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Global News Podcast

Morocco quake kills more than 2000

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Entire villages have been flattened, and families are trapped under the rubble. Also: G20 leaders have come under fire for issuing a watered-down and ambiguous statement on the war in Ukraine. Kyiv said the text was nothing to be proud of, and after days evading capture, Britain's most wanted man is back in custody.

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.4

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

0:06.7

This edition is published in the early hours of Sunday, the 10th of September.

0:11.0

Morocco declares three days of National Morning 24 hours after an earthquake killed 2000 people.

0:17.5

There appears the number could rise.

0:19.6

Ukraine criticises leaders of the G20 group of rich nations for issuing a joint statement

0:25.4

that fails to condemn Russia over its invasion.

0:28.4

And manhunt over.

0:30.2

I stared at him, he stared at me, then I went home and told my husband that it was so odd.

0:34.8

I thought he was a drug dealer or something. He wasn't a drug dealer. It was the guy.

0:38.2

Three and a half days after a former British soldier and terror suspect escaped from jail, he's recaptured.

0:47.2

Also in the podcast, three people are killed in the latest clashes at a huge Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon and

0:54.2

the fungus lodges itself onto the host's body, killing it slowly from within, then in the spring it erupts

1:01.2

out of the head of the dead caterpillar.

1:04.2

The fungus known as Himalayan Viagra, that can sell for $5,000 a kilo.

1:15.1

Three days of mourning have been declared in Morocco after the strongest earthquake in more than six decades.

1:22.0

At least 2,000 people were killed with another 2,000 injured, many of them in critical condition.

1:28.9

The number could rise as rescuers reach flattened villages near the epicenter in the high atlas mountains.

1:34.6

Residents have been using bare hands to try to find people still trapped under the rubble.

1:39.6

The relatively shallow quake struck midway between the cities of Agadir and Marrakesh,

1:45.2

but the tremors were felt in the capital Rabat, some 350 kilometres away,

1:50.2

as well as in Casablanca and Esawira, the Red Cross says it could take years to repair the damage.

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