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Special report: Massive earthquake rocks Turkey and Syria

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The death toll was more than 2,500 and was expected to continue rising after a mammoth 7.8 earthquake -- one of the region's largest in a century -- shook Turkey and neighboring Syria Monday. Correspondent Jomana Karadsheh has the latest. Her report is followed by an interview with Janez Lenarčič, the European Commissioner for Crisis Management.  Also on today's show: Gen. Philip Breedlove (Ret.), former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Evelyn Farkas, former US Deputy. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia; Lisa Guerrero, author, “Warrior: My Path to Being Brave”  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up. A desperate

0:09.9

search for survivors after a massive earthquake strike Syria and Turkey. We have the latest.

0:16.0

Then Ukraine braces for a major Russian offensive as the first anniversary of the war nears.

0:22.0

I'm joined by General Philip Breedlove who

0:24.5

commanded US and NATO troops in Europe and former Pentagon official Evelyn

0:29.8

Farkas. Also ahead. I know a lot of people write memoirs and they say look at my fabulous

0:35.2

life I have no regrets I'm not that person. journalist Lisa Guerrero talks to

0:40.5

Michelle Martin about her extraordinary new memoir,

0:43.6

where she pulls back the glamour of her careers in acting and

0:47.0

sportscasting to reveal the misery she often felt beneath. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London. More than 2,500 people have been killed in Turkey and Syria

1:16.3

after the region was hit by one of its largest earthquakes

1:19.4

in a century.

1:20.6

More than 12,000 are injured, and the death toll, the injury toll, are still climbing.

1:26.0

The initial quake hit a mammoth 7.8 magnitude and powerful aftershocks have been felt across the region since then.

1:34.0

You can see on this map where the earthquake hit in southeastern Turkey

1:38.0

and just how close it is to the Syrian border.

1:41.0

Turkey's disaster agency has been appealing for

1:44.0

international assistance as it scrambles to pull survivors from the rubble.

1:48.2

Correspondent Jomana Karache has this latest report.

1:52.0

A young man trapped, desperation in his eyes. Then in the

1:58.7

pre-dawn darkness, a moment of joy. Rescurers haul him from the wreckage of a building in southern Turkey.

2:05.0

As the morning sun rises, all many others can do is pray.

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