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NPR News: 02-09-2023 6AM ET

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🗓️ 9 February 2023

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NPR News: 02-09-2023 6AM ET

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0:00.0

Live from MPR News in Washington, on Corvac Olman, the death toll from the earthquake in Turkey

0:05.0

in Syria has now grown to more than 16,000 people.

0:09.3

Rescuers have been frantically trying to reach trapped survivors in collapsed buildings.

0:13.7

Now the World Health Organization is warning of a looming secondary disaster.

0:18.2

The region is frigid and snowy, and the WHO says hundreds of thousands remain without

0:23.2

shelter.

0:24.2

The BBC's Tom Bateman has more from Atauna, Turkey.

0:27.3

It's extremely cold overnight, subzero temperatures are heavy snowfall in parts of northern Syria

0:32.8

as well, so that's really affecting the humanitarian effort now.

0:37.8

The further from here you go, a Skendran, for example, is one city, a two or three hours drive

0:43.4

away, and there, over the last day or two, you know, we've been seeing how conditions

0:48.2

are much, much harder than here.

0:51.1

People were struggling to get even basic supplies to get food and blankets and to stay

0:57.1

warm and to get shelter.

0:58.1

And that has been the source of many of the complaints and the sense of anger that people

1:01.7

have, that the relief effort is still struggling to get to many places.

1:05.8

The BBC's Tom Bateman reporting from Turkey.

1:09.2

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has just addressed the European Parliament in Brussels.

1:14.7

He's looking for new weaponry to help his country defend against Russia's invasion.

1:19.1

Zelensky wants fighter jets.

1:21.2

In today's speech, he denounced Russia as the most, quote, anti-European force in the

1:26.4

world.

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