Morocco urged to accept more aid following earthquake as death toll grows
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The explanation from the BBC World Service takes a deep dive into the big stories affecting our lives, giving you an unvarnished explanation of the world. |
| 0:11.0 | Search for the explanation wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:16.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm Janut Jalil and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 12th of September, these are our main stories. |
| 0:29.0 | Moroccan villages hit by last week's devastating earthquake say aid isn't reaching them quickly enough. |
| 0:36.0 | Heavy floods triggered by a powerful storm in eastern Libya have killed at least 200 people. |
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| 0:50.0 | Also in this podcast, she became spoiled. |
| 0:53.0 | The photographers soon discovered that sheep are even less obedient than people who are being photographed. |
| 0:58.0 | The scientist who led the team that cloned Dolly the sheep, turning her into a media sensation, Professor Ian Wilmot, has died. |
| 1:08.0 | We begin in Morocco where there's been criticism of the speed of the official response to Friday's earthquake, which is now known to have killed more than 2,800 people. |
| 1:23.0 | Heavy lifting equipment has begun to arrive in remote regions of the Atlas Mountains, which have been the hardest hit. |
| 1:30.0 | But in many areas, villages have been digging with their bare hands through the rubble of collapsed homes. |
| 1:37.0 | Mosin Fala works at a hotel in a village called Mariga in the region. He described a harrowing scene. |
| 1:44.0 | We have a cleaning lady called Habibah. She lost 8 members of her family, including her 70-year-old son. |
| 1:53.0 | There is no home for her. Her house is completely destroyed. She's there just in a little tent with the rest of her family waiting to find her son. |
| 2:05.0 | Totally horrible feeling. That's someone of your family just buried under the ground. |
| 2:12.0 | So everyone just running everywhere and trying to help. It's not just because my family are safe, so I'm fine. |
| 2:19.0 | No, all of them are my families. All of my colleagues work with me, lost someone of the families. |
| 2:27.0 | I'm sharing the same feelings. It was there when that happened. |
| 2:32.0 | A human rights activist in Rabat, Mati Monjeeb, told the BBC, he thought the Moroccan government should have been more open to outside help. |
| 2:41.0 | The authorities and the population are doing their best, but it is not enough. And because of that, I don't understand why Morocco didn't send a request for powerful states as France, as the United States, etc. |
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