00:00Good evening and peace be upon you in a new episode of your show, Show Seer.
00:04Today is Tuesday, the 1st, 29th, 26th, the beginning of a new Gregorian month,
00:11the 1st of September, 2026, and the 19th of Rabbi Al-Awwal.
00:17For the first time since the disaster happened, the devastating floods in Nepal,
00:23or the devastating Nepal deluge, the Nepalese authorities have started allowing the media
00:34and journalists to enter some areas, entry to some areas, as if some were allowed this morning.
00:44And honestly, I am following a journalist named Anderson Cooper.
00:49He managed to get a permit and enter the disaster area.
00:54I call it that in Nepal.
00:56This journalist was allowed to enter an area called Shabrubesi.
01:04This is near the border with Tibet.
01:06That's in Nepal, but close to the border with China.
01:10He was allowed to enter this town.
01:14But why? Because it's a town.
01:16Or what remains of this town, honestly?
01:19I mean, it has become nothing but ruins.
01:21There used to be a town here.
01:23There used to be a town here.
01:27You will start to see this in front of you, on the screen, just as I'm telling you.
01:32I mean, this journalist here in this video is telling you that this town was completely buried under mud,
01:38and he's telling you that this is the place where he is actually standing.
01:44It used to be the town's market.
01:46It was the market for this town.
01:50And he told you it used to be bustling with people, full of houses and full of shops,
01:57and there used to be a great deal of commercial activity there.
02:02He says this place now has become a mix of mud and huge rocks that came with the massive flood.
02:11So that's everything.
02:13He says it has become like a layer of concrete.
02:19It's covered much, and the entire town.
02:23That means there is actually a town underneath the place where he is standing.
02:28A town exists under the very spot where he is standing, but now it's become ruined.
02:36You can see the concrete-like layer between him and the town, or what remains of the town below, while
02:43he stands above it.
02:46Did this journalist reveal to you that this particular town was a stop for Hindu and Buddhist pilgrims?
02:58Pilgrims or visitors used to come to this area or this town.
03:04Hindus and Buddhists, and they have temples.
03:08Their temples are there, so it was a gathering point for all Buddhists and Hindus.
03:14Not only from India or China, but from all over the world.
03:20And this is what explains the large number of foreigners who died, tourists and foreigners from 30 countries who were
03:28present in Nepal.
03:31Of course, this is one of the towns that people make pilgrimages to, and there are many other towns that
03:36were also destroyed.
03:37And as we said, Buddhists and Hindu pilgrims come here.
03:41As we mentioned, this explains the large number of foreigners, because people from India, either Hindus or Buddhists, used to
03:48come to these areas.
03:53The journalist was saying that up until now, neither I nor the authorities know the number of people who were
04:04here, the number of people who died or were buried under tons of mud and rock.
04:12They don't know the exact number of people who were here, they would have to remove all this mud and
04:21rediscover the city or this town from scratch.
04:23That's why, always, the Nepalese government says, look, today we have confirmed a thousand deaths and four thousand missing.
04:35And whether they are dead or missing, all these numbers are still preliminary.
04:42And as I told you before, there was something I didn't want to talk about.
04:46From the moment it happened, didn't I tell you?
04:48The number will exceed 2,000.
04:52This is one of the towns, just one of the towns that no longer exists, completely buried.
05:00Okay, let me, for example, let's go and watch this second clip of the rescue workers crawling through mud and
05:08rocks,
05:08trying to search for survivors near the Jerong area.
05:14And Jerong is the border city between Nepal and Tibet in China.
05:21Of course, they're calling because at any moment the rescue workers could sink since it's almost like quicksand.
05:28The thing is, this port or this place is buried under the mud.
05:33And what are they trying to rescue?
05:35Some people are digging in places to rescue.
05:37Some people are trying.
05:38They're doing what they can with the resources they have.
05:42No one can imagine.
05:44I told you.
05:45We will keep discovering and discovering and discovering what happened in Nepal.
05:50The week is still ahead.
05:52And every day, new pictures and new clips from the disaster that happened there will keep coming in.
05:58Let me show you this clip.
06:05Third, some of the villages that were destroyed or buried, part of them was buried by mud and the mud
06:12flood or mud torrent.
06:14It only covered the first floor, meaning the ground floor and the first floor, but the second floor is still
06:20there, or the third floor is still there, but the lower floors are gone even so.
06:26Some try to go and visit, as you can see in front of you on the screen, visit their homes
06:34and try to clean their homes or what remains of these homes.
06:42Until the aid arrives, until the government comes to remove this massive amount of mud and rocks so they can
06:50return.
06:51Since the foundations are still standing, maybe after they remove tons of rocks, sand and mud, they can at least
06:58return.
07:00They might be able to live on the first floor or the ground floor or just forget that they have
07:05a first floor and ground floor and live upstairs.
07:09Because can you imagine how difficult it is to remove so many tons of mud and rocks?
07:18And how exhausting the work is.
07:20But some people, because they have nowhere else to go, went and tried whatever they could to fix up these
07:27houses.
07:27Let's go together as well.
07:31For this fourth segment, which reveals the extent of the destruction left by the catastrophic and devastating floods.
07:41The mud floods.
07:44Specifically in the Raswa region of Nepal, where there are roads, facilities and equipment completely submerged in mud as well.
07:57As you can see now on the screen, everything is completely covered.
08:02In addition, vehicles and equipment have been completely destroyed.
08:06Now, for the first one.
08:10If you didn't know that this was caused by a quote-unquote natural disaster, you would definitely say that these
08:19scenes are from a devastating war, a world war, or a destructive earthquake that struck this part of the earth.
08:27That was everything.
08:30I said, I'm with you.
08:31Ahmad al-Darawshir, the host of the Shasar program.
08:33Stay tuned.
