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Global News Podcast

Few signs of foreign aid in devastated Derna

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

International agencies still have to arrive in force to help the victims of the deadly floods in Libya. Also: The former head of the Spanish Football Federation is handed a restraining order over the controversial Women's World Cup kiss and, the acclaimed Colombian artist, Fernando Botero, has died at the age of ninety-one.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.9

Hi, I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Saturday, the 16th of September,

0:10.7

these are our main stories. The BBC reaches Libya's city of Derna after the deadly floods

0:17.1

and finds international aid agencies a yet to arrive in force. President Macross says the French

0:23.1

ambassador to Niger is being held hostage at the embassy in the Arne, and the former president

0:28.9

of Spanish football is given a restraining order as the World Cup kiss case reaches court.

0:35.1

Everyone saw the images, the whole country saw it. We can show that Mr. Rubialis lacked consent.

0:43.2

Also in this podcast, 30 years since the Oslo Accords failed to bring peace to the Middle East,

0:50.0

and the supersizing Colombian artist Fernando Batero has died.

0:55.5

So far only a trickle of international aid is beginning to arrive in eastern Libya after

1:03.9

the devastating floods in which thousands of people were killed. The political infighting between

1:09.2

local officials in the city of Derna and the internationally recognised government in Tripoli

1:14.6

is hampering the relief efforts. The United Nations says its redeployed a team sent to

1:19.9

assist in the aftermath of Morocco's earthquake to Libya to coordinate help for as many as 900,000

1:27.1

people affected by the floods. Our correspondent Anna Foster managed to reach Derna from where she

1:33.2

sent this report. Even by night, Derna's recovery teams don't sleep. As darkness falls, another body

1:41.0

is carefully pulled from the ruins, wrapped and taken to a waiting ambulance. It's a scene that's

1:47.5

now been repeated thousands of times. I can't describe when you see a people death and maybe when

1:55.7

you see one or two, you can't hold yourself. But when you see maybe it's 500 people in one street,

2:07.1

there's women, child, all people. Two dams meant to protect the city were broken apart by the

2:16.1

force of the water. The deluge carried everything away with it. This wave of death and destruction

2:22.8

sealed the fate of thousands. And glimpses of the horror are still emerging. Here in Derna people began

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