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00:00:27Hello everyone, welcome to "See the World Together". I am Lin Ru. On July 28th, Taiwan time, at
00:00:313:27 PM, Kyushu, Japan experienced a strong earthquake of magnitude 7.1.
00:00:34The epicenter was in Yatsushiro City, Kumamoto Prefecture, and the earthquake source depth was only 16
00:00:38kilometers. The Japan Meteorological Agency once issued a tsunami warning, including Kyushu,
00:00:42Fukuoka, and Nagasaki, all experienced strong tremors. The disaster
00:00:46situation is also continuously expanding. In addition to multiple buildings collapsing
00:00:50and roads even rising more than 50 centimeters,
00:00:53cross-river highway bridges were broken, and highways
00:00:57collapsed. 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.
00:01:22The 30-second tremors were so powerful that even large trucks looked like toys, swaying left and right. All emergency stops were made.
00:01:35A large amount of earth and rocks rolled down the hillside, raising a sky full of dust and scaring
00:01:45The earthquake source depth was only 16
00:01:49Even Mount Aso in Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture,
00:01:57the metal frame made a loud crashing sound.
00:06:31Kumamoto's Nanshin Hospital after dark resembled a field hospital. Due to power outages, the medical system was almost completely shut down,
00:06:34and all patients had to be transferred
00:06:36.
00:07:17Japan's surface
00:07:20temperature reached 40 degrees Celsius, causing many people to suffer from heatstroke.
00:08:18the strong earthquake in Kumamoto on July 28th. It inevitably reminds
00:08:22people of the Kumamoto earthquake that occurred ten years ago. In fact,
00:08:26the cause of this earthquake is similar to the previous one, also caused by fault
00:08:30slippage. At that time, the main earthquake was triggered by the Futagawa fault,
00:08:34and the foreshock was caused by the slip of the northern section of the Hinagu fault
00:09:29the bridge cracked
00:09:32in 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.
00:11:38The Hinagu fault only slipped in the northern section, and the southern section did not move.
00:11:52I didn't expect it to happen ten years later. During the 2016
00:11:56earthquake, the central and southern parts that did not crack
00:11:59until the fault line moved,
00:12:03that earthquake was not yesterday.
00:13:25If a large-scale earthquake occurs in the south, in the south, then
00:13:29this area is the sea, so in that sense, the possibility of a tsunami
00:13:32increases
00:13:41. The house seen in the center of this screen has its second floor completely
00:13:44fallen into the first floor, and everything has flowed into the river
00:14:25The civil nuclear energy cooperation agreement will allow the country to use
00:14:28American technology to build new reactors and to conduct
00:14:32uranium enrichment and spent fuel reprocessing. As soon as the news
00:14:36broke, it immediately triggered strong protests from the international
00:14:40community. The next day, US President Trump hastily added two
00:14:44conditions, requiring the country to join the Abraham Accords
00:14:47to normalize relations with Israel, and to clarify
00:14:51that the agreement does not allow uranium enrichment
00:15:38have the ability to produce materials
00:15:41for nuclear weapons and they've lost the card that was supposed
00:15:45to be the incentive that would bring Saudi Arabia to normalize relations
00:15:49with them. In less than 24 hours, the situation suddenly changed. Relations were normalized, and enrichment was not allowed.
00:16:04well we didn't talk about it but it was always understood.
00:16:37will assist Saudi Arabia in building new nuclear reactors and provide the most advanced nuclear
00:16:41energy technology. It may even allow Saudi Arabia to directly extract
00:16:53arms race, nuclear arms race in the middle
00:16:56east, it creates
00:16:58precedence about the proliferation
00:17:02of or possibly proliferation of
00:17:06nuclear capability'. Although Israel has never publicly acknowledged it, it is widely
00:17:10believed that Israel already possesses nuclear weapons. However, Israel has long
00:17:13maintained a high degree of vigilance against Saudi Arabia acquiring nuclear technology
00:17:32.
00:17:41That is, it cannot enrich uranium or process spent nuclear
00:17:50to
00:17:53ensure 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.
00:18:04now Saudi Arabia has uranium deposits, it has
00:19:07places its sale of nuclear
00:19:10technology, why would the the Russians or the
00:19:14Chinese or any other providers of nuclear
00:19:16technology feel themselves to be
00:19:20bound by by the old rules? According to the official statement of the Times, the US reported to Pakistan
00:19:33will not let them have nuclear weapon.
00:20:50It is also questioned that it may cause
00:21:01Bordeaux in southern France and Madrid, the capital of Spain,
00:21:05are both in urgent need of help. Both countries have invested a large amount of manpower
00:21:09in firefighting and have urgently
00:25:50Welcome back to See the World Together. Europe has been hit by an extreme heatwave this year.
00:25:54In addition to causing a continuous rise in the death toll, persistent high temperatures have
00:25:58also triggered wildfires, leading to Southern Europe being engulfed in a wildfire
00:26:02inferno. Especially in Southern France and Spain, hundreds of thousands of hectares
00:26:06of forest have been burned, which can be said to be the most devastating
00:26:09disaster since World War II. And the wildfires in Southern France have approached the red wine
00:26:13and military palace, as well as the nuclear weapons hub of Bordeaux . In Spain,
00:26:17the wildfires west of Madrid are also continuously spreading, making the situation
00:26:21in the capital extremely critical. French President Macron
00:26:25surveyed the disaster area of Bordeaux. Due to insufficient resources
00:26:28for firefighting, Macron decided to urgently appeal to the EU.
00:26:32And Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez also, because the fire was too fierce,
00:26:36declared a national state of emergency. The area
00:26:40burned by the wildfires is simply too large. A total of hundreds
00:26:44of thousands of people in both countries have urgently evacuated the disaster areas, and the resettlement
00:26:48of the public has now become a major problem
00:26:50. Although both countries have invested a lot of
00:26:54manpower and resources to fight the fire, the fire is still difficult to control.
00:26:58The cost of firefighting in Spain has also reached approximately 120 billion New Taiwan
00:27:02dollars. The losses are quite severe. European countries have also
00:27:05sent personnel to participate in disaster relief. However, experts are worried that,
00:27:09due to the longer summer this year, the wildfire season will continue until
00:27:12September, and the situation is likely to get worse
00:27:16.
00:27:19The orange-red fire snake, like an out-of-control beast, twists wildly in the forest
00:27:23. Full force efforts, but the dwindling
00:27:26water columns are undoubtedly a drop
00:27:34épendent qui arrosent sur le bord des routes pour dire bah on va aider
00:27:37les 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.
00:27:56on est tous très angoissés par la situation là a quitté la maison il a
00:28:00trop de monde sur les routes là-bas et on est tous.
00:29:26and it's all driven by the heat from the excess of wildfires at the
00:29:29surface so that rises quickly, it cools. condenses in the
00:29:33upper levels of the atmosphere, creating these thunderstorm clouds that form
00:29:36lightning, create additional fires, but also complicate the
00:29:39fire fighting efforts on the ground as well, because the winds get whipped up
00:29:43and they create spot fires taking embers and blowing them sometimes
00:29:47kilometers 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