Quake causes immense damage to cultural heritage

(3 May 2015) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Kathmandu - 2 May 2015 1. Statue lying amongst rubble at Swayambhunath Stupa and Temple which suffered extensive damage in the quake 2. Various of workers salvaging and clearing bricks form temple site 3. Wide of UNESCO representative to Nepal, Christian Manhart, at the temple site being shown the damage, UPSOUND (English) Manhart: "Wow. The entire tower broke down." 4. Collapsed stupa at temple 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Christian Manhart, UNESCO Representative to Nepal: "I think this is really a dramatic loss not only for the Nepali people but for entire humankind because all these monuments here are totally over, totally unique." AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Kathmandu - 29 April 2015 6. Wide of Patan Durbar Square showing damage 7. Wide of lion statues amongst destruction 8. Damage to roof of temple 9. Wide of bulldozer at work in Kathmandu Durbar Square 10. Collapsed Dharahara tower 11. Close of remains of tower AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Kathmandu - 2 May 2015 12. Group by damaged temple, including businessman Gyandra Tamrakar 13. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Gyandra Tamrakar, businessman: "I am deeply hurt. I can't put it into words. I feel really, really bad. I don't know how I will heal." 14. Social worker Bishnu Raj Shrestha helping clear up debris 15. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Bishnu Raj Shrestha, social worker "I feel like this is now a graveyard. This is where we played, where we grew up. Seeing all these temples destroyed I feel so depressed. I just can't describe it." 16. Police moving rubble at Swayambhunath 17. Statue in damaged temple complex 18. SOUNDBITE (English) Christian Manhart, UNESCO Representative to Nepal: "We have detailed photographs, we have architectural plans and drawings, we have measurements, so this will be a very good basis for future reconstruction but of course it will be extremely costly and the government of Nepal and UNESCO we are counting very much on the international solidarity to help with this enormous task." 19. Wide of Kathmandu Durbar Square which is being cleaned up 20. Close of statue head AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Kathmandu - 29 April 2015 21. Statues of deities Shiva and Parvati, in a temple, leaning at a steep angle because of damage to building STORYLINE Perched on a hilltop, the blue-rimmed eyes of Kathmandu's gold-spired Swayambhunath Stupa have long stared silently across this sprawling city nestled in the Himalayan foothills. But since Nepal was shattered by a mammoth earthquake a week ago, those eyes have gazed upon a nation in mourning - and on a microcosm of its despair inside the ancient temple itself. Swayambhunath, which dates back to the 5th century, is one of at least 68 cultural heritage sites in Nepal that were damaged by the tremor, according to UNESCO, the UN cultural heritage organisation, citing preliminary figures from the Department of Archaeology. That's nearly 80 percent of historic landmarks in seven monument zones that have been declared World Heritage Sites in the Kathmandu Valley alone. Few would compare the loss of Nepal's historic treasures to the massive human misery wrought by the magnitude-7.8 quake, which claimed more than 7,000 lives, damaged more than a million homes and displaced nearly 3 million people. =========================================================== Clients are reminded: (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...