Dateline: May 5

Amid continued debate of Sunday Night‘s coverage of the Nepal earthquake (most recently on Media Watch and in Fairfax), tonight another perspective as Dateline’s video journalists Aaron Lewis and Aaron Thomas are on the ground with Nepalese Australians.

At least two million people are displaced and short of food and water following the deadly 7.9 magnitude quake.

This week, the Dateline team are in Kathmandu, following rescuers as they desperately search for survivors.

Video Journalists, Aaron Lewis and Aaron Thomas follow a group of Nepalese Australians who quickly flew to their devastated country, from Sydney, and travelling to the Kabre district, where many of them have relatives they are desperately trying to locate.

They visit a hospital near the city that is struggling to cope. The generator is nearly out of fuel and doctors and medical staff are working under tarpaulins in make shift operating rooms.

Meggie Palmer visits a tent city in the capital Kathmandu, where ten year old Ansika now lives with her family.

“We need help but nobody help us” says Ansika, echoing the feelings from many of the Nepalese who feel that the support from their government is lacking.

In a dramatic incident Palmer and cameraman Dave Ollier are later forced to flee as a damaged house in a crowded street crashes to the ground behind them.

In tonight’s episode, Dateline also raises the question of why building regulations that were introduced in 2001, and should have made buildings safer, have been so widely ignored

9.30pm tonight on SBS ONE.