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China censors videos showing deadly flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dramatic footage showing flash floods tearing through the main border crossing between Nepal and Tibet has been widely shared around the world. But the footage has become almost impossible to find on China's heavily censored internet service, with only a single image broadcast by state media. Hundreds of people are feared dead, and thousands remain missing as a major rescue operation continues into the weekend. On Saturday, Chinese state media shared videos of rescue teams searching through mud and debris, but there has been little footage of the floods themselves, or accounts from survivors or anxious families.
97-year-old woman rescued after Nepali floods looked like 'a warrior'
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A 97-year-old woman pulled from flood debris in Nepal is recovering in hospital, according to her doctors. Guna Maya Bohara's great-nephew, Dipak Bohara, has told BBC Nepali she looked like a warrior who had returned victorious from battle. The operation to pull Bohara out of the rubble of her care home took four hours. Bohara travelled from Kathmandu to help rescue his great-aunt.
'It's destroying our town': Residents tell of concern after violent incidents near Middlesbrough
'It's destroying our town': Residents tell of concern after violent incidents near Middlesbrough To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's destroying our town': Residents tell of concern after violent incidents near Middlesbrough Close Residents near Middlesbrough have told the BBC of their concern after a spate of violent incidents in their area, including a crash that killed seven people including two police officers and a house fire that killed a woman and a seven-year-old girl . Police have said the two incidents are not connected. They have made a series of arrests in relation to the crash and two arrests in relation to the house fire. On Friday Redcar MP Anna Turley said disorder at a balloon release for one of the young men who died in the crash was unacceptable.
Norway's 'grandfather': King Harald remembered as son Haakon takes the throne
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People across Norway paid tribute to the nation's late King Harald who died in the early hours of Friday morning at the age of 89 after 35 years on the throne. Mourners gathered outside of the Royal Palace to lay flowers and remember him while his son, King Haakon VIII, officially succeeded him and met with his government. Harald had been treated at the national hospital in Oslo for a rare blood condition. On Friday evening, hospital staff and crowds gathered on the streets as the late king's coffin was moved from the hospital to the Royal Palace.
BBC tracks one week of Israeli settler violence in occupied West Bank
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Violence by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank is set to reach record levels this year, as human rights groups warn that they are increasingly spreading into new areas of the territory. Attacks on Palestinians have risen under Israel's current government, alongside a rapid increase in Israeli settlements, illegal under international law. Many of these attacks are not widely reported on. The BBC's Lucy Williamson has been tracking settler attacks on Palestinians, which have been observed over the last week alone.
Narrow escape for woman as Russian drone hits residential area
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Watch: Stargazers around the world glimpse 'Blood Moon' lunar eclipse
Watch: Stargazers around the world glimpse'Blood Moon' lunar eclipse To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Stargazers around the world glimpse'Blood Moon' lunar eclipse Close Stargazers across the globe gathered to witness a near-total lunar eclipse on Thursday night and early Friday morning. Some parts of the world had a chance to see a rare'Blood Moon', when the Sun, Earth and Moon line up in the night sky. It comes just weeks after millions of people witnessed the most significant solar eclipse in nearly 30 years . Updates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage .
Watch: Why rescuers fear new barrier lake could cause another Nepal-Tibet flood
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China has warned there is a high risk that a lake which formed after the recent landslide near the Nepal-Tibet border may breach its banks, causing a second flood downstream. The warning comes after Wednesday's deadly flash flood in the same area which scientists say was triggered by the collapse of a mountain glacier into a river. China correspondent Laura Bicker explains. Read more: 'High risk' of lake breaching and causing second flood, warns China Updates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage .
Blocked roads and devastation as BBC drives to site of Nepal floods
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC has seen widespread devastation on the way from Nepal's capital of Kathmandu to Trishuli, one of the areas worst-hit by flooding on the Tibetan border. As well as ambulances, hearses were also seen along the route, where rescuers said entire villages had been washed away by floodwaters. Updates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage . Updates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage .
Nepal army rescues survivors from hydropower tunnel
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Nepali army has been working to rescue survivors who had been trapped inside a tunnel at a hydropower project in Rasuwa. Footage shared by the country's prime minister office shows soliders carrying survivors and crawling across thick slates of mud to reach others. An update issued by officials on Thursday indicated more than 100 people were estimated to have been trapped in the same tunnel. It forms part of rescue efforts being carried out across the country in the wake of the deadly flood as local police said the Nepal death toll reached 475 on Friday.