2025-07-30
28 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Jackie Leonard and at 13 Hours GMT on Wednesday 30 July, these are our main stories.
Tsunami warnings have now been downgraded in Hawaii and Japan after a huge earthquake in eastern Russia triggered waves that crossed the Pacific Ocean.
And health officials in Gaza say seven more people have starved to death in the last 24 hours.
Also in this podcast,
Greece seeks to justify its decision to detain all migrants arriving on small boats from North Africa.
We have said clearly that for the next three months we will not accept asylum.
So anyone who enters Greek territory knows that they are violating Greek law.
The earthquake that struck off Russia's Far Eastern coast at about 11.25 a.m. local time on Wednesday was a massive 8.8 magnitude and is one of the most powerful recorded in modern times.
It prompted tsunami warnings in countries across the Pacific and led to millions of evacuations.
Our Asia Pacific editor, Mickey Bristo,
has compiled this report which begins on the coast of Russia's Far East.
The earthquake was one of the most powerful ever measured.
It struck off the coast of the sparsely populated Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East just before midday local time.
It was terrifying for those who experienced it.
It triggered tsunami warnings in countries right across the Pacific, in Japan,
Indonesia and the United States, even as far away as Peru.
The Russian port town of Severokurilsk was quickly submerged in water,
with boats moored in the harbour pulled out to sea.
Buildings were inundated.