Rescuers try to get aid to eastern Libya after devastating floods

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.3 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Two dams and four bridges collapsed near the Libyan city of Derna when Storm Daniel struck on Sunday. Also: US House of Representatives to open Biden impeachment inquiry, and stolen Van Gogh painting handed to art sleuth in Ikea bag.

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0:00.0	Unexpected Elements is the podcast exploring the science behind the headlines.
0:04.5	It's a real melting pot.
0:05.7	Yeah, the surface has lost happening.
0:07.7	Unexpected Elements from the BBC World Service.
0:10.9	Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:15.6	This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:21.6	I'm Janet Joliel and in the early hours of Wednesday the 13th of September,
0:25.6	these are our main stories.
0:27.2	Rescue teams are facing a huge challenge to deliver aid to parts of eastern Libya
0:32.0	hit by catastrophic floods.
0:34.4	The US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has ordered an impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
0:40.0	The former World No. 1 tennis star, Simona Hallett,
0:43.1	has been banned for four years for breaching anti-doping rules.
0:47.5	Also in this podcast?
0:51.5	It's back. It took 1,300 days, but here it is.
0:57.5	And I will hand it over in a few moments to the museum director.
1:02.4	A stolen vanguard painting is recovered by an art detective.
1:11.6	Libya, a country that's already been devastated by a decade of conflict,
1:16.0	is now dealing with another disaster.
1:18.8	A powerful storm has burst dams, triggering floods that have swept away buildings and cars
1:24.0	and killed more than 2,000 people in the east of the country.
1:28.1	The floods around the port city of Dürner have been likened to a tsunami.
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