Rescuers work through the night after earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.3 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Rescue teams are racing to save people trapped beneath rubble after thousands of buildings collapsed in both countries. Also: China accused of indoctrinating a million Tibetan children, and the novelist Salman Rushdie gives first interview since 2022 stabbing.

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0:00.0	This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:03.2	I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of Tuesday,
0:07.5	the 7th of February, these are our main stories.
0:10.2	Rescue teams are struggling through bitter cold and darkness
0:13.4	to reach people trapped under collapsed buildings
0:16.1	after two powerful earthquakes hit Southern Turkey
0:19.2	and Northern Syria.
0:21.0	In other news, UN experts accuse China of indoctrinating
0:25.1	around a million Tibetan children
0:27.4	by separating them from their families.
0:30.3	And a court in Georgia rules that the former president,
0:33.6	Mikhail Sarkashvili, must remain in prison,
0:36.7	even though he's critically ill.
0:38.8	As we record this podcast, freezing, snowy weather,
0:45.5	and the darkness of night have been impeding
0:48.0	efforts to rescue thousands of people
0:50.3	trapped under collapsed buildings after two devastating
0:54.1	earthquakes hit swathes of Southern Turkey and Northern Syria.
0:58.9	More than 3.5,000 people are now known to have been killed.
1:04.2	Thousands more are injured.
1:06.4	Medical resources are being stretched,
1:08.6	especially on the Syrian side of the border,
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