This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Alex Ritson and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 14th of February,

these are our main stories.

The earthquake death toll passes 37,000,

as the Turkish rescue effort starts to wind down.

Also, what has pressed circuitries,

slightly bizarre and amusing, said that we can definitely rule out.

It's not aliens, it's not extraterrestrials.

Some clarity about those mysterious objects that have been shot down over North American skies

in recent days and shocking revelations about widespread sexual abuse

within the Roman Catholic Church in Portugal.

Also in this podcast, a powerful cyclone triggers a state of emergency in New Zealand,

and the Czech star who's become the first international player in men's football to come out as gay.

A week after the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria,

the number of dead has now passed 37,000,

and there appears the number could even double.

There are still some miraculous stories of survival,

but those rescues are becoming rarer,

and now the focus is more on caring for the millions

who've survived J. Miedli Sir as the head of emergency operations at the International

Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in the Turkish city of Ghaziantep.

What do people need for their basic livelihoods?

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