00:14:25] The civil nuclear energy cooperation agreement will allow the country to use
[00:14:28] American technology to build new reactors and to conduct
[00:14:32] uranium enrichment and spent fuel reprocessing. As soon as the news
[00:14:36] broke, it immediately triggered strong protests from the international
[00:14:40] community. The next day, US President Trump hastily added two
[00:14:44] conditions, requiring the country to join the Abraham Accords
[00:14:47] to normalize relations with Israel, and to clarify
[00:14:51] that the agreement does not allow uranium enrichment
[00:15:38] have the ability to produce materials
[00:15:41] for nuclear weapons and they've lost the card that was supposed
[00:15:45] to be the incentive that would bring Saudi Arabia to normalize relations
[00:15:49] with them. In less than 24 hours, the situation suddenly changed. Relations were normalized, and enrichment was not allowed.
[00:16:04] well we didn't talk about it but it was always understood.
[00:16:37] will assist Saudi Arabia in building new nuclear reactors and provide the most advanced nuclear
[00:16:41] energy technology. It may even allow Saudi Arabia to directly extract
[00:16:53] arms race, nuclear arms race in the middle
[00:16:56] east, it creates
[00:16:58] precedence about the proliferation
[00:17:02] of or possibly proliferation of
[00:17:06] nuclear capability'. Although Israel has never publicly acknowledged it, it is widely
[00:17:10] believed that Israel already possesses nuclear weapons. However, Israel has long
[00:17:13] maintained a high degree of vigilance against Saudi Arabia acquiring nuclear technology
[00:17:32] .
[00:17:41] That is, it cannot enrich uranium or process spent nuclear
[00:17:50] to
[00:17:53] ensure that those cannot ever be turned into a weapons program. I mean that's that's the gold standard. He said if he sues, he is worried whether Saudi Arabia will also develop.
[00:18:04] now Saudi Arabia has uranium deposits, it has
[00:19:07] places its sale of nuclear
[00:19:10] technology, why would the the Russians or the
[00:19:14] Chinese or any other providers of nuclear
[00:19:16] technology feel themselves to be
[00:19:20] bound by by the old rules? According to the official statement of the Times, the US reported to Pakistan
[00:19:33] will not let them have nuclear weapon.
[00:20:50] It is also questioned that it may cause
[00:21:01] Bordeaux in southern France and Madrid, the capital of Spain,
[00:21:05] are both in urgent need of help. Both countries have invested a large amount of manpower
[00:21:09] in firefighting and have urgently
[00:25:50] Welcome back to See the World Together. Europe has been hit by an extreme heatwave this year.
[00:25:54] In addition to causing a continuous rise in the death toll, persistent high temperatures have
[00:25:58] also triggered wildfires, leading to Southern Europe being engulfed in a wildfire
[00:26:02] inferno. Especially in Southern France and Spain, hundreds of thousands of hectares
[00:26:06] of forest have been burned, which can be said to be the most devastating
[00:26:09] disaster since World War II. And the wildfires in Southern France have approached the red wine
[00:26:13] and military palace, as well as the nuclear weapons hub of Bordeaux . In Spain,
[00:26:17] the wildfires west of Madrid are also continuously spreading, making the situation
[00:26:21] in the capital extremely critical. French President Macron
[00:26:25] surveyed the disaster area of Bordeaux. Due to insufficient resources
[00:26:28] for firefighting, Macron decided to urgently appeal to the EU.
[00:26:32] And Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez also, because the fire was too fierce,
[00:26:36] declared a national state of emergency. The area
[00:26:40] burned by the wildfires is simply too large. A total of hundreds
[00:26:44] of thousands of people in both countries have urgently evacuated the disaster areas, and the resettlement
[00:26:48] of the public has now become a major problem
[00:26:50] . Although both countries have invested a lot of
[00:26:54] manpower and resources to fight the fire, the fire is still difficult to control.
[00:26:58] The cost of firefighting in Spain has also reached approximately 120 billion New Taiwan
[00:27:02] dollars. The losses are quite severe. European countries have also
[00:27:05] sent personnel to participate in disaster relief. However, experts are worried that,
[00:27:09] due to the longer summer this year, the wildfire season will continue until
[00:27:12] September, and the situation is likely to get worse
[00:27:16] .
[00:27:19] The orange-red fire snake, like an out-of-control beast, twists wildly in the forest
[00:27:23] . Full force efforts, but the dwindling
[00:27:26] water columns are undoubtedly a drop
[00:27:34] épendent qui arrosent sur le bord des routes pour dire bah on va aider
[00:27:37] les pompiers dans les zones qui sont pas brûlées quoi. For ten consecutive days, the fires in the south have burned more than 160,000 hectares, an area equivalent to six Taiwans. At least 250,000 people have been evacuated, making it France's largest evacuation since World War II.
[00:27:56] on est tous très angoissés par la situation là a quitté la maison il a
[00:28:00] trop de monde sur les routes là-bas et on est tous.
[00:29:26] and it's all driven by the heat from the excess of wildfires at the
[00:29:29] surface so that rises quickly, it cools. condenses in the
[00:29:33] upper levels of the atmosphere, creating these thunderstorm clouds that form
[00:29:36] lightning, create additional fires, but also complicate the
[00:29:39] fire fighting efforts on the ground as well, because the winds get whipped up
[00:29:43] and they create spot fires taking embers and blowing them sometimes
[00:29:47] kilometers away from the forward flank of the original fire. Wildfires in Australia, the United States, and Canada are common, but this is the first time that firefighters without experience are involved. The French minister of justice even said that this is a