How Syria's Civil War Slows Earthquake Relief
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🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The death toll from the earthquakes that have devastated Turkey and Syria passed 21,000 people on Thursday, with many more injured and without shelter. Dr. Houssam al-Nahhas, a Middle East and North Africa researcher at Physicians for Human Rights, tells us about the difficulties of getting relief to people in both countries.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, February 10th. I'm Trayville Anderson. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm Priyanka Arabindi and this is what a day where we are finding ourselves conflicted |
| 0:14.1 | over Chick-fil-A's new plant-based cauliflower chicken sandwich. |
| 0:18.2 | Listen, I'm conflicted because I gotta stop calling them chicken sandwiches if it's not |
| 0:23.1 | chicken. |
| 0:24.1 | Yeah, I'm like, that's very confusing. |
| 0:25.1 | Come on now. Let's be real, okay? |
| 0:31.3 | On today's show, former Vice President Mike Pence has reportedly been subpoenaed by the |
| 0:35.4 | special council investigating Donald Trump, plus this weekend marks 15 years since the end |
| 0:41.0 | of the longest strike in Hollywood's history. |
| 0:43.5 | But first, an update on the aftermath of the 7.8 and subsequent 7.5 magnitude earthquakes |
| 0:49.8 | that have devastated parts of Turkey and Syria. |
| 0:53.2 | As of Thursday evening, the death toll has passed 21,000 people with many more injured |
| 0:58.4 | and without shelter. |
| 0:59.9 | Those numbers, as you may have realized, by now, are expected to continue to rise. |
| 1:04.7 | In Turkey, rescue teams and aid workers have been battling frigid temperatures, a lack |
| 1:09.2 | of heating and power, and other logistical hurdles as they work to help the survivors |
| 1:14.0 | and unearthed victims from the rubble of buildings and structures. |
| 1:17.6 | Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has admitted to quote shortcomings in his government's |
| 1:22.9 | response to the quakes, but he hasn't insisted it's now under control. |
| 1:26.8 | Just yesterday, the Turkish parliament approved a three-month state of emergency for 10 of |
| 1:31.1 | the affected provinces in response to the disaster. |
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