The Earthquake Response

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

How are search and rescue teams saving people in Turkey and Syria? The BBC's Anna Foster describes how the relief effort is playing out on the ground in one of the cities hardest hit by the earthquakes. Baroness Amos, Labour member of the House of Lords, and former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, gives a bit of perspective on the situation in Turkey and Syria. And Lord Frost, former Conservative minister and chief Brexit negotiator talks Brexit, government reform and Liz Truss. Today's episode was presented by Adam Fleming and Chris Mason and was made by Chris Flynn with Danny Wittenberg. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.

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0:24.5	Well, Chris, in British politics characters come and go and tonight there's news of a very big
0:29.5	character who is going. Nadine Dorries, former cultural secretary. She's sat here in the newscas
0:34.2	studio before. Now, hasn't she? She is to stand down as an MP at the next election she has announced
0:38.7	on her new TV show that she does on Talk TV on a Friday night, but the telling us on the first
0:42.8	tonight that the news that she shares with her viewers is that she's going to stand down.
0:49.2	Despite it being a job that I've loved for every year that I've done it, I'm now off.
0:55.9	My gosh, I just said it out loud. There's no going back now. She said she's got kind of fed up
1:00.4	with the infighting within the Conservative Party. She contributes to Rod that the odd strong view
1:05.6	herself about the Conservative Party and about other parties too. The intriguing thing is she's
1:10.7	going to vacate what is normally a safe seat in midbedfordshire. Some wonder if she might end up in
1:15.6	the House of Lords. Others have even speculated. She could have old mate Boris Johnson on who was
1:19.2	on her first TV show last weekend and ended up thinking, oh, midbedfordshire might be a bit more
1:23.6	appealing than West London, which looks a bit more vulnerable to come the next election. But all
1:27.2	that is speculation, what we do know is that the Dean Dories will no longer be an MP come the next
1:32.2	election. And she's resigning to spend more time with her talk show and you're going to be spending
1:37.2	some more time with our show because this is the next episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC.
1:43.0	He got trounced by the former Prime Minister who herself got beaten by a lettuce.
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