Race against time: rescue efforts in Turkey and Syria
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Amid unthinkable destruction and loss of life, we examine the factors that will frustrate relief efforts following earthquakes in an already troubled region. As President Joe Biden prepares to welcome a new chief of staff, we speak with the author who literally wrote the book on America’s second-most-powerful government job. And Argentina’s newest musical export repurposes an American genre born three decades ago.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:06.6 | In London, I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:08.3 | And in New York, I'm John Fassman. |
| 0:11.2 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events |
| 0:14.5 | shaping your world. |
| 0:15.8 | An American president's success or failure |
| 0:21.8 | depends in part on their chief of staff, whose work |
| 0:25.1 | is largely behind the scenes. |
| 0:27.3 | We speak with the author who literally wrote the book on the second most powerful |
| 0:31.3 | job in the country's government. |
| 0:34.7 | And trap music, a type of hip hop known for ominous sounding drones and tinny high-hat rhythms, |
| 0:40.7 | got its start in Atlanta more than 30 years ago. |
| 0:44.3 | Today, it's flourishing in some unlikely places, including Argentina. |
| 0:48.7 | First up, though. |
| 0:55.7 | After two massive earthquakes rocked southern Turkey and northern Syria, at least 5,000 |
| 1:10.2 | people have been confirmed dead, a number that's certain to rise. |
| 1:15.0 | Rescuers are frantically working to find survivors while pulling bodies from the rubble. |
| 1:28.5 | The first tremor of magnitude 7.8 struck near Ghaziantep in Turkey on Monday, a second |
| 1:34.9 | quake followed of magnitude 7.5 and was captured live by a Turkish television crew covering |
| 1:41.1 | the initial wave of destruction. |
| 1:51.8 | The damage has been extensive, unthinkable. |
| 1:54.8 | Thousands of buildings have been levelled in an area stretching from Turkey's Mediterranean |
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