00:00I think having been to Nepal in my life and in fact being the honorable name
00:06has been given to me as daughter of Nepal because my father served the
00:08Gurkhas all his life, I think that I felt that it was part of a family being
00:14swept away and destroyed in this manner. Of course the Nepali people who've
00:20settled here in this country either through their Gurkha connections or just
00:23as Nepalese people living here will have a much closer feeling of exactly where
00:28the villages are and how it was but having been there and travelled in the
00:31country a little bit it absolutely breaks my heart because I know how difficult
00:35it is to get around how this catastrophic event sweeping just tearing stuff down
00:41the images which have been brought to us on camera we can't get out of our minds
00:45the power of that water bringing with it rocks and everything taking everything
00:49we're in front of me and not only taking away people and animals but all their
00:53homes and their livelihoods every chance of building in the future leaving behind
00:57great wet fields of mud which you can't get over and how difficult it is for
01:01people trying to save them to look after we've know but we've been following
01:04those men in the tunnel trying to get into that tunnel where the rock fall in
01:08the water it's absolutely heartbreaking and it was I can't get it out of my mind
01:13because I can't think we all feel a bit helpless we can give money and we must
01:17give money I do believe we should give money our governments should give money but
01:20we should give money as well if we possibly can to help these people who
01:24have after all been the friend of the of Britain for over 200 years their young
01:31men have joined the Gurkhas and served in the British Gurkhas the Indian Army
01:36first and then the British Army absolutely faultless flawless brave fabulous
01:43fine friends ever and ever around 50 people came together at the restaurant to
01:49pray for the communities affected by the catastrophe observe a minute of
01:53silence and light candles Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday
01:58said 1,252 deaths had been recorded since the flash flood on the 26th of August
02:05it's added around 4,200 people remain missing including 590 foreign nationals
02:11from 34 countries rescue efforts had previously been hampered by fears of more
02:17flooding from a lake formed by the glacier collapse I'm filming in Ireland at the
02:21moment but I flew over last night and straight off this I go straight back again
02:25Sujan Katwal has been a pillar head of the Nepalese community here in Britain this
02:31is in South London we he was brilliant during Covid sending out free meals for
02:38people who would get no free meals and he's shown himself to be a figurehead for
02:44people who want to celebrate the great friendship and gratitude we have and he
02:52he'd set this up today and asked if I could come over and it was the very least I
02:57could do the very least I could do to show solidarity
