Earthquake deaths rise to over 19,000
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Nick Mars and at 14 hours GMT on Thursday the 9th of February, these are our main stories. |
| 0:09.6 | The death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria rises to more than 19,000. |
| 0:15.0 | The WHO warns of a second disaster as survivors struggle without shelter in freezing temperatures. |
| 0:21.6 | Ukraine's President Zelensky makes a fresh appeal to the EU for more weapons. |
| 0:27.0 | Also in this podcast, the leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un appears at a huge military parade with his young daughter. |
| 0:37.0 | Could she be the country's next ruler? |
| 0:39.0 | And... |
| 0:40.0 | This population of KWS, the southern resident KWS, is balancing on a knife-a-train at risk of extinction. |
| 0:46.0 | Anything that reduces female reproduction is a concern for this population. |
| 0:50.0 | Our Molly Coddled Suns passed the problem. |
| 0:57.0 | The number of people known to have died in both Turkey and Syria is now more than 19,000. |
| 1:03.0 | But as rescuers still urgently hunt for survivors among the rubble, there are fears for the many thousands of people left homeless in freezing temperatures. |
| 1:12.0 | Dr. Hans Klug is the World Health Organization's regional director for Europe. |
| 1:18.0 | Basically, it's a second disaster looming, unless we act very, very fast. |
| 1:24.0 | Meaning, shelter, food, water and medicine because it's freezing cold over on stuff in Gazantem had to sleep in the cars because there are still hundreds and hundreds of aftershocks, which of course also has a toll on the mental health of the people. |
| 1:43.0 | And then if we speak about Syria, for example, we know that in Syria most communities depend on water reservoirs that are elevated. |
| 1:53.0 | And those were the first to fall due to the earthquake and need urgent replacement because there is even before the earthquake a big issue of cholera outbreaks. |
| 2:02.0 | Our correspondent Quentin Somovl is in Antarctica in southern Turkey and describe the conditions there. |
| 2:08.0 | This is not a displaced person's camp, this is a supermarket car park, let's go for a bit of a wonder. |
| 2:14.0 | The people here are mostly sleeping out in the open. If they have cars, they can sit in the cars. Few of them have fuel for the car. |
| 2:21.0 | Our aid is being distributed some putsuit, and some bread and then look over here, some medicine being given around to people. |
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