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Rescue workers arrive with aid and open roads leading to a remote Himalayan region cut off after the Nepal quake. Paul Chapman reports.
Bureaucracy and infrastructure are preventing adequate relief goods from getting to quake survivors in remote areas of Nepal, officials say. Jillian Kitchener reports.
About 40 people demonstrate in the Nepalese capital over the government's slow response to distributing aid and other relief after last week's devastating earthquake. Mana Rabiee reports.
The UN's Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Otto Pedersen, says that the United Nations has received assurances aid will reach the earthquake-devastated areas of northwestern Syria through the sole authorised crossing from Turkey "today". SOUNDBITE
Kathmandu (Nepal), Mar 31 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Narendra Shrestha) .- Spanish mountaineer Carlos Soria, 82, will begin the climb of Dhaulagiri in the Himalayas, the seventh highest peak in the world --8,167 meters of altitude--, an achievement that would dedicate to the people of his generation "who have suffered in the pandemic."FOOTAGE OF SPANISH ALPINIST CARLOS SORIA, 82, IN KATHMANDU, NEPAL.