00:00 "If you are all right, then show yourselves to the camera, raise your hands and smile.
00:07 We will reach you soon, don't worry."
00:10 This is the first footage of the trapped Indian workers in nine days.
00:15 Rescuers pushed a camera through a pipe that was being used to supply the workers and filmed
00:19 the 41 men trapped still wearing their helmets and appearing relatively calm.
00:25 The men had been working on a 4.5 kilometre tunnel in the mountainous region of Uttarakhand
00:31 when a landslide caused a part of the tunnel to collapse, trapping them.
00:35 The workers are being fed oxygen, water and medicine through a small pipe and are communicating
00:40 with rescuers using walkie-talkies.
00:42 On Tuesday, the first hot meals consisting of rice and lentils were pushed through the
00:47 rubble in another tube 15 centimetres wide.
00:50 "We have achieved the first breakthrough which we were trying for the past nine days,
00:56 which was our first priority to establish a lifeline.
01:00 We have been able to achieve a breakthrough of pushing through a 15 centimetre pipe.
01:04 It goes through 53 metres before reaching the workers who can now hear us."
01:11 Rescue efforts were suspended after a drilling machine attempting to dig horizontally towards
01:16 the workers caused more debris to fall.
01:19 Rescuers are now planning to dig vertically 103 metres to reach the workers, nearly double
01:24 the distance needed to access them from the side of the tunnel.
