http://www.dr.dk/tv/se/tv-avisen/tv-avisen-881#!/
Segment on the Philippines at 06:45 - 11:50.
ABOVE, a link to DR's (Danish television) news show at 9:30 pm Thursday night. We are no longer the top story. The clip about the
aftermath of typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines starts at 06:45. Steffen Kretz,
the reporter, begins his reportage with footage of his arrival two days ago, and
what greeted him; I wonder if he may be reassigned soon, leaving the other two,
Søren Bendixsen and Philip Khakhar, to continue the coverage. Tacloban is being
called the epicenter, the worst hit; this corresponds with many news reports
forwarded by my friends on Facebook referring to the capital of Leyte as “ground
zero.”
The images are the
same, the stories the same, as over the past six days, themes and images also found on CNN and the BBC. “There are no emergency
workers in some parts of the city, odd given the global media focus on the
disaster,” Kretz says. “Food and clean water” are still what people are in dire
need of. There is no way to buy
anything, and people are dependent on aid from outside. “Help comes in small
parcels, and comes slowly.”
There is a welcome
sight: Red Cross workers filling giant containers with clean water that has
been trucked in from Manila.
To the anchor’s
question of how people are surviving in city so ruined, Kretz replies that it
is difficult to comprehend. People have been leaving – flown out on cargo
planes or packed into a naval ship bound for another city. Children stand by
the roadside, reaching out as the media vehicle passes, their eyes desperate.
The UN estimates the
death toll at 4,500, the anchor says. The clip ends at 11:50.
Day Six, and this is how
it looks.
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